For the New Island. 



[For Inquirer and Mirror. ] 

 Mr. Editoi : 



Here's Off-Island sailing down to vote 

 upon that cut-off piece of Nantucket, 

 with Coatue on all her flying colors. 

 And her crew? Legal voters every one. 

 By birth or residence, and by true love, 

 all have a right to join in the annua! 

 Boston reunion of Nantucketers, and 

 'hat fuller credentials can be required? 

 And thus speaks the skipper: 

 I have read the list of names proposed 

 for the new island and admire their 

 brightness and wit,-lheir appropriateness 

 also it the island were new in another 

 sense,— if the old giant sachem had 

 lately found his moccasins full of sand 

 again, and had emptied them out as 

 before into the ocean. But the island 

 under anxious consideration now, is not 

 new in that way, and I feel that no new 

 le could ever find or make a warm 

 place in Nantucket hearts, so my choice, 

 after hovering over Coatue and Coskata, 

 has settled upon the former, and I do 

 not see that any confusion or misunder- 

 standing would arise from having the 

 name of the whole the same as that of 

 one of the parts. 



Let us suppose a name agreed upon 

 and bestowed; can we also suppose an 

 occasion for using it? Should we ever 

 say "I am going over to Little Nauticon" 

 or to "Cactus," or whatever? No; the 

 inclusive name will always stay in innoc- 

 uous desuetude, [like, for instance, the 

 "Sia" of 'Sconset. 



Coskata has good claimj»^and it would 

 be my second choice, but isn't it simply 

 the eastern end and expansion of Coatue ? 

 We easily conceive of Coatue as includ- 

 ing Coskata, but not the reverse. Coa- 

 tue has always been a pleasure resort 

 for the town's folk, is more in evidence. 



idcarcd by a thousand memories, 

 luKi poetry written about it,— twice! 

 |llas Coskata even once? 



And Mr. Editor, can't you look up 

 ICharlcs F. Briggs^pretty sonnet, "Coa- 

 Itue," in "Seaweeds from the Shores of 

 |Nantucket," and reprint it in your col- 

 It would be new to most of your 

 Ireaders and would please all. 



Maria L. Owen, Springfield, 

 Indorsed by Mary G. Tallant, North- 

 impton, Susan C. Hosmer, Worcester, 

 I Emily Shaw Forman, Wellesley Hills, 

 I Herbert Shaw Forman, Cambridge, 

 I Harriet P. Hazard, Roxbury, Bertha 

 I Hazard, Roxbury, 



•'O yes, we two 

 Go in for Coatue.' ' 

 Lorin L. Dame, Medford, with Isabel A. 

 Dame, Gertrude Dame, Ruth Burleigh 

 Dame, Olive Arnold Dame and Isabel 

 Dame Bacon, also of Medford, Sarah J. 

 Baker, Roxbury, Charlotte M. Gardner, 

 Roxbury, Emily C. Coffin, Springfield, 

 Margaret Swift Hosmer, Worcester, 

 Louise Hosmer, Medford, Walter 'lal- 

 lant Owen, New York, I 



"The dream ol mv lifekto have that island 

 named Coatue.''' 

 Ameha L. Owen, Boston, Alice Weld 

 Tallant, Boston, George H. Mackay, 

 Maria M. Mackay, Pauline Mackay, 

 Caroline V. McGuffey, Margaret D. 

 McGuffey, Boston. 

 So say we, all of us. 

 Springfield, March 26, 1898. 



THE LIST. 



I Coatue. 

 j Nauma. 



j Wonoraa. I 

 Great Point. ? 

 Coskata. | -^.^ 



Offspring Island. ^ 

 Right Ann Island. 

 Backus Island. 

 Coskala. 

 Coskata. 

 Coskata. 

 Coatue. 

 Cedar. 

 Gedar. 

 Cutaway. 

 Shetucket. 

 Sandy Point. 

 Sandy Land. 

 Sandiland. 

 Klondike. 

 Coskata. 

 Century. 

 Centennial 

 Columbus. 

 Coatue. 

 Ocean Grant 

 Cedar. 

 Whale Isle. 

 Cedar. 

 Plum. 

 Crescent. 

 Crescent. 

 Cactus. 

 Quary. 

 Noconomo. 

 Macy. 

 Gosling. 

 Storm. 

 Weewinnet.- 

 ]SJauraa. 

 Sherburne,- 

 Little Sherburne. 

 New Sherburne. 

 Tempest. 

 Quary. 

 Coskata. 

 Sachem. 

 Island Home. 

 Independence. 

 Riven oak. 

 New Nantucket. 

 Little Nantucket. 

 Coatue. 

 Harbor Island. 

 Channel Island. 

 Easterly Island. 

 Coatue. 

 Quary. 

 Windmerc. 

 Coatue. 



Ocean''s Choice. 

 Infant Island. 

 White Island. 

 Nantuquito. 

 Tashma. 

 Coatue. 

 Nichanoose, 

 Coatue. 

 Coatue. 

 Haulaway. 

 Coatue. 

 Coatue. 

 Coatue. 

 Coatue. 

 Coatue. 

 Coatue. 

 Coatue. 

 Cedar. 

 Last. 



Little Nauticon. 

 Coskata. 

 Coskata. 

 Joatue. 

 atue. 



