The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-04
BATH.
Hell Gate-A Boy Hero-Funny Freaks
by Bath Girls-All About Town-Gos-
sip-Lost in the Woods.

SATURDAY, Aug. 2.
| In the shade ? p. m, s
Crowds daily pass through Bath for Mt De-
| sert.
A private party took moonlight sail Friday
night in the Creedmore.
Hotel arrivals-At Sagadahoc %, at Shan
mons so.
Officer Charles Longey conveyed John Lord
in default of bail, to Wiscasset this morning.
The macllerel fleet off Seguin meet with ill
success. There are plenty of fish but they are
not hungry.
Civil engineer E. c. Jordan, experimenting
operations at He'll Gate, Thursday and Friday
was at Back river. He reports that 100 yards
of rock, equivalent to $40 tons of material
have thus far been removed. Blasting is now
being done on flat ledge. Fine thousand yards
of mud have been removed. Mr.. Jordan re-
Gently had thrilling experience on the river
bottom while down in diving suit. The suit
itself was a trle short for man of his proper
tions and while surveying the work he wan
dered some distance from the lighter, and
making several turns had the Ill luck to tangle
his rubber air tube among the hawsers and
chains of the lighter By this accident his
supply of air became limited and he was plac-
ed in an uncomfortable predicament. Keeping
his wits about him, however, he righted mat
tiers before serious results were occasioned.
| The tug Knickerbocker will leave Bath Sun
| day for Kennebunkport and Monday will tow
the ship purchased by A. Sewall OF this city to
Bath, where she will be fitted for sea. Capt
Albert Thompson of Bath will command
her.
Jewett's fishing schooner at the south end
launches today She will go to sea Wednes-
day.
Jesse Ferrin brought up 600 weight of cod
and hake from the fishing ground this morn
ing.
Two Bath women were berrying in Mr..
Browns pasturea at West Bath, yesterday af-
| ternoon, when the owner ordered them from
| his domain They refused, and taking one of
the women by the arm to pull her out of the
| held, the lady's ten quart pail was knocked all
out OF proportion over Mr. Browns physog-
Monty.
Thursday morning three boys belonging to
| Mr.. Eben Brackley, and an Avery boy, all of
| whose ages range from to IL years, went her,
| rying on Rocky Hill. AT night they did not
return and search was made in vain. Fri
day morning the party came home, having
spent the night in the swamp.
Two spirited young ladies residing with Mr..
Joseph Wells, the teamster, accepted bet
and drove Mr.. Wells jigger about the city
streets yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. Richard o. Morse has accepted the posi-
ton of custom house clark for the ship brok-
erage firm OF Benson, Boyesen, Pickering &
| Co., New York. He will enter upon his du-
ties about Sept. LIST.
Two more Bath girls Yesterday yielded to
their propensities for fun and, attiring them
! selves in marvellous fashion, with Shaker
| bonnets and mems boots, with faces blackened
into semblance of charcoal, they perambu-
| lated. A crowd soon gathered, the police got
wind of a disturbance and the girls were nigh
unto having rough time, when deciding dis
| erection to be the better part of valor they made
| for their homes
| The yacht Stormy Petrol, Capt. Emerson,
| from Squirrel Island by way of the Fort, was
in port this morning. Likewise the yacht
| Snow Flake, Capt. Brown, from Boston, home
ward bound after cruise along eastern Maine.
| Bath has a boy hero. VIM. Fish, a young
lad of sixteen, a week ago Friday was stand
ing on Goss & Sawyer's wharf when a son of
| Capt j. p. Skillings fell backward from boat
in the river. The lad was unable to swim and
had sunk twice when young Fish, swimming
like his namesake, reached him. Younk Skill
lings clutched him by the throat, but with
wonderful presence of mind Fish kept himself
and the boy above water, reached the shore
safely and helped carry the nearly drowned
boy to his home. 1t may be mentioned that
this same Fish recently was tumbled over
board while passing through He'll Gate and
was saved from watery grave by his own ex-
ertions in that rushing tide.
| A deer was captured Friday evening near
Sawyer's Island. He is now in possession of
Mr.. Pinkham on Sawyer's Island
| Officer Tibbetts, about a. M, found on his
beat two hard looking roughs, who said they
| had been ON a drunk with stolen horse from
| Topsham. The officer gave them five minutes
to leave town. They left.
| A wrestling match between hackman "Jim"
and Hodgkins made sport for the boys near
| the Sagadahoc.