Show 2 d v I I I i iI C f r I It I i C I j IJ i v 1 J att t f P r Jd- Jd 1 J 1 I- I J I ift l PI 1 II iN j l 1 L- L 1 j j l A curious variety of sea deep fish discovered by the late Prince of Monaco r r a a A Ix y E K dr i c On its body's velvety black surface are 1500 M w q y t 4 ak z luminous organs which shine like rows of p pvn port port- ort ort- 3 t holes boles on an ocean liner at night Note the j x given the fish by i extraordinary gape the far back hinging of its lower jaw i How the Millionaire Is Y rH f rf S K 4 KM t dt Going to Continue the ln t w 1 r 1 36 z 6 Ya M Tr 5 Hy r Y Yr terest n arid and Vat Valuable cable r A S 3 1 Scientific v Sk rya v 5 ra raM M t r 1 e i frS 1 it r v viti q a iti 4 9 rR orJA w 3 d t o 7 ate u 9 Ar F tit r w t f k i wj s lq c a r riv iv NJ l qa I a it frt sr v i iz X Z A 0 Research z 2 1 Which the Late 4 d Prince of p ps s Fa rt i aids d f 4 Tat Monaco YC s AN Y y 5 M I Iti ti 11 i jP a t J lP 4 t ly i Made I His Ilis Life Life- LifeLong ati 4 r v 1 ft ha har y 4 is qA r r Long 3 r ri i y a c cb ciS b iS F i t vv Hobby J Jr 1 k Y b be F r L q l ls tY r t 4 a x e l lq r G f I OTH William Wilham K Vanderbilt BOTH j jand and the beautiful wife we who divorced di- di divorced di divorced him are bored to death WIth the follies and formalities of fash fash- fashionable fashionable society life Both are trying to toI find something to revive their jaded in- in interest interest in interest I terest and relieve their boredom and boredom andin m in the most strikingly different was wa's ways Mrs Vanderbilt asas as was aas as told recently m in these pages es is seeking on the race race- racetrack racetrack track race track the thrills society can no longer supply Nothing stirs her nearly so eo much nowadays as to see one of her thoroughbreds carrying her racing colors to victory and she is organizing what I promises to be one of Americas America's great great- greatest greatest est eat racing stables I Her former fOlmer husband however hat has hatI I j he must ha have hate e something more I serious and purposeful than sport to satisfy him and from now on he is isI I gOing to devote much of his time energy and wealth to scientific research to research to an earnest attempt to fathom some of the Innumerable strange mysteries which natch lie hidden in the oceans ocean's depths In choosing the ocean as liS the field for his exploration and scientific study Mr Vanderbilt is following in the footsteps of the tho late Prince of Monaco The ocean and the myriad creatures that live there there- therein therein therein in were ere the Princes Prince's particular hobby years he devoted a large part of the millions the Monte Carlo gambling hell poured into his pockets to scientific expeditions that penetrated all the furthest 1 teaches eaches of the Seven Seas He built the great Ocean Museum at Monte Carlo and filled it with the ob- ob objects ob objects of extraordinary scientific interest which ha he and his associates collected Ho added so much of importance to act act- science's science's ence's store of knowledge that there was deep regret when death cut short his work and now there is corresponding delight that a man of Mr Vanderbilt's ts t's wealth and energy is taking it up where he left off Mr Vanderbilt has been pursuing his hie study of the ocean and ocean life for some time and the first fruits of it are aro to areto be seen in m the interesting collection of marine marme specimens which he has bas pre pre- pre presented to the Marine Museum at North North- Northport Northport port North port L I J For Por the scientific expeditions he ho plans td lead to all parts of the world orld Mr l Van Van- Vanderbilt lt will use his steam yacht Ara This palatial craft formerly used only for frivolous pleasure cruises is beng dedicated to a serious purpose The Ara has been fitted with labora labora- laboratories laboratories tories tones and all the paraphernalia 1 i A giant octopus seizing a ship hip in its ita coiling tentacles and about to drag it down into the ocean depths From an old print sary for wresting secrets from the ocean and subjecting them to scientific scrutiny scrutinY scrutiny tiny When next it steams out of Its home port the decks where gay fashion fashIon- fashIonable fashionable fashionable able society guests have bave so often danced will will be occupied by the owners owner's sCientific scientific scientific associates men selected for their mastery of various branches of science connected with the ocean and its life It is expected that one of the tho first voy voy- voyages voyages ages made by the Ara in her new role will be to the North Atlantic along the frozen coasts of Labrador and perhaps as far as Greenland This is ig one region to which the Prince of Monaco was able to give scant attention during his life lifetime time and an inestimable service