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President P. A. S. Franklin of International Mercantile Marine, which operates U. S. Lines, announced that $100,000 would be spent cleaning up the ancient sea monster, that she would make seven round trips this year. Said he: "The American public will now be given a chance to show whether it wants this ship. All we can do is to ask Americans to travel, send their mail and ship their freight...
...fabricated the serpent to give his story-loving friend, the late Col. William D'Alton Mann, longtime publisher of the defunct Town Topics, "something to talk about." Said Artist Watrous: "I got a cedar log and fashioned one end of it into my idea of a sea monster or hippogriff. I made a big mouth, a couple of ears, like the ears of an ass, four big teeth . . . and for eyes I inserted in the sockets of the monster two telegraph pole insulators of green glass. . . . I painted the head in yellow and black stripes . . . the mouth...
...anchored the horrific hippogriff close to the path which Col. Mann's boat would have to take. . . . [When the boat passed near by] I released the monster. It came up nobly. . . . Mr. Davies [Acton Davies, onetime dramatic critic of the New York Sun] who had a rather high pitched voice, uttered a scream that must have been heard as far as Burlington, Vt. Mrs. Bates [mother of Actress Blanche Bates], a very intrepid lady of Milesian extraction, stood on the seat in the boat and beat the water with her parasol. . . . Colonel Mann shouted, 'Good God, what...
Thereafter Mr. Watrous showed his hippogriff elsewhere in Lake George. "Within a few days, you couldn't see a Negro [servant] within a mile of the lake shore." He ceased exhibiting it when, one day, he "released the monster just as a pair of newlyweds came along in a canoe. With one glance at the vision and utterly ignoring his bride, the young man leaped into the lake, struck out for shore. . . . When he sought to make up . . . she refused to speak...
...thing in this country can touch the Tavern's bar in the matter of length and the only serious rival outside is Crawford's 161-foot monster that attracted thousands along with the smell of stables to Tia Juaua, Mexico...