The Portland daily press., 1895-03-18
SUNDAY QUIET ON TIE WATER
FRONT.
Schooners Dance Out and Crawl Back
One Fisherman Has a Change in Luck
Two More Welcomed Under "O1d Glory''
Car Loads of Barb Wire.

A few fishermen like the George E.
returned to this port yesterday, finding
it very rough, and no fishing weather.
The schooner Loring G. Ballard, from
the east put in Saturday afternoon, went
out again yesterday morning, but re-
turned for a harbor in the afternoon.
Evidently it was rough and unpleasant
day on the water.
Fisherman's luck" was well illustrat-
ed in the case of the crew of the Glouces-
ter schooner Belle Franklin. She was
out a week and had taken practically
nothing. Their bait was nearly used up,
and they had only enough left for last
set", but their luck changed, and that
set" gave them "A, 900 pounds of nice
fish. Then their i'll luck returned again,
and they made port Saturday, when the
fresh fish market is always in low spir-
tied condition. The Belle Franklin is,
however, in the main a very fortunate
craft. Her last two trips before the
present gave the men S36 each, and the
trips only extended over period of sew
en- days. from port to port. When they
went out the last time they hoped to
strike the same" schooin of fish, but as
one of the crew put it, we didn't find
the place." the Mary E. Hagan brought
in $4,000 pounds OF shore fish Saturday,
and the Robert and Carr, arrived with
10000, and the j N Glover, with $4,000
pounds since last report.
There was little stirring about the
Grand Trunk wharves yesterday. OF
course the Oregon was visited by the
regular crowd of persons anxious to ex-
anime big liner, but that was all. ss.The
few steamers to load this season does
not make it necessary TO run the many
extra freight trains that were flying in
and out last winter.
Inspector Fogg, allowed the last Of his
detained immigrants to go Saturday.
They were tioketed to Boston, but their
letters from friends did not satisfy the
inspector, who held them for a further
examination. Saturday the brother of
one of the men came down from Boston
and gave satisfactory assurance that his
brother would be looked after, and the
friends of the other men also sent the
proper papers. The men were delighted
to be set free, having had most un-
comfortable feeling that they might be
ordered back.
During the late billiards. in the west
many thousand cattle persisted because
the barb wire fences prevented their
reaching the bottoms, their natural
refuge in the case of a great fall of
snow. 1t is to be hoped that nothing of
the sort will happen here in Maine, but
the raw material, for some such disaster
is piled up in the New York boat
freight sheds. Kendall & Whitney of this
city have big lot Of it there, and there
is car load more for Bangor, and an
other for Gardiner. The days of the
"pole" fence of the fathers is in the
past, and barb wire will take the place
of lum Der that is fast getting too valu-
able for that purpose. The boats have
been bringing heavy freights of late.
The schooner Mary Standish, arrived
light yesterday afternoon, and was lowed
above the bridges Her arrival was the
only event of interest above the United
States barge office.