The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-02
DEUTSCHLAND STARTS ON DASH TO ATLANTIC WILLIE |WARSHIPS OF ALLIES WAIT
WHALE STRANDED IN JAMAICA BAY, KILLED ON SHORE.
Mammal Makes Hard Fight Against Firearms, Hooks
 and Axes of CaptOrs.

New York. Aug. 2-whaling as an afternoon sport was introduced to summer residents on Jamaica Bay yesterday afternoon. when a COW whale 65 feet long. venturing from deep water, was stranded at ebb tide in Rockaway Inlet. the shallow con- meeting link between the bay and the ocean.
 Boat loads of mariners, in flannel trousers and sport shirts, armed with rifles, axes, boat hooks and clubs as- sailed the monster threshing in the muddy shadows, and for two hours they conducted a grand offensive be- fore the whale succumbed to the mod ern weapons of warfare and consented to be killed.
 Before the death, however, the whale was gouged, bitten, hewn and boats and upsetting them. When the carnage was ended the whale re- semb1ed the landscape at Verdun as far as it's natural conformation was concerned, and a group of whale war riors held wake over the mangled form while they debated just who was entitled to the whale oil and the rest of a whale which means money when the whale is dead.
 John Roxbury, who owns hotel at Rockaway Point. and John H. Farrell, who is stopping there, first saw the whale. She fioated up the shallow wa ters of Rockaway Inlet at ebb tide. and Roxbury declared that at last the long looked for German submarine Bremen had arrived. He quickly cast off the ropes which held his launch to the wharf and, with Farrell. started out to greet the incoming submersible. The tide kept going away from there into the ocean, and when the men finally reached the drifting object they rubbed their eyes in surprise as they beheld the mammal.
 Deeper into the shadows widowed the whale until, as the tide ebbed, the enormous bulk lay half out of the wa ter, scouting geysers of mud and wa ter. A throng collected and in it was a man who had .22 calibre rifle and a box of cartridges.
 With two others he went almost up
 
 action. The bullets tickled the whale so that she indulged in grotesque puff fings and chucklings, wriggling her fappers and sending half dozen men in a boat into the water. '
 But the assailants were not dismay- ed. Hundreds in boats circled warily around with. boat hooks, axes and clubs and got in a blow here ana there. They hacked at the whales head and chopped at her long bulk. Each blow seemed to give the whale renewed energy. Some one suggested dynamite and another wanted to call a police boat to train three-inch gun on the whale.
 While flank attacks continued Wal ter Bossard, who is the acknowledged whale expert of Jamaica Bay, arrived. He watched the proceedings with a judicial eye, but by that time the whale was so damaged that MT. Bos- sard could not recognize the family likeness.
 2 Last night the mutilated. whale lay in the shadows securely tied so that she could not be washed to sea, and nearby John Roxbury watched, for he says he saw the whale first and if there is yield of ton of sperm or so he wants it-also the bones and whatever else whale yields.
 Where the whale came from, how she got up into shallow Rockaway In- let, why she wandered clear down here. not even Walter Bossard with ais expert whale knowledge, could say. A hundred and fifty or two years ago the whaling industry was good off Sag Harbor and Montauk Point and 1t was responsible largely for the settlement of these places, but in recent years the whales have retired farther and farther north.