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Show FAMOUS BUCKSPORT CAPTAIN. ProBta from Hl FIhluK Tleet This Year About 830,000. "Tom Nick," or "Cap'n Tom," is said to have made $20,000 at least, clear profit, this year out of his fishing fleet. So say the wisest of the Bucksporters, and they refer to Capt. Thomas Nicholson Nich-olson of that town and to his business prosperity. Cap'n Tom is one of the few men in Bucksport, Me., who are worth more than $100,000. and when he started in life he hadn't a cent or a soul to give him a helping hand, says the Lewiston (Me.) Journal. The story of Cap'n Tom's life is a story of thrift, tireless industry and rapid money making. All along the eastern coast, from Maine to Boston, he is known aB a remarkable man. When he was 13 years of age he made his first trip to sea went fishing on the Grand Banks in a Buckport schooner, and for some years he continued con-tinued to catch codfish on shares, aa one of the crew. The shares were liberal lib-eral in those days, however, and the men who were willing to work extra hours, stealing the time from their watch below, uped to make a good deal of money by cutting out tha cods' tongues and sounds and pickling them for the home market, thoee parts of the lUhes being, by custom, "thrown in" to "fat up" the men's wages. Cap'n Tom is a bachelor, agfii about 40 years. Often he may be seen at work in his little office at 3 o'clock In I the morning. He talks and apparently ' thinks of nothing but his fishing ves-i ves-i sels. |
