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Schooner Returns to Home Port with Half 
Cargo of 300 Oil Barrels and Crew Joining 
in Chorus of “’Never Again for Us”—-Men 
Missed Their Cigarets 
The whaling schooner John R. 
Manta returns to her home port 
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with half a cargo of sperm oil to 
show for a, three months’ whaling 
cruise on the Hatteras grounds. This 
means approximately 300 barrels of 
oil, a poor voyage, and a small re¬ 
turn for Captain Antone J. Mandly 
and his crew, most of them “green” 
men on their first whaling cruise. 
“Never again,’’ “we’ll never go 
whaling any more.’’ were the expres¬ 
sions of opinion among the “green” 
hands as they tumbled aboard Harry 
West’s catboat yesterday afternoon, 
coming ashore for their first feel 
of land since May 2, when the two- 
masted schooner sailed out of here. 
Once ashore they scattered like 
grains of sand, glad to mix once 
more with the world 'and to get 
away from the closely confined 
ship's company. 
Captain Mandly returns in rather 
poor health, nothing much, “just not 
feeling well,” the captain explained 
to Dr. Edmond F. Cody, port physi- 
1 cian, who made the trip to the Man¬ 
ta, accompanied by Customs Inspec¬ 
tor Percy D. Ames and United 
States Immigration Interpreter An¬ 
tonio F. Dias. 
Interpreter Dias had a half-pack¬ 
age of cigarets and he was the most 
welcome of those who came aboard 
the schooner. His cigarets were in 
great demand and there weren’t 
enough to go around. Inquiry 
emong the men brought the infor¬ 
mation that this was their first 
chance at a cigaret since several 
days ago, while lying off Montauk 
Point on the way in, when they had 
some cigarets from a passing sword- 
fisherman. Two packs of the smokes 
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4.tul on the deck of the whaler, but 
two packs fell short in the water. 
This was a small matter to hardened 
whalemen, and in a jiffy Tony Du¬ 
arte was over the side to retrieve 
the cigarets. The water hadn’t even 
soaked through the outer wrapper 
and Tony came back aboard the 
whaler with his precious salvage. 
Tripp Visits Boat. 
Another visitor aboard the whaler 
yesterday afternoon was William IT. 
Tripp, who with Don Waters, sailed 
from here on board the Manta., re¬ 
maining on board for 40 days to get 
first hand information and pictures 
of the catching of whales. Mr. Tripp 
was a welcome visitor. He snapped 
several pictures of his fellow voy¬ 
agers. 
While most of the “green” hands 
are Boston boys, several of them 
going whaling for what they con¬ 
sidered the fun in the idea, there 
were several New Bedford men in¬ 
cluded in the number. Raymond 
A. Buckley, who by trade is an in¬ 
terior decorator employed by the 
C. F. Wing Company, returns with 
a beard like a young Viking. He also 
returns with the idea that interior 
decorating has It all over whaling 
as a vocation. 
Says Crew Xvicked, 
Frank Bradshaw, Boston, who 
was making his second voyage with 
Captain Mandly, returns r^ot wholly 
displeased with following the sea. 
“Gee, this was an awful bunch 
though,” confessed Bradshaw. 
“Kick, kick, all the time over the 
food, just as though I could help it. 
The food wasn’t much to brag of, 
of course, but gee, I couldn’t help 
it.” 
Joseph Mendes. New Bedrora. sail¬ 
ed as cabin boy, but when at sea 
Mendes took his place in the crew 
and Charles Alton Wilcox, a still 
younger lad, filled in as cabin boy. 
Wilcox seemed to think he had had 
the time of his life, but not so 
Mendes. “Too much work and too 
little sleep.” complained Mendes, 
who seemed to be of the opinion 
that life on land hereafter was to be 
preferred to that on the rolling 
ocean. 
Heaves Hatteras Early. 
Captain Mandly has been coming up 
the coast fo ten days. He left the Hat¬ 
teras ground Aug. 10. a few days 
earlier than he otherwise would have 
’because of hard weather on the 
southern grounds. He reports stiff 
weather during the last of his stay on 
the grounds, and while plenty of 
whales were seen, it was impossible 
to lower for them. He had not cap¬ 
tured a whale in the last month. 
Coming in toward land, the 
schooner ran into calm weather and 
for two days, hardly made headway 
off Montauk Point. The gift of cigar 
ets served to break the monotony of 
delay and then there was the chance 
of arrival in the home port soon. The 
schooner lias touched at no foreign 
port since leaving here and, as all on 
board were well, there was no work 
for the port physician. 
The Manta sailed with 22 on board 
and returns with 20 men, minus only 
Mr. Tripp and Mr. Waters. The ship’s 
master and crew includes Captain 
Tntone J. Mandly, commanding; John 
D. Lopes, first mate; Desire Cesare, 
second mate; Frank Duarte, third 
mate; Benjamin W. Cleveland and 
Frank Rose, boatsteerers; William 
Simmons, steward; Joseph Mendes, 
Anthony M. Duarte, Raymond A. 
Buckley, Frank Bradshaw, L. Brown, 
Richard H. Dean, Frank Dwyer, 
Frederick Powers, James W. Moyna- 
han, John Waugburg, Herbert Har¬ 
vey and William Butler, seamen; and 
Charles Alton Wilcox, cabin boy. 
Theme of Talk by William H. Tripp 
Before Whalemen’s 
Club 
Members of the New Bedford 
Whalemen's Club with guests, gather¬ 
ed at the Eastern Star Temple Tues¬ 
day night where they had a chowder 
supper and were entertained by a 
talk on “The Last Voyage of the 
Manta,” given with illustrative slides 
by William H. Tripp. There were 
about 125 present. 
Inasmuch as the Manta is the last 
of the New Bedford whalers and its 
voyage was marked by sperm whale 
catching in the old-fashioned way, by 
bomb gun, harpoon and lance, the 
slides were historical in their in¬ 
terest. The audience was given a 
glimpse of every detail and phase 
horn of a whaling trip. The firfct 
slides showed the Manta at Merrill's 
Wharf before she started out on her 
voyage. Preparatons and activities on 
the wharf as the last whaler made s 
ready to put out, were then displayed 
on the screen. 
Members of the crew were thrown 
on the screen and the Boston waiter, 
James Monohan, who worked at the 
Hotel Somerset before taking the 
I trip, was pointed out as the ship ^ 
comical man. 
The actual killing of whales and the 
subsequent stripping of blubber and 
trying out were perhaps the most in¬ 
teresting^ features of the illustrated 
lecture. Here the audience saw each 
act performed just as it had been 
hundreds of times before the days 
when whaling became xiasse. 
