The Portland daily press., 1891-07-15
PERSONAL,

Mr.. Gerry Morgan OF Fryeburg was in the
city yesterday.
Mr.. Girls II. Wells of the Great Falls Free
Press was in town yesterday.
DIR. Sawtelle, U. S. M. H., has been or
dered from the charge of the hospital here to
that of Chelsea, Mass.
DIR. DevaD, formerly assistant surgeon at
Buffalo, N. Y, will succeed DR.. Sawtelle at
the Marine Hospital.
Driver Libby of hose has come back
from his vacation, and Driver Sawyer of
hose has started on his.
Augustus Brown, inspector of agencies of
the New York Life Insurance Company, was
in town yesterday on official business.
DR.. A. G. Hamlin of Bangor will be among
the Maine veterans who will 60 to Detroit
next month to attend the National G. A. r.
Encampment.
Miss Isadore Haines, native of Fort
Fairfield, has returned to Maine after sew
eral years of missionary work in the West
India Islands.
Mr.. Charles j. BOnaparte of Baltimore has
engaged ROOMS for himself and family at the
Algonquin, st. Andrews, for the summer
months.
President and Mrs. M. G. Fernald of the
Maine State College have gone to Toronto
to attend the meeting of the National Educa
tional Association.
Mr.. Charles l.. Dow and wife, formerly of
this city, but now Of Denver. Col, are max
ing an extended visit at the home of Mr..
Dow's mother, so Wilmot street.
Mr.. Henry @. Jackson, who has been so
prominent In Bowdoin athletics. will put in
the summer at Harvard under DIR. Sargent,
preparing to act as instructor in physical
culture at Phillips Exeter Academy this
fall Mr.. jackson is the man who obtained
the Sargent prize as being the most perfectly
developed athlete examined by him In the
competition where so many hundreds of stu
dents competed.
@The Jonesport correspondent of the Ma
chias Republican states that on Tuesday of
last week company consisting Of Mrs. w.
+. Mansfield, Mrs. Dr. Warren and Mrs.
Bagley of Portland, G. F. Mansfield and
family and others Of Jonesport. drove to Ad-
Olson, took dinner at the Austin House, and
then proceeded to Ripley. There the party
was very pleasantly entertained at the Rip
ley House until Wednesday morning. Mrs.
Warren made several sketches of tho bearti-
full scenery along the way and at Ripley.
Mr.. ID. McNicolI, the general passenger
agent of the Canadian Pacific railway, passed
through this city yesterday. Mrs. McNicoll
and family are spending the summer upon
the Cape and all are so highly pleased with
Portland and its surroundings that MIR. Nc
Nicoll is returning to Montreal With the in
tention of sending great many more people
from Montreal and the West to this section,
and will pay great deal of attention to ad-
vertising 1t to better advantage, and as this
road works hand In hand with the Maine
Central by means Of their mountain line 1t
will doubtless be to the great good of Port
land eventually.
Captain Otis Ingraham of the Penobscot
saw sight Friday night which is very rare
ly seen on the route. The night was very
clear and the sky was cloudless. The cap
tain said he saw at one time thu lights on
Thatcher's Island, Isles of Shoals. Boone
Island, York Harbor, Cape Elizabeth, Sc
-guiE Island and Monhegan. The captain
said that in all his experience he has never
seen this sight before. The distance from
and the clearness Of the atmosphere can be
imagined. The only time which all these
lights were reported to have been seen be-
fore was by Captain Roix number of years
ago.
Deputy United States Marshal Burton
Smith of Portland, and his friend, A. It,
Brown. spent Sunday with Mr.. Smiths faith.
er, Captain A. l.. Smith, commissary of sub.
sistence at the Togus Home.-[ Kennebec