Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-02
MEDALS FOR
ANANLASES
DOCTOR AND JAILER STARS AT
CATCHING FISH
TRAINED CALCULATOR AND HIS
PILOT DID WORK
Mayor Peevish at Being Unable to
Compete with Star Narrators
and Tries to Bust Up
Meetings

Meetings
The meeting of the Ananias club in the
assembly room of the police station was
interrupted on the evening of August "a
by direction of the mayor ana poaru OF
police commissioners
Tn an obscure corner of another news
paper the mayor read that the board of
fire commissioners had prohibited the
holding of political meetings in fire en-
gine houses.
Now for long time the mayor has
been Jealous of the achievements of the
various members of the police depart
ment in the piscatorial line. There was
once upon time. after he had become
firmly seated in the chair of the high
burgess of the community, that he as
pired to such honors himself and his
achievement was really a remarkable one
and will be treateu In extensio In this
column in the near future.
However, lne mayor got little peeved
at the honors that were being reaped by
Chief Kern and Capt. Broadhead and
Sargeants White and Haupt, and few
of the lesser lights in the Munchausen
line, and for one brief fatal moment he
fell In that moment he issued the order,
mo more of these fish story telling meet
ings to be held in the assembly room.''
OF course, being the high commissioner
of the department of public safety of the
city of Angesl, the order of the mayor
was obeyed, but the police bodies didn't
! like it little bit. They didn't get
peevish about it, --owever. but simply
| took up a subscription of $S4O5.12 and
hired an attorney, who in very short
/ order got out a writ of certorari in Judge
II. H. Roses court, and in d few minutes
the honorable board of police commits
| sioners were instructed that the assem-
1 bly, room of the police station was open
| to all reputable fish story tellers of the
| police department at all hours of the day
and night. subject only to the convenience
| of the janitor of che building and the
mayor and his peeved board were at once
properly squelched.
This explains why a week ago the ex-
ploits of DR. Unarlie Bonynge of the re-
ceiving hospital and Chief Jailer John
McCauley were not properly recorded in
these columns.
Remarkable Adventures
This explanation being given, it is now
the proper thing to tell all about the re-
markable adventures of this little doctor
and this big jailer.
They both went to Catalina together,
and they fished together and when they
came back they told their stories together
before the Ananias club, and they both
got a lot of beautiful medals together.
DIR. Bonynge told his remarkable tale
only under the sacred promise of Lyle
Pendegast that not one word of it would
get into print.
.sYou know" said the dictor, reflective
ly, "Ive been getting too much of this
publicity business here lately. haven't
quite recovered from that street car story
down at Santa Monica yet and 1 don't
want any more Of this newspaper busi-
ness in NINE"
I'm only a modest, unassuming atom
in this body polite that exists around
this station. and don't want myself
thrust too prominently before the pub
lie or there would be suspicion on the
part of some people that I was playing
to the gallery.
.Now, for this fish story of NINE I
read with great deal of interest sew
eral stories which were related here by
the chief about his trained flying fish.
and that other story about the trained
flies, and being of a scientific mind de-
termined to enter into the field of re-
search along the same lines. l was
struck by happy thought in seeing in
the Avalon aquarium very small jacu-
lator or shooting fish. You know. these
fish kill their food by shooting them with
stream of water projected with con-
siderable force from their mouths. They
live only on live bait-hies, small fish
and the like.
Would Have cinch
'.Now, 1 conceived the idea that If 1
could get one of these and train him
properly would have cinch on all the
big fellows in the fish line. After great
deal of trouble got hold of fairly good
sized jaculator and took him out to the
Bimini baths early in the morning and
put him through a course OF training
sprouts that would wear the stamina out
of Jeffries. The little fish stood for 1t
though, and got so he liked 1t. and used
to wag his tail in an affectionate man
ner every time whistled for him to come
to hand and get the nice big juicy fly or
sand crab which always gave him after
I had put him through hard bit of
work. Kind of reward, you know, for
we'll done, good and faithful servant
stunt.
..WeIl, I cot that fish so that he would
take long slender steel dart with a
double barb in his mouth and shoot 1t
with the utmost precision up to hum
dred yards. To the dart, of course, had
attached woven copper line several
hundred feet in length, and while 1t was
no bigger than an ordinary linen thread
II was strong enough to hold the biggest
fish that ever swan through Avalon bay.
''I said nothing about what l was do
ing, but when went over to Catalina
I took my little jaculator along, and
when John McCauley and | got to work
we had them all beat. would just
simply turn my jaculator loose in the
water with the dart in his mouth. and
with John McCauleys trained pilot fish |
ahead of him. he would search out the |