Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1917 — GLOUCESTER MEN FAMED [ARTICLE]

GLOUCESTER MEN FAMED

Sailors From the Ancient New England Port Are Known on Many Seas. **y\nvone can go ftshln’. but it takes a man to goon a Gloucester schooner, is a widely known Saying among the fishermenwho have taken vessels and men from that fur famed port to nearly all parts of the world. In fact the fame of Gloucester’s chief!ndustry is so great that the very mime is synonymous with fish. Upwards of five thousand men, to be conservative, out of the entire population of Gloucester, estimateil at 25.(XXI, are actively engaged iu fishing work. The old-time Yankee flshermenlhave been largely succeeded now by other nationalities and the Boston fleet is largely manned by the Galvvay Irish, who have settled in Boston and South Boston. Tlie Azorian Portuguese came here along with thousands of other immigrants aud settled in Pro\ incetowH, and today** the fleet from that port is principally manned and owned nv Portuguese.’ Several ScuniH-naviJius—-are among the crews of vessels from Gloucester, Boston and I’rovincetown, ‘and the Nova SCbtia and Newfoundland natives man many Gloucester craft. F<,r picturesqueness, however, we !o<>k to the Italians. Years, ago a few Sicilians came here, and remembering t l,,.jr efforts in the Mediterranean4ts-li-diormen, went - fV» work in dories With a “.leg-o-mutton” sail, and dressed in crumiy colors and high hoots. Finally, the rest installed a gasoline motor in iiis dory, that was the beginning of a fleet of stanch motor craft with cabins, now manned .and owned by these Sicilians. It is these motor boats which supply Boston with the choicest of fish, for they only go out a short distance, and return, daily with fish as fresh as Is possible to get.—Christian Science Monitor. _• J_