Show Large Python From India I Tho The longest python that ev ever r cro crosse crossed several seVera I seas got gOl hero here yesterday abroad the German st steamship Verona from ports whence queer things and men m n have hav been shipped ever t since the Half Halt Moon Moo dropped anchor off are Sandy Hook Captain Dobronz who measures measure things s after th the tho nautical fashion says ys the python which he termed In the vernacular of his country coun coun- try try a a. or 01 kings king's adder Is s flue five fathoms lon long As he owns the lIw python and ancl Is acting u us as his own OW press IS agent he hc may be he pardoner pardoned for Cor a slight exaggeration Time The real length Is 29 feet six Ix Inches short hort of or the skippers skipper's skip skip- pers per's estimate The python l was Wa In him i a comatose condition yesterday a when the reporters examined him A man who hada hall had a a. space rule used usell it and declared that the python would fill longitudinally about eighteen columns of the Situ Sun which the space pace man roan i ll regrets egrets he cannot conscientiously con- con cl cover cr with trill this story The python was brought ht down to the tho ship shim b by a procession of natives from flom a II fa tar far I off village in a stout basket ket suspended suspend suspend- ed on n bamboo an oo poles The natives nati ac- ac coding to 10 me the sKippers sKipper's story were cattle raisers nm and the tho python Ithon and ancl his mate thu the had been gobbling up sheep and cows eons that's what the they said until the he the population derided decided to rise rist and capture or kill the time snakes They slew the python python- ess which made a II great gloat I at fight but the python had hall Just stuffed himself for his hisong long ong nap and was captured The officers of all steamships that call at al Singapore are prepared to buy strange and ind big Jungle creatures from Crom the na- na Ives U and whenever the Iho people get et a a. big biff bigsnake snake nako they y take it down clown to lo a ship Tho Thu Verona erona was there when the natives appeared appeared ap ap- pea rt-cI rt and Captain Dubronz paid for h him 1 lie He began to Display activity lly as soon as the skipper 1 had him transferred to a n six six- foot fool lox box with Iron bars on time the top tOil Two Iwo lambs appeased d his appetite u a bit hit A dozen dozen doz doz- en chickens followed d time the lambs down clown the serpentine flue lUl and the python started to go co to sleep After tho the ship was a 0 day a 4 out trout irom Singapore m aporo bad hall weather stirred him up also ten monkeys that were Jn thebold the hold bold hol with him He lie forcEd d the bars of oC his box hox and stait started tl up ur the re ladder of ot the main malt hatch after cl eight ht of oC tho the chattering monkeys monkeys mon mon- keys that also had escaped On One of the lime monkeys es was pursued by the serpent and fled to the th rail with the tho python close e astern u The Teo monkey decided de- de de decided that lint the St sea was wis a a. safer i ithan than the ca cavernous ja jaws of the python and jumped overboard The python wriggled up on tat time tilE bridge 1 and the than man at the wheel went down tho iii companionway to the time forward deck Second Officer r Luhrs who wa was In charge of the bridge ran to the chart room and slummed slammed the door after him Chief Steward Steward Stew Stew- ard who Is s nn nil expert on Ht itch xea serpents serpents serpents ser ser- and pythons It II was waK coming forward to 10 go to the bridge He lie summoned half hair halfa haira a i dozen white men meu of the crew 11 the Jav- Jav mese anese Lasers Jams Japs and haying having sought ought sll shelter and they tackled lie tho snake laying hold as If f he were a hea heavy ha hawser lawser Several men were knocked knocke down In tho rho 1 j list first onslaught IJ by the S sweeps t p of the py- py titan bans ban's s tall tail Second Officer Luhrs came cam out and anti helped tl In tho struggle of o the bravest Japs also lent a a. hand hU hUIt It took look tw twenty nt men to lo carr carry th the 3 python below be- be low Jaw ow and put Jut him hack back In ht hi his box hox m nd all ho tho crew were kept hus busy several se hours up 1111 tho rho monkeys The fhe python escaped again from the box V f l after aftel the Verona crolla got out In him th time the Atlantic 1 and ml lIIrI the thu skipper dc devised a i l whistle mini Hal al to call all hands to stow python to 1 The snake got gOl out twice again agahi but hut was wasso wasso so o sluggish that he hf was easily captured after he ha had been heen located In n the cargo It t j was lI necessary to turn over o much of or tho thin cargo to find them as he lie got as us close to I the bottom of the keel as U it was possible to get et The skipper thinks that as the time python Is the hf biggest ever lr seen In AmerIca America Amer Amer- I Ithe ica he h. ought to get a big price for or him Now ow York Sun I |