The Portland daily press., 1896-11-14
ON THE WHARvEs.
Items of Interest That viii Interest People
Along Shore.

The large number of vessels which lay
at anchor in the harbor yesterday after
noon seemed to foretell an approaching
storm. 1t was very rough outside. So
many of the late arrivals declared anu
the indications pointed to heavy gale
along the coast.
The tug Atlas came into port yesterday
having in tow the Standard Oil COM
pany's barge No. 70. The barge was re-
ported to be leaking badly in its forward
compartment as the result of an accident
on Long Island Sound.
The lobster arrivals yesterday were the
steamer Della with 1900 and the smack
Horizon with 1000 both consigned to N.
3. Trefethen.
The tug Kate Jones of Boston arrived
here yesterday with soow in tow which
will be used on the work at Tukey's
bridge. This soow was capsized recently
in Long Island Sound and was in a
somewhat battered and damaged condi-
ton.
he Ire toat, officially designated as
Engine 2, will go on the Marine railway
on Monday and receive new wheel and
be otherwise repaired.
Pilot boat Maggie was taken to the
Grand Trunk wharf yesterday where sh~
will be fitted out for her winters cam
paign off this port. With the large num-
Der of English steamers expected to sail
in and out OF. Portland during the winter
the pilots are expecting very busy
winter.
An English barkentine bound for Wey-
mouth, N. S., attempted to sail yester-
day afternoon, but found it SO rough out
side that she was obliged to put back in
to this port.
The schooner Wesley Abbott came in
here yesterday with her foretopmast
gone. She LOST the spar while entering
New York harbor few days ago. The
Abbott was loaded with cement from
Roundout, n. j.
The schooner Sarah E. Palmer is ready
to sail for LouisbErg for another cargo of
Cape Breton coal as soon as the weather
is suitable.
The fishing schooner John NJ. Plummer
has had a new mast put in her and is
now taking on ballast at Dyer's wharf.
The schooner Nellie Burns is fitting
out for fishing trip to the Grand Banks.
The fish arrivals yesterday Ewere the
George B. Mcclellan 9ouo cod and had
deck, Fanny Reed with 5000 and the
Cora e. Smith with 10, 600.
The crew of W. B. Bennett were at
work yesterday afternoon off the end of
Commercial wharf removing sunken
spiles from the bottom Of the dock. The
skill and ease with which these men
hauled out Spite after spile by the aid of
the big Spite driver was very interesting
to witness.
Sailors have all kinds of superstitions
about the remedies to be used for various
diseases, and that some Of these methods
OF curing their ailments have some
virtue the stories of the sailors them
selves must be accepted in evidence. One
well known skipper yesterday had
fastened around each wrist section of
brass chain. He said that he had teen
troubled with rheumatism in his arms SO
that he could not sleep. He fastened
these brass chains about his wrists and
since then has had no trouble with rheu-
matism. His wife was also cured in the
same way.
Another sailor who come in while the
skipper was talking had just lifted over
300 pounds of iron on the wharf. He said
he had very lame back until the other
day when he took nine turns of wooden
yarn about his waist, and since then the
lameness has entirely disappeared. This
man also had in his ears large gold rings
which he had worn for forty-rwo years,
ever since he was two years old in fact.
He said that rings in the ears was the
best remedy for sore or weak eyes in the
world.