The Portland daily press., 1895-04-06


there was simply the coming and going of
special freight trains. unless the expert
ment the local agent is about to try on the
round house was an exception. He is sub
siituting wooden chimneys, very tall and
large. flaring at the top and bottom for the
present arrangemnt. By this plan more
perfect ventilation will be secured and
the round house will be made very much
lighter
Conductor Pratt's train will look brighter
and better when next taken our. Al, the
cars have been repainted and reftted.
The Lock port. Nova Scotia. schooner Ori-
ole, arrived yeteraay, and will take back
full load of CLAIMS for bait. This is the
| first of the Nova Scotia ''clam schooners"
as the fishermen call them to visit this port
this season.
Mr. Carey. of the local board of health,
has been talking in fatherly way to man
who made tile mistake of going on board
vessel in the harbor before the official visit
of the medical examiner. He might ba made
| to contribute $50 TO the city of Portland,
| but il is not quite certain what may be
| done.s The man who paid that entirely uD-
| official visit insists that he didn't know
| that he was violating the city ordinance.
and went on board hoping o get ii job. The
board of health may decide to bring in the
old western verdict, ''Not guilty, but don't
d. ii again.
/ Two coasters came in yesterday with
very sick man on board in each instance.
/ One was taken to tie hospital from he
| schooner Ruth S. Hodsdon, and the other
| from the schooner Mary L. In the case OF
| the latter sailor the physician at the hos
| pital was in some doubts regarding the ex-
act nature OF the trouble. Both were re-
! garded as dangerously sick.
Not single fisherman came in yesterday,
and only very few of the small boat fish
| ermen went out. some Of the fleet was ey-
vected in, but failed to put in an appear
/ ance. The fresh fish business is duller now
| than it has been for some time past.
Mr. j. G. gHamlin's yacht Beatrice, has
gene TO Hoothbay to undergo alterations
of repairs. Her stern will be changed into
a long overhang which is calculated to give
her natty appearance.
| Fourteen mill stones. each weighing two
thousand rounds come on the Allan liner
Parisian from England for Berlin Falls.
The fne weather cleared out the harbor
yesterday. Not "a single vessel remained
in the lower barber. OF course quite nur.-
| ber are disoharging or receiving cargoes,
| but there were 10 arrivals, and no vessel
cleared from this port.
There was a street report yesterday that
/ Mr.. John ]. Curtis had sold his ferry to
Mr. Hunt and Mr.. Baxter, and that fact C.
counted for the withdrawal of the offer
made by captain A. D. Boyd. at former
meeting it being understood that Captain
Boyd represented Mr.. Curtis directly or
| Indirectly. Mr. Curtis is now in the West
and last evening the PRESS interviewed
Mr.. c. W. I. Cooling on the subject
Mr.. & oding So id he WAS not in q position
to speak for Mr.. Curtis. and did not think
| that Mr.. Curtis had authorized any one
10 make any statements in his behalf. He
| thought it very possible that Mr.. Hunt and
| Mr. Baxter might have closed with the terms
offered by Mr.. Curtis some time ago. al
| though at that time they We're inclined to
think that he was holding his interest in
the ferry too high figure. Mr.. Cooling
said lie was not in position 20 say that
they had done so, or 10 deny that Mr.Curtis
had disposed of his interests in the ferry.
Mr.. Curtis might have forgotten to men
tion a transact on involving small amount
compared with his great business deals all
over the country. The fact that he seemed
| to have retired from the fight was. Mr.. Cod
| ing admitted. a strong reason for the be-
| lief that he had sold his interests He did
make price to Mr.. Hunt and Mr.. Baxter,
and when they objected that it was too
high, Mr.. Curtis observed that it ought to
pay them twelve per cent on their invest
ment and added, name your price for any,
| thing that Will do that, and if it is S1U0.00n.
will have the cash ready for you at nine
O'Clock tomorrow morning" In he opinion
of Mr.. Guding, if Mr.. Curtis had retired it
was simply because his OWL price had been
paid.
Apparently the current rumor that Mr..
| Curtis is about to retire from fhe ferry
business is based on fact. and in that case
the people of South Portland will cease to
feel their present keen interest in tie will
he is said to have made so many years ago,
by the terms of which that ferry boat was
to be kept running for one hundred years
after his death. Very possibly while Mr..
Curtis has vast business interests in many
states. he is no longer in the ferry business
between this city and South Portland.
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