The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-29
MIGHTY PORPOISE
APPEARS AT DANCE
1900 POUND FISH VISITS RE-
SORT ON BEACH. WHACKS
OFF DOOR WITH TAIL.

GALVESION, IexaS.-Ihey were
having gay old time-that half hun
dred members of the elite social set
down the island at a select sea-
food and dance resort one night this
week until a 1900 porpoise raped
on the door of the place and demand
ed something to eat. Then fair wo-
men whose fingers have never done
harder work than caress piano keys
scrambled, clutched their escorts,
tumbled over tables, tainted or got
tangled up in the barb wire far in
the rear of the resort in their mad
flight for safety. Trim youths of the
Isterner sex, accustomed to their
morning and evening baths, shaves,
shampoos and manicures, boys whose
work consisted of fussing at their
Wallets while getting ready for break
fast, lunch, dinner and a party, for
got all their chivalry and daring.
They scrambled madly for the rear
door of the establishment as the first
swish of the porpoise's tail smashed
the door into smithereens. They split
their trousers in the race and tore
their coats .on the thorns of the salt
cedars and the barbed wire as they
fed from the place, leaving their fair
companions to battle it out with the
devil of the sea-" They forgot their
taxis and limousines and hoofed it
into the city-more than seven miles,
only to arrive after the girls had been
brought in by their fathers and the
"sea monster" slain by the proprie-
tors of the resort.
1t Was the First Time.
1t was the first time any person
could remember seeing or even hear
ing of gigantic porpoise deliberate
ly quitting the sport in the water and
walking out on the sandy beach to an
eating house, knocking on the door
and demanding something to eat. But
that is just what this old porpoise
did. She made but one "knock" on
the door. That was with long and
mighty tail which sent the door crash
ing across the room. She was found
on the front porch of the place
whacking the floor with her fins and
tail, which left the proprietors no
room to doubt that she came for a
good square meal" of the smaller
fish they had been catching from the
gull.
Just how she got there will prob
ably never be known. The resort
was some fifty feet from the waters
edge and certainly the tide had not
been high enough to leave the big fish
high and dry on the floor of the
porch-even if the merrymakers had
been there for hours.
According to the members of the
party lunch had just been concluded
and it was about II O'Clock when
they fell in to pursue the phantom
Strains of the jazz for an hour OF
so. Probably one or two dances had
been concluded.
See Great Sea Monster.
Another dance was in its heigh
when the door crashed in and a gi
gantic body of a black sea monster
was exposed to the glazing lights. TX
make matters worse the huge tail o.
the big fish continued whacking the
floor while the fins scraped on the
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inside of the building.
1t was then the panic broke. The
girls were faint and the boys wild
After the young men had deserted
the ladies and beat it for the taller
timber the proprietor of the place
Henry Morgenthals, with some assist
ants, dubbed the big fish to death
with axes.
But the business of the resort il
ruined. No more will they go down
the island, the girls declare-no mat
ter with whom and certainly moi
with the young men who deserted
them in time of trouble.
The young men and women declare
the fish crawled out on the sand fol
something to eat.
But the negro musicians-those OF
them who have been located-have a
view of their own They swear by
the great horn spoon and the whis-
ikers of their ancestral chief that the
big fish was lured out of the water
by the strains of the ocean Blues, u
a ragtime air of Galveston's own
composition and use. They swear by
all that is holy, even by their razors,
that the fish came to the resort to
dance and met his or her death.