The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-14

mackeTel eluded him. One day ht
 ate huge jelly fish in desperation and next seized and rent a mass oi
 kelp in which a dead fish was wound
 which brought on a frenzy for food
 and blood. A schooner was fishing
 nearby, and as the men hauled uI fish, he would take them off, carrying
 away the lines and filling his mouth
 with hooks, to which he paid little at-
 tention. Finally the fishing stopped
 and he came to the surface some dis
 tance off and seeing a dory anchored,
 swam up to it, then circled around it.
 His appearance must have terrified the
 man for he grasped an oar and struck
 at the shark, shouting for help. It
 was said later that the shark delib- erately tried to tip over the boat by 1 rising beneath it; but it is an his
 torlcal fact that over dozen men and ] women on the schooner saw the man. eater rush at the dory, rise over it
 amldshipus, saw the unfortunate man
 waving his arms, then saw him strike
 at the shark with the oar; but the man.
 eater fell partly on the dory, crush
 ing it down, and then both disap-
 peared. This incident occurred off
 Nahant, and for several summers the
 shark haunted the New England coast
 and the Gulf of Maine. He repeat 1 edly attempted to capsize boats off
 Boon Island, and terrorized the dory
 cod fishermen and others by rising
 beneath them and swimming about
 their boats. The Big Shark under which alias he was known, is still re-
 membered by the old fishermen of the
 coast. The nan-eater had at one time been l quick of motion, a swift hunter. He had learned the tricks and customs of
 the fishes. He knew when the blue
 fish hordes, the millions of shad came
 ln from the deep submerged subma-
 rlne plateau upon which they win
 tered, and with others he had fol-
 lowed them, lurking about the mouths
 Of rivers, often creeping in, devouring other sharks or eating the hundreds
 of shad in nets.
 This and more the grate shark. had done, but now his enormous bulk, his slow movements suggested a differ- ent life; the huge crateure had, reached the demoniacal climax of his development. He had 14 or more rows Of white serrated, knife-like teeth; he moved with great delibera- ton, and was apparently incapable of rapid movement; but this was not aI- together true, the shark was really a type of activity. He could dart ahead or from side to side, or turn upon his side with matchless grace, but he rarely did; he now ploughed slowly along searching for the objects which suggested the game of his choice.
 It was this change of habit that made the great white man-eater an ocean wandeder. He avoided the shore and attached himself to a large ship which sailed from Boston to Liv- erpool, traiIed it, like a hound on the scent, for days, laid by 1t in storms and calms, and every bucket of refuse thrown over, brought the man-eater up from astern with rush. He finally lost the trail of this ship in chasing something she threw over, and was l,0OO miles or more at sea. He swan in every direction, hoping to pick up her scent or wake; now madIy, again swimming slowly. He dived down a quarter of a milef searching for the bottom, which was three miles beyond. but was driven up by the cold to swim 1 along the surface on calm days i
 Meeting an outgoing steamer, the | man-eater trailed it up the coast to i Here he found q small | sailing vessel bound to the westward, 1 and so reached the Aspinwall in the l Caribbian Sea. The water was irl- | tensely hot and he laid out in deep 1 water, cooling his massive bulk, dur l ing the day. going inshore at night, |, occasionally chasing the great rays 1 whose leap from and return to the water sounded like the discharge of a cannon.
 One day the shark entered the har- Dor late in the afternoon and swan in i the direction of, the anchorage. The | crew of one ship were in bathing. They had @ topgallant sail overheard and were swimming in it suspeeting the presence of sharks. The man. eater swan beneath and around it and was seized with a frenzy at the scent that drifted away. He began to swim rapidly, first in one direction, then in another, then circIing the ship about 20 feet below the surface. then rising. At this time one of the sail DTS, more venturesome than the rest, 'wam out into the channel, and the shark, catching the scent, swung it's all from side to side and darted up- ward, barring its notched fin to the sum- light.
 "Ahoy, there!" came from the fore op. Come aboard!'
 The lookout did not utter the word jhark, gut the swimmer turned and struck out. II
 Way third cutter!" rang out from + he quartermaster.
 The boat struck the water with a. rash, naked men fell into her and elzing the oars, gave way. Men lever pulled like this before; yet the nan in the bow, boat-hook in hand. lrged them on in Gods name. The wimmer was still 20 feet away when he shark shot ahead, assuming a ti- antic shape. He turned slightly. hough not upon his back, and for a. econd the man in the bow saw it's 1 'hastly form against the blue, then moment of horror realized that le came too late.
 Then came the culmination in the l areer of this insatiate monster rounded to the death, but so insen- Sln