The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-10-31
HUNTING In TAXICABS
AND RUSTLTNG FOR SWORDFISH
ON BROADWAy.


Visitors From Bridgeport and Great Is
the slaughter Final Obsequics In the
Brlgh little Place That Jack Butt
The Sohaghticoke Rattlesnake Rustlers
of Bridgeport and Kent. Conn. combined
with the Amalgamated Association OF
Swordhsh Assassins OF Block Island and
Bridgeport. have just brought 10 a close
the very first tagicab snake hunt and sword
fish slaughter ever held on Broadway.
Both hunts began on Sunday morning
rather il was Just high moor then the pack
caught the scent up in Tom Healy's Jun
gle Room AT Sisty sixth and Broadway
and gave cry down the Alley.
Scarce another minute passed before
Editor Dick Howell of the Bridgeport
Herald unleashed his pack Of Alice blue
snake hounds and started them to the
s'uth'ard after a flock Of wrigglers that
were beautifully marked with the large
pink and light green polka dots hat differ
entiate the wild rattlesnake from the COM
mon OF barnysrd variety of tame RATHER
such as one sees in the snake oil sections Of
Bayonne and other big Standard Oil CEN
tres. You don't know, IL you're not a
regular snake hunter, how fine n thing
It liz TO sight "a polka dotted rattlcsnake.
The dots show the principal difference be-
tween the wild snake and the tame snake
in fact it's the dots that make them wild.
Skipper Smiler Rowland, the heap big
sw ordish stabber from twenty miles
Y. S. F.. y 4. Of Block Island. bad hardly
taken the wheel from Ia lsndlubber
ia xicab pilot in front of Tom Hesly's
where the hunt had been inaUgurated with
a long and neat breakfast when the glad
yell Of Thar she tins'" beloved forth
from the tayicab cro~stre's That first
fin that foolishly had begun 10 show ABOVE
the surface Of the asphalt of Broadway
Just of Sixty fourth stree ~straightwav
began a race with death, anu lost. And
al che came time Dick Howell's pack az
blue snake hounds started full cry after
d dotted ~wriggler that steadily gor chased
until il was crushed TO death away down
in Sixth avenue near forty-thIrd street
III the revolving doors that swing around
IN the vestibuls Of the restaurant that
works while you sleep in the bright little
place that marks the spot Of the lobster
house that Jack built
Not only that, hui when three Of But
here, let's explain first who's who and how
all this happened.
tOu knON all tDoul ltls NhelRrlhOkG
Ipage one Of manuscript has gone upstairs
now with the first spelling of the name. 80
one must rely upon sheer memory his
Skchgtikoke Rattlesnake Rustlers club,
don't YOU You ought 20, because they're
the men vi INSTRUMENTATION. ~Cartoonists.
plumbers, physicians. blacksmiths, lawyers
and Undertaken sammy SOCCER. the homo
rary member from Quasepsug. who finances
the club but always gets a misery in Ids legs
the annual hunt for snakes that prevents
him from climbing To the snake den above
the roaring Housatonic-who invite the war
correspondents of New York up 70 the
Indian reservation every Nav
TO see the ~rattlers caught alive.
Almost the same identical crowd make
the Amalgamated Association Of Sword
fish Assassins which in August sails out of
Bridgeport in the good sloop VI. r. Racket
for the swordfishing twenty miles T.. $. y.
a r.. Of Block Island. The NJ. Z. Racket.
by the way, il called after the swell Miss
Minnie r. Racket Of ~Greenpoint. which il
merely an item Of sentimental interest.
The Szgtizkogh Rattlesnake Rustlers have
"A queen, TOO, for a mascot, the beautiful
Princess Alice Pan Of the reservation,
visiting cards give her name i'm full
aa Princess Aiice-S Sit Blythe Housatonic.
She wanted Ia come on the Broadway snake
hunt that was pulled OF Sunday and Mon
day, but her father. chief Jim Pan, tho
last OF the S~kattycokes, made her stay
home %. mind the house.
Now. il occurred Ia some of The New York
war correspondents who have been enter
tanned at the snake hunts at Kent. or who
have been taken IN August for y week or so
Of swOrdtishing 10 this twenty miles X. r.. y.
! T.. % Block Island spot, that il wouldn't
be such n foolish little idea 10 invite the
hunters and swordiish stabbers down
here 10 New York on a pleasant Sabbath
to hunt snakes and things along
Wherefore when they came 20
the Grand Central Station OF the train that
in hurriedly from Bridgeport at 1850
A. VI. sometimes On Sunday they were met
by two walking delegates Of the War Cor
Union. one known up around
twenty miles T.. y. +. u +. Of Block Island
a. Bill of New York and another who is
lust a war correspondent, n escorted 10
Tom Healy's as "a starter in the following
order:
lat Division - Snake Hunters - Richard
Howell. Editor Bridgeport Herald and Official
OF club; Chief Jim Pan. last Of
he ZsckstoZooks. in black store clothes:
ehief George C~oegswell. also last Of the
that same tribe. and the only other