The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-05-09
HARBoR NOTES.
A Queen Case of Poisoning-Sad Result of
the EImiranda's Rough Experienced
Norwegian Captains Talks About Pulp
Other Items of Interest.

The harbor is seldom more beautiful than
it was yesterday afternoon. Added to the
natural Geauties of the water and land ana
weather was the presence of the steam
yachts Neckan and Maitland, the govern
| ment steamer and the usual fleet OF vessels.
A shapely fishing schooner came flying IN
with all sails set. She was as handsome ana
swift many of the best big two masted
yachts and as clean too. She was the sylvia
NJ Nunan of Cape Porpoise. She came TO
the end of one of the fish wharVes anu
her captain went ashore in dory 10 see IL
the price he could get for his fish would
warrant his stopping here. OF leaving
| Immediately for Boston. The splendld
| schooner sailed back and forth awaiting MS
return as daintily. and proudly as an
| millionaires pleasure boat awaiting It's
| owner. This schoonet was new last year
| and was built at East Boothbay, where fish
ing schooners are now built for beauty and
speed, as well as strength. In the dock lay
another, built by the same man. She is
owned in Harpswell and her name is the
Robert " Carr.
AN UNFORTUNATE BRUIsE.
The bark Alice M. Claridge came here two
weeks ago from Swansea in ballast to load
with lumber for Buenos Ayres. When she
got here two sailors were sick with rheuma-
| tism and pneumonia, and were sent to the
| Marine hospital. Also five weeks ago, on
| the passage, the steward, young man
named Albert E. Burnen, fell on the stair
way and knocked off the skin below the
knee The blue ccloring matter from his
| trousers got into the wound and poisoned
| t. The captain bathed it with carbol1c
| acid. Later, the steward bathed it himself,
but he had the solution three times too
strong. He awoke that night in such
| terrible distress that he rushed upon the
| deck in frenzy and the sailors seized him
for fear he was crazy, and would jump over
| board The acid ate the flesh about the
wound and caused much suffering. IL
seemed to get better, however, but when
| the ship arrived here it was getting worse.
| He went to the physician at the Custom
| House. who put sa1ve on the wound, but 1t
did not seem to improve, and he applied TO
| Dr. Bray, who told him that he was in
serious condition of blood poisoning. and
week at the hopistal would be necessary.
Sores had appeared on his arms and else
4 where on his legs, and Mr.. Burnen con-
cluded that hospital treatment was the best
thing for him.
Captain Williams of the wrecked bark
.Elmiranda, says that he has serious fears as
to the health of his son, who accompanied
/ him on that terrible voyage. The young
/ man, who is eighteen years of age, went on
the voyage for his health, but the severe
exposure in the terrible weather and the
sousing in the cold ocean while being pulled
ashore from the wreck in the breaches buoy,
SO aggravated his lung trouble that his
father fears that the effects will be very
serious if not fatal.
The Elmiranda will probably never sail
the sea again, though she has been towed to
| New York harbor She is so badly damaged
that her present owners will not consider it
feasible to repair her, and will sell her if
possible. Capt Leavitt is still in New York
| taking charge of the final disposal of her.
Only part of her cargo was saved, as much
of it:was pumped overheard in order to raise
the wreck.
NORWEGIAN IDEAS AS TO PULP.
The captain of the Norwegian bark Frau,
| now lying in the harbor, is a very courteous
gentleman, and speaks English fuently. He
is waiting to take cargo of pulp to Eng
| land He has never taken such cargo be-
fore, and has never seen any America n
pulp. He naturally thinks that the paper
that Norway supplies to England is better
than our pulp. He says that Norway sends
the dried pulp to England, and that the
English won't take any thing else from
there, though they take the wet pulp from
us. He couldn't say why this is. but felt
sure that Norwegian pulp is much better
than ours, and that it is with difficulty that
ours is sold after it reaches England. He
didn't know, evidently, that it is generally
understood here that our increasing sale OF
pulp is due to the fact that it is winter and
better and that some of ours happened to
be taken wet there by accident few years
ago; hence our increasing trade.
JACKKNIFE CARVING BY A FRENCH
SAILOR.
| The mackerel schoonerS, Emma and
Henrietta Francis, cleared yesterday fol
southern waters. The James Dyer will be
ready to sail tomorrow. One of the crew Of
the Henrietta Francis is Thaddeus Leger
of Westbrook, a Frenchman. He has been
at work all winter in Westbrook for the
electric railway, and occupied himself .iI
the evenings, all winter long, in the produc
ton of master piece of jackknife carving
It is a man of-war about two feet long, will
all the parts, including flags, very skilfull.
carved in wood. just in front is light
house, very elaborate affair, and two
steam launches and pleasure steamer arr
on the ocean alongside. The whole thing il
in glass case. He had it in fish marke
in Westbrook on exhibition recently, and
Boston travelling man went in and asked
, the dealer the price of it. He replied at
{ venture, $50. Jpn give you $780, said thu
: Boston, and produced the money. The fisl
dealer didn't dare take it, not knowing 1t
!, owners price. He asks $40 for it, and Will
away on the fishing trip has left it in tn
office of D. F. Fernald &c. Co., at the end o
Union wharf.
i The brig Acacia arrived yesterday iron
: Barbados with 397 puncheons, Al hogshead
and 38 barrels of molasses for the Milliken
Tomlinson Co. One of her sailors brough
! several very handsome pieces of coral tina
. were soon sold to spectators, who went u