The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-02-27

The Big Fish Has Eaten
Nothing for Fifty
Seven Gays.

Dat shark is not half so big already
as he was when 1 saw him three weeks
ago. I will give him eight days to
live yet
Thus Danish tourist in a cork he'll
met. hanging over the fence about the
tank and looking down upon the big
fish, lying Frustrated at the bottom of
the pool. AS a matter of fact, the gen.
tleman's memory was defective, and the
shark was just as big as it ever has
been. But 1T was not feeling very chip
per yesterday, all the same. It show
ed a disposition to sulk at the bottom
tank, only coming up at long intervals,
when the big turtles tickled it with
their hippers, and then not having sufh
cient energy to make the complete cir
cult of the pool.
The turtles did not belong in the tank,
having been moved out there tempo
rarily while a new glass front was be-
ing put in their house, but seemed
much more at home there than the
shark ever has. In fact, the turtles
.'were the star performers in the big
tank yesterday-the turtles, and a very
pretty green and blue fish with a bill
like a parrot that seemed determined
to attract attention.
The shark, aus has beel said, sulked
in the corners or moved about slowly
only when disturbed. There was that
in the manner of the big fish that sug-
gested early dissolution. The Danish
tourist in the cork helmet was so far
right, at least. It would have surprised
none of those who visited the Aqua
rum yesterday to have seen the fish
turn over on its back, dead, at any
moment.
Indeed, it is wonderful how much
vitality the brute has shown. 1t was
put into the tank on the Both day of
December, 1904 That was ffty-seven
days ago yesterday, or one day over
eight weeks. In all that time. although |
it has been tempted with everything |
known to be dear to the appetite of
sharks, save small boys and live pup |
pies, the fish has not been known to |
swallow one ounce of food. What it |
keeps itself alive upon is a mystery, |
for of course, there is nothing in the |
tale that it has been fed surreptitious- |
ly by natives who deemed it d sod. |
There might be. and probably are, ma |
Nves who would do that. but the shark |
Rfself would hardly discriminate. If il.
took food from the natives, it would |
take it likewise from Manager Fred !
Potter and the fact of the matter is
that food put into the tank for the fish
has been taken out again, time and
time again, untouched.
TT is not the first shark that has re-
fused to eat, but it is the first one that
we have kept so long without eating,
said Fred Potter yesterday. "One we
had once before only ate once and then
refused food, but we found out when +
we cut its head off after it died that
the hook with which it had been caught
was stuck in it's throat-and the meat
it had swallowed lodged there, too So
that one could not eat. But we took
the hook out of this ones throat when
we put it in the tank. and so that can II
not be the trouble. When it dies, if it
ever does die, we will make an investi-
cation to see whether We can find out
what is the trouble"
There was an unusually large crowd
at the park. the day being bright and II
sunny, and bathers found the rollers ]
big and coasting more than ordinarily /
exciting. The band played to great |
Lhrong under the trees at Makee Island, y
and in the afternoon there was a double |
ear service on the Kaimuki branch.