Show WAR WHEN THE WHALE COMES so think the superstitious ones who watch over the dela ware bay chester pa superstitious people of this city believe that the whale which was recently seen in laware delaware Da btty bay la Is a precursor pre curser of war they refer to past omens ot of a similar charac ter reciting that tho the whale came up the delaware river in was vas a precursor pre curser of the war of 1812 and that in 1860 one year before the outbreak of the civil war a whale came camb up these waters to philadelphia this latter whale edward culen a veteran fisherman of this city avers he be saw ile ho says it was just this way it was during the summer of horace florace davis and I 1 were but ln ino a boat fishing it was a little dark and we had a lantern I 1 was waa drawing in tho the net and was waa banking it all of a sudden davis said ned theres vessel upside down out there I 1 looked and saw a thing that had the appearance of the hull of a craft upset see how swift the tide speeds by it said dvis wed got pretty close to it then and I 1 lifted the lantern to take a good look just then there was a terrible splash and the water went clear up into the air out of that thing just as though a powder magazine had bad ousted busted 1 I drood tho the lantern and davis and I 1 grabbed the oars and we stop until we got ashore there any steamboat on the th river that could have beaten us that trip when that whale was caught up tip near kensington she had bad fis hermens nets around her to stock two or three ship stores she had dragged them off the bottom of the delaware as she crawled up toward philadelphia adelphia |