For while the projected cruise of the 
whaling schooner John R. Manta seemeu 
doubtful, since the immigration laws 
placed insurmountable obstacles m the 
way of shipping a Portuguese crew in 
the islands, which would necessitate a 
larger bond from the owners that the 
aliens would return to their homes, ana 
it is not practical to keep the men under 
surveillance for deportation. 
Recently Capt Mandiey decided it 
would be feasible to pick up a crew ot 
American citizens. One thing that con¬ 
vinced him of the possibility was the 
appearance of candidates for a whaling 
cruise from young men seeking ad¬ 
venture. 
Capt Mandiey will take out two men 
who are interested in the art and litera¬ 
ture of whaling. One is a bank clerk 
named Tripp. Mr Tripp has spent years 
in photographing whalers and whaling i 
scenes made by others. The subject 
has always held fascination for him. He 
belongs to the Whalemen's chub ancl 
spends most of his leisure hours sitting 
at the feet of old whalemen, drinking 
in their yarns and information. 
He has lectured on whaling, but it 
has been a handicap that he has never 
participated in a whaling voyage. Al¬ 
though his information is of the best, 
he has had to adin.it it was second¬ 
hand. He conceived that the actual ex¬ 
perience would be an asset of great 
value, and Capt Mandiey agreed to 
take him along. 
Don Waters, a story writer who lives 
hereabouts, will also go along. While, 
these meji are passengers, both will 
bo shipped in some capacity in com¬ 
pliance with the law's. Neither man 
proposes to stay through the voyage. 
They will remain aboard until a whale 
is captured. Then a passing steamer 
will be hailed and they will return to 
New York or Boston. 
Capt Mandiey will ship a crew of 
young men from Boston. He will take 
i along a few experienced whalemen and 
t will develop the recruits. This has 
been tried before! Upon their return, 
! the youths, some of whom were picked 
! up on Bo-ston Common by a shipping 
! agent with an alluring story, appeared 
\ at a local newspaper office to com- 
{plain that the food was not what they 
expected, but there was a disposition 
to take the matter as a joke, and they 
did not encounter much sympathy. 
The Manta will go to Cape Hatteras 
Grounds, much frequented of late years 
by the smaller whaling craft bound 
on short voyages. 
MAROONED ABOARD 
Both Mr. Tripp and Mr. Waters 
_ _ _ - _ are go^ng on the Manta when the 
WHAIFf? ANrHORFD schooner sails, probably next week, 
r former to add to his collection 
IN MID-HARBOR '-of whaling pictures and to extend 
___ his knowledge of whaling, while Mr. 
Will* H T * d D Waters goes to get the aroma of the 
Waters Spend Night 
on Schooner 
can furnish the best of 
open, sea as local color for a sea 
story. Their first night aboard was 
a great success, even though it was 
not planned. Following their supper 
of broiled mackerel, there came a 
Some of the minor sensations of i-, rea ^f as t of eggs on toast, Steward 
being shanghaied aboard a whaler gj mmona doing his best to show that 
were experienced night before last a whalfcr . 
>y William H. Tripp and Don Wa- fare< 
ers, who, through a rnisunderstand- 
ng, were left stranded Tuesday night 
board the whaling schooner John 
t. Manta anchored about midway 
etween the New Bedford and Fair- 
raven side of the harbor. They were 
<ut aboard late in. the afternoon, 
aking their supper with them and 
danning to finish the job of instati¬ 
ng a radio. They went aboard from 
he Fairhaven side, a friendly motor 
oat owner putting them on board 
nd promising to return to take k 
hem ashore at 8:30 that evening j 
>ut the motor boat never came and 
hey spent the night aboard the 
vhaler, since the only small boat 
lung on the stern davits was not 
"it tot.-go ashore in. 
It was fun for Mr. Tripp and Mr. 
Waters, for they enjoyed their eve¬ 
ning meal of broiled mackerel cook¬ 
'd to a turn by Steward William E. 
immons. They did not lack for 
company, for besides the steward 
here is the first mate, a boat steerer 
ind a member of ther crew aboard 
he whaler, but they were concern¬ 
'd as to what those on shore would 
hink had become of them. The eve- 
ling meal cleaned up and the radio 
GETS GIFTS FOR 
WHALING TRIP 
Lodge Members Present Wil¬ 
liam H. Tripp with Two 
Red Flannel Shirts and 
Gold 
When William H. Tripp sails from 
here as a m ember of the crew of 
the whaling schooner John R. Manta 
,... a ....— - he will carry with him not only the 
'quipment installed, they turned in g00( j wishes of the members of New 
iarly and slept the sleep of the just. B ed f ol - d chapter, Order of the East- 
A signal to the early morning ferry 
mat bound to Fairhaven brought the 
erry alongside and they were set 
shore in Fairhaven, where they 
, ook an early car to the city. Mr. 
I Waters has a wife who at the time 
) was not present to say what she 
hought of the event, but Mr. Tripp 
went home to find that his wife had 
at up until two yesterday morning, 
ern Star, but also two red flannel 
shirts that were presented to Mr. 
Tripp last evening, when about 50 
members of the chapter surprised 
Mr. and Mrs. Tripp at their home, 
165 Newton street 
Included in the gifts for Mr. 
Tripp was a goose that contained 
golden dollars which was presented 
at up until two yesterday morning with the idea that Mr. Tripp will use 
when she gave up and concluded thege to purc hase equipment for his 
voyage. The gift of money was pre¬ 
hat her husband 
aboard the Manta. 
was marooned 
sented by John A. Stitt, while- the 
red flannel shirts were presentel by 
Mrs. Charles P. Moody in behalf of 
the chapter. 
