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While rounding Cape Cod, the schooner ran into thick weather and was approached dangerously near by a steamer. The captain ordered a man into the locomotive cab where he pulled the rope and set the bell clanging for all the sound it could give. The captain later told Mr. Chadwick that he believed the engine bell alone saved the schooner. There is little wonder that the steamer sheered . off sharply on hearing a locomotive bell ringing in a storm off Cape Cod.
The Mattakeeset Lodge closed for the last time in 1905. Then for years it stood as full of emptiness as only a deserted hotel can be. Robert S. Hillyer, visiting Edgartown as a boy, joined the num -
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ber who visited the place, found their way inside, and marveled at the ruined piano, the expectant rooms, and the combined sense of old occupancy and desertion. In after years Mr. Hillyer wrote: "lt was a rather comely building in the manner of a chateau, an octagonal tower at one end, a high mansard gable at the other, and between the two a low roof looking down on the lawn . . . It was one of the most romantic retreats of my boyhood, and is connected in my mind with boats, for one had to sail down Katama Bay to reach it; with jeopardy, for the roofs always tempted one to risk one's neck; and with comrades, for it was too vast and terrifying to explore alone. First, one came to the broken spiles of the wharf, then, disembarking, to a cinder bed that had once been the railroad. Tennis courts could still be traced in the sand, and signs of an old road recalled the legendary trotters of our grandfathers. Inside the hotel everything was in place, though mutilated by jahoos . . . the floors were still carpeted, chairs stood about waiting the chat- terers and in the rooms upstairs the beds and bedroom crockery were intact. From the second story one looked out over endless miles, the distant town, the scrub oaks, the bays beyond. And even to the boy's mind, as he listened to the wind whimpering down the long corridors, occurred the importance of all this."
What, then, was left of the life and works of the sea captains and the promoters? After 1910 even the Katama hotel was gone, one of its towers moved to Edgartown for an annex to the Harbor View. The plains lay open and deserted once more. For those who can remember, or for those who have listened to old tales, there remains a sense of haunting romance, a certain wistfulness not unmixed with envy. But for the vast majority of those who have lived and live in the present century, nothing remains whatever. Indeed, strangers stand at favored spots on Martha's Vineyard and say surprising things.
"Here," for instance, a solid mainland citizen in tweeds declares, "there ought to be a hotel. What couldn't these people do with the attractions of the Island if they only realized their possibilities"?
Various human emotions and moods are attributed to nature, but irony is not one of them; and for that reason the question of the visitor remains unanswered. Katama is still Katama, as disinterested
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as the sun and the sea wind, and so, too, it is with the other shores, the hills, the bluffs.
"They have everything here-everything. Why, it's a real para- dise. All it needs is developing," says the practically minded vaca- tioner, toying with the idea of doing something himself.
And in general the impression of strangers on Martha's Vineyard is that common to visitors in a great many seaport towns of the East : the sleepy villages, the quaint wharves and houses, the anti- quated captains sitting like sphinxes on rotting caplogs. Some new- comers want to see the abundant natural resources developed at once, and some want to see the quaint communities preserved with all their appurtenances, even with all their inconveniences, for there are still some left. But none knows the truth until long after he has ceased to be a stranger, the truth that the sea captains of Martha's Vineyard met the rising tide of opportunity at the foreshore, and planned to utilize it with the same practical turn of mind and the same courage which they were used to employing on whaling voy- a ges.
Summer resort life did not come upon a retiring Island unawares. Nor is the modern conception of sea captains as weathered, taciturn characters of the seashore within a gunshot of the truth. The cap- tains of the Vineyard, for example, were not "characters" at all. They did not exploit themselves, nor were they exploited, as pic- turesque attractions of the resort. That role was taken by a colored bell ringer at the camp meeting, a sailor crippled in a shipwreck, a somewhat mad woman with her hens; and later by Blind Nathan Athearn from North Tisbury who went about with a green market basket calling, "Bananas-rousers"! and by Harry Collins, the popcorn man, able to repeat reams of scripture and the multiplication tables backward, full of exact information about past dates and personages.
