The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-08-09

Dig game.
OYSTER BAY, L. l., July 1.-THE
story that a big shark was seen off
Ship Point here yesterday has caused a
feeling of uneasiness among the sum-
mer colony who use that portion of the
beach for bathing. Doc Summers says
he saw the shark plainly. 1t was about
100 yards from the land, playing in the
surf. AS Doc Summers is an authority
en- sharks, no one disputes his state
ment. The news that a shark was in
the bay spread rapidly, and an effort
was made to capture it. Under the
direction of Mr.. Summers a party
cruised all afternoon in rowboat,
but the big fish was not visible a sec
ond time Shark fishing is a new sport
here, and a crowd watched the pro-
ceedings until nightfall
The manner of fishing was unique. A
big piece of salt pork was the bait 1t
was fastened to a piece of chain about
ten feet long, which in turn was tied
TO the end of long rope. At the other
end of the rope was fastened a long
plank. The chain was used so that the
shark could not bite it in two. With
similar tackle shark was captured in
Oyster Bay about three years ago. AS
soon as the shark seized the bait it
tarted to drag the plank rapidly out
to the deep water of the sound
A party headed by Doc Summers put
out after it, and when they reached the
fish they suddenly remembered that
they had brought nothing to dispatch
it with. The pursuers then tied their
jackknives to the end of the oars and
jabbed it every time it rose to the sur
face. In this manner they literally
hacked it to pieces.
An interested spectator of yester-
days pursuit was old Capt Diederick.
He has sailed around the world half
a dozen times, and once, he says. he
trained a school of sharks to eat out
of his hand. Sharks are very affec-
Tomato" he said. "They will not at
tack a man unless they are very hun
cry. / used to swim every day with
the school | had trained in Florida
waters two years ago. At that time
about fifty of them used to frequent
the bay near where l lived. In the
mouth of a river a short distance away
there were a number of big alligators.
One day the sharks all went over to
the river where the aligators were and
bit off their tails
"a few days later the alligators re-
taliated by coming to where the sharks
were and biting off their appendages.
This made it impossible for the sharks
to swim very far and thereafter they
kept very close to the bay. l used to
carry them food, and thus got their
confidence. So far as l know they are
still down there"
The captain Indignantly denies that
he is a nature fakeI and says he wants
to meet the President and tell him
some real stories.
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ment gives another strip of about the
same character at IA miles, which cut
up Furneauxs land in similar manner
to that at 29 miles as stated.
The third is a proposition made by
the government to H. e. Cooper
Judge Frear and Albert Waterhouse,
who want to acquire full ownership
of strip of tide land in front of their
residences on the Peninsula. The gov
eminent agrees to give them this land
in exchange for right of way through
either of three pieces of property-S.
M. Ballou's, the Andrews family's and
the Rookie estate, which is needed in
opening up the new Alewa Heights
addition Each piece is worth about
5000, and the government asks Cooper
and the others to get this right of way
on any one of the pieces.