The Portland daily press., 1896-10-27
ALONG THE WATER FRONT.
Items of Interest Picked Up On the
Wharves.

A pleasant day made things a
little livelier along shore than they
have been for some time. Many
vessels were moving about the halbor,
Commercial street was filled with NOV
ing teams and long freight trains ana
general soene of activity was to be found
on ell sides.
The barkentine Jessie MacGregor.
which has been repairing on the dry
dock was hauled into Deak's wharf to-
day, where she will take on board ballast
and afterwards load with lumber for
Buenos Ayres.
The Fannie G. towed the scow Rival
to Richmond's island this morning
The Rival will bring back about 3S tons
OF squash.
The repairs on the barkentine Golden
Sheaf are nearly completed. Her new
forer,ast and bowsprit have been placed
in position. The bulwarks have been
repaired and the other damage done by
the storm remedied. She has been rigged
as schooner
The schooner Celina is at Browns
wharf loading cooperage fer Martinique.
The four masted schooner Augustus
Welt, which came in nearly q week ago
with coal, is still lying at Brown IS
wharf waiting for an opportunity to dis
charge her cargo.
The schooner Matte B. Russell has
finished discharging a cargo of coal at A.
r. Wright and co1pany's and will load
at the Portland oooperage with barrels
for Glen Cove, N. Y.
The lighthouse tender Myrtle was coal
ing at the Boston and Maine wharf yes
terday afternoon.
The Rosa Mueller is being loaded with
lumber at the Berlin Mills wharf. Her
destination is New York.
The schooner M. v. B. Chase is dis.
charging lum ber from Norfolk at the
Boston and Maine wharf.
The deckload on the schooner Clara
Leavitt has just been completed and she
will sail for Porto Rico, Tuesday, if the
weather Is favorable.
The schooner Matthew Vassar, Jr.,
has been laid up at the Berlin Mills
wharf.
The schooner Three Marys which has
been in the harbor for some days has
gone up to the Maine Central wharf,
where she is discharging coal.
The schooner Calvin B. Crcutt came in
yesterday morning with cargo of coal
for she Maine Central.
The barge Key stone was discharging
coal at A. R. Wright & Co.'s yesterday.
The steamer fremont of the Portland
Steam Packet company which is lying at
the foot of tho Boston and Maine wharf
is being repaired for next summers
pass niger service.
The schooner Cumberland is loading
spool wood at Central wharf for Mystic
Bird ge, Conn.
NEW COMMAND FOR CAPTAIN
GARDINER.
Captain Elliot Gard iner, at present in
command of the schooner Louis j. Rabel,
command of the new four masted
schooner which is building at Bath by
the Palmers, and which will be, when
launched ON March next, the largest
schooner afoat. She is to be IA feet
longer than the schooner William O..
Palmer and will be capable of carrying
$500 tors Of coal. Captain Gardner was
receiving the congratulations of his
many friends along shore yesterday on
his good luck in securing such mag
nificent vessel as the latest addition of
the Palmer fleet will be.
The fish arrivals were very small yes
terday, only 5000 pounds of fish being
brought in by small boats.
The schooner Francis X. Baird, which
arrived here yesterday afternoon from
Philadelphia, made one of the longest
passages from that port on record. She
was twenty -four days reaching Port
land, and encountered during the entire
tinis series of head winds, gales and
rough weather. the like of which her
skipper had never experienced before.
She was loaded with coal.