New-York tribune., 1910-05-08
LOBSTER GONE AsTRAY
Headed for Broadway, Ii Winds
Up in Brooklyn.
A RECORD BREAKER, TOO
Some One Works Of a Great
Line of Fish Stories Across
the Bridge.

According TO the Brooklyn Museum o.
hciaIs. their institution has acquired pos
session Of the biggest lobster that has been
CAPTURED I'm this vicinity IN a long tims
The lobster was found of New Jersey uhtls
going up the coast, perhaps In the direetion
OF the Great White Way He weighed six
teen pounds. He stopped for a time ar the
New York Aquarium. He then INDUCED
himself In the popular custom Of going to
RrookIvn TO die Part Of him will attain
the end. so coveted by Omar. Of passia,
future years suspended in alcohol
The rest Of him will ornament glass
case in one OF the exhibition rooms. The
officials say that this lobster must have
been a patriarch as the ordinary lobster
Of a pound and a half is five years Old
The biggest lobster that was ever caught
weighed rhirty-four pounds He was taken
off the Atlantic Highlands In 1851 Vast
numbers OF the species are taken every
year. ten million being caught annually OF
the coast OF Massachusetts alone
Other new specimens that have been
added TO the museum collection can be
found by classical students and others IN
th,. case with the cast Of the man eating
shark They are remoras- The fish usual
Iy lives by fastening Itself To larger fsh.
SuCn dS d SEdIh EOt SOitAC ACoSSa4s - d.
tracted considerable attention IN antiquity.
Regarding Il. PIiny wrote this paragraph:
There Is a very small FISH that Is IN the
habit Of living among the rocks and IS
known as the Echeneis. from holding back
ships. IL is believed that when this fish
has attached itself to the keel OF a ship
it's progress IS impeded. and that II is from
this circumstance that il takes it's mans.
For this reason also il has a disgracefgl
repute. as being employed in love philters
and for the purpose of retarding judgments
and legal proceedings"
Trebfus Niger found further spheres OF
usefulness for it. He says:
This fish Is foot in length and five
fingers in thickness, and il can retard the
course of vessels Besides which. II mas
another peculiar property when preserved
in salt II is able 20 draw up gold which
has fallen into well, however deep the
we'll may happen to be-
According to one Of the veraciOus scient-
lists. who would not permit his name 20 be
used. the natives who live where the re-
moras are TO be found use them for fish
ing They take the renoras along when
they go out in search Of turtles Finding
one asieeD on the waves. they tie a rope
to the tail of one of the creatures and toss
him overheard When properly trained and
guided. the little fish rushes up to the
turtle and fastens hts sucking apparatus
upon It. and the natives tow both ashore.
The renoras even figured in poetry. per-
forming their stock stunt OF holding Up
vessels
The most important exhibit recently
placed on view at the museum is that OF
fifty sea birds, perched on what is repre-
sented TO be q portion OF a cliff on 81.
Georges Island. one of the PribyIof group
in the Bering Sea. The birds represent
eleven species. Millions of the birds live on
these islands. While they are poor as food.
their eggs are as good as hens eggs and
are carted off by the boatload by The
natives.