7197rr. [newspaper] [practice of appointing Light House Keepers].
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7197rr. [newspaper] [practice of appointing Light House Keepers].
7197rr. [newspaper] [practice of appointing Light House Keepers]. The Portland Daily Advertiser, Portland, Maine. May 17, 1853. Article remarks on the practice of appointing keepers based on their political affiliation, and that the recent keeper appointed to Boon Island Light was appointed by a Democrat appointed by President Polk, rather than a Whig as was reported, and that the keeper “..has never seen a vessel, and with good old fashioned country notions of ‘early to bed and early to rise’ very verdauntly supposed that vessels kept country hours, and ‘did not sail after it became dark’”. This most interesting comment on the system also notes that one of the newly appointed keepers at Cape Elizabeth has resided in an interior town until the Presidential election and several Democrats were well qualified but set aside. Full newspaper contains Four pages with articles of the day, quite clean, 2 folds. (VG-) $28.