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Show FAMOUS WHALE BEINGSHOWN "Have you seen the whale?" ha? become a general inquiry here since the famous whale of San Clcmente arrived in his special car and was placed on exhibition on the railroad rail-road siding at the Salt Lake and Utah depot in Provo. Few persons, even those living in seaboard cities, cit-ies, have ever seen one of the gigantic gi-gantic creatures at close range. Thc present opportunity to see one lias created widespread interest. , The whale is not only one of the largest and finest specimens of the finback variety ever captured, but it has been perfectly preserved and shows no sign of the terrific battle it gave to its captors- More than 38 barrels of embalming fluid were used to prepare the whale for tho long transcontinental tour. Stretching more than 65 feet in length, the massive bulk of tlr? whale weighs close to 72 tons. The heart alone, when removed, was found to weigh 128S pounds, while the tongue balanced the scales at 600 pounds. When the bomb in the first harpoon har-poon shot into the whale a few weeks ago near San Clemente Island, off thc southern California coast, failed to explode, thc immense im-mense animal proceeded to give the whaling crew one of the most strenuous battles in their entire experience. ex-perience. Before she finally succumbed to the second harpoon shot, the whale repeatedly came near wrecking the boat by the violent thrashing of his tremendously powerful tail. The task of raising the whole from the water after he had been towed to Long Beach presented a problem that was not solved until a 90-ton :rane had been found for the job |