Verses with Shirts. 
The presentation was made with 
these words: 
There was a past patron named Tripp 
Who knew all about whales and a ship, 
But for fear there was something 
He really might not know, 
Decided just once out to sea he must go; 
So we, poor sisters, who will be left’ behind, 
Have tried very hard to make up our mind 
Just what we could give him to add to his 
cheer, 
And also remind him of us left back here. 
Wq thought and we thought, but all seemed 
in vain, ' 
Till at last to some one an idea came. 
His wife she had said there was one thing 
more 
He had spoke of needing before he left shore. 
So we are here tonight, with our package so 
dear, 
We know while you wear them we’ve noth¬ 
ing t'o fear. 
We hope that the size and the color are right, 
And that when you wear them you’ll think 
of tonight! 
The schooner Manta was warped 
out into the stream from her Mer¬ 
rill’s wharf berth this morning, and 
Captain Antone J. Mandly plans to 
get to sea the latter part of next 
week. He is still hoping to pick up 
an all New Bedford crew, but failing 
this an. All-American crew will be 
picked up in Boston. 
Hoped to Clear Today. 
Additional men for the crew of 
the whaling schooner John R. Man¬ 
ta arrived in the city this morning, 
and if everything went well it was 
the plan of Captain Antone J. 
Mandly to clear from the lower har¬ 
bor this afternoon and start on his 
spring and summer whaling cruise. 
Had Radio Church Service!. 
William H. Tripp, who has si ip- 
ped as boatsteerer for the sprang 
and summer voyage of the whaling 
schooner John A. Manta., earn* 
ashore this morning for the first 
time since Thursday, when he went 
aboard the schooner when she was 
towed to the anchorage grounds on 
the quarantine section. Mr. Tripp 
reports good weather in the lower 
harbor, and all hands attended a 
radio church service yesterday. 
There are six all told aboard the 
schooner, and it is hoped that 
enough additional members of the 
crew may be shipped this week so 
that the schooner can sail not later 
than Saturday. 
MAMA HAS 
CREW AND 
HAS CLEARED 
Did Not Sail Yesterday on 
Whaling Cruise on Ac¬ 
count of Head Wind. 
When she sails out of this port to¬ 
day, if the weather is favorable, the 
two-masted schooner John R. Manta, 
Captain Antone J. Mandly, will he 
the only American whaler upon the 
high seas, doing whaling the old- 
fashioned way with harpoons and 
bomb lance. 
Captain Mandly has been two 
weeks getting a crew to man his 
whaleboats to chase the sperm whale 
and he finally succeeded in securing 
enough adventurous young Ameri¬ 
cans who were willing to spend four 
or five months out in the Atlantic 
near the Gulf Stream on what is 
known to the old yvhaling masters 
as Hatteras Ground. 
. His after “gang" was secured 
three weeks ago, but he had hard 
work picking up foremast hands who 
know that so far as the pay goes 
they stand a poor chance of getting 
rich in so short a time, probably 
having heard how some of the old- 
time whaling owners figured out the 
sailors’ pay: 
A naught’s a naught, and a 
two’s a two, 
All for me and nothing for you. 
Several of the sailors have been 
on board over a week, but last Sun¬ 
day one young man who had shipped 
either swam ashore from where the 
craft was anchored at quarantine 
down off Butlers Flat Light or he was 
taken off by some friends in a boat. 
A crew was finally recruited in Bos¬ 
ton and they were placed on board 
yesterday, when Captain Mandly 
went on board, but the craft still 
remained at anchor owing to a head 
wind. 
The craft cleared at the custom 
house yesterday. 'William H. Tripp, 
manager of the safe deposit depart¬ 
ment of the First National Bank, is 
aboard, having signed the articles as 
a “boatheader," wltfle Don Waters, 
also of this city, a writer of sea 
stories, also went out as a boat- 
header." Both carry papers show¬ 
ing they are American citizens, and 
expect after spending some four or 
five weeks on the Manta and secur¬ 
ing somq pictures and whaling 
“color" to be placed on an incom¬ 
ing steamer. .. 1 
There are 21 men on board the 
craft, and Captain Mandly will have 
two whaleboats manned when he 
chases the sperm whale. He has two 
experienced boatsteers in the per¬ 
sons of Benjamin W. Cleveland, the 
oldest man on the craft, 55, and 
Frank Rose. Two in the crew are 
from Pennsylvania, while one comes 
from Chelsea, one from Brayn 
Mawr, another from Mansfield and 
another from Northampton, Mass. 
Three men who had. shipped, 
Thomas F. Lee, Nick J. Bolton and 
Oscar Barkeis, backed out at the last 
moment, and refused to go. 
Owing to the fact that the Hat¬ 
teras Ground has not been visited 
by any whaling vessel in several 
seasons, it is expected, that a good 
catch of sperm oil will be made, and 
possibly one of the whales may yield 
a take of ambergris. On a cruise 
made there in 1909, Captain Mandly 
picked up a nice little lump of the 
valuable material, which netted him 
$20,000. Captain Mandly has an ex- j 
perienced set of mates. 
Owing to the fact that sperm oil 
is not in as much demand as former¬ 
ly, this may be the last cruise of an 
American whaling craft. »The oil 
manufacturers- here have shipped 
from the Pacific coast oil in tanks 
that is taken by the “shooter 
whalers", and in the lot are all kind 
of whale oil mixed. It is refined and 
nrpttv well for the cure 
