New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-01-13
captain JAMES PARKER DIES HARD.
A LIVELY MEETING OF THE MARINE SOCIETY IN
WHICH Mr.. TRASH WINS.

A Lively MEETING OF THE MARINE soCIEIh ~
WHICH Mr.. TRAsK WINS.
Can,ain lanes Parker dies hard. At the annual
election NJ the Marine Society Of the Port OF new
York held at the Maritime Exchange YESTERDAY ho
made the veest kind Of fight. and refuSe1 I" s"'~
in his successor Captain Ambrose Snow u was ,''
old fight of a year ago. when Captain Parker 90
soended on Captain Trask, the governor OF odiiors
snug Uarhor with Horse foot and dragons, and
charged the governor with all sorts OF cruelty To the
inmates Of the Harbor, from imprsoning them III oh
geon cells failure To provide them with MOSQUITO
nsttings The charges thoroughly investigator
at the time by the trustees Of the liarbor ana zap
tain Trask was exonerated and sustained
Captain Parker as all the mercantile world knows,
was president of the Marine Society. Yesterday came
the annual election. when friends Of Captain lraSK
proposed to oust Captain Parker and place captain
Snow in his place. But Captain Parker had sent
out the fiery cross and gathered his clansmen about
him. 50 the fight hot and furious. All the old
captains were there men used to command all the
better part of their lives and looking upon difference
Of opinion rank mutiny. If they could have hal
their way the two opposing factons would have put
each other in double irons in solitary confinement on
brcad ard water for the rest Of their natural lives.
Captain Parker opened the proceedings by reading
an address in which no bitterly attacked Cap
tain Trask and went the old ground
CAPTAINS Norton and Whitman interrupted the
president and in emphatic terms demanded
that the old story be dropped. Captain Snow also
objected There a tempest in the midst Of which
Captain Parker spoke and gestcuated unheald in the
tumult Captain Parker put the question 10 vote as
IN whether he should proceed not and decided that
The vote was in his favor and 80 went on with his
reading Every now and then some captain would
e1pIode and a squa would sweep over the meeting
But CAPTAIN Parker went on to the bitter end
All this time Captain Trask was getting naturally
arled and when the president ceased he arose and
hfs
IinaIIv the vote was taken for officers Eighty four
captains voted Forty votes were cast for Captain
SNOW forty for Captain Parker. one for captain hilton
and one blank Captain william H. Hilton was act
ing As temporary chairman. The Parker iacuon when
the vote was announced refused b. admit the eccuoh
OF Captain snow, and a lively time cnslicd over the
matter. The blank vote WAS what MADE uOupe. Eacn
party had It's own idea Of the meann gand value ui aI
blank vote. Captain Parker as president Oh u' , 50
ciety refused in Captain SNOW ana ''c i..
ton was performed by Captain Hilton. "a, aP'' h
Parker. before the meeting adjourned sara Una. ~
would Law the question Of the legality OF captain 9,o%
election before the counsel for the society ana aDuc o
his decision Tie officers elected were ries'ue,n. .
Ambrose Snow: vice president, +. A. MaT,ih soo,u
vice president B. +. Marsle; treasurer, D. H. 'na ,,,
lain secretary Thomas VI. Nichols; counsel "ih'"'"
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