The captains who dominated the summer resort development of the past century had much in common, although they were as differ- ent as the planets. They were individualists, accustomed to com- mand, and with a strong passion for persons and things which they regarded as their own. To them there was no sharp dividing line between adventure and business. What they might have made of
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their affairs if it had not been for the chance appearance of the pro- moters-Mr. Carpenter and Mr. Hills-is an interesting speculation. Probably they would have been as seriously misled in the great boom, for conservatism was not prominent in their makeup; it does not, as a rule, go with adventure.
It is certain, however, that the promoters did not improve their chances of success, and on the whole the failure of the promoters was greater than that of the captains. Captains were not supposed to be financiers. In point of fact, one business enterprise had failed at Edgartown just before the resort boom, a shoe factory of which Capt. Nathaniel M. Jernegan was president. One survivor of the period recalls distinctly how a caller at his house said, with feeling, "I'd as soon have your boy president of that company as Nathan'l Jernegan." The shoe company made shoes and sold them, but col- lecting payment was another matter. Sea captains were too prone to trust; they had no experience in their natural line of work with the commoner dishonesty of the human race. The mainland business men should have contributed shrewd promotional experience and management : instead they pooled a romanticism of their own with the venturesome spirit of the captains ..
There is a feeling on Martha's Vineyard, among those old enough to have had their sympathies engaged, that Mr. Carpenter and Mr. Hills played Insull to unsuspecting investors. Although it is true that the Vineyard developments were financed with whaling capital and credit, it is true, also, that the promoters went to ruin as rapidly as their associates. Joel Hills wrote to Captain Collins during the progress of the Cottage City park case :
, but I have persevered and I believe before three years I shall get a large income from it, but honestly Capt. I have had to borrow money to live, or I could not have got along. Car- penter is poor, too, but remember what I say, he will pull out and pay his paper & so will I. Now allow me to say this, don't take too much stock in what Abbott says. I don't propose to say anything now, but our time will come and you will have a chance to see which are your true friends. I acknowledge I have made predictions that have not come to pass, but I can swear I never made one to you but I believed it would come to
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pass. You, Carpenter and myself have lost lots of money, but we are not alone. I know hundreds of men that were once wealthy, now have hard work to get along . "
Under the circumstances, perhaps, this communication is not distinguished by any special mark of sincerity, but at all events the developers were in the same boat together.
Bearing upon this issue, too, is the fact that the captains were not ascetics, blind to the good things of life. They wore beaver hats with an air and good clothes with a becoming manner, they liked to provide refinements and luxuries for their wives and daughters, they even educated their sons, although they themselves had gone to sea in their teens; and their homes were cherished, many of them, in an opulence of taste and spirit which was uniquely characteristic. Into some of these homes the generality of summer residents have never penetrated. Since the captains knew so well the advantages of money and what use to make of it, they did not need to be tempted into speculation. They were not led astray; they went of their own volition, for their own reasons.
When they lost, a great many investors, for the most part their friends, lost also. Katama and the railroad took the savings of ship chandlers, pilots, carpenters, farmers, merchants and fishermen. But what these smaller investors lost may have been made up in the increased prosperity of the community at large. As the immediate aims crumbled, the remoter aims were accomplished : Martha's Vineyard became a flourishing watering place, its revenues swollen by an undreamed of accession of summer visitors. Boarding houses were patronized as never before, boats rented readily, houses were built, and tradesmen everywhere found new custom.
