The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-11-14
HARBoR NEWS.
A Schooner Runs Into a Big Snow
Bank


Yesterday was quiet on the water
front. A great fleet of coasters came into
the harbor blown in by the stiff north
east wind.
The Amy Wixon, brought IS, 0oO the
Wide Awake $1,000, Emma Jane 10000,
Fanny Hayden 90, 900, Robert and Carr
POO, 90 pounds of mixed fish, and the shore
boats brought in smaller quantities.
Perhaps 10, 900 pounds in all were landed
The General Worth brought in a large
quantity of CLAIMS from East Yarmouth
island.
: Captain Deming of the Lizzie Hagan,
reported that his vessel caught about
eight hundred pounds of mackerel in her
nets This catch of mackerel is quite rare
at this time of the year.
The Kingf1sher brought in 1900 Holsters
and the Charlotte Beals 5000.
The schooner Valetta, from Towns
End, reports that when some thirty miles
off this port, Tuesday, she ran into the
end of thick snow bank. 1t was not
only exceedingly cold, but the snow was
dense. When the vessel came into port
yesterday morning she had icic1es
dependant from her and her decks were
covered with snow.
A very pretty steam yacht, evidently
new, called the Tirzah, was seen in the
harbor yesterday.
There is nothing on. the marine railway
and about the only thing around it was
the Josephine Hoey
The schooner Eagle, that lost her jib-
DOM in collision was in luck yesterday
The captain found another at the spar
shop in Portland that was an exact fit to
take the place of the one lost.
A vessel, the William Deming, arrived
from the east yesterday with number
of granite pillars, each three feet in
diameter and about nine or ten feet. high, |
bound for New York to be used in some
public building.
Mr.. A. A. Strout's steam yacht the |
Viking, has not yet gone into winter
quarters.
The tug boat James Sampson, towing a |
scow loaded with cargo from the burned |
schooner M. M. Chase arrived late yester- |
day afternoon.
A sailor stumbled overheard from the |
schooner Maud Wetherell. lying at
Custom House wharf, yesterday after
noon, but was rescued after cold bath.
Lyman & Son, yesterday. supplied the
Portland company with fifteen fathoms
# one and half inch chain, weighing
2200 pounds, for moorings
The schooner Ellen Lincoln sailed on a
trip yesterday with complete new set of
sails, new dories and equipments for thes
winter fishing.
The tug boat c. A. Warren is on J
nyer's blocks being overhauled and re-
paired.
The grain is being taken in by the
elevator as fast as possible to have it
loaded for the Numidian of the Allan
line
Steamship freight continues to arrive
daily over the Grand Trunk. The yards
are now well filled with cars laden with
cars of peas averaging over five hundred
bushels to the car have arrived.
Captain Gibbs of the light house
steamer Azalea, made thorough search
Monday for the wreck of the schooner
Frank A. Magee, which was recently
sunk in collision with another schooner
off Pollock Rip, Vineyard Sound. The
intent of the search was to exactly locate
the wreck, and properly mark it for the
benefit of passing vessels, but Captain
Gibbs failed to find q trace of the
schooner. Six fathoms of water was
shown by soundings all around where the
vessel was supposed to have foundered