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Left for Holyrood. - Mr. F.B. Bennett, who arrived by the S.S. Silvia, left for his parents home at Holyrood last evening, where he will spend a week or so amongst his friends. He has been living at New York for some years past.
Saved From Drowning.Captain James Healy, of Fox Harbor, performed a heroic act there on Thursday. Two fishermen accidentally fell over a stage head - one of them was able to swim, the other was not. Captain Healy jumped into the water and catching hold of the man who could not swim, swam with him to a place of safety.
Capt. Lewis, in the Excelda, sailed from Holyrood Saturday last with 100,000 squid. ... Capt. W. Kennedy arrived at Holyrood in the Hispanola Saturday and will take about 100,000 squid. He left there to-day for Labrador.
Painters Return Here.
A Fierce Storm.
Indians Erect Church.
The Glencoe left Placentia last night, taking the following passengers: ... J.J. Christian, ...
Laura, the little daughter of Captain Walter Kennedy, of Holyrood, was operated upon on Saturday afternoon at the general hospital, for appendicitis, and is now doing very well. Captain Kennedy was in town yesterday, left for home by train last night.
Two Wrecked Crews. The second wrecked crew are from the schr. Alba, Skipper Philip Healey, also of Holyrood. The crew are eight men and a girl. The Alba belonged to Mr. M. Dryer of this city, and was lost on a shoal near Long Tickle on the 19th inst. She was going down the shore and had about 60 qtls. of fish on board when she ran on Mortimer Shoal. It was in the daytime and the crew were able to save their traps and some of their belongings and to continue on to Long Harbor in their boats. Both schrs., we understand, were insured. All the crew are well.
New Appointments.
Successful Newfoundlander Here. Capt. Quinlan is a Newfoundlander of whom his countrymen should feel proud. Leaving home 30 years ago he took up the seafaring life, and by perseverance, honesty and attention to duty came rapidly to the front of the profession, so that he is now master and owner of the six masted schr. Augustus A. Badcock, so that he is one of the most well known and successful sailing masters in Brooklyn, New York. Capt. Quinlan's vessel makes remarkably quick trips from Brooklyn to Porto Rico, and his wife and daughter invariably travel with him. He leaves for Brooklyn by Friday's express.
A Successful Newfoundlander.
Capt. Peter Quinlan who was on a short visit to his mother, who is very ill, at Holyrood, left for Brooklyn by yesterday's express to join his ship.
Mrs. George Christian, of Trinity, who has been visiting her many friends in the city, returns home by the Prospero, on Wednesday.
Mr. W. Christian, travelling agent for Messrs. Archibald Bros., returned from a very successful eight weeks' trip to the West Coast. Mr. C. is a hustler and is making his business hum.
The "Daily News" Harbor Directory. ...
The "Daily News" Harbor Directory. ...
Newfoundland Society of Greater New York. First Annual Banquet. The first annual banquet, under the auspices of the Terra Nova Society, took place on Saturday, Oct. 16th, at the Astor House, the guest of the evening being Capt. Robert A. Bartlett, the Newfoundland Arctic explorer, who blazed the path for Peary, and has reached farther north than any citizen of the British Empire. Until recently the society was known as the Terra Nova Society, but these are days when Anglo Saxon is good enough, and the English translation carries the more welcome as well as the more familiar sound. From the Brooklyn Daily Eagle we take the following extracts: "In the membership of the Newfoundland Society are a number of Brooklynites, and when Captain Bartlett walked into the dining room, there was cheer after cheer. "Edwin F. Howell is the president of the Newfoundland Society as he was the toastmaster of the occasion. Considerable enthusiasm was the result of a remark by one of the speakers, the Rev. John Wesley Hill, pastor of the Metropolitan Temple, who