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IHS FIRST VOYAGE—William H. Tripp, collector of whaling 
pictures and lecturer on the whale fishery, at the wheel of 
the John li. Manta on which he is making a voyage to collect 
new material. — Photo by Howard M. Wood 
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AFTER YEARS OF LECTURING HE’LL 
TAKE F IRST WHALIN G VOYAGE 
William H. Tripp of First National Bank 
Will Sail as Member of John R. Manta 
: Crew This Spring — Plans to Take Addi¬ 
tional Pictures for His Collection 
TThere are other articles of foods that 
Banker turns whaler! 
At least that’s what William H. 
Tripp, manager of the safe deposit < 
department of the First Nationaj 
Bank, is going to try his hand at 
during a few weeks this spring. Mr-1. 
Tripp will sail as a member of the , 
whaling schooner John R. Manta 
when Captain Antone J. Mandly 
leaves here early in April. Mr. Tripp 
has probably the most extensive col¬ 
lection of whaling pictures In exist-1 
ence, some of them reels of motion J 
pictures and hundreds of still life 
pictures, all collected by him in the 
course of the years that he has given 
his lecture on whaling. Mr. Tripp is 
making this present voyage, the first 
time that he has actually been to sea 
on a whaler, for the purpose of tak¬ 
ing additional pictures and to see at 
first hand the way whales are cap¬ 
tured. 
Captain Mandly has solved the 
problem that has come about by rea¬ 
son of the new immigration law, 
which made it practically impossible 
to take the ship from here to either 
the West Indies or the Cape Verde 
Islands and there recruit an alien 
crew. To bring this alien crew back 
to this port Captain Mandly was 
faced with the possibility of having 
to put up a bond of $300 for each 
alien brought in as a guarantee of 
that alien’s return to his native land. 
Bince whaling is not sufficiently i 
.financially profitable to follow this 
course, Captain Mandly has decided 
to ship an all-American crew. 
The John R. Manta is now receiv¬ 
ing her stores on the south side of 
Merrill’s wharf, and Captain Mandly 
is hoping to have everything ship 
shape to get away early in April. He 
has the alternative of sail ; ng directly 
to the whaling grounds, either the 
grounds off Charleston or those off 
Platteras, or going first to some port 
in the West Indies for a supply of 
yams, which furnish a more eco¬ 
nomical base course for the crew 
than do potatoes taken from hero, j 
can be picked up in the West Indies, 
and there may be a stop here be¬ 
fore going to the whal'mg grounds. 
The length of time that Captain 
Mandly Is to be out will depend on 
how plentiful whales prove to be. 
He hopes to be back in port by 
August, but if he fills up with oil 
sooner than that he may be back 
earlier in the summer. Mr. Tripp 
will not remain wtth the ship during 
the entire voyage. His plan is to 
leave the ship on the whaling 
grounds. The cruising ground for 
whales is from 120 to 140 miles off 
the southern coast, and after Mr. 
Tripp has seen enough of whaling 
and has used up his camera supplies 
the schooner wW stand in shore a»d 
when the coast steamer lane is 
reached Mr. Tripp plans to tranship 
to some steamer coming north tip 
the coast. 
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