The Portland daily press., 1895-05-02
THE CARGO OF THE OREGON.
Inspector Fogg Busy at the Last.-Items
of News Along Shore.

| The steamship Oregon sailed for Liverpool
via. Halifax yesterday. Her cargo while not
as large as might have been desired, all the
freight here not being enough to load her,
was valuable. The Canadian portion of her
| cargo was valued at $l199lS, and the Ameri-
can portion at S21, ,726. The cargo was made
up of 699 packages of meats, 20 boxes boots
| and shoes, 207 boxes of cheese, 2.2sl maple
blocks tor matches. As bales of twine, G
cases of cigaretts. S75 bags of oatmeal, E96
bales of hay, ?l0 bundles of pulp, 81 cattle.
| 90 horses. and 81, 400 bushels of loose grain.
With the sailing of the Oregon the direct
| steamer service between this port and
Liverpool ends. The steamers will return
here next fall when the season is over at
Montreala Inspector Fogg had last official
duty to perform before the Oregon sailed,
the putting on board ofsMircam Xrsak,
Captain Myers of the barkentine Mabel J..
Myers. from this port to South america,
did not leave without slight trouble at
the last. Two of the crew decided at t he
last moment that they didn't want to go.
They had no fault to lind with the vessel, or
with the captain. but thought they would
prefer to stay on shLre. 1t was simply a
freak on their part. and when informed
that Captain Myers did not propose to be
fooled that way they quieted down and
were on the blue water about two hours
later than needed to have been the case.
The wind bound fleet of sohooners sailed
yesterday taking advantage of the first
favorable oppoI tunity for number of days.
Yesterday was a great day for Holsters
| The Holsters must have discovered that it
was the open season again. AT midnight
there was not short lobster in this city,
or in any of the trapsson the coast, aud yet
five minutes past twelve they were here by
the thousands. One lobster ta6er explained
this by saying that the Holsters 'sbegan to
bite vigorously about midnight. and that
after that all we had to do was to pull them
in
J. ". Trefethen reported yesterday after
noon that at least $4,000 short, and 10000
large Holsters had been received. Of 10000
Holsters received $4,000 were under the
regulation size. OF course this state of
things led to big drop in the price. The
time has gone by when thirteen Holsters
would pay for barrel of the best -four. and
yet such was the cass but few weeks ago.
The dealers hardly know what to do with
SO many Holsters, and in one instance, that
Oh De VI. Iol6lASus GD0 CdIS oP6T dL SOuLQ
Portland are now being filled. all available
space in the cars on this side having been
filed. The long Wharf lobster company
put down two new cars yesterday, and N.
f. Trefethen a very large one.
There is good deal of work being done
on the schooners of the Portland fleet The
Henrietta Francis will be thoroughly sre-
paired at Gloucester, the only Portland
schooner to be sent away from home for
that purpose. George A. Hartford, is re-
pc iring the Wideawake and Emma Jane,
and is doing the work in very thorough
manner.
People are already moving TO the islands.
At Long Island, Mr.. Perry has added about
twenty rooms to bis hotel. and the lumber
has been sent down to Mr.. Ponce, who will
make some extensive changes in and about
the Granite Spring house. He will change
the dance hall on the first floor to parlors,
and will make other improvements. Charles
j. Cloudman has just completed a handsome
summer cottage at Ponces. II. II. Kicker
has moved to Peaks for the summer, and A.
NJ. Smith and family are at Little Diamond
for the week.