The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 27, 1933, Page 3

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN DeMolays And Alumni . To Play Game Tonight! THE KEY WEST SHARK FISHERY 2 Making A Profit ‘Out-Of A Loss, An Asset Of A Liability (By GEORGE ALLAN’ ENGLAND) (Continued From Yesterday) 1 inboard and dropped him. All the While I watehed with keen in-| fight had gone out of him now, {terest, the fishermen tied ropes to; and nearly all the life. FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1933, SOCSCSOOOOOO00S THOS TOSOOOOUOOOOOHOOOOOOOSSOOOOOOOO jaying | Asher aan. An excellent game of basket-} - ae ball is expected to be played at} | the High School gymnasium to- night between the ATumni and the DeMolays who defeated the High} | School team last night. The De-} Bieeding/ Molays have been practicing hard like a pig, only flopping his tail! for the past week and are ex-/ YOU'LL FIND em SYNOPSIS: Barbara Quentin has ks. It showed him the ed. that Farrell armitage a creamy edge of the waters; the waves—he seemed unable to think is return for Barbara's | Clearly about them—but the waves womise to postpone her marriage Mark -for @ year. She and Mark quarrel, and Barbara dis- appears. When Farrell finds her ajter @ month sha apologizes for her He tei has den no longer mands to exgqctly when Mark, went to the hospital, Ghapter 41 THE PACT RENEWED \* AT three o'clock in the: after. * noon,” Farrell told Barbara. ;} “The time matters to. me,” she said, her. beautiful voice a little Toughened. “Because when 1 met him at eleyen that morning we quar- Telled about our different ideas of marriage and he was so angry with me and my ideas that he punished ™me by not telling me that he had a chance of—of a miracle!” And, as he made nc comment: “That doesn’t surprise you? You ‘would have expected him to be as indifferent as that?” He answered her conscientiously. ».“¥You know what my theory w: that he was not worthy of you and that a radical change in his circum- stances would make you admit it. Well. 1 don’t ask you to. admit. it were very nearly up to the tide mark, “You have done so much for Mark,” said her low, unhappy voite in the dark. “You've toiled for him and endured him, and it isn’t fair you should have nothing for it. So, ‘if you etill—” A wavé, slapping over a ledge, ‘sent stinging spray over them both, Armitage felt as though ft had gone right through him, through the heat and fever of him, through the in sane, primitive desire to Uft and carry her away,. “But 1 shall have to carry you,” he said aloud, the stinging sptay on his face, the stinging cold in his brain, “We've been here too long,” “We aren’t cut off by the tide?” “Not yet, but the sand isn’t firm any more. You're almost standing tn water, as it is.” He picked her up bodily, and turned back towards the road. A lantern bobbed uncértainly up and down in that direction and he made | towards it. “I’m too heavy,” she protested. “T’ve carried you before,” he said, half to himself, Presently he asked, almost casually—“Put your arm He Garried her. toward a.bobbing lantern. ‘7 yet. I asked you for a year. Ill stick to that. All I want is to re port to you. . . “I have launched his work. I've made it easy for him to buy popu- larity with a certain section of what's: called society, The section ‘was his choice, not mine, I've given him the hope—the strong certainty of restored health. “If ever again it seems to you that I am cheating or side-stepping, give me an opportunity to defend myself before you decide not to let ‘me have my year!” She moved, and’ he caught. the faint gleam of silver from her hair, He put out a hand and drew the fallen scarf up and over her small, silky head. p “Come along now,” he said quiet- ly. “Ican’t let you catch cold.” She was standing very still, her face upturned to his, His hands were clumsy at theif tabk. “I mean it when I say that Mark and I quarrelled. We really quar relled. We differed absolutely and fundamentally about.a thing that Matters. Marriage. And so 1 am «Rot going to marry him, ever, what- ever he grows to be.” eae ©. The elyumsiness sfrom Ris bands, As he she winced, and he his ‘hold a little, He felt her shake her head. “There's still something I want to tell you. It’s strange you should have found me here just now, be ‘cause I've been thinking all day that