The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 28, 1933, Page 3

SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1933. _stvsr-— erenmg Ceceseccdddedddoddedededaddodc | ‘practical common + sense, “you won't in my opinion, get it. Isn't it rather late for Barbara. to be Hroaming the country-side by her- self?” Miss Raout cockéd Her head at- tentively and presently rose to look Hbetween the curtains. She stood iswearing softly to herself, as she Halways did when she was intent ion anything. “There’s a car,” she said pres- ently. “I think it’s Farrell Arm. itage’s. What d’you bet he has been ‘roanting the’cowhtry-side with her?” The vicar sighed @ little. Miss Raoul came Back from the window, She asked— “You don’t think she'll. ever stop (ttle-Cad-Mark?” _ | pexterminating. f “I hadn't met her then. Leila | ways spoke of Mark’s girl and the pdecoratonstet &s two separate peo- ple, Tact, I s’pose. Or salesman. htp!, She’s got an eye for a Bar- ,sain-basement, has Leila.” _ |} “hella, your hostess?” “She even watited co pay me by results, like a matrimonial agency? But, of course, I made it fees in jadvance and my word of honor that V’@ earn ’em.” , “Your word of. honor,” echoed ‘Mr. Frere, “Yos, F-see,” | “What d’'yon mean? { kept it, ididn’t I@ 2 handie® Mark all right; the da Capo—that’s a restau- jrant where dis lot mestiy goes— ‘fore he faded off to heaven knows: ;where! Look Here, tell you what Ful do—” She dropped back into her chair in a siden lassitude. | “Til return Leila her money. I can see you think it was: shoddy }of me to tale it. Oh, but I will! HH [ é : Ht e a a B i i HE Sg i g g veablhy t him on gg now T conte to’ rt At” She met the vicar’ -smnile. “You'd 55 eats Bs 5 ‘we wort to- The gentio finality was like a knell. “You and. 'T, my dedr, must share thik fear’ Seca No ata es 3 neéd.: tortiaaae “Fortitude be—! I'll wring Bar-. bara’e .eck!” : i The vicar was chuckling over this remedy ‘when the door opened and Farrell Armitage came in. i “‘Allo, ‘allo!” Miss Raoul wel- comed him. “You not do know I in iis 3 H 8 ii ‘ i 3 a7 8 FY E ul Bi Ihe i i is A g i iuvpeything’s all right, sir, hon-' “I'm very glad to know it, my dear boy.” “What have you done with Bar bara?” shrilled Miss Raoul, af rt gE uBa P 5 i g i 2H, igie bi? “What,” asked the vicar, stirring faintly in his chair, “what of Mark, THE ARTMAN PRESS PRINTING PHONE 51 IN THE CITIZEN BLDG. THE KEY WEST SHARK FISHERY Making A Profit Out Of A Loss, An Asset Of A Liability (By GEORGE AELAN ENGLAND) (Continued From Yesterday) | is, a shark can’t di-gest wire. No, n ‘Fhe Slaughter Continues boss, not quite as tough as dat!” The boat was now a shambles,| Five miles off Key West, with with’ blood and bilge swashing|!! our drinking-water gone and about im the bottom, and: the| With sunset turning the sea to | stench of slaughter very strong.| blood, our engine quit cold. We Barefooted; the érew waded in a| /#¥ there @ long time as darkness ined muek, their feet, legs arid| fells and a fine off-shore breeze \dutigarees growing crimson, which| blew us toward the next land to added to their piratical pie-|/e¢Ward—Mexico. Silvery moon turesqueness, Overheated; the en-| P¢ePed out, stars winked, the gine quit and refused to posed zoadical light began to glow; the but riobody cared. We were get-) tinkering fishermen madé dim ting into’ the kill, and a little mat-/Sihouettes against that lovely ter like a dead engine, 40 miles tropieal night. A i steamer bore from home, meant nothing. down on us, but shifted her course The rest of the nét yielded sev- before cee ee be! éral more sharks, mostly “nurses.” | ‘Sea-fire” twinkled with: pate These had two nostrils, each with; See? gleams; and in the damp i barbel; the color was a: reddish "ets, whenéver stirred, phosphore- \Brown; with rather ‘deeper red) Scene glowed and vanished. granulations. They bled freely, As for me, I smoked and won- Land writhed a long time after be-}:dered that at worst we might ing: landed: Sharks seem’ hard, teach Mexico in a week or ten fellows to kill. Gluttons for! days, and—though we had no ;punishment. They stand a lot of; Water—that at all events we couldn’t starve to death. Not with »20 sharks aboard! But after long labor and guessing at what was ‘wrong, the crew got our engine ' started once more. Glad sound! roe aftier dark we reached the wharf, with as bloody: and ma- | lodorou’ a eargo as ever I had seen since my seal-fishing days. Reaching the end of the first} pnet, thé crew pulled it up, with banchor and flag. A tangled mass