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INTRODUCTION. 
 
 |HIS book, prepared under the direction of the Board of Trade of Gloucester, Mass., is 
 offered in behalf of her citizens to those who in any way have an interest in this old 
 city by the sea, or to those who seek an ideal place for rest, health and recreation. 
 Her history has been long and not uneventful. Her special and peculiar industry, 
 the fisheries, has already been made known in part to the public bv the pen of 
 many writers. Her advantages for business purposes have been creditably utilized in the 
 past, but not yet to their full capacity. Her situation, surroundings, and natural scenery 
 have given her a lasting hold, not only on the affections of her children, but they have also 
 brought to her many welcome visitors, many of whom have identified themselves with her 
 life, so as to be considered more than temporary residents. Their number will increase as 
 these attractions become better and more widely known. 
 
 In the last part and no less interesting to the reader, will be found the announce- 
 ments of some of the men and firms, who through industr}", thrift and enterprise, have 
 made Gloucester what she is today. 
 
 Much more might be written on many of the subjects contained in this book, but 
 space forbids. The sketches on the following pages are necessarily few. It is hoped that 
 they will be acceptable to those unfamiliar with the place, or w^hose acquaintance dates from 
 such a distant time that a present da}" description will be new and interesting. 
 
 It is also possible that the actual inhabitants may find something here which will 
 increase their local pride and patriotism. 
 
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HI5TORY OF GLOUCL5TLR. 
 
 RO]\I the time of the early explorers Gloucester, ]\Iass., on Cape Ann has always occupied a large place in 
 
 the history of New England and the nation. It is claimed that the Norsemen in 1001 skirted the New 
 
 England Coast, which they called New Vineland, and landed here. . It has also been said that they called 
 
 the place Kroasnes, the Cape of the Cross, and that they were attacked by the natives " skrellings " in 
 
 the language of the sagas, their chieftain Thorwald being- killed, and buried on shore. In 1605 the 
 
 Chevalier .Samuel De Champlainon a voyage of exploration and discovery, sailed about the cape which he 
 
 named Cape Aux Isles. The next year in early September he rounded what is now Eastern Point and came to anchor 
 
 in the inner harbor between Five and Ten Pound Islands, so named for the sums for which they were purchased in 
 
 Colonial times. 
 
 Champlain was charmed with the place and made a prolonged stay. He considered the harbor and location 
 one of the best strategetically and commercially on this part of the coast and made an accurate topographical map of 
 the harbor and surroundings showing the elevation of the land, its streams, habitations of the Indians besides complete 
 soundings of the inner harbor and outer bay. While engaged on shore with a party, he narrowly escaped the same fate as 
 Thorwald the Norseman being ambushed by the Indians, but was saved by the timely appearance of the Sieur De 
 Poutrincourt and a company of arquebusiers, who arrived opportunely to put the crafty aborigines to flight. This 
 circumstance, described in the account of his travels published on his return to France, is also depicted upcn his map 
 of the place- Thus, leaving out of consideration the Norsemen, the first white men to land on what is now Cape Ann 
 and Gloucester, were Frenchmen, and the lilies of France were emblazoned on the first standard flung to its breezes. 
 His name for the place was singularly appropriate, Le Beau Port, the Beautiful Harbor. 
 
 After his departure others came Capt. John Smith, the intrepid navigator and explorer of two 
 continents. He named the cape Tragibigzanda, in honor of the Turkish lady who is said to have saved his head from 
 the Mahometan scimetar and the islands, Thatcher's, vStraitsmouth and Milk, the three Turks heads, in commemoration 
 of a feat in slaying and beheading three Moslems. Shortly after it was named Cape Ann in honor of the Princess Ann 
 of Denmark, mother of Prince Charles. 
 
 Others followed but the honor of making the first settlement, which was also the first i^ermanent settlement 
 in Massachusetts Bay, belongs to the Dorchester colony. This was a company formed by the Rev. John White, a 
 Puritan minister, rector of St. Peter's church of Dorchester, Eng. He interested some wealthy gentlemen in the 
 project and his colony, in three vessels, sailed for and reached what is now Gloucester in 1623. It was not, as has 
 been supposed, formed for the promotion of any ecclesiastical denomination its main object being the pursuit of the 
 fisheries which had been successfully carried on off the New England coast since 1606. The church or denominational 
 motive, if there was any, was subsidiary. In fact, there is no evidence that any chaplain was appointed for the colony, 
 although in 1628 the first service, of which there is record, was conducted by Rev. John Lyford, a member of the 
 
Established Church, who, however, had been in the country before the Dorchester colony sailed and who came, over to 
 the cape from the Plymouth colony, where he was persona non grata. 
 
 The site of the settlement, on which was erected the " stage" or wharf of the company was at Stage Fort, 
 now a public reservation. Here was erected their house, the framework of which was brought over from England. 
 
 In 1624 Roger Conant was appointed Governor and the colony attracted much attention. The Pilgrims 
 claimed the territory under their grant and disputed the right of an independent company of fishermen adventurers, 
 under Capt. Hewes, who had taken possession of a part of the tract. vStandish laid siege to the Hewes party, who 
 were barricaded strongly on the rocky bluff, but the good offices of Conant pointed the way to the first modus vivendi 
 in the New England fisheries and peace was restored between the rival factions. 
 
 The avowed objects of the colony were fishing and farming. The fisheries were successfully pursued and 
 good catches sent to Bilboa, Spain, but the arable land of the cape was exceedingly limited. Accordingly in 1626 the 
 agricultural part of the colony went to Salem, taking their house leaving the purely maritime element here. These 
 were joined by others from time to time, among them being a colony from Plymouth, who came here in 1630, under 
 the leadership of a son of Rev. John Robinson. In 1632 a church was gathered and services held in a house of worship 
 erected on the northwesterly side of Beacon Hill the place of their first burial yard being nearby and used as such for 
 many years. 
 
 Other English companies joined these, one under the direction of ^Maurice Thompson, a merchant of London, 
 in 1639. In that year the general cotirt was asked to incorporate the town. This was granted in 1642 the town taking 
 the name Gloucester from the beautiful cathedral city in England, whence many of the settlers came. 
 
 From the first the history of the place has been largely maritime. The fisheries and later the domestic coast- 
 wise and foreign commerce were pursued with untiring energy and unflagging enterprise, early achieving the position 
 which it has maintained and strengthened, of being the leading fishing port on the American continent. Today its 
 clipper fishing schooners, veritable yachts in design and appointments, approximating some 273 vessels and manned by 
 5000 stalwart men, sail the seas annually from Cape Hatteras to the Arctic Circle in their honorable and hazardous 
 occupation, furnishing at call a nursery for the American navy which has proven a veritable tower of strength in time 
 of need. The schooner, a marine type now standard in every sea was originated here in 1713 by Capt. Andrew 
 Robinson. When launched, a spectator alluding to the graceful manner in which the craft glided into the water 
 exclaimed, " See, how she scoons." " Then a schooner let her be," cried her designer. 
 
 At Louisburg, the Gibraltar of America, deemed impregnable, these men, in a craft commanded by Capt. 
 Sanders and in a land company under Capt. Byles, did yeoman service in reducing that stronghold and again at 
 Quebec with Wolfe on the Heights of Montmorenci, were in the forefront when the flag of France was lowered for the 
 last time, virtually, on the American continent. Again at the battle of Bunker's Hill, two companies of Gloucester 
 men did valiant service and afterwards manning their crafts large and small, harassed the enemies' commerce, taking 
 many valuable prizes, including a sujDply ship with field guns intended for the British army, which, sorely needed, were 
 forwarded to Washington's army at Cambridge. The gallant defence by the men of the town on the attempt of Capt. 
 Linzee of the British sloop of war Falcon to land and destroy the town in August, 1775 and the eqvially gallant repulse 
 
of a similar attempt a few days prior by Maj. Coffin, at what is now called Coffin's Beach, on the northwesterly side 
 of the town, are stirring- instances of valor and patriotism. It was the daring: and skill of the Massachusetts patriot 
 fishermen which saved Washington's army from annihilation duringr the retreat across Long" Island Sound. Again in 
 the war of 1812, the fishermen proved their worth in a struggle admittedly a naval contest, which terminated so favor- 
 ably for the American arms. The sailing master of the Constitution was Capt. HaiTaden of Gloucester. 
 
 A.§;ain at the call to arms in 1861 one-seventh of the male population of the town were either in the army or 
 navy, the latter branch of the service having a full quota from the fishing fleet. That this spirit still actuates the 
 men who man the fleet was signally evidenced during- the Spanish-American War, when, in addition to the land 
 company, nearh- 500 fishermen, skilled mariners, responded prompth- to the call of the country for men trained to the 
 sea. Such, too briefly mentioned, is a record of which any community ma\- well be proud, the patriotic spirit 
 dominant today as in the early history of the republic. 
 
 The commercial growth of the town and city almost wholly pertains to the fisheries, which phase will be 
 treated by another. Suffice to say that the town has gro-wn steadily, conservatively and surely, sometimes receiving a 
 setback from the loss of life and property in the fisheries, but always gathering courage, continuing- to advance. At 
 length in 1873, after 231 years under the town system of government, the city form was decided upon. Today 
 Gloucester has approximately 28,000 inhabitants, and with Cape Ann, which it virtually includes, 33,000. 
 
 As early as 1680, Rev. Cotton Mather, that stalwart Puritan divine, visited the place, which he referred to as 
 " the sea-browned fishing town of Gloucester," and was much impressed by its natural beauties. More than 75 years 
 ag-othe members of the Brook Farm and the Transcendentalists made their annual summer pilgrimage to Pigeon Cove, 
 coming by stage coach, that being the days before the iron horse on the cape. They were the path-blazers of the 
 summer host of the future. Now it is estimated that fully 15,000 people, during the two summer months, spend whole 
 or part of the season within the precincts of Cape Ann. Again the mine of wealth from the hard, enduring granite, with 
 "which the cape abotmds is no small factor in the industrial economy of the city. 
 
 At the end of 286 years the city, ripe with years and mellowed by time, has settled down and acquired that 
 individuality and repose which only time can give. The charm of its winding" thoroughfares, the old town merging 
 into the new and modern, is accentuated by the glamor of its always fascinating" fishing industry. And today the 
 indomitable spirit which has always characterized the pursuit of its industry is more pronounced than ever. Its history 
 is an inspiration to every American and to all who admire the attributes of pluck, sagacity and perseverance. With 
 this inspiration those who are to come forward will unquestionably carry its peculiar maritime standard to still higher 
 achievements. 
 
 As ever it welcomes the daring from all points of the world to the democracy and good fellowship w'hich has 
 always characterized the Gloucester fishermen. It welcomes equally to its shores, in its suburbs, the many who 
 enamored by the beauty which nature has lavished upon it, those people of wealth and culture, whose summer homes 
 approach palaces, have cast their lot for a time here and transformed the Xorth Shore into a veritable Arcady. 
 
 By James R. Pringle. 
 
THL FI5HLRIL5. 
 
 |ESTINY ordained that (xloucester should be the first and greatest fishin,af port in the new world. Away 
 back, as far as 1602, that daring: navigator, Gosnold, found that codfish were plenty in Massachusetts bay 
 and for twenty years before a permanent settlement was made here, the fisheries were pursued off this 
 coast, with profit. Destiny took a hand when the Dorchester company's 50 ton ship set out from England 
 in 1623, it being the intention of those concerned to engage in a fishing trip and also found a permanent 
 cdlony. The ancient records tell us that the expedition had no definite place in view for settlement and 
 that arri\-ing late in the season at the fishing grounds on the Maine coast, the fishing was found poor and in hopes of 
 making up a full fare, the voyage was continued to Massachusetts bay. 
 
 Here, off Cape Ann, cod were found in abundance, with the result that in the fall of 1623, the craft sailed for 
 Spain, deeply laden with fish, while 14 men, with necessary provisions, were landed at Cape Ann. Our first colonists, 
 therefore, were fishermen and the first business of the place was fishing. The first fishing "stage" or wharf was 
 erected at Stage Fort, now a public park of the city. 
 
 With the exception of possibly a very few years immediately following 1626, the fisheries have been followed 
 from this port through all these 286 years, practically withoiit interruption. Beginning with one craft of 50 tons, 
 Gloucester now boasts of the finest fleet of fishing vessels in the world; fleet, staunch, yacht-like crafts, numbering 
 273 sail, with a tonnage of 21,864 tons, manned by about 5000 men, than whom there are no more brave, hardy and 
 daring who sail on any sea. 
 
 History tells us that one of the fares of fish in the days about 1623 brought 5000 pounds sterling in Bilboa, 
 vSi.iain. Today the fishing business of Gloucester has a census rating of over $7,000,000. The first vessels used were 
 ketches, shallops and pinnaces, all little crafts and partially decked over. The first schooner, Gloucester's greatest 
 step forward in fishing vessel architecture, came in 1713. Today, built on yacht lines, safe, staunch and sjieedy, a 
 fishing vessel challenges the admiration of the marine world. 
 
 To tell how the 140,000,000 pounds of fish, which are brought annually to this port, or landed by Gloucester 
 vessels at other ports, are caught and cured and prepared for the tables of millions of homes, would be an interesting 
 story, but too long- for these pages. 
 
 Records of Gloucester's fisheries previous to 1830 ai^e vagaie indeed, but since that year, to the present, they 
 have cost the lives of 5304 hardy toilers of the sea, who have left behind them 1064 widows and 2144 orphans. vSince 
 1830, some 779 vessels, measuring 41,757 tons, valued at $4,000,000, have sailed from this port, never to return. 
 
