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Show Girds Invade Anchored Ship on Coast New York An unexpected "reception "recep-tion committee" cousistnig of thousands thous-ands of birds greeted passengers on the Pacific Steam Navigation company's com-pany's steamer Ebro as the vessel lay at anchor off quarantine, unable to dock on account of heavy fog. Passengers Pas-sengers on landing told how Bwarms of robins, sparows, starlings, cat birds and other unidentified varieties suddenly sud-denly swooped down out of the darkness dark-ness and surrounded the vessel, frightening fright-ening a number of persons aboard. Many struck various parts of the ship and were killed. Others flew Into port holes and othf-r openings Into the ship's interior. Stewards filled several baskets full of dead birds and threw them overboard, while ten cats, kept on the ship as pets and protection 1 against rats, caught their own. i |