can bo be bedone bedone done the world by learning more the tho powerful ocean currents that sweep down from the tho North Pole and carry great icebergs into the path of trans trans- transAtlantic trans Atlantic Atlantic commerce If Mr Vanderbilt's boredom with fash fash- fashionable life can be relieved by the thrIlls of interesting and useful scientific dis- dis discoveries dis discoveries he could hardly have ha chosen a amore amore amore more promising place to make an un- un un limited unlimited number of them than the ocean The depths of the sea are the one place on earth where here anything may be They are almost as little understood by man as the heavenly blue of the sky k or the star star- star crowded crowded ded expanse of t the e Milky Way Do sea serpents actually e exist c Do the depths hold an octopus huge buge and powerful enough to seize a whole ship in its coiling tentacles and drag it down to destruction To these and many other similar ques- ques ques questions science is as set et able to give neither a positive e yes ies es or no The ocean IS continually revealing too many sur sur- surprising surprising undertake things for anybody to under take taIe to say what it mayor may or may not con con- con con- tain tam contain attacked Only the other day a steamer was at- at at tacked in V la Cruz Harbor b by a giant octopus which crawled up to the deck while the crew was busy reeling in m anold an anold anold old cable The creature attacked the themen themen themen men with its long tentacles and the men had to fight desperately v w ith every avail avail- available available available able weapon before thy could erthe overpower er the uncanny monster There as v washed up recently on the tho coast of Florida a mysterious sea mon mono monster monster ster ster- Some Borne scientists pronounced it an ocean sunfish but others thought it a brand abrand now species of f ocean life lile L a Jagged rocks rising from the bottom o othe othe the sea sea-a sea a submarine landscape painted at a depth of sixteen teen feet under water by Z Pritchard an English artistI artist I This monster weighed a thousand pounds and was vas about eight feet long longA A peculiar feature was as its Ih tail tall fin joint joint- jointed jointed ed exactly like a rudder so it could sWing back and foith The monster seemed to be cut square off of at the pos pos- posterior posterior pos posterior end by this rudder instead of hav hav- having having ing a pointed tail tall like other fish Science believes that there is more liv- liv living liv living ing matter in the sea than there is in m all the rest of the world orld Down in the float float- floating floating ing sea meadows lit five fath fathoms ms deep by the rays of our sun life is literally teeming with strange and beautiful crea crea- creatures creatures tures that have et to be catalogued by E Even down where hert tho the sea is dark and under the enormous pressure of 2500 fathoms of water there thele are wonderful on erful phosphorescent sights phosphorescent fish that light up the everlasting night long stalks of sea lilies s swaying above the treacherous ooze goggle at the bottom of the tile sea big goggle eyed fish like creatures in a nightmare throwing throw throw- throwing ing mg the glare of a searchlight ahead and other slow slow moving moving fish all lit up from nose suppertime to tail tall like liLe ocean liners at supper time i These lighted electric-lighted denizens arc are per per- per haps perhaps the most interesting of the tha creatures yet discovered The of Monaco's collections contained many of them from the very ery deepest parts of the ocean In his memoirs he described one of them as dense black and having hav hav- having ing mg hundreds of luminous lummous organs ar- ar arranged arranged ar arranged ranged in to rov rows s along its bod body 1 these hese shine white white in the darkness of the ocean and other lateral lights higher on the body are green grcen blue and violet while the lowest rows of illuminations are arc red and orange The t tul t tail ul it lights of this ex- ex extraordinary ti ex-ti ordinary fi fish h are red and there are some somo violet iolet lights along the ventral sur face Just imagine a crea crea- creature ture t ten inches long moving as this one does among the dark ocean caves IThe I IThe The Marquis Marquia de do Folin who led one of the French sea sea deep expeditions hasi has i 4 o S v i it iP t N 1 h r r t z IJ i ie P e Py lv P t U rr L Mr Vanderbil i f hereafter is t instead y u M x P Pw w ax x a fn tr tro o rr ii iii I Iii I x I p i r r vY j s ita i f The Ocean Museum at Monte Carlo filled with the objects of ex- ex extraordinary extraordinary scientific interest which the Prince of Monaco dis- dis discovered discovered covered in the ocean told of some of the sights that delighted and surprised him