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...much nostalgic tenderness has Walter D. Edmonds (Rome Haul) written of the canal as it approached its decadence. Two able adapters, Marc Connelly (The Green Pastures) and Frank B. Elser (Mr. Gilhooley), have preserved for the stage every jot of humor, deviltry and brawling caste loyalty which Author Edmonds' boatmen had between covers...
...long Coast Guardsmen, fishermen and Jersey boatmen plied the choppy seas, trying to distinguish between the floating bodies of the dead and the floating bodies of the living. The former were left to wash ashore with the tide...
...Brooks boatmen have been working out regularly under the tutelage of Coach Tod Hoople, and although it seems to improve with age, no information is available to the effect that it has ever been clocked at any better than six minutes and 59 seconds for the Heule...
...Episcopal Church of Our Saviour (see cut). Built by the Young Men's Church Missionary Society, it was meant to attract mariners who would never worship ashore at landlubbers' churches. The church existed 22 years, was succeeded by the Church of the Holy Comforter, "Free for Seamen & Boatmen." In 1870 a second Church of Our Saviour was launched. It lasted until 1910 when it was towed out to Staten Island and moored in Kill Van Kull where an Episcopal congregation still worships in it. The Young Men's Church Missionary Society, world's second oldest religious...
Under his orders the Prefect of Seine-et-Oise called out troops. Some 200 gendarmes, backed by blue-clad Injanterie de-Marine, piled into fire boats and sailed up stream. At dawn they met the bargemen, brandishing boathooks. With a swish high pressure hoses were turned on, washed the boatmen off their decks and into the river while wives and children screamed imprecations through the portholes. The Seine was cleared. Twoscore of the ringleaders, most of them Belgian subjects, were arrested, charged with the extremely serious offense of Rebellion...