Word: steamboats
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Fifth excursion. May 27, to Nantasket. Take steamboat from Rowe's wharf, Atlantic avenue, Boston at 2.10 p.m. Boat returning leaves Nantasket at 6.15 p.m. The instructor will meet the Wednesday section at Nantasket, the other section in Boston. This is the last regular excursion of the year...
...care of horses and cattle. One is prepared by past experience to act as fireman on a locomotive, or conductor on a horse car. Another has been a conductor on a Pullman car and would like to be again, and a third wishes to be a clerk on a steamboat. At least a dozen are ready to be hotel clerks, or even waiters if no better opening offers. Among the many is one skilled in wood carving and quick in using the tools of the box maker. There are a number who wish places in counting-rooms, banks, offices...
...take charge of the matter, and letters were at once written to the various steamship companies asking their lowest rates. Just at present we are deliberating on what our expenses would be after reaching America. Some friends of ours tell us that it is customary for the railroad and steamboat companies and hotels benefited by the crowds that go to such events to defray the expenses, and advised us either to write to them or to ask Harvard to learn for us what could be done in that direction. There would undoubtedly be enormous numbers of people at the race...
...there has been a Harvard crew for years that has not rowed handsomely. I saw this year's Harvard eight on Charles river one day last week. They were returning from a long and arduous practice pull, and, although they were very tired, they were swinging along in that steamboat style which always makes Harvard so effective on race day. The men seem to get into the swing about as soon as they get positions in the boat. The men are in liberal training. They have the faults in the recovery of not feathering their oars, and they pause...
...William Perry, aged 98, and the oldest graduate of Harvard, died yesterday morning at his house at Exeter, N. H. He was the sole survivor of the passengers in Fulton's first steamboat. He was born in Norton, Mass., in 1788, and was a member of the class of 1811, Harvard College. The only surviving member of that class is William R. Rever of Plymouth, Mass, who is 76 years old. Dr. Perry was the grandfather of Sarah Orne Jewett, the authoress...