New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-09
NEU LOBSTER Boa rs.
PROPELLED BY STEAM WITH PowER-LIFTIN0
APPARATUS ALMANACS

APPARATU s-OLD ALMASACS.
Norwich. Conn. July (SpecisD.-The lobstermen
Of the Connecticut and Rhode Island coast as ruiz
visit their pots in the deep sea In small SWIMMING
dish sauboats and hoist them aboard their craft py
ha nd power with ships arm and puleys. Inc great
pots dashed 10 trawl pretty nearly mile long are
SINK I'm many fathon1s OF water and IL Is toiiSoHe
baclbreokinr work to heaye them by hand, particular
IL II they are laden with fish. Hence last winter
Yankee OF the quaint little fishing hamlet OF Noahh'
in the southern part Of this county, donned his think
ing cap and few days ago he appeared on ihe iopsef
Grounds with a brand new craft that Is proVideo WIN
a novel invention, devised by himself, which COM
ptely does away with the hardest and most disagree
b, feature OF lobtcrhshlng that Of pulling the pos
ont of the sea by hand The boat was Duilt III mo
Morgan boat shop in Noank. and Mr. Morgan pro-
duced two of the kind at the same time. whicn are
named the 30 Peep and the Mizpah. they are oFoi'
nary thirty foot long, jband mainsal lobstermen ex-
CON, that they have In the cabin little boiler and
engine with ii screw, by means OF which they can
defy what call "a white-aSh breeze as lauhthy
~ Won please But the business Of propelling the
craft in a calm l. by no means the most important
function OF the cabin engine since the inventor mas
connected 1t with pulling and hOisting apparatus Oh
dock with which he Is able to hoist his lobster pot
casIly and dexterously In about one-quarer OF the
time Il used TO take TO pull them In by hand. Inc
invention works perfectly, and other 'ohhecucu'
lobstermcn regard II with Jealousy and envy IL IL
likely that before another l. here all the souno
lobster fishermen will have their boats rugged with
similar device. Smoke,tackS, OF course. would be ia
;b, way on the deck Of little craft hence the mast
rus ,nade of steel and hollow and the smoke Of the
engine furnace is drawn up the inside OF the shaft
twenty-five feet. when 1t escapes through an opening
in the mast.
Tho oldest almanac in New Eng land Is still published
annually by David \. Daboll, rural astronomer ano
farmer OF the rocky country town Of Groton In this
county. and Is entitled Dabols Almanac and FARM
ers Friend" This exceedingly quaint calcpdar was
begun I'm l. So and has published each year SINCE
4 recent investigation shows that Ii was estap!sheo
In that year 10y Lemuel Warren and printed by Johh
rrumbul lat the printing office near the courthouse
Norwich" For several years thereafter II appeared
AS Bickerstaf's New gland Almanack.' though In
1903 its title was changed that Of New England
Almanack and Ladies' Diary" The name OF John
Wcathcrwlse" appeared on its title page as being the
author and compiler Of it, and In 1903 besides its
astronomical and weather news. II had an Affecting
account Of the death of Miss Polly and Hannah Wats
and other reading "curiOus. useful ana enter'ainhs
The work did not come into the hands OF the Dabol
family until IN ls0s, when Nathan Daboll, author OF
Dabol', Arithmetic which the standard mathe-
NAUTICAL Textbook in New England for half century,
bought 1t and continued publish 1t until the time OF
his death After his death his continued TO issue
it, The publication still retains in large degree Us
antique and curious character. IL sun mas It's oao
weather, b, for instance: "EApect cold storm OF
snow or rain about this time" Then there are sucn
remarks Dog days begin" " DoSdayS END moon
runs high" and Moon runs low" William Harvey,
of Plainheld has probably the only complete file VI
the almanac from 's3 TO ls2j
:. old Farmers Almanac" which established by
Robert B. Thomas a, Worcester Mass, In 1893, and
IS still published at that town.