156 THE ISLAND OF NANTUCKET. 



List of Persons who have Furnished Booms to let. 



W. B. Chase, Academy Avenue. 

 O. C. Coffin, Centre Street. 

 Winifred Coffin, Main Street. 

 Geo. B. Folger, Academy Avenue. 

 B. A. Gardner, Chester Street. 



E. K. Godfrey, Main Street. 

 Mrs. Hathaway, Pearl Street. 

 Laura A. Hinckley, Fair Street. 



F. B. Murphy, Orange Street. 

 Daniel Bound, Orange Street. 

 Wm. S. Whippey, Centre Street. 



Gas. 



Nantucket, which had for two centuries given light 

 to the world, at last accepted herself the inevitable, 

 and in 1854 gas was lighted for the first time in the 

 town. The Nantucket Gas Light Company furnishes 

 the town with gas of a very fair quality, the charge 

 being at the rate of $3 for one thousand cubic feet. 

 The company has a capital of $40,000, and have nearly 

 five miles of pipe laid. Its officers are as follows: 

 A. T. Mowry, president; A. M. Myrick, secretary and 

 treasurer; Isaiah Coffin, superintendent. 



Great Point. 



(See Lighthouses.) 



Great Point, or " Nauma " (Sandy Point), is a long 



strip of sand stretching like an arm out into the sea, 



and making the extreme northeast point of the island. 



