The tourist's guide to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard . ic Bank andtwo insurance offices established. 1834 wit-nessed the erection of the North meetinghouseand the incorporation of the 1831-38 the two great fires which playedhavoc with the town property, fires so thoroughly gutted the town thatthe residents have had two men watch, eachnight from the tower of the Unitarian churchon Orange street, for any signs of a possibleconflagration, ever since that never to be for-gotten time. The town first experienced thegas-light system in 1854. Some five yearsafter this d
The tourist's guide to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard . ic Bank andtwo insurance offices established. 1834 wit-nessed the erection of the North meetinghouseand the incorporation of the 1831-38 the two great fires which playedhavoc with the town property, fires so thoroughly gutted the town thatthe residents have had two men watch, eachnight from the tower of the Unitarian churchon Orange street, for any signs of a possibleconflagration, ever since that never to be for-gotten time. The town first experienced thegas-light system in 1854. Some five yearsafter this date Abraham Quary, the last of theIndian race who ever characterized the island,died. 1865 saw the organization of the HighSchool Alumni Association. The tra/eler thinking reminiscently of thevast changes that the once prosperous Isle hasseen, strolls through the masses of jolly vaca-^tionists who line the streets, curbs andeverywhere, in fact, conceivable. His solilo-quy is brought to a rather unceremonious haltby the sudden extemporaneous outburst of. Billy Clark, Town Crier. 36 NANTUCKET, Billy Clark, whose stentorian voice, whichrivals his pet fog horn, accentuated in itsterrific delineation of phraseology convey thenews that a meat auction is to be held. Ameat auction is to the metropolitan visitor anunique novelty. When one of these auctionsare intended, the proprietor of the marketseeks out a crier, generally the indefatigableBilly Clark, the King of Bell Ringers,whom he hires for fifty cents, more or this compensation Billy half walks,half trots through the town, with either abell or horn in hand, sometimes both, as onthe 4th of July and state occasions, at intervalscoming to an abrupt halt, throwing out hischest, clanging the bell or tooting his fog-horn,and conveying with a characteristic disregardfor phonetic or any other earthly means ofunderstanding thus: Meat Auction ! Going to be a meat auctionthis morning, at 10 oclock, corn beef, freshbeef and pork. Ge
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