Show vy v > FROM ARCTIC TRIPv ROY C ANDREWS GLEANS SCIENTIFIC SCIEN-TIFIC KNOWLEDGE For Five Months He Has Been studyIng Study-Ing the Pacific Whale In the Interests of New York Museum The last few years havo been fruitful fruit-ful In the number of exploits by sclen < tlsts afloat and afield at personal risk The latest of these men who n 1tEjIII Ijjl v + I I Towing Whale to Station have used tho Arctic regions for Information Infor-mation Is Hoy C Andrews who has just returned from a live months trip into the northern Pacific where in the Interest of the Now York Museum at Natural History ho has been In quest of added knowledge about the Pacific whale now fast becoming extinct I left New York on April 20 last said Mr Andrews and arrived at the Island of Vancouver B C about two weeks afterward Vancouver Is sov eral miles off from tho coast Hero are located two of the three whaling stations In the Parlllc ocean As a talc In these days It Is only In the waters In the vicinity of the arctic regions tlmt whales are fount In any great number Ages ago they wore common In the southern seas But with the growth of commerco they wore killed or gradually driven northward At the present tlmo whale fishing as a regular business of any size Is carried on only off the Nor weglan coast the coast of Newfoundland Newfound-land and In tho northern Pacific tllliIO killing Is almost a fine art iD2 Tho ships are fitted with a can nonVknown as the harpoon gun which sends the shaft with 1 such terrific fore as to Impale the creature and always till it rhen It is towed to the station T I was with tho ship on one of these hunts and secured some splendid photographs tographs Because of the speedy movement r move-ment of the whales I had to bo quick with the camera So none of tho exposures ex-posures took longer than onefiftieth of a second some even lessOn less-On one occasion we wero In col Islon with a huge flnback GOfootei weighing about as many tons When first seen he was Just In front of the bow Tho captain signaled the engineer to stan but the signal was misinterpreted and wo plowed ahead hitting the leviathan midships and riding rid-Ing up on his back and sinking him some of course When we looked around the head of the whale was seen on one side of the ship his tall on the other with his body under our keel While the captain rushed to the harpoon har-poon gun I took a picture which plainly plain-ly shows the whales eyes The worst of my experience was with a fog With two men I was coming com-ing 100 miles down the coast from t Juneau Alaska In a 16foot boat Suddenly Sud-denly we found ourselves enveloped In a fog so dense that we couldnt see 20 feet ahead We drifted for 48 hours with no food and with very little water Added to this an Icy north wind begun be-gun to blow We did not freeze to death because we managed to keep 4 ono another awake Wo did not know but what we had drifted to sea sc when tho fog did rise you may Imagine our joy at seeing land only n mile away I am more than gratified over the results of my labors All the data at hand will bo used this winter to do termlne the exact relation between th Atlantic and Pacific whale I expect to publish a scientific monograph on the subject Dr Rumpus director of the museum mu-seum was anxious for tho Investigation Investiga-tion to be mado at this time Wo be liovo that the time Is not far distant when the whale as a species will be practically extinct taking their place with tho mastodon Like time Amoilcan buffalo they arc fast disappearing before be-fore the demands of commerco On caslonally a spoimacetl whale Is caught It Is from this whale that the d r valuable spermaceti oil and ambergtis Is taken L The oil soils at about 10C a pound the ambergris at GO a K riound P 1 |