Ninety-in-the-shade

The Autocrat of the Brewster having issued her mandate, the Aristocrat, the Acrobat and the Scribe met her at Rowe’s Wharf in Boston at 9.15 on Wednesday Morning. Leaving a temperature of ninety-in-the-shade behind us, we had a breezy sail down the Harbor in the Nantasket Boat. 

July 15, 1891

The Great Brewster Journal of 1891 is held in the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in Cambridge, MA. It is reproduced here with permission.