The Portland daily press., 1889-07-31
RocKLANp MATTERS.
Schooner George Stetson Floated
and lowed Into Port.
Fishermen Report Small Fares-A
Long Gable : An English Manor
House in Course Of Erection on the
CIidden Estate Damariscotta and
Newcastle Shipyards Quiet.
Especial to the Press.l

RocKLAND, July 30.-The schooner George
Stetson of Philadelphia, reported ashore on
Condon's Ledge, at White Head, with cargo
of paving, came off the ledge today and is
now at anchor On the edge of the breakers.
She is leaking badly and will be towed into
Seal Harbor tomorrow. She is centre
board, three-masted schooner.
Fishermen arriving here report small fares
of cod, hake and haddock, ON account of the
ravages of dog fish, which are very plenty.
The Trenton Iron Company has just com
pleted tramway in the Blackington Farm
quarry, in this city, which has one of the
longest stretches of cable, and is one of the
biggest plants of the kind in the country.
The cable is II inches thick, of cast steel,
with steel centre, and 1 ,256 feet long. The
weight of the wire on the reel was 10000
pounds. The anchorage weight at the power
end is rs tons, while the weight of wire, with
its pulleys, car, &C., is Sc TONS The break
ing strain of the wire is 110 tons. The cable
is passed over towers AZ feet high and the
wire in the sag is 125 feet above the quarry
floor. The hoisting apparatus consists of a
travelling car, which goes back and forth on
the wire, never leaving it, and ninereen troll
ley blocks which support the wire that con-
trolls the fall block which lowers the drag or
bucket into the quarry. The apparatus al
lows the drag or bucket to be lowered to and
hoisted from any point on the quarry floor
the entire length of the wire. The power is
supplied by aLidgerwood special engine, 80
and double arms. The rock when hoisted is
dumped directly. into the cars of the Lime
rock railroad, whose track skirts the quarry
wall. The Trenton Company is putting in a
similar plant in the Engine quarry, this city,
cable. The capabity of each will be about
the same, 500 casks of rock a day. The
two plants will cost about $4,000
One of the most elaborate ard expensive
private residences being built in this State is
the John M. Glidden summer residence on
the old Glidden estate, Newcastle. The farm
comprises some 200 acres of land, with a
number of houses thereon, many Of them
recent purchases. The farm is located on
Glidden street and is reached by beautiful
drive along the banks of Damariscotta river.
The Glidden house is situated on a grassy
slope, leading to the river, and is modelled
after the style of old English manor houses.
The contractor is Andrew p. Anderson of
Boston, and the house is said to be a counter
part, on larger scale, Of the Longfellow
sion is 60 feet long and 81 feet wide, and
will be completed in August. Work began
last fall and the structure itself, exclu-
sive of the furnishings, will cost $20,-
000 A crew of 27 men is at work there. The
house has 27 rooms in which are 16 fireplace
es. The finish is of white wood. Electric
bells connect the rooms, an elaborate water
system has been put in and no expense will
be spared to make the house notable one as
regards elegance and convenience.
The Damariscotta and Newcastle shipyards
which in years past have sent out many not
ed ocean flyers are quiet this season with
the exception of one three-masted, centre
board 350-ton schooner IN the yard of T. E.
Gay, on the Newcastle side of the river.
ceiling and outboard planking and will be
frst-class in every particular. The schoon-
er is for sale.