The evening world., 1893-12-28
GOTTHEWHALE,SURE.
Seen Off Southampton, Chased in
Boats, Lanced and Taken Fin Up
NOW LET LONG ISLAND BRAG AND
CAPE COD WAIT ITS TURN.
The SPORT OF OLDEN DAYS HAD AGAIN
Especial to The WORLDLY


SOUTHAMPTON, L. l.. Dec r.
Standing or the dunes, near St. Andrews
Episcopal Church. about s A. NJ to-day
stood men swinging their coats. This
meant that a whale had been sighted
off shore. Soon fish horns were blown in
the village and mad race for the beach
was begun by whalemen and sightseers.
The whale was at the sea puss. an eddy
about two miles east.
Men rushed to the whale boats and car
ried them to the surf. These boats are
twenty-eight feet long and pull five oars,
the crew consisting of captain, boat
stcerer. leading oarsman, tub oarsman,
midship oarsman and bow oarsman
Capt. Hubert White. an old sperm
whaieman, and Charles Bennett. as boat
steerer. went in one boat, and Capt.
Jetur Rogers an Old Arctic whaleman,
whose father, Capt. Albert Rogers. was
killed off the coast years ago. and Capt.
| Selden Halsey, as boatsteerer. went in
the other boat.
After launching. they were rapidly
pulled in the direction of the whale,
Capt. Rogers's boat being ahead. After
going about two miles the whale was
sighted feeding, going down for fifteen
minutes. then rising to the surface and
showing his back and spouting several
times.
| The boats worked around for an oppor-
tunity to pull up and harpoon him. keep
| Ing out of his wake and not crossing 1t
for some Long Island whalemen claim
that this will frighten him away.
Finally he came up close to Capt.
Rogers's boat
| Pull ahead! he cried
| Capt. Halsey was UP in the bow, har.
poon in hand. The boat forged ahead
propelled by the hardy crew. The whale
came up fifteen feet to the left of the
bow. but his back was still about two
feet under water. Dart" cried the
captain.
Halsey threw the harpoon plump In
to the whale, and they were fast. The
harpoon is attached to line five-eighths
or 'hrd an inch In diameter; which leads
oars to the togglehead. a post in tn,
stern, and then to large tub in tn,
bottom OF the boat. where 1t is nicely
The whale, feeling the harpoon sank
away as a man would II prlcked in the
back. then dived under and started at
fb%o-minpte b%6t mi,h gait out to sea, pulling th'
The monsters tail was continually lash
Ing the water, being lifted and swunf
twenty feet high, then falling down witt
a splash beating the water to foam. The
spray nying over the men in the boat
doused them, but they cared not for this
Lhen he would stop. stand on his head
throwing his tail from side TO side. ant
bringing II down with terrible power
The boat was kept good distance OF
since one blow would send all to DavS
Joness locker
AGer about two hours OF hard fighting
somttimes rushing ahead. then around II
a circle, he quieted down somewhat I
Then Capt White. pulled up on the line
ana cautiously stole upon him and threw
the lance into his vitals. This was a
death stroke. for the whale soon began L
spout blood.
The whalcmen backed of, waiting 70,
that furry which always ends n whales
HE. II soon came, but instead of swing
Ing around In circle as they usually do
ne started out to sea, rolling in his dealt
agonies, 1t was soon over. and he lay
motOniess. The men then cut a hole iT
his mouth. and, fastening the tow line
they strung out for their long pull of foul
miles to the shore.
the west, so they could not tow the
whale TO Southampton and had to land
him at Bridgehampton. There he now
lies. wallowing In the surf
The whale is forty-fve feet long, Will
make twenty or thirty barrels OF oil and
The monster will be cut up In a day or
two. and the blubber tried out.
Amagansett whalemen have been chas.
ing THIS or another whale for two DAYS
and southampton is mighty glad 10 have
seen ana caught the spouter,
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