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FISHERMEN'S OWN BOOK. 



Schooner. 



Bonanza, 

 Bunker Hill, 

 Charles C. Warren, 

 Crest of the Wave, 

 Edward E. Webster, 

 F. A. Smith, 

 Fred. P. Frye, 

 Herbert M. Rogers, 

 Here ward, 

 Isaac Rich, 

 John W. Bray, 

 Lizzie & Namari, 

 Mary M., 

 Maud & Effie, 

 Maud B. Wetherell, 

 Moro Castle, 

 Moses Adams, 

 Moses Knowlton, 

 New England, 

 Ontario, 

 Wildfire, 

 William E. McDonald, 



Tons. 



137.06 



100.77 

 108.87 



71.38 

 98.80 

 77.10 

 85.37 

 77.65 

 90.H 

 92.18 



83.41 



94.09 



101.62 



85.23 



107.90 



88.85 



90.87 



III. 00 



86.29 



91.29 



108.90 



98.37 



Ow'ier or Chirtcrsr. 



Humphrey C. Allen. 

 Walen & Allen. 

 Peter Smith. 

 William B. Coombs. 

 Dennis & Ayer. 

 Plumer and Friend. 

 Brown, Seavey & Co. 

 Rowe & Jordan. 

 James Mansfield & Sons. 

 Walen & Allen. 

 John F. Wonson & Co. 

 John F. Wonson & Co. 

 Brown, Seavey & Co. 

 Gardner and Poole. 

 George Dennis & Co. 

 Hardy & Allen. 

 Samuel Lane & Bro. 

 John Low. 

 John Pew & Son. 

 John Pew & Son. 

 Andrew Leighton. 

 Wm. Parsons, 2d, & Co. 



The herring struck into Fortune Bay on Sunday, Jan. 6, 1878, in such 

 quantities that a few hours' seining would have sufficed to load the entire 

 fleet. The schs.A^a/ England, Capt. Peter McAuley, and Ontario, Capt. 

 John Dago, joined and set their seines, making a double seine about 2,400 

 feet long and 150 feet deep, which soon filled with herring, the catch being 

 estimated at fully 2,000 barrels. This, with the operations of the other 

 Gloucester schooners, maddened the Newfoundland fishermen, who had 

 gathered in the vicinity to the number of two hundred or more, and they 

 commenced to put off in boats, making warlike demonstrations and using 

 threatening language, and commanding the American fishermen to desist 

 from fishing. The seines of the Ontario and New England were seized by 

 the mob, the fish let out, and the seines torn in pieces and carried away. 



The rioters next turned their attention to the sch. Moses Adams, Capt. 

 Solomon Jacobs, whose seine had been set and filled, and whose crew were 

 busily engaged in scooping the herring into boats and transferring them to 

 their vessel. Three separate attempts were made to seize this seine, but 

 Capt. Jacobs and his crew were provided with loaded revolvers, and by 

 threatening to shoot the first man who dared to interfere with them, suc- 

 ceeded in keeping the mob at bay until a partial cargo had been secured, 

 when the Newfoundlanders tripped the seine and allowed the remainder of 

 the herring to escape. Had they been allowed to continue fishing, they 

 could have loaded their vessel and helped in supplying others. 



