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A HUGE SEA MONSTER. I
Landed After a Straggle of Two Days
and Nights.
The following is taken from the
Tampa Daily Times:
Through the courtesy of the Wide
u/??ld Moorovino Pontain Thnmnsnn
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is permitted to publish the artist's
conception of his thrilling battle
with the deep sea monster, which
lasted for two days and a night and
which was the most nerve-racking
v experience that ever befell mariner
> " i or sportsman. In the terrible ordeal
which followed, Captain Thompson
lost sixteen pounds in weight as a
result of the terrific strain and was
near complete exhaustion before his
!' capture was safely landed. 'The creature's
enormous strength was evi,
denced by the fact that it knocked
the stern, rudder and propeller off
a thirty-one ton yacht while in a dying
condition. It also knocked 16
feet of temporary piling from underneath
the trestle of the Florida East i
Coast railway at Knights Key, Fla.
These facts are authentic and can be
f verified. ,
The monster was forty-five feet
long and weighed thirty thousand
pounds.
Its liver alone weighed 1,700
pounds, or more, than ten full grown
men put together.
It is twenty-three feet around the
body and its tail measured ten feet
from tip to tip. j
It had swallowed an octopus
weighing 1,500 pounds which was
still alive in its stomach whenj
caught.
i It could have swallowed twenty '
Jonahs without suffering the slight- j
est pangs of indigestion.
It smashed a boat into thousands
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of pieces and crushed the rudder and j
propeller of a thirty-one-ton yacht j
with a single swish of its mighty;
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tan.
Five harpoon thrusts and 150
large calibre rifle bullets only served !
to increase its fury and*it took five
days to finally kill it.
The battle lasted thirty-nine hours
?two days and a night?in open
sea with the monster dragging a j
small boat at express train speed for
hundreds of miles.
Smithsonian authorities believe
that the creature was an inhabitant
of depths more than 1,500 feet below
the surface and that it was blown i
up by some subterranean or volcanic
upheaval which injured its diving
apparatus so it was unable to return
to its native depths.
Its hide is three inches thick and
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enabled to withstand the most enor-1
mous water pressure, a pressure almost
inconceivable to men. Its eyes,
which are very small, have no lids
and were never closed, indicating
that it lived at a depth where eyes
were pf no avail.
The creature is not classified in
natural history, the genus or species
is unknown and it. is not only the
most remarkable zoological specimen
but the largest specimen of the fish '
tribe known to history.
Although the largest fish ever captured,
scientists claim it was only a
baby of its tribe and if it had lived
to attain full growth^it would have
been two and one-half times as
large.
Every undertaking establishment
on the Florida east coast from Jacksonville
to Key West gave up their
entire supply qff formaldehyde to preserve
the monster and over nineteen
barrels were used.
It was mounted by J. S. Warmbeth,
the celebrated taxidermist of
the Smithsonian institution, who was:
also chosen to accompany Admiral j
Peary on his famous trip to the Pole. |
It is now exhibition in Tampa, at;
the city dock in front of the?Tampa
Bay hotel, on board Captain Thompson's
large sea-going yacht which he
built at a cost of $30,000.
SHOULD NOT SELL COTTON.
Summers Calls on Farmers to Hold
Staple.
"Do not rush your cotton to the j
market in case of a sudden and sharp j
break in either direction." That is
the advice which A. C. Summers,,
State commissioner of agriculture,1
Monday to the cotton farmers of '
this State. "The fact that the cotton i
markets of the world are closed to-!
rioTr inrlipsitoQ that thoro will hp crimp
heavy barrage work followed by snip- j
ing on the part of the bear interests/, <
when they get an opportunity, and 1
the farmers must not be startled by j <
any blustering attack. j i
"Having attended all of the con-! 1
ferences at which the cotton situation i
has been considered by the represen- f
tatives of the farmers of the South- 1
ern States, I wish to state most posi- 11
timely that cotton, even while the war ]
was in progress, had an intrinsic:
value of not less than 40 cents. This <
estimate is based not alone upon the i
size of the crop, but upon the cost of ]
product;on and the losses on ac- j i
count of drought and other causes.
Also, the cost of replacing this crop i j
with next year's crop is not an in- ]
siderable factor that the farmer must 1
be permitted to figure upon, as the i j
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merchant does in a similar conditioi
With the war practically over, witi
the enormous war risk insurance re
moved from trans-Atlantic shipping
there is every reason to declare tha
cotton is actually and intrinsicall;
worth more today than it was yester
day, because the opportunity to mark
et it is so greatly improved.
. "There will be either a sharp de
cline or a sharp upward movement
and the purpose of this statement i
to urge our farmers to hold their cot
ton until they can get not less thai
35 cents?and then to keep on hold
ing it. The situation is in our hands
and the farmers will win if they d<
not permit themselves to be impose(
upon and the South robbed of mil
lions of dollars. At $1 a pound Tex
as would yet be the loser on this
crop, and Soiith Carolina owes it t<
her sister States to stick with then
in this figh? to hold cotton until there
shall be reached a price which wil
be fair and reasonably profitable. We
do not wish the farmers of Soutl
Carolina to take advantage of anj
situation in an improper manner, bul
when we consider how the South
suffered in the early fall of 1914
while other farming sections were
faring better, we must feel that the
farmers are entitled to about all thai
they can get out of this present
crop."
RAINBOW DIVISION.
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Americans Cover Themselves With
Glory.
With the American Army on the
Sedan Front, Nov. 7, 10:30 P. M.?
It was contingents of the noted Rainbow
Division and of the First Di
v.siuii iudi maue ine nnai wmnwina
dash into Sedan.
It is now permissible to mention
the divison which participated in. the
famous drive that cleared that part
of France west of the Meuse occupied
by the Americans. It was the Second
Division which, operating at the
center, made the strenous push on
Lhe afternoon of the day the Germans
began to weaken and pressed
orward until it controlled the heights
?elow Beaumont. This made possible
the shelling of the Mezeleres-Metz
railroad.
The Fifth Division (regulars)
mossed the Meuse under machine
*un fire, aided by the Thirty-second
Division and covered themselves with
?lory for four consecutive days.
Continuing its success in the Ar*onne
Forest, .the Seventy-seventh
D'vision fought its stubborn way upward
along Bourgonne Wood, in coniunction
with the Seventy-elgth.
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