and his fellow natu natu- naturalists naturalists when their sea dredge was drawn up from the darkness of a great aL s m in the oceans ocean's bed There were many coral animals shrub shrub- shrub like like in form which threw off flashes of light beside which the t twenty enty torches used for working were pale Some Somo of these corals were ero carried into the shIps shIp's laboratory where the lights were vere put putout putout putout out There was a moment of magic the most marvelous spectacle Every point of the chief branches and twigs of the tho coral throw out jets of fire now paling now reviving again agam to pass from from violet iolet to purple from red to orange from bluish to different tones of green and sometimes to the white of overheated iron The prevailing color was greenish the others appeared only in transient flashes and melted into green again Ii Minute mute by minute the glory lessened as os the annuals died and ond at the end of a quarter of an hour they were all nil like dead and with with- withered withered ered branches But while wIllIe they were at their best one ono could read by their light li ht the tho finest print of a newspaper at a 8 distance of six yards Science is by no means sure of the enact uses of these beautiful lights Neither does it know why the cuttlefish has bas twenty often twenty luminous spots like gleaming jewels ultramarine ruby red sky blue and silvery Whether these lights are to attract smaller fishes to their death as food or are used as lanterns for the fish to see Bee their way in the darkness to enable them to recognize each other or as sex signals no one ono yet knows For that matter po no noone noone one knows s how these lights are ore turned on and off or just how the power for them IS rs supplied Many of these strange fish can give strong electric shocks some some- sometimes sometimes times as muchas much as volts In certain cuttlefishes and some other varieties the light given by them streams from elaborate luminous organs 1 very cry much like liko In front of the tho eyes light light- producing light producing cells hils cells there may be a lens sometimes tripled Behind them there Shay may be a reflector What is most moat remarkable about these luminous creatures of the sea is that they 4 r t on the deck of his hi yacht Ara which o be devoted to the cause of science of to frivolous pleasure cruises produce light by a II direct conversion of chemical energy without energy without any assistance from irom heat If science can leam from them the secret of this cold light It till Hll be a II discovery ery of incalculable value to the human race There are said to be about fifty dif dlf dif kinds of fishes that give electric sho shocks s but only a few of these o ha been carefully studied In this one field of research theca thelo is work enough to keep Mr Vanderbilt and his Ius scientists busy for man many years sears ears What is the greatest size a whale at- at attains at attains tams That is another of the questions concerning the sea and its life that is yet to be answered Cred Sperm and right whales hales fifty feet in length have e been measured but it is believed that of other her and varieties and perhaps some specimens ot of these grow also also grow much larger than this Even Cven the ancestry of the numerous kinds of creatures we group under the term whale is yet to be bo settled Science finds it hard to believe that the toothed and the whalebone whales in spite of their resemblances i had a com com- common common mon ancestry Is it possible as some have thought that they evolved twice And so ao it does docs not matter what as- as aspect aspect as aspect of the ocean and its life are viewed Where Wherever er science turns it is confronted by new problems to be solved In the study of ocean currents ane ne there is a II subject which might keep Mr Vanderbilt pleasantly and oc occupied profitably oc- oc occupied occupied for the 1 scat lest est of his life Many of our theories concerning the course of these currents and the causes that produce duce sudden may pr changes in their force lorce and direction are the merest guesswork As a result many ships are arc lost anda and heavy tollof toll of human life is a continually being taken ItIS It is believed that the reo re- re cent recent disaster In which a whole of the squadron navys navy's torpedo goat oat destroyers was PlIed piled up on the rocks of the California coast was primarily duo due to our dent clent kno 1 knowledge ledge of the Pacific's curren currents t C s Certainly Mr Vanderbilt could chosen no more nore profitable have ocean when then he decided to field than the devote himself himel to a I scientific cl career And hoping that U that at lu he till Ill ii- ii add is even more w to n I its store of kno knowledge ledge than the lat late e P Prince of Monaco did ld w V 9 |