| Show r M MONSTERS DEEP SEA Fantastic From tho Floor of tHo Ocean Built s to Do Swallowing Stunts 5 g R M u PO f Mp U n the tio end eni of It this year the world wilt ie ln to learn such U li h things about tho the chasms chasIns B ot of o the deepest lIt sens OB us It never dreamed med of ot In Its wildest f dreams The Tho United States Great Britain Trance Franco Ger Ocr Germany Germany many and nd Denmark are arc oil approaching he h t point I where their scientist ci are OT e ready to begin systematic publication I of ot results attained d In tho the various arloue deep deeR sell sea exploring e expedition that were Y cent out IK III the thu last et few years yer eor Post Poet En the th Washington The most remarkable able among these thee will be bC those telling of ot the tho work of the German Clerman Val expedition I which recently r explored the seas ort oft the Ule American African Indian and Chinese ChIne coasts the tho final reports of or tM Agu Aga Biz alZ expedition through the tho Pacific ocean the t final reports r of at the German members embere mcm ers of at tho the Challenger expedition which nry ur 1 boin published now In a amany Gel ej ninnY many In Iti a I magnificent edition with colored platen pate and tho the reports of ot the tho various expeditions expedition of ot the Prince of T int no years yeara ear ago ngo the deep ees was ae nn flu unknown world Here Hero and there ther scattered In museums mU for far apart and gazed at with amazement and Is Ig h Ignorant t wonder and ond c unavailing specula tion were forty or fifty shapes chapeL They Ther wore were deep sea forms forns that driven upward from their eternal night by it some fatality had Md been picked up dead deal on the surface or washed ashore all hare They The taught the tho world nothing lien did dl pot not oven eVen know that they were deep sea ae forms It to wag wae believed then that there was no life lire b beloW low a depth of 1000 feet Thore forty Cort or fifty flUY Uncanny crea erca creatures creatures tures uree represented no more to the world scientific ami lay than did the bodies of the strange n o rod red men which accord accordIng accordIng accordIng Ing to tradition were werl washed wa on the tho shores of or the tho old world before the he dis discovery discovery covery of the new hinting at nt the exist U of oC unexplored realms Inhabited by b unknown races but supplying no fur tur further ther Information r p flat when the tho first groping wire arm Ilot of ot the tho first deep sea Ben dredge drode vibrated ou all oi the tho bottom in tho the ooze of at the black biek pits pite I of ot water aIM those thORe depths depth felt relt the tho thrill of ot human life lite for Cor the first time since f tho Iho world was YAs evolved from formless formlessness ness nesa Into being at once a n new nel and aw awful 11 fill ful page In tho stupendous book of ot na an nature nature ture was unfolded It was a chapter of revelation Tim TIll writer often ha has heard Dr Bean Dean tell teU the feeling of or worshiping and awe owe that overcame the two scientists scientIsts lets when the tho trawl came Caine up U to the surface urraco He Ire said We were both stand standIng Ing lag by the mouth of the net when nb 1111 a ath the tho th seaman end ond of or the bag two strange forms fell tell out on the tho deck eck deckA A single glance was Will enough to tell 11 n III that they the were now new to our fauna and probably pr bly unknown to science They like visitors vl tom fern another worlo world and the strange forms which have since 9 Ft l through our Inborn labora laboratory tory tor has brought half holt so much Interest and enthusiasm Now o looking back on the th great grent harve t In the field of ot oceanic Ichthyology gy which wo we have had the pleasure of helping to garner In the fit or teen years el which have hav passed since sinet that happy happ and eventful morning It seems cems Incredible that American naturalists diets should not then have havo known knowli that only a few miles from the tho Ameri Amerl American can const coast there was a n fauna as that of ot our shore hore ns nil anything that I could be found Cound In the tho Indian ocean or 01 orIn orIn I I In the seas of at China Chinn Today Toda more than TOJ TO different kinds of ot fish taken from depths of ot 1000 feet and more Thore are known to science unIt and havo 1110 been classified Great as aA this i harvest Is In no man knows knoss or cnn can Imag ine me how ho many man or even een thou thousands thousands ands of at other creatures live IIvo down there Fantastic and awesome at as are aro the shapes that th t have hao been heen fished up no noman noman nonina man nina can tell what still more awesome shapes hapes defying the power of at human conception dwell In the he lost places place ot or orthe the sea Imaging Imagine that men living