The Portland daily press., 1888-03-15
AFTER THE STORM.
The Condition of Things in Portland
Yesterdav


Yesterday the travel was but little inter
rupted in the city. The Spring street line of
horse cars was on the irons in the afternoon,
but the Congress street line run on runners,
as did the Deering line.
The Telegraph Company had six wires
working to Boston, and the railroad wires
were working to stations near Boston. At
D. In. Boston reported the only disposal
they could make of New York business
would be by special messenger to New York
via the Fall River boat last night, and that
train service between the two cities, Boston
and New York, had not yet been resumed.
All business was accepted, subject to delay.
Not wire was broken, nor was there any
interruption of telegraph service east Of
Portland.
Payson Tucker, Esq, with his accustomed
forethought, gave the train dispatchers and
operators a fine dinner in the Maine Central
directors room Tuesday, as they were una
BILE to leave their work on account Of the
blockades.
The steamer City of Richmond made a
harbor at Staye Island and left Southwest
Harbor for Portland at GAO o'clock yesterday
morning If the weather continued good
she was expected to arrive some time last
night, but will not leave for Machias until
Friday night at the usual time.
The Worcester a. Nashua Division of the
Boston & Maine is at a standstill There
are IA stalled trains between Worcester and
Rochester. both passenger and freight. A
snow plow is off the track at Pepperell.
Nothing is running in either direction.
A we'll known minister was to have mar
ried a young couple from Portland at Dover,
N. H., at IL a. m. Tuesday. Up to 2.3O p. m.
they bad not arrived. A dispatch came at
D. M that the train was stalled at Biddeford,
and they hoped to reach there some time
that night to get married.
The condition in the harbor remained un-
changed throughout yesterday. All vessels
above Bug Light are fast IN field Of ice.
Sailors 90 to and from their vessels by walk
ing on the blocks Of thick ice, and number
of persons passed between the city aud
South Portland. The ferry, boats did not
leave their moorings during the day, and the
only vessels that moved in the harbor were
the Forest Queen and the tow boat Belknap.
The Boston boat did not sail Tuesday night,
and the Boothbay steamer Enterprise did
not venture from her dock yesterday.
The Belknap went down. after much exer-
tion, yesterday, to Long Island, and pulled
off the John Somes, which was not badly
damaged. and brought her to this city.
AT Harpswell, the schooners Little Dread
naught and Mary E. Hagan, one Of about 10,
and the other of about Is tons, were sunk by
the storm. They will probably be raised
with slight damage. Capt. Sargent has TAX
en- the contract to raise the Minnehaha.
The pilots, Capt. Scott Oliver, Martin and
Capt. Parsons, finding they couldn't get
their pilot boat out, took their dory and car
ried it over the ice to clear water in the lower
harbor, and thence proceeded to the further
end of Cushing's Island, where they will
watch for the English steamer Maduro, now
due, and board her by means of their dory.
This is the first experience of the kind
known here, and Capt. Willard says this is
the first time in forty-four years that the up
per harbor has been filled up with drift ice
like as at present.
The fremont, for Portland, and the New
Brunswick, for st. John, N. b., were all
waiting III DOSLOu Ou 1uCouaJ, AVA hAVhO Ia
vorable weather for their departure.
Trains on the Portland & Ogdensburg this
side of the mountains were running about
on time yesterday. The trains which left
here at S.35 a. m. Tuesday arrived at Fabyans
at about noon yesterday. The snow plow
which was sent out to clear the track reach
ed Fabyans at 11.40 a. m. yesterday. Had 1t
not been for the snow slides on the noun
tains the S.35 a. m. train would have reached
Fabyans Tuesday night. The snow slides
which keep coming down Mt. Willard and
blockading the track are said to be the
largest known in the history Of the road.
The train men say the snow is removed from
the track with less difficulty than that OF the
great January storm and if it were not for
big slides that keep coming down Mt. VIII
lard the trains would find no trouble in run
ming on time. The first train over the Bos-
ton & Lowell road since the storm got
through to Fabyans at a. m. yesterday.
Trains on the other roads ran nearly on
time yesterday.
A gentleman from this city walked to
Portland Light and back Tuesday on snow
Shoes He said the travelling was very bad,
but the surf magnificent.
OF the roads running into this city the Bos-
ton & Maine seems to have suffered the
most from the storm, the blockade along
their line being almost, if not quite, as bad
as the one which resulted from the great
storm of January. Some of the train men
say that the tracks were cleared with even
more difficulty than they were after that
memorable snow fall. A. Pine Point and
Elliott occurred the only important accidents
on the road. and at both places the services
of wrecking trains were required to clear the
track
On Tuesday morning the 7.30 a. m. train,
Conductor Plaisted. left this city for Bos-