I could say it here by the sea, in this mood, and perhaps nowhere else.” “What fs it, Barbara? What have you to say?” “That there la no need to wait a year for me if you stil] want me. 1 will marry you, if you like.” He stared down at her, stupefied. ‘The moonlight was strengthening. round my neck, will you? You'll feel safer.” He “stopped at last and let her slip to the ground. The lantern was bobbing towards them. “Is the lady there, sir? Tide's comin’ in fast.” “Yes, the lady fs here. right.” The lantern preceded them to the Devalet, hesitated, bobbed and final ly retreated. Armitage switched on the light in the roof of the car and turned, holding out a hand. She took it like a docile child, “Farrell?” He stopped and looked up at her, “You haven't answered me. You haven't said whether yoo—” Her voice failed. “What are you offering me?” he asked her. She colored deeply, “Not what Iwas stupid enough to offer you before,” she murmured, “1 idn’t mean to offer you a bribe." “What then?” And as she was silent, “A consolation prize?” “TI sappose—yes, it would be that.” “But I don't need consolation, yet. My. year isn’t up. At the end of my year I shall claim your love, Why’ shoilld I be Impatient’ now and takeyour pity?” She closed “her eyés and he saw the tears slip out from under the lids and Ne upon her face. “I'm not deluding myself,” Armt- tage went on. “As long as Mark doesn’t want you, you'll think you love him. Very well; he shall be made to love you.” Before she could speak, he con- tinued, “By the way, I've an emerald of yours, Shall I give it to Mark?” Barbara nodded “yes.” (Copyright, 1992, Julia Cleft-Addama) She fs all Patsy goes to the country, to. enna arenes THE ARTMAN PRESS PRIN PHONE 6&1 TING IN THE CITIZEN BLDG. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE CITIZEN—20c WEEKLY the flukes of the net-anchors, see threw over one of these, also one. iof the long bamboo poles, and the end of a net. The bamboo with a white flag on top floated nearly upright. As the boat drifted to; leeward, the negroes payed out | the head and foot-ropes of the huge net. It looked strong | to hold a fair-sized whale. At the} end of it, they pitched another marker overboard, with another anchor and a long rope. They then proceeded to cast an- other net. Beaded with perspira- tion, toiling under that cooking glare, they labored. Their faces shone; the boat rocked slowly; the engine purred away to itself; and far to westward I could see other | shark-boats, each busily casting, nets. “One mo’ net, sah, an’ den wey goes to haulin’,” the captain ex- plained. “We sets t’ree an’ hauls Vree a day. Keeps six out all de time. Somepin’ doin’ now afo’ Jong now, sah, fo’ you to git a pitcher of! Battling Sea-Tigers Something doing indeed there was, and right away! As soon as the crew had put out their spa net, they ran down to a flag of at net that had been set for some: time, There they pulled up a pole! and anchor, and began hauling the; net. Seaweed and pieces of coral now or then appeared. Mightily the fishermen labored, with bunch- ing muscles beneath the velvety skin. As they pulled, the boat heavily progressed along the net. They took it in as it came, heap- ing it all wet and sometimes tan- gled, on one of the wide seats. Presently the haul grew stiffer. “Yere’s Mr. Shark a-comin’, now,” the captain assured me, with 4 a grin, as he tied the net near the! ready, eff yo’ wants to git a pitch- bow. With a good deal of a “kick” I watched the shark appear—a “Git yo’ machine huge gray shape that came weilter- ing up out of the depths, in whirl- ing confusion. Our engineer made the net fast at the stern. Every time a shark is hauled up, the men always tie the net fore and aft. The big gray shape resolved itself into the likeness of a monster fish, amazingly tangled in meshes of the net. He had completely wound himself up till he was practically helpless, and yet even so he put up a terrific battle. Had he been free, no three men could ever have landed him, What turmoil, what a fight! Mr. Shark does not yield his life without a furious struggle. When first caught, he sometimes almost tears the net apart, raising the heavily-weighted foot-line and pull- ing the cork or cypress buoys far below the surface. ‘All this, how- ever, only in the end exhausts him; only catches him the more secure- ly, as