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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-04-14
FREEPORTS HEAVY LOSS.
The Church Was One of the Towns
Ancient Land Marks.

The Total Loss Is Much Above the Insur-
ance which Amounts to About Sis, 200
Loss Must Be Over $50 900.
The fire in Freeport, brief mention
of which was telegraphed to the PRESS
early yesterday morning, was very disas-
trous and costly to that thriving town.
The fire caught in some way unknown
in Brewster's block, a large wooden
business building in the centre of the
village.
The flames were discovered at 1925
o'clock yesterday morning. It was a
bad time and place for fire, and a
heavy north wind was prevailing. But
the local hose company rallied immedi-
ately under the lead of Capt S. S. Soule,
and the old church bell, called to its last
duty. rang as loud and long as the flames
would let it. The ringing did not cease
when the church was in flames, but con-
tInued until the man at the rope was
literally driven away by the smoke and
flames.
The Brewster block, owned by Mr..
Jarvis A. Brewster, was the first to GO;
but the church took fire very soon after
the block began to blaze, and had fallen
in before o'clock. The falling of the
spire of the old church was watched with
much interest; and when the bell and
the clock, which was put in two years
ago at cost of $3.50, went rafting
down, their was general feeling of sad
ness at the loss of old companions.
At one time the residence of j. E. OK
nard was threatened, and sick woman,
a consumptive, who is just alive, was
taken from the house and carried on a
mattress to the Gushing house. This
was at time when it seemed impossible
to save either the block or residence of
J. F. Oxnard.
The Brewster block was occupied by
the post Office, Fl. G. Brewer, postmas-
ter, Freeman Grants meat store, the
grocery store of Curtis 6 Fish, Soule's
barber shop. In the upper story were
LILO lOolHo u IlO / OuAS uhOA . Wills
Association with it's valuable library,
and Miss Slemon's millinery shop.
Practically.nothing was saved from this
block. The building was heated by
steam. and it is not known how the fire
could have caught
The large plate glass windows in NAL
let's block opposite, were broken by the
heat.
The Congregational church building
was very old. The church was formed
in 1889, but previously, in 1774, a church
had been erected on the old burying
ground between the village and Porter
salt works.
The church just burned was begun in
1918, but burned when partly finished.
But it was Immediately begun anew and
dedicated February rs. 1919. A few
years ago, the old church was repaired,
making the total cost of it about $13, 900.
The society had an insurance of $4,000.
The insurance on the other losses was
as follows: Miss Slemon's millinery es-
blishment, 5000; F. M. Grant. 5000;
Soule, $3.50; Curtis & Fish, $1,000; Brews-
ter, ST., 900.
This total insurance of $1S, $50, is not
up to the loss, which must amount to
100000, or even more.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-04-14
MEDICINE CHEST OF THE SHIP
hSCiENCE."
The Only Relic of the Only Whaling Ship
That Ever Sailed From Portland.

Nantucket had become so rich from
the proceeds of its great feet of over 200
whaling vessels, that in 1888 there was a
stir made in Portland to send out a
whaler.
The matter was talked over and doomed
for long time and finally a company was
formed with $150,0OO capital. The
agents were Thos. Chadwick and Chas.
M. Davis; the directors, Geo. Bartol,
Nath. F. Deering and George Warren;
the secretary, William Wood, father of
our DIR. Wood, of the Natural History
Society.
They bought the ship Science" of 3es
tons burden, engaged Capt. Whippay of
Nantucket to take command. Also all
the other officers came from Nantucket.
Portiand's young men were eager to
ship as sailors. Among those who did
so were sons of Postmaster Francis Todd
and Deputy Collector Peter Merrill.
Then a different class of men were
sailors than now. The ship made two
trips into the Pacific but was not a sue
cess and the enterprise was abandoned.
She was the first full-rigged ship to sail
around Cape Horn from Portland. This
was nearly 20 years before Capt. William
Leavitt sailed the first and only ship
around the Horn, from Portland to San
Francisco.
The ship was sold and ended her days
in the merchant service.
She was the only ship that ever sailed
after whales from this port. The only
relic of her known to be in existence is
her medicine chest. 1t is the property
of H. Fl. Hay, our veteran druggist 1t
was among the stock Of William Lincoln,
Portland druggist whom ne bought out
in 1841. 1t is now on exhibition IN IL.
Fl. Hays window.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-04-14
HARBoR NOTES.
Still No Fish-The Doughty Brothers Boat
The Boston Boat Storm Bound Longer
Than For Six Years,

