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Old Hacking Days in Bath Recalled by Veteran Sailor
An elderly Bath resident reflections on the city’s hackmen of yesteryear describe how the trade thrived before electric cars bicycles and steam launches changed transport. They recall stable locations on Vine and Water streets former Pask and Mason shops and the high earnings from calls parties and boat mornings with drivers like Ed Pask and Charlie Carter.
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Bath
Old State Line
Rockland
Bath Galvanizing Works
Vine and
Water Streets
John W. Pask
Alameda
Pask
Pond
Mason Blacksmith Shop
John Pask
John Murphy
James McDonald
Edward Mitchell
Charles Skinner
Charles Carter
Val Hinckley
George Bright
Edward Pask
New Meadows Inn
Garnet
Bill Lord
Bill Lord’s Or Even Down To Pott's Point
Boston
Ed Pask
Masons
Old Patten
Charlie Carter
Sagadahock House