 The Gloucester fisheries are the most extensive in the new world, and are prosecuted from the dreaded sands 
 of Diamond shoals, off Cape Hatteras, to the great ice fields and bergs of the Greenland coast. "Gloucester" and 
 " fish " are synonymous the world over. 
 
 Arthir L. Mii.lktt. 
 
GLOUCL5TE.R'5 METHODS OF CATCHING FISH. 
 
 ^^^_, OR considerably over two CL-nturies the fisheries of Gloucester were conducted with the ordinary hook and 
 ^ ' lin^"' \^'ith which all who have ever caug'ht a fish in salt or fresh water, are familiar. True, the size of 
 
 ,-^'C 't / hook, line and sinker varied from those used today, but the idea was the same. Toda\- the' fisheries of 
 U^-^j—'':^ Gloucester and New Eng-land, being composed of so many branches and so diversified, are pursued with 
 many other devices, although the old hook and line still survives to a considerable extent. To properly explain all 
 the methods emploj-ed today in the Gloucester fisheries, would require a volume of man\- pages, and here an 
 attempt will be made to but briefly mention and describe them. 
 
 The cod fishery, the staple industry, is pursued with hook and line, with trawls, gill nets and with " jigo-ers." 
 This latter term needs explanation at the outset. It is applied to a hook, or, rather, twc > h(joks , which have n( > " beard ' ' or 
 sharp backward turned point, which is on every reg-ular hook, and the sinker, a piece of lead, fashioned something 
 after the shape of a fish, moulded onto the shank of the hooks, and holding them opposite to each other. These are 
 used by some of the bankers, fishing far off shore, in shoal spots, where the fish at certain times in the spring, 
 school in such great numbers, that no baited hooks are used, but the jiggers, which are used without bait, are let down 
 under them and jerked up quickly, impaling the fish at any point, and thus securing him. Fishing by this method, 
 when conditions favor, can be done much more expeditiously and cheaply than with a baited hook and line. The 
 greater part of the cod fishing is done with what is called a trawl, indeed this is today the leading method of catching- 
 what are known as " ground " fish, or fish that swim near the bottom of the ocean, such as cod, haddock, hake, halibm 
 and cusk. These trawls are composed of long lines, from which depend, at regTilar intervals, very short, smaller lines, 
 to which the hooks are attached. At each end of the main line is a small anchor, to hold it fast in position near the 
 bottom, while from each end also, is another line long enough to reach from near the bottom, where the trawl lies when 
 in fishing position, to the surface, these siirface ends being attached to kegs or buoys with a sort of flag thereon, to hold 
 it up and also to designate its position when the fishermen go to haul it in to secure the catch. Trawls are baited and 
 coiled neatly in "tubs," and set from dories, which are rowed off from the vessel, the fishermen tossing the lines and 
 hooks over the side of the dory by a dexterous swing of a short stick held in one hand. 
 
 Trawls vary in length, size of lines and hooks, and number of lines which go to make up a tub. Generallv 
 speaking, the equipment of a large vessel, fishing on the off-shore banks, and carrying ten dories, is six six-line 
 
tubs to each dorv. Each line is 300 feet Ioii.l;- and is fitted with abinit 85 hooks. Thus, with all trawls set, a 
 vessel is coverin.u" over 20 miles of fishin.i^' yround with 30,000 hooks. 
 
 Next to trawlin.ar, purse seining- is the most important method of catchinsr fish and the purse seine is used 
 exclusively for the fish that swim or school near the surface, such as mackerel, herring, pollock, shad, porgies and 
 the like. The size. and texture of the seine varies accordingf to the business for which it is used, but the one most 
 commonly known and in most .ofeneral use, is the mackerel punse seine. This is really a big- net of li,o-ht, tarred twine, 
 fitted on the bottom or " foot," with small lead weights to make it sink quickly and on the top, or " head," with cork 
 floats to keep that part above water, while it is being handled and set. Around the "foot," and rove through man\- 
 iron rings, that it may work easily, is the purse line, a rope, by means of which the seine is pursed, or drawn to.gether 
 like a bag. The plate on opposite page shows mackerel seine set from boat, with vessel in the distance. 
 
 The ordinary mackerel seine is about 225 fathoms long, and 18 fathoms deep, the meshes of the twine bein.g from 
 two to three inches square. It is set from a seineboat, a large whaleboat of distinctively Gloucester design, and 
 manned by 13 men from the crew of a mackerel catcher. After the school is sighted from the masthead, these 13 men 
 get into the seineboat and row in the direction of the school of fish, which can .generally be seen, plainly to the jiractised 
 eye, but almost unnoticeable to the layman. Nine of the men row, while another .steers, and three attend to the 
 putting out of the seine. 
 
 When the boat comes into the iiroper jjosition, one end of the seine, which is ])iled high, but in perfect order, 
 just aft of the waist of the boat, is thrown over the side, the crew begins to row at full stren.gth, and a circle is made 
 around the school, the seine being thrown out all the while and with the remaining end left in the boat, the dory from 
 the vessel, which picked up the first end thrown over, is met, thus brin.ging the ends to.gether. The dory passes its 
 picked-up end of the purse line into the seineboat and quickly both ends are made fast on to a patent purser, a great 
 time and labor-saving- device and as the men turn on the crank handles of the machine, the ptirse-line is wound in from 
 both directions at once, thus quickh- drawing the bottom of the seine together and making the great ba.g, from which 
 the fish find it hard work to escape. When the vessel is brought up alongside the seine, which by this time has been all 
 hauled into the seineboat, excepting a small part in which the fish remain, it is secured to the rail and while the 
 seineboat holds tip the other side, the fish are bailed out on deck and iced or salted. 
 
 Hooks and lines are still used in certain branches of the fisheries. With these the men stand to the rail, each 
 havin.g a reg-ular position. Each line is fitted with two hooks and a heavy sinker, the wei.ght and length of line and 
 size of sinker varying accordin,g to the line of fishery followed and the locality fished. 
 
 The reg-ular Georges handline is from 100 to 125 fathoms lon.g, the " leads," or sinkers, wei.ghing nine pounds. 
 
and there are two hooks to each line. In some branches the lines are not so long or the leads so heav\', but the 
 Georg-es outfit is considered the regailation handline gear. In the branch of the fisheries called dory handlining, as its 
 name implies, the crew go out from the vessel singly in dories, and fish with handlines. 
 
 In some other branches of the fishery, nets are used exclusively. These are a sort of small seine, except that 
 they have no purse lines, and are not handled as is a seine. They are set out straight, with weights to hold the foot 
 down, and corks, or glass globes, to keep the head at the surface, or where desired. They are strung out in a line and 
 generally allowed to remain several hours in this position, sometimes all day or all night. Then they are hauled by 
 the crew, in dories, the fish being picked out of the meshes, where they have been caught by swimming against the net 
 and becoming meshed by the gills. 
 
 Small schooners and sloops, which go netting for mackerel, use from 75 to 125 nets, which are each about 80 
 yards long and 75 meshes deep, the meshes being from 2 3-4 to 3 7-8 inches square. The heads of these nets are kept 
 on the surface by a large number of corks on the headrope. 
 
 Nets are also used by some small crafts which engage in codfishing along shore, and from the way in which 
 the catch is taken, are called gill nets. These are longer than mackerel nets and are only about six feet deep. The 
 meshes are also much larger, as the cod are larger fish than mackerel. These nets are not set with the headrope on 
 the surface, but, by means of weights on the foot, are sunk to any desired depth and kept upright and in position by 
 ropes, at the surface end of which are numerous large hollow g'lass balls of great buoyancy. 
 
 An exciting branch of the fisheries is swordfishing, the principal apparatus used in this being a sort of 
 harpoon or ' ' lil\- iron " , as it is called. The fish which weigh from 100 to 700 pounds, are sighted by lookouts stationed 
 on the mast-head and often near to the top-mast .head, the fin of the fish being detected just above the surface. 
 The vessel is run up to the fish, while the spear man, in a seat or "pulpit " on the bowsprit, makes ready. As the 
 fish comes within striking distance, he plunges the lily iron into its body, while at the same time another of the crew 
 throws over a small barrel, around which is wound a strong line, which is attached to the iron, the long pole handle 
 having come out easily after the fish is struck, leaving the lily iron, to which the rope is attached, in the fish. 
 
 One or two of the crew put off in a dory after the fish, whose position is shown by the floating barrel, and it is 
 often a difficult and dangerous task to secure this most vicious prize. 
 
 By these methods, principally, the fisheries of this, the gxeatest fishing port in the new world, are conducted. 
 
 Arthur L. Millett. 
 
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FISH CURING AND PACKING. 
 
 PiE methods used are interesting and the strict cleanliness always evident excites much favorable comment. 
 Whether the first of the curing is done on the vessel or ashore, prompt handling of the fresh fish is the 
 rule. When the fish are cured on the vessel, they are split open (just out of the water) cleaned, 
 thoroughly washed and packed in the hold of the vessel in pure sea salt. The catch made, the vessel sails 
 to Gloucester, where the fish are taken out at the wharf, washed carefully and packed into butts or 
 hogsheads, which hold about 1200 lbs. of fish. In these butts, the fish are kept to await the demands of trade, being 
 inspected frequently to insure their perfect condition. 
 
 When needed, the fish are taken from the butts, washed again, piled up in " kench " and this kenching or 
 piling up presses out a good part of the pickle. This process is called " water hawsing." 
 
 Next the fish are wheeled to the " flake yards ", which are covered with great " flakes " or long tables, which 
 are in some cases on the roofs of the packer's buildings. On these flakes, the fish are spread out, each fish by itself, 
 flesh side up, and the sun caixies on the drying process, tempered by Gloucester's famous breezes. 
 
 A snow white canopy of canvas is stretched over the fish on a framework and this canvas protects the fish from 
 dust or smoke as well as the burning rays of the sun. Flaking completes the curing and requires great care and exact 
 judgment. From the flake yard the fish go to the " dry-fish house ", and from there to the skinner. 
 
 The first step in the packing and skinning, is a most interesting work, requires expert workmen and consists 
 in cutting off the side and back fins, pulling off the skin, and cutting out the back bone. 
 
 Boning is the next step. Young women, particularly adapted to this work because they are naturally neat, 
 patient and skilful, draw the small needle or rib bones from the fish — each bone by itself — using a pair of pincers in the 
 work. Then the fish are "absolutely boneless." 
 
 Cutting the fish into required length for the boxes and cartons comes next. All fish that are not shipped 
 whole, are packed into cartons or boxes, carefully protected by wrapping in heavy waxed paper, and then in crates or 
 cases. 
 
 The neatness, skill, and general character of the workers (both male and female) who prepare the sea foods 
 in Gloucester, are a matter of great pride to those in charge of the business and visitors are at once impressed by this 
 fact. 
 
Some fish are landed fresh. On the vessel, these fish, when caught, have the entrails removed, are thoroughly 
 washed and packed in ice. Such trips are short. The vessel reaches Gloucester and the fish are taken out. On the 
 wharf, the fish are split lengthwise, after the heads are cut off. Then a thorough washing in clean water and the fish 
 are packed in pure sea salt in butts and from this point the process is the same as on fish salted aboard the vessel . 
 
 ^lackerel are cured aboard the vessel. First they are split open along the back, next cleaned out thoroughly 
 and then soaked in clean, pure sea water, the water being changed several times. After this, the mackei-el are rubbed 
 in fine salt, then packed in barrels and after they are " struck ", or lightly salted, they are resalted in other barrels, 
 and the barrels are headed up. 
 
 When landed in Gloucester, the mackerel are packed over again into barrels of 200 lbs. and are then ready for 
 market, to be shipped in the original package or repacked into smaller ones. 
 
 The fish landed in Gloucester which go to market as fresh fish are Haddock, Pollock, Cod, Mackerel and 
 Halibut. As these are not included in the scope of this article, nothing more need be said. 
 
 An important article is salted or flitched Halibut which comes from a "bank" called the Funks, off the coast 
 of Labrador in the cold waters coming from Baffin Bay. These fish are caught on "trawls " by two men in each dory, 
 taken aboard the vessel, sliced and salted in the hold. Vessels bringing in these fish start away in May and generally 
 return to Gloucester in September. The slices of fish or " flitches " are taken from the vessel, washed and put away 
 to be used as wanted. When needed, the pieces are again washed and a good part of the salt is soaked out, then the 
 fish is pressed to get out the pickle. After being dried and cut into smaller pieces, they are hung in the smoke houses 
 where they remain in smoke rising from smouldering fires of sawdust and oak chips tmtil they are a rich red brown in 
 color. Known as Smoked Halibut it is then boxed and shipped. 
 
 Smoked Herring are handled in a large way in the winter months. They are brought from Newfoundland 
 lightly salted in the hold of the vessel. These fish arc handled much the same as Halibut, first being soaked 
 out, then hung in the smoke house until they take on their famous rich golden color. Then the fish are packed in cases 
 of fifty or one hundred, and go all over the country under the name of Smoked Bloater Herring. 
 
 To enter this subject more in detail is not possible in this book, so the reader is extended a cordial invitation 
 to visit our city with the assurance that all the methods pertaining to the fish business will be cheerfully shown. 
 
RLCIPL5 FOR COOKING GLOUCL5TLR CODFI5H. 
 
