The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-11-03

She Had 700 Tons of Cotton Seed meal Tor
Sidney w. Thaxter s. Co.-The Schooner
sarah's Interesting story and Cargo-A
Feline Biography-A Fishing Incident,
Etc.
Tie New York Maritime Register, yester-
dav stated that the three -masted schooner,
Mary L. Peters, Captain Broughan. mad
been given up Tor lost. She left Galveston,
Texas. September 26th, bound to this city,
with 100 tons of cotton seed meal, consigned
10 Sidney W. Thaxter & Co. She ought to
have arrived here by October goth. at least.
OF course she might have been blown far
out to sea by the hurricane. and vessels
have been known to be over month from
Galveston to this port. but if she doesn't
arrive in day or two there is little hope
for her.
The cargo was worth $4,000. 1t was
bought in Galveston, according to a custom
that includes freight and insurance with
the price Of the cargo. Therefore Sidney
". Thaxter & Co.,gwiu suffer noloss except,
perhaps, from the inconvenience of not
having the meal when wanted. The schoon-
err belonged TO j. H. Conant & Co.. OF Bos-
ton.
TWELVE TONS OF PONDER.
The two masted packet schooner Sarah,
Captain Alley, arrived here from New York
powder for Emery, Waterhouse & Co., of
this city, ten tons of powder for Hall
Knight of Lewiston, and deck load of
$4,000 feet Of cypress and hard pine lumber
for Morse & Co.. of Bangor.
The powder was quite valuable cargo as
it is worth at least $3.50 a ton, making
total of $1,000. The Sarah was over FIVE weeks
ma king the trip from New York to Port
land. Captain Allog took no chances, be-
cause his bulwarks were very near the
water. Had he encountered any of the
severe storms Of last month, he'd have been
lost without question. He was storm-bound
near New York nine days. just after start
ing and remained twelve days in Boston.
He arrived there the day before that fatal
Wednesday when the unexpected storm
strewed the coast with wrecks, three of
them on our own Cape Elizabeth. Captain
Alley says that he knows of thirty seven
vessels that were lost in that storm. He
should have left Boston along with other
vessels that beautiful treaoherous night be-
fore the storm. had he not been detained
there unloading part of his cargo. He says
that the past month has been the worst that
he ever saw, and he is thankful to arrive
here after lodging along the coast for over
five weeks.
ACAT, LOBSTERS AND RATS.
1t would take considerable money to buy
this sleek, common place looking ta5by.
She is not beautiful, but she is intelligent
and courageous, and she isn't afraid of the
steam when they boillobsters. and she has
remained with them four years and not a
single, stealthy, ravenous wharf rat has
dared show his head since her arIival She
lives very luxuriously with her two kittens
in G. W. Marston & Co.'s lobster house. She
and her kittens are fed on cooked Holsters
flesh worth.l5 cents pound. They average
pound day the year round. The tails of
sspistol'' Holsters, those that have lost their
claws in the cars, are broken open and the
flesh removed for the cats. Nine lobster
tails a day are thus served to them. AL
though these 'pistor' Holsters cannot be
sold in the shell, the flesh is sold at Is cents
pound.
PREVIOUS to the advent of this cat. four
years ago, the lobster house was eveIrun
with wharf rats every night. They adore
Holsters above all things. Whether dead or
alive, they attack the Holsters between the
shell Of the tail and the shell of the back
and penetrate into the body, eating out the
'stom-alley" and then leave that lobster to
spoil another in the same.
Frequently fifteen or twenty fine large
Holsters would thus be spoiled in one night.
| For two years they were without a cat.
| They tried seven before they could get one
| that would remain longer than few weeks
| or that would hunt the rats. The seventh
| was the subject of tLis biographical sketch,
| who more than earns her pound of lobster
| flesh day FOL herself and kittens.
| For the last four years she has killed al
least one rat day, and sometimes more.
! Not content with keeping them out of the
| building, she goes on the war path, under
| the wharves. and in the morning he,
victims are found dead on the floor of the
house. here she always brings them. as if il
| triumph. She has killed at least 1900 rats in
the past four years.
Without her presence the rats would cause
/ serious loss. At low tide one of the car.
rest on the bottom, and the rats are on tn,
| watch, if by chance any Holsters have
| been left in that car. an occurrence that il
specially guarded against.
HE CAUGHT THE MOST POLLOCK.
| He was seated on the deck of tw,
masted fisherman in one of Portland
docks yesterday, and relating how he mad,
more money than the rest of the crew OF
| their recent trip. They hadn't been catch
| ing pollock very fast and were rattle
discouraged about it, but he resolved t.
try it that night, and after the rest wer
| asleep baited, his hooks and threw then
over the vessels side. He soon had tw
| lines in use anG was pulling in the fish a
| fast as was comfortable. He had, his BIZ
tull of pollock before any of the rest wok
| UP and knew what was going on. The
they all piled on deck and got to fishing a
quickly as possibly. but somehow or orhe
he cangh. three fish to their one. His BIZ
was running over and his fish were tiappin
i about oil the deck. The others 5ecam
irritated about it and some were SO ugl
as to throw some of his fish overheard. II
declared that for every fish of his throw
overheard, another's fish would go tt
There was about to be trouble when tn
captain declared that'if ESP could cate