The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-22
TO MAKE MONTY

! flying fab fee from the shark. swoopins
from bow TO bow. and shrielting out foI
| succor In bubbles that break mheard on
lonely waters far from the haunt OF man
But a. the whale. now thoroughly alarmed
tried To slip back into its deep sea nest
the dripping anchors of the two aero
planes on either side sank into the whale,
head just back Of its right and left ears.
Let 'er go. I've got hinll- yelled
Hoxsey above the rush of the waters
below him.
4 suppose I didn't have anything u
do with it, Mr.. tombstone yelled back
as the spark caught and the aeroplanes
started toward the beach. -Oh. | was Just
sitting around looking on. ! suppose.
and you did all the
The banging engine made further
Intercourse next 20 impossible.
The scohers who have doubted Mr..
Ernest Thompson Seton's assertion in his
book OF nature essays Prom My Cos Cob
Front Stoop" that the north Atlantic
whale will attempt suicide when hope
lessly cornered win receive no support
from the aviators who hooked the whale.
which at this very moment may be seen
by the sceptical AZ it lice dead on the beach
| four and one-third miles south by west
Of Asbury Park. Every one Of the Ave
famous hiers who witnessed the incident
every detail. and they were put 20 a sharp
test by Messrs. Neely and Dollinger OF
the National Council Of the Aero Clubs of
America, the examinations being in
dividual in each case.
Prom the taximeter on the Hoxsey-
tombstone machine it was learned that
the whaletfought valiantly 90 free itself
from the flukes Of the anchors during the
first two and two-thirds miles Of the raos
in toward the beach. II lesssned its
water grew 90 shallow that the whale
felt its belly dragging on the sands il
gave one expiring lunRe forward and
turned It's body IN q circle.
Thr,isting its great tail down its throat
IL choked itself and with a last effort bit
itself through the heart and rolled over
| on the beach dead
The generosity shown by Mr.. Hoxsey
and Mr.. Johnstope with regard to who
really captured the whale. each insisting
that the other could have landed il alore.
Il extending tonight in a like degree TO
the officials OF Spring Lake and Belmar
The line dividing the two resorts as has
been said crosses the beach directly
beneath the keel 81 the dead whale.
Spring Lake officials say that ina~much
A. the head Of the whale lies in Belmar
they wouldn Z think Of claiming the body
and Belmsr just as generously offers the
head and all that goes with II To Sprin z
Lake
II may he neoeasary TO cut the cards
TO decide which will permit the other To
own the whale. Town meetings to de-
eide the question are now being talked Of
and may b. called any time in early sep
tember The Wright company has put
forth no claims for the whale ~ far. but
IL ~ said that one reason for Treasurer
Barnes = trip To New York late Last night
was 10 get a legal decision a. 20 their
rights TO the body. Spring Lake. which
~ 60 the south Of the whale. seems to hold
at this writing the most advantageous
position on the subject. but the wind may
change az any time.
As there have been no other fights aimee
-undown Last evening the capture ofthe
whal" was the only aviation news learned
around ih. airm-n's headquarters TO-DAY
Tn" meet will continue to-morrow aud
Tuesday however and something else
~ likely TO turn up or down az almost
any moment