The ships and sailors of old Salem; the record of a brilliant era of American achievement . e stain of debasing the natives for gain. Salem is proud of its past, but mightily interested in itspresent. Its population is four times as great as when it wasthe foremost foreign seaport of the United States and its activitieshave veered into manufacturing channels. But as has hap-pened to many other New England cities of the purest Americanpedigree, a flood of immigration from Europe and Canada hasswept into Salem to swarm in its mills and factories. Along theharbor front the fine old square mansion
The ships and sailors of old Salem; the record of a brilliant era of American achievement . e stain of debasing the natives for gain. Salem is proud of its past, but mightily interested in itspresent. Its population is four times as great as when it wasthe foremost foreign seaport of the United States and its activitieshave veered into manufacturing channels. But as has hap-pened to many other New England cities of the purest Americanpedigree, a flood of immigration from Europe and Canada hasswept into Salem to swarm in its mills and factories. Along theharbor front the fine old square mansions from which the lordsof the shipping gazed down at their teeming wharves are ten-anted by toilers of many alien nations. But the stately, pillaredCustom House, alas, no more than a memorial of vanishedgreatness, stands at the head of Derby Wharf to remind thepasser-by, not only of its immortal surveyor, Nathaniel Haw-thorne, but also of an age of which the civic seal of Salem bearswitness in its motto, Divitis Indiae usqtie ad ultimum sinii/M(To the farthest port of the rich East.) 650. APPENDICES APPENDIX A THE SPECTER SHIP OF SALEM* The tradition of a specter ship was common along the NewEngland coast in the seventeenth century. In 1647, the Colon-ists of New Haven built a fine ship and freighted it for Englandbut it never made port and after waiting long for some wordof the missing vessel, its apparition appeared in the harbor asdescribed by a writer of that time: After a great thunderstorm about an hour before sunset aship of like dimensions, with her canvas and colors abroad,appeared in the air coming up the harbor against the wind forthe space of an hour. Many, says the Rev. Mr. Pierport,were drawn to behold this great work of God, yea, the verychildren cried out: There is a brave ship. When so near thata man might hurl a stone on board, her maintop seemed blownoff, then her mizzen top; then her masting seemed blown awayby the board; she overset, and so vanished into a s
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