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Show FISHERMEN BATTLE WITH A DEVIL FISH. NEW ORLEANS PARTY HAS EX. I CITING ADVENTURE. ' SHOTS AROUSE THE GIANT Yacht Is Followed 8luatllhly by Creature, and Dullets Fired Make Little Impression on the Monster. New Orlonns. The sensation In tho llaliliig world recently wna the experience expe-rience four sportsmen had with a Uetll llsh oiT Horn island During the week the big power yacht Jeanne, owned by Commodore Thomas Sully, with .lohn P. Sullivan. 1,'hll Werleln and Ned lllghtor ns "gnosis, ran out to Horn Island for a few days' fishing- Thet had all tho sport they wanted with mackon-i nnd bull rodilsh, nnd early one Sunday morning atarlisl for the easiwnrd pass of Deer Island nnd IHIoxl bay They had liuteled puHslhlt Ibrvo or rour miles from the Island when. Just abend or the yucht they saw some- ' thing on tho surface of the sound which looked like a giant turtle Tho eourso of the yacht was changed so as to overhaul this strange creature, and when the boat nemod tho llsh tho engines were slowed down nnd stopped. Tho yncht enmo up close to Iho fish, which pioted lo lie the Intgest devil fish over seen In that section During Dur-ing last Hummer u number of these monsters, sometimes called the blanket fish, have been soon, but they wero not longer than live or b!x feet. This monster measured In tho neighborhood of 1C reel In length, and wns fully seven or eight feet brond. When tho nose or the llsh wns alongside tho step of tho yacht. Its tall was just opposite the forcmnst. a distance or over Hi feel, but, to make tho measurement reasonable, tho sportsmen came to the conclusion conclu-sion that they would give thu llsh IS feet a a fair measurement. Commotion! Sully secured an Improved Im-proved WlnchcMlor and went on lop of tho pilot houso to get a good shot, The llsh was lying very near thu surface, and did not seem to pay the slightest attention to tho boat and Us occupants. Two shots wero fired In rapid succession, but they did not seem to bother tho firth In thft least When tho shots wote filed tin glnnt sank slowl nnd enmo up ngnlc a few feet further nltend A dozen more shots were II rod from tho rifle, but no Impression was mndo. Fully half nil hour tho ncltt lay to while lis occupants tried all kinds of means to wnko up thu monster of the sea. Werlolu II unity grabbed a long boat-hook boat-hook nnd wanted to tie a line to tho JCTTWWfc .. i ' ,nn. I. ' ' JI uS3jHsS5i r fife ml&tiS$MBB29 WMjM '; v &jZ47 -Jv . . , 1 J0f The Shots Had No Effect on the Fish. hnndlo nnd hnrponn tho fish, but tho others wero not exactly certain ns lo tho results of such an experiment, nnd would not listen to Werleln. Finally the yacht got under wny ag.ilu. nnd Iho dnvll fish, with a fow lazy waves of Us Riant tentacles, dropped In behind nnd followed thu bont for fully half a tulle. Then It disappeared. disap-peared. A few weeks ago W. C. O. Clnlborun nnd several other fishermen returned with n story nlxiut three devil fish seen nt the Island, but their story I wns taken with n largo groin of salL Clalboruo has u reputation for story 1 telling, but hi tain Is followed up I now by this experience, and tho I siortsmeu nro wondering If a big yacht, with plenty of harpoona on board might not furnish n lot of lively HjKirt to thu sportsmen. |