The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-04-26
SAILING OF THE uMIDlAN.
Generally Deserted Street-A Promising
Row Stopped.

Whep~the steamship Numidian sailed yes
,terday afternoon far larger crowd than is
commonly the case witnessed her departure.
She TOOK out the following articles OF
Canadian shipments "a, 1856 bushels of peas,
400S boxes of cheese, SAB cases of splints for
making matches, 5l54 packages of maple
books, 596 bundles of lumber, l55 bundles
and $40 bales of wood pulp, s41 boxes, and
eight tierces of bacon and ham, 125 bales of
hay, PIT bundles of shocks, 1853 sacks of
peas, 400 sacks of oaten meal, so boxes of
canned goods, % cases of boots and shoes,
81 bundles of leather, 10 packages of sun
dries, 10 cases of tobacco, six packages of
machinery, 246 cattle and SO horses. The
American shipments were 5S16 bushels of
wheat, 500 sacks of -four, ~ barrels of apples
(the last of the crop offered for shipment;
25S bundles Of paper and 1000 pieces OF las,
blocks She took out nine cabin. nine in
termediate and seven steeraGe passegers.
The Oregon. now taking loose grain at the
elevator is now the last steamer in port,
and the last one OF the two great liners to
touch here this season.
There vera many visitors to the Oregon
yesterday, and as she lay at the elevator
wharf n gang plank was rugged aft for their
accommodation.
Work ia in progress on the elevator wharf.
Three make fa SITS have been pnt in
T. Before the Numidian sailed a number of
boatmen made good wages by picking up the
bits of boards and beams thrown overheard.
One man secured bea I'm twenty feet long
of clear timber, and others got heavy loads
of aiis:lnmber.
heinz fiOpa in hrir, uj, 10
IN Eas from New York and the West for ship
laash TO- Canada. The New York boat
brSifght 5000 hides the last trip. Five car
loads were sent over the Grand Trunk We'd
nesday night, and the balance yesterday.
: Engine seven took Chief jackson and the
committee of the fire department to Burn
hams wharf yesterday to see test of the
Eastman pipes and MOBILES.
Schooner Robert and Carr has been
thoroughly repaired and will soon 60 to the
Banks. Captain Scofield will have neat
looking craft.
There was great crowd to see the
steamer Bay State yesterday. "They don't
crowd through as they did at Boston last
Sunday" said one of the officers, although
they do come close to it,
A great coal barge at Randall & McAllis-
ter's, yesterday looked deserted. All four
matches were off, but not single man was
at work. Commercial street was almost
completely deserted from one end to the
other.
There was one section of Commercial
street that was not deserted yesterday. and
that was Custom House wharf. Great
crowds went down TO the islands and had a
beautiful day for their outing. Many looked
over their cottages and planned an early
fitting islandward.
What promised to be vigorous row started
on Commercial street about noon. and was
getting rapidly up to the fighting point.
when some body yelled here comes a cop, -
and the two factions separated, ono going
up, and the other down the street. There
was much shaking of heads. and of fists. but
the idea. of going before Judge Robinson
ooks the fight out of them. In fact Judge
Robinson isn't popular with that class. II
don't want to go before him, I'd catch il six
months sure. observed one of the ''gang"
Yesterday