A Whale In New York

Uew York Sifli, 22d : A faint odor of a peculiar sort, and a multitude mainly made up of little boys and girls, hung about the foot of Stanton street yesterday. The floating doek by side of the pier was sunk so that only its sides were in sight, and between theni an odd-looking, two-masted, high-proved tug boat, bearing the name Fannie Sprague, was laboring away at a wabbling, shapeless inasss, half covered by a tarpaulin, and looking like an exaggerated Christmas pudding, with its cloth burst, and eighttenths submerged. "What did yer say it was ?', asked one boy of another boy in the big crowd that presented the outline of a ráuge of hills as it rose and feil above the heaps of boards and lumber along the side of the pier. "Whale," eaid the other. "Wot good is it?" asked the first. "It kin lick er steamship, and it'sful er oil," was the reply. Still another boy rowed The Sun re porter over to the Fannie Sprague where the sailors said there was but 15 feet of water to 17 feet of whale. Th rising tide was looked to for a faire división of the opposing forces. Th leviathan had canted over, the sailor said, and presently half a dozen of them climbed upon the monster's back. las soed its ün, jacked it taut, and tried t pull the whale over on its belly. "This flsh has been off the coast o Long lsland all winter," said Cap Gilbert H. Payne, the owner of the boa and whale, "and af ter it had bee around a week we put out for it. Thi was last January. The Sprague is i the whaling business, and carries thre boats' crews and all the necessary im plements. We would have got the fis' the first day, but a schooner ran in be tween the whale and the boats and th whale disappeared. It's a female, au it had a calf, which was killed off th island not long ago. We ran up anc down the coast, and when we were off Sandy Hook we heard she was off th island again. A week ago to-morrow we saw her, sent out three boats anc got a lance in her. She kicked up a powerful sight of splutter for half an hour, but af ter she quieted Capt. Joshua Edwards put another lance where it would do the most good, and she sunk. We hauled her up, and had an awful time towing her around Montauk Point in a gale. We towed her to Cedar island, beached her in 15 feet of water, and took her entrails out. Then we towed her to Cow bay, and cleaned her out chock to her ribs." "You wouldn't nardly believe it," Charles Fee, one of the whalers remarked, '-but her hearfc was so big that it flll up this fo'castle." [The forecastle was about 15 feet long and 10 feet across at the widest end.] " A dozen men could stand erect and walk about in the cavity we cleaned out," said Capt. Payne. "We fllled it with 90 barrels of cork chips, and these saturated with 22 barrels of embalming fluid. Soon as we get her out of water we will make a hole in her and flll her up again. She is 70 feet long, and will yield, it is estiinated, about 100 barrels of oil, and 1,000 pounds of whalebone. We have built a platform on the bottom of the dock, and a board walk for the people to move around it and see it to the best advantage. In a few days we hope to move to the foot of Beekman street, but there is a ship there just now. This is the first right whale ever exhibited in New York. The last whale was a finback. Finbaeks are long and slender, but the right whales are chunky as well as long." The reporter and the captain stood at the side of the boat over the whale. The reporter found that the smell he had noticed when he was three blocks from the river was stronger there than anywhere else. "A very strong smell," said he. "Awful," replied Capt. Payne. "Can't you do anything about it?" the reporter asked. "Yes," the captain mswered. "We will move away as soon as we can. No, no, it is not the whale you smell. She's as sweet as a daisy. It's the garbage boats at the next pier." The captain expects to show her up the North river, along the sound, and at Coouey island during next summer. The American Field says: - "Two ;housand dollars for a fishing-rod is a üill price, yet that is the Cgure paid for one belonging to Mr. Purdy, the famous Enghsh gunmaker. It is a whipped cane rod, with stoppers, joint sockets, rings, winch-fittings, and winch itself of solid 18 carat gold, while the butt and stoppers are tipped with topaz and ;arnet. Shades of old Izaak! What s the modern generation of anglers coming to ?" Gold seems to have been more plentiful than brains. Such a od should be used only in catching gold fish. A white elephant froin Siam is now on its way to the Berlín Zoological Gardens.