Morning journal and courier., 1882-09-13
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Fair Haven.
"Wednesday Morning, Sept. I3. 1882.

Launch of 6 S4G,OOO VesseI-The Oysters. l
 The new three masted schooner at Hans | combs shipyard, which has been named the Jacob Reed, was launched yesterday very successfully. At about twenty minutes past eleven she slid off the ways into the briny in the most graceful possible manner, and all decked as she was with flags and streamers, it was pretty sight and provoked enthusi- asm. The tide came right at that hour for the launching, but the hour was not convent ent for the people, and hence the number present witnessing the spectacle was only two or three hundred, an unusually small number for a launch in Fair Haven, but time and tide wait for no man, women in cluded Quite number of the fair sex, how ever. graced the occasion with their presence and interest. Everybody said it was one of the prettiest launches seen for years At the topmasts hoated the handsome colors pre- eented by Mr. Reed, resident of Philadel- phia after whom the vessel takes it's name. The schooner has been in the works about six months. She IS partly owned in Boston. The schooner is one of the largest ever built in Fair Haven and her model is asserted by her builder to be the best. Several old navi gators who were present at the launch con-. cured in this opinion. The schooner's di- msnsions are 40 feet keel, 35 feet beam and 13 feet hold She draws five feet of water | lioht and fourteen feet when loaded. Her carrying capacity is 900 tons. She will be commanded by Thoimas Nckerson of Cape l Cod Her cost was about $37, 900. Some of the owners are II. H. Hansoomb E. G. Stod-
 
 l Coleman, Isaac Smith, c. l.. Mitchell all of l this city; Captain Nickerscn,C 0. Douglass, of Massachusetts Henry P. Day, of Sey- ! mour, Conn; Anson Leete, of Guilford, and l a few others The Jacob Reed will be en- l gagged in the coal trade, and will make her I first voyage in about two weeks By the side 1 of the Reed before she slipped off into the water was 700 ton vessel which is in pro- l cess of completion for J. s. Hemingway and | Captain Eldridge of this city, and others.
 The oyster growers having oysters bedded l out in the harbor and in the Sound were little concerned yesterday to know what if | any damage had been done the bivalves by ! the recent heavy storm. Damage does not 1 invariably follow, and storms sometimes ben 1 eft the oysters. In most cases those who l went down to their beds yesterday found the | oysters all right, but in some cases the com motion on the briny had killed many bushels 1 of them by burying them up in the sand. | While knot of Fair Haven gentlemen were sitting, tilted back, on chairs on ''ve- randa'' yesterday discussing the quietude I reigning on East Grand street, Mr. Crutten- den, the genial livery stable proprietor on Union street, happened along with fine pair of mares which he bought two weeks l ago. All was instant animation MT. c. l kindly showed off the fine step and action of the animals and it was voted that they were stylish pair which somebody wanting pair would be lucky to
 Some of the sharpie owners were talking 1 of taking their boats down to Merwin's Point to day to give the members of the famous Crocodile club, Burr Garter president, sail of on the blue waters of the Sound.
 Oyster dealers adhere to the prediction that oysters will be higher the coming fall and winter than usual owing to the fact that the three and four-year- old oysters were so large ly drawn upon for past trade
 On the Blatchley avenue ball grounds yes- terday the Second Company Governors Foot Guards were defeated by the Clock shop nine by the following score:
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