The Portland daily press., 1895-05-01

bor, MS, with 5000 Holsters from MS.
| Trefethen yesterday. She is the first
smack to bring Holsters from Nova
Scotia to this city this spring.
1t is not only rough weather on the
Bay of Fundy that prevents the smacks
from coming here in the winter from
Nova Scotia. The principal reason is
that there is line OF steamers running
from there to Boston carrying Holsters.
They can go SO much faster than the
smacks that Portland dealers don't care
to buy smack load in Nova Scotia,
because by the time they get here, the
price in the Boston market may have
changed good deal, owing to the line
OF steamers, and the fact that in winter
the Holsters are scarce and the prices
varying widely.
But By this time of year the prices be-
gin to get down to hard pan. because the
supply of Holsters is in creasing, and
therefore it is safe to handle Holsters
| from Nova Scotia. Besides the above,
N.F. Trefethen received about 5000 lob
sters from Nova Scotia sDy the ST. John
boat.
A LONG DELAYED CARGO.
| When the bark Vilora II. Hopkins ran
onto Alden's rock last December and
stove hole in her bottom, it delayed
about half of her cargo of lumber from
reaching it's destination at BueDos Ayres
for period of about five months. The
deck load and the lumber between
decks was unloaded onto Sturtevant's
wharf, and it had remained there ever
since, till recently the bark Mabel I.
Meyers came from Boston and took the
long delayed cargo. She cleared yester-
day. The consequences of running on
rock, even in clear weather are very
far reaching.
Fourteen horses were shipped by
Messrs Conley & Carroll of Bangor by
the steamer Cottage City to New York.
They form part of government con-
tract.
The Dominion liner Oregon will leave
this morning. She is the lastsof the
English steamers. Yesterday 27 cars of
csttle and one car of horses arrived to
Captain Scott Oliver has Ftaken
charge for the season of the schooner
yacht Brentwood, owned by Mr.. Fl M.
Cate of Baltimore. H lie has taken her to
her moorings off the Portland Company,
where she will be put in order for the
summer season.
Yesterday the Emita brought up PIC
/ ,,io e or I'll
school children and left them at Great
Diamond Island. There are no Mayfiow-
ers on Long Island, but plenty of them
on Great Diamond Hence the picnic
party of islanders going from nesisland
to another at this early steamer.
The Forest Queen has new galvanized
iron smokestack. This Is quite an un-
usual kind os material for smokestack
and has been used on the Queen as sort
of experiment.
SHORT TIME FREIG HTS FOR LONG,
SHOREMEN LAST WINTER.
Morris J. Cramer has been elected
treasurer of thePortland Longshoremen's
Benevolent Society in place of Michael
| Sheehan, resigned.
The English steamer business has rot
been as profita BILE for our longshoremen
es usual during the past winter. They
averaged at least 50 less a week than for
many years. From S11 to S12 a week is
reckoned as good wages, hut the past win
ter they nave not averaged more than
50 week. The reason for this is that
they have not been able to get in SO
much time at their work as usual,
because it hasn't taken SO long to load
and unload the big steamers, and that
| because of the nature of the cargoes.
They have been more bulky and lighter
than usual, and of course handled quick
er aud easier. Less iron and tin have
been brought hele and less boxed meats,
cheese, etc have been shipped from here.
A greater portion than usual of dry
goods has formed part of the inward
cargoes and a greater proportion of ap
pies, hay and grain has formed part of
the outward cargoes. This is probably
explainable by the supposition that
Canadian merchants got their iron and
steel in the summer, and the greater
portion of heavy outward bound goods
have been shipped flom other ports.
According as these things vary so does
the weekly wages of the Portland long
shoremen 60 up and down.