the meshea slip into his gills and regtrict his breathing. Some- times the sharks are even dead when hauled up—drowned by their frenzied efforts to escape. As this first shark (a big six-! teen-footer) reached the surface, hauled up by six powerful arms,! he grew spasmodic with rage. If there ever was a devil of the sea,; that devil is a big man-eating shark. The horrid grin of those immense sharp-toothed jaws, the cold malice of those tiny greenish eyes, cannot ‘be described. must be seen to be understoody Nature’s one perfect killing-m: chine. the tiger of the sea—that is the shark! | “Hold him, dere! Hold him!” shouted the captain, reeking with sweat, as the shark came up. Tangling himself over and over in the net, whipping the sea to froth, heavy iron bar. Whack! Whack! Whack! Three times Mr. Shark got it the nose, with every ounce of t! grunting fisherman’s imi strength. That quieted the mon. ster a little. Blood tinged the lovely azure waves. Then the captain snatched a big iron hook and tried to jam it into the shark’: terrible jaw. After a few “Dere she is, now boys! away!" With block-and-tackle, from the derrick-boom, they hauled the shark up out of the sea, net and all coming along, too. The boat listed sharply as this heavy weight sagged upon it. “Huh!” the men grunted, with each haul; the cap- itain gave a few more wallops, just for luck, and he too granted with each blow. As the shark came up, the captain, with another hook peeled the net down around its shagreen sides. When the net stuck, he broke meshes. Tn a few minutes the shark was clear of the net. They swung him a bit, he lay and died there, a! nected to play a fast peppy huge and dangerous “leopard,” —} game, one more man-eater destined to; ‘The Alumni-team which has be turned to human profit, one less destroyer of food-fishes in the sea. “Yas, sah, dem fellers will sho’ bite a man, an’ eat him too, if dey git a chanst,” the captain assured me as I snap-shotted the fallen foe. “We done cut open a leopard shark one time, an’ find de arm of a sailor in um. Jus’ de bone was left on de upper arm, sah, but; dere was some meat on de lower arm, still—meat, an’ blue cloth. Dey sho’ does like human flesh, ‘boss. But dey ain’t nebber goin’. to git none o’ dis yere man’s, not. eff I sees ’em fust!” The net was now dyed crimson, and much:of it that had been taken in was badly torn and twisted. The! School last night with a score of. fishermen freed its lashings fore] 20 to 31. The DeMolays took the and aft, and once more began, lead from the start and main- hauling it. Two ‘“whipperees”| tained it until the end of the were the next booty from the sea.’ game. “Sting-rays,” properly speaking—! The line-up follows: and formidable creatures they are, High School DeMolays, too, with an ‘intensely poisonous F J. Lopez sharp spine 6r barb part wa: F Johnson down -the tail. This spine is ser-| C_ Kirschenbaum rated, with backward-pointing{R. Dominguez G J. Baker teeth, and is capable of inflicting, Navarro G a terrible wound. During the game Y. Carbonell “Dat ’ll pull de flesh right out; %ubstituted for Navarro on the 0” yo’, boss,” one of the crew as-{ ¢hool team. Ya Fears. ‘hy al sured me. Cut wo gorse. 2 2 povcce Sevcevcssenseesese buzz-saw, an’ kill yo’ wid de pizen,} TODAY’S HOROSCOPE after yo’ done bleed to death. I ain’t want none.o’ dem stingers in; ee ascreenee me, no sah!” {tourney will go in with the reg- jular line-up and are said to be in better shape than ever. In all, a good fast game is assured. The probable line-up will be: Alumni DeMolays J. Hale PF C. Yates QO. Armayor H. Herrick Matthews DeMolays Win Game With School Outfit The DeMolays basketball team won an easy victory over the High Johnson F Cc G J. Baker G A harmonzous, contented disposi- I iioticed that even before they! tion with great powers of penetra. clubbed and landed the rays, they tion. A measure of success will be carefully chopped off the stingers: pranted, and there is opportunity with ja hatchet and let them fall|for fame. A certain lack of dis- overloard. One of the rays wasjcretion is the thing most lacking, already dead, the. other one veryjand this tendency should be over- much-alive. After the latter had/come. The day comes so close to been most bloodily butchered, they!very strong aspects that any fail- cut off its wings or fins and sliced | ure ought to be avoided by due ef- them into bait, which they tied to} fort. the meshes. Sometimes old horse- meat is used to attract sharks to the flets, but fresh sting-ray is bet-| WORKS. 