Yet it is impossible to imagine what the course of events on the Island would have been if it had not been for the captains and the promoters. The most interesting speculation is that the result might have been precisely the same: that summer boarders might have increased in numbers, that a steady invasion of visitors might have gathered volume from year to year; and that the destiny of Martha's Vineyard as a summer resort was, perhaps, already written. On the other hand, the commercial decay of Edgartown might have pro-
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gressed, Vineyard Haven might have suffered also with the passing of sail, the camp meeting might have waned without leaving a resort or even a fledgling town at its site; and a new generation might have discovered the Island in the new century as that sort of place which strangers like to think it, a virgin field, a community, venerable as American communities go, still unaware of the oppor- tunities of summer resort promotion.
If the Island was marked for any other course than that which it followed, the work of the captains stood between their community and that other fulfillment, whatever it might have been, made the Vineyard immediately and for decades in the future a summer resort, bestowed upon it a general prosperity even while small for- tunes were lost, and took from it-a nameless sacrifice-more independence than any community save a New England island could afford to lose.
XLIII Country Club Decades
There is now an anticlimax. How little the new period of the Vineyard as a summer resort suggests the old! After the turn of the century there came a freshening of different winds, a new spirit, a different dominance. The summer community was all at once aware of itself, began to act as a separate social force, broke with the drifting of the past and directed its own affairs. The naivete of the old age had gone beyond recall, and in place of the regime of sea captains projecting railroads and hotels to develop a watering place, there was a new regime in which summer residents formed clubs and associations to lay out golf courses and provide for their own entertainment.
In this new period there was a slighter overlapping, a narrower contact between the summer community and the all year residents of the island. The early summer visitors had mingled with the islanders; in the early clubs, the two worlds had met on something like equal terms. Indeed, Edgartown sea captains and their families
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had been among the pioneer summer residents of Oak Bluffs. Now the summer visitors were apt to be strangers who remained strangers, except to themselves.
The new order showed itself in many ways. Yachting was the most important of the recreations, and after 1900 yachtsmen came with a new point of view. In a sense, they still visited the island, although they were no longer amateur discoverers and adventurers like their predecessors of 1858; but in a sense they did not so much visit the island as an outpost of their own world. They used their own piers or those of their friends, visited summer homes or sum- mer hotels provided for their needs. They sailed away when the time came without having looked through the barriers at that different place, that other community which had come down from old times; although, observing the physical characteristics of its exterior, many of them thought they had understood everything.
In the earlier period of yachting, General Ben Butler in the cup yacht America, James Gordon Bennett, and General Tom Thumb were often at the Vineyard. Ben Butler liked to stay at the Sea View. James Gordon Bennett was attracted by the bluefishing at Edgartown, and some diversions ashore gave him unfailing enter- tainment, such as promenading the lighthouse bridge and flashing his torch into the eyes of young couples who made tryst there. Tom Thumb cruised and raced in the Maggie B. and employed Capt. Lott Norton, a famous Edgartown skipper, as sailing master.
For years the New York Yacht Club maintained its base at East- ville, and in its time the Oak Bluffs Club was host to yachtsmen. When the fleet lay at anchor in Vineyard Haven harbor, the riding lights gleamed and twinkled through the darkness, and the electric cars ran on short headway between the Eastville wharf and Oak Bluffs. Sometimes it was said that the cars were full of yachtsmen, and the yachtsmen were full also.
The first yacht club on the island did not come into existence until 1903. It grew out of the Home Club, an older institution of Edgar- town in which whaling captains and town residents had met on friendly terms with summer visitors. Elmer J. Bliss, grandson of Captain Jared Fisher, and himself a half-way summer visitor of the new era, suggested a floating clubhouse, an old whaler or a square
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rigger, with such a name as Quarter Deck Club. But such poignantly appropriate ideas often fail to win adherents, and when the yacht club organized it was as a conventional department of the Home Club, with headquarters ashore. In 1905 the yachting section split off as a separate club, and on its first anniversary was able to count a squadron of forty-eight sailing and racing craft. For a time the club was carried along by a swift tide of interest, but then it lapsed and dropped from sight.