 Boiled Salt Codfish or Salt Fish Dinner. — Cover the 
 fish with cold water and set back on the stove ; when hot pour off 
 the water and cover with cold. Change the water three or four 
 times, allowing about half an hour between. Do not let the fish 
 boil, as that hardens it. Have the fish on the stove where it will 
 simmer. Serve with potatoes, beets, carrots and onions. Serve 
 with egg sauce made as follows : Boil an egg ten minutes. Dip 
 into cold water so that the shell will come off easier. Cut with silver 
 spoon, as a knife blackens it and put into the dish in which you 
 intend serving the sauce. To a piece of butter the size of an egg, 
 add a teaspoonful of flour. Blend these together well, and when 
 ready to serve pour on a little less than half a pint of boiling water, 
 pour over the egg. Do not let it boil. 
 
 Creamed Fish. — Soak the required amount of fish in cold 
 water over night. In the morning turn off the water and bring the 
 fish up to a boil in fresh water. Tear the fish into small pieces and 
 cook for five minutes in a rich cream sauce made of two tablespoonsf ul 
 of melted butter, two tablespoonsful of flour, one pint hot milk and 
 a little pepper. The addition of an egg improves it. 
 
 Broiled Salt Cod with Cream. — Put the fish over a slow 
 fire to simmer for ten or fifteen minutes, or until a sufficient quantity 
 of the salt is taken out. It may be necessary to change this water. 
 Take it up and flake it into small pieces about two inches long and 
 an inch and a half wide ; dip these into a little melted butter and 
 broil over a hot fire till they brown sufiiciently. Lay on a hot dish 
 and pour over the fish a little thick cream heated. 
 
 Codfish Balls. — 1 cup salt fish, 2 cupsful of potatoes, 2 table- 
 spoonfuls of cream, 1 tablespoonful of melted butter, 1 egg beaten, 
 pepper to taste. Wash the fish, pick it into small pieces. Peel 
 potatoes and cut into quarters. Put the fish and potatoes 
 together in a saucepan, cover with boiling water and cook twenty- 
 
 five minutes, or until potatoes are tender. Drain thoroughly, mash 
 and beat with a fork till light. Add the butter, mix and cool slightly. 
 Add the egg and the cream unle.ss the mixture be too soft, adding 
 gradually as the entire quantity given may not be required. Make 
 into balls, roll in beaten egg and bread crumbs, and fry in smoking 
 hot fat. If handled and fried carefully, these may be cooked, if 
 desired, without the egg and bread crumb covering. 
 
 Old Fashioned Fish Dinner.— Strip the fish into small pieces 
 and more than cover with cold water. Let come just to a boil and 
 then turn off the water. Again cover with cold water and let come 
 to a boil. Unless boiled with potatoes boiling hardens the fish. 
 Garnish with slices of hard boiled eggs. Serve with pork scraps, 
 potatoes, beets, carrots and parsnips. Also makes a nice fish hash. 
 
 Salt Fish Souffle. — Take one cup of finely minced cooked 
 salt fish, four good sized potatoes, one-third cup of milk, two eggs, 
 two tablespoonfuls butter and salt and pepper to taste. Pare, boil 
 and mash the potatoes smooth ; mix with the fish, butter, hot milk 
 and seasoning ; then add the eggs, beaten separately and very light, 
 folding the whites in lightly as possible. Turn into a well buttered 
 souflle dish and place in the oven for ten minutes. Another way is 
 to beat the yolks and whites of the eggs separately, then mix lightly 
 together and spread on top of the fish mixture after it comes from 
 oven ; dust with a little fine salt and return to oven to brown slightly_ 
 Serve as soon as it comes from the oven. 
 
 Escalloped Codfish with Cheese. — Soak a sufficient 
 quantity of codfish six hours in tepid water, or until freshened to 
 suit the taste, then let it come to a boil ; when cold pick into flakes 
 with a fork and season with pepper. Heat a cup of milk to a boil ; 
 stir into it a teaspoonful of melted butter in two of flour ; mix with 
 the picked fish and pour into a bake dish. Strew grated cheese 
 thickly on top and bake in a quick oven to a delicate brown. It is 
 yet nicer if you add a raw egg to the mixture before cooking it. 
 
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THL GLOUCL5TLR FI5HLRMLN'5 IN5TITUTL. 
 
 HIS organization owns a large three-story strncture located in the business section and used by the six 
 thousand fishermen of Gloucester when on shore as a place of resort, recreation and entertainment. It is 
 a public spirited enterprise, incorporated and controlled by the representative men of the city and 
 maintained by the voluntar}- contributions of the fishermen themselves augmented by 3^early subscriptions 
 of the citizens and transient residents. A superintendent and chaplain whose duties are endless and 
 unceasing, is constantly in charge to direct the work, advise and strengthen the wayward, conduct religious meetings 
 and to officiate at the last rites of the men and their families. 
 
 These fishermen of Gloucester as a class have no peers in physical manliness and undaunted bravery, yet 
 these attributes are frequently unavailing against the mighty power of the ocean. An average of seventy men each 
 year sail away never to return. 
 
 In memory of these brave and fearless men whose unmarked graves are somewhere in the fathomless deep, 
 the Institute some years ago inaugurated the custom of strewing flowers on the outgoing tide and letting them drift out 
 to sea, while the burial service of the church was solemnized on the shore of the harbor. In other years public 
 memorial services for our lost fishermen have been held in one of our large churches or in the City Hall. 
 
 Both are most impressive ceremonies and besides being commemorative of the yearly loss of life in the 
 prosecution of deep sea fishing, they have emphasized to all our citizens both permanent and transient, the obligation 
 to make the shore leave of the fishermen as pleasant and as agreeable as can be. To carry out this purpose the 
 Institute was founded and hundreds of the best young men of the world freciuent its several departments daily to read, 
 write, study or play as they may desire. Large quantities of clean, healthful literature are supplied gratis to be carried 
 on board ship for use on the long tedious voyage. 
 
 Communications concerning this work addressed to the Chaplain Gloucester Fishermen's Institute will be 
 promptly acknowledged. 
 
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P01NT5 OF INTLRL5T TO THL ANTIQUARIAN. 
 
 [li historical interest which attaches to Stage Fort Park as the scene of the beginning of the settlement of 
 Massachusetts Bay in 1623, has been mentioned earlier in this book. To commemorate this interesting 
 incident and to mark the location of the first permanent settlement, the citizens of Gloucester in 1907 
 ]3laced a tablet, with a suitable inscription, in an immense boulder at the eastern side of the field. The 
 inscription on the tablet reads as follows: — "On this site in 1623 a company of Fishermen and 
 Farmers from Dorchester, Eng'. imder the direction of Rev. John White, foimded The Massachusetts Bay Colony. 
 From that time the Fisheries, the oldest industry in the Commonwealth, have been uninterruptedly pursued from 
 this port. Here in 1625 Gov. Roger Conant by wise diplomacy averted bloodshed between contending factions. One 
 led by Myles Standish of Plymouth, the other by Capt. Hewes ; a notable exemplification of arbitration in the beginning 
 of New England. Placed by the citizens of Gloucester, 1907." Plans are now being formulated for the erection of a 
 building to be the reproduction of the Roger Conant House, the first house in Gloucester, erected on this spot in 1623. 
 The present name of the old Fisherman's Field is drawn in part from the staging on which the settlers landed their 
 fish and in part from the fort built during the war of 1812, and still standing in its original form except that the 
 magazines were dug away and the embrasures filled up during the vSpanish War. 
 
 The older colonial fortifications at the mouth of the inner harbor have disappeared, but the locality is still 
 known as the Fort. The latest fort built on Eastern Point during the Civil War, has passed into private ownership, 
 and a summer residence named The Ramparts has been built within it. 
 
 Among the other remains of the past, interesting not only to the antiquainan but to those who seek for the 
 picturesque, are the old houses in the Georgian architecture built during the later colonial period, a few examples of 
 the earlier lean-to, story-and-a-half type with the beams of the second floor projecting beyond the lower wall at the 
 front of the structure like a block house, and one example of the primeval log' cabin, still standing though covered with 
 clap-boards so as to be unrecognizable. The last mentioned is the Riggs House built in 1658 by Thomas Riggs, the 
 first school master, situated on a side road off Washington St. near the Willows. The Ellery House built in 1710 is the 
 most accessible, being on the line of the electric cars to Annisquam, and a short distance from the centre of the city, 
 built in the old fashioned block house style with its projecting upper story and long one-sided roof and with the slave 
 pen still there. Its interior is well worth a visit. The old Dennison House on Revere St. at Annisquam, a suburb of 
 Gloucester, is visited by many. It was erected by George Dennison in 1727, and still presents its original shape and 
 appearance and is occupied by one of his descendants. Opposite the Ellery House is one of the finest specimens of 
 colonial architecture, the Babson residence built in 1740. 
 
 It is interesting to know that the reason why so many older houses in this vicinity are the story-and-a-half 
 style, is because a two-story house was taxed at more than a single story, and so the story-and-a-half was designed by 
 our thrifty ancestors. 
 
Gloucester is rich in religious history, for here was the starting point of Universalism in America in 1779 ; and 
 the present church edifice built in 1805 has within it the original articles of compact, the desk of Rev. John Murray its 
 first pasior, an organ taken from a British merchantman during the war of the Revolution by a privateer commanded 
 by one of its parishioners, an old fashioned tall clock once the property of the second pastor, Rev. Thomas Jones, and 
 the bell in the tower cast by Paul Revere. 
 
 The first Parish Church Unitarian built in 1738, had the distinction of having been bombarded by the British 
 imder Lindsay, August 8, 1775, and one of the cannon balls which struck the edifice is now hanging in the vestibule of 
 the present building, which was erected in 1828. 
 
 At the old Burying Grounds on Bridge St. in the city proper and on Thomiison Street in West Gloucester 
 many old and interesting headstones with unique and unusual inscriptions may be seen. Copies of the inscriptions are 
 on file and indexed at the City Clerk's office at City Hall, Dale Avenue. 
 
 Goldsmith's Deserted \'illage has a prototype here, and it is the only known instance in this section of a 
 village deserted by its people or rather discontinued after the original builders had passed away, although many of their 
 descendants are now prominent in the affairs of the city. This deserted street is on what is known as Dog Town 
 Common. There remains the cellars of many houses once part of a busy thoroughfare and now a never ending source 
 of interest to the visitor. 
 
 Norman's Woe, a ledgy island rising above the waters near the summer resort suburb of Magnolia, is note- 
 worthy as being the scene of Longfellow's poem, the Wreck of the Hesperus. 
 
 On Middle vSt. at the site now occupied by the building of the Y. M. C. A., was the whipping post last used 
 in 1780. And on this street there are at present at least 10 houses built before the Revolutionary War, among them is 
 the residence erected by the Rev. John Rogers, which was built about 1775, now numbered 64 and directly opposite, 
 now numbered 51, that of the Rev. Samuel Chandler, built about 1752. 
 
 Just to the westward of this residence and numbered 47, is the odd and unique shaped house owned by Mrs. 
 E. M. Shaw, which attracts much attention. Built prior to the Revolution, its exterior and interior remains the same. 
 Its rooms are filled with all manner of antique furniture and ancient bric-a-brac of very great value. This collection is 
 considered to be one of the finest to be seen anywhere. Many of the summer colony visit this interesting relic of the 
 olden times. The building now occupied by the Sawyer Free Library, corner of Dale Ave. and Middle St.. was 
 erected in 1764 and has been changed but little since. 
 
 There are many more of these old residences interesting to the Antiquarian, scattered throughout the city, 
 especially in the suburbs, and the visitor is constantly reminded that this is one of the oldest settlements in the country. 
 
 John J. .Somes. 
 
GLOUCL5TLR A5 A 5UMMLR RLSORT. 
 
 r^r^z: :; < )R many j-ears Gloucester has held an enviable record as a summer resort by people who come from nearly 
 
 ;| ' ^'., '.- every section of the country to enjoy the cool, health-giving air, filled with ozone, as it blows from off the 
 ' ' pathless sea. Very many are the palatial residences which are built close down to the water side, where 
 
 the scenery offered by old ocean affords a constant source of comfort and pleasure. Mag-nolia on the 
 iii^-I' - northwest side of the harbor with its Norman's Woe, Rate's Chasm, Crescent-shaped beach, and sturdy 
 rockbound coast, has proved a spot which has attracted the wealthy class who have erected fine mansions and enjoyed 
 numerous advantages which nature has so lax-ishly bestowed. The hotels have also been liberally patronized and 
 season after season the place is filled with a most desirable class of people where rest and pleasure fill the hours. 
 
 East Gloucester on the southeast side of the harbor has also proved very attractive and has made rapid strides 
 in its development as a summer resort the past quarter of a century. It borders and creates the inner harbor, thereby 
 giving easy access for boating while the facilities on the beaches, prove an important factor, and the sea view is 
 unsurpassed. There are fine golf gi'ounds and Niles' Pond a beautiful lake of fresh water covering nearly 30 acres. Old 
 Mother Ann as she rests on the rocky shore and the Lighthouse are among the many attractive features. 
 
 Bass Rocks accommodates the large number of summer residents who here find rest and comfort at their 
 private residences and at the well kept hotels. Good Harbor Beach has ample bathing facilities, while Long Beach 
 affords fine views of old ocean. Salt Island and Thatcher's Island lie directly in front of this property. The two tall 
 lighthouses of the latter give the mariner hope and comfort as he sights them while coming on the coast. 
 
 West Gloucester offers great inducements to the summer \nsitor. Its upper section has all the delights of a 
 summer home amid fine old forests and beautiful drives, while that part which adjoins the seashore offers the far-famed 
 Wingaersheek Beach and Willoughby Park properties which aiford most delightful seashore views and privileges, to 
 sail and fish on Ipswich Bay, the Annisquam and Essex rivers. The channel in Annisquam river has been deepened 
 so that now one can go at all times of tide to and from Gloucester harbor and Ipswich Bay. 
 
