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*• t THE SCIO TRIBUNE Page Six Lilftt of Me ’ Whale rj J» Charles W Morqan If] Preserved as Re lie y " ' )) ? By JOHN DICKINSON »HERMAN ANT of the whalers • of the old time aqua re rigged rhtpa that sailed the Seven Sen» for whale oil, whalebone, »pertmicell and ambergrin — la the f'hariro W. Morgan of New Redford Eight) four yearn old. she'» In her home l<irt Io »lay. Hut ■tie'a no dismantled hulk, with which the element« will have their Way. Nhe’a spick and »pan with frrah point and a new ault of canvas and «lie II**« in a concrete cradle on tlx- waterfnmt of the t-»t >le of fol I' II It Grown at Itound llllla Henceforth her mission la that of object lesson of one of the country** greatest Industries, of which •lie «aw the rlae, decline and fall New lledford went out her first whnler In IWi. For many years «he was the great whaling |a>rt of I lie world. Now tile Morgan la as much a rurioslty to most of her people aa to (he lands man visitor from the Middle West who thinks of a whale as ’th» big fish that ■«allowed Jonah." Here's how Gol. KB ward Howland Robinson 'irwn come« to be Inter- estvd In the old whaler. Hh* wa» named for Charles W. Morgan, her first owner. Her second owner was Edward Mott Robinson, father of Colon*) Green's mother, the fauioua Hetty Green. Capt. George Fred Tilton la the crowning touch, Ilea a veteran New lledford whaling «kipper who looks the part. And when he spina whaling yarns why, again. 'Die old Visitors? Well, rather whaler has br>-n alive with visitors all summer from all juirt* of the country. Most of them frankly admit complete Ignorance on the «objects of whales and whaling and listen round eyed Hut lota of them have rend "Moby lHck" or the •Vruiae of the Cachalot" or "Stray hmm from a Whaler's t.<><"—or ail three. No they take on airs. The Morgan's the real thing, all right. Old as site In. she was built tn last. Jethro and Zacharlnh Hill man of New Redford built her of live oak. with copper fastenings and sheathing. Nhe has cruised over every whaling ground from the Arctic to the Antarctic. For twenty years or so she sailed out of Nan Francisco, until the Meant whalers put her out of busi ness Those Meant whalers use modern methods and there's no adventure or romance In the business any more—It's Just slaughter. Here « about the way a whale was captured and handled on the Morgan In the old days: When the lookout at the masthead halls the deck with "There she blows I" the whaleboats are lowered. There are five or sit boats each requiring at least «1« men. The boats now for the whale. The Aral boot runs almost up against the huge bulk. The har|*»oner In the tow hurls the barbed weapon. The rowers back the t*oat frantically. The whale plunge« down, sometimes to a depth of 200 fathoms The line amokea out of the tuba Finally the whale cornea up to breathe, usually In twenty minutes or so. Other boats fig harpoons. Again the whale goes •town and so on. Finally the whale la killed by lances The boats then tow the carcass to the ship, where It Is made fast to the chains so that It will not sink. Unless there are other whale« In sight, the men then cut up the outer layer with "blubber spades " Great cubical chunks are hoisted to the deck to be "tried out" In huge kettles, strained and stored In casks. Rut sometimes It doewn't happen Just exactly this way. Suppose the line gets around a man -that's the end of him. Suppose the whale takes out all the line. The aiman cuts— and that's the last of a thousand feet of line. Suppose In the dying flurries the great tall—2ft feet by T— hits a boat—that's the end of that boat and maybe several of her crew. Nupt«*sr a toothed whale bites the ooat Into splinter«—that's one boat leas. Nni i*o«e a big sperm whale gets mad and rams the whaler Itself—that may t»e the end of the whaler. Now, all of those things used to bnppeu In the old days. Once a whale •mashed a twist nnd the crew floated •II night on the cares«»—that's « whaling classic. In J. T. Brown's book, "Stray Is-aves from a Whaler's lx>g" Is told In detail how Vers, the Portuguese boat Meerrr, uttered a cry and "the Immense glistening lower Jaw, armed with two rows of polished teeth, tin «bed from the water when the gigantic whale leaped into the air, carrying with It the head of the boat, which had «napped ■»Under, anI the unfortunate Vera. wlmac head and long arms were suspended from the corner» of th* monster'« mouth . . . Two other men. the bow and midship oarsmen. were never seen again " Ttie E mwx of Nantucket in 181» met this fate: The captain and first mate being fast to n big sperm whale. Owen Chase, second mate, beaded the ship toward them. The what* came to the surface and flerrely rammed the »hip bow on. stopping her as If »lie had struck a rock. It passed under the ■hip. scraping her keel, and coming up astern. After snapping Its Jaws i an*l thrashing th* water with Its tall. ! the monster rammed the second time, with Its head half out of water. It •truck the ship directly