Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 251, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1916 — Jamaica Bay Residents Have Great Whaling Bee [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Jamaica Bay Residents Have Great Whaling Bee

NEW YORKt-A perfectly good-natured whale 65 feet long has fallen a victim of assault by swarms of amateur whalers in Jamaica bay. The whale became stranded on the reefs of Jamaica inlet, and the residents about the bay boldly assaulted the great sea

animal with small-caliber rifles end —hatchets. —lt required-two hours of pounding and shooting to produce anything resembling death, and the whale was lashed to the shore with ma:»y ropes. “It’s the Bremen,” said many of those who first saw the whale as It wallowed in the shallow-waters. “It's a cow,” said Walter Bossard, who is the Jamaica bay murine authority. Everybody laughed Until Bossard

explained that he meant a cow whale. Then the atmada of rowboats and launches set off. It was a merry battle. One man opened up with a 22caliber rifle, which annoyed the whale so that she flapped her talland upset three rowboats. The sport was safe enough, for the waters were shallow and the sandy reefs soft. There was much argument about Jamaica bay. Everybody claimed the carcass, with its blubber, sperm' and bone. The body is said to be worth a material sum, and so many persons had a hand in slaying the whale that, divided up, the sum would be insignificant.