Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1914-05-13
Glimpses of the Past.


THE writer of the following modestly dis
claims any ambitions poet, but til lines,
thought they may limp and not always
rhyme, will be appreciated especially by
sea-faring men of Ellsworth and vicinity
In memory of the past, some forty years ago.
Friends and shipmates- are gone, certainly
that is so.
How wonderous are the changes We think
again and again
or some OF the schooners and their crews that
sailed from Ellsworth Maine
Those were good old times; always something
TO do;
How well we remember each vessel and her
crew.
There was the otronto-Capt. Hammond her
skipper,
And the schooner Lavolta-she was called a
clipper.
The Anna S. Murch, Woodward, the A. X.
Woodward, too,
Both Capt. Woodwards had them when they
were new.
Capt. Solomon Jordan, he sailed the Bangor;
Most always to New York he was bound for.
The Rodondo and her crew, we know not
their fate.
We remember the Conovia, also Capt. Tate,
The Arboreer and Commodore, always sailed
bya Clark.
Now comes the big Castilian, with Capt. Nor
gan-Mark.
Capt. Sam Lord was in the schooner Mary
Lord,
And there was the Telegraph, carrying bark
by the cord.
Capt. Warren Patten; how we'll we remember
his face;
Also Capt, Alley, he sailed the schooner Grace.
Many trips Capt. Frank Bellatty made with
ont dentention
In schooners James Tilden and Capt. John,
worthy Of mention.
Frank Grant, he sailed the Partland Packet.
Don't forget the Abigail Haynes--to steer her,
take off your jacket.
Franconia, Holt, and Alley, Frank Maria;
Forest City, Davis, and Loduskia, Means
Nehemiah.
Elizabeth, Murch, and Gaspar in the Rattan
Many were the times they weathered old Cape
Ann.
Capt. George Lord in the Mary Augusta did
sail,
And Capt. John A., he had the Eugene Hale.
Charles Smith was in the Maid of the Mist,
And you remember the Luella9 She always
had twist.
The Bonnie Ives was blown to sea-dont re-
member the date
She was homeward bound from Boston loaded
with freight.
| They often did, when bound home, load -four
and corn.
Now comes the Joshua Grindle; she went
around the horn.
Many staunch and able schooners were built
in that day;
| 1t was launch them, load them, from the cove
fill away
And get to sea, so as to make "a slant.
There was Bonsey, Leonora, and Jordan,
Nellie Grant;
Storm Petrol, Davis, Westerloo, Whitaker
Mort.
One trip in the westerloo from Ellsworth to
New York.
We made good run that will relate
In sixty seven hours we towed through 'the
gate.
| Often you would hear how such a one would
sail,
And now think of one that from Ellsworth
didn't hail.
j. K. Lawrence was her name, Capt. E. H.
Torrey-
She was a good sailer and was built in Surry.
Capt. Higgins, in the Myronus, she was a
brig
1t was not many years ago she had change
in rig
To three masted schooner and she was quite
clipper.
You know NJ. D. Chatto? He was her skipper.
There were many Others that from Ellsworth
hailed;
Some square-riggers and to foreign
ports sailed.
Now on this subject have made long tack;
I'm that those times can never come
back.
Old friends that are left and retired at home,
We win remember our shipmates wherever
roam,
We are homeward bound, that every one
knows,
I'll now let her cuff, "come to-" and close.
WARDEN LORD.
Surry, Me-, 1914.