Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-17
MILLION BATHERS
KEPT FROM WATER
BY SHARK TERROR
Decrease of $4,000 Reported
at Coney Island Beach
Alone
TIGERS OF DEEP CAUGHT

NEW YORK, July t7.-shatks and ru-
nhors Of sharks caused heavy falling Off
IN the usual Sunday crowds at nearby sea-
side resorts yesterday. At Coney Island the
decrease WAS estimated by the police and
bathhouse owners at $4,000, the number
Of bathers for the day being estimated at
100000. Taking in the entire metropolitan
district. It is a safe guess that there were
more than 100000 persons who stayed
away from the surf for fear OF 'man-
eaters"
One Of the most noticeable signs Of the
scare Is the complete cessation Of free-for-
all bathing along the shores of Raritan Bay
In Matawan Creek, the scene of the recent
shark tragedy In which two persons were
killed. and at Keyport, which is at the
mouth of the inlet, the bathing docks were
deserted yesterday. At Keansburg there
were few batbers AT Atlantic Highlands
the bathers stayed on shore and basked in
the sand.
THREE SHARKS CAUGHT
AT South Beach, Midland Beach and
ether resorts on Staten Island there was
also a noticeable decrease in bathers. This
was attributed 10 the capture of n shark
on Saturday off Princes Bay by employees
Of the Mount Loretto Home II was eight
and half feet long and weighed $50
pounds.
w. II. Kinlock. Of West New Brighton.
g. l., with his son and two other boys.
caught two sharks, each eight feet long IN
Raritan Bay about opposite keansburg
Joseph Delimeck, of 2709 East 2sth street.
Sheepshead Bay, and Louis Border caught
a small shark about two miles on Brighton
Beach. The Ash nearly upset the boat be-
fore he ceased fighting.
Several persons reported encounters or
near-ehcounters with sharks James
Doane, of 21s Jay street, Brooklyn,
printer while fishing in Coney Island Creek
nff falt n trpmpD1OuE tug
on his line and pulled His catch--what-
ever Il was-pulled back so vigorously that
Doane fell into the water John Larson OF
4th Place Brooklyn, jumped into the
creek and rescued him, Doane was treated
for bruises by Doctor Ark, of the Coney
Island Hospital, and went home.
III that wasn't shark caught I'll eat
my hat" Doane said NO ordinary fish
could have given pull like that"
SHARK OFF CoNEY ISLAND.
Charles LarlSins and Frank Hennings.
fishermen. while in a motorboat so feet of
the end of the 1300-fot Dreamland pier saw
the fin and back of 15-foot shark. They
chased It, but the fish disappeared.
At the Manhattan Baths, Manhattan
Beach, the management put UP n steel net
500 feet long and "a feet high at the life
lines as a guard against sharks. At the
Brighton Baths and the Parkway Baths
Brighton Beach, the guards were increased.
At Matawan no effort was made to con-
tinue the hunt for the shark that killed W.
Stanley Fisher and Lester Stilwel, al
though the towns offer Of 500 reward
still holds good. Large crowds of visitors
went to the dock where the shark got his
prey, but nobody had a rifle.
Captain Louis .Sorcho, deep.sea diver and
submarine engineer at Palisades Park. ex-
hibited there yesterday an s-foot shark
which. he said. had been caught off the
Jersey coast by the crew of United Fruit
Company steamship.
when they cut him open" the captain
naid l.they found inside n seamans watch,
stopped at eight bells. Here's the watch
10 prove itF'
The shark scare had little effect on bath
ing at Atlantic City. but 1t was noticed
that the bathers kept close together anG
did not go beyond the surf