Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 19, 1920, Page 6

EE IE IIE! DANG INI TELE TT TNS BREST STII 8: Daily Ccibune ‘ TURTLE MART IN FLORIDA SOURGE OF SOUP SUPPLY Giant Specimens Held Prisoner within Walls of Old Wharf - to Fill Orders of the Country By FREDERICK J. TIASKIN. KEY W T, Fi: Mar. 19.—A stench of dead fish that carries a mile. Old gray rotting wharves surrounded by brightly painted il-boats and a har- bor of vivid tropical blue. Mexican, Yankee, ro, and Italian fishermen) lounging about and gossiping in their! seyeral tongues. That is fisl and turtle market at Key. W One of these old wh s is of spe-} interest. in its floor, cial cut thru see t with the wv with 1 Large square holes are and when you look these holes, you are amazel 1o the dirty water below is filled jant turtles. Imprisoned within rf, they swim about the strokes of their great suggesting the wingbe of eagles. Every few min- utes h of them come to the surface and discharges his breath with a mighty sigh, then turns nd begins again tt endless restless exploration of his nar- row prison. These turtles are just like. ordinary mud turtles, except that they are bun- dred times large, and that their and feet are simply great seal- flippers, built exclusively for swimming. The largest of them are four feet long and weigh four hun- dred pounds, and they range from that size down to young ones not much more than a foot in length. There are three} kinds—the green turtle, of which nearly everyone has seen an occasional spéci- men lying miserably on its back in front of a restaurant as an advertise- ment of the fact that genuine green tur up may be had there; the Jog- ger head, which is also regularly sold in the market tho not so valuable as the green turtle; and the haw! Dill, which carries on its back the ma:) terial out of which all genuine tortoise-| shell icles are made. These turtles ponsible for the wierd-Jookinz| rimmed spectacles whien are so much effected by young ladies wish to appear Intellectual—except | when the said spectacles are made of celluloid. This old wharf is one of the most important turtle markets in the coun- try. The turtles are for the most part} captured far at in trap-nets which t over the great submarine pas- s where the turtles feed. Some of them come from far down along the coast of Mexico. The boats bring them in every three or four days, and they are dumped into these little prisons, locally known as thy “turtle crawls,” to await their fate, wome of them are slaughtered here. Purt of their flesh is eaten fresh in local hotels and res- taurants, and part of it is made Into soup and canned,-for Key West oasts the or turtle soup cannery jn the countr, Many of them are shipped alive to the great northern cities, there to be cooked for the wealthy epicures who can afford them. 4 ‘The sea turtle has perhaps as hard| a lot as any creature who contributes to the perfection of our civilization. telng able to go a long time without food, he is very seldom fed after his capture, altho this is occasionally done. When he is to be shipped, he is fished out of the crawl, Jaid on his back, and nee handled like any other piece of He lies on his back for days at a time, often in a broiling sun on a station platform or in front of the hos- telry where he is soon to be eaten. It Sis necessary to keep him on his back, mot only to prevent him from crawling away, but also because his plastron, or undershell, is so soft that if he is kept right® side up on hard land the pres- sure on his vital organs quickly kills him. He is a strictly marine animal, and can he kept in comfort only in a great tank of water. These great reptiles, which are the largest of that family except the alli- gators and crocodiles, spend their whole lives at sea except for the brief time occupied in laying their eggs. The log- gerheads, which lay their eggs along the Florida coast, are often captured in the act. The great female turtle is almost helpless on land. She draws herself slowly up. the sand to a point aboye the high tide mark, scoops out a great hole, lays the eggs in it, and then buries them. Instinct er cunning im- pels here to travel such an erratic course to and from thé water that the eggs cannot possible be found by trail- Sing her. They are often discovered by hunters who thrust long sticks into the sand, probing foy the stores of hid- den dainties. For turtle eggs are very good to eat, and there are