The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-01
FoLLloTT, THE SHARK FIGHTER,
BY Edward Vivian.

FoLLloTT, THE SHARK FIGHTER.
y BY Edward Vivian.
y It was in Pail Mall that met him.
4 was just passing the palatial home of
THE Marine Hunt Club, when saw
Follott descending the flight Of steps
that led to the spacious entrance hall.
sAs he caught sight Of me he beckoned.
My dear fellow was just wishing
TO see you. Less than five minutes ago
4 telephoned to your rooms. Come back
with me and have smoke There is
excellent sherry
passed with him up the steps. The
club house is an architectural achieve
ment for the encouragement of that
enhancing pursuit to which the first
quarter OF the twentieth century gave
birth--a sport which at the time of the
memory which here set forth. when
the year was close to 1860, had grown
TO be the mania of nearly half the
worlds moneyed men. And this sport
was the hunting Of the more ferocious
creatures of the seattle pursuit Of
shark, rorqual. cachalot and swordfish.
and all the other carefully preserved
sea-dendzens that would give fierce
fight when attacked by daring men.
Those who followed it with intrepid
vigor in submarine boat, electric
launch or turbine pinnace. formed
assemblage to which the Marine Hunt
Club was devoted.
You have no particular engage
ments for the next few weeks, hopper"
Folliott inquired as we seated our
selves.
None of Importance"
That's lucky"
Lucky! Why?"
q want you to come for few days
sport with me-
In Bucking
my dear Harville, do you think so
badly Of me as that?" said Folliott,
with mock reproach. SO badly that
you deem me capable Of consigning
you to sport in England? No; am go
ing to Malaysia next week.
And you want me to Gomez"
Exactly. To be one of a party Of
-FOUR. It's never large parties when
shark fighting is the sport. No room,
lIny dear fellow-no room for more
than Quartette."
I'm delighted to come" said /.
That's right We leave next week
on Wednesday,"
Folliott was. in comparison with me,
10 very wealthy man. His fortune was
fof course trifing against the riches of
1.-The Vassiltchikoffs of Tobolsk or the
i6tellenbosches of Buffalo neither did It
reach those OF the multi-millionaries
iof Europe or the billionaires of the
Americas. Yet 1t was huge amount
iof money. Folliott's grandfather had
been butcher. who made the founda-
ltion OF his colossal fortune out of a
Especial brand Of York hams in the ear
Her years of the twentieth century.
but this merchant princes grandson
was a gentleman and sportsman and
among his sports was the one which
had become the great passion of his
life, the pursuit which had obtained
6or him the names by which he was
known to all who had ever heard of
him 1.-The shark fighter"
Our two fellow sportsmen Joined us
At Singapore, where, on board Fol-
niott's turbine yacht we proceeded
without delay to his famous sporting
reserved in the southeast of the archi-
pelago of Sunda. On the morning Of
Saturday we anchored in little shell.
tered harbor in the east of Salarang
Island. where Folliott had established
his chief hunting lodge
We could gaze from the summit of
the rocky hill that backed the small
settlement OF keepers and marines
comprising Folliott's staff over the ex-
panse of water to the southwark
There, sixteen or more miles away, the
towering peak of another island raised
its defiant rocks boldly upwards TO
the blazing sky. That was the south
ern limit of the reserve Between the
two isles ran line of buoys, each as
huge as an artisans dwelling, rising
big and black from the surface of the
sea. From the other side of Salarang
buoys south-eastward, their size grad
ually diminished to the horizon by
perspective. These, Folliott told us,
stretched to a third islet nearly TWEEN
ty miles distant, low, table-topped
rock lying invisible from our stand
noint tina. formed the third corner Of