The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-12-05

hhE /. .UMMER BOY.-The beautiful drama
OF the Drummer Boy, or the Spy Of the Shen-
andoah, was brought out for the second time in
this city Saturday, at City Hall by Bosworth
Post No. 2, G., A., R., for the benefit of their
charity fund. The spacious hall was filled,
both on the floor and in the galleries, and the
large audience testified their delight in repeat
ed applause. The managers were Messrs.
Heath and Hurd-Mr. Heath sustaining the
character of Harry Wallingford on the Union
side and Mr. Hurd that of Col. De Lorm on
the Confederate side. The other male charac.
tiers were sustained by members of the Post,
and the female characters by the ladies' of Bos-
worth Relief Corps.
The play was admirably placed upon the
stage, and was handsomely carried through
from beginning to end. The music was excel
lent In the singing we recognized the voice
OF Portland's favorite soprano. The scenery
was beautiful, being got up expressly for this
play, and far richer than any we have before
had in this city. In short the whole thing
was a grand success, and every one who wit
messed it will say so. 1t is to be repeated at
the same place this evening, and we advise
every body to go and see it.
The tableaux of the Memorial services of the
Grand Army on Decoration Day will be pro-
duced after the close of the fifth act.
NEW WAREHOUSE ON ATLANTIC WHARF,
1t may not be generally known that the Grand
Trunk Railroad Company either owns or con-
trolls all the wharf property from aud includ-
ing Galts wharf, eastwardly to Fish Point.
And the Company has just made decided
improvement on Atlantic wharf in building
large warehouse for the uses of the Portland
Steam Packet Company portland and Boston
line). portion of the end of the wharf for
the length of $50 feet by the same width has
been renewed, by the driving for a foundation
of 800 piles, forty five feet in length, and new
covering of heaving timber aud plank. A
building is now finished consisting OF centre
span 150 by 80 feet, % feet posts, with a truts
roof with two wings and fat roof covered
With felt and gravel of fifty feet in width and
OF the same length as the centre, extending
on each side and covering the entire wharf, ex-
cepting only room for the mOoring of the ex-
cellent steamers of the Allan line. A large
coal bin, capable of holding 5000 tons of coal,
and which is now full, is built under the centre
portion on new plan, and which, under the
present heavy weight, does not spread percep-
tally. The work has been done with but little
iron boiling, as all the timbers have been
framed and dove-tailed together with much in !.
genuity and skill. Two new drops, arranged
on new principle and SO nicely balanced that
boy can raise or lower them with one hand
and which have borne an eight tons pressure,
have been put in at the end of the wharf for
the loading and discharging of freight from
the steamers. The cost of the wharf rene wed
and warehouse has been $4,000, and it is ad-
miraaly adapted to all the purposes of the
steamers running to Boston. Various other
renewals of the British steamers wharves and
the roadway extending from the Atlantic to
the departing British steamers wharf, etc.,
have been made this season, and what is singu
lar the expenditures, amounting in all to abou t
1000, have been kept within, rather than ex-
ceeded, the estimates. This work is generally
done from the plans Of Mr.. E. P. Hannaford.
Chief Engineer of the Company, and under
the admirable supervision and executive abili-
ty of Mr.. S. v. Wilber Superintendent of
Construction, but the latter has planned and
constructed the warehouse and wharf above
described.