The ship was one of those iron wool-clippers that the
Clyde had floated out in swarms upon the world during the seventh decade of the last century.
"Do you know--I've been looking it up--the Firth Of
Clyde, where all the steel ships are built, isn't half as wide as Oakland Creek down there, where all those old hulks lie?
The first steamship line to take notice of the telephone was the
Clyde, which had a wire from dock to office in 1877; and the first railway was the Pennsylvania, which two years later was persuaded by Professor Bell himself to give it a trial in Altoona.
"I have on the banks of the
Clyde," continued Monk, "a little house in a grove, cottage as it is called here.
For these same Stewarts, and Maccolls, and Macrobs (that had two rents to pay, one to King George by stark force, and one to Ardshiel by natural kindness) offered him a better price than any Campbell in all broad Scotland; and far he sent seeking them -- as far as to the sides of
Clyde and the cross of Edinburgh -- seeking, and fleeching, and begging them to come, where there was a Stewart to be starved and a red-headed hound of a Campbell to be pleasured!"
I understood very well why, when he told me that he had joined in the
Clyde a small steamer chartered by a relative of his, "a very wealthy man," he observed (probably Lord X, I thought), to carry arms and other supplies to the Carlist army.
The steam-yacht, built in the
Clyde, and fitted with tiled bath-rooms and other unheard-of luxuries, was said to have cost him half a million; and the pearl necklace which he had presented to his wife on his return was as magnificent as such expiatory offerings are apt to be.
His time being out, he had 'worked in the shop' at weekly wages seven or eight years more; and had then betaken himself to the banks of the
Clyde, where he had studied, and filed, and hammered, and improved his knowledge, theoretical and practical, for six or seven years more.
M2 EQUITYBITES-August 1, 2019-Graham Holdings company Acquires
Clyde's Restaurant Group
Graham Holdings announced it has acquired
Clyde's Restaurant Group.
Bonnie &
Clyde: Radioactive adds to the series with a new story about the now-past-her-prime Bonnie Parker and her much younger sidekick Royce.