The story of Martha's Vineyard, from the lips of its inhabitants, newspaper files and those who have visited its shores, including stray notes on local history and industries; . es wasgiven up and they were allowed to sweep unchecked and un-challenged to the fields, the people directing their energiestoward removing goods and saving buildings from flyingbrands. Forty acres were burned over and sixty odd buildingsdestroyed. The money loss was said to be a quarter of a mil-lion, but bad enough as that was, the loss of household goodsand the picturesque beauty of the street was infinitely
The story of Martha's Vineyard, from the lips of its inhabitants, newspaper files and those who have visited its shores, including stray notes on local history and industries; . es wasgiven up and they were allowed to sweep unchecked and un-challenged to the fields, the people directing their energiestoward removing goods and saving buildings from flyingbrands. Forty acres were burned over and sixty odd buildingsdestroyed. The money loss was said to be a quarter of a mil-lion, but bad enough as that was, the loss of household goodsand the picturesque beauty of the street was infinitely great trees that sheltered the snug little shops and homes,with all their associations of love and birth and death, wherechildrens children hadbeen born and reared, allthe family accumulationsthat mean so much to theowner and that fill out un-written history; keepsakesfrom foreign shores,brought back by those an-cestors who had gonedown to the sea in ships,or those mementos of theRevolutionary soldier ofthe family—all were en the street washomey, now it is homely. It was an unfortunate were plenty of clapboards left, and fresh bright paint to. Three-master driven through the village wharfand high on the Iteacli, Xov. 28, 1898. 120 MARTHAS VINEYARD. cover them and the street has long since built up again andbusiness is bustling in and cut of its doors, but it will be manya generation before the clapboards and the paint have meltedinto one another and the street has come into its own again,if ever it does. THE GREAT STORM OF NOVEMBER 28, is a pity to wind up with disasters, and yet such seemto be the later innovations, for now we have Main Street builtup again, along comes the hurricane of November 28, i8g8, andalmost lays it low. This the greatest storm of the century,before which even the storm of 1815 pales into insig-nificance. » The harbor was strewn withwrecks and a few lives werelost, but the small death ratewas due largely to
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