In 1927 Mr. Bliss purchased the principal wharf of the town, a decaying, broken relic at the foot of Main Street, where whalers had fitted out and fortunes had come in over the caplog. Here was erected a modern yacht club in an old style, its glistening dance floor concealed in a structure covered with rough gray shingles. The newly reorganized Edgartown Yacht Club took over this property, and a period of unprecedented yachting activity began.
A yacht club was formed at Vineyard Haven, also, the formal opening taking place in 1928, although without a permanent club- house. The two clubs were soon racing against one another, and a new one-design class of knock-about, known as the Vineyard Sound Interclub, was placed in commission, with annual races between the two Vineyard clubs and the Nantucket Yacht Club.
In the light of this new supremacy of yachting, it is natural to ask why this most spectacular of summer activities waited so long for fulfillment. The reason is, beyond a doubt, that this specialized development was distinctly a phase of the new era of a self-sufficient summer colony and investment by summer residents in their own good times. It waited its evolutionary turn.
Golf came to Martha's Vineyard first in the early nineties. It was probably about 1893 when several West Chop summer residents laid out six holes near the lighthouse. The hazards were natural and abundant, and this course did not last long. Later some of the boys of the Martha's Vineyard Summer Institute families laid out a nine hole course among the pines and sand hills of the Highlands, and this course led directly to the East Chop Tennis Club which was built in 1910 on land given by Hamilton J. Green of the Vineyard Grove Company. But the building of the clubhouse saw the aban- donment of golf, which was considered too expensive to maintain.
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Another early course was laid out on a farm near Oak Bluffs by a group of enthusiasts, most of them summer residents. After several years of rough going, a promoter named Edward Mulligan evolved the idea of turning golf into a major attraction of the Island. He believed the course could be made ready for play the first of May, because of the favorable climate, and that professionals who had finished in Florida could be drawn to the Vineyard before the nor- thern season started. Mr. Mulligan's plan might have succeeded, but he was the driver of one of the first automobiles on the Island, and this machine one day caused a runaway in which a farmer was killed. Beset with difficulties, the promoter sold out to an Oak Bluffs summer resident, Lyman W. Besse, who not only developed the golf course but was largely responsible for building the Oak Bluffs Country Club in 1910.
Edgartown played golf first about the year 1897, the players using outlying farms, and facing the hazards of cows and pine trees. Later a club was organized, in which both summer and winter residents participated, and the Pine Side Golf Links were hailed as an "excellent reproduction of the original Scotch links." Golf was played on Chappaquiddick also, but these early ventures lapsed. In 1926 the modern Edgartown Golf Club was founded on a broad and per- manent scale; like the other summer clubs it was an enterprise of seasonal residents.
Golf at Vineyard Haven had its beginnings at Tashmoo where an old bull was one of the hazards. This pasture course, first laid out in 1898, was later improved and became established as the Vineyard Haven Golf Club course. The rise of golf was coincident with the decline of agriculture, and as cows lost a pasture, golfers gained sole possession of a course.
All the modern provisions for country life are vastly more sub- stantial than those of the last century; one compares, for instance, the golf, tennis and country clubs, and the yacht clubs of the newer generation, with the croquet, promenading and fireworks which entertained the old. The new age has not only entertainment, but a distinct community and social organization through which the entertainment, be it golf, yachting or bridge, is maintained and conveniently administered. It is not by chance that this superstruc-
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ture of summer has been erected by the summer people themselves; had the same facilities come into existence under the sponsorship of a promoter, they might have been scantly patronized. It is an inseparable part of the new outlook that social control shall vest in the members of the special summer order; the line is drawn against the world in general. Doubtless this change in the summer of the year is an extension of the larger change which has taken place in the cities in the winter of the year, for the upward swing of popula- tion and industrialization has greatly changed the recreational cus- toms of those who have money enough to make their own choices, and culture to suggest the manner of its spending.
