The Portland daily press., 1894-11-07

Something About 1t and kyyhere 1t Came
From-How the Woodbury. Rammed a
Storehouse-Other Items.
1t was real winter along the water
front yesterday. The air was clear and
cold in the afternoon. and the snow
chung. unmelting, to wharves, and ships
and spars.
Late in the afternoon, tine tug Demarest
at high water, succeeded IN pulling
the four-masted schooner George ..
McFadden, off the flats, where she drift
ed Monday night, having dragged her
anchor in the storm. She fouled with
the yachts Willie and Oracle, and the
latter drifted up to Portland bridge.
and broke her bowsp-it. The tug Ben
Hur tcwed the two yachts back to their
moorings
A CARGO OF GRAVEL.
The schooner Florida unloaded her
cargo of gravel at the storehouse of
Captain T.W. Tibbetts's yesterday, on
Portland Pier. There were lis tons of
white and yellow pebbles. about the size
of rock salt, and extraordinarily uni
form. The gravel is used for tar roofing,
and part of it will go on the roof of the
extension of the Eye and Ear Infirmary.
1t is a, new thing here in Portland...a
black gravel from Brooksville and other
places on the Maine coast having always
been used. There is vast difference
between that black gravel and this
white gravel that comes from Northport,
Long Island. THE latter are hard quartz
pebbles. rounded and smoothed by the
water. The former are black shale, or
slate, pebbles. and this rock splits off in
slivers and breaks up and disintegrates
easily. But the chief superiority OF the
hard white quartz pebbles over the
black and softer shale pebbles is that on
a roof they do not attract the heat so
much.
The place where the quartz gravel
comes from is one of the most interesting
places in the country. 1t is great
beach at Point Eaton, opposite North
port. Long Island 1t is veritable gold
mine for it's owner, Mr.. Godfrey. 1t is
a solid mass to great depth, OF these
waveworn- pebbles, the largest about
the size of hens eggs, and the smallest
fine enough to make good sand for NOR
tar
Into this beach deep canals have been
dug in every direction, into which yes
sells drawing 16 feet of water may sail.
The gravel is taken up by a great ma
chine that screens it so that it falls three
streams of different sized pebbles on to
a platform, from which it is wheeled to
the vessels.
The FIorida's l15 tons were loaded in
three hours. A great deal of this gray Ell
is sold in Boston and New York, the fine
grade for mortar, the next largest for
making asphalt, and the largest fer
roofing. OF course the largest pebbles
of all are thrown away.
The Fioridas' il the first cargo that
Captain Tibbetts has received here. He
has only imported it this summer, as
previous cargos having gone to Bath, for
the roofs of the new blocks there. The
white gravel is more expensive than the
black. IL costs at the pit 80 cents ton,
and the freight here in the Florida was
81. 20 ton.
This remarkable beach Of Long is
land, from which Mr.. Godfrey is coming
hundreds of thousands of dollars, is the
only one on the coast large enough to
ship from.
THE WOODBCRY'S MISHAP.
Monday afternoon the cutter Wood
bury INDUCED in what seemed like q
very warlike proceeding. She had
backed cut from Long wharf, after coal
ing up at Sargent & Dennisons', and
started to go into her berth on the west
side of Central wharf. By some mistake,
either the signal for full speed was given
or at least the engineer understood it SO,
and the astonished piloS found himself
dashing into the dock at about the
same pace that he sails on the ocean.
He rang to back her, but it was too late.
Her bowsprit rammed the side Of George
S. Hunts shook storehouse and ripped
through it for ten feet, breaking the jib.
boom in three places. The bow came
against the wharf with al solid thump,
but did little damage.
A queer load of lumber came dowr
Portland Pier yesterday. 1t can't very
well pe described. The only thing to b.
said is that it was dissecred meat mar
ket, and was to be loaded onto a scow tt
be carried to Clapboard Island, where
Arthur Hannaford intends to do some
thing with it, though just what is 1
mystery.
( 1t was, before being torn to pieces, tn,
refrigerator and tables and other ap
purtenances of the Falmouth market.
Lot