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X x nt Alihan m r tfi it ' 4 - s S' "V lj 'Vy 'K A j' i isv These Two Photos—the One Above Is an Unretouehed Snap shot of the Hvsterlons Loch Ness Monster and at Left the Fus of a Killer Kbsle Is Shown— When Compared Reveal Why Many Experts Believe the Unidentified Terror of the Scotch Lake Belongs to the Killer Whale Species i day were Acton Davies the famous New York dramatic critic and Mrs Frank M Bates mother Of Blanche Batesthe actress and other congenial spirits Hid den behind a clump of bushes on shore I watched is the launch approached and just as it was about ten feet away from “The groom took one the trap I released the monster more look at the “It came up nobly the head shaking terrifying creation as if to rid itself of water and Twill ‘ leaped overboard and say that to several people in Colonel swam furiously' aWay Mann's boat it was a very menacing bride he the abandoning spectacle had married that "Mr Davies who had a rather high morning She never pitched voice uttered a scream that him to spoke again” must have been heard as far away as Burlington Vermont Mrs Bates a very intrepid lady of Milesian extras tion stood on a seat in the boat and beat the water with her parasol shout ing indistinguishable sentences in her native tongue “Colonel Mann shouted “Good hear ens what is it?” through his whisker ND you will never leave me for a moment as long as we live?” asked the lovely young bride had been married that morning "0i course not” the groom whispered a! he paddled his canoe across the placid waters of Lake George in the northern part of Nw York State The word were scarcely out of his mouth when the terrifying head of a huge monster appeared above the water only a few feet away from their canoe The green eyes of the horny-heade-d His creature gleamed malignantly mouth was open as large fang-fille- d though ready to seize his prey “Owl” screamed the groom His wife of eight hours looked around but though badly frightened she controlled herself far better thafi her spouse He had stood zine publisher was my neighbor at up in the canoe ana seemed so beside himself with fear that he appeared about Lake George' My cottage was on the to jump out She grabbed for his Prince mainland at the north end of the lake and Colonel Mann owned an Albert coat tails out too late Taking one more quick look at the island a short distance away The strange sea beast the groom leaped colonel waa a great fisherman and a overboard and swam away at a furious great romancer and I determined to pace The deserted bride was so amazed give him something to talk about “While the colonel was in New and humiliated by his action that she burst into tears forgetting even to be York attending to businesaduring the afraid of the mysterious sea serpent week ending June 27 1904 I got a And when she looked around again the cedar log and fashioned one end of monster had disappeared it into my idea of the head and neck Mrs Newlywed recovered her paddle of a sea monster or hippogrilf I d rowed made a big mouth a couple of oara and with lips for the shore opposite the place in the liks the cara of an aea four big teeth wood where her dripping husband had two in tha uppsr snd two In ths lower emerged from the water and run for jaw For ayes I inserted in the sockets of ths monstsr two talegrsph pols cover And though he came around to their insulators of rrstn glass hotel that very night the unhappy young “Ths idea of using those insulators woman refused to speak to him This for eyes was a stroke of genius as it turned out All witnesses all happened thirty years ago but the Of the sea serpent there-- j couple have never become reconciled The after told of the baleful briae never forgave her husband’s cow ardice And the monster which some exjJM effect of the glare of the perts now declare bore a striking resemblance to the one recently reported wd sighted in Loch -- Jssgpfcf never was seen after that tragie afternoon in 1904 Until a few weeks ago no one knew why this Lake George sea serpent disappeared so suddenly or where he went to But very recently Henry W Watrous oame for ward and for the first time related the amazing “inside” story of the Lake George terror Mr Watrous is an amiable artist and president of the National Academy of Design The only reason he is telling the world about the fab lous Lake George sea serpent af ter all this time is that he thinks his story may cast a new light on the riddle