The Portland daily press., 1896-06-10
AFTER THREE DAYS STORM.
TIL e Water Front Bustles Into Lively
Activity.

The Tow Boat Companies Combine
Schooners Arrive With Big Fares of
Mackerel-The Ice Trust and Vessel
Owners-Items of Interest Along
Shore.
After the heavy rain, the dreary fog
and the generally rough weather, the
clearing skies of yesterday afternoon
found the water front very lively and
busy portion of the city, in marked con-
trast with the dullness and ouietness of
the few previous days. The harbor pre-
sented beautiful scene. Up in front of
the Portland Yacht club, where the pleas
ure crafts of the club lie at anchor, ana a
we'll earned rest after their exciting ex-
periences of few days ago, the tapping
canvas Of the wet sails and the small
boats plying back and forth from the
Yacht club house showed that the enthu-
siastic owners of these vessels were on
hand to repair whatever damage may
have been done by the storm.
Farther down the har Dor lay at anchor
several deeply laden schooners, waiting
their turn at some wharf, and on those
also, the sails rapidly drying in the hot
sunshine, were Tapping in the gentle af-
ternoon breeze Along the wharves all
was activity and busUle, while through
the muddy streets plodded YEARLY the
dray horses, hauling from point to point
the freights accumulated during two days
OF rain. Taking all in all the water front
was most interesting place. and it was
only when the sinking sun, the renewed
cloudiness and threatening rain some
what chilled the atmosphere of CONNER
oial street that the merry turn of business
subsidized, and the water front relapsed
into it's accustomed drowsinsss.
The few arrivals from the mackerel
feet, which is now being heard from for
the first time, promise most successf vi
and busy season. The Boothbay sohoon-
er Flora A. Niokerson, arrived Monday
night with $50 barrels consigned to Mr..
John Willard. This is an unusually large
catch for this time of year and the trip
will net CAPITA i'll Lewis of the Nickerson,
his crew and the vessels owners very
handsome profit.
1t was reported yesterday to Mr.. Willard
that Captain Seayey of the schooner
Maud S., had just arrived at Boothbay
Harbor en- route for Portland, with $50
barrels of mackerel. Two other sohoon-
ers belonging in Gloucester are also on
their way here with large fares. Fisher
men report mackerel to be very plentiful
this year and there will probably be plen-
ty OF business for all those engaged in
this work
The schooner Uncle Joe, also arrived
Friday night with $500 mixed fab for
John Willard. No other lobster or fish ar
is supposed, to the thick and heavy
weather, and not to the scarcity of fish.
Speaking Of the fish industry the
PRESS reporter Etumbled on to very
queer fact yesterday. The schooner Hen
~ P. Payson, now loading with lumber
at Hobson's wharf, will also carry as a
part of her cargo, many hundred weight
of resh fish Of all kinds. New Trinidad
is about a thirty days voyage from this
port, and it seems strange that an attempt
should be made to carry fresh fish SO long
distance. But it is to be done and
those who know say that the fish will net
a very good return when landed at Trini-
dad, where fresh fish are not plentiful
and are considered d great luxury The
trick will be very easily done on the
schooner Henry 2. Payson, where, in the
very centre of a large cargo of ice, a hole
many feet square, will be left into which
the fresh fish will be placed and after
wards covered up with ice blocks, making
perfect cold storage compartment which
will defy even the heat of the tropics.
Many other vessels may have taken out
similar cargoes for Trinidad but this is
the first case of the kind the PRESS man
ever heard of.
A large fleet of coal schooners are now
due here from Philadelphia consigned to
Randall & McAllister and others. The
harbor contains very few coal vessels, and
business is almost at standstill, waiting
the arrival of the overdue fleet, supposed
to be detained by headw inds and thick
weather.
The schooner Eagle Wing from Cape
Breton has just finished the discharge of
1860 tons of coal for the Grand Trunk at
Fish Point. A large steamship loaded
with coal for the Grand Trunk is also on
her way here from Louisburg, and is ex-
pected to arrive by this afternoon
The fishing schooner j. S. Glover was
hauled up on the Marine railway yester-
day afternoon to be overhauled while the
tug Belknap isssalso Oh the ways to have
a new shaft put in.
The new boat for the Casco Bay Steam
ship company, recently purchased in Buff
alo, N. Y, by Manager Cooling, is expect
ed to arrive here this afternoon or to-
night. She is called the Pilgrim and is
commanded by Captain Edward Parsons,
who went on to Montreal az ter her few
days ago. The Pilgrim has had pretty
rough passage, and has been somewhat
delayed. but sailed from Halifax vest err
dav afternoon and will probabIv ba