Show S E Call Sent On Ships Ship's Wireless By Spirited Monkey NEW NEY YORK Aug 12 There Thero There was a mystery aboard the United fruit liner Almirante which arrived here bere yesterday yesterday yesterday yester yester- day from the tho tropics the matter matter matter mat mat- ter being who laid low Iowa a quart of spirits from the bar with only two fingers missing Suspicion went to A. A Monk a deck traveler when the liner left Cartagena Cartagen but who arrived here up on one of the wireless aerials shouting defiance to the whole bloomin cre crew The fact that there is a severe penalty penalty penalty pen pen- alty for interference with wireless at sea didn't perturb him a bit Dashes were his specialty and he sent out U S-O-U-S-E calls all the way war up the coast from the Florida beach He was one of or a pair of ring tall tail monkeys in a a. consignment of what the crew called Jungle junk and was so sowell sowell well welt behaved that It was decided to spare him from the ceaseless chatter of the rest of the collection which In Included included included in- in eighteen monkeys all told twenty marmosets five spider monkeys twenty eight large boa constrictors one eighteen feet long and weighing ninety pounds two water hogs two rare wild ducks one black and white condor twenty macaws one silver fox and or small parrots So a string was tied around this particular particular particular par par- monk and he was tied to a deck chair near the smoking room He I Iwas was fed ted and petted by the passengers and all went well until Tuesday at I luncheon The story the passengers told was I that monks birds and everything that could screech suddenly Joined In a frightful chorus Stewards rushed on deck to behold a monk going up one of the mainmast shrouds backward An empty bottle lay on deck It was identified as one that had been opened shortly before and placed on a smoking smoking smoking ing room table Slats were broken in several of the cages and there was a distinct odor of rye about No one could reach the fleeing monk to smell its breath The evidence against him was purely circumstantial but it was agreed that he took chances no sober monk would think of He was soon at the mainmast head waving the Almirante's h JUse flag Then he came down clown a bit and started out along one of the wireless aerials skinning the cat and doing other ac acrobatic acrobatic acrobatic ac- ac stunts that would have have made madea madeI a small boy green with envy Finally I he went on to the foremast and some sailors started after him When they got within a few feet of him he swung out on the aerials again and they gave it up Food was placed on deck that night and the monk came down and got It without being caught All day Wednesday he spent In one part of the rigging or another swinging swinging swing swing- ing from a stay or sitting on a cross- cross tree Wednesday night he stayed there and when the Almirante came up up the bay yesterday morning he be was at the I foremast head as if it on the lookout In freeing himself he had bitten off the string string- with which he had been ti tle tied d to the chair and a piece still stin dangled from his neck This loose end he carried by his tail tall so that It did not tangle him After the Almirante had docked at the foot of Maiden Malden Lane three seamen went up the shrouds of the foremast and almost had the monk when he suddenly slid down the forestay to a point half way to the bowsprit It looked then as though their task tast was more intricate than ever eyer but one of them let down a signal halyard and began beran slapping It at the monk The animal tried to catch it and In doing so lost his grip and slid down ow the slay stay to within twenty feet of the I deck He also lost the end of the he string and It knotted around the stay I While he was trying to bite it off he was was' lassoed and brought down The crew decided they had had enough monkey business for one trip The monks snake snakes s and birds were I consigned to Michael Schmidt a dealer dealer deal deal- er of No Grand street I f |