responded to the toast, "Newfoundland Through American Eyes." Dr. Hill raised a tumult of applause when he declared that Robert E. Peary found his crew among the hardy men of Newfoundland, and declared that Peary was at this time the only undisputed discoverer of the North Pole. "Edwin B. Woods, of Brooklyn, was responsible for the elaborate decorations of the dining room, and he made a happy response to the toast, "The Ladies." Captain Bartlett made a brief response in good spirit to the sentiment, "Just Bartlett." Other toasts were, "Research in the Arctic Regions," by the Rev. Thomas S. Gregory; "The Natural Resources of Newfoundland," Frederick W. Finlay; "The Trade and Commerce of Newfoundland," O.A. Clough; "Burin and the West Coast," B.R. Buffett; "The Rod, The Gun and The Tent," K.W. Pittman [sic]. "Lillian C. Williamson sang, with Mrs. Hattie Snow as accompanist. Miss Lee Gregory also sang. The dinner committee was composed of Charles Trippe, P.J. Healy [sic], Edwin F. Howell, T.M. Woodford, Edwin B. Woods, P.F. [sic] Foley, Frederick W. Finlay, Captain McGrath, B.R. Buffett. The diners were as follows: The following was the menu: Oysters. Olives. Radishes. Mock Turtle Soup. Kitty Vitty Codfish. Baccalieu, Sauce Hollandaise. Filet of Beef and Mushrooms, Signal Hill. Brussels Sprouts. Potatoes. Golden Plover, Topsail. Currant Jelly Salad. Fruit. Celery. Charlotte Panache. Coffee. Cakes. Later, we hope to be in a position to give particulars of some of the speeches. The officers of the Society for the coming year are:
The first three toasts were "The President," "King Edward" and "The Premier of Newfoundland." A cablegram was read from Sir Edward P. Morris congratulating the Society and regretting his inability to be present. The President, Mr. Howell, directed the attention of those present to an excellent painting of Sir Edward, which occupied a conspicuous place on the wall, and was artistically draped with the flags of Great Britain, Newfoundland and the United States. This is said to have been the first occasion on which the Newfoundland flag has been displayed at a public function in New York; it is certainly the first occasion on which it has occupied the post of honor. The credit of the arrangement of the flags, and indeed the entire decoration of the banquet hall, is due to Mr. Edwin Woods, brother of Hon. H.J.B. Woods and Messrs. Sydney and Chesley Woods, who is one of the Board of Governors of the Newfoundland Society. Captain Bartlett created a most favorable impression, his modesty and manly courtesy winning the proud appreciation of his compatriots and of all the guests. Newfoundlanders abroad, as well as at home, recognize that, to whomever may fall the honor of having reached the top of the world, it is "Just Bartlett" and his compatriots who made the goal attainable. Capt. Bartlett's likeness adorned the front page of the Menu and Toast Card, a list of the guests appearing on the fourth page. In honoring Bartlett, the Newfoundland Society has honored those Newfoundlanders who accompanied him with Peary in the search; it has honored Newfoundlanders at home, and it has done honor to itself, an organization that has immense possibilities for usefulness.
An Accident.
A Pitiable Case.
Mr. and Mrs. Carter of Bay of Islands and Mrs. B. Dunphy of Salmonier, are in the city, and are guests at the Hotel Royal.
The "Daily News" Harbor Directory.
Published by Authority.
During the present year 368 schooners were insured in the Trinity Marine Scheme. The insurance effected was $428,932.00
Thomas Mills who operates a mill at Rexman's Hr., T.B., came to the city by yesterday's express, and will remain for a few days.
Serious Loss to a Poor Man.
Mrs. J.S. Currie and child who have been visiting friends in New York for some time past, returned by the Florizel yesterday.
The crew of the schooner Annie Healey, of Fox Hr., P.B., with Jas. Healey, master, as a result of their summer's work, were paid off with $271.00 per man. This is an extremely good bill.
Father Roe Gone Home.
