This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...Every year some lives are lost. Occasionally the storms take so many that State Street and Wall Street pause in their scanning of the papers to comment upon the perils of the fisherman's calling. No memorial day is more impressive than Gloucester's midsummer ceremonial, when her children cast flowers for the dead upon ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...Every year some lives are lost. Occasionally the storms take so many that State Street and Wall Street pause in their scanning of the papers to comment upon the perils of the fisherman's calling. No memorial day is more impressive than Gloucester's midsummer ceremonial, when her children cast flowers for the dead upon the receding tides of the harbor. No bride could enter upon life with more risk of early widowhood than does the bride who marries a fisherman " out of Gloucester." It is still a city of sorrow, whose history, some one has said, is written in tears. Yet while Gloucester is still a fishing city, it is not the city of old. Science and invention have come to the aid of the fisherman. Chemistry uses the wastes of his business. Machinery is doing what labor once did. Young people are working over the by-products of the catch. The market for the fish is certain. Refrigerator cars distribute the product throughout the country. Above all, a new motive power is on the way to supersede sails. The Gloucester natives own the fishing vessels, but many of them are manned these days by Portuguese. These fishermen from over seas are thriving, and the industry and home love of their wives the whole Cape holds in admiration. In the future Gloucester will have her heroes, but their risks will not be so many; and the number of those who sail out and never return will not be so great. For two hundred and fifty years Gloucester grew very slowly; since 1875 her growth has been remarkable. Strange as it may seem to the tourist who climbs about on the rocks of the Cape, the early settlers went to farming, and it is a curious fact that in 1727 some of the inhabitants went to Salem, because there were not enough farms to go around. Then the people took to cutt...
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illus. Good or a bit better (see notes) 329pp. P O name, top corners bumped, with pages there somewhat affected throughout. General wear to covers. TEG.
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Louis H. Ruyl, Illustrator. Very Good+ No Dustjacket. Book Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1912. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/no dust jacket. Louis H. Ruyl, Illustrator. Nice First Edition decorated American trade binding. Clean dark blue cloth boards with gold decoration and lettering on cover and spine. Small spot of wear to one lower rear spine corner. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound-no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with gold top stained upper text block page edges. Beautifully penned brief previous owner inscription on front free endpaper dated 1912. Frontispiece illustration with clean tissue guard. Illustrations throughout by Louis H. Ruyl. Preface by the author. 329 pages with index.
