The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-05-03
BRIEF JoTTlNGs.

Managers of the Board of Trade will
remem Der the meeting at IL a. N. today.
The Veteran FIremen will hold their
usual weekly meeting this evening.
Today is Holy Thursday -Asencion
Day-and it will be properly observed in
the Episcopal and Catholic churches.
The choir boys Of the ST. Luke's cathe-
dral went on their annual picnic to Cliff
Cottage yesterday.
The open horse cars were put on the
routes yesterday.
The burning of the st. Charles hotel
at New Orleans recalls the fact that its
proprietor during the time OF the war
was Ruggles S. Morse. who built the
elegant residence at the corner of Park
and Danforth streets.
MIR. James Bracket will bolt the sew
eral supports of the observatory In
Greenwood Garden to the ledge beneath,
by iron rods set immovably In drilled
holes. He will also close in each story OF
the tower, the same as in the observatory
on Munjoy Hill, and will arrange for
the placing of a telescope in position
at the top.
Casco Bay as well as other bays, is full
of small herring. A few days ago there
was not enough of these fish TO supply
the demands of packers, and now there
is again surplus.
Yesterday was another hot one.. The
mercury touched 50 in the shade. The
streets were thronged with promenaders
in the afternoon, and the soda fountains
fixed necessarily.
Copies of the annual address OF Mayor
Baxter are now rea dy for distribution.
1t is said that the present deputies
room at the police station will be
thrown into the patrolmen's room and
the signal system and deputies move in
to what is now the outer office OF the
marshal Then it is propose to turn the
overseers oil the poor out of their office,
and make that the outer office of the
marshal while the overseers OF the poor
are located in another part of the build
ing.
The shooner Henrietta Francis came
to Portland yesterday to fit for
maokereling.
New siIls are being put under the ma
chine shop on Commercial street former
~ occupied by the Giant Electric Motor
Company.
Mr. A. 81. Moulton, consulting and con-
structing engineer formerly with the
Walworth Manufacturing Company, has
opened an Office at No. Il Union street,
-. E,I, 0ta ~,
pose Of Carrying on the business of steam
and hot water fitting.
The 25th anniversary OF Bosworth Re-
lief Corps No. 1 will occur on Sunday
next May 9th and the event will be ceIe-
brated on Monday evening May 18th at
Bosworth Post hall on Free street. A
reception will be held from to $780,
Banquet at $50 after which fine enter
tainment will DO given consisting of
music, readings, addresses, etc.
Sweeping retrenchments are being
made by the Canadian railway lines.
Three hundred men have been discharged
by the Grand Trunk and the Cana
dian Pacific railways and it is uncertain
whether the trouble will last for month
or q year.
At a meeting of the committee on po-
lice yesterday morning, it was voted to
recommend to the city government the
employment of five new regular police
men.
The entertainment of the Union Vet
eran Legion, which was to take place
two weeks ago, will come off this Thurs
day evening Member may invite their
comrades according to the previous ar.
rangement, and full attendance is re-
quested.