The application of present day civilization to country life by articulate group interest has made a difference in underlying enthu- siasms as well as in outward forms. Vacations and games, like almost everything else, are organized and specialized. In their prac- tical execution they reflect the efficiency of the American business environment, and also the new standard of comfort, iconvenience and luxury. Not to have a pleasantly appointed place to play bridge, to drink tea or cocktails, to bask in the sun, to watch the races and to go swimming, would be as unreasonable and as incredible as not to have a bath tub. But individualism has softened and slackened by the way.
Notwithstanding the flowering of the new period out of the culture of the times, the basic attractions of Martha's Vineyard as a summer resort have remained, oddly enough, exactly what they were a hundred years ago : Gay Head Cliffs and the Gay Head light, the Indian town, the surf on the South Beach, bluefishing, the land and the water, the sky, the hills and the plain.
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Abbort, George C., 172ff Abbott vs. Cottage City, 175ff Adams, Reforination John, 35, 52 Agassiz Hall, 150, 215, 255 119 Alabama, Confederate raider; 152 ?! Allen, Camp Meeting John, 52, 225 America, cup yacht, 26
Ames, Oliver, 159
Arcade, 76f Arc light, 138
Attorney General vs. Abbott, 178ff Attorney General vs. Vineyard Grove Co., ist case, 252f; 2nd case, 254
Baptist Temple, 148 Barnes, Wallace, 226 Bates, Rev. L. B., 69 Bayside, 229 Bay View, 87 Beach road (Edgartown), 89f, 105, 108, 157; (Vineyard Haven), 88f, 157 Beatrice House, 59
Belain, Joseph G., 17
Bellevue Heights, 85, 87 Bennett, James Gordon, 269 Berry, Col. Albert S., 239 Besse, Lyman W., 271
Bicycle, 204ff Bliss, Elmer J., 269 Bliss, Leonard C., 243 Blood, H. A., 163, 165
Boggs, T. K., 190, 194 Bradley, Capt. Edmund, 62
Bradley, Henry, Sy
Bradley, Thomas, 229 Bradley, William, 35, 62; letter of, 173, 177, 262 Braley Judge H. K., 178, 218 Bristol, Prof. Frederick, 227 Brown, Charles H., 223 Brownell, Holder M., 79, 116, 166, 183, 194, 211 ff Butler, General Ben, 208
Butler, Rev. James D., 115 Butler, William M., 115, 241, 252
Camp Meetings (see also M. V. Camp Meeting), 34f Camp Meeting Herald, 54 Carpenter, Erastus P., 62, 70, 72, 94, 109f, 133, 145, 165, 213, 262
Carpenter, Eugene, 250 Carpenter, G. A., 231
Carpenter, W. D., 244, 262
Cary, J. C., 210
Case, J. T., 226
Castello, Harry A., 231
Cedar Bluff, 86; adv. of, 230
Cedar Neck, 85, 87, 117
Central House, 59, 114
Central Place, 87
Chadwick, James E., 263
Chadwick, William P., 110
Chappaquiddick, 15, 91; bathing beach, 242; land schemes, 245ff
Chilmark, 16, 18, 235ff
Christiantown, 18
Christina, wreck of, 144ff
Clambakes, 135f, 207
Clark, Lester W., 247
Clinton Avenue, 114, 136
Clough, Capt. Benj., 162
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Coffin, Sirson P., 44, 46