Yesterday in the harbor, the wind
blew. the rollers came swelling up past
the breakwater, the white caps flashed
across them, the wharves shook and
everything was as wild and disagreeable
as it has been for the past four days.
The Mary W. Libby in going across to
the ferry rolled so in the trough OF the
sea as to take in water over the rail every
time.
No fishing boats came in yesterday.
This long storm has blocked business al
most completely along the fish wharves.
What little work is done is confined al
most wholly to handling the small guam
titles of fresh shad and bluefish that
come from Boston and New York and
are mostly sent to inland Maine cities.
Street Commissioner Staples is re-
planking the end of Portland Pier.
Sunday there will be no traffic for teams
across the ferry, as the end of the wharf
about the ferry slip will be finished.
1t seems that after the Doughty broth
ers made safe harbor at Richmond S
island from whence they went across the
breakwater to the Cape, their boat broke
away from its anchorage, was driven out
to sea and lost. 1t belonged to John
Loveitt & Co. and was worth $3.50. II
had also about 900 pounds of fish.
The Boston boats have not left the
docks since last Monday night. They
did not dare go out Thursday night but
probably did last night as the storm
showed signs of clearing. Had it not il
would have been necessary to send the
400 barrels of shocked CLAIMS to Boston
by train, as the Halifax boat leaves thel
at noon today. Not for six years, winter
and summer, has the Boston boat been
storm-bound for so long time. Oys-
tiers, strawberries, oranges, etc., have
been coming here by rail. much delayed,
because of the hampered telegraph SER
vice.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-04-14

The salads have come. Remember
COWDREY'S SALAD CREAM.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-04-14

at SIS Day-The Biggest Water Pipe in
the Conntry.o
The stevedores are working night and
day on the Alcides. Friday morning,
about O. clock, which truck loaded
with couple of tons of iron was just
starting down the gangway, the ropes
holding tine pulley block broke and away
went the truck, dragging the men after
it; also the heavy block, which struck
the foot of John Meehan, the foreman OF
the gang, and knocked him down. He
thought his foot was broken but it proved
to be only badly bruised.
The stevedores get So. so for night work
and So for days work. On Sundays
they get 81 cents an hour, or $500 a day.
About the most difficult work of the
stevedores is levelling grain. After the
elevator has nearly filled the steamer
men have to go into the hold and level
off the great heap of grain and pile bags
of flour, etc., over it. Only the strongest
ulCu, Will CdA w zU1IIs
work. The air is so thick with the dust
from the grain, pouring in there like q
torrent of water, that candles cannot
burn in it and torches are necessary.
Men have sometimes come out of the
awful place coughing up blood from Their
lacerated lungs. Previous to this year
they received but IS cents an hour. but
they made stand this winter and de-
manded 80 cents and they got it. They
get go cents in New York.
The Alcides will take back to Glasgow
consignment of iron water-pipes, ma
chinery, etc., that have come over the
Grand Trunk from Chicago. They were
the exhibit at the Worlds Fair of great
Glasgow company. There are water pipes
from six inches to five feet in diameter.
This last pipe is a giant and the largest
in the United States at the present time.
It was the largest exhibited at the World
Fair. 1t is about Is feet long, not over
an inch in thickness of sides, and OF
course man could easily walk through
it by STOPPING slightly.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-04-14
city and vicinity.

We call the attention of our readers to
the statement of the National Fire Insur-
ance Company of Hartford, published in
our columns today. This is one of the
strong companies of Hartford, which is
SO well known as the home of many of
the best insurance companies in the
country. Palmer, Anderson & Co. are
the representatives for this city and vi
cinity.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-04-14
The methodist Conference.

Tomorrow is the last Sunday of the
conference year in the Methodist Episco-
pal churches of this city. The annual
conference convenes next week. The
ministers of the various churches will
leave here on Tuesday for the seat OF
conference. From present indications
there will be number of important
changes in the various churches of this
CITY and vicinity.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-04-14
WHITE SHIRTS.

