The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-22
''BLUE TIGER"
 EXClTES CHINESE
 AND ADVENTURES
New York Man Eager to Capture the Ferocious Beast For It's Skin.
By EDNA LEE BOOKER, International News Service.

Aboard the S. S. Soochow En Route to Canton. July 22-The mysterious excitement in China and everyone from Roy Chapman Andrews to mis- sionaries and business men with lean fngs toward adventure who have tried to kill capture him have failed.
 That there IS a tiger with blue and black stripes of unusual size has been established without a doubt, for he has been seen by many persons and has been known to carry off several native children every year.
 Roy Chapman Andrews, I am told, the rare specimen of tiger, but a1- though he had a glimpse of the fla nous beast he was unable to carry back his skin to New York. Any days trying to kill him, but the blue tiger is very clever and seems to know tnstinctively when he Is trailed. Last summer he was unusually fe- rocious and swooped down upon the | mainland, carrying off children, to the terror of the Chinese. This year un- usual efforts are to be made to cap ture him.
 Tigers Are Ferocious.
 The Tigers are unusually fierce in l this section of China and swim over from the mainland to Annoy, capture a child and swim away before they 1 can be shot by the Chinese. When tiger is seen an alarm is | given, and the members of the for I elSn get up a search par | ty. There is unwr3tten law in the | Anon Club that any member who | comes into the club and reports hav- ing seen a tiger without having killed | him must buy all the members pres | ent drfnk-usually whiskey. But if | he secs and kills the tiger and brings | the skin to the club-flis club ex- penses for the month are paid by the | other mem bers.
 l The steamer SoocIrow docked for a few hours at Annoy on the trip from | Shanghai to Canton, and an old timer in Annoy told us a tale about the picturesque bay in gayly painted pink and blue and white sanpans, | which looked like gondo1as. l Story of Adventure. | There was one young fellow who came to Annoy from America" said the old timer, "and the East went to his head. He became a regular wllis- key-soda-cock tail hound, and he ran up large gambling debts. He had nc business playing bridge with the old cutthroats of the port-but he didn't know it.
 Things went on from bad to worse I-he owed hundreds of dollars, was
 behind in his work, and the firm tha-
 had brought him out was about read.
 One day the young man went or
 walk in the hills-for Annoy is bull
 in the hills on the is1and-and, be
 hlnd @ large rock. found four tigel |
 boys at the club, but the next day h,
 started out with his gun. He went u1
 near the rock to wait for the paren
 tiger.
 Waited for Hours.
 He waited for hours, and whe7
 the tiger finally returned to her cub
 she was carrying little Chinese bo
 in her mouth. The young man sho
 and killed the tiger and found tha = the little boy was still living. H
 killed the four cubs and started dow = the trail carrying the boy. = When nearly down he met a part e on a tiger hunt. The Chinese bo e was the only son of a wealthy Chi @ nese who was most valuable connec e ton for the firm with which tn e young American was connected. s o everything ended happily-the clu e members were game and paid up tn
 young mans back club chits as a re s ward for killing the tiger; the fir1 E, head gave him a talking to and raise V his salary, and the wealthy old Mar n darin gave him a large reward fc e saving his son.
 Today we are told the young ma = is one of the most successful men Il South China.
 1t The tigers of Foochow, Annoy an e Canton are no joke, and of all tn O tigers the great blue tiger is the mos
 famous. A large reward has been o1 . fered for his capture.