The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-11-07
BIGGEST OF WHALES.
Captured by Crew of Steamer jeanette
Bone $3.50 Pounds.

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Bone $3.50 Pounds.
The whaling steamer Jeanette, Cap
tain Newth, which reached New London
November from the Arctic ocean, went
farther east than any American shlE
has ever gone, and having made the
biggest catch of the season, says the
San Francisco Chronicle of October 20.
| Forty-five whalers came back in the
jeanette, and their combined catch was
eighteen whales. aggregating $4,000
| pounds of bone. Captain Newth secur-
ed 1000 pounds more by trading, Be
sides the wha1ebone the jeanette
brought 300 fox skins and six bear skins.
The entire cargo, valued at more than
100000, was consigned to Roth, Blum &
Co The whalebone will be shipped at
once to New Bedford. The jeanette left
San Francisco last March and had re-
markedly successful trip. When the
Alaskan coast was rounded the course
| was found to be clear of ice and the
| jeanette proceeded to Crozier Channel.
There in latitude II degrees 80 minutes
north, longitude 100 west, six whales
were caught. Captain Newth reports
that north of Banks Land were thou
sands of musk oxen.
No other American vessel has ever
made Crozer Channel but fifty years
ago, Captain Newth says, three English
vessels wintered at Mercy Bay, Banks
Land. The channel closed up, however,
and the Englishmen were forced to
abandon their vessels. 1t is d very ey
ceptional year when the channels are
free from ice foes as Captain Newth
found them; and he says that If he had
had two years provisions with him he
could have made the trip through the
Northwest passage to Baffln's Bay.
Captain Newth says that Melville sound
would prove the richest field for whales
if the current We're not so strong As
it is vessels of light power cannot stand
the strain. Whales follow the feed
wherever the current carries it, and the
Jeanette crew saw hundreds of them
feeding in Melville sound.
]. j. Thatcher, first mate, caught an
exceptionally large whale. The bone
weighed $3.50 pounds and the whales
head measured twenty-nine feet. This
catch was made forty-fve miles south
east of Herald Island. Captain Newth
believes it is the largest whale ever
caught Large whales are GLOW in their
movements and are not difficult to con-
quer 1t is the small whales that give
the trouble. 1t required but two bombs
to kill the large whale, while it took
fourteen bombs to kill small whale
that weighed but twelve hundred and
fifty pounds
The Jeanette had great luck While
making the largest catch Of the year,
she did not lose whale nor so much as
a fathom Of line, nor did the vessel or
crew meet with the slightest accident
Captain Newth has had seventeen years
Of experience In the Arctic regions,
Captain Newth put In at Cape Nome
on his wa" down and found that coed
fortune awaited him. He had once add
vanced 500 to save AMMAN from Jail and
that man came aboard the jeanette at
Cape Nome He had struck 1t rich and
had located two claims that he valued
at $4,000. He remembered who had
helped him In his need and he made over
to Captain Newth d deed for half the |
claims. The Jeanette made the trip
from Fox Island In fifteen days