Life Savers Save Schooner Manning Pumps All Night
Captain Melbourne Cook and five crew members fought casts of seas and pumped through a long night as the three masted schooner Theresa Wolf, loaded with 500 tons of coal, labored into port in tow of the cutter Gresham. Despite losses of keel and torn sails, the crew endured, with Captain Cook determined to reach Lubec Maine rather than dock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melbourne Cook
Theresa Wolf
Gresham
Orleans
Boston Flats
Melbourne
Cook
Lubec
Maine
Theresa
South Amboy
Luhec
Vineyard Sound
Half Moon Shoals
Vineyard Haven
George
Gunner Johansen
Boston
Concord Club Ball to Host Eighth Annual Social Affair
Senator James H. Doyle, president of the Concord Club of Ward 12, plans the eighth annual ball in Howe Hall on Huntington Avenue Thursday evening May 11. He directs the event as floor manager by unanimous consent, aiming for the finest social affair in years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James H. Doyle
Concord Club
Ward 12
Howe Hall
Huntington Avenue
Roby Drives Log Jam Free at Paul Stream Gorge
May 4 in Maidstone Vermont Joe Roby’s river drive faced a 30 foot high log jam in the Paul stream. Workers used dynamite and hydraulic pressure to loosen the mass while axe-men led by Henry Castongua and Tom Rochleau battled up the jam. By dusk the jam broke and Paul stream cleared to resume sluicing.
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Maidstone
Joe Roby
Paul Stream
Henry Castongua
Tom Rochleau
Connecticut
Henry’ Gillis
Tom van Dyke
Connecticut Valley Lumber Company
Post
Brown Mills
Granby
Mathison
Jam Reforms as Rivermen Battle Falls Crossing
Rivermen clash with a crumbling log jam at the falls as white chips fly and the crossed log cracks. Each attempt to move the jam ends with it piling up again as boats seek shore along the boulder strewn bed.
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Boston Post
Corbin
Washington
Hanover
Elm Streets
New York
Vorenberg
America
Anicker Suits
Whitney
Lawrence Mills
Keel
Captain Cook
Idry
Mark m
Black Friars Distillery
Plymouth
Coates & Co
Evrefrigerators
Furnisa
vValues
Panama
Roby
Fred H. Thompson
Bog Dam
Bulls Throat
Phonse
Nulhegan
Dow
Loo
McIndoes
Black Sabal
M. O'Keeffe
Aral UK
Ec Grocer
O'Keeffe's
New England
City Store
Mit
Tua Eee
Halgaard
Dogskin Leather Co
Cetra
M. C
Poe Ey
Nkope Lin
Pall
Imen
Haihyer St. Ae KE BF Rtca
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