be bl the clouds were to drop a I few teW vires with nets nelA attached tt and trait Irn II them for tor a II tow few thousand yards lInn our OUI plains or through our cities What fow C w and scattered specimens would the they collect rolee How Ilow could they form Corm even een the Idea Iden of ot the tho wonders that II lie hidden from tron their eyes Even co o It 11 It 11 lewith with willi UtI us anti our deep sea It Is equally beyond our trained leI eel science ence enco to speculate nod and our untrained Imagination to grap tho unknown ter terrors roro rora the enormities she Ille ho appallIng deformities the tho unearthly horrors that tha ll li In hiding biding deep In the very ery grave gravo gra of ot time Tho The most grotesque Imagination of at believers In tho the supernatural of ot the dark never neer formulated such shapes shop on us Is among the TOO JOO vail vari varieties of ot deep dee sea lien fish that already hive been brought to day None NOlie of at their theirl l or basilisks was nich ruch a tL crea cren creature ture turo flu As Is lB tho blind pole What is I not zot mouth In Mm him Is toll Ills 1115 mouth In Is II a cavern The JAWS are Me loose and the creature can spread and stretch them around a II rep tile Ills His skin U It black and leathery exactly similar to tn the tho wing In membrane of ot n ft 1 huge bat Ills 1111 eyes are mere but specks that hat gleam pleam with concentrated wickedness This Thill Incredibly d Ibl misshapen form has hils been belli fished tip til 11 from the depth or of morn mor than a n mile feet tee a 11 depth nt at which the pres pressure sure lIure pf t C the Incumbent ocean ocen Water Is III Isan s sno no an tremendous that It would crush a 0 amans amans mans body into nothing P Cast t Iron vessel sl that have hen b tn lowered Into these depths have hae been up like tissue paper Yet Vet thin soft tinier there hero and swims around In the pitch dark Before It I flee R even cn blinder than it IL The last faintest of light from above disappears nt at n a depth of or less than 2000 2100 feet feel Beyond that there tr Ip night nl ht But Dut even In there amid the tho wallowing and winding of ut countless blind things there are areIl eyes Il Some are tiny like the baleful holes hotell out of oC which the glares Others are arc beautiful an prom prominent Ant and plowing They The belong to tho the lamp n fish h the phosphorescent creatures that light lI ht their way ns as they by shimmering phosphorescence produced by their own nerves One of the light Is lucifer n II truly democratic form tarm On the tb top of his head hrad h he an appa apparatus apparatus ratus tAtus that I is III Identical In shape chape with the common light bulb nf our ordinary small electric lamps lamp From Prom It he dif tIr fuses rU a white that Is IN like liken ft n star In the th wh where hm ro he lives liven That plow glow Illo illuminates Illuminate ft a 1 homed horned head and ft a 1 face that h is n a gargoyle None of the th uncanny frightening faces on Notre Noire Dames famous gargoyle can equal It t In terror of expression ul lon and wild exaggeration Like most mott mo t tit t th the creatures fished n hM up from Crom the th greet great t depths depth this fl n h M Ia vera rious enough to swallow lAllow t tl f r larger than itself The first peIwen ever eer captured fell felt a victim lo to this It lt It swallowed d another d p JM es n h that was wan Almost ns ne n long again AS ns IK If no so disarranged darran d Its lit Internal mc moh h antem that hint It t hot upward to the cur sur surface tact face wh where hero ro It WM was picked d up by Capt Andresen who ho Was wag fl fishIng for turtle ort nit the I Island bland of Madeira Since then many specimens have hae been taken by bV deep trawl The latter capture won was made by the Prince of Monaco Monico while trawling traUM from his lila team steam yacht tha Princess Alice Another of the lamp tamp fishes of ot the sea lIelL that m been beeD tak n recently l I Is Atho r t rf This U Is one cne of the hilt bIle I n n eyed fish of tho the e Its cue ous organ Is r like a n great grent gland gl nd oven the entire region behind the I rear Nur orbit of the ear and overlapping the edge of ot the jaw Ho nit Is a 11 search searchlight searchlight light flail No ib human hum n eye has hail seen the tho wonderful creature flashing along clong In its terrible habitat but scientific exam examination shows that the luminous patch lID P teli that covers Its ftP It I head serves Benos tho the purpose that t the tho headlight of a it I loco locomotIVe motIVe does docs Thu Tho locomotive simile Is carried even further for tor all along Us Its body b the fish has baa rows of phosphorescent cent spots that must give gle powerful light when Jie ie I IB its alive for tor even dead specimens have given oft off light enough to make It possible to read