All our dollar Shirts, unlaundered.
All our seventy-fve cent Shirts,
The Gold, the Silver, the Seneca,
the Bonner,
Are reduced in price to so cts.
For "Who can stand before the
King?"
The King of Shirts is the "Clover
Club"
The "Clover Club" Shirt is get
ting to be as well known in this
community as April snow storms.
We are sole proprietors for the
"Clover Club" at S1.00,
And the Star at IS cts.
Mems fine Outing Shirts so cts.
These are good stock, fine lines,
quiet styles, well made.
See them in the window.
New Balbriggan Shirts,
Drawers to match, 25 cts.
Mems Balbriggan Shirts,
Drawers to match, SO cts.
Mems extra fine Balbriggan Shirts,
Drawers to match, so cts.
Mems Colored Angola Shirts,
Drawers to match, so cts.
Mems Night Shirts, heavy cloth,
fancy trimming, so cts.
This evening we hold a
Hosiery, Underwear and Mems
Furnishings Reception. Hope to
see you there.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-04-14

NOTICE IS.HEREBY GIVEN that the
~ subscriber has been duly appointed and
taken upon himself the trust of administrator of
the estate of
ISAAC L. CAME, late of Portland,
n the County of Cumberland, deceased, and
having demands upon the estate of said de-
ceased are required to exhibit the same; and all
persons indebted to said estate are called upon
to make payment to
JOSEPH f. WARREN, Buxton, Admir-.
Portland, April 10, 1894 apr14d1awSwS*
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-04-14
ENGLISH STEAMER NOTES.

Accident on the Misunderstanding Grain
at SIS Day-The Biggest Water Pipe in
the Conntry.o
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-04-14
A Prophecy,

because on the 9Th of April we said,
CAPRI is bound to be weeping
month, regular cry baby!"
And hasn't she?
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-04-14
Mackintoshes
for men and women.
Umbrellas

and Cravenettes have just walked
out without "good bye"
By the way, have you seen our
Umbrellas?
There's no better Umbrella stock
east of Bunker Hill Monument.
A very fair Umbrella at so cts.
A good one for IS cts. Excellent at
s1.00. First-class Umbrellas $1.25,
$3.50. s1.75, and so on up to Silk at
$500.
We didn't say half enough yester-
dav about the new real Kid Gloves.
If we had, grumpy competitors
would have soured on the phrasing.
They were made in France,
By Kid Glove making geniuses.
Real kid, very fine skin, elastic,
perfect cut, four big pearl buttons.
English red, tan brown and mode.
Price, $1.50.
thousand, 1 hundred, 8 thirty 6
six Handkerchiefs straight from Ire
land. 6,136, why, that's half years
stock of Handerchiefs for many
stores.
It's a manufacturers wind-up.
We were offered the entire lot for
song, but we can't sing, so
We substitute money, precious lit
tie of it, however.
And here is the mighty host of
Handkerchief divided into lots.
IA cts. White hemstitched,
colored scalloped edge, mourning
and fancy.
8 cts. Finer Hemstitched, figured
borders, mourning and fancy.
10 cts. Still finer and more desir-
able.
- IL cts. Extra fine, initials.
Every one of the above is worth
double the price named.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-10-03
Politicians Amazed.


WASHINGTON. Sept. 27.-T'he noinina-
ton of Senator Hi rs Democratic candi-
date for Governor of New York has set
all the politicians at Washington agog
and speculation is nj fever heat TO fathom
the underlying influences which brought
this about.
As rule New Workers who are in the
Locke, of Buffalo, is leading the anti-Hill
talk. With this exception eastern Demo
Gratis look upon the nomination as a fore
runner of the Presidential campaign.
They say that Hill will bring victory out
of chaos and that victory will mean his
nomination for the Presidency.
Hill is certainly making great play.
He believes he can win. or he never
would have accepted the nomination.
The willy Senator is not given to making
political sacrifices. This much does seem
certain: that if he does carry the state
this fall it is proof positive that he can
carry il in '96. This fight he has entered
upon means his future prefernent or his
final dislodgement-
Hill is a fighter. and his nomination
means this much, that his active cam
paign in New York will awaken the en-
ergies of the party in every part of the
country. Hills nomination, linked with
Gaynor and Lockwood and indorsed by
Whitney, ordains n new condition oi
things, and the forec;isting of politicians
for 1886 will have to he adjusted accord
ing TO the situation. Ii is freely predicted
that Senator German will contest every
foot of the ground that leads to the White
House with any opponent from the east.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-10-03
Waits Found at Midnight.

