The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-01-20
Harlem Has New Sensation.

a whale came 10 to"h yes'ei a"'' -,
Wnloughly. gripman on the nas -
49, road was the only man who had a
GOOD look at 1t. but he saw IL Win tne
eves M a New-Bedford sailor and saw IL
co well that various other persons more
tban half believed they saw it, too.
w,Iouphbv brought his car 10 stand
still al the end Of the line. in one huhureo
and Twenty-ninth street, near the r'as ,
river. at 657 o'clock in the morning. ouu
denly he left the platform ana uasn, -
toward the river His conductor, ~ n.
Hamlin. Edward Myash, monitor az .ns
station. and Starter George farr start
after him in ama-ement- fresen''N III
annarent great excitement. he shouted.
,I,r,ng me a harpoon; hurry W, boys,
What is it?" Nylash called back
Here is a whale" Willoughby returned.
"Rring me something quick!
rho conductor, starter, and monitor
nnrried down TO the river. They saw a
curl i'm the water as II steamer had been
There goes It's tail" said Willoughby.
as his companions joined him. 1t has
gone down. Watch close, you'll see it
rise"
Hamlin, Mylssh, and Farr strained their
gaze over the stretch of water while
sixty feet long, he said. and had a head
ten feet broad. He knew it was whale.
for he had seen hundreds of them. When
he saw it IL was moving down the river
taking I'm the sights, at about six miles
an hour. Willoughby clutched the arms
of his friends at every ripple OF the water
trying to make them see portions or the
monster through his experienced eyes.
The visitor would not come to the surface
again. however.
News OF the whales presence spread
rapidly through that part Of Harlem. win
every return of Milloughbys car TO the
starting point he was obliged 10 tell what
he had seen. Hamin. Mylash, and Farr,
not TO be Outdone by a mere gripman, also
had stories to tell.
These four men held the field alone until
along toward noon, when oliver Sykes a
well-known Harlem yarn spinner, came
along.
There was no mistake about that
whale" he said, because saw It. too"
The carmen seemed pleased to ind
| witness to the visit
But you fellows haven't ted IL all"
| continued Sykes. About a quarter 10
l was standing In One Hundred and Twen-
ty-hfth street. when something jumped
out of the cable slot as far of rs ! could
see. II looked ABOUT twenty leel lois
thought the cable had broken loose. when
all OF a sudden another thing jumped
out in front Of Il. The first thing was
going so fast that IL just seemed 10 swal-
low the other. Then / saw that the thing
was alive. with fiery eyes and iangs IN
its big red mouth. Then third one
sprang out. and fourth and a fifth, but
the one furthest from me, getting larger
and moving sWitter as IL approached,
opened its wide mouth and swallowed
every new serpent as fast as it over
hauled II. There must have been dozen
snakes rolled into one. when / turned and
ran for the river. The thing was as big
round as a barrel as it came Kissing after
me. Just as 1 got 70 the river there was
the whale. / stopped ana the snake
plunged In. Whether il struck the whales
back or went into its mouth or tried 10
swallow the whale, | couldn't make out,
but the two went down together and didn't
rise again. l reckon nobody viii ever
know what happened 10 them, unless we
dredge the river. Funny, wasn't il. that
two such animals came 10 Harlem the
same day
Willoushby and his friends declared
that they knew nothing OF Sykes's SER
pent. II was hard work after that. indeed.
10 get them to admit that they had seen
a whale.-New York Times.