Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-05-11
B0ST0N'S WHALE.
An Extraordinary Sea Monster lowed
Into the Harbor of the Hub.


+. Into the Harbor of the Hub.
,f Boston Herald.
It There was an unusual excitemen
l. in East Boston, the other day, owe
J, the rumOr that the great Atlantic sea
o serpent had not only made his custO
mary appearance for the season, bu
that he had been cruelty slain, an,
that his remains were coiled up il
n Green's mammoth dry-dOck on Borde
S street. The rumor gave his dimensions
anywhere from fifty to five hundred
e feet in length, and, before the busines;
of the day had fairly commenced, the
approaches to the dock were crowded
with an anxious cOncourse of investi.
J eating humanity, As the day wore on
the crowd became SO great that a de-
tail of police was sent for to keep 1t in
check, and, later on. the approaches to
the wharf were closed up altogether
Among the crushing multitude were
several anxious proprietOrs of seaside
: hotels and Other resorts along the
coast, who breathed a sigh of relief
when they found that their pet adyer-
tising agent was still at large, and that
the extraordinary curiosity which had
been hauled into Green's dock was
nothing but monster whale. While
the melancholy of the summer hotel
men was dispelled, but the curiosity
of the crowds was not in the least
weakened. The leyiathan of the deep
is probably one of the finest and most
perfect, as it is unquestonably the
largest of the whale species ever
brought intact into an American port.
1t was found in charge of Capt. Hoe,
IN old practical whale fisherman, and
author Of an interesting book of these
peculiar kings Of the ocean. In the
course of conversation he said that he
had been upward of year engaged in
getting a satisfactory specimen for a
company of Boston gentlemen who had
employed him for thA purpose. During
this period he has captured nearly one
hundred of one kind or another, but
always, when he had succeeded in
getting one that was satisfactory, it
was deyOured by sharks or dognsh
before he could get il into port. The
present "bird," as the captain was
pleased to denOminate il, he described
in most enthusiastic terms as the
finest and largest of any that he had
ever come across Even in death the
monster seemed frightrul and danger
Gus as he lay extended on the bottom
of the dock. The skin is of yellow.
ish or dark blue, lighter on the lower
part of the body than elsewhere, and
at short distance had the appearance
of huge corrugated piece Of pottery.
The whale was killed, said Capt, Hoe,
off ProvincetOwn, and the capture of
the monster was a very exciting and
hazardous piece of work. Fe was
shot with a "bomb lance" ard, though
evidently struck in Il vital part at the (
first shot, yet he managed to lash and {
roam the briny deep in most violent
manner for several minutes before he {
gave up the ghost. He was rot per
mitted to sink, as is usual when these
monsters are shot, but WAS Immediately
hooked on TO and towed into Province
town harbor Word of the capture
was Immediately telegraphed by Capt.
Hoe to his employers in this city, and \
The steam tugbOat William Woolley,
which was dispatched to Province. ,
town, returned with its valuable !.
charge in tow. The total expense of $
he captains twelve months fishing
excursion has been ahOut $1,000, but .
he considers this moderate when 5
measured with the triumph lie Il
las finally achieved. He would not I
rade the "bird," lie says, for :,
whole herd of Barnum's Jumbos. The a
luge mammal measures sixty two feet
n length, and its estimated weight is
tons. Whalers, in estimat. n
ng the weight of these monsters, allow
/ ton and quarter to the linear foot II
lis Titanic head, with the curious a.
,rowth of wbalebone, and the huge q,
all, reminding one of the screws of a a,
Junard steamer, are the most striking =
eatures of the great fish. His jaws nj
lave spread of twenty-five feet, and, a
his throat passage were proportion
tely large he could have swallowed a o,
'ullman sleeping.car, passengers, col.
red porter and all, with very little h
lifliculty. He measures eighteen feet ID
!cross the Aukes, and has a girth of
ifty-eight feet. He belongs to the O.
'reat northern rOrqual species, which Q
5 s i'd to be the largest of the whale II
ribe. Those who saw him were pro- II
use in exclamatiOns of wonder and 4
dmiration. Most of the whales of
his large and particular species found n
n the Atlantic waters are insignificant s
II size, so Capt. Hoe says, and this v,
pecimen furthermore differs from most n
thers in being a bull He had evi-
emily strayed from his course by being "
ttracted by the small fish which q,
bounds along the eastern coast at this n
eason Of the year. The work of en- Il
aiming the monster will be completed h
uring the present week. What use is a
0 be made of the specimen afterward. h
owever, Capt. Hoe declines TO reveal, n