DoYLESTowN, Pa, Sept. 2s.-Shortly
after midnight this morning Frank Halde-
man, a farmer near here, was aroused by
the barking of his dog. He took a gun
and lantern and went out to investigate.
In the lane near the house he found two
little children standing by the fence, one
about 4 and the other about q years of age.
The little waifs could not speak Eng
lish, and stared at the farmer with fright
ened eyes, one of them clutehing a horse
blanket in his arms. The youngsters
were taken to the house and bundled OF to
bed.
From their broken English Mr.. Halde-
man inferred that they were the children
of a Pole. How the children got where
they were found by the farmer is a mys-
terry.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-10-03
Eloped from an Asylum.

LITTLE Rock, ARK, Sept. 2S-Mrs.
Miranda Pinson, % years old, who came
from Russellville and was confined in the
State Insane Asylum, escaped on We'd
nesday night and has not been recap
tured. Some time ago her husband died,
and she wrote to an old admirer that if he
would get her out of the asylum she
would go away with him. "Wednesday
night, shortly after u o'clock, the three
inmates of ward TO- which is located on
the first floor, were aroused by the vigor-
Gus blow of an AK on the window casing.
The sash was cut away and an opening
quickly made in the window. Mrs. Pin
son was already dressed, and the man
who welded the AK drew his willing cap
tive through the opening. He then
warned the other two inmates that if they
gave any alarm they would be instantly
killed. The thoroughly frightened wom-
en- obeyed the order, and the flight of
Mrs. Pinson was not discovered until
yesterday morning.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-10-03
Kansas Farm Mortgages.

Three bulletins have been issued from
the census office showing land ownership
and debt in the states of Kansas, Arkansas
and Alabama. The figures OF Kansas are
more interesting than any other state,
because it has been pointed out as the
state where the debts and mortgages are
more burisRsome than all others. The
bulletin shows that ofthe farms in Kansas,
BLOB per cent are hired and 6s.95 per GENT
are owned by the persons cultivating
them. Ofthe farms owned 1913 per cent
are encumbered by mortgages. The mort
cages on farms amount to s72, as, ,2s3,
which is 1888 per cent of their value.
This debt bears an average rate of in
terest of S.l5 per cent, the average an
nual interest charged to each family
owing an encumbered farm being s92.
Each encumbered farm Is worth on the
average 81, l29, and subject TO a debt of
81, l26. OF the homes 1873 per cent are
hired. Ofthe number Of owned homes
%. 81 are held free of incumbrance. Real
estate purchase and Improvements caused
520I per cent of the farm owners to incur
y per cent of the debt upon them.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-10-03

IL speech made in the Senate dur
ing the discussion of the tariff bill
Senator Hill said: "Mr. President, /
cannot follow such leadership, which
shifts, and turns, and temporizes on
every public question; which compro-
mises every well-established Democrat
ic principle for which the party con-
tended when out of power, which
stands ready TO adopt every passing
ism of the hour, which surrenders
principle for eXpediency, and pursues
no consistent course from one year to
another If political success of my
party is only to be purchased by such
methods and such sacrifices, prefer
defeat and the preservation of my self
respect"
Well, Senator Hill did not follow
such leadership, but at the State Con-
vention last week he made himself the
leader and then adopted and approved
the policy which in the Senate he de-
nouneed, and made il the chief plank
in the platform on which he hopes to
be elected Governor. ''NOw you see it
and now you don't; will any one bet
that he can tell under which thimble
| the little joker is ~
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-10-03

