The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-01-22
ARRIVAL OF THE SCOTSMAN.
Provisions Will Be the Main Steamer
Freight After This.

No Fishermen in Yesterday Bad Luck of
Wind Bound Schooner-The Head
quarters of the Coastwise Captains
Captain Allen viii Be Assisted. :.
There was large crowd on the wharf
| when tho big Dominion liner the Scots
man docked for the second time here. She
| came in just after noon yesterday, and a
small army of men stood ready to begin
| the work of discharging her cargo, and
the work will be pushed rapidly for a
very large quantity Of oranges are now
| in thu shed, and special Grand Trunk
! train will be made up as soon as possible
in order that they may be got to Canada
| in advance of the next cold wave. The
| Scotsman brought over 1890 tons of car
| go, and 10 passengers. seven of whom
were steerage, and the balance first cabin
passengers.
| Inspector Fogg passed all of the passen
gers except Russian who has friends on
this side of the water, and who will prob
ably be found to be all right.and Angelic
Crello. an Italian, who was very unoer-
tain regarding his friends in this coun-
try. He thought that brother and
brother-in-law reside in Providence, r.
L., but his own destination was Philadel-
phia. He had $500 in money and was
plainly greatly disappointed when told
that he would be deported. A Portland
resident, an Italian, offered to look out fer
va oil h
to land, but the inspector did not take
that view Of his duty, and the full board
sustained his decision. Crello and his
Portland friend have not however given
up all hope. but will use the time before
the Scotsman leaves to get if possible
| word to the members OF his family i'll
Providence.
The Scotsman had more than aver
! age good winter passage. She enooun-
tered some head winds and high seas, but
nothing worth talking about in the opin-
ion of one Of the officers She is admirab-
| ly fitted up and no cattle steamer ever
left this port in better shape for that
| line Of trade. Cattle forwarded by the
Scotsman eau hardly fail of arriving in
| good condition.
| There is quite an amount of steamer
| freight on hand now and more is con-
stantly arriving. Provisions will consti-
tute the great bulk of the freights after
this. The boxed meats now on hand and
on the way will constitute big item
in the sum total. Canadian pea and raised
bacon seems to be in demand to judge
by the large amount in the sheds, al
though there is also large quantity of
bacon from Chicago.
Four Grand Trunk specials were re-
ceived for the West yesterday. The reg
ular freights were also very heavy.
The wind bound schooner William
Thomas, Boston to Calais, has been de-
tanned here seventeen days, and other
shooners have had nearly as bad luck
No fishermen came in yesterday. but
several managed to get out past the Cape.
There are abundant indications tina
Captain Allen will be generously aided
in his work of benevolence along the
Maine coast.
The headquarters of the catains of all
Maine coasters is the bright office of J.
II. Blake, and once in while visitor
will chance down Oh an interesting group
OF the veterans, especially if number
of the schooners have been wind bound
for few days. Then they flock to the
Office where they know by long experience
they are always welcome, and there they
stay for hours telling stories and "keep-
ing office" when Mr.. Blake is called out
on business. They are very business
like set Of men, and know how to drive
hard bargain, but when off duty they
are fond Of story telling, and some of
them oan remem Der many years back,