under the cathead and completely atove in her hows. It then went under the ship and disappeared to leeward. The Eoacx sank. After ninety days of hor rifying experiences tn two boats, th* crew were picked up, the mate's boot by the brig India of London and the captaln'a by the whaler Dauphin. There's no chance for anything Ilk* this In modern »learn whaling. The high speed boat can run rlnga around th* fastest whale. A big gun In the bow shoots n barbed harpoon carrying a bomb timed for three aevonda. The explosion Inside the whale kills In stantly. The carcass la then pumped full of air. Ultimately the steamer tows Ils capture« to Its shore station where the oil Is extracted and the meat canned by modern machinery. And there's Ice. Tn 1871 a fleet of forty-two whalers was caught tn th* Arctic nnd ouly one escaped. More than l.'JOO men were shipwrecked, but escaped In boats And New Redford's lose was more than a million dollars. Nt. Peter, so goes the old story, peeked out through the Pearly Gate« and asked. "Who knocks an loudly T" "John Nmlth. th* famous fisherman." was the answer. "Well, I can't keep you out for that, but go easy on your fl«h stortea." Rut John Nmlth told 'em. morning. no»n and night, to admiring throngs. But always there was a man on the edge of th* circle who sneered and I i | | | | walked away. It got on John Smith's nerves and he asked NL Peter. "Who’* that Uppity chap who trie* to queer my best fl»h stories?" "Oh. that's Jonah." said Nt. Peter. Which raise« th* question. Has Jonah any right to take on airs? In other words, did the whale swallow Jonah? Not wishing to be caught between the upper and nether mlllstonea of th* fundamentalists and modernists, thia deponent further «ayeth not Rut aa to whether th* whale rould have ■wallowed Jonah, why. bless you, that all dei*cn<b> Upon the kind of whale It was. If Jonah's whale was like the on* shown In the old print reproduced —why. on* gulp could have done It. For thia Is a toothed whale (cacha lot, iqwrtn whale. s|*enuacetl whale). Its length often run« to sixty feet. Its head forms about one-half its bulk and extends mor* than one-third of Its length. Its mouth Is very large and wide and Its throat la large enough to ¡ miss a man with ease. Incidentally, there's a new book out OBV NBWBl Heritage." by Lieu teuant t'ommander Fltahugh Green. tJ. N. N.. F. A. G. N, M. Sc. The Jacket aaya It's "officially approved; rend and checked by the historical section of the Nsvy department." And in the very first chapter w* And this: Moreover, It Is really surprising how many of the early saa tales were founded on fact» that d-fled eaa<s*-ra- tlon Take the whale and Jonah rsrn . . Our own Literary Digest h»> printed a true »lory of a whaler laun* hlna two whale boat» of • full equipment of men In an attempt to capture a «Iganlle »perm whale, tn the battle with the monster the whale capalsed one of the boats All of the men were saved except two who were supposed to have been drowned The whale was subsequently killed. Two day« later It was cut up. and to their vast aatonlehment. the men found one of their shipmate» whom they had thousht dead lying unconscious In ths belly of the whale The man a name wa» John IlartUy, and he Anally re* eovsred i ’ I | I , ] tin th* other hand. If Jonah met np with a toothle«» whale--why. there «*«« nothing doing, except by way of tnlracl*. Th* toothless whale may b* Just as big as a toothed whal* and bar* Just aa large a mouth, but that mouth 1« chock full of whalebone, through which 1» strained the food. Besides, the gullet Is absurdly email for so huge a creature. Those who think of • whale aa a "big fish" should think again It's big enough —the only bigger living thing Is th* Rig Tree of California. Rot th* whal* la aa much an animal as a horse or a sheep. It has lungs; breathes air; given birth to Ita young and suckle* It. Moreover, th* mother whal* displays groat affection for b*r 12 foot offspring Variety and Chic in New Neckline Bright Colored Fur» to Trim New Winter Coats Mode Include» Scarf, Miii* tary Collar and Bow» at Front, Back, Side». Th* line« about th* neck play an Important rot* in th* frock and costa notes a fashion writer in th* Chicago Daily News The evening gown Is more varied In Ita selection of lltx-e about tb* neck. Th* back Is generally cut lower than ths front but them f» n*. definite stop ping place at either point And. wbll* tb* square-cut neck la seen In many new models tb* < j < j round or V-shaped lines ar* Mill used with becomingnesa • nd chic. Frequently a scarf accomplishes much that la smart in the lines of th* neck In th* afternoon frocks. It Is tied In a graceful knot and hangs down th* back In two becoming folds or In careless fashion la tied In front In a soft knot. The military collar, which la up standing in Ita newness. Is another fa vorite of th* new mode. It la used with much aucceaa In the frock* of heavy materials In allks too. 1t Is to t-e found. with long rtbtxms »•■' < nlng Its stlffneaa and hanging In colorful strands down