Show olah e whale MW 0 a 4 ka charles V M IP ap preserve 30 s I 1 RC ACAO q 19 MW M L t Z 4 zi 1 V i I 1 by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN I 1 AST of the chalers whalers of the old time almo square rigged L that hint balled tile seven bette for whale oil whalebone up spermaceti and to la tho the charles IV morgan of now new bedford eighty four years old ashes in fit tier hoino port to stay but slips no dismantled bulk with which tile elements ole menta will have their way ashes eplek and span with fresh paint and u now butt of canvas ind and title die bics in a concrete cradle on tho the waterfront of tile estate of col IS 10 it II it II green at round hound henceforth hor mission Is that of object losson of one of tit alio count rya rys greatest industries of which she saw the rise decline and fall now bedford sent out tier her first whaler in 1755 for fop ninny years she bho was tho the great winding whaling port of the world now the morgan to la na as much it a curiosity to most of tier her people as aa to tho the landsman visitor from tho the middle west who thinks of a whale na as the big biff fish that swallowed jonah heros heres how col adward howland robinson green comes to bo be interested in III tile tho old whaler she was nau for charles W morgan her fiant owner her second owner was W edward ward mott blott robinson father of ifil onel greens mother tho the famous cletty green capt george fred tilton to Is tile tho crowning touch lies n veteran new bedford whaling skipper who looks the part and when lie spins spills whaling yarns why the old ola days seem to live again visitors well rather tho the old whaler has been alive with visitors tall all summer from all parts of tile country most blest of them frankly admit c complete oni ignorance on the subjects of whales and whaling and listen round eyed but lots lota of them have rend moby dick or the cruise of the cachalot or stray leaves from a whalers chalers Wh alers log or all three so they take on airs the morgans the real thing all right old ns as she bhe Is she was built to last jethro and Za charlah gilill man of new bedford built tier her of live oa oak k with copper fastenings and sheathing she lias has cruised over every whaling ground from the arctic to the antarctic for twenty years yeara or so she ehe sailed out of san francisco until the steam whalers chalers put her out of business these steam whalers chalers use modern methods and theres no adventure or romance in the business auy any more its lust just slaughter heres about the way a whale was captured and handled on tile the morgan in the old days when the lookout at the masthead halls balls the deck with there she blows I 1 the whale boata are lowered there are five or six bonts boats each requiring at least six men the boats race for the whale the first boat runs almost up agal against rist the lidge huge bulk the harpooner liar in tile lie boy bow hurls the barbed weapon the rowers back the boat frantically the whale plunges down sometimes to a depth of fathoms tho the line smokes out ont of the tubs finally the whale comes up to breathe usually in twenty minutes or so other boats fix harpoons again the alie whale goes down an and so on finally the whale Is killed by lances the boats boata then tow the carcass to tile the still where it la 19 ninde made fast to the chaltis chains so PO that it will riot not sink unless there are other whales inhales in sight the men then cut up the outer layer with blubber spades great cubical chunks are holsted hoisted to the deck to be tried out in huge kettles strained and stored to in casks but sometime it happen just exactly this way suppose the line gets around it a man inan the end of him suppose the whale takes out all 1111 tile the line tile axman cuts an and the last of it a thousand feet of line suppose in the dying flurries lur ries the great tall tail 25 feet by 7 hits a bont boat the end of that boat and maybe several of her crew suppose a toothed whale bites afie lie boat into splinters one boat less suppose a big sperm whale gets mod mad and rams rains the whaler itself that eliat 3 X V 4 q 4 k ilo 1 p aw gj 44 ma 21 A A W V av 4 Z av SO allm hwn wt avd matt may bo be the end of oc tile alio whaler now till all of cheso things used to happen in the old days once a whale smashed ft a boat nud and the crew floated ill all night on the car carcass cliss th oliata tits it 11 whaling classic in J ia T IS rowna book stray leaves froni from a n Whal erH log Is told in detail tiow how vera tile portuguese bout boat uttered it cry and the immense glistening lower jaw armed with two tivo rowa or of polished teeth flushed flashed front from the water when the gigantic whale leaped into the air carrying with it the head bend of the boat which lind snapped asunder and the unfortunate vern whose hend and long arms were suspended BUB from the corners of tile the monsters