CATALINA ISLANDER
-'~LAVALON CHURCHES d THE WHALE SHARK-- U
~,~Olie Church services: Sun ay LARGEST LIVING FISH
_-, 8 and i0 a. m. Sunday even- SHOWN IN NEW YORK
f'~..qevOtions, 7-30 p. m. Week day __.
~r' 7:30 a. m: By Science Service
h"]VStian Seien:e*;ociety services at New York, May 10---A truly delicate
~bungalow meeting house, 222 monster is the whale shark. A small
~,~le avenue, SundaYmat 11 ;rim" scale model of a thirty-foot speeimen
• ![~ty School at 9"30 a. . Wed e - has just been placed upon exhibition
reve"lng service at 8 p.m. in the American Museum of Natural
History, and the public pauses to ad-
[ I~P'~g'relation2 Church Servicesmire the creature for his fancy coat
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~;~ay School, 9:30 a. m. ; Worship and his coy eye, without appreciating
his amiable disposition. The whale
~h~ Sermon, 10:30 a. m.; Christian shark is as harmless as a guinea pig.
• ~aVor, 6:00 p. m.; Worship and He has never tasted man. He does
|.~,0n, 7:00 p. m.; Mid-week Service not even eat his brother fish, although
k'~f' m., Wednesday. Everyone is he himself is the largest fish in exist-
ply invited to all services, ence--the whale, of course, being not
a fish but a mammal.
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life.
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Whale sharks have been measured
up to a length of 45 feet, and whale
fishermen, whose keen eyes are accus-
tomed to taking such measurements,
declare that they have seen whale
sharks 70 feet long. How strange,
then, to discover that the teeth of this
giant of the ocean are no longer than
one-eighth of an inch! But he has six
or seven thousand of them, including
both jaws. He wears his tiny eye in
the upper jaw, where it can observe
his continuous dinner.
Possessing teeth so dainty, the whale
shark has but one weapon of offense--
his tail. He never harms men unless
he happens to rub up again+t the side
of a boat, probably to rid himeslf of
barnacles, and if he overturns or
smashes the craft upon these occas-
ions it is not with malice aiorethought.
When he dines he does not gobble
large fish, like the other sharks. In-
stead, he swims with his mouth open
and collects the small animals that
float upon the surface of the sea. The
water passes over his gill-rakers, and
these sift out the food. It then passes
out through his gill-slits. I-Ie swal-
lows everything that is taken in, and
of course the quantities of little jelly
fish, crabs and other small fry that he
requires in a day are enormous.
Why do they call him a whale
shark ? Because he is a whale in size
and in his manner of feeding, and be-
cause he is often found with whales.
More generally, he is seen in company
with other sharks; but he is so much
larger than they that by comparison
with him they seem no bigger than
m
~. Avalon, California I the pilot-fish or shark-suckers when
~~= = = seen beside the ordinary small shark.
IThis statement was first made in 1S40
atchRepatrmg by a pearl-fishery inspector, ,vho
amazed the world with his account of
JeWelry of All Kinds Repaired ' I a giant fish seen in the Indian
ocean.
• H.R. WHARTON ilIf the whale shark's behavior is
l'lOttl St. Catherine Curio Shop [ handsome, so his appearance. His coat
~. is a delicate smoke-gray, thickly cov-
ered with white spots, which cause
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him to resemble a marine Milky Way.
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Unfortunately, one is not likely to see
] ~t~.~torney at Law [ him on a fishing trip. Only five spec-
I'Oat C. C. Chapman Bu||d|na [ imens have been taken in the Atlantic
I~ BrOadway at Irlllhth I ocean--four off the coast of Florida
~ngeles, Ca and one off the southern coast of Bra-
I
i. Izil. He is not uncommon around the
!
Seychelles, in the Indian ocean, and is
Your, ---------- found in the Bay of Bengal and
Wants Smoothly Attended
To at the around Ceylon. He is encountered
throughout East Indian waters, par-
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ticularly near Java, and is known in
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New Guinea and Australia; in Callao
harbor, Peru; in the Bay of Panama
and the Gulf of Lower California.
Catalina will give you the rest of
your life. Come to Catalina.
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