the front to the waist- !in*. Rows at front, bows at back, and bows at the side are all notes of chic In the new mode. The scarf bow hanga a bit longer than the ribbon bow Bright cdor«d fur« ar« appearing In Paris as ths trimming on winter easts Also, elimnssa is a fsaturs o4 many cf ths n«w«r wraps, with wid« Aar* «fleet around the skirt In the long coat frock outfit. night with th«- consciousness of twdng ’ entirely In step with tn* mode. As everywhere els* In th* world of furs, fox I* used a great deal to trim both American broadtail and caracul. Colors allow n are black for the older woman, with all the brown and cocoa shade» a general favorite and a strong leaning toward gray. A clenr. silvery gray called platinum la handsome and Is seen a great deal. Hudson seal, of which femininity ' never aeeina to tire, la to be had In a number of smart new models one very swagger affair for tbe debutante la a wrappy sort of thing with one aide coming up »lightly above the other at the front. And It la Itordered nil round by a narrow edging of very tine nat ural mink. In a searon where we »e* very wide fur» on every hand, thia model achieve» extreme distinction by Ita very simplicity. Taffeta 1» Charming in Dainty Youthful Model» »caria. Collars and Bows That Ara in Fashion. and Is mor* frequently used in the chiffon or cro;>* frocks ns a contrast In color. Th* lltti* low, flat collars which spell youth so successfully are used In a new way. They begin higher up at the neck and ruffle Into a decided flare and are no longer simple In their ap- peal but have taken on a note uf ao- ptdstlcation American Broadtail or Caracul for New Coat Taffeta 1» a material which we a»me- tltues tlduk of as a material belonging especially to grandmothers alnce it did in the day» when they wore volum inous skirts. In reality It now is or should tie, almost th* exclusive prop erty of youth. It Is a pity everyon* cannot wear taffeta. It Is such a pleas ant feeling malvrlnl. If on* tteeda new proof, however, that It looks Its t>eM In youthful modela oim < ba» but to see the new evening models with the triple plaited frills around th* skirt N->m*- times these frills are of the taffeta pinked, and on some frocks thty are inaile of mailn*« In several shades Noinetltnes tbe taffeta fr<« k Is opened at one side, a malines gotiei wet In with tbe frills al tbe bottom, and th* frill la carried all »round the bottom of tbe dross and up the opening on eack aide. The frock Is draped »lightly at tbe top of thia opening and bended by » ro** or some other flower made uf tbe taffeta. Many women are selecting a coat of American broadtail or one of the love ly moire caraculs Thea* furs are Im mensely popular this year, and they are conservative enough for business wear, at the same time being quite smart enough for dross Most womrn of today In th* business world have Innumerable occasion» when they must •pi>ear ss smartly attired as their but Velvet Combined With Tweed Smart little dresses for the school terfly sisters And a coat of thia type enables them to step from the »flic* to girl are made of dark brown velvet a hotel luncheon or a theater party at | combined with lighter tweed. Ita origin Is an American rat. Anoth er novelty la a peroxtded moleskin, la which « golden shade la Induced by Velvet continues Ils aucvesaful reign tbe same treatment the hairdressers tn tbe world of fashion, and has been use to lighten milady's trees*«. (Julia seen worn by the moat strikingly a number of women at the races wor* dressed women tn tb* crowds attend henn«-color«d hats. ing tb* Longctiampa race«, aaya a Faria fashion correspondent. A wider Vogue of Lace silhouette and slightly molded line It seems safe to any that lac* la have been adopted by practically to be mor* fashionable than ever dor- everyone except, of rouroa, for the Ing the season, especially for evening tailored suit, which remain* severe wear. Afternoon dresae» of ere,** em and masculine In Ita lines. Tbe races ploy lace for an effective trimming, also displayed smart coats In broad- ittack chantilly lace In used over gold clotIv. and even some la Rgbl-abaded cloth for striking effect«. Argeotln* tweeds red and gold lac* Is another effectlv« One green velvet ensemble seen la combination in a d«n>w frock. A the Jockey dub's ludoaure had a coat white satin evening cape ha* a full- full In the back, a sable collar an-! length flounce of bla<k lace faMened cuffs and a Ruaalan toque of green Just below tb* shoulder A whit* velvet. Reald* It was a dark laveo ermine collar adds charm to this hand- der blue t»**d dress and coat. Thia ■om>- garment. coat bad three box plaits ■« tb» aide«, collar and cuffs of gray fox and a Hat» for Fall lavender rayon fell for a hat. For autumn wear there are fascinat Another fur of grayish tones, re- ing fall hats of sky blue. Others of | e*mbtlng chinchilla. Is popular fa» , tin same shade are made of velour* i season It la knuam aa "suallkl." and which promt»« to b* a wlnt«r favorita. Popularity of Velvet Gown» Still Continue»