 The suburb of Annisquam is a most beautiful and inviting spot wherein to pass the summer and fall months. 
 Norwood's Heights, The Cambridge settlement and other property bordering on the shore is fast being built over, and 
 many of the dwellings of the old-time citizens have been remodeled into homes for the summer people. 
 
 Fresh Water Cove, on the road to Magnolia, is another of Gloucester's charming spots. Several first-class 
 summer boarding houses are located here which offer great attractions in bathing, boating, etc. Stage Fort Park with 
 its Half Moon and Long Beaches, is in close proximity and adds its many attractions to that part of the city. 
 
 It is apparent to even the most casual observer, that Gloucester is a most desirable summer resort. She 
 possesses a combination of attractions which commands attention. One individual comes here and builds, and is so 
 delighted with the climate and the people, that he gets his neighbor to make similar investment and so the good work 
 goes on, and new buildings are built annualh-, thus adding to the taxable property, furnishing patrons to our trades- 
 people and employment to many. George H. Procter. 
 
HOTELS 
 
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 I®?^^^^^?'? ITUATED thirty miles from Boston ; the rail road centre of Massachusetts, and really of Xcw England ; for 
 W\'<!pZ^~- "^ '^^'•^' °^ ^'■^ size, our facilities are exceptional, as we have both rail and water connections. The Boston & 
 ^.^J^V ' Maine R. R. makes connections with all the roads centering- in Xew England, and whether the Tourist 
 f',^f^j )'. wishes to go North, South, East or West, he is in quick touch with connections at Salem or Boston for all 
 fe^^ — "'■'*' points. Our E.Kpress trains reach Boston in less than an hour, and Salem in thirty minutes. The 
 management will give us this summer nineteen trains each way, and with the fine road bed, and superior cars on the 
 express trains, comfort, time and pleasure are well served. 
 
 The Ocean sail from Gloucester to Boston, is along the beautiful North Shore with a varied scenic xnew of 
 which there is no superior. The Boston & Gloucester Steamboat Co. run two steamers daily in the summer season ; 
 the day boat making: the trip in two hours, the early morning- boat a little lon.trer. Passenger rates are fifty cents each 
 way, or seventy-five cents the round trip. 
 
 The harbor of Gloucester, itself, is one of natural beauty, whose story has been told in prose, poetry and 
 painting: for g:enerations, while the views along- the route, of the shores of Manchester, Beverly, Salem, Marblehead, 
 Lynn, Nahant and the Islands of Boston Harbor, presents such variety of coast line as charms the eye during the whole 
 trip. 
 
 Easy connections are made in Boston, with the coastwise steamers North and South, including- the favorite 
 New York Outside Line "Harvard" and "Yale"; the Portland, Yarmouth and Halifax Lines, and the many day 
 excursion steamers to Provincetown , Plymouth, and other points, on the New England Coast. 
 
 The Boston & Maine R. R. passenger rates are at the customary two cents per mile, for single tickets, while 
 lower rates are made for commutation, fifty ride and other class tickets. 
 
 A city with a natural harbor, with good wharf privileges, on direct lines of transportation, a port of entry, with 
 water and rail lines competing, always presents advantages for manufacturing, and distribution of product, because of 
 favorable freight rates, obtainable for coal, cotton ai-id other natural products, by sailing vessels, tramp steamers and 
 barges. Besides these advantages we have oitr regular two incoming and out .going freight trains and the daily trips 
 of the Boston & Gloucester S. S. Co.'s boats, both rail and steamboat making through connections to distant points at 
 the same rates as from Boston and local business to and from Boston, at six cents per 100 lbs. 
 
 Time tables and freight tariffs are on file and obtainable at the Rail and vSteamboat offices and at the Board of 
 Trade Rooms. No account of the Transportation facilities would be complete without some mention of the Trolley 
 Trips in and about Gloucester and Cape Ann which are varied and full of interest, while the connections 
 of the Boston & Northern Street Railway to the other parts of Massachusetts and beyond, with the charming scenery 
 and attractive and historic towns and villages, reach localities which should not be missed by the visitor to our city. 
 One needs only to study the folders now issued by the principal Trolley lines to get a genuine enthusiasm for these 
 trips, which can be so varied from day to day, as not to lose their interest. John K. Dustix. 
 
Types of^ 
 TO RENT 
 
COTTAGL5. 
 
 The cottages of Gloiicester are many and of all styles and all grades of cost. They range from the inexpensive 
 portable cottage costing from $200 to $300 to the palatial residences costing from $50,000 to $100,000. All these 
 provide for people of varied means and all alike enjoy the glorious beauties of " Old Cape Ann." These cottages give 
 evidence of the ingenuity and resources of their owners and are situated on the attractive places on the shore, on the 
 river-side, in the hills and valleys. They are rented for amounts running from $75 to $100 a year to rentals for the 
 season of $1500 to $3000. The accommodations are such as will suit all tastes, from the quaint rough and ready to the 
 house with all modern improvements. 
 
 Nowhere in New England can there be found a greater variety of summer domiciles than in this quaint city 
 by the sea. When one of the occupants of the portable cottage wishes to change the scenery or his environment, he 
 like the Arab can quietly fold his tent or house and silently steal away. It is thus that in one season you will find a 
 man perched on the side of a hill in his comfortable home and the next season you will find the same man with the 
 same home planted by the sea or enjoying life by the river side . 
 
 The fishermen huts that have been so much written about in the magazines have long since disappeared, if in 
 fact they ever existed and in their place can be found the modern cottage. 
 
 If parties wish to have any selection of cottages whatever in Gloucester, they will find it best to begin early to 
 make their choice. Tohn Cunningham. 
 
 WATER SUPPLY. 
 
 Most important and deserving the attention of the prospective home seeker and manufacturer, is Gloucester's 
 
 unrivalled water supply. This is situated at West Gloucester, comprising three storage basins. The water 
 
 sheds for miles about are controlled by the city, ensuring absolute purity and of a capacity to supply a city twice the 
 
 size for four months without replenishment. These watersheds, it may be pointed out, arc a jiart of what is now and 
 
 will be developed into one of the finest park and woodland systems in the country. Th.- territory of West Gloucester 
 
 comprises about the same area as the city proper, an irregular oblong, five miles long by seven wide. The greater 
 
 part of this woodland, including Ravenswood Park, the Wallace pond water area, the Dike's meadow and Haskell's 
 
 pond systems, with the Mt. Anne reservation, all controlled for the public as a park, or for water sheds, abutting 
 
 miles of woodland held by wealthy owners as private preserves, combines holdings for the practical and esthetic needs 
 
 of the citizens which it would be hard to diiplicate. 
 
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 |HE expense of living is a most vital problem everywhere and reasonable cost is a strong factor in the growth 
 and prosperity of a city. The solution of the question and the regulation of this important matter depend 
 to a great degree on the retail stores. When retail stores in any community are operated by men of 
 
 jj honesty and progress, the expense of living there is sure to be kept at a fair ratio to the cost of production 
 and distribution. Gloucester is peculiarly fortunate in her stores. Her merchants are noted for their 
 business honor — for honesty, not the kind of honesty that is ' ' the best policy ' ' but the kind that is built up on principle . 
 The large mercantile agencies and the wholesale houses who sell to Gloucester merchants, recognize and acknowledge, 
 without exception, the fact that in Gloucester, though cold industrial winds may come and financial storms may break, 
 though they may meet business shipwreck, Gloucester seldom has a " dishonest " failure to report. Gloucester retail 
 stores are kept by men who would not scuttle ship. 
 
 And it goes without saying that from such stores, patrons get a dollar's worth of value for every dollar paid. 
 
 Gloucester stores carry such a variety of goods, of so high quality that they are on a level with stores in cities 
 of very much larger population. This condition comes from the demands made upon Gloucester shops by the people 
 who come from every part of the country to spend the summer. And the fact that the stores can fill these demands is 
 proof of the care used in the selection of the stock and the fairness of the prices that are charged. 
 
 High quality product is the most economical and undoubtedly has a considerable weight in making cost of 
 living reasonable. 
 
 Gloucester merchants are progressive. They can supph- anything from toothpicks to automobiles, from 
 potatoes to caviare, from shoe strings to silks and in every line there is competition enough to assure progress and 
 insure against overcharge. 
 
 Over 160 shops retail food products — there are 16 druggists, 11 dry goods stores, 20 clothing stores, 7 furniture 
 dealers, 8 jewelers, 6 automobile dealers and 7 florists. 
 
 There is no want that Gloucester merchants cannot fill with reasonable promptness and at fair prices. 
 
GLOUCL5TLR SCHOOLS AND WHAT THLY RLPRL5LNT. 
 
 jIVE thousand pupils, housed in twenty-three buildings and cared for by one hundred thirty-eight teachers, 
 
 — this is the brief statistical story of Gloucester's public-school plant. During- the last thirty years a 
 
 marked change for the better in school accommodations has taken place. Those who recall the external 
 
 appearance of the High School building of three decades ago, repellent in the extreme, note with pleasure 
 
 its contrast in the commodious and attractive structure now in use for the almost five hundred students 
 
 connected with the school. With like gratification many have welcomed the advent of the Babson, Hildreth, Stone 
 
 Court, Hovey, Maplewood and Eastern Avenue buildings, in the central wards of the city. During' the time mentioned, 
 
 a new Blynman schoolhouse has been erected at MagTiolia, while additions and improvements have been made elsewhere. 
 
 The public schools represent more than can be expressed in the few words to which this article must be 
 limited. They involve the gratuitous but anxious care of a School Board whose sole consideration has been, and 
 should continue to be, the highest possible welfare of the children and youth of Gloucester. 
 
 They represent the intense loyalty and devotion of worthy teachers, whose interest in their vocation stands for 
 something more and nobler than that which centers in the weekly pay-roll. 
 
 They represent a wholesome public sentiment that demands for every boy and girl an opportunity to lay the 
 foundations of an intelligent and useful career. They stand, moreover, for the expression of a generous spirit on the 
 part of a community which , although limited in resources, imposes upon itself the willing obligation of providing to 
 the best of its financial ability for a future citizenship that shall be worth while. 
 
 The schools represent the marked evidences of a commendable home sentiment, which insists that the 
 educational privileges and obligations of the child are of primary importance, — a sentiment that has been a large 
 factor in givingr Gloucester the leadership in school attendance among the cities of the Commonwealth for a score of 
 years or more. 
 
 They represent the beginnings of an ambition whose resultant products of manly and womanly worth might 
 well challenge the pride of any community. This fact suggests the duty of so interpreting the mission of the schools 
 as to endow the pupils with the best possible preparation for fruitful service, — a preparation that includes the habit of 
 industry and an earnest liking for hard work. 
 
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MANUFACTURES. 
 
 J"f ^^^y^-'-^iv LOUCESTER, famous as a fishing port, has never been looked upon as a manufacturing- city. The 
 v'l;''". J ' demands, however, of the great fishing fleet, and the immense business of marketing the fish, have built 
 up allied industries, these together with other manufacturing interests are varied and valuable. Besides 
 those factories devoted to the making of products needed in the fishing business, Gloucester has other 
 it^— - -*— interests that make her a manufacturing city. The Cape Ann Anchor Works, (Inc.), in business seventy- 
 six years, manufactures anchors of all sizes and kinds, and is the only concern which produces the fishermen's anchors, 
 and also the only manufacturers in the United States now making stock ship's anchors. Also marine, locomotive, mill, 
 electrical and government forgings, either smooth forged or finished complete ready for use. 
 
 L. A. Burnham & Co. manufacture cotton lines of all sizes, also steam tarred lines adapted for deep sea fishing. 
 Tarred and barked snooding, trawl and hand lines, mackerel lines, etc. The factory is situated on Maplewood Ave. 
 
 The James H. Tarr Co., Limited, manufacturers of anti-fouling paints for wooden or iron vessels' bottoms, 
 old fashioned copper paint used on fishing vessels, merchant iTiarine, and by the railways on barges, etc., red yacht 
 composition for the bottoms of yachts and motor boats. '^'5 They make a beautiful light gxeen yacht racing composition, 
 for motor boats and tenders. 
 
 Henderson & Johnson manufacture the "Gloucester" brand of brown, red and green copper paint, deck, 
 floor, house and ship paints, also spar and interior varnishes, shellacs and dry colors put up in packages of all sizes. 
 
 One of the largest plants in Gloucester is that of the Gloucester Net and Twine Company, which has been 
 established over a quarter of a century. The products of the company find a ready market all over the world. 
 
 The Russia Cement Company started in business in 1880 at Rockport, Mass., later moved to Gloucester. This 
 company is the largest manufacturer of liquid fish glue in the world. The plant at Gloucester covers 40,000 sq. ft. of 
 floor space ; handles over sixteen million pounds of raw material. Le Page Glue is a special product of the concern, 
 which also makes LePage's Photo Engraving Glue, Gold Medal Mucilage, Photo Paste and special brands of glue for 
 manufacturers of gimimed paper and labels, straw hats, leather belting, sizings, shoes, cars, carriages, envelopes, gold 
 tip prints and for many other uses. 
 
 A. W. Dodd & Co. manufacture Dodd's Liquid Fish Glue, which is used extensively, as well as refined oils 
 and isinglass. They have a large and modern plant on Wharf St. 
 
