Peninsula Enterprise, March 1, 1883
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Professionals -- Commission merchants
Mr. Lee B. Kellam, of Locustville, having prepared himself by an apprenticeship of several years for the commission business, will offer his services to the public in that capacity at 93 Park Place, New York, about June 1st. If experience and integrity that no one can question entitles him to your patronage, he will receive a large share of it. We can certainly vouch for and commend him to you.
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Sea -- Shellfish - Oystering : SeasideSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : Planting
Chincoteague.
The best oysters shipped from Chincoteague this season, were taken from a cove [Tom's Cove] immediately upon the surf and washed from their beds in many instances by the ever moving billows. Until the last few months the planting of the bivalve in so treacherous a resting place would have been looked at as a wild cat scheme, too ridiculous to be entertained. The handsome profits realized from oysters planted at the place designated, by Messrs. Major Jones, Daniel Jones, Capt. John W. Bunting, and others this season has changed the views, however, of those who ridiculed this departure from the beaten path of their fathers, and the vacant ground so long regarded as worthless, for oyster planning purposes, are likely to be monopolized at no distant day.
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Moral -- Alcohol
Leemont.
The Temperance council continues to hold its meetings here every Wednesday night, and will have a grand Mass Meeting at no distant day. The membership of the council is being enlarged at every meeting.
Launch of the new Steamer Eastern Shore.
reprinted from Wilmington Morning News, Feb. 22nd.Transportation -- Water - SteamboatsAfrican-Americans -- Race relations
To day, at high water, about 1 p. m., the steamer Eastern Shore will be launched from the yards of the Harlan & Hollingsworth Company. She is an iron side-wheel boat built for the Eastern Shore Steamboat Company to run from Baltimore to points on the eastern shore of Maryland and Virginia, connecting with the Eastern Shore railroad at Crisfield. The new boat, with the Tangier, Helen and Maggie, will make a fleet of four boats provided by this company for the accommodation of the people of the Eastern Shore.
The Eastern Shore is to be fitted up in a first-class manner for the accommodation of 250 passengers, at the same time having a freight capacity of 3,500 barrels. The main saloon is 125 feet long, 20 feet wide, the staterooms on each side, 30 in all, running from aft forward, where a circular room about 30 feet in diameter is used as a dining saloon, with 6 tables capable of accommodating 50 persons, tables and chairs of mahogany and the fittings equal to any first-class steamer on the bay. Forward of the paddle box on the starboard side is the gentlemen's smoking room; abaft is the ladies' toilet. On the port side is the pantry and the gentleman's toilet. Fine promenading space is afforded forward and aft of the saloon on this deck. The furniture of the saloon is solid mahogany with maroon plush upholstering.
Descending to the main deck the after part of the boat is fitted for a ladies' private cabin with berths above and below, about 30 in all. On the port side is the office, and forward of the wheel the kitchen, ice house and engineers' quarters. On the starboard side is a wash room and barber shop; forward of the wheel the package room and saloon for colored people. On the lower deck, commencing aft, is the ladies' private cabin, enclosed in an iron bulkhead, making it one of the compartments spoken of before. Forward of this is the gentlemen's cabin with sixty-three berths, then another bulkhead. Beyond this are the boilers and engine, coal, bunks and firemen's quarters, and enclosed in a bulkhead, making the third compartment, and forward of this are quarters for colored men and women, accommodations for 25 on each side. This is also bulkheaded and divided in the centre, making the fourth compartment. Forward of the last bulkhead are quarters for the sailors and waiters separated by a partition.
The captain's room on the hurricane deck abaft the pilothouse is large and elegantly furnished. -- Abaft that again are two rooms for the mates and quartermasters. The clerk's room is on the starboard side of the main saloon and the stewards' on the opposite side next the pantry, all being fitted with a view to comfort and in harmony with the general character of the boat.
The officers of the boat have not all been selected yet, but it is generally understood that Captain Geo. A. Raynor of the steamer Maggie will command her. Nothing in the boat line in point of equipment for comfort and safety and general adaptation to the traffic along the Eastern Shore exceeds the new boat, which will go upon this line in April.
OUR FAIR.
Tourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - FairsFarmers -- Innovation
In another column the announcement is made of the time for holding our next Agricultural Fair, and in a matter of such vital interest to our people, we should be derelict in our duty if we did not make it the subject of special notice. In directing this early your attention to our Fair, we have to say, we believe it the duty of every one of our citizens to put the query to himself or herself, "What can I exhibit at the Fair this season?" and to answer that query by resolving at once to exhibit something, and do it despite the fact that your neighbor may win the premiums to be awarded. Variety and the number of exhibits help to contribute to the success of a Fair more than a few things of superior excellence. The object of a Fair, as we understand it, is to interest as many people as possible, and if that can be done the stimulus is applied which will rebound to the benefit of an exhibitor whether he gets a premium or not. In fact you will be much more benefitted if the success of your neighbor this year makes you profit by the superior methods of cultivating your crops another year. To win a premium at the fair is a laudable aspiration -- but experience is better with defeat of your wishes, if it enables you to correct the evils into which you have fallen in previous years. A list of the premiums will be published in our paper soon, and then the matter will be elaborated much more, which for want of space we cannot do at this time.