Collins, Benj. G., 248
Collins, Capt. Grafton N., 62, 94, 109f, 119, 153, 169, 260
Collins, Harry, 218f
Cooms, James M., Jr., 68
Copeland, Robert M., 69f, 95
Corbin, Philip, 169, 180
Cornell, Enoch C., 61
Cory, H. A., 137 Cottages, description, 58, 65, 127ff; building of, 71; cost of, 125
Cottage City, 162ff
Cottage City Park Case, 168ff
Cottage City Star, 159, 161, 167
Cottage City Street Railway, 248ff
Cottle, Capt. Jethro C., 219
County Park, 58
Crane, Dr. John, 183, 194 Croquet, 199f
Danzell, Julia and Lulu, 218 Darrow, Capt. Ira, 57, 61, 177
Dexter, Jason, 216 Dexter, Thomas A., 215f De Lamar, Capt. Raphael, 112, 221ff
Devens, Samuel A., 21, 29, 33
Dewey, Dellon, 227ff
Dias, Capt. Joseph, 159, 166
Donaldson, Joseph, 170 Druidism, New Phase of, 129ff
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Dukes County Street Railway Co., 248ff Dunham, Edward R., 111 Dunham, Judge C. G. M., 162
Eagle's Wing, 46 East Chop, 14, 35, 69, 85
East Chop Beach Club, 259 East Chop Tennis Club, 270
Eastville, 35f, 88, 157
Hotel rates, 125
Huntington, Collis P., 219f
Edgartown Golf Club, 271 Edgartown Yacht Club, 29, 270 Ellinwood, Truman J., 149
Engleside, 87
Excursions, 24, rates, 125, 134, 136, 202
Innisfail (see also Oklahoma), 227ff Island Home, 46, 113, 134
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Fisher, Dr. Daniel, 18, 23, 29, 75
Fisher, Capt. Jared, 269
Flanders, Stephen, 162f
Flint, John D., 69, 215
Flying Horses, 204
Forest Circle, 58 Forest Hill, S7 Foss, Capt. Otis, 161
Fox hunts, 21off Freedlander, Arthur R., 228 Frenkel, Louis, 212
Gavitt, George F., 69 Gay Head, 14, 17f, 29, 136, 202f Gay Head Light, 29ff, 102 Golf, 27of Grant, U. S., 11 3ff
Green, Hamilton J., 270 Grovedale, 87
Handy, Wm. H., 246 Harbor View hotel, 242ff Hart, Capt. Fred J., 212 Hart Haven, 86 Hatfield, Rev. E. H., 162, 164, 183
Haven, Rev. Gilbert, 114f, 130 Hawes, Henrietta R., diary, 127 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 20 Highland House, 82, 125, 146; fire, 215 Highlands (see Vineyard Highlands) Highlands Property Trust, 259 Hillman, Beriah T., 162f Hills, Joel, 62, 94, 110, 177; death of, 261; letter of, 266
Hills, William S., 62, 177 Hillyer, Robert S., 263
Hine, Thomas, 85
Hine, C. G., 117
Holmes Hole, 18, 36, 56, 84, 88
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 176, 253
Home Club, 269
Hooker, Gen. Joe, 134
Horse Railroad, 100, 103, 146
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Illuminations, 114, 133ff; on High- lands, 150, 160
Indian Hill, 208, 241 Ingraham, Edward, 226
Jarves, J. Jackson, 129f Jernegan, Capt. Jared, 153 Jernegan, Capt. Nathan, 153 Jernegan, Capt. Nathaniel M., 93, 98, 103, 110, 159f, 260 Jordan, 72, 80, 82, 150
Karl, Tom, 227ff Katama, 79, 87, 91ff, 135, 209ff Katama Land Co., 91ff; circular of, 97, 102, 147, 164, 209ff Keniston, Samuel, 164, 176, 192, 209, 231, 247 King, Rev. J. D., 69, 149, 152, 261 Knowlton, Hosea M. (see also T. M. Stetson), 175, 179
