New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-03-22
has been assured that the bill providing for the sale
of the property would probably be passed.


Of OF the property would probably be passed.
ARRIVAL OF AN ENORMOUS WHALE.
The enormous whale captured off the shore OF
Long Island last week was brought to this city
yesterday morning and left in the water In the dock
at the foot of Stanton-st TRIBUNE reporter
visited the place yesterday afternoon and from
Gilbert II. Payne the propricOrof the whale. winch
Is female. learned how II was captured.
This whale" said Mr. P%yns With Ho sort OF
AIR. last s1ed she had been
all winter, having been seen several times. we've
been ont after her for seven weeks in the steamboat
Fanny Sprague, of Sag Harbor We first saw her
about O'clock in the morning. We pIt out our
boats and hastened TO the place where she was. ana
at $50 o'clock had struck her. There , were
old whalemcn. When the harpoons struck the
whale she started off at a rapid rate, towing the
boats two and half miles OF course we had
tunately no one of the crew was injured. Al
o'clock that evening we took her In tow. She had
sunk with us in the fore part of the day, ana we
never got her up till shutdown. Then we towcd her
around Montauk Point into a place called Cedar
Island, where the fish opened and the enralls
taken out When the weather had moderated we
have her embalmed. That required two days.
How was the whale embalmed 7" inquired the
reporter.
having taken the entTais out we filed her mp with
cork chips, of which we put iii ninety barrels, ana
then twenty barrels of an cmbalmlng preparation
to this city, arriving here this morning, having
towcd the whale all that distance. 1t was no easy
task" ~
What are the dimensions of the whale"
Her length is seventy-tve feet. The grin
measurement is fifty-fve feet She is estimated by
old winters to make 100 barrels of oil The blubber
on the back is twenty three inches thick, and there
are 600 pounds of bone IN her. She Is one OF the
kind known as right whales twenty-five par
rels of fat have already been taken out. Hereto
fore whales heart has been thought to be small,
but this ones heart weighs nearly two tons. The
tongue will make ten barrels of oil. The length of
the whalcbonc is seven feet.' -
What are you going to do with hcrp
tons on THURSDAY On Friday she WI t probably sp y
vacant at that time"
IXTY-NINE MILES OF DEAD GOLDFISH.
At the office of State Fish Commissioner, L. G.
Blackford ii was reported yesterday by Captain
Lawrence of the bark Plymouth, from Windsor,
Nova Scotia, that he had seen a great quantity OF
dead Goldfish in the waters OFF the Georges BANKS.
A TRIBUNE reporter called on Captain Lawrence to
learn the facts The story told by him was as
follows - week ago last Saturday we were
sailing off the Georges Banks. About daylight on
Sunday morning the mate came down into the
cabin and said that the bark was passing through
a lot of dead Goldfish, and wanted to know II he
should get some of them went out on deck ana ma
ihese Rd2A Their es Mere red and upon
scooping up some of them found that they were
hard showing that they had not been dead very
long From q o'clock in the morning until o'clock
in the evening were passing through this school
of goldfish and were sailing at the rate OF SIX
knots an hour we went through sixty-ninc miles
of them"
"Did you eat them ?" inquired the reporter.
ono" said Captain Lawrence; mot slxty-nlnc
miles of 'cm We ate a few"
And this is not a fish story 2"
Hardly. Three other vessels report the same
facts"
'Sixty-nne miles of dead fish some-fsh."
suggested the increduloqs reporter.
You're right said the captain, " and that's the
point of the story. They weren't all cod there was
q kind of fish looking like sea-basi, and also. lot
of red snappcrs. We also found some broken ships
How do You account for this ~ the reporter
asked of Captain Mortimer, OF the Black Ball Packet
Line who was standing i'll Mr. BlackfOrds office.
well" said Captain Mortimer, :" | don't know
that | can. If they had died of disease they would
have drlfted OFF 10 the southwark, for
the current known the polar current is
now running very strong It's not unlikely
that the icebergs grounded off the Banks may have
made the water so cold that they couldn't stand It,
But cold water doesn't affect goldfish, does 1t, Mr..
Blacllford /"
mo" said the Fish Commissioner; "cold water
wouldn't affect them unless they were salt. don't
know what il was. I'm going to acquaint Professor
Baird with the facts. It's matter OF interest to
the Commissioners"
when first reported the facts here in the city,
soid Captain renee. 81 said there were fifteen
miles OF them. ! thought everybody would think
II - fish story if | said sXty-nine miles