Coalville Times | 1908-01-03 | Page 2 | Drops after Long Flight

DROPS AFTER LONO FLIGHT. Carrier Pigeon from South Carolina Falls Exhausted In New York, Now York. A bedraggled carrier pigeon beat Ita way wearily across tho upper bay In tho driving rainstorm at noon tho other day, hovering over tho Ilntlery sea wall a moment, and then dropped to the coping of tho Aquarium, whero It fluttered to tho ground. A passerby picked up tho bird, which mado no attempt to escape, and carried car-ried It Inslda Ihu building. Attached to llio brass ring cnclr-cllnpsytha cnclr-cllnpsytha plgcon'a leg was a strip of thin wax paper, bearing tho following lnserltlon- . "Introducing 'Ilcsuty,' a record- breaker. I-of t Charleston, 8. C, Do-comber Do-comber i, bound for Cooper square. If I am In troublo glvo mo a square meal ami pass mo along." Ileauly got a aquaro meat for which Ita seemed very grateful and after n rest and a thorough doing out, ha was taken outside agnln nnd tossed Into tho iilr After circling a fow timet to tnke lilt bearing, tho pigeon headed north nn tho last lap of Itt 700-mllo journey, and wa quickly lost lo vlow.