hundreds of them in each nest. Often the great turtle is captured on the sands, when she is quite help- less, but defiant none the less. Unable to travel on land more than a mile an hour, she makes no effort to run away, You Can Make Good Money Most excellent business opportunity. Necessitates a capital of $1,500: and will net double that each month. No experience necessary, but must*be a hustler. Investigate this. Friday Evening and Saturday Room 302 Henning Hotel }long and weighs as much as four hun- |One of these turtles is now worth | but blows out her breath with a deep, roaring sound, and if a stick comes within her reach, snaps it in two with {her great mandibles, while her -beady, |Snake-like eyes watch every move of her enemies. But all her courage and! jalertness are useléss, for she is easily | |turned on her back with crow-bars and jis then utterly helpless. ¥ | If the eggs are undisturbed they jhatch in about two months. The young! jturtles crawl into the shallow inlets! |where they live until they are lurge enough to shift for themselves in the lopen sea. A large percentage of each! ‘brood is killed by sharks “and other} natural enemies before maturity. | It is generally believed that these great turtles are veritable cattle of the sea, living exclusively by browsing} \upon seaweed and other aquatic vere- tation. But, according to Raymond L. Ditmars, a leading American authority jon reptiles of all kinds, some that he> [Kept in captivity eagerly ate fish. “He| thinks it is doubtful - whether they |could catch many fish in a wild state, jhowever, and believes they must bej{ llargely vegetarian. The greep turtle gets its name from the fact that its fat has a greenish tinge. It gets to be over three feet dred pounds, * but those’ seen in the turtle market here are mostly from fifty pounds to a hundred and fifty. great deal of money, the demand con- siderably exceeding the supply. The shell of the green turtle is very pretty, being mottled with brown,’ olive or yellow, and often highly polished in old turtles. These shells, however, are worth nothing except to the turtles themselves, The hawk’s bill turtle is the most valuable of them all because of the GLORIA SWANSON and THOS, MEIGHAN «a Cecil B.DeMille’s Male ana Female AT THE IRIS TODAY AND TOMORROW nature of its shell. It is also the small- est, being seldom more than two and a half feet long, while most of them are much smaller. Its upper mandl- ble is long and hooked, and gives it its name. Its shell is beautifully mar-, bled or mottled in black and yellow or} rich brown and yellow, but it is the structure of the shell rather than its color which makes it valuable. The carapace, as the upper shell is called, is made of large scales which overlap each other like shingles. When this shell is heated, the scales can be peel- ed off, one by one, and this is the valuable “tortoise shell” of commerce, The operation is often performed on a@ living turtle, who suffers a good deal of discomfort, but is afterward turned loose again in the belief that he will grow another crop of shell. © Ditmars says that this belief is at least partially mistaken, as the turtle often grows only a thin shell of no commercial value. $$ ——_—_— Foreigners Carry Arms Into Mexico, General Declares (By United Press.) CITY OF MEXICO (By Mail).— Charges that foreign oil steamers have transported ammunition and arms to thé rebel forces in the Tampico dis- trict are contained in a report sub- mitted to President Carranza by Gen. Francisco Murguia, commander of tn, federal; troops operating in the oil re- gion. ‘ In many instances, according to Gen.” Murguia, “persons on the outside” must. be considered responsible for the mur-) der of Americans, because they enable the bandits to obtain contraband sup- plis. Murguia announced in his report that in order to prevent attacks upon Americans, he had established a patrol} service along the coast from Port Lobos to Tuxpam, at points/where'the outlaws’ generally operate. coins LS ESE So closely is the ex-kaiser protected at Amerongen that the annual cost of his guard alone is well over $10,000. There are natives in Central Africa who can. jump five feet into the air from a standing position without an effort. Metropolitan 5 to 50c Stores, Inc. National Sale Day Saturday, March 20 Laundry and Toilet Soap Sale All Day Bars P. & .G. 3 Naptha for .... .25e Pkgs. 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