Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), February 23, 1905
A RACE THAT WAS NOT TO THE SWIFT Capn Joshua Grindle Spins a Yarn to Show That It Doesnt Alters Pay to Be So Darned Fast When a group of downeast coaster captaius begin to brag of the fast pas sages they have made steamboats seem slow for while some of the old lumber bookers can sail like pirates the skip pers love to exaggerate and in a brag ging match none will he outdone by the others In a shipbrokers office in Ban gor the other day the chairs were all occupied and the convention was ready to discuss anything from freights to the Bibleand settle it too No set of men possess such a wonderful fund of mis information on subjects generally out side their calling as these mariners of Maiue and nothing could be more en tertaining than one of their smoke talks where the most astonishing state ments and fantastic theories are launch ed with tremendous emphasis into an atmosphere redolent of tobacco and tar Someone had been telling of bow the old schooner John T Williams had run away from the whole eastbound fleet and made the passage from Boston to Bangor in such and