The Portland daily press., 1896-11-18
GOSSIP ALONG SHORE.
What the Merchants on the Water Front
Are Talking About.

The schooner Ella Clifton damaged In
Sundays storm off Cape Ann, will be
obliged to discharge her deckload and
perhaps her whole cargo of lumber at
Widgery's wharf in order to repair.
The schooner Annie Lee, which also
met with tough experience in the storm
on Sunday. had a crew of men at work,
yesterday mending her sails which were
badly damaged.
The schooner @. P. Glover, another
vessel which suffered some damage in
the heavy sea off Cape Ann was lying on
the fats at South Portland, yesterday,
with tow boat along side pumping the
water out of the hold.
The brig 81. c. sibley sailed yesterday
for ST. John, where she will be laid UP
foF the winter.
The schooner Lydia NJ. Deering
finished discharging coal at the Boston
and Maine wharf yesterday and was
hauled out into the stream.
The schooner Emma G. Knowles is dis
charging a cargo of soft coal at A. r,
Wright & Co.'s.
The schooner George s. Keene came in
Monday night with the jaws of her main
boom carried away and her foresail split
in the heavy wind which was blowing
outside.
George A. Hartford, the shipwright,
will put Grew of men at work shortly
putting extra chain plates on the sohoon-
er Albert W. Black.
| EW. S. Jordan was engaged yesterday
in stripping the schooner Contest for the
winter. In the spring this schooner will
be refitted again and be thoroughly over.
hauled.
| Orr and jennings are repairing the
cylinders of the steamer Herman Rees-
ing which is on the flats at South Port.
| land.
W. +. Bennett & Co., are repairing th
Boston and Maine wharf. Hard woo0
spiling is being used in this work.
Yesterday afternoon the steamer Bonita
came into the Portland dock with a Cargo
of herring on board which the captain OF
the steamer found it pretty hard work IL
dispose Of. A littlo later having got rid
| of the cargo of fish the Bonita started t.
back out of the dock. The starboard
main rigging caught on the side of tht
dock and, as the vessels continued to
back, the strain was too much for the
mainmast which was broken off aboul
half way up from the deck.
The big Reading railroad coal steamer
Harrisburg came in yesterday and is dis
charging coal at Randall & McAllister
The schooner Fred jackson, which has
| been on the dry dock, came off yesterday
afternoon and setting sail absolutely few
| out Of the harbor. She has been sold by
J. S. Winslow & Co., to Captain j. b.
Weldon of Brooklyn, N. Y, on private
terms
| The schooner General Banks, now at
this port with cargo of salt for Lord
Bros. has recently been purchased by
! Randall, formerly of the schooner l.. j.
Clark. She is III tons and was built in
| 1858 and is one of the Oldest vessels that
comes to this port.
The Bath schooner John F. Randall,
Captain Crocker. had lively trip over
from Philadelphia, enoountering heavy
weather all the way. Captain Croker
said it WAS an unusually rough trip Her
| rigging suffered and her mainsail was
badly split. She brought a cargo of coal
for Randall & MoAllister.
The schooner Augusta Welt, Captain
| Sproul, from Portland. was reported at
Norfolk yesterday after a rough voyage.
The schooner B. W. Morse, which ar
rived from Philadelphia with a Cargo Of
coal for the Portland and Rochester, did
not escape the fury of the gale and had
several of her sails badly split.
The schooner Alicia B. Crosby, Capt.
Bunker. has finished discharaing coal
at the Grand Trunk and has sailed for
Philadelphia for another cargo. The
schooner Rebecca j. Moulton sailed for
Guadalupe with cargo of shocks and
lum Der, yesterday.
The tug Wrestler towed into port the
big coal barge Kohinoor, yesterday after
q rough and long passage from Philadel-
phia.
The James Poole brought in 16, 900 fish
for j. W. Trsfethen. The lobster arrivals
yesterday were the Judith Ann with $500
and the Jennie B, with $500 consigned