Masthead Standers

Of modern standers of mastheads we have but a lifeless set mere stone, iron and bronze men. There is napoleon, who, upon the top of the column of vendome, stands with arms folded, some 150 feet in the air, careless. Great washington, too stands high aloft on his towering mainmast in baltimore. Admiral nelson, also a capstan of gun metal, stands his masthead in trafalgar square. And every one most obscured by that london smoke token as yet given that a hidden hero is there. For where there is smoke must be fire. The worthy obed tells us that in the early times of the whale fishery