fine print under UI their th lr Illumination One can Imagine f no dashing lashing along Iong on Its trackless path exactly like Ilko n a 1 train the headlight shining with dazzling light t In III front anti and the spots gleaming like Ilko the lit windows of cars behind TM Albatross caught ono one of ot these there strange and beautiful creatures In the thu deep dell hole ort off f Porto Porte In feet of water or The rhe captured one ohe of the them most m 1st beautiful of the tho lump lamp fish lIsh In Its lis recent expedition In his hili first report which has lIns just been made public Prof Carl Chun Who ho had of the tho ex cx slays of ot this ut l le animal a It Is 18 a n cephalopod a I deep sea squid a representative of at the tho he genus l It has hal organs for forIen generating Ien light Each ot or Its great tentacles has tWo Wo Each eye eyo Is i d with five The Ibo rest me mc die dis distributed over the th body Nothing ui ul all of oUM the th wonderful manifestations of deep sea forms Corm can be compared even cen tile dl taUtly with the appearance of ot thin splendid rho The body hod appears as If It It was sync set with a I diadem of gor gorgeous COUll gems gem The center light of ot those thorie I around the thu th eyes eya Is n a bright Hashing ultra marine blue j the tho test rest are aro of ot a n dainty color On tho the body the first row of lights Is ruby The Tho middle row roU la If sky sk blue The rest are snow white and It was the thc most beautiful sight eight that we ever cv r saw The Thc gathered scores scores of other strange fish She was fitted out with a anew 1 anew new form corm of or trawl tr I which brought the tho best results over ever attained d In deep sea searching sea These nets note In principle were WIe just like the common purses that dolt close I with metal Jaws The net Is with the Jaws jaa locked A miniature propeller Is so eo that as soon as Ill the tho trawl reaches the desired depth and tension Is put on the lines that hold It Its revolution opens the Jaws wide The propeller screw can bo be adjusted to close the tM jaw jaws again after arrer making milking any Ot ie sired number of bf revolutions Thus It U was vas possible to fish any an depth anti and lock the tho het net whenever desired and the ex cx explorers explorers were vera sure cure that the trawl would bring brink to the surface only the creatures dwelling In certain depths In III tile the Gulf Gult of ot Guinea feet Ceet be below below below low the surface the net brought up a n fish whoso whose eyes had be bb become b bomo come omo telescopes They protruded out outward outward outward ward and straight upward from his queer knifelike head Ho waff waa Nobody can even cen conjecture fur for what hat odd purpose his eyes were formed In III this tills peculiar way What Is considered one of oC the tho strang strangest est Oct captures of f the ValdivIa was that lInt of A it new form torm of predacious fish He lie lies Is Isso Isso so qUeer that no scientist has yet et been able libl to classify him and hence he is stilt still nameless s He too has telescope tele copo eya Instead of ot a tall ho ht has haa Immense Immensely ly long Ion and fine filaments like spun glass He Ho shines Ilko a piece picco of polls 11 metal and his mouth is Js a death trap trall of spiny pIny teeth teth t I It H cannot be e doubted said Dr Bean nean I Ito to the tho writer that hat somewhere In the sea sen at on unknown n distance below the tho surface there thero are nr living JIving certain fish fishlike like ilko animals unknown to o scIence and of dt f great size which come occasionally to lo surface and arid give 0 a n foundation to sUch ns as those of oC the sea serpent To f understand how little wo we know ot of what Is going on In think ot of such a fish as os chIn This fish has been taken only once In history by bya b ba a deep sea Ilea net Yet five fie times have havo dead specimens been en picked flicked up entirely by hy chance on the tho surface showing that the creature must mUM be abundant An Another other othO ocean dweller which no exploring ship over CI has hs caught is h or the It Ita is isa a rapidly swimming form torm usually from eighteen n nto to e feet teet long Within the tho past IJU ItO years ears specimens s have lIae been stranded on the shores of Denmark Norway the tho Farce Faroe l land Scotland Ireland England France Fronce Bermuda the Cope Cape at of Good Hope India and ond Now New Zealand Gunther gives elves n II list of forty four Cour seen by naturalists and this of course is 18 only an Insignificant part of those which actually actual have hae been boen ed pd Its It world wide distribution and ad the tho number numb of ot waifs walts prove that It Is 15 dant In Iii yet et tho the exploring nil nU the years C rs of ot their combined searching have caught no specimen of It old dr young oung I |
