The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-11
2 WHALES CAUGHT
OFF AMAGANSETT
SO, 900 Leviathans Bombed to
Death by Four Doughty
Fishermen.
CROWDS WATCH BATTLE
Final Fight Takes Place IL
Miles Out After Five
Hours Struggle.
CROWDS WATCH BATTLE

Two OF the zippiest submarines that
ever went torpedoing along the Long
Island coast are on exhibition this
morning on the sparkling saIds OF
Amagan.ett's beach, whittier willing
Long Island hands hauled them after a
wild time In the tumbling waters OF a
heavy running sea yesterday afternoon.
East Hampton had just left its eel
lective luncheon table and the cracker
barrel strategists were turning the Ger
man left. right and middle tanks for the
ten miluontn time. when a sweet little
thing in more or less OF bathing suit
turned her back seward and dashed
wildly up the sands with the announce
ment that periscopes were showing just
the slightest bit of shore.
Now, East Hampton numbers amons
its population several Of those venture
some folk. who still cling to the title
captain" and they gathered on the
beachfront almost at the moment re-
storatives were being applied risor-
ously, to the submarines discoverer.
ones n bull ana the other COW y
vouchsafed Capt. Herber: Edwards. as
he, his brother. VI. J. Edwards. and Felix
Dominy put out through the surf stimuli
taneously in boats equipped with bombs
spears and tackle sufficient to truss up
the most modern superdreadnought. BY
that time the submarine scare had pene-
trated TO the most remote corners OF
East Hampton and the summer colony
was occupying vantage points on the
beach.
1t was Ave hours later that the three
doughty submarine chasers succeeded In
mannuvring their craft to such posi-
tons that the two submarines were ef-
fectively In a pocket into which the
bombs might be dropped, In the mean
time, the three boats had been bobbins
a bout on the rough seas and several
times one or the other of them came
close to being capsized when the sub
marines appeared to take on new life
and dashed the waters furiously with
their tails. for the submarines early in
the chase had been revealed as nothing
more dangerous to shipping than cou-
pie of lazy old whales which had got SC
far inshore among the sandpits that they
couldn't find their way back to the open
sea.
Twelve miles of short the final hght
took place. the whales blowing in the
their tails with such capable snaps that
the three men in the boats were delugeo
with water. Finally Capt. Edwards
managed TO drop one OF the bombs be
tween them as the whales. close together
swan head on toward his frail thirty
Ave foot boat The bomb went of with
roar and the whales rolled over anc
| said Uncle" without another moment
| Of protest. Then the spears were stucl
| into the whales heads and properly
anchored there. after which the sub
marines" we're towed in to the Amagan
sett beach
Taken altogether. Capt. Edwards con
sders the chase really worth while. TIL,
whales are the first that have fallen L
the lot of an East Hampton or Anna
gansett fisherman In eleven years. HI
estimates their value at about $4,000
| figuring on hide. bone, whale meat ant
| various by-products. The COW meas
ured So feet over all. while the bull uset
up s5 feet OF tape measure before hi
correct length was obtiined.
According to present arrangement
the whales will be cut up Tomorrow
after the Sunday visitors have had
J chance to see that all the romance ha
not been removed from Long Island.