 The Robinson Glue Co., Ferdinand Robinson and Herman F. Robinson proprietors, manufacture high grade 
 liquid fish glue for all purposes. Robinson's Fish Glue was established in 1868. 
 
 Boynton's Improved Process Oiled Clothing Company manufactures the "Battleship" and " Cruiser" brands 
 of oil clothes. " Battleship " Couch Duck Hammock, which is a new local industry. Men's Automobile oil clothing 
 and Men's Woolen and Worsted Pantaloons. 
 
 The Gloucester Oiled Clothing Company have one of the finest plants in the country, and steps have already 
 been taken to double their already large capacity and output. 
 
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C. R. Corliss & Son are manufacturers of and dealers in black and yellow oil clothing and fishermen's outfits. 
 
 The L. Nickerson Company manufacture the " Improved Cape Ann " oiled clothing, in all colors, auto coats 
 and covers, hats, caps, coats, jackets, pants, ladies' oiled coats a specialty and many other articles. 
 
 J. H. Rowe Co. are manufacturers of the genuine Cape Ann Oiled Clothing and jobbers of fishermen's 
 outfits of every description. Code 5th Edition A. B. C. 
 
 Alonzo Smith makes a specialtv in the manufacture of fishermen's mattresses and cotton cloth mittens. 
 
 The Gloucester Windlass Company are making an improved hand windlass to supersede the old style which 
 has been in use for sixty-two years. The patent windlass made in all sizes can be used for all purposes of hoisting. It 
 is extremely simple, with absolutely no lost motion. 
 
 E. L. Rowe & Son are large manufacturers of sails for the merchant marine, also of canvas covers, tarpaulms, 
 awnings for hotels, dwellings and stores. They are contractors for full canvas equipments for any style of craft, at 
 present manufacturing the equipment for the new battleship North Dakota. They are manufacturers of the popular 
 Gloucester brand Swinging Bed Hammocks ; they also equip vessels or yachts with every article desired. 
 
 William L. Steele, manufacturer of canvas specialties, especially the "Cape Ann" and "North Shore" 
 swinging cots, hammocks and awnings. 
 
 The Merchant Box and Cooperage Company have a modern plant for the manufacture and printing ot wooden 
 packages of all kinds. An expert artist is in charge of their designing and engraving department, the company making 
 all plates used. Thev also manufacture cases for Beer, Soda and Mineral Spring Water Bottles. 
 
 Perkins Box"Company are manufacturers of boxes, kits, pails and general cooperage ; also all styles of bottle 
 cases, etc., plates furnished for printing private brands. 
 
 N. Richardson Sons Manufacturing Company make an improved patented steering apparatus for marine craft. 
 Also ice crushers, glue coils, salt grinding- machines, hoisting machinery for hand use, improved seine pursers. 
 
 A. P. Stoddart & Company, founded in 1876, manufacture patented improved oscillating vessel and direct 
 worm and gear yacht steerers for all crafts up to 160 tons, also patented fish fibre machines, srnall cargo winches, 
 hoisting engines for stone carrying vessels, and also gasoline motor boat work and automobile repairing. 
 
 William B. Lantz the originator and sole manufacturer of Lantz's seine purser for mackerel fishing vessels. 
 
 L. D. Lothrop & Son manufacture the Lothrop Fog Horn, patent swivels, patent leads and fishing tackle of 
 all descriptions for the deep sea fisheries, mostly specialties of their invention, and in all cases recognized as the 
 standards. They have a large foreign as well as domestic trade. Sole importers and agents in the United States for 
 the celebrated Arthur James Fish Hooks. 
 
 The Biverstone Manufacturing Company is engaged in the manufacture of fog horns for every kind of craft 
 that floats, being made either plain or combined and convertible (horn and whistle.) The combination for motor boats 
 is an innovation and covers all law requirements. j r^ i 
 
 E. A. Gill manufactures the " Greenhorn " fog horn, which is patented in both the United States and Canada. 
 It is portable, mechanical and made in four sizes, suitable for all craft. 
 
Natiiralh- in Gloucester the reader would expect to find the finest models of yachts, launches, dories, row 
 boats, skiffs, etc. and there are four concerns which for skill, quality of work and material cannot be surpassed. They 
 are: Allen B. Gifford, Percy W. Wheeler, Archie Fenton, Andrew Wheeler. 
 
 The Success Manufacturingf Company which has recently completed its third addition to an already large plant, 
 manufacture the highest grade of sheet metal goods, refrigerators and ash sifters. 
 
 A. Hubbard & vSon, established 1873, have one of the most modern plants in New England and ship their 
 output to many states. Hubbard's Famous Pilot Bread, fancy crackers, etc., comprise a line of a half hundred varieties 
 of popular and attractive packages, containing the delicious and tasty articles of food which they manufacture. 
 
 Davis ^Manufacturing Company, large manufacturers of hardware and the famous Davis Extension Bits, the 
 trade on the latter being foreign as well as domestic. 
 
 H. Ouinn & Company make a specialty' of boilers, tanks and smoke stacks. 
 
 The Holden-Graves Company are well known as manufacturers of shirt waist suits, wrappers, princess and 
 empire dresses, bath robes and theatrical costumes. 
 
 The Royal Manufacturing Company manufacturers of ladies and misses' tailor made house and street dresses. 
 
 The Columbia Bathing Suit Company manufactures women's, misses' and children's bathing and gymnasium 
 suits and bathing caps and shoes. 
 
 The New York Shirt Waist Suits j\Ianufacturing Co. make a specialty of shirt waist suits and princess dresses. 
 
 The Gloucester Can Co. manufactures kerosene, oyster and glue cans and tin fish boxes, in anj' amount desired. 
 
 Samuel V. Colby established 1864, manufacture everything that can be made of Cotton Duck, Awning Stripes 
 or Bunting, sails of every description, yacht sails and hammock beds. 
 
 Howard F. Lufkin, manufacturer of yacht and vessel sails of every description, flags, burgees and the 
 Gloticester Cot Hammock beds. 
 
 George C. Tarr, manufacturer of wooden tackle blocks for every description of hoisting, also oars, belaying 
 pins, hand sj^ikes and shears. 
 
 ^lanuel Simmons, manufacturer of sails for marine craft of any size, from yachts to full rigged ships. 
 
 John Gleason, Jr., manufacturer of sails of every description, tents, awnings, spray hoods, bed hammocks, etc. 
 
 Joseph W. Norwood, manufacturer of oil for tanners and pure cod liver oil for medicinal purposes. 
 
 George A. Reed & Son have a \vide re]5utation as Iron and Brass Founders and manufacturers of general 
 castings, vessel windlasses, hawse pipes, rudder braces and metal keels. 
 
 F. Sylvester & Co., Gloucester Boiler Works. Builders of all types of marine, stationary and locomotive 
 boilers, smoke stacks, gasoline, water and oil tanks, tar kettles. 
 
 Charles A. Marr, patentee of the celebrated boom sheet-buffer or jiber, made to ease the shock or jar resulting 
 from the arrest of the sheet when the booms swing. 
 
 George J. Tarr Co. in business forty-two years at the same locality at Fort Wharf, are large manufacturers of 
 cod and fish oils. Wiljiot A. Reed. 
 
THL GRANITE INDUSTRY OF CAPE ANN. 
 
 -^^^;^:^^ AVE ANN is particularly well fitted for the pursuit of the granite industry, as its rocky hills and shores 
 
 '- ~~7tv afford a comparatively inexhaustible source of supply and its splendid shipping facilities give the advantages 
 
 of quick and economical transportation to market. The firm and uniform texture of Cape Ann granite, its 
 
 ; ^ high crushing test, freedom from impurities, enduring color and its susceptibility to a beautiful and lasting 
 
 1! ^"'"-'^ -i^_ polish make it very desirable for bridges and buildings of the finest architecture. It is peculiarly adapted 
 
 for paving blocks, this has resulted in its being largely specified as the standard granite paving and Cape 
 
 Ann is one of the largest granite paving block producers in the United States. Engineers are more fully realizing that 
 
 granite paving blocks of the Cape Ann standard are the only sanitary, durable and economical pavement for heavy traffic. 
 
 Up to 1800, no granite was quarried on Cape Ann except for the use of its own settlers. In that year, a mill 
 stone was quarried on an order from Newburyport. In 1823, the industry made its first real start and up to 1842 
 furnished all the granite for the fortifications on the islands in Boston Harbor and for the Charlestown and Portsmouth 
 Navy Yards. In 1828, Cape Ann furnished the granite for the chain bridge over the Merrimac River. The industry 
 continued to grow, in 1853 a cargo of underpinning- was sent to San Francisco by vessel. In 1857, a cargo of 
 paving- blocks was sent to New Orleans and shipments of Cape Ann granite followed to Cuba and \'alparaiso. 
 
 From the crude methods first employed in quarrying and handling granite by hand power and transporting- to 
 the shipping point by oxen, the industry has passed successively to the use of the hand derrick in 1836, the steam 
 hoisting engine in 1853, the steam pump in 1854, the steam drill in 1883, up to the quarry railroad in 1885 and to the 
 present use of compressed air for all purposes. 
 
 Owning railroads from quarries to their wharves, their fleet of sloops, schooners, barges, towboats and lighters 
 for transportation in local waters and chartering the best class of coasting schooners and steamers up to 2500 and 3000 
 tons; together with their modern plant equipment, large cutting sheds and polishing mills, with the high quality of 
 their product. Cape Ann granite producers are able to handle contracts of any size, promptly and at a moderate cost, 
 particularly to the sea coast cities where water transportation gives them a decided advantage over inland competitors. 
 
 Among the representative contracts in Cape Ann granite may be mentioned : Registry of Deeds and Probate 
 Building, Salem, Boston Post-Office, Suffolk County Court House, Boston, Charlestown High School, Baltimore Post- 
 Oifice, National Citv Bank, Siegel Cooper Bldg., American Baptist Publication Soc. Bldg., Phila., Real Estate Trust 
 Co. Bldg., Phila., Union National Bank, Pittsburg, Green polished columns of the Madison Ave. Presbyterian Church, 
 New York, B. F. Goodrich Co. Bldg., New York, eighteen highly polished monoliths for the People's Gas & Coke Co. 
 Bldg., Chicago, weighing fifty tons each ; two tremendous bowls, 13 feet in diameter, for the Plaza Improvement Union 
 Station, Washington, now being turned and polished. Longfellow Bridge which connects Boston with Cambridge ; the 
 great spandrel walls for the Brooklyn Bridge ; the Williamsburg Bridge : the Manhattan and Queens Approaches for 
 the Blackwell's Island Bridge ; the Manhattan Anchorage for Bridge No. 3 : the University Heights Bridge, New York. 
 The Logan Monument, Chicago ; Miles Standish Monument, Duxbury ; Base for General Scott Equestrian Monument, 
 Washington. Jetties at Key'West, Fla., Sabine Pass, Texas, Newburyport, Mass., Mayport, Fla. Breakwaters at 
 Plymouth, Revere, Gloucester, and Sandy Bay Harbor of Refuge, Cape Ann, Mass. 
 
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 p) .j^Aryy/se^i^j^AJ^ /eyi-'.£'j3. (p, 
 
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 PlLOUCESTER and vicinity abounds in sites for summer residences. To name them all, would require more 
 space than is allowed in this article, but to name some of the most important would call to mind some of 
 the most beautiful views to be found anywhere in this country. Let us begin with Annisquam, the 
 beautiful little English village with its white church at the head of the cove, the place where artists love to 
 make thsir homi, tha: has furnished sa many studies for these lovers of nature. Annisquam River with 
 
 its islands especially Pearce's or Merchant's Island and Rust's Island. " Agamenticus Heights," "Atlantic 
 Highlands," "Bond's Hill," "Bass Rocks," "Bay View," "Brier Neck," "Camp Comfort," " Dolliver's Neck," 
 "Eastern Point," "Fernwood," "Fresh Water Cove," " Lanesville," " Joppa Road," "Magnolia," "Norwood's 
 Heights," "Rivervdew," "Rocky Neck," " Starknought Heights," "Thurston's Point," " Winniahdin," "Western 
 Ave.," " Wolf Hill," " Wheeler's Point " and " Wingaersheek Beach ". 
 
 If an Englishman, home-sick for a view of the old country, wishes to get a glimpse of home without returning 
 to England, let him stand on the little hill north of the "Oak Grove Cemetery " and look into Riverdale valley and he 
 has an English country village with the little church on the hillside nestling among the houses of the country side. 
 The only bit of modernism that would catch his eye would be the ' ' Addison Gilbert Hospital ' ' and its buildings 
 looming up in the west. Does the Scotchman long for a sight of " Bonnie Scotland"? Let him visit Rust's Island 
 and he will find close resemblance to his home in ' ' Old Scotia " . Is he a bible student who wishes to study the Holy 
 Land ? Let him stand in the old Rockport Road and look down into Dogtown and he will have one of the best 
 reproductions of Palestine that it is possible to find in this country. Is he a native of " Sunny Italy " and longing for 
 the sunsets of that beautiful land? Let him stand at the " Great Rock " in Annisquam or at Norwood's Heights and 
 he will see sunsets that will rival anything that has ever been seen on the Bay of Naples. 
 
 Father Acquarone used to say that the view from what was once called ' ' Beacon Pole Hill ' ' , now 
 Commonwealth Ave., reminded him of the land of his birth in Italy, and the view looking out over the sea toward the 
 low lying shore of Cape Cod was beautiful. 
 
 Gloucester can provide for all. Those who desire to live on the hill or in the valley, or by the seashore or on 
 the river-side, or in the forest, will find here just what they need and in all cases health and strength such as the 
 fashionable and boasted summer resorts cannot give. 
 
