The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-08-28
NEW YORK.


New York, Aug. N.-Schednles Of the in
solvent firm of e. @. Stedman & Co., brokers,
were filed to-day in the Court of Common
Pleas. The nominal Indebtedness OF the firm
is placed at $117 ,940 while the actual liabili-
ties are only S62,940. The nominal assets are
SOL ,047, and the actual assets $23, ,877.
Liabilities of Geo. VIM. BaIIsu a. Co.
Geo. VIM Ballou Il Co. presented q state
ment OF their liabilities, in which the actual
figures Of the latter were somewhat smaller
than $750,000, as heretofore published in the
newspapers. 1t was thought that the firm
would be able TO collect sums due them from
their customers and be able to resume business
in few days.
Senate Labor Committee.
The Senate subcommittee on labor and edu-
cation commenced its session to-day. Frank
r. Foster, secretary Of the trades union feder-
ation addressed the committee at some length
and held that the workingman had just as
much right to organize and fix the value or
price Of their labor as the Standard Oil Com
pany, grain or other merchants had to set the
price OF oil or other commodities. Hyman
Phillips of Cincinnati, delegate to the trades
federation union and cigar maker, strongly
denounced the custom of employing children
in the manufacture Of cigars.
Women's Christian Temperance Union.
The convention of the National Women's
Christian Temperance Union, at Round Pond
Lake, N. Y, closed Sunday. The services
were delivered by Miss Il. w. Greenwood of
Cincinnati Mrs. Mary s. Hunt of Hyde Park,
Mass, and by the President, Mrs. Mary S.
Burt.
A Great Raft of Logs Towed from 81.
John 10 New York.
The great lumber raft which has beeh en-
route from st. John to this city since the 7th
inst, arrived on Saturday. The tugs Cycleps
and Haviland brought the $4,000 worth of
timber on the long voyage. There was little
of interest the first two days out, but on the
10Th inst. fog came. but, after lasting two
hours, cleared. A heavy easterly wind took
its place, the waves breaking over the raft to
the height of thirty-fve feet at times. The
tugs were ahead of the raft, tandem fashion,
the Cyclops being astern the Haviand, with
three 8inch hawsers leading to the raft. Sud-
denly the wind died, leaving heaving swell
on that would surge the raft ahead faster than
the tugs were going, and then fall into the
trough of the sea, threatening to pull the bits
out of both vessels. That night they put into
Boothbay for a harbor. The next day, after
getting under way off Halfway Rock, the
hawsers of the Cyclops parted fifteen feet aft
of the stern-rail having 100 fathoms out. The
raft labored heavily. AT the risk of their
lives Captain Patterson reached it in a dinky
and got pew hawser fastened. Every wave
that struck the raft went over it, the men
lying fiat to keep from being washed over
board. After three hours hard labor they
got hawser to the raft and put into Portland.
They left Portland on the 14th. On the 10th
they were caught In storm off the Highlands
Seas sheered the raft round at right
angles with the tugs, the waves running high
The men could hardly see for the rain and
spray half the time. They got into Province
town safely, and left the next day. On the
18th they drifted back three miles on account
of the strong tides. On the 18th they put into
Vineyard Haven in a rain storm and heavy
sea. On the 2lst, after passing Sow and Pigs
Lightship, heavy sea from the southeast
sDrang up, continuing till the next day. When
off Newport, at in the morning, the first crib
Of the raft broke loose from the other ten and
was let go adrift between Gay Head and Block
Island. The chain fastening the raft, two
inches in diameter, broke and fifteen fathoms
was dragging underneath. After five hours
hard work the men got the raft together
again. At one time the men on the tugs
thought Ellis and Patterson and three men
were all lost The waves broke completely
over the raft continually. Captain Ellis said,
Notwithstanding there were four days of rough
weather, the voyage was not half so dangerous
as he had been led to believe In future they
will have an improved way of fastening the
chain, and in that manner he would be willing
to take one across the Atlantic.
Two Bostouians Killed ON the Hudson
River Railroad.
Boston, Aug. ga despatch from Pough-
keepsie, N. y, says that three young men,
Nathan Freeman and Henry L. Mitchell of
Cambridge, and stranger, said to have been a
waiter in the Parker House, Boston, got on
top of sleeping car of the train which left
New York on the New York Central & Hudson
River railroad at 8 o'clock Saturday evening
while it lay at Peekskill, their purpose being
to steal a ride to Albany. While the train was
passing through the Roa Hook tunnel Mitchell
and the unknown man had their skulls crushed
by striking the top of the tunnel. Freeman
was not injured. The bodies of the two men
were taken off at Poughkeepse and will be
buried ia the cemetery there.
A Broker in TROUBLED
Judge Haight today in the Supreme Court
rendered decision on a motion recently ar
gued before him in the suit by John r. Duff
against W. j. Hutchinson, broker, for ac-
counting. The plaintiff claimed that the de-
fendant had in his possession certain books,
papers and kilograms necessary to accounting,
and as Hutchinson refused to produce them
before the referee, a motion was made for an
order compelling him to do SO. Judge Halght
granted the order.