The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-02-13
BRIEF JoTTlNGs.

Tonight will be st. Valentines eve.
The blockade of cars in the Grand
Trunk yard is about ended.
Yesterday was Shrove Sunday and
Wednesday will be Ash Wednesday.
There were IL arrests last week, OF
which were for drunkenness.
Rev. d. Blanchard lectures on John
C. Calhoun, the Architect of Secession
tomorrow evening in the vestry of Con-
gress Square church.
The liquor deputies raided house of
i'll repute on Fore street Saturday, but
no arrests were made.
There was large fleet of coasters in
the llarbor awaiting settled weather
Saturday
Saturday and Sunday were both very
agreeable days and people took advantage
of them to crowd the streets.
The Haydn Association will remember
their adjourned meeting at Kotzschm II
hall tonight.
Tomorrow night, at o'clock, some
beautiful slides from the Chicago and
Pittsburg clubs will be shown at the
Art Club rooms.
The annual session of Cumberland
District Lodge Coed Templars will meet
Thursday with Mystic Lodge.
The Congregational church at West
brook has voted not to accept Rev. Mr..
Beams resignation.
Some of the worlmer at the Eastern
Forge Company are temporarily thrown
out of employment by the bursting OF a
cylinder on one of the hammers.
A slight fire in the basement of Mr..
Hawkins's shoe factory at Deering was
put out by the quick work of the fire
company.
Portland division Uniform Rank, Z. of
p, will hold it's third annual drill and
ball at City hall next Monday evening.
Gilbert will furnish mnsic. There will
be drill by young ladies.
The Sheridan Rifles will go to Bidde-
ford tonight at $40 o'clock, and be the
guests of Division 1 Uniform Rank, A.
O. H. The Biddeford Light Infantry
with the Biddeford band will do escort
duty and there will be drill and ball in
the evening.
Wilson street will be laid out as soon
as possible from Beckett street to tho
Promenade to accommodate the building
operations.
There will be a mass meeting held by
the lasters at City hall Friday evening
February ss25th to be addressed by Geo.
E. Mcneil and others.
Work will begin on widening the ferry
slip at Portland Pier this week by
league & Bennett. The new ferry boat
will go to the Portland Company March
10th.
Constable Perkins of Kittery carried
Geo. Parks and Howard Gerry through
Portland to Alfred jail Saturday on
charge of burglary at Kittery.
The liquor deputies made seizures
Saturday at No. s Danforth street,
Michael Cary's, Chatham street, and
Mary Callahan's, Monument street.
The Portland Company has received
contracts for the machinery for five
steamboats,. The Dallas repairs are
about completed.
Mr.. E. C, Plummer of Bath has re-
ceived a request from General Mattocks
to superintend the collection of models
of vessels in the Portland district for the
Worlds Fair. This is one of the most
important districts in the state, contain
ing the yards at Kennebunkport, where
many of the famous old timers were put
up.
The Grand Trunk railroad has adopted
the new car heating system known as
the Morton safety car heating syste m,
and are rapidly equipping their passen-
ger and baggage cars with it.
Beginning today the new quick train
on the Boston 6 Maine will leave for
Boston at $40 a. M, stopping only in
Portsmouth and Newburyport and ar
irving in Boston at 11.40 a. M, and re-
turning from Boston at 4,30 p. m.