. A narrative history of the town of Cohasset, Massachusetts . ndtwo nights he was alone, steering his craft towards what he thought must be theshore. A whaleship returning to New Bedford overtook the strange-looking craft andboarded her to see what was the matter. When they found what had happened,the captain offered the boy one hundred dollars to abandon the schooner. Butthe plucky boy would not thus let the captain get possession of a good said, No, sir! this vessel belongs to John Bates, and I m going to take herashore. He did so, and found at New Bedford the rest of the crew.
. A narrative history of the town of Cohasset, Massachusetts . ndtwo nights he was alone, steering his craft towards what he thought must be theshore. A whaleship returning to New Bedford overtook the strange-looking craft andboarded her to see what was the matter. When they found what had happened,the captain offered the boy one hundred dollars to abandon the schooner. Butthe plucky boy would not thus let the captain get possession of a good said, No, sir! this vessel belongs to John Bates, and I m going to take herashore. He did so, and found at New Bedford the rest of the crew. THE FISHING INDUSTRY. 00 From the period just preceding the Civil War the busi-ness began to dwindle, because of the scarcity of the fishand the increased expense of taking them. One by onethe firms engaged in the business withdrew to investtheir money in some more lucrative employments. Atlast the only two left were John Bates and the TowerBrothers. These firms tried to adapt themselves to the diminish-ing profits, but the small success of a number of years. Mackerel Schooner of 1875. soon convinced them that the business was only a speciesof benevolence to their employees. They closed the fish-packing career of Cohasset in the year 1885, with a totalcatch that year of only two hundred and sixty barrels. The last fishing schooner, the Charlotte, was seized bythe British authorities upon the coast of Nova Scotia forsome offense, and thus ingloriously the Cohasset mackerelindustry died. 434 HISTORY OF COHASSET. It was a fitting coincidence that the last merchants inthe business were of the same two families which formore than a hundred and fifty years had pursued thisfishing industry with success and with unmeasured profitto the whole town — the Tower and the Bates families. Year. No. 1. No. 2. No. 3. No. 4. Total Brls. 1849 6,859 15,293 1850 3,806 2,290 7,495 i,755 15,346 1851 ! 22,712% 1852 3,479% 100 Il,6l6% I8S3 M95% 95334
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