268 THE ISLAND OF NANTUCKET. 



passengers were carried over the road without an acci- 

 dent, bringing to the road a net income of $2,110.27. 

 The superintendent of the road informs the compiler 

 that it is the intention of the company to carry their 

 track along the shore to '8conset during the summer 

 of 1882. The company have a capital of $60,000, 

 one fine locomotive of sixteen tons, and two pas- 

 senger coaches. The directors are as follows : — 



John Dorr, president; John H. Norton, treasurer; 

 P. H. Folger, superintendent; C. F. Coffin, John W. 

 Cartwright, J as. W. Cartwright. 



Kesotjrces. 



Very few people care to look the truth squarely in 

 the face, but the fact can in no way be disguised that 

 the Nantucket spirit of to-day, so far as business is 

 concerned, is not that of fifty or one hundred years 

 ago. That there remains very little of that spirit 

 which incited our ancestors to brave the ice and sleet 

 of the frozen North, or drift, day after day, under a 

 blazing tropical sun, in their perilous search for those 

 oleaginous monsters of the deep, — bringing to the isl- 

 and millions upon millions of wealth, and making the 

 town the greatest whaling mart of the world, — is 

 evidenced by the dilapidated condition of the streets, 

 the nearly total destruction of the wharves, and the 

 general apathy shown in any needed improvement. 



Nations or people, to be successful, must be produ- 

 cers as well as consumers, and Nantucket island has 

 wonderful resources for production, if her people see 

 fit to utilize them for agriculture or other purposes. 

 The broad Atlantic with its salt, its sea-weeds, and its 