of the Who y ''" g® Loch baffled scien- - 'i&tJ 4 L ( -- y A t ' i fa “traSTth 'V - i tV fr — JL'Z' How the Loch Neee Monster Might Look It end When Captured From the Recent “April Fool” Number of the Berlin Illustrated Zeltnng yellow and black stripes painted the inside of the mouth red and the teeth white and painted the care blue The log of which I fashioned the heed1 wee about ten feet iong To the bottom of the log 1 attached a light rope which 1 put through a puller attached to a atone which served as an anchor Tho pulley line was about 100 feet long and was manipulated from the shore — “Well I went out and anchored the horrific hip- pogriff close to the path -' tists and students of marine life for so long In 1904 Mr Wat rous said in an intervieout in his w-rive New York City apartment “Colonel William Mann the maga t' r (yx:v V' Nesr-mon- ster that has i X tightly-compresse- Ness-Scotlan- Reproduction of an Old Print that fancifully Pictures One of the Many Ro ported Appearaneet In 1855 of tha Sen Beast of Silver Lake N Y rhich boat would havo to tako from tho landing to hie island A man I could trust assisted ms snd ws fixed's hiding place on tho short of the lsks Fur111 nitrating Just Hew the Greet Lake CeorgS Boas Was Manipulated Drawn From a Description Monster nished by the Inventor Henry W Watroue President of the Nelionel Academy of Design This Wss the That Frightened the Brldegteom Into Deserting Uis Bride on the Afternoon of Their Wedding Day Diagram OwntfU ISM IlM rM Sisu Mann’s IM "We went out In a boat and dropped the stone anchor sinking the monster out of sight Then We rowed back to shore and suddenly let go pulley rope with the result that the cedar log because of its buoyancy jumped out of the wateiffor almost its entire length” But Mr Watrous who himself had act out to amaze was himself amazed by hia curious invention according to bis own account which continues) “Although I had manufactured ths monster and was quite familiar with ita features the first time 1 saw it spring as it were from the depths of the lake I felt sort of frightened myself The rope being twisted going through the pnlley gave the head of the monster a sort of twisting motion so that It appeared to be looking from side to side and turned entirely around as if to survey tho tcontry from all angles Ws tested the sank it and monster several time waited for Colonel Mann and his party to arrive on Saturday afternoon “Among hia guesta on hia boat that of-th- e and kept repeating his query as iong as ths boat was in tight As soon ns wn gars tha nudlencs n good look at ths w drew it down to tho bottom of tho iskt again “Although Colonol Mann’s Homs was on nn island ths news of tho ses serpent was along tho shore that night Mr Davies wired a report to hia newspaper in n rather facetious vein in which he spoke of Mrs Bates jumping Into tho lake and being pulled out by the leg by a gentleman in the party Mrs Bates did not Jump Into ths Isks but she rocksd ths boat until it was almost swamped” ’ Each night ths conspirators moved tha monstsr from place to pises in ths lake Every one who subsequently saw thn monster hid n new story to toll about its horrifying appearance and antica Ths ndventurs of tno newlyweds that revealed to ths bride that her groom wss not quite ths dauntless fellow iht had imagined wss ont reason why tho monster disappeared Another reason why Mr Watrous secretly withdrew his amaslngly life-lik- e monster was that so many persons were shocked by its sudden appearance next to their boats that he feared that somebody with a cardiac affliction socmer or later would bo frightened to death In addition Vo all thla numerous superstitious servants of the rich residents disappeared from tha vicinity None of those gullible servants wanted to bo hashed up for eating purposes by the drtaded sea serpent All of the Now York newspapers sent reporters and artists to ths lake shore hut non of them caught e glimpse of the creature An even more famous “sea serpent” once appeared in Silver Lako New York which lies between Rochester and Buffalo All kinds of fish had been caught in that lake but never anything that la resembled the huge shape or appearance ’ el "pea boast that waa sighted there aummer of 1855 lnjthei The late A B Walker proprietor of a local hotel noting that busmoss was bad concocted the ides that e hugs manufactured “serpent” would lure thousands of visitors to ths resort And It did exactly that hip-pogr- lff dur-Colon- |
