Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-08
SHARK FRIGHTENS
BATHING THRONG
AT SPRING LAKE
Fin Seen Near Beach and
300 Flee to the
Shore
RUsHEs OUT INTO OCEAN
Lifeguard Raises Rifle to Fire,
but Fish Plunges Be-
meath Waves
RUsHEs OUT INTO OCEAN
BY q star Correspondent

SPRING LAKE, N. j., July s--Three
hundred bathers fed for the beach shortly
after noon today when a fin suddenly cut
the water 20 feet beyond the poles ow the
inside lines at the boardwalk.
1t was in the vicinity, only closer to shore,
where Charles Bruder, a bellboy here was
killed by shark on Thursday. His death
followed by two days that of Charles Il.
Van SAINT a Philadelphian, who died after
a shark at Beach Haven had mangled him.
All the bathers reached shore in almost
a minute. None had been far out, When
they re-entered the water, they went only
where II was knee-deep or less.
The I'm appeared five times more in
various places near the ropes, and Life
Guard George White, sitting on the bow
of motorboet with rifle in his hand. pur-
sued the fin and once raised the rifle to fire.
The fin appeared further and further out
and in short time all trace fit was lost
MoToRBoATs IN HUNT
A line of motorboats cruising from dawn
TO sunset and extending from Atlantic
Highlands, near Sandy Hook, to Cape May,
will protect New Jersey coast resorts from
the raids Of man-eating sharks, according
70 n plan formulated today by the Spring
Lake Borough Council and leading hotel
men here,
Fishermen, Oldest inhabitants and sum.
NOR visitors OF long standing tell dozens OF
veli-authentlcated stories of sharks seen on
the Jersey coast
TALES OF NEW VICTIMS UNTRUE.
Besides these reports come almost hourly
rumors that the shark had found new vic
Tins. Spring Lake was agog today over
tho story that a small girl had been caught
by shark inside the ropes there. The
report untrue.
Perry Hinlkle a New York cottagSf, shot
two sharks near THE Rocks" ten-fathom
deep ledge. six miles out from here. That
was last summer. A year ago fishermen
caught 20-foot man-eater in n net below
Sea Girt. They slashed its head of and,
cutting up the body, found In the stomach
q foot and ankle inside a shoe and sock
Fishermen often find sharks as much as
~ feet long in the fish pounds" they set
mp mile or shore.
six miles north Of here is Shark River,
the southern boundary of Belmar, tidal
inlet where at least one OF the fsh has
been found. Old Jerry Gaskill, fisher
man. now long dead, used to tell the story
that Shark River came by its name through
the death Of an Indian, eaten by shark,
near the sea.
One lone shark probably was responsible
for the two killings of the Jersey coast, it
was said at the United States Bureau of
Fisheries, in Washington, today.
The shark, officials said, probably had ac.
quired taste for human flesh as some
four.footed beasts do, because of scarcity of
food Ash this season
Commissioner of Fisheries Hugh NJ.
Smith laughed at suggestion that heavy
cannonading in the North Sea had driven
large numbers of sharks across the At
lantic. Sharks that infest the north At
lantic seaboard in summer, he said, are en-
tirelytirely different species from
European sharks. They come north in the
summer from spots off Hatteras, where
nsh are found in large schools in the win
ter.