May 28, 1915 
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WAMPSCOTT summer residents will learn 
with regret of the death of a most familiar 
figure of the past two generations and one well 
known by all the hotel and cottage visitors of 
long standing. 
Capt. Theophilus W. Brackett, said to 5e 
the oldest active fisherman in the country and 
inventor of the famous Swanpscott dory, die 
last Monday at the age of 95 at his home, 32 
Orient street. Captain Brackett was born in 
Wellfleet, Jan. 16, 1820, and had always gained 
his living from the sea. His outdoor life, thoug! 
full of hardship, had kept him in the pink o 
physical condition. He followed his vocation 
until a short time ago and made regular trips to 
the fishing grounds. It was his boast that he 
was better able to withstand rough weather than 
many men of half his years. It was said of 
him that he had pulled more fish from the sea 
than any man in the world. 
Summer visitors delighted to visit Captain 
Brackett as he mended his nets on the beacn 
or was returning from his daily task of fishing 
off the shore. He always had some interesting 
tale to relate or amusing incident or anecdote of 
the days when Swampscott was a mere fishing 
village and before it had developed into the at- 
tractive summer resort it is today. ‘To visit the 
fishing grounds off the shore with Captain 
Brackett was to be assured of a good morning's 
catch, for he knew all the “holes’’ where cod 
or other fish could be found, and the summer 
visitors who liked that kind of sport—and there 
are many such—were always eager to be under 
his care. He will be greatly missed by all at 
Swampscott. 
WAMPSCOTT has suffered somewhat, as a summer 
resort the past ten days from cool weather and inter- 
mittent rain, but the shore-front homes there are filling up 
quite rapidly. The hotels will not open until the middle 
of June. When they do open it appears that they will be 
well filled with guests from the start; advance bookings 
at present look decidedly encouraging, say the hotel. men. 
William E. Schrafft and family of Boston, who 
have summered at Marblehead Neck in previous 
years, will occupy the Denton cottage between Swamp- 
scott and Clifton this year. 
Edward S. Goulston and family of Brookline have 
arrived at their summer estate on Puritan road, Swamp- 
scott, for the season. Considerable minor improvements 
have been made on the property the last few weeks and 
the grounds are looking exceedingly well. 
Simon Vorenberg and family have been down from 
their winter home in Boston for the last ten days. Al- 
though the Vorenberg home was finished only in_ the 
middle of last season the grounds about it have been 
developed to such a degree that one would not know it 
was the newest estate on Puritan road. It is located just 
on the outside sweep of Puritan road at the corner of 
Lincoln House road and makes a fitting entrance to the 
Swampscott colony from the boulevard. 
Dr. George A. Craigin of Boston was among the 
arrivals at Swampscott this week. He is quartered, as 
usual, on Beach Bluff avenue. 
The Samuel G. Adamses of Boston are down at 
“Miramar” cottage for the summer on Beach Bluff ave. 
The two Williams families, those of Jeremiah Wil- 
liams of Boston, and that of Joseph S. Williams of Ja- 
maica Plain, are at Swampscott for the season. 
Tur Onr Pronounced antipathy the war has 
brought out is the hatred of Germany and England. Who 
would have thought of it?» Such animosities are not of 
a year’s formation. 
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