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formerly and refined by these same 
concern's. There is some demand tor 
the pure sperm,aciti which comes 
from the head of the sperm whale, 
which is used in face cream, etc. 
The crew list of the Manta is as 
follows: 
Captain Antone J. Mandly, New 
Bedford, master; John D. Dopes, 
New Bedford, first mate; Daniel 
Cowie, New Bedford, second mate; 
Prank Duarte, West Wareham, third 
mate; William H. Tripp, k Don 
Waters. Benjamin W. Cleveland, 
Frank Rose, New Bedford, boathead- 
ers; William Simon, New Bedford, 
steward; Anthony M. Duarte, New 
Bedford, Joseph Mendes, Fall 
River; Raymond A. Buckley, Frank 
Bradshaw, L. Brown, New Bedford, 
Pitchord W. Deane, Bethlehem, Pa., 
Frank Dewyer, Foge, Newfoundland, 
Frederick Powers, Janies W. Pory- 
nahue, Northampton, John Wang- 
barg, Brayn Mawr, Herbert R. Har¬ 
vey, Chelsea, William Butler, 
Everett, seamen. 
Leads Whaling Party 
Out of New Bedford 
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CAPT. ANTONE J. MANDLY 
Manta May Be Last U. S. 
Craft to Use Harpoons 
and Bomb Lance 
CARRIES CREW OF 21 
FROM NEW BEDFORD 
, rfN. I - 1, £ il seas - aoing 
The John B. Manta, * »• ’ 
yhahng m the 
old fashioned way with harpoons 
and bomb lance. 
Capt. Mandly lias been . two Weeks 
getting , a crew to chase the sperm' 
whale, and he finally succeeding in 
, getting enough adventurous young 
Americans who were willing to spend 
| four or five months out in the Atlantic 
near the gulf stream on what s known 
to the old whaling masters as Hatteras 
| Ground. 
HARD WORK GETTING MEN 
IBs after "gang' was obtained three 
weeks ago, but he had hhrd work pick¬ 
ing up foremast hands, who know that 
so fare as the pay goes* hey stand a 
poor chance of gel ting rich in so short 
a time, probably having heard how some 
of the old time whaling owners figured 
j out the sailors* pay, 
Anaught’s anaught, and a two's a two, 
.All for me and nothing for yt>u. 
Several of the sailors have been on 
board more than 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 Butler's Flat, light or he was taken 
off by some friends in a boat. A crew 
was finally recruited in Boston and 
placed on board yesterday, when Capt. 
Mandly we At on board, but the craft 
still remained at anchor owing to a 
head wind. 
j William H. Tripp, manager of the 
safe deposit department of the First 
National bank, Is aboard, having signed 
the articles as a “boatheader,” while 
Don Waters, also of this city, a writer 
of seat stories, went, out as a “boat- 
header. ’’ Both carry papers showing 
they are American citizens, and expect 
after spending some four or five weeks 
on the Manta, and obtaining pictures 
and whaling “color," to be placed on 
i an incoming steamer. 
There are 21 men in the crew of the 
craft and Capt. Mandly will have tw 
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enced boatsteerers in Benjamin W. 
W h e n s h c whaleboat* manned - when he chase 
W vP.ilod out of tbis sperm whale. He has two experi 
oort today, the 
two - m a s t e d 
schooner, Capt. 
Antone J. Mand¬ 
ly, will be the 
only American 
whaler on the 
• . 
( Cleveland, 55, the oldest man on the 
craft, and Frai>k Rose. 
Three men who had shipped, Thomas 
F. Lee, Nick J. Bolton and Oscar Bar- 
keis, backed out at the last moment. 
EXPECT BIG CATCH 
Owing to the fact that the Hatteras 
grounds has not been visited by any 
whaling vessel in several seasons, it is 
expected that a good catch of sperm 
oil wll be made, and possibly one of the 
whales may yield a take of ambergris. 
On a cruise, made there in 1909, Capt. 
Mandly picked up a nice little lump of 
the valuable material, which netted him 
$ 20 , 000 . * 
As sperm oil is not in as much de¬ 
mand as fprmerly, 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 th,e lot are a kind of 
whale oil mixed. Ft is refined and an¬ 
swers pretty-well for the pure whale 
and pure sperm oil taken formerly and 
refined by. these same concerns. There 
is'some demand for the pure spermacitl 
which comes from the head of the 
sperm whale, which is used in face 
cream, etc. - ; 
The crew list of the Manta is as fol¬ 
lows: : j. . 
