Word: clippers
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...totally opposed tradition was the exhibition of the Guild of Boston Artists which also opened last week. This group has always sought to preserve the manner of the old Boston School, rigorous, conservative, fastidious. Pictures of ships, girls, countrysides, they presented in their exhibition ?tall Boston clipper-ships, New England girls, New England landscapes etched in pearly monotones. Mr. Tarbell is represented by the type of quiet interior which won him notice at other of the Guild's exhibits; Mr. Paxton likewise with an interior, suave, adept ?a girl holding a cup, surfaces of flesh, porcelain, fabric, exquisitely...
...American department store has developed trade and commerce as fully as the old clipper ships ever did. It was the American department store that elevated the buying and selling of merchandise to the dignity of a profession and established standards as high as any other honorable enterprise...
Edwin Atkins Grozier, son of a sea captain, was born aboard his father's clipper ship in San Francisco. Before going to college he spent several years before the mast. Following college he served on the staffs of several Boston papers, then became private secretary of a Governor of Massachusetts. From that post he went to another similar one, became private secretary to one of the great examples of aggressive journalism, Joseph Pulitzer...
Three quarters of a century ago, when Boston was one of the leading seaports of the United States, scarcely a day passed that did not see at least one clipper ship beating into the harbor with cargoes out of India and the far east. Spices and silks came from China, minerals and cocoanuts from South America...
Nowadays, however, the scene has changed. The clipper ships have disappeared and the only sailing craft that have increased in numbers are the fishing boats which are slowly drawing from Cape Ann all the glory that in former years was Gloucester's. Even though the sail has given way to the funnel, however, and cargoes are now coal and lumber instead of silk and spice, Boston's sea commerce is rapidly decreasing; freight differentials and a lack of American vessels, it would seem, are responsible for the removal of many shippers to New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, where no such...