Newfoundlanders I Have Met in New York. Equipped with a sturdy manhood and bright intellect, but with only the limited education to be had at the meager school of the district, young Healy left home in 1887, determined to win. Nothing better immediately offering, he engaged in the bank fishery with Captain larry O'Brien, of Conception Harbour, N.F., at that time master of the schooner Puritan, sailing from Gloucester. In September, 1888, Captain O'Brien died on the Grand Banks, and his remains being landed at Port Mulgrave, N.S., where an inquest was held, were afterwards conveyed by Mr. Healy to the bereaved family at Gloucester. It may be that "As the pebble on the streamlets bank May change the course of a might river," this sad occurrence proved the turning point in the course of Mr. Healy's career; at all events the pathetic circumstances attending the death of Capt. O'Brien so affected him that he resolved to give up the sea and seek more congenial employment on shore. He married at Gloucester, Miss Johanna Tymms of Holyrood, and settled down at Woonsocket, R.I., where he took employment with a Rubber Goods Manufacturing concern but finding no future in this line, in June 1889, engaged in the iron moulding business at The United States Foundry, Chelsea, Mass., becoming shop foreman after six months service. Resigning this place in 1891 we find him with the Metropolitan Sewer Commission of Boston from 1892 ro 1903, during which period he became successively Foreman and assistant superintendent of construction. Here Mr. Healy's genius was afforded an opportunity of results and the idea of the Healy Sewer Cleaning and Exploring device was conceived and developed; letters patent were secured in 1903 in the United States and all foreign countries, including Newfoundland. On March 25th, 1903 The Healy Sewer Machine and Construction Company was incorporated under the law of Massachusetts for one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, with offices at 15 Beacon Street, Boston. In 1904 the Company opened a branch of its business in the Park Row building, New York City, and here president Healy now makes his headquarters, his son Philip J., being left in charge of his Boston interests. The Healy Reaming Device for cleaning corroded pipe, especially water pipe, and the "automatic flusher" for pipe sewers were later inventions. These machines have become very popular and are being disposed to the cities and municipalities throughout the country so rapidly that the company's factories at Hyde park, Mass., and Jersey City, N.J. are kept constantly busy in order to meet the demand. Together with the development of an extensive business in the manufacture and sale of these machines, Mr. Healy has been very prosperous in core drilling and prospecting contracts in which line he employs an average of thirty men during the year, and owns machinery worth upwards of eighty thousand dollars. He has just undertaken a contract for the New York Water Supply Company of this city for sixty-five thousand dollars, upon which he will be engaged till January next. Mr. Healy has recently purchased a beautiful home at Forest Hills, mass., and has also a house at Revere Beach, near Boston, where Mrs. Healy, one daughter and three sons spend the summer months.
Harbor Main. [also reported appointment of Michael O'Toole as the new magistrate at Harbour Main; and there was a long piece on the illness of Father John Roe, P.P. of Harbour Main.]
Personal.
Harbor Main. All the traps are now taken out of the water, and the voyage is practically nil. Hook and liners and trawl fishermen are doing well. Nicholas Murray, son of ex-magistrate Murray, is spending his vacation with his parents at the old home in this town. "Nick", as he is familiarly called, is doing well in the land of the Stars and stripes, having through his own energy pushed to the position of Assistant Supt. of the John Handcock Insurance Co. , of Boston, Mass. [paragraph on new magistrate M.F. O'Toole.] The schooner Sea Nymph, Capt. Bennett, arrived to-day, coal laden to Mr. P. Kennedy. ...
Presentation to Father Battcock.
High Mass. - Rev. Fr. Battcock celebrated High Mass at Holyrood on August 17th for repose soul of Joseph Kelly of Gambo, who was killed at Grand Falls, Good Friday, 1909.
Personal.
Hr. Main Convent.
During the last two weeks there has been an abundance of fish at English Hr., T.B., and boats get from 4 to 5 quintals daily.
All the Hr. Main Labrador fishing fleet have now arrived, except one schooner to Kennedy at Avondale, and P. Ezekiel's and Hickey's to Hr. Main proper. The catch for the fleet is the worst for 40 years, and the crews are now seeking work on the Bonavista Branch railway.
Trinity Schooners Home. - During the past week about 20 schooners arrived home from Labrador to Trinity Bight with from 200 to 600 qtls. They all did very well.
Schr. Garnet Gets Dismasted.
Congregational Sale and Sociable.
Personal.
The young man, Hynes, of Indian Islands, one of the crew of the Fogota, who was injured by falling into the hold of the ship during her last trip North, is still at Fogo, and is in a rather serious condition. Since the time of the accident, the man has been constantly attended by Dr. Wood, who will likely send him on here by the Fogota next trip to enter hospital.
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