OLD BUILDINGS. 231 



Nantucket Journal , Sept. 25, 1878. The Journal is now 

 an established institution, and still gradually gaining 

 ground; while the Inquirer and Mirror, having removed 

 to a more spacious office up-town, appears to be in 

 more flourishing circumstances than ever before. 

 Messrs. Hussey & Robinson have been its proprietors 

 for more than thirty-two years, and by steady and per- 

 sistent effort may be said to have merited all the suc- 

 cess which they have achieved. 



Notwithstanding the great decline of our island's 

 population, the circulation of our newspapers has 

 steadily increased, and is larger to-day than at any time 

 in our history. 



Everybody in the present age not only wants a news- 

 paper, but must have one; and as the sons and daugh- 

 ters of Nantucket now scattered everywhere generally 

 retain a keen interest in everything that concerns their 

 island home, the mail editions are large and still 

 increasing. 



[It appears that some time between 1845 and 1849, 

 Andrew M. Macy, Esq. , ably filled the editorial chair 

 of the Inquirer.'] 



Old Buildings. 



William C. Folger, Esq. , furnishes the following in 

 relation to old houses : — 



The late Benjamin Franklin Eolger, who died March 

 22, 1859, aged eighty-two years and eleven months, 

 was by all or nearly all intelligent persons on the isl- 

 and considered the very best genealogist here, and the 

 person most reliable then living for dates and facts 



