The Portland daily press., 1895-11-29
SOME THANKSGIVING DINyrps.
The Old Schooner Radient and Her
Captain.

Captain.
Sailing of the Numidian With a Fpn c.roo
-Thousads of People on the water
Front Yesterday--One Lone Fisba,,,,.n
Comes In.
The water front was visited by
thousands yesterday, many going down
to the battle ship Maine, Others witness-
ing the sailing of the Numidian. the
first of the great ocean liners to leave
this season, while many more simnly
went down on some wharf and looked
over the water in the direction of the
Maine. 1t may be said here that in the
evening Fort Allen park was freely re-
sorted to, the evening being pleasant
enough to warrant people going there
to watch the search lights of the battle
ship.
Of course the great business transacted
yesterday by fishermen and the men en-
gagged in the coastwise trade was the
eating of the Thanksgiving dinner.
Fishermen live WELL that goes without
saying, and yesterday was no exception
to the general rule. One cook when
asked s'what to praise myself Of my cook
ing. What did give 'eln? Let's see.
We had two turks and couple of chickens
and then had two kinds of pie, and
a big baked puddin with plums. OF
course we had all the fxings." Other
fishermen didn't go quite as heavy on
poultry but the most of them had
turkey and chicken.
The coast wise men were fairly liberal
in their way of keeping the traditional
New England day, and did not depart
from the regular programme of roast
turkey. They all seemed to have en-
joyed the day. and some were talking
about going up to the show in the even
ing, but it was sloticeable fact that
the shippers rather discouraged the idea.
There is another fairly ancient schoon-
er in port, t he Radiant of Rockport. Can't
Hardy, now in her 59th ayear and still
stout and strong. The Radiant was
York city and Philadelphia, and her
first captain is still living. He is DR..
Dale of Boston, but when the Radiant
was sloop he commanded her. She was
built upon honor, and very handsome
cabin which was taken out several years
ago by Captain Hardy, s.who built her
present house in order to get more room
below. After Capt. Dale left her she was
commanded for % ssyears by Capt. Ell
well, and was then sold to Capt. Hardy.
who owned and commanded her ever
since. During the 81 years he has owned
her he has laid out about $4,000 on his
craft, and now he can insure dry cargo
as we'll as any skipper of any Maine YES.
sci.
Capt Hardy is an old sailor. Before
he bought his present schooner he was
before the mast for years, and then was
sailors were half starved. "They kept us
on the poorest of beef, and the hardest
of Bread" said Capt. Hardy yesterday.
He was little disposed to complain of
the low freight rates at this time, and
when he gets back home will lay off for
the winter
The steamship Nuimdian sailed yester-
day with cal go made mostly of articles
designed for the Christians trade. Her
cargo was largely Canadian, almost en-
tirely so in fact. The Canadian portion
of her cargo Consist of 4719 boxes of
cheese, IA. 4S9 barrels of aplpes 1900 bags
Of asbestos, $50 sacks of oatmeal. 1133
boxes Of bacon, 1887 cases OF eggs, As
packages OF turkeys, A organs, 1861 cases
OF apples, 800 cases OF match splints.
5, 1876 bushels Of peas, 219 cattle, 1857 sheep
and various packages of smaller goods.
The total value of the Canadian portion
of the. cargo was $191, 900. The American
portion of the cargo was confined to 1888
sacks of Minneapolis flour and 920 barrels
of Maine sapples, total valuation, $74Oo.
The cargo of the Numidian was almost
entirely made up of perishable goods
She took out seven first cabin, inter-
mediate and 80 storage passengers. The
nextssAllan steamer will be theLaurentian.
and she will bring over 1865 tons of gen.
eral cargo. The sailing of the Numidian
was witnessed by very large crowd
There were but few arrivals yester-
day. Two coal schooners came in, max
ing consi derable addition to the stock
of coal now on hand. But single lone
fisherman, the Maud Muller, arrived dur
ing the day. She brought in 25, 600
pounds of mixed fish. No additions were
made to the number of coasters in port,
lint hon, foI
Saturday. The fish dealers will be
forced to do the best they can with what
the Maud Muller brought in unless
there are other .sohooners in before the
morning closes for the mass of orders
come in during the forenoon.
DEERING.