 Nature has been lavish with her gifts to " Old Cape Ann ", and it's no wonder that the people living in the 
 inland sections of the country and the crowded cities are coming here in ever increasing numbers each season to enioy 
 the many advantages of this picturesque city. 
 
 Beautiful for situation and the joy of all New England and the North Shore, is the quaint old fishing town of 
 Gloucester, and as the years go by the inhabitants of this great country are beginning to flock hitherward. 
 
 John Cunningham. 
 

 Board 
 
 OF 
 
 Trade 
 
 ROOMS 
 
 Cor. M A I ivT 
 
 ArJi. 
 
 Duncan Sts. 
 
 ^h-rjiigers arc Cordially iin ited lo\isiHhesePooms 
 
WHAT WL ARL-WHAT WL WANT. 
 
 |HE Gloucester Board of Trade is a working body of representative business men. Organized in 1866, and 
 
 incorporated in 1891, it has always taken a prominent part in affairs relating- to the business of the city. 
 
 Many matters of importance to the fisheries and to the city have been carried to a successful termination 
 
 by this Board and the result of the splendid co-operation b^- the members has been to give the Gloucester 
 
 Board of Trade a national prominence. The officers are Thomas J. Carroll, President, Fred A. Pearce, 
 
 Vice President, Edward K. Burnham, Secretary and Treasurer. These with the directors and members, 
 
 nearly all of whom perform service on some important committee, are all active business and professional men of the city. 
 
 The Board proposes to conduct a vigorous campaign to round out the industries of the city, to encourage the 
 
 upbuilding of plants now operating, and to add to their number. 
 
 Working with the Board of Trade in this movement, will be Gloucester's other prominent business body, the 
 Business Men's Association, and the City Government. The commission form of municipal government was adopted 
 in 1908 and by this action, Gloucester proved her progressiveness. Politics are eliminated and Gloucester's affairs are 
 a business proposition, itm by the Mayor and four Aldermen. With these three bodies co-operating to interest capital 
 seeking investment and to enlist the attention of individuals or corporations seeking a location for a factory, results are sure. 
 
 Gloucester has many advantages. Of vital importance is the fact that Gloucester is a city where labor will be 
 contented, therefore reliable. Disease epidemics are unknown, for Gloucester is too healthfully located. Plenty of 
 breathing space and the finest air to breathe ; pure water; reasonable rents ; houses, not crowded blocks, to live in ; 
 good schools ; reliable retail stores ; decent amusements ; moderate priced steamer and trolley trips for holidays ; 
 beautiful natural parks and woods for recreation ; churches of all denominations ; all these arc here to satisfy the good 
 workman and his family and a satisfied workman makes the dividends come easier. 
 
 Transportation facilities are excellent : water and rail for raw material and fuel in, and for manufactured 
 product out, assure reasonable competitive rates. Banking facilities are adequate and liberal, consistent with absolute 
 safety. Labor troubles have had no prominent part in Gloucester's history. Her principal industry, fishing, has always 
 been conducted on the co-operative plan. Profit sharing for generations has created a deep-rooted mutual interest 
 and it brings that most desirable feeling of loyalty and fidelity into the relations of employee and employer that is one 
 of Gloucester's greatest assets. Gloucester has free sites for men who mean business. Liberal treatment is gruaranteed. 
 
 The Board of Trade, the City Govei-nment and the Business Men's Association, represent Gloucester 
 thoroughly and their assurance of fair dealing will be made good. 
 
 We want to interest men of means in our City. We want them to come here in summer and enjoy our resort 
 attractions. We want them to build summer houses and come year after year and we will do what we can to make 
 their stay agreeable. We want to show them how Gloucester can grow industrially without detracting in a single 
 measure from her attractions to the summer citizen. We want them to assist us in helping her grow and we have faith 
 that thev will. Write to or call on the Secretary of the Board. You will be interested in what Gloucester can offer. 
 
RECIPES FOR COOKING GLOUCESTER MACKEREL. 
 
 Mackerel. — Keep Mackerel and other pickled fish under the 
 salt and pickle by putting a weight on them. Use plenty of water 
 and soak them well before cooking. If water does not take out the 
 salt sufficiently, use skimmed milk. 
 
 Fried Mackerel. — Freshen the Mackerel as for broihng. 
 Fry brown six good-.sized slices of pork. Take out the pork, then 
 fry the Mackerel a nice brown. Serve the fried pork with the fish. 
 
 Broiled Salt M.\ckerel. — Freshen the fish by soaking in 
 plenty of cold water 10 or 12 hours, having the skin side of the fish 
 uppermost. Drain and wipe the fish dry without breaking it ; lay 
 it between the well greased bars of a double broiler and broil over 
 a clear fire until a light brown, then turn it on to a heated dish. 
 Beat up a large tablespoonful of butter with a teaspoonful of lemon 
 juice or vinegar and tablespoonful of hot water ; add pinch of 
 pepper. Melt over boiling water and pour over the fish and serve. 
 
 JIackerel in Cre.am, No. 1. — Freshen as for broiling, then 
 lay into a baking pan, skin side down and to one Mackerel add a 
 pint of new milk ; put into the oven and bake until the milk is 
 nearly baked up. About five minutes before it is dished add a small 
 piece of butter. 
 
 Mackerel a la Cream. — Soak a salt mackerel in cold water 
 for forty-eight hours ; place in a shallow pan, cover it an inch deep 
 with milk, place on the top of the stove and let boil about fifteen 
 minutes, take the mackerel carefully out of the pan and place on a 
 platter skin side down, pour the milk over it and serve with a little 
 pepper, garnish with parsley and sliced lemon. Prepared by this 
 method the fish contain the least amount of salt. 
 
 To Boil Mackerel. — Do not need quite as much soaking as 
 for the above. Put them on to boil in cold water and boil gently 
 thirty minutes. Serve with drawn butter. 
 
 Population of City of Gloucester last 
 Number of school children 
 Number of voters 1908 
 Poll Tax payers 1908 
 Non-resident tax payers 1903 
 Postal receipts 1908 . 
 Postal receipts 1899 . 
 
 CAPITAL STOCK 
 $100,000 
 
 1 1908 
 
 26.000 Valuation 1903 
 
 5.211 Amount raised by assessment i 
 
 5,228 Miles of streets . . . . . 
 
 7.961 Product of Gloucester Fisheries in 1908 
 
 657 Salt used in Gloucester for the curing of fish i 
 
 $72,000 Bank resources . . . . . 
 
 129.323,97.1 lbs. 
 74,000,000 lbs. 
 . $9,773,116 
 
 GLOUCtSTLR 
 
 MASS. 
 
 CAPE ANN ANCHOR WORK5 
 
 Manufacturers of 
 
 ^ANCHORS ^ 
 
 of all kinds and sizes 
 
 From 10 Pounds to 10,000 Pounds, including the celebrated Cape Ann Fishing and Yacht Anchors. 
 Also constantly on hand, Wood Stock, Iron Stock, Trawl and Trap Anchors. 
 Manufacturers of Steel and Iron Forgings smooth forged, rough tooled or finished. 
 Satisfaction guaranteed on all work. All work promptly executed. 
 
 f. A. Fisher, President and General Manager 
 
 Smith. Treasurer 
 
 W. F. Fisher, Superintendent 
 
CAPE ANN 5AVING5 BANK 
 
 109 MAIN 5TRLLT 
 
 GLOUCESTER. MASS. 
 
 Conducted under the Banking Laws of the Commonwealth 
 of Massachusetts 
 
 TOTAL ASSLTS. $2,859,568.67 
 
 Robert R. Fears, President 
 Lincoln 5. Simonds. Vice President Daniel T. Babson. Treasurer 
 
BUTTLRICK PATTERNS 
 
 TAILORING AND DRE.55MAK1NG 
 
 BUTMAN & FRENCH 
 
 THL DLPARTMLNT 5 T O R L OF QUALITY 
 
 THRLL FLOORS DLVOTLD TO 
 GLNLRAL DRY GOODS 
 RLADY-TO-WLAR . . . MILLINLRY 
 DRAPLRIL5 AND CHINA 
 
 A MLN'5 FURNISHING DLPARTMLNT 
 
 THAT 15 A STORL IN ITSLLf 
 
 SATISFACTORY GOODS DISPLAYLD 
 
 IN THL LIGHTL5T AND MOST ATTRACTIVE STORL ON 
 
 C A P L ANN 
 
 MAKE THIS YOUR HEADQUARTERS WHEN SHOPPING 
 
 BUTMAN & FRLNCH 
 
 POST OFFICL SQUARL, GLOUCLSTLR 
 
 INTERIOR FINISHING 
 
 Exterior ^ ^ Painting 
 
 and all branches of our business need 
 great care in the selection of men and 
 materials. We use only the best materials 
 and assign our men to work in which 
 they are specialists, thereby giving better 
 quality and more satisfactory service. 
 
 THADDEU5 GRIFFIN 
 
 (mtwikk 
 
 146 MAIN ST. 
 
 271-275 Main St. 
 
 A complete and carefully selected lir 
 
 Gloucester, Mass. 
 
 of wall hangings 
 
 Choice Fruits S> 
 
 Tel. 
 
 265-4 
 
 hed 1875 
 
PARTICULAR ATTE.NT10N GIVEN TO LIGHTING 
 SUMMER RL51DENCL5 
 
 5LRVICL COVE.R5 GLOUCL5TLR. MAGNOLIA 
 AND ROCKPORT 
 
 Gloucester Llectric Company 
 
 L. L. MUNGLR, 5upt. 
 
 ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER 
 
 CAN BL HAD ANYWHE.RE. 
 
 ON CAPL ANN. ELECTRIC 
 
 CARRIAGES CHARGED AT OUR STATION 
 
 ELECTRIC MOTORS, ELECTRIC 
 FANS AND ELECTRIC FLAT 
 IRONS CARRIED IN STOCK 
 
FRE.D L. DAVIS 
 
 We Sell Only lo Wholesale Trade 
 
 ARMSBY CODES USED 
 
 Ask for these brands and be sure of 
 
 getting "Pure Goods" 
 "Gold Edge' "Simon Pure" 
 " Tiger Lily " " American Beauty " 
 
 " Very Best " " Lakewood " 
 
 DAVI5 BROTHERS 
 
 PRODUCLRS 
 Wholesale Dealers, Exporters and Curers of 
 
 SALT. 5MOKLD AND PICKLLD FI5H 
 
 51-53-55-57-59-61-63 ROGE.R5 51. 
 GLOUCESTER. MASS. 
 
 All our goods are guaranteed packed 
 lo conform lo National Pure Food Law 
 
 We own and operate our own fishing 
 
 ^-^^N L. PHiLt 
 
 /P 
 
 'S 
 
 ARCHITECT 
 
 GLOUCESTER. MASS. 
 Gloucester Safe Deposit &: Trust Co. 
 
 ucesten Mass. 
 
LePage's 
 
 PUT UP IN ^-" 
 
 B0TTLES,TUBESA5ftCANS 
 
 VISITORS WELCOME 
 
COMPLIME.NT5 OF 
 
 PLRKIN5 BOX COMPANY 
 
 GLOUCE5TE.R. MASS. 
 EVLRYTHING FOR THL SALT FISH PACKER 
 
 INCORPORATtD 1 847 
 
 Gloucester 
 Mutual Fishing Insurance Co. 
 
 GLOUCL5TLR. MA55. 
 
 DAVID S. PRLS50N. President and Treasurer 
 
 A5K MR. CHICK 
 
 he probably knows anything about seashore 
 property 
 
 DAVID B. SMITH. Vice President 
 
 PRANCIS BLNNLTT. Secretary GLOUCESTER 
 
 MASSACHUSETTS 
 
OLDE.5T INSURANCE AGENCY IN THL CITY 
 
 .Fire Insurance That Insures... 
 
 In buying- Fire Insurance as in buying anything else, inspect carefully, rather than adopt the "grab-box" method. 
 We offer for your inspection the following list of Companies confident that no better list can be presented. 
 
 
 Organized 
 
 Surplus 
 
 Aetna 
 
 1819 
 
 $9,207,078 
 
 Commercial Union 
 
 1861 
 
 2,431,844 
 
 Home, N. Y. 
 
 1853 
 
 13,682,821 
 
 Hartford . 
 
 1810 
 
 7,061,592 
 
 Ins. Co. of North America 
 
 1792 
 
 4,750,905 
 
 Pennsylvania 
 
 1825 
 
 2,669,527 
 
 Phoenix, Hartford 
 
 1854 
 
 4,169,175 
 
 Roval 
 
 1845 
 
 3,100,021 
 
 vSpringfield F. & M. 
 
 1849 
 
 3,903,901 
 
 Fidelity, N. Y. 
 
 1906 
 
 2,557,231 
 
 Quincy Mutual 
 
 1851 
 
 475,304 
 
 Traders & Mechanics Mut. 
 
 1848 
 
 206,181 
 
 New Jersey Plate Glass . 
 
 1868 
 
 291,859 
 
 Gef the habit of looking over your policies and see if you have any of the above 
 
 OVLR CITY NATIONAL BANK 
 
 JOHN CUNNINGHAM 
 
 INSURANCE AND RLAL L5TATL 
 
 GLOUCESTLR. MA55. 
 
DAVIS BR05. 
 
 Largest Grocery and on 
 
 Cape 
 
 Provision Dealers Ann 
 
 GOODS DELIVLRLD LVLRV WHE-Rt 
 
 179-183 MAIN ST. 
 
