The Romance of a Great Store

es-the Coffins, the Eldredges, the Myricks, and the Macys. Their forbears came from England to America fully ten generations ago. They

ing folk, those early residents of Nantucket: God-fearing, simple of speech and of action, yet mentally keen and alert. And from them sprang the segment of

s fishing and its whaling industries. From him came a long line of descendants-a clean and sturdy record-and in the eighth generation of these

en he followed the common Nantucket custom of those days and went away to sea; upon a whaling voyage which was to consume four long years before again he saw

, until the day of Mr. Macy's death. Mrs. Macy lived for several years afterwards, dying in New York City in 1886. They had three children, one of whom, Mrs.

ve, upbuilded one of the great and most distinctive businesses of the greatest city of the two American continents. Back of it is another record-not so simple or so quickly told. It is the story of

inced that the sea was no calling for a married man, and, with the Yankee's native taste for trading, decided that th

e had really dismayed the young merchant, this book would not have been written. As it was, the failure seemed but to stir him towa

h," said he. "Tails and

degree, at least far enough to encourage its proprietor. But he did not cease regretting that the coin had not come tails-up. Then he would have gone to New York. For New York, he was convinced, was about to become the undispute

uited action to thought, sold his Haverhill business at a fair profit, again bundled