Laidlaw, Robert M., 245 Lake Anthony (see also Squash Mead- ow Pond), 82, 253ff
Lagoon Bridge, 88f, 157 Lagoon Heights, 85, 87, 100
Lagoon Pond, 36; footbridge over, 85
Lambert's Cove, 241, 249
Landers, G. M., 159, 169, 180 Lewis, Capt. LaRoy S., 212
Lewis, Capt. William, 231
Liquor problem, 182ff Lookout Mountain, 86f Luce, Benjamin, 103 Luce, Edwin, 241 Luce, Ichabod N., 101, 106f, 119ff, 157, 162, 164, 231, 261
Luce, Tarleton C., 36, 69, 84ff, 117 Luce, Nancy, 137, 139ff
Mahomy Lake, 86 Makonikey, 232tł
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Marchant, Edgar, 28, 100, 106, 121, 158
Marco Bozzaris, 20
Martha's Vineyard, discovery, 9; names, 9f; description, 14f
Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting, 36ff; building, 45; association, 50; incorporation of, 56, 83; criticisms of, 5off; daily routine, 60, 63, 67; description, 127f; taxing of, 155ff; friction with O. B. Co., 167 Martha's Vineyard Club, 196f Martha's Vineyard Herald, 196 Martha's Vineyard Railroad, 99ff;
town meeting, 101 ff; special law, 109f; contract awarded, 110; equip- ment of, 11of; trial trip, 112; dum- my engine, 108, 111ff; first opera- tion, 113; financial difficulties, 118ff, 164; Abbott buys stock, 177; in Sea View fire, 214; last of engine, 263
Martha's Vineyard Street Railway, 249ff
Mattakeeset Lodge, 98f, 111, 125, 135; sale of, 244, 263
Matthews, George A., 234
McKelway St. Clair, 193
Mellen, Capt. Archibald, Jr., 26
Mellen, Capt. Thomas, 152
Methodism, 33ff Mitchell, Capt. West, 153 Moby Dick, 17, 19, 115
Monohansett, 116, 134 Mowry, Dr. W. A., 151 Myrick, N. Sumner, 161
Naushon, steamboat, 24 Neal, Alvin C., 172 New Bedford, 43
Newport, 25, 28, 5of, 66, 83, 123, 210, 221 New York Yacht Club, 26ff, 194, 196, 269 New York Wharf, 82 Nordica, see Norton, Lillian Norris, Howes, 85, 157, 159, 161, 164, 226 Norton, Charles S., 229 Norton, Constant, 105 Norton, Isaac, 208 Norton, Lillian, 133, 221, 224 Norton, Capt. Shubael H., 86, 106, 216, 230
Norton, Capt. Shubael L., 57, 61, 110, 12of, 133, 163, 165; letter by, 169, 177, 195, 213; death of, 262
Oak Bluffs, 63; wharf, 70, 75, 165; first hotel, 70; acreage, 87
Oak Bluffs Christian Union, 76
Oak Bluffs Club, 194ff
Oak Bluffs Country Club, 86, 271
Oak Bluffs Land & Wharf Co., 61; circular of, 63, 67, 69ff; balance sheets, 72ff; building projects, 75ff, 123; illumination, 133, 156, 164ff Oak Grove, 87
Ocean Heights (Oak Bluffs), 86f; (Edgartown), 245
Ocean View, 86f Ocmulgee, 152
Oklahoma (see also Innisfail), 85, 87, 225ff
Old Colony Railroad, 101, 119, 165 Osborn, Capt. Abraham, 28, 152 Osborn, Samuel, 101, 119, 154, 161, 262 Owen, William Barry, 231
Owen, Capt. Leander, 153, 231
Park Case, 169ff
Pease, Isaiah, 59
Pease, Jeremiah, 35, 116
Pease, Josiah, 17
Pease, Joseph Thaxter, 78, 94, 101, 110, 159
Pease, Richard L., 159
Pease, Valentine, 17
