BILENT NAT HERRESHOFF.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 357, 12 March 1903, Page 3

BILENT NAT HERRESHOFF.

<•*•«» Penoulitr m 4 0«d CkAi-iMt-(ciMlm •« the Ov««tt Tuekt Bailfsv. Angular in form, with stooped shoulders And a, looss, disjointed frame, with the knees slightly "bucked," from G'apt. Nathaniel Greene Herrreshoff's general appearance no stranger would ever take him to be the foremost yacht designer in the world, or see in him the father of a royal line of cup defenders —Vigilant, Defender, Columbia and Constitution. His large, hard hands and heavy, slouching gait proclaim the slow-witted plodder behind the plow rather than the genius whoee cunning has devised the fastest machines that ever ran furrows in old ocean's hills and valleys, says the New York Times. Yet this man, whose appearance calls to mind Markham's lines on 'The Man with the Hoe," is master >£ as many difficult professions as was Leonardo da Vinci. Yacht designer, navigator, expert sailor, metallurgist; a recognized authority in all these lhies. were it not for his shrewd" fare and his keen eyea a Broadway bunko wteerer would hail him as a gift from heaven. Thoroughly undemonstrative, .caring nei'her for praise nor adverse criticism of his work, and despising publicity with deep-rooted hatred, "The Wizard of Bristol," as he has come to be called, has made his vleepy little home town more wide* ly known than many home or foreign capitals. ' The First C»nnrU«. Canaries, which were originally green and gray in color, were native to the islands from which they -take, their name, and were first taken to England on ships plying between English ports an i the south ofFrance. From this stock have been derived a number of distinct varieties, such as the crested, the green, the lizard, which imitates the reptile in its variegated markings, and the Belgian, which has & strange, hump* backed.appearance. ■wlasd CHisa of T «r*ta>. There are altogether in Yucatan seven cities, 13 towns, 62 ruined cities, 143 villages, l*f abandoned, settlements and 333 haciendas. Scarcely any of these places has as many m 10,000 inhabitants, the population of the great majority falling below 1,000.