The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1908-07-23
..oID LUMBER SLEDS."
p,sst of Two Masters, All Well
u This Port, Steadily Shrinking.

,at of Two Masters, All Well
rbis Port, Steadily Shrinking.
feet of old 'lumber sleds, "
sted schooners, have shrunk-
'nmber since the days "when
,oney in it," as the shippers
every fresh southerly sent
wing by the score into such
refuge which happened to
.Ie survivors are hogged and
heir patched, discolored sails
ring subjects for the artist.
~ in the last stages of de-
here are yet years OF service
.hooners, unless discouraged,
,ers have become, their own
mn up and allow them to die
The banks of the
.rp dotted with the remains
,rprs of the Bangor fleet,
appropriately ending their
,jyer whence they have in
AIRED so many thousand
to the westard."
hp remaining members of
cid enough to vote" with
Ire as will be seen; A. F.
49, Abel C. Buckley 1869,
-, Eagle 1877, Fred A.
Hannah F. Carlton 1884,
. ervey 1866, Izetta 1865,
der 1858. John Douglas
th 1868, Kit Carson 1877,
tll 1866, l.. d. Remick
ISL, Mary Ann Mccain
r lrow 1915, Menawa 1864,
-r5. Nat Aver 1865, North
Il. L. Tay 1857, Reuben
-- sarah A. Blaisdell 1916,
fdaIl 1876, I. A. Stuart
sa ~5G, and William Pick
ese old vessels have re-
ldilt, and are practically
N-the c. b. Clark, for
t * Williams, in 1901; the
rmellt the George New
ne Hannah F. Carlton
r.awa in 1906 and Others
The Cora Green and
N were originally briggs.
H. Remick, with 10 years
$ the patriarch of the
s wear ago last winter she
with glory by making
uu Bangor to Scituate i'll
. Remick was formerly
aud her birthplace is
onfE
The passing of the old
Gre fact that the port of
ard hit by the Northern
iailroad's establishment
stockton Springs, Ban
It'll the largest in Maine
-,.hprS and is not decreaS-
v The losses are practi-
nod by additions, both by
If old vessels and the
Tiers.
uber coasters have long
a 'down-east" schooners,
dull days, when they are
.rrying many other car
1T for which they were
ant high-piled deckloads,
. the old craft seemed in
seen much less often than
slipyard of E. & l, X.
nrtwer, opposite Bangor,
ut some fine four-stickers,
Inpens of the fleet. They
r any trade or any part of
Ind though few III num-
.i,tle toward keeping Ban
4eIlht as a seaport. These
augusta W. Snow, Au-
a.a0ck, Horace A. Stone
~ hathaway,
- newer three-masters of
sturdy vessels, are regu
a IN the gulf of Mexico
.ades, having apparently
uber carrying from their
ts a hopeless business.
.>- are the Aetna, Alice
Edward H. Blake, EN-
,ora A. Kimball, Fred W.
Crosby and Marjorie A.
rp,sels of this class usually
northern coast and take
older freights when lumber
Ne These would-be lum-
r Abel w. Parker, Ameri-
ludrew Nebinger. Annie
ule =. Chase, Charles E.
ward Stewart, Elsie A.
Pendlet0n, Florence Il
vt Davis, Hattie H. Bar
Gibson, John B. Caring
i}eard, Marcus Edwards,
susie z. Oliver, William
William d. Hilton.
au is rather a curiosity, as
.r at Grand Haven, Mich,
@ one of a very few of the
rg go be seen on the coast.
irara, an old-timer, built in
J iUe GlQeSU OF neT TlS.
oauerly owned in New Bed
gagged in carrying supplies
E OIL from the Cape Verde
I've Whaling fleet, a business
SO lnonopolized by the sch.
'1rssner. The Parker, Aims
d bayles, Gibson, Caring
card are all comparatively
tlons to the fleet, but they
ar compensate for the heavy
ned Boston Sunday Globe.
BEYELATION.
r4tatIon to people, the severe
Z lruuble that have been cured
Honey and Tar IT. not OnlV