mouth month two other men inen tho the bow and oarsmen oarsman oars men were never aeeti seen again the essex of nantucket in 1810 met this fate the captain imd and first mato mate being fast to a big sperm whale owen chase second mate headed the ship toward them the whale came to tile surface and fiercely rammed the ship bow on stopping her as it if she had struck a rock it passed under the ship scraping her keel and coming up astern after snapping its jaws and thrashing the water witti with its tall the monster rammed the second time with its head halt half out of water it struck the ship directly under the and completely stove in her bows it then went under the ship and disappeared to leeward the essex sank after ninety days daya of horrifying experiences in two boats tho the crew were picked up the matos boat by the brig india of london and the captains by tile the whaler dauphin theres no chance for anything like this in modern steam whaling the high speed boat can run rings around the fastest whale A big gun in the bow shoots a barbed harpoon carrying a bomb timed for three seconds the explosion inside the whale whal 0 kills hills instantly st the carcass 1 Is then pumped full of air ultimately the steamer tows its captures to its shore station where the oil Is extracted and the meat canned by modern machinery and theres lee ice in 1871 a fleet of forty two whalers chalers wits was caught in the arctic and only one escaped more than 1 men were shipwrecked but escaped in III boats and aad new Bed fords loss was more than a million doll dollars urs st peter so goes the old story peeked out through the pearly gates gatea and asked I 1 who knocks so loudly john smith the famous fisherman was the ho answer well I 1 cant keep you out for that but go easy on your fish stories hut but john smith told lem cm morning noon and night to admiring throngs but always there was a man on oil the edge of the circle who sneered and walked away it got on john thil nepes aind lio lie asked st beter ehos that lint uppity chap alio tries to queer my best fish oti oil shtil almis 4 jonah said st peter which ralsey the alio question lon una this jonith any right to till take on airs in iii other words worda did the whale swallow jonah not wishing visiting to bo be caught between the upper wid mid nether millstones of the lie fundamentalists and modernists clila deponent further mayeth not but ito to whether tile whale could have hava swallowed johnh why bless blesa you stint nil all depends upon the lie kind of whale it ivits ans it if jonnia whale was like tho the one shown in the old print reproduced why one gulp could lieve dona it for this la Is n toothed whale cacha lot sperm porm whale spermaceti whalem wl wh inlo alej its ital length often runs runa to sixty feet ita head forms about ono half its bulk and extends more than one third of its length its mouth to la very larro largo and wide aldo andeits and Us throat threat la Is largo enough to pass a roan man with ease incidentally theres a new book out our naval heritage by llou lieu tenant commander fitzhugh oreen green U S N F A G S M be the jacket says buys its onic offic lally lully approved re read ad and checked by tho the historical section of tho the navy dep department artmont ani and in the very first chapter wo find fand thim moreover 1 it t Is in really surprising how many of tha il I 1 early rea flea tales were founded found e d 0 on n facts that defied deded 1 alon ta take ke the whale and jonah yarn our own literary digest urn has anid printed a 0 true story of a whaler launching launch lm two whale boats of a full equipment of men in an attempt to capture a gig gigantino antio sper bienn m whale in the battle with the niona monster ter the whala capsized one of the boats boate all of the th men man wore saved except twi tw V who V ho supposed t to 0 havo been dr drowned w n ed th the whale was waa subsequently killed two days later it was waa out up and to their vast astonishment tho the men found ono one of their shipmates whom they thay had thought dead lynnr unconscious in the belly of the w ehnle h a the mans name was john dartley Gart loy and he finally recovered on the other hand it if jonah met up witla with a toothless whale why there was nothing doing except by way of 0 miracle the toothless whale may be just as big as a toothed whale and have just as aa largo inigo n mouth but tant mouth Is chock full of whalebone through which to IB strained the food Ijes ides tho the gullet la Is absurdly small for so BO hugo huge a creature those who think of a whale OB ab a big fish should think agala again its if big enough the only bigger living thing Is the big tree of california but the whale la Is its as much nn an ati linal as a horse or a sheep it has lungs breathes air gives birth to its young and suckles it moreover the mothers mother whale displays great affection for her 12 oot offspring |