fit was, too; I wordered how in .the world they were ever going io suntwist, repair, and make it ready pfor service again. The second net ‘began with a saw-fish, not so live- ly a scrapper as the average shark, Working Up the Sharks pbut still formidable enough. His} Next day I followed still fur- Fsaw got tangled in the net so that) ther the sharks’ caréer, at a fac- ‘nothing but cutting would free it., tory of the Ocean Leather Com- }This big fish was tén or twelvel pany. “A very ancient and fish- ‘feet long, without his saw. In! like odor” greets you at the fac- dealing with this species, the) tory. You see a big derrick for fishermen always chop off the saw; hoisting the sharks to the wharf; pat once. A freshly-caught saw-| huge reels where a white man is fish is a lovely light creamy-green| winding up, untangling and re- ; | The heat grew }color; a handsome creature, but his saw is worth respecting. One, | 'slash from that formidable weapon may easily inflict terrible hammerhead shark came next, as: | strange and grim a creature as you could wish to see, He wound the net up into what looked like a single vope, and the crew had the devil’s own time to get him out of it. I took what pictures I juries, Lashing the sea to a froth, a ‘such a violent and disordered bat- tle that good pictures are diffieult ito get. Most of the sharks, I noted, made a kind of grunting or the crowbar, and the crew did in-| workers skirining hides; jcould; but in shark-fishing it is | pairing nets; a powerful colored man sharpening knives at a bloody grindstone; flensing-tables -with a shed’ where hides are stored and other work is done; also casks full of rotting livers, and extensive “flakes” or wire racks on which the fins are sun-dried. The sharks used vary greatly in size. Some of the nurses are only four to six feet long, while some of the leopards, hammerheads and leopards may run to 20 feet and weigh perhaps 2,000 pounds. All the rough work is done by These powerful fellows can flay a hissing noise when bélabored “hal mt fish in only two or three ‘much the same, as they pounded, The sound was about 50-50, shark and human. One shark im the second net was so big they couldn't lift it by the jaw, but had to snatch a line round its tail and swing it aboard head-downward: Nets, anchors, flags and buoys: wete now mixed in what seémed a hopeless confusion. The boat was filling with sharks and saw- fishes, and the stench from these | still-writhing creatures and from the blood was quite overpowering. intolerable. No dainty job, this! “Oh, King! All!” would shout, as they hoisted a huge monster. “King, lib for- eber! Come on, come down! A-gain!” As the shark swung in- board: ‘“Let’s go!” And down it would flop and slither by the run, half a ton or more of struggling; viciousness. The fishermen’s mus- cles stood out like those on Greek statues. Ebony statues they seemed, bronzes, sweating and magnificent. Some artist should go out shark-fishing and win fame. : Im the third net we took a dead leopard. I am glad this was after lunch. We ate in a glare of sun and smoked a restful pipe, be- fore going to work again. The dead leopard, however, would have wrecked my appetite if we'd) caught him before lunch. “High” was what you might call it. Rot- ten, and somewhat fragmentary. This choice bit was none the less kept. Hts leather, I suppose, was not impaired ‘by the putrefaction of the flesh. Another shark-boat now came bearing down on us, reported 17 sharks aboard, and bore away for Key West. Afternoon was pass- ing, and the time was at hand for us also to be under way. But our motor refuses to “mote.” We lay, in a cooking glare of descending sun for an hour or more, while th crew tinkered at it, and a gia sound the old engine made, me, when at last she began once more to kick. Without about 20 sharks and sawfish aboard, some of them 18 feet long or more, we “y finally laid a course for home. “Dey’ll eat anyt’ing, dees yere fellers will,” the captain asserted as we chugged heavily toward port. “I once cut one open, as shad a kag in his stomach, an’ in j de kag a gallon can o’ paint. ‘Nud-, j der time, founda wire chicken- eoop in a shark. De coop had bones an’ feathers in it, sab. Shark, he done swaller de coop, chickens an’ all, an’ di-gest off all de meat. He only leave de wire, \ feathers an’ boies. Tough as dey the crew} minutes, They carefully eut all the adhering flesh from the hide, whieh is salted and put in the sun to dry for 24 hours. Then the workers pack these hides.in casks, salting and treading