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Identifier: worldscolumbiane02whit (find matches)
Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Philadelphia and St. Louis, P.W. Ziegler & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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./ ./■ NEW ENGlvAND FISHING SCHOONER. Painting in Gloucester Exhibit. advance that has been made in this direction since the Puritanssought in the New World a faith-pure shrine and the opportunityto develop commercial fishing. What tales of hardship and shipwreck are suggested by thesemodels of fishing schooners! A few years ago, when flat, unsea 2I« FISHERIES. worthy vessels were in vogue, a gale on the banks frequently sunkten or a dozen schooners, which, with their crews, were reckonedwith the missing, after weeks of harassing uncertainty and wearywatching for their return, by widowed women and orphaned chil-dren. Woven into the web and woof of the history of each vesselare stories of winter gales, of hairbreadth escapes from shipwreck .^^!^te^;
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GI^OUCESTER, MASS. Painting in Exhibit of Gloucester. on lee shores, of peril in fog and storm from being run down by ocean greyhounds,* and of experiences in Arctic weather, when thehull, rigging- and spars have been coated with ice until progressseemed impossible and disaster inevitable. One of the Rhode Island models represents the first fishingsteamer ever built in America, while another is notable for havingmade the largest catch of fish in its fifteen years of service evermade by any vessel in the world. A fishing boat that steams twelveknots and catches a thousand barrels of fish in a single day is worthyof notice. There are many curious flat-bottomed boats from Japan, built fcr FISHERIES. 219 landing on the shores near the fishing grounds, where as a rulethere are no harbors. In 1881 it was officially reported that Japanhad 187,220 fishing boats. Among those exhibited is a model ofthe type called Kawasaki, which is extensively employed in thecod fishery from the island of Yess

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