 \sL^!^sm0>^iSS^issmsss&&^iss^^ 
 
 P05TI0FFICL SQUARE 
 
 TE.L. CONN. 
 
 Granolithic Work a Specialty 
 
 Jobbing of All Kinds Shop; Rear 13 Pearce St. 
 
 Office : I 8 Commonwealth A 
 
 WM. M. LANL 
 
 MA50N AND CONTRACTOR 
 
 5IMON GARLAND 
 
 BUILDER 
 
 Telephone Conneclk 
 
 133 MAPLE.WOOD AVE.. Business Lslablished 1858 
 
 GLOUCLSTLR, MASS 
 
METHODS/BONING CODFISH 
 
 from Ocean /^(ONSUMER. 
 
 Nabob and T^hatchers 
 Island brands of abso- 
 lutely Boneless Georges 
 Codfish_^^^ 
 
 UNEQUALLED IN QUALITY 
 
 5-10-20 --40 & XOCt /b boxe^ 
 
 CONSUMERS FISH CO. 
 
 Gloucester, Mass 
 
 Finest qrades of ^Salt 
 Water Products sold and 
 delivered directly to the 
 consumei^-^ 
 
 Copyright, Ldward K. Burnham, 1909. 
 
¥lie ¥e^t of Tinie 
 
 "Time proves all things." This fact must be considered in 
 estimating the worth and stability of any business house. The 
 " test of time " gives at once a basis for such an estimate. The 
 longer a concern has conducted business with an honorable record, 
 the higher will be the estimate formed. 
 
 In the banking world even more than in other lines of business, 
 time must be the test of strength. It takes time to prove whether 
 the management of a bank is conservative, whether its policy is 
 broad, yet safe. 
 
 This bank has had an unbroken history of iifty-four years of 
 successful business, over half a century of satisfactory service to 
 Gloucester people. 
 
 With its ample resources, excellent standing, and able board of 
 directors, it offers every convenience, service, and accommodation 
 known to modern banking. 
 
 Interest allowed on deposits subject to check. Safe Deposit 
 Boxes to rent, f4.00 and upwards per year. Traveler's Checks, 
 Letters of Credit, and Foreign exchange, available throughout the 
 world. 
 
 Cape Ann National Bank 
 
 GLOUCESTER, MASS. 
 Established in J855 Located at J56 Main St. 
 
 For a Delicate Appetite 
 
 what more tempting, appe- 
 tizing, satisfying and easily 
 prepared than a juicy lamb 
 chop? We supply delicious 
 chops as a welcome change 
 to the home menu. All 
 other meats ; individual 
 appetites crave at your ser- 
 vice here as well. Our 
 prices, cutting, skill and 
 promptness in service all 
 commend this first-class 
 butcher shop. 
 
 JOS. C. SHEPHERD & CO. 
 
 t4I and 143 MAIN ST. 
 
 There's a Nice Piece 
 of Ham For You ! 
 
 as anyone can see in a day's 
 walk. This butcher shop is 
 well known and deservedly 
 popular on account of its 
 excellent smoked and dried 
 meats — hams, bacons, etc. 
 We take the same pains in 
 cutting and serving these as 
 with fresh meats — and you 
 know what that means. 
 
 HAM 
 
 AND 
 
 BACON 
 
 COP'VPlSiMT 
 
\J>^ W G.Brown & Co. 
 
 ' ■ 
 
 _ Gloucester's 
 Leading Department Store 
 
 GenerdDryGoods 
 
 Kitchen Furnishings 
 
 50 Distinct Departments 
 
 Our Motto 
 
 Aggressive Progressive'' 
 
"TARR'5 BRANDS" 
 
 Marine Paints 
 
 CAPE ANN COPPLR PAINT 
 RE.D YACHT COMPOSITION 
 GRLEN RACING COMPOSITION 
 MARINE IRON PAINT 
 
 For Iron or Steel Vessels 
 
 (Brown color) 
 (A beautiful bright Red) 
 (A handsome light Green) 
 (Anti-corrosive and Anti-fouling) 
 
 These compositions have proven themselves to be the superior 
 of any other like products in durability and anti-fouling qualities. 
 
 MANUFACTURED BY 
 
 The James H. Tarr CompanyLtd 
 
 67 MIDDLE 5TRLLT, GLOUCE,5TLR 
 
 Carpets and Furniture 
 
 Upholstery, Draperies and Window 5hades 
 
 Factory and Office 
 
 GLOUCESTER. MASS., U. S. A. 
 
 Specialties in Summer Cottage Fu rnishings 
 
 A complete assortment of the Wm. Leavens and Co. plain 
 Mission cottage furniture is shown in our furniture department at 
 Leavens prices — also a large line of seamless tube enamel beds in 
 plain effects, suitable for cottage use, guaranteed National springs, 
 and sanitary bedding are leading features of this department. 
 
 Willow furniture in a soft green tint, also the new Baronial 
 finish is shown here in large variety. We carry a complete line of 
 Rustic Hickory furniture — veranda chairs, rockers and settees, 
 porch shades. Rowe's Gloucester Bed Hammocks, etc. 
 
 5UMMLR RUGS 
 
 We claim to have the finest assortment to be .seen in this 
 section — New England, Plymouth, Poster, Bungalo, Log Cabin, 
 El Hamman, Navajo, Shaiki — these are all designed and woven 
 especially for cottage use. ' 
 
 Orders for furniture, upholstery, cushion work and window 
 shades attended to promptly. Competent workmen in every 
 department. 
 
 COME TO •• GLOUCESTER BY THE OCEAN" 
 
 We extend to you a cordial invitation to visit us upon your 
 arrival. The extensive lines of furnishings, especially selected for 
 seashore homes will please you. Attentive and polite salesmen 
 coupled with prompt deliveries make this the favorite store on the 
 North Shore. 
 
 A. MANTON PATTILLO 
 
Best Dealers Everywliere 
 
 ^GortonsSeaFoods 
 
 e/ 
 
 They are ihe Standard Product of 
 
 Mew Engl ar\cl'3 oldest industry. 
 
 Carefully prepared under most Modern Methods. 
 
 The Gorton-Pew Fisheries Company. 
 
 Principal Headquarters GLOUCESTER, MaSS. 
 
Merchant 
 
 Box and 
 ...Cooperage Co. 
 
 Largest 
 
 Manufacturers 
 
 of 
 
 Boxes and 
 Cooperage 
 
 
 for the 
 
 Fisfi Packing 
 
 Industry 
 
 We Carry the Largest Line of Fish Packers Supplies 
 
 TV^II.T.IA^I H. JORi:)i^N & CO. 
 
 GLOUCESa-ER, MASS. 
 
 E.xA.>.«HB.n is<». FISH MERCHANTS 
 
 LARGEST MANUFACTURERS OF 
 
 Bottle ^ Cases 
 
 IN NEW ENGLAND 
 
 TeL 4 and 5 
 
 Gloucester, Mass. 
 
TALI5M AN 
 
 FI5H PRODUCTS 
 
 ARE DOUBLY GUARANTLLD 
 
 TO THE UNITED STATED DLPT. OF CirTigB^ '^ ° ^"^ CONSUMER- Thai 
 
 AGRICULTURE - Thai "TALISMAN" ^^P''^ "TALISMAN" stands for highest quality 
 
 fish complies with all Federal Food Laws * possible to obtain : The Pick of the Pack 
 
 SWIFT & COMPANY 
 
 FISH DLPARTMLNT 
 
 The " Story of Talisman " 
 
 an interesting booklel Trade supplied by branch 
 
 gladly sent on request GLOUCLSTLR, MASS. houses . . . everywhere 
 
STORAGE 
 
 LIGHTERS 
 
 STEVEDORES , STRAITS, BANK. SPE.RM WHALL AND PRLSSLD ME.NHADLN FISH OILS 
 
 T. L. RtLD 
 
 GLNE.RAL FRLIGHT 
 FORWARDERS 
 
 GLOUCESTER, MASS. 
 TELLPHONL 
 
 Mover of Safes, Macfiinery 
 Pianos and Furniture 
 
 Main Office. 6 Plum St. 
 Brancli Office. 6 Pearce St. 
 
 A. W. Dodd & Co. 
 
 MANUFACTURERS 
 
 LIQUID F15H GLUL 
 
 Pure Newfoundland and Domestic 
 
 COD OILS 
 
 GLOUCESTER. MASS. 
 
 PURL COD LIVLR OIL FOR MLDICINAL PURPOSES 
 
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 Visitors 
 
 YfARRANTED PURE COD ^ 
 
 
 
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 CLOUCESTER, MASS. 
 
 PRO0UCERS.IMP0RTER5 ANDWHOLKALE FISH DEALERS 
 
Buy ^ Gloucester ^ Fish 
 
 Buy it of us if you can 
 but buy Gloucester Fish 
 
 The name Gloucester on it 
 
 insures the 
 best goods put up on honor 
 
 BUY GLOUCL5TLR FI5H 
 
 L. K. BURNHAM FI5H CO. 
 
 Wholesale Dealers in Dry, Pickled, 5moked and Canned Fish 
 
 FI5HING ^ TACKLL 
 
 AND FISHLRMLN'5 OUTFITS 
 OF ALL KINDS 
 
 Importers of the F 
 "ARTHUR JAML5 
 FISH HOOKS 
 
 Manufacturers of 
 LOTHROP'S 
 FOG HORN 
 
 L D. LOTHROP & 50N 
 
 63-70 DUNCAN 5T. 
 
 Marshall & Marchant 
 
 THL UP-TO-DATL CONFLCTIONLRS 
 AND ICL CRLAM MAKLRS 
 
 are now located in their new store' which is 
 one of the finest and most complete 
 confectionery stores in New tin^land 
 
 Finest Collection of the 
 Rare and Unique in China,. 
 Brass, Japanese Goods, 
 Cut Glass and Othej- 
 Ware in Essex County. 
 An inspection of our 
 stock is a delight 
 
 118 MAIN ST. 
 
 The store with a reputation 
 
 Hartwells Gift 5hop 
 
 CHESTNUT STREET 
 
 Just off Main Street 
 
 GLOUCESTER 
 
NAU55 
 
 L B. NAU55 & 50N5 
 
 GLOUCESTER MASSACHUSETTS 
 
 LUMBLR 
 
Manchester, Ma 
 
 BRANCH GARAGE-S 
 
 Bass Rocks, Mass. i AUCTIONELR 
 
 NOTARY PUBLIC 
 
 PLRKIN5 & CORLISS 
 
 AUTOMOBILL DE.ALLR5 
 
 Packard Cars to Rent 
 
 1 MIDDLE ST. 
 GLOUCL5TLR, MASS. 
 
 FRLD BRADLEY 
 
 COMMISSION MERCHANT 
 Importer ^ of ^ Salt 
 
 187 MAIN ST. 
 
 GLOUCtSTLR, MASS. 
 
 CHARLLS H. M. HAZLL 
 
 FIRL AND MARINL INSURANCE 
 
 JUSTICE. OF THE, PLACE 
 
 187 MAIN ST. 
 GLOUCL5TER. MASS. 
 
 ESTABLI5HE.D 1885 
 
 CABLE. ADDRESS: WILMORE. 
 
 WM. F. MOORL & CO. 
 
 WHOLESALE FISH DEALERS 
 
 BONELESS FISH 
 
 MACKEREL 
 
 HERRING 
 
 FISH FOR EXPORT 
 
CAPITAL, 5200,000 
 
 SURPLUS PROFITS, 5250.000 
 
 DLPOSITS, $2,440,000 
 
 GLOUCL5TLR 5AFL DLP05IT 
 
 AND . . . TRUST . . . COMPANY 
 
 General banking business conducted 
 
 Interest allowed on deposits 
 
 Safe deposit boxes to rent 
 
 Acts as Executor, Trustee and Administrator 
 
 
 Commenced business, January, 1892 
 
 A steady growth for 1 7 years 
 
 Thiis is the result of progressive 
 
 conservative banking methods 
 
 C. L. F15HLR. President 
 
 JOHN K. DU5TIN. Vice President 
 
 H. A. SMITH. Treasurer 
 
The Finest Store in the City 
 
 For thirty years the store of Thompson the Jeweler has 
 been acknowledged the leading one of the city in its 
 line. The expression. "How can Gloucester afford such 
 a store as this?" is often heard from strangers visiting 
 the city. The people of Gloucester know the reasons. 
 Strict attention to business, and a practical knowledge 
 of it. Reliable goods and up-to-date stock. Work done 
 as it should be, and everything as represented. These 
 are the reasons for the success of 
 
 F. 5. THOMPSON, Jeweler 
 
 THL PHLLP5 STUDIO 
 
 Portraits by Photography 
 
 Art Dealer 
 
 and Picture Framer 
 
 Oil Paintings, . . Water 
 
 Colors and 
 
 Photographs of Gloucester 
 
 TLA ROOM CONNLCTLD 
 
 164 MAIN ST. 
 
 GLOUCESTE.R 
 
 BLDG 
 
 A. B. GIF FORD 
 
 MOTOR BOATS AND LNGINLS 
 
 Seine Boats for Launches 
 $50 and upwards 
 
 Agent for Ferro and Lathrop Motors 
 
 MIDDLE. 5TRLLT 
 
 WILLARD 5. PIKL 
 
 UNDLRTAKLR 
 
 75 WASHINGTON STRLLT 
 
 Tel. Connection 
 
Products T Sea 
 
 Please . . Particular . . People 
 
 who appreciate the true value of QUALITY and PURITY in 
 FOOD5. q LDUCATOR Brand CODFISH in 1-2 and 3 lb. 
 packages and in hermetically sealed glass. ^ CANNED 
 5HRIMP. CLAMS, CLAM CHOWDLR. SMOKLD NORWAY 
 SARDINL5 and other sea products are warranted by us to be 
 the BEST the OCEAN can produce. ^ When again ordering 
 salt fish, why not ask your dealer for the EDUCATOR Brand 
 
 5YLVANU5 SMITH & CO., Inc 
 
 GLOUCL5TE.R. MASS. 
 New England Branch P. W. Merchant, Mgr. 
 
