| Show OLDEST WHALER DIES Ova Grant lit MoM Jot Iu Successful of or I I. I Hie Ii Clas- Clas Expire Poor POOl Mas March mch 20 Cap 29 Captain Cap tain nm Charles Orant the old oldest whaling master In thIt lit lit- Stales l lili most successful the world hat ever 1 known n tiled died at his huis home homo on Orang Orange street at ai the ar age of or 92 02 years He suffered suE suf a paralytic shock an and remained In a semiconscious condition up to 10 atess' atess a afew few tess' hours before his death nth Captain Grant was the most re remarkable remarkable re- re on d but although he math made several E large fortunes fortunes for for- tunes lunts in iii his hs lifetime h he died ul a pOOl poor man lIe He wn was VELS horn born In l June 14 H I ISH went to sea sen when 11 ii years YE-al's old and spent a u total of oC fiftysix fiftysix fifty fifty- six years of ot his life lite on omi whal Every 1 voyage was waa successful S Cu I anti and U nil when h Iw took command of th the Walter lter Scott cott In 18 1 1841 at ni tho the ae of oC 30 years H he lie hunt had helped d tl to bring Into port nearly near hoar I ly barrels bunes of sperm oil j FirM t J CIC No Nets Is s XI n. n II Ills is first ll voyage as ag master netted netteI I Ithe the hue owner owners over and ami some I of itt If his hiso o voyages ag M netted as Us high a as as' He lie wa was considered i tho the luckiest le t I man that hunt ever e trod troll the hue deck of tf a ship find nd consequently co commanded an on unusually un un- un- un usually l large rge lay hay Each voyage as nR captain netted 1 him hima a u snug mug fortune but l through his extreme ex ex- ex oJ benevolence lIce anti and poor pOOl Investments Invest est ments his lis Wealth went to his rl l. and although his last nn voyage e In 1877 cleared him nearly he nw it I l poor pOOl mOil man a 0 few ew years later anti and when he hue died didn't own the hou house he lie JI fd In iii HP Iii novel never 1 u nl el to tt lend a aman aman man luau a n dollar or yet t never WI wasted ii hl fortunes t every elT cent being devoted 1 to fome some worthy v e. e Custodian ii of Old Oh In 11 After h b being famous the tile world over O as ns a n Captain ant Gm-ant was vas U tho the position of custodian o ot t landmark th the old w windmill when ll It I fell f fInlo lute Into the thu tl o possession posses cs- cs Ion sion of if the lie historical SOC lt society about aboul a a doxen years s Cal ago age nul in lii 11 that capac capacity hit he- hl CUBI 01 popular 5 a among the thus tu t-tu summer Humm sum Hum flu mer m I tourists u. Last Lan September Ph be I hu Il hf t n his hubu resignation r owing to In gral gradually ual I falling a I I I boa health It h and auth luJ devoted oll h huh his whole time tIie to tn making ships ships' hammocks ham mocks completing ng iu hl his Is last lat one IW t 1 two days he before fol being stricken n with wih hl hN his fatal Illness Captain Coptain O rants rant's life Ifo story I Is unequaled unequaled un- un n equaled In Iii the thue annals of or the thi whale fishery On nearly nil all 11 of or his hiR voyages as ns nH f master I ho wa was accompanied by i hul hl hK wl wife who died two years cars n ago o anti and allcut all of nr hl his hl children iu were horn born at son sea J Ills His Ils ni daughter Mr s. Mu-s. s George Pierce of itt New Bedford was wn born In n ull Zealand and hl his only olly living hivIng son jon George Geurge Grant a member If If the thi ha tt lifesaving life life- n M saving Raving crew e born at lit Sa lant lands hands cl was S S lt 1 I Is Islands Is- Is |
