New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-17
GOSSIP OF THE BOROUGH
Tales of BottomleSs Lake, a SaUage
Tiger and YeLlozC Dog.

The deep wells which Deputy Water Cemmts-
sioner Cozier has discovered on Long Island arc
hopelessly out Of the competition for tho cham
pionship of water producers One little lake in
ireland has them whipped to q standstill, &C.
cording 10 a story told the other evening by
Dwight L. Elmendorf during his lecture on The
Emerald Isle" under the auspices Of the Brook
Ign Institute OF Arts and Sciences. While COL
lecting the data and pictures for his lecture he
reached the lake in question in company with
a guide.
This lake is bottomless." remarked the guide.
Look here" exclaimed the lecturer. I've
swallowed with simple credulity all the remark
able stories which you and others have told me
about this island, but I'm going to draw thu line
at bottonless lakes"
n Certainly it is bottomless." the guide re.
turned. Why, know a boy who came out
here for swim one day He took off his
clothes and dived from that rock over there
ano never came up again.
That's not extraordinary" retorted E,reo-
-oorf. Such things frequently occur. He was
probably caught in the mud or entangled IN the
roots at the bottom Of the lake"
= That's where you're wrong" asserted the
1rishman- Everybody here had given him up
for lost. when, few days after he disapnea red
he telegraphed his family from Australia and
asked them TO send him on his clothes"
Unsentimental people have been wont to der!de
the notion that the power Of the human eye is
sufficient 70 put to flight the beasts OF the wIlds
Frederick Munsen, when lecturing under the
auspices Of the Brooklyn Institute told the other
evening Of his personal optical combat with such
a beast in the neighborhood Of the Salton Sea
he was making his way through dense vegeta-
Is1i When he came suddenly face to face with
what he says was a terrible beast of prev The
animal to judge from the picture, was an
AmeTicanized reproduction of the Bengal tiger
only iercer than the nenagerie specirnens The
beast looked at Munsen and Munsen looked at
the beast. The camera only interviewed The
lecturer had no weapon with hTn-exceut his
glance, and with that he transfxed the animals
flashing eyes. There was q moment of intense
suspense and then the beast wavered in his
edZe' MS eyes dropped from the eyes OF
the lecturer TO the lens of the camera; ne
glanced in panicky way from right to left and
me next instant turned tail and skulked away.
State Geologist J. NJ. Clarke is not much wor-
ried by the predictions of seismic disturbances
In New York State, according to statements
which he made while in Brooklyn the other
evening. Since the recent catastrophes he said
people have been constantly the lookout for
earthquakes, until their fears are leading then,
INTO what might be called ''seismitIs" Nearly
every person thinks. or has at some time sus-
end fancy that when the wind shakes the vim
dows and rattles the china in Schnnectady ana
the plaster falls from the ceilings at Scotia or
some one shoots q blast at Utica a sort Of
hypnotic suggestion gets abroad TO arouse peo-
PIES apprehenslons While the eastern part Of
the state is as solid as any portion Of the earth
a great earthquake occurred along the lines
OF the Appalachian Mountains in 1868 and an
other may occur ~ any time. Manhattan and
Brooklyn and other important cities are stu
ated on this line Of weakness However Mr.
Clarke does not look Cor trouble in this portion
Of the globe.
The latest tale of the ubiquitous yellow dog
comes from the Office of the BROOKLYN RAND
Transit. A Fulton street elevated train. sched-
uled TO leave the Manhattan end of the Bridge
at 30 o'clock the other morning reached the
Brooklyn end six minutes late, and when the
motoTman was called upon to explain he told
the story. AS the train pulled out Of the Man
: haitian terminal his glance fell upon the small
beast standing on the ties a few feet ahead He
brougnt the air brake into play with benevolent
Z speed. II is unlucky 10 run down a dog and AL
ways leads to the running down of a human
being, with its attendant Inconvenience So tho
inotorman stopped the train and went out on the
trent platform with couple OF conductors and
made noises a; the cur. The cur was not unused
10 such noises evidently, for he listened To them
patiently. and even came tie or two nearer IN
look the men over. At last the motorrnan nd his
assistants tired OF their attempts TO scare the
DOG, ana started the car again. The dog winked
al him, the motorman says, and moved slowly 10
a position few ties ahead of the train Then he
q turned around and beckoned with his head 10
the motorTnan 70 follow. The motorrnan turned
on more power and the dog trotted on again AZ
the trains speed increased the dog Iikeyyise ac
celebrated his motions, until toward the first arch
ne was only hitting about every tenth tie ne
passed through the Brooklyn terminal. like a
streak OF yellow paint, and IL is the notormans
opinion that he was going so fast that he simply
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