. In and around Cape Ann: a hand-book of Gloucester, Mass., and its immediate vicinity. For the wheelman tourist and the summer visitor. s craft, which wasbuilt for the coast trade, had a white oak frame and planking,and hard pine ceiling; her dimensions were 300 tons (carpen-ters measurement), 213 net tonnage, length 120 feet over all,beam 27 feet, hold 11 feet, draught 12 feet, value, all ready forsea, $20,000. The best prices contractors received were $65and $70 per ton, which was during the war period ; last year theprice averaged about $45 per ton. Ship carpenters earn on anaverage $
. In and around Cape Ann: a hand-book of Gloucester, Mass., and its immediate vicinity. For the wheelman tourist and the summer visitor. s craft, which wasbuilt for the coast trade, had a white oak frame and planking,and hard pine ceiling; her dimensions were 300 tons (carpen-ters measurement), 213 net tonnage, length 120 feet over all,beam 27 feet, hold 11 feet, draught 12 feet, value, all ready forsea, $20,000. The best prices contractors received were $65and $70 per ton, which was during the war period ; last year theprice averaged about $45 per ton. Ship carpenters earn on anaverage $ per day, and good calkers from $18 to $20 perweek during the busy season. The best profits, contractors findin the fishing vessels of 75 to 100 tons, and they are better pre-pared to build them than any other class ; the building of largevessels has long ago gone farther to the eastward ; the last largeone built here was in 1840—a 400-ton ship. Ten years ago theJames firm did quite a business in three-masted schooners, butthis, too, has dropped off considerably since. Essex originally formed a part of Ipswich, and was long known. IN AND AROUND CAPE ANN. 45 as Chebacco; it was incorporated a town in 1819; situatedin the easterly part of the county of Essex, it is bounded north-erly by Ipswich, easterly by Gloucester, southerly by Manches-ter, and westerly by the town of Hamilton, from which it is sep-arated for a considerable distance by the Chebacco. Pond. Itwas at Essex that the first craft was built that afterward were socommon on the north-east coast as Chebacco boats ; it is saidthat the builder did the work upon the new craft in an upperstory of his dwelling house, and that when the boat was finishedit was found necessary to take away the window frames andnearly the entire side of the building in order to get the affairout for launching. From Chebacco Pond flows the Essex river, a small streamemptying into the sea at a point between Castle Neck in Ipswichand Two Penny Lo
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