Capt. Antone J. Mandly, New Bed¬ 
ford; John D. Lopes, New Bedford, first 
mate; Daniel Cowie, New Bedford, sec¬ 
ond mate; Frank Duarte, West Ware- 
ham, third mate; William H. Tripp, Don 
Waters, Benjamin W. Cleveland, Frank 
Rose. New Bedford, boatheaders; Will¬ 
iam Simon,.New Bedford, steward; An¬ 
thony M. Duarte, New Bedford; Joseph 
Mendes, Fall River; Raymond A. Buck- 
ley, Frank Bradshaw, L. Brown, New 
Bedford; Pitchord. W. Deane, Bethle¬ 
hem, .Pa.; Frank Dewyer, Foge, New¬ 
foundland; Frederick Powers, Mans¬ 
field; James W. Porynahue, Northamp¬ 
ton: John Wangbarg, Brawn Mawr; 
Herbert R. Harvey, Chelsea; William 
Butler, Everett, searnen. 
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MAKES EARLY CATCH 
Joseph A. Viera of Swift 
Eagle Saw Boats Towing 
Whales to Schooner. 
_ : _ ; 
Whaler Only Four Days 
at Sea Off Gape 
Henry. ^ 
The John R. Manta has already 
caught her first whales, William H. 
Tripp has had his opportunity to 
take his exclusive whaling- pictures, 
and Don Waters has seen the big 
doings of the chase and the death 
flurry of the great leviathan with 
which he will thrill readers of his 
forthcoming stories. In other words, 
the only whaling vessel that New 
Bedford now boasts is having good 
luck, according to the report of the 
oil tanker Swift Eagle, which ar¬ 
rived in Fall River day before yes¬ 
terday. 
The Swift Eagle was in latitude 
37:50, and longitude 73:28 when she 
sighted the schooner Manta. On 
board of the tanker, serving as third 
mate, was Joseph A. Viera, a man 
who has made whaling voyages from 
New Bedford, and who recognized 
the whaler at once. The Manta’s 
boat were lowered, Mr. Vera re¬ 
ported, and they had two whales in 
tow, which the crews had just cap-, 
tured and were taking back to the 
ship for cutting-in. 
The Manta was sighted on Wed¬ 
nesday, just four days from the time 
she put out to sea. Her position, 
as indicated by the latitude and 
longitude, was a hundred miles or so 
off Cape Henry. Captain Mandly in¬ 
tended her cruising’ ground to be 
Schooner Manta Had Two 
Whales Wednesday 
The report is brought in from sea 
that the New Bedford whaling- 
schooner John R. Manta, Captain 
Antone J. Mandly, which sailed from 
this port a week ago today, was on 
Wednesday afternoon last in the 
midst of a school of whales and the 
whaler’s boats were fast to two 
whales. This report is brought in 
by Joseph A. Viera of New Bedford, 
third mate on the oil tanker Swift 
Eagle, which arrived at Fall River 
this week. Mr. Viera is a veteran 
whaling captain himself, and has 
sailed in command of the schooners 
Margarett, Woodruff and Valkyrie. 
When the tanker ran in close to a 
school of whales Wednesday after¬ 
noon Mr. Viera Turned his glasses on 
them to see their size and number. 
With the aid of glasses he picked 
up the schooner John R. Manta well 
down on the horizon, while two 
boats were fast to whales. The Swift 
Eagle was at the time in latitude 
37.50 and longitude 73.2S, which is 
about a hundred miles off Capo 
Henry, the location* in which Cap¬ 
tain Mandly intended looking for 
whales, cruising between Cape 
Henry and Cape Hatteras as far out 
as the edge of the Gulf stream. 
It is not unusual that the Manta 
should run into a school of whales 
five days from her home port, for it 
is recalled that the old schooner 
Grozier was fast to a whale only 30 
hours out of her home port. 
between Cape Henry and 
as far out to 
of the Gulf 
terns, and 
eastern edge 
Cape Hat- 
sea as the 
Stream. 
