Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1913 — Foghorn Arouses Birds. [ARTICLE]

Foghorn Arouses Birds.

There has just been erected on the Bass Hock, the precipitous Island In the Frith of Froth, off the Haddingtonshire coast, a new foghorn which has cost $200,000. It will be Interesting to note the effect of the hooter on the nerves of the sea birds, of which thousands of one kind and another are to be found on this desolate spot At dusk the captains of the passenger steamers In passing generally sound their whistle or siren for the amusement of their passengers, and it Is a sight not easily forgotten to watch myriads of sleepjTbirds fly a short dis tance and then return, after uttering their protest after the manner of th* own in “Gray’s Elegy.” The new foghorn will give three blasts every two minutes.