The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-22
TALE OF A WHOPpING WHALE
INTEM ATE DETAILS or CAP'N
LOCKWOODs CATCH.
Also n Description Of the Marvellous Growth
Of the NIoBster After II was Made Ready
for visitors Sn tho strand at Giallee.
N.J.-Bright Prospects for the Cap'n.

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Stark in death upon the strands Of Galilee,
n. j.. all day yesterday lay the whale that
was besched there at two bells Saturday
evening by Cap'n Nels' Lockwood, Jr.,
and his trusty crew Of sight fishermen. The
summer girls with the appealing eyes and
peeling noses turned out for the wake from
every hotel and cottage from Seabright
down to Long Branch inc beyond. All the
summer girls said that the whale, with the
exception Of a slight skin scratch about
seven inches deep and eighteen or nineteen
feet long on the stuhb'd side, looked puff
fectly natcherl. Old Rube Wells, the oldest
clam digger on the Jersey coast, who wore
his feet bare and acted as master OF cere-
monies and chief mourner, said that the
wake was the grandest function the coast
has seen since Stuffy and the Friars Club
had their pilgrimage to BelmarI last month.
Before dawn yesterday Cap'n Nels' Lock-
wood was on the job beside his whale. be-
cause in his dreams during the night he had
had a hunch. An angel had come to the
Cap'n in his sleep, SO he said yesterday,
surrounded by a great cloud that was all
lit up. And the angel spake thus and so:
Call the whale Pansy, Csp'n, and print
% oikb VA NhishS Wy AM w 'ittl tidI
efec'. And at every nine cubits ZENITH
around the body Of the departed rig up
a saplin'. And break a great multitude
of old sails and petticoats and tides and
bed quilts, and rig 'em up on them thar
saplin's and 80 form a tent Of many colors
to shield that thar varmint from the many
that shall gether t'gether. And IL shall
come to pass that you will soak 'em twenty
hve cents per TO gaze on Pansy cold In
death. and take it from me them thar city
folks viii part with the coin.
n so saying there came a great ex-
plosion Of light and the angel faded away.
And Cap'n Nels' Lockwood says that he
up and seen 20 it that it come 20 pass that
them thar things was done, except that
he called the whale Charles.
The most marvellous thing about III is
whale, Charles, is the way it has grown since
II died. Cap'n Lockwood insists that, al
though he is no nature faker. he will permit
his timbers 10 be shivered il b whale
didn't measure more after he got the hunch
from the angel in his sleep than IL did before
he thought of the piebald tent and the
twenty-five cents per. The details of the
capture published in HI Sun yesterday
morning were necessarily meagre because
they were sent out right at a time when
the coast was delirious with the excitement
OF capture.
Cap'n Lockwood fret noticed the big
critter Shaping around haphazard of tho
COAST a lew Dunureu Ieet SOU SOU east Dy
souse some time during the afternoon,
Saturday. The Cap'n was just about to
go out to the fishing pound, accompanied
by a crew who yesterday gave their names
as follows: Yon Yonson. Charley Yonson,
lon Yonsen. Yon Nelson, Yon Anderson,
Cap'n Yon ~onson-not related to Yon
Yonson or Yon ~Yonsen-Yon Hanson and
Yon Yonson. Cap'n Nels' Lock wood
s~traightway got hold of a motor boat.
rather a fishing Diary equipped with a
kicker.
Three kicks and a half and the fearless
crew was right up against the bright brave
face Of danger, for when the whale was
reached instanter Cap'n Lockwood was
Mortified TO see that Pansy- Charles, on
second thought was still almost alive.
And the only weapons in the whole boat
were three jackknives, a boathook. a
pair Of corkscrews and about 400 feet Of
rope not a rod and line nor a landing net
in the outfit.
brave whale killer in desneration, and he
stood in the bow will one foot on the dash
board like Washington Crossing the Della
ware TO reassure Nelson, Anderson, Hanson
and the Yon lonsons.
They threw the hook with the AGO feet Of
line attached into the whale. Promptly
the whale threw a fit. Three fits were
chucked in one spot, and then away started
the whale in a heeline for Woppington-on-
Cuddlcstone. Worcestershire, Huppinton-
w SNSSeA, England. Nnen the Nnule
got its stride, says Cap'n Nels'. the spray
that was dashed in their faces grew hot
and hotter. due. no doubt, to the great
friction generated by the keel of the boat
cutting through the Atlantic Ocean 20
rapidly. Hotter and still hotter grew the
water until, 50 say two of the Yonson boys.
il began TO blister their hands and faces.
II the pace had kept up much longer, Ander-
son. Nelson. Hanson and the entire list of
i~onsons said they would have jumped
the yob.
But it doesn' I take a dead whale long to
lose ambition. In his own good time
Charles Stacked his pace and parished.
Now things began TO look brighter. although
some Of the fascination that accompanies
danger had disappeared owing TO the fact
that the whale was dead from bow 10 pro-
peller. So the brave crew began to make
their dory kick back ward tentatively a few
times. The dead whale showed no obvious
opposition 10 the back pedalling but jumped
landward obediently With each kick of the
boat.
The 400 feet Of line was played out all
the way, however. because discretion is the
better part Of valor And 80 when the
dory had made the strand the whale was
still out at sea. Amid cheers the whalers
jumped ashore and fastened the safe end
Of the line to old RUDE Wells's team Of
sorrels.
When the great gray mass was finally
beached broadside Cap'n Lock wood assured
ne ouIIitltI BlEls hnu tHc UOtilIlutcib tndJ
were beginning to arrive that practically
all danger was over now and that every
body could come as close as possible and
take a look. This was before the angel
handed out the bunch about tho tent.
Those that had seen the big vaTmint told
the commuters that reached the hotels and
cottages after dark. Every one who owned
an automobile and a camera was out early
Yesterday, therefore, to see the wonder
OF the deep.
Cap'n Lockwood. Sr.. measured the
whale with his own fair hands before sun
set Saturday night and found that it totalled
forty-five feet eight inches. not counting
the 900 feet Of line attached to IL. Yester-
day morning. oddly enough. the whale was
measured by the younger Cap'n Lockwood
just before he began the piebald tent and
il was found to be fifty feet eight inches
long. Not an hour after the tent show
was open for pushes moro precise sound
ings were taken and the whale measured
fifty-two feet eight inches. All day yesteI- !
day Charles grew and grew and grew.
The junior Cap'n Lockwood, who was
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