them down. yThe sight of barelegged colored men “jumping” the hides down, in big casks, there in that gloomy}, ‘shed, makes a picture you do not readily forget. Nearly every part of the shark is used. The oil’ is almost en- tirely confined to the liver, and cannot be found in the flesh. Nurse sharks have less oil than the other kinds, and leopards more, some specimens of the latter -yielding as high as 30 gallons. AN kinds are mixed together. dried out by steam, from sun-rot- ‘ted livers, it certainly makes a rare perfume. I have a suspicion ‘that some of it becomes choice cod-liver oi]. Most of it, however, is used for tanning leather. The refuse is worked up for fertilizer, while the heads, when boiled, yield a large amount of glue. Insulin; valuable in treat- ing: diabetes, is obtained from the lpancreatié gland: The fins are sent to New York, for export to China, where they are in good -demand as food for the Celestials. pSawfish fins are rated the most délice.e eating, nurse fins of the lowest duality. The former sell ‘for some $2.50 a pouad, while the latter bring only 20 to 30 cents. The meat is cut thin and salted. hI was told it was sent mostly to Africa, for food; but like the Scotchmngn, I “hae me doots.” Since witnessing its preparation, I have always felt a trifle sus- picious of salt cod. The dried and salted flesh is almost pure white, and of the consistency of dried codfish. After all, why shouldn’t shark-meat be good eating? Is it only @ prejudice that makes us rebel at it? The leather, when finally tan- ned and finished in the north, is a high-grade product, hammerhead being rated as best except for shoes. For this purpose I under- stand it is rarely or never used. The other shark-leathers, however,| make shoes of the best. Every kind of sharkleather is used for something—if not for shoes, then Tor pocket-books, brief-cases, suit- cases, spindle-belts in knitting mills, automobile upholstery, and many other purposes. The gaping jaw-bones when stripped of flesh and eured bring good prices as curios, Teeth of Shark backbones, with a steel rod driven through them, make fine walking-sticks. Whes turned down sweating, barefooted colored men.|; As it is}. the man-eaters are saved and! RST GAMES OF | . NEW BALL SERIES | | STARTS SUNDAY) | AND PIRATES TO BE IN| | SCHEDULED DOUBLE BILL 4 1 I j t i A group of local sport lovers; ‘got together last night and organiz- ed a baseball league for Key West. Clubs making entry were Sluggers, with Louis Gonzalez, Jr., mana- \ger; Pirates, A. Martinez, director, fand Key West, R.aValdez as pilot. | Officers elected were S. Miran-| da, former president of Havana sports, president; Mario Loma, see-| retary and Mendieta, treasurer. The schedule will start Sunday | and run through April. Promoters | of the league hope to have Mayor Malone toss over the first pitch to the league’s president, Mr. Miran- da, who will be on the receiving end, Music will be furnished by a local: band. The first game which will bring together the Key West team against the Young Sluggers will be called at 1:00 o’clock sharp. The second tilt will be fought by the Key West and Pirates. Individual players making the| thighest average in his respective positions will receive a prize donat- ed by local merchants. No admission will be charged to thése games. However, it is ex- pected by the promoters that those attending will make a little dona-| tion in order to take care of thei exepnses. aeonrente ~—e Kors! — co — Z x. WA kel ror Razzes and boos greet the Calves on returning. Ha, ha! Pipe the villain; Now, are his ears burning! “You can’t douse a Pig when he’s mad,” he explains. “But never you mind—he’ll get wet when it rains.” TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore and Ohio, born at Hartland, Vt., 72 years ago. Augustus Lukeman, great New York sculptor, born in Richmond, Va., 62 years ago. Theodore J. Hoover, Stanford University’s Dean of Engineering, brother of the president, born at; }West Branch, Iowa, 62 years ago. Charles S. Barrett, of Georgia, ‘for many years president of the National Farmers’ Union, born in Pike Co., Ga. 67 years ago. William S. Lee, of Charlotte, N. C.,' noted hydro-electric power en- gineer, born at Lancaster, N. C., 61 years ago. ina lathe, they are really beauti- ful. , Thus, even the most ferocious monsters of the deep can be turned into objects of art, as well as of use and profit. Sharks are valuable, the supply is unlimited, the catch is comparatively simple. 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