The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-15

the Palladium returned full, but there Is no record of the amount taken IL was certainly a great year Tor liie whaling industry and the record nlaae by the Braganza was a top notcher TOT Iawhile. The Cornelius HoWlahd' Jr,, and the Rodman, both New Bedroru whalers, made good voyages, but the Braganza held the record until Au- gust 23, 1887. when the William Harnll- ton, another New Bedford vessel, beat out Captain Wood with mark or 4'VV0 barrels.
 That same year the PheniX, Captain Allen, discharged at New London three thousand barrels of sperm all which brought seventy-six thousand dollars The Braganzas oil brought the handsome sum of one hundred thousand dollars, while the Hamilton's oil was sold for eleven thousand dol liars. Captain William Swain was the lucky man in command of the last named vessel.
 During the next decade a number of excellent voyages were made, but none which reached the mark of either the Braganza or the William Hamilton Tn 1850, however, when sperm oil sold at one dollar and twenty cents per gal lon, the Coral, Captain Seabury, re- turned with a catch of thirty-three hundred harrels, which was sold Tor one hundred and tWenty-six thousand dollars. The ship when she entered the port of New Bedford had every cask fillel
 VOYAGE OF THE GENERAL WILL LIAMS.
 During thin decade the General Will Hams, a New London whaler made great record. She returned from a twenty-eight months voyage to the South Atlantic on March 16 1873 with seventy-two hundred barrels of whale oil and seventy-six thousand pounds ot whalebonc. On her return home she encountered a heavy gale off Black Point, L. L, and Captain Bailey had to cut away nlasts to save ship and valu- able cargo. Five years later the At lantio of New London Captain Will liam Peck, returned from the north- west coast with fifty-fve hundred barrels of oil and 79,607 pounds of bone. | JAMES ARNOLD STILL WHALING. The James AArnold was also consid- cred lucky ship during the fifties, and she is still whaling for a South American firm On her maiden voyage at the beginning of that decade she took 2,55O barrels of sperm oil, and the first ten years of her existence pro- duced a record of S032 barrels, which Inetted the owners a very handsome sum, for at no time from 1850 to 1860, did the price of sperm oil fall below one dollar and twenty-one cents per gallon, while once during that decade | it touched one dollar and seventy eight cents.
 The most successful whaling ven ture ever carried out in the history of the industry was that of the late Will lliam O. Brownell of New Bedford, who in 1878 sent the Envoy to sea. She was purchased of Providence par ties the year previous and fitted for sea at an expense of twelve thousand dollars, and after disposing of fifty-tWo hundred barrels of whaleoll and seven- | ty-flve thousand pounds of whalebone on the Pacific coast, was sold to par ties in an Francisco, making but one cruise whaling and netting for MT. Brownell after sale about two hundred l thousand dollars
 Bowhead whaling about this time had come in for much attention, and early in the fifties several crackerjack vayages turned good money into the pockets of ship owners. The Favorite of Fairhaven in 1853 returned home with a cut valued at one hundred and sixteen thtousand dollars. Captain Eben Pierce, inventor of the Pierce bomb lance, commanded the ship at the time
 BIG CARGO ON ISAAC HICKS.
 Two years later the ship Isaac Hicks of New London, Captain Skinner re- turned home from a similar cruise and he discharged nearly four thousand barrels of whale oil and 64,S70 pounds of whalebone. The total catch of the 'Favorite was 6,695 barrels of oil an6 72900 pounds of whalebone, It was early in this decade that New London whalemen ventured to the Desolatior l Islands for sea elephants. New Lon. don was the leader in this branch o1 the industry, and one of the earlier lucky voyages was made by Captair Morgan in the ship Laurens. On ont voyage twelve months from home, he slowed down 4,196 bearels of sea elt phaphant oil.
 SCHOONER MORRIS UNLUCKY.
 The ship Commodore Morris, a Fal, mouth vessel, was always unlucky un. til she sailed for Swift & Perry of New Bedford, and then she proved to be ont of the luckiest of the sperm whaling fleet cruising in the Atlantic. Cap
 tains Howland Borden and George F Winslow, who is now member of tn, New Bedford police. In 1873 returned tC port with 2,930 barrels of sperm oi which sold for one hundred and forty thousand dollars. Another good At llantic ocean voyage was that of tn, Sea Ranger. Less than fourteer months after sailing she was back a her berth in New Bedford with ar eighty thousand dollar voyage Thi' was the year following Captain Wins lows successful cruise both vessels re turning at a time when oil sold at { good figure.
 SUCCESS OF THE PIONEER.
 There are also several great voyage Icredited to the ships which cruised il
 the Hudson Bay during the 50, and tn Pioneer of New London was yer, 1 s.t sE1tl r.c.cscl 1 a-