Peckstout, George Washington, 135, 158 Pig race, 202 Pratt, Laban, 94, 110, 121
Prospect Heights, 87 Prospect House, 85, 218, 249
Quincy, Josiah, 249
Ripley, Ephraim, 17
Ripley, Henry, 110, 170
Ripley, Joseph, 20 Rink, Vineyard, 201
River Queen, 95, 116
Rolfe, William J., 150 Roller skating, 200 Roque, 200 Rotch, Rev. Caleb L., 240
Sands, Nellie, 22off Sanford, Mrs. Lucy, 240
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Saratoga, 12, 5of, 83 Seaside Gazette, 128
Seaview City, 247 Sea View Hill, S7, 138
Sea View Hotel, 77ff, 95, 113, 116, 125, 127, 166; liquor case, 183ff; fire, 211 ff
Sengekontacket Pond, 86f, 107, 111 Seven Gates Farm, 23Sf
Shackleford, Rev. J. B., 184
Shaler, N. S., 131, 154f, 236ff, 248 Shute, Charles H., 141
Shute, Richard G., 133
Slocum, Capt. Joshua, 239
Smith, Capt. Frank C., 167, 247
Smith, Holmes W., 24
Smith, Capt. James L., 86, 230
Smith, Lewis, 231
Spinney, Joseph S., 134
Sprague, Col. Homer B., 149, 159 Squash Meadow Pond, 35f, 57, 82 Stanley, O. G., 231
Stetson, T. M. (Stetson & Knowlton), 161, 171, 177 Strahan, Charles, 196, 248
Strother, Gen. David H., 31 Stumcke, Henry, 11 of
Summer Institute, 149ff
Sunset Heights, 87
Tabernacle, canvas, 82f; iron, 49
Tallman, Charles B., 145ff
Talmage, Rev. T. De Witt, 18off
Telegraph, semaphore, 15; W. U., 75 Tennis, 270 Thaxter, Leavitt, 23
Thumb, Tom, 208
Tisbury, 18, 74f, 88, 152
Toboggan slide, 204
Torrey, George A., 16gf
Townsend, Dr. Luther T., 242f
Trapp's Pond, 86 Train, George Francis, 53ff, 60
Tucker, Dr. Harrison A., 114, 134, 159, 169, 180, 184, 186ff; cottage, 187, 261
Union Chapel, 76, 133, 159 Upham, Rev. Francis B., 116 Upham, Rev. Frederick, 116
VanDerlip, W. C., 194 Van Slyck, Nicholas, 180, 194, 210 Vincent, Hebron, 36ff, 44f, 5of, 53, 55, 67, 71, 159, 26of Vincent, Wesley Grove, 156
Vineyard Gazette, 23, 25, 54, 56, 68, 78, 87, 89, 94, 10of, 109, 145, 148, 155, 157f, 164, 176, 192, 198, 209, 222, 231, 243
Vineyard Grove Co., 69, So; inven- tory, 81, 86, 100, 123, 146ff; law suits, 251 ff Vineyard Grove House, 125, 156
Vineyard Flaven, 84, 88, 154; water system, 231
Vineyard Haven Yacht Club, 270 Vineyard Highlands, 69, 80, 84, 87, 146 Vineyard Sound Railroad, 74f
Walker, Dr. T. J., 242f
Wardwell, Joseph M., 182
Warner, Charles Dudley, 129
Warren, Gen. G. K., 99
Washqua Farm, 246
Whaleboat races, 208
Wheelmen, League of American, 205
Whiting, Henry L., 239, 248
Windy Gates, 24of
Wing, J. & W. R., 24of
Winslow, Samuel, 200
Webster, Daniel, 22ff, 29f, 97
Wesley A. G., 215ff
Wesley House, 215ff
Wesleyan Grove, 43f, 46, 49, 52ff, 56, 59f, 63f, 71, 80, 85, 88, 156 West Chop (see also Cedar Bluff, West Point Grove), 14, 35, 86, 147, 229ff West Chop Land & Water Co., 231f
West Point Grove, 23of
West Tisbury, 139, 235ff
Woods Hole, 74f
Worth, John B., 170
Wyman, Edward, 194
Wyoming House, 82
Yachting, 26, 208, 269
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