514 MARGARET ST. ter. « {PHONE 227. These rays were dark gray in color, with light gray circles. _In general, the smaller rays taught are not kept for leather; though | BENJAMIN LOPEZ when an ox-ray_ is cnt yilai]FUNERAL HOME largest of all this family—it yields} a fine quality. Established 1885 (To Be Continued Tomorrow) BEARUP’S DRY CLEANING Subscribe for The Citizen. Subscribe for The Citizen—20c Phone 135 Night Phone 696-W a week. \CUT)YOUR IRONING EE IN HALF Lp ' e Only half the weight of the ‘iron=the new HOTPOINT FEATHER WEIGHT IRON will cut‘ your ironing efforts in half. wi and pressure are not the prime requirements for og. Page generated by the 1000 watt ‘CALROD unit heats the iron “spitting” hot in a mere matter Of seconds, does the work of a heavier iron. The “ FEATHER WEIGHT,” a full size iron, weighs only 3 pounds; saves enetgy; irons faster; saves time; is fully automatic; saves money. It also has all the other : Thamb Rest, Double Button Heel Rest and 10,000 Cycle Cord. SEE IT! LIFT IT! AND YOU WILL WANT IT! HALF WEIGHT Get this great new iron today! Ie costs but The lowest priced light weight iron on the market. The Key West Electric Company : A. F. AYALA, Sales Mgr. J. Lopez Kirschenbauny C. Hicks, C. Hicks, ‘ IT HERE! | Here Is A List Of Key West |been leading the others in the/ Merchants Who Sell Prac- tically Everything Of Interest To The Average Family Or Businessman. When Ordering From These Firms, You Are Assured Of Prompt And Careful Service. CURIOS THOMPSON'S MARINE CURIO 324 Margaret Street Here you can find Souveniers that will really please your friends. Your next LOBSTER or CRAB DINNER will be much more delicious if it is baked and served in our GIANT SCAL- LOP or HEART SEA SHELLS. Be Sure and See the Huge Sunfish COFFEE ASK FOR STAR COFFEE AT YOUR GROCERY It is made from the nicest coffee beans obtainable and is blended to give you more than satisfaction at the price. STAR COFFEE MILLS VELIZ & SANCHEZ, Prop. 512 Greene Street For Quick) Service Call 256 DEEP SEA FISHING CHARTER BOAT BARBARA FOR HIRE GULF STREAM AND TARPON FISHING Rod, Reel and Bait Furnished Reasonable Rates. Day or Week Modern Accommodations ' —SEE. Captain Johnny Lopez Phone 65 416 Margaret St. FISH PAUL DEMERITT & BROS. FISH COMPANY Fish House at Sweeney’s Dock Perfect Sanitary Condition CHOICEST FISH AT ALL TIMES Prompt Delivery of Telephone Orders Courteous and Efficient Service —PHONE 44— ARCHER’S GROCERY “The Store That Serves You Best” $5.95] were PRICES ARE AL- WAYS THE LOWEST AND QUALITY THE | HIGHEST | H it Will a You To Trade ith Us. PHONE 67 FREE DELIVERY 614 Fleming Street | INSURANCE PRINTING INSURANCE } WE PRINT Office: 319 Duval Street TELEPHONE NO. 1 THE PORTER-ALLEN COMPANY NURSERY PLANTS, FLOWERS, VINES Coconut Plants, each Hibiscus Plants, each .. 10¢-25¢ Bougainvillaea Red or Purple. Poinsettia Plants 50e to $1.00 Crotons, each ... wanes 250 Turks Cap, each .. Roses, dozen South Florida Nursery’ Phone 597 Catherine St. NEWSPAPER Subscribe For— THE CITIZEN 20c WEEKLY Order From the Carrier or PHONE 51 ON A BASIS OF— SERVICE, LOW PRICE and QUALITY ——THE-—— ARTMAN PRESS PHONE 51 PLUMBING PLUMBING DURO PUMPS PLUMBING SUPPLIES JOHN C. PARK 828 SIMONTON ST. PHONE 348 PLUMBING THOMPSON PLUMBING COMPANY Sheet Metal Work Plumbing Dayton Pumps BATH ROOM FIXTURES AND SUPPLIES Let Us Estimate On Your Next PLUMBING JOB 132-134 Simonton Street PHONE 536 NEWSPAPER | SOUVERIERS —READ— THE KEY WEST SUNDAY STAR Key West’s Only Sunday Paper Subscription $2 Per Year Business Office, Chamber of Commerce Colonial Hotel Building OYSTERS BALTIMORE EXTRA LARGE SELECT AND MEDIUM Hot Souse Every Saturday SANDWICHES of all kinds, including the delicious OYSTER SANDWICHES. WELLS’ LUNCH ROOM 900 Southard St. Phone 573-3 SOUVENIERS KODAKS, MOVIE FILMS NOVELTIES, JEWELRY, FISHING TACKLE Expert Watch and Jewelry Repairing at Great Reduction on Regular Prices. FRANK JOHNSON Colonial Hotel Bidg. SAVE ON TIRES! Guaranteed Retreaded Tires are CHEAP and last as long as new ones. Come in and see FLONEY at his mew place for « good buy om Retreated Tires and Used Tubes. FLONEY’S TIRE SHOP White and Division Streets