gumentative declinations'' multiplied I;
he was ready 10 take Mr.. Whitney when
he knew how impossible was the candi-
dature; and he finally allowed the con-
vention 20 fall down aud worship him,
demurring only long enough to have the
roll called. II was well-piayed game in
politics: and the mastcr-worker never
lost his presence of mind when the other
nominations were made. He sought TO
strengthen his own canvass by having
Mr.. Lockwood. the friend and sponsor of
President Cleveland, put on the ticket
with him, and then offered Justice Gay
nor the questionable honor OF nomina-
ton to the Court of Appeais-an honor
which he ought contemptuously to de-
cline.
Senator Hill knows how to manage
conventions; he can he the absolute mas
ter of his party with the least possible
afiectation of Dictatorship; he can play
his cards well. But he lacks the ordinary
instinct of leadership ii he supposes that
he can make successful canvass for the
Presidency this year. The people of New
York never accepted the Senator's oppo-
sition to the income tax and the German
tariff as full and sufficient satisfaction for
the Maynard crimes and whatever vir-
tue there was in that performance, it has
ceased to influence public judgment since
his recantation of honest convictions for
the sake of expediency on the platform
of the convention.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-10-03
Cooper's Story of Quay.

Ex-Collector Thomas V. Cooper tells a
story of Senator NJ. 5. Quay not general
ly known. After saying that he saw the
Senator in Philadelphia the other day,
buying polka-dotted pajamas for his
Florida fishing trip, the genial and ever
hopeful Cooper says:
''Quay's most recent experience in
Florida was as costly rs funny. The
railroad now runs from jacksonville
down to Titusvills. thence all the way
down the Indian River. beyond 81. Lucie,
the point where our most distinguished
fisherman has his cottage. II is the
Flageller road. mainly owned by the
Standard Oil prince. While in course of
construction, Quay suggested a station at
81. Lueie. The obliging railway officials
asked him to indicate the spot, size. etc.
which he did. II is now finished and
Quay was sent the bill for the entire cost
-SlJ00-which, upon reflection and some
wild theories a. 10 the varied forms of the
bunco game, he paid. Sober reflection
and history combined to show that he
was the only customer for tie station,
and ii is hardly likely that there will ev-
er be another"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-10-03
Harrison and Tariff.

In his speech, as chairman of the Re
publican meeting at indianapolis, Gen.
Harrison said, in speaking of the new
tariff law: ''Mr Mills, of Texas, declared
in open debate that the German Brice
tariff bill, which has just become a law,
was not approved by a thousand people
within the United States. And il is the
law that the people of this country are
asked to approve by their votes i'm No
vember next You have got an opportu-
nifty here in Indiana TO show your disap-
proval of that law by leaving at home the
men who helped to make il. There are
about six in Ohio who Will he left at
home. Which would YOU rather have,
60 per cent. tariff or 30 per cent? You
would rather have higher tariff than
lower wages. That is what you mean.
would like somebody to tell me what
American this law benefits except the Su-
gar Trust and the Whisky Trust What
new fires will il build in any part of this
country under our flag? What additional
labor viii it employ? Has there been any
rejoicing in this country since that bill
became law? Have you had any? The
only rejoi,ing that has been heard any
where has been beyond the seas and un-
der another flag. Well, they say they
have reduced duties 20 per cent. Reduc-
ton in wages am told i'm Indiana is 30
per cent. That is the effect of the reduced
duties, and we don't want any more of
| il.
''Only two years ago this country was
not only the most prosperous country in
! the world-for that it had been before
but it stood upon the highest pinnacle of
| prosperity that il had ever before attain
| ed. This is not the verdict of politicians;
/ it : the verdict of the commercial report
er; it is the expressed opinion of those
men who make profession of studying
business conditions. The last two years
have been years of distress and disaster.
The losses of them defy the skill of the
calculator. We were told in the old times
that the richer were getting richer and
| the poorer poorer, and to cure the imagi-
nary affiiction our political opponents
have brought on a time when everybody
| II SttlliS pOoTtT- lillnh lndi rtiiieiil-
ber 10 have heard of an inscription once
upon a tombstone that read something
like this: 4 was well; / thought to be bet
ter; took medicine and here lie Our
Democratic friends have passed tariff
bill that is approved so far as can learn.
by only six Democratic senators and no
body else. Mr.. Cleveland has repudia-
ted Il and has declared that it involves
perfidy and dishonor; all of the leading
papers in the country have condemned it;
the Democratic chairman of tho Ways
and Means Committee has condemned il.
as well as the entire Democratic majority
in the House of Representatives"