 P. S.— We extend to all a cordial invitation to visit our plant at any tirr 
 you ere in our city. We are pleased to lurnisti competent guides i 
 visitors to explain the different processes from catching to curing and packir 
 
■TRUE. ME.RIT ILNDURLS THE. 
 TLST OF TIML" 
 
 5PE.CiALIST5 IN PRESCRIPTION 
 V^/ORK 
 
 Wlthlrlll'5 Drug Storl 
 
 POST OFFICE 5QUARL 
 
 HE.ADQUARTLR5 FOR DRUGS. 
 MEDICINES and CHEMICALS 
 
 KNOX HATS 
 
 All the clothing is 
 
 pressed and fitted 
 
 to customers 
 
 before delivery 
 
 TELEPHONE 3 1 5-5 
 
 47 1EAR5 OF PUBLIC 
 CONFIDENCE 
 
 STEIN-BLOCH SMART CLOTHES 
 
 Shirts 
 
 Khaki Goods 
 
 Outing Suits 
 
 Trunks 
 
 BLUE SERGE SUITS 
 
 $15 $18 $20 
 
 STACY'S CLOTHING 5TORL 
 
 6 PLEASANT STREET 
 
 OPPOSITE POST OFFICE 
 
 Custom Tailoring 
 
 FORD & WA55 
 
 NORTH SHORE SHOL MAKE.R5 
 
 GLOUCESTER 
 
 MASSACHUSETTS 
 
 BOYNTON'5 IMPROVLD 
 PROCL55 ^ ^ OILLD 
 CLOTHING COMPANY 
 
 Gloucester. Mass.. U. 5. A. J. Frank Boynton, Proprietor 
 
 The oiled products of our new and up-to-date factory, 
 on account of their superiority are in constant demand by 
 fishermen, students, avitomobilists, yachtsmen, sportsmen 
 and laborers ; in fact, by all classes of people who require 
 substantial Waterproof Oiled Clothing-. 
 
PURVE.VORS OF 
 
 HIGH 
 
 GRADL 
 
 FI5H 
 
 TO 
 
 FAMILY AND 
 
 HOTEL 
 
 TRADL 
 
 LXPRLS5 CHARGES .... 
 PREPAID TO "lOUR DOOR 
 
 WRITE FOR PRICE LIST . . 
 AND FREE RECIPE BOOK 
 
 \\E SHIP ONLY SELECTED GRADES OF 
 
 GLORGE.5 BONE.LL55 CODFISH 
 FANCY FAT SALT MACKEREL 
 SMOKED AND CANNED FISH 
 
 IN LARGE VARIETY 
 
 Address: 
 
 GOLD BOND PACKING CO. 
 
 GLOUCESTER. MASS. 
 
 Correspondence desired with live, energetic brokers 
 
 Fi5H ^ 5PLCIALTIL5 
 
 GLOUCLSTLR SALT F15H CO. 
 
 Incorporated 
 
 F15H 
 
 We are producers and ship selected 
 grades of all kinds of salt, pickled 
 and smoked fish direct to the high 
 
 class grocery trade 
 
 Write . . us . . for . . price . . list 
 
 PRODUCERS 
 CURERS AND 
 JOBBERS 
 
 SALT 
 
 SMOKED AND 
 
 PICKLED FISH GLOUCESTER 
 
 CHA5. F. W0N50N & CO. 
 
 MASSACHUSETTS 
 
C. W. LUCL & CO. Inc. F- A. barklr 
 
 ^ GLOUCESTER. MASS. 
 
 *-^ Manufacturer 
 
 COMPLETL 
 
 HOU5L ^ FURNI5HLR5 
 
 9 and 11 LLM 5TRLLT 
 
 GLOUCESTER. MASS. 
 
 SEE US BEFORE VOU BUY 
 
 II makes no difference what vou want for your home, we can furnisti it 
 
 BOSTON DISTRIBUTORS: 
 
 5. 5. Pierce Co.. Houghton & Dutton. R. H. White Co.. Henry Siege! Co.. and 
 
 leading Druggists. Hudnufs Pharmacy. New York. Agents 
 
BUY YOUR FISH DIRECT FROM 
 GLOUCL5TLR 
 
 FAMILIES who are fond of FISH ought to get them direct, 
 as no dealer anywhere else could possibly be in a position 
 to offer you goods as perfect and wholesome as we can 
 
 WL OFFER YOU . . . . THL CONSUMER . . . . SALT MACKEREL 
 
 tender, fat fellows; broiled for breakfast they are delicious 
 
 We only sell direct to the consumer, not through the grocer or other dealers 
 Send your order by mail, we will fill it by express. 
 WE PREPAY ALL EXPRESS charges and guarantee satisfaction. 
 If you like them send check, if not return by express to us 
 
 IT COSTS \0[] NOTHING TO TRY THEM 
 
 Our FRESH LOBSTERS in parchment lined cans, go through no process except boiling (no preparation 
 of any kind being used). Packed solid in whole pieces, they look better, and are absolutely safer and fresher 
 than you can buy in inland markets. ^ All of our other canned fish and goods are equally fine and of the 
 same high grade. ^ A postal will bring you full particulars 
 
 FRANK E. DAVIS FISH COMPANY 
 
 91 ROGERS STREET GLOUCESTER, MASS. 
 
ROWE'S 
 
 GLOUCESTER 
 
 BED HAMMOCK 
 
 L. L ROWL & 50N, Inc. 
 
 5AILMAKLR5 AND 
 SHIP CHANDLLR5 
 
 GLOUCL5TLR 
 
 MA55ACHU5LTTS 
 
 HARDWARE ^ "^^^S^,^"^, 
 
 PLUMBING 
 
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 We employ a large force of expert 
 Tinsmiths, Plumbers and vSteam-fitters 
 
 Our stock of Hardware and Kitchen 
 Goods is the best kept and most 
 complete of any store in Essex County 
 
 Prompt attention given to new 
 work or repairing 
 
 L L. ANDRLW5 & CO. 
 
 Workshop Entrance, 44 Rogers 5t. 
 
 117 & 121 Main St. Gloucester, Mass. 
 
M. J. MLAGHLR^^ 
 
 NORTH 5HORL 
 
 II PLEASANT ST. 
 
 RLAL L5TATL 
 
 GLOUCESTER 
 
 FOR 5ALL 
 
 Sea Shore Estates . . Farms . . Acreage 
 and Hill Tops. Cottage and Bungalow Sites 
 
 TO RLNT 
 
 Best list of Cottages on the North Shore 
 Renting from $200 to $10,000 for the Season 
 
 A MATCHLL55 5LRVICL 
 
 Is offered through Mr. Meagher due from 
 his fifteen years personal inspection and 
 thorough knowledge of Individual Properties 
 and locations 
 
 M. J. MLAGHLR 
 
 North Shore Real Lstate 
 
 TELEPHONES. Gloucester ] |5^:^ ^«'^% 
 
 1 1 Pleasant 5t., Gloucester 
 
Steamers Ceipe Ann and City of Gloucester make daily trips during summer 
 between Boston and Gloucester 
 
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 AGLNT5 FOR MAGLE, AND GLE.NWOOD RANGL5, LDDY RLFRIGLRATOR5 
 
 L. L. SMITH COMPANY 
 
 Incorporated 
 
 PLUMBING, HLATING AND SHEET METAL WORK 
 
 CONTRACTORS 
 
 Dealers in Plumbers' and Steam 
 
 Fitters' Supplies, Hardware, Paint Qa5^ Pow 
 
 rV In Pipe . . Cut . . to . . Sketch . . by 
 
 221 AND 223 MAIN STRLLT 
 
 Branch Store at 1 69 tast Main St. 
 
 TLLLPHONL 560 
 
 Private Branch Exchange 
 
GLOUCL5TLR GA5 LIGHT CO. 
 
 96 AND 98 MAIN 5TRLLT 
 
 FURN15HLD TO OUR 
 CUSTOMERS AT COST 
 
 Cook with Gas — the Modern 
 Fuel— Cheaper than Coal 
 
 FOR COOKING AND HLATING 
 
 WE- CARRY A COMPLETE STOCK OF 
 GAS FIXTURES AND GAS FITTINGS 
 
 TELEPHONE. 629-2 
 
 OLD AND NEW HOUSES PIPED 
 AT . . SHORT . . NOTICE 
 

 HtRL 15 OLD ROBINSON CRUSOE. Not making fish stew, but the best of Fish Glue 
 
 He is Ihe first man ever to do so 
 
 CRU50L LIQUID FI5H GLUL 
 
 sticks everything but the buyer 
 
 It is stronger and sweeter 
 than any other glue 
 
 BUY THL BEST 
 
 Manufactured by 
 
 Will mend anything 
 Always ready to use 
 
 The Robinson Glue Company 
 
 E-stablished 1868 
 Send us 10c and we will mail you a trial bottle 
 
 GLOUCtSTLR. MASS. 
 
 HUGH PARKHUR5T & CO. GLOUCL5TLR ^ P'^P clothing 
 
 Producers and Wholesale Dealers I 
 
 5ALT WATLR FI5H 
 
 We make a specialty of 
 Georges Tongues and Sounds 
 Georges Slack Salted Pollock 
 
 GLOUCLSTLR. MASS. 
 
 MANL'FACTURLRS OF 
 
 WHEEL, HOOK, 
 CAPE ANN 
 
 GOOD YEAR 
 BRANDS OF 
 
 OILLD CLOTHING 
 
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 Boston 
 Trolley 
 
 & Northern St. Ry. Co 
 Lines 
 
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 TAKL YOUR 
 
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 LOW COST 
 
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 Special Cars are the best when 
 you are going anywhere in a party 
 
 Connect Gloucester with the Finest Scenic, 
 
 Historic and Outing Places to be found 
 
 in all New England 
 
 For Rates and Information about this Service ask 
 at the office of the Division Supt. B. & N. St. Ry. Co. 
 
IN5URANCL 
 
 GEORGE STELLfS SONS & CO. 
 Gloucester Massachusetts 
 
 JAMES ABBOTT, Treasurer 
 
 TELEPHONE CONNECTION 
 
 CAPL POND ICL COMPANY 
 
 WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN 
 
 PURL CAPL POND ICL 
 
 For Vessels, Stores, Hotels, Markets and Family Use 
 
 OFFICE, 105 1-2 MAIN ST. 
 
 GLOUCESTER, MASS. 
 
 J. A. JOHNSON 
 
 "A HEAD OF THEM ALL' 
 
 IF YOU WANT TO 
 
 BUY OR SELL— HIRE. OR RENT 
 MORTGAGE OR INSURE IN 
 
 GLOUCE.5TLR and VICINITY 
 
 Communicate at once 
 with the office of 
 
 J. A. J0HN50N 
 
 1 I PLEASANT ST. , ^M THE REAL ESTATE 
 
 GLOUCESTER MASSACHUSETTS Auctioneer and Insurance Man 
 
 P. J. O'BRILN & CO. 
 
 GET WIS E T R Y 
 
 " Snow Lily "...." Try Sum " 
 "Cream Cakes" Brands 
 CODFISH 
 
 GLOUCESTER, MASS. 
 
GO TO 
 
 M05L5 5. BAB50N'5 
 
 \vHE.N IN \sANT Of 
 
 FINL ^ GROCLR1L5 
 
 14 MAIN ST. 
 
 Dealers in Gasolene tnSines 
 
 Steam and Gasolene Engine Repairing 
 
 MOORLAND HOTLL 
 
 AND COTTAGL5 
 
 Directly on the Ocean 
 
 BASS ROCKS 
 GLOUCtSTtR. MASS. 
 
 The Rocky Neck Marine Railway 
 
 A. P. 5TODDART & CO. 
 
 LNGINLLR5 AND MACHINISTS 
 
 "Vessel and Yacht Steerers 
 
 Boom Buffers, Cargo Winches 1 
 
 ' Manufacturers of ' 
 
 236 MAIN 5TRLE.T 
 
 OLOUCESTLR 
 
 ..Fish Fibering Machines 
 Hoisting Engines, E.tc. 
 
 MASSACHU5LTT5 
 
 COMPANY 
 
 GLOUCE.5TLR, 
 
 Two Large Modern Marine 
 Railways 
 
 MASS. 
 
 The hauling out and repairing ol 
 yachts a specialty 
 
WILLIAM H. JORDAN. President WILLIAM BAB50N. Vice Prest. and Cashier 
 
 GL0UCL5TLR NATIONAL BANK 
 
 FORMERLY GLOUCL5TLR BANK . . . E5TABLISHLD 1796 
 
 This old-established bank, identified with the business of this community 
 for one hundred and thirteen years, having re-modeled its banking 
 rooms for the convenience and pleasure of its customers, invites the 
 accounts of individuals, firms and corporations. J- J- J- J^ ^ J- Ji 
 
 EVLRY FACILITY AFFORDED WARRANTED BY GOOD BANKING 
 
 CAPITAL $200,000 SURPLUS $100,000 
 
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