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Arrived Thursday, Aug. 20 
Tug George F. McCaffrey, canal. 
Tug AVint.hrop. Providence, picked 
up dredger Bristol and one scow and 
sailed to Boston. 
Sch John R. Manta, Mandly, At¬ 
lantic ocean whaling, 300' bbls. sperm 
oil. 
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Boatsteerei* Clev.eland 
Learns of Father s Death 
on Return Here 
Schooner Arrives in Harbor 
After Three Months, 
Voyage 
New Bedfords only wnalesnip, 
the two-masted schooner John R. 
Manta. Captain An tone J. Mandly 
In command, arrived in port this 
foTenbon, anchoring in the deep 
hole near the Fairhaven side of the 
harbor shortly before 11, and end¬ 
ing a voyage that began when the 
schooner sailed from here on May 
it. A shore party' including Cap¬ 
tain M. D, Sander j. Captain Joseph 
Gomes. Pemberton H. Nye and V\ il- 
t'am Snell, made a ship-side visit 
loon after the Manta had anchored, 
reporting that all on board the 
schooner are in good health and 
that the voyage was without un¬ 
usual mishaps- 
Learns of F fit tier's DcStir 
Captain Mandly was not above 
ideck and the shore party talked 
with Benjamin W. ( ’leveland, one 
of the boats! eerera aboard the 
schooner. Boatsteeref? Cleveland 
learned for the first time today of 
the death of liis rather. Captain 
Benjamin D Cleveland, who. died 
several weeks ago while his only 
eon was at sea. 
No official information was ob¬ 
tainable as to the amount of oil the 
Manta brought back but. the schoon¬ 
er is reported standing well out of 
the water, a first hand indication 
that the Manta is not bringing back 
a full cargo of oil. When last re¬ 
ported the Manta had taken 110 
barrels. It was said today that the 
crew had not taken a whale In more 
than a month. 
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Took Passengers. 
When the Manta sailed from here 
in May she carried out with her 
William H. Tripp, manager of the 
safe deposit department of the First 
National Bank, and Don Waters, the 
former going out to obtain first 
hand whaling photographs and Mr. 
Waters, a writer of sea. stories, to 
get the flavor of the open sea. They 
left the schooner after a five or six 
weeks’ stay aboard, coming home 
by way of steamer. The Manta has 
been on the Hatteras -grounds since 
going out. 
Predictions on shore were that 
' Captain Mandly would turn his bow 
towards home as soon as there was 
a favorable wind after the loth ot 
August. Whaling statisticians in the 
whaling outfitters here fixed her re¬ 
turn date anywhere from the 13th 
to the 23rd, and Morris Sederliulm 
predicted exactly right when be pu + 
it down that Captain Mandly would 
reach port here on * the 2 0th. 
Whalers working on the Hatteras 
grounds usually leave not later than 
the 15th to avoid the chance oL' a 
late August hurricane. 
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Return from a Sixteen- 
Week Cruise to Hatteras 
Ground. 
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Jim Monohan Couldn’t 
Keep Steady with Whale 
“Sneezing Down His 
BaGk”. 
What may be the last arrival of 
a whaling vessel at this port took 
place yesterday forenoon as the 
schooner John R. Manta, Captain 
Antone J. Mandly', sailed in from a 
16 weeks’ cruise out to Hatteras I 
Ground and dropped her anchor in 
the “deep hole.’’ 
The Manta did not make a very 
profitable voyage, Laving slightly 
more than 3 00, barrels sperm oil on 
board according to Captain Mandly. 
Captain Mandly saw whales 20 times' 
that owing to the weather he was 
unable to lower with any success. 
Just 30 whales were taken by the 
craft, but they averaged small. 
No whales have been taken in the 
last three weeks, and Captain Mand¬ 
ly decided to get in before any of 
the blows that sweep the Atlantic 
coast about this time of the year. 
The craft was ten days making the 
passage home, having been in sight 
of Bong Island the past two or three 
days. 
The Manta is leaking some, but 
nothing serious, and slight repairs 
will be necessary. 
The crew of young fellows landed 
with a healthy glow upon their 
skins, and they realize that they' have 
not much money coming to them, 
and all the out-of-town men were 
anxious to get to Boston. One of 
the young fellows liked the water 
so much, that he will try to get a 
berth in a vessel going to Austra- 
I Raymond Buckley of this city has I 
grown his first whiskers, and he 
looks for all the world- like a movie, 
actor. 
A shore party including Captain 
M. D. Sanders, Captain Joseph 
Gomes, Pemberton H, Nye and Wil¬ 
liam Snell, made a ship-side visit 
soon after the Manta had anchored. 
Benjamin W. Cleveland, one of the 
boatsteerers aboard the schooner, 
.learned for the first time yesterday 
of the death of his father, Captain 
Benjamin D, Cleveland, who died 
several weeks ago while his only 
son was at sea. 
While Don Waters when he re¬ 
turned from a five weeks stay on 
board the Manta, in company with 
William H. Tripp of this city, said 
he found nothing exciting in. a 
whaler’s life, and that all whales 
were tame, the crew beg to differ, 
with Mr. Waters. They tell that 
after he left that whales rolled the 
boats over, and stove several, but 
that fortunately no boat was in the 
path of the flukes of a whale, so 
as to do any of the crew serious in¬ 
jury. , , , 
Mate John D. Dopes, who has been 
whaling many voyages and gone on 
to many whales, had his first ex¬ 
perience in being stove. One whale 
rolled his boat over and dumped the 
crew into the Atlantic* while an¬ 
other time a fighting whale which 
he was very anxious to fasten to, 
stove his boat. The boat was found 
to be stove badly, and she sank while 
the men were trying to keep her 
clear. Oars were lashed across the 
gunwales and the crew simply wait¬ 
ing until the second mate had dis¬ 
posed of a whale he was fast to, 
when he came down and picked them 
up. One of the young men was 
making his first voyage and it was 
his first experience with a stove 
boat. He was bailing harder than 
any of the rest of the crew even 
when the boat, was filled level with 
the sea he was bailing frantically. 
Water got lip to his chin, and lie was 
asked by one of the other members 
of the crew, what he ^ was bailing 
for. It was the first time that the 
bailer knew that the water had 
reached his chin, so anxious was ie 
"to have a dry boat. 
When Mr. Tripp returned home he 
told of some of the funny sayings 
of Jim Monohan, one of the young 
men making his first salt water trip. 
One dav he was out in Mr. Monohan 
was in* Second Mate Crowie s boat 
when after a hard tussle with the 
oars and sail the boat had been 
nlaced in a commanding position to 
strike the animal. Mate Crowie 
thinking that the green hand might 
become nervous at the critical minute 
shouted: “Steady. 
Monohan in a half resentful man- 
ner replied: . T . 
“Steady! Sure and how can I be 
steady with the whale sneezing down 
| my back?” 
