The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-30
ABOUT SHIPS AND THINGS.
Gossip Along Shore and Items Picked Up
Along the Wharves.

The schooners Miranda and G. O.
Witherell are hauled up at Deake's
wharf awaiting a charter.
The schooner Isaac @. Campbell. has
finished loading cargo of shocks for
GuRdaloupe at j. II. Hamlen & Son =
and will sail the last of the week.
The fish arrivals yesterday were the
Flora Nickerson with $4,000. the Uncle
Joe with 5000, the Mary E. Hagan and
the Conductor.
Two schooners with cement, the A. W.
Ellis, and the Lavalta arrived yesterday.
The schooner Calvin 8. Orcutt which
IL ashore near Scituate is So badly
smashed that there will be no salvage.
One of the arrivals in por5 yesterday
WAS the schooner Annie E. Kimball.
She has a good sized cargo of coal.
The five masted schooner Governor
Ames, which has arrived at Providence
from Newport News, reports very rough
weather, lost and split sails, and was
blown 600 miles out of her course.
The schooner Nellie F. Sawyer with
coal for this port arrived yesterday otter
long and hard passage from New York.
She was nineteen days on the way here.
The brig II. B. Cleaves with GOAL ar.
rived yesterday from Baltimore. The
Seth NJ. Todd and the William Jones also
got in with coal caIgoes yesterday.
The Bath four masted schooner William
B. Palmer, Captain Dyer, arrived in
Antwerp, Belgium, on Christmas day,
making passage from Hampton Roads
in twenty seven days. She had general
cargo. She left Portland November 2,
for Baltimore to receive the cargo.
The schooner Seabird which was badly
damaged ineBoston harbor while passing
through draw bridge has been sold as
she stands. The price paid for her was
$3.50 and she is now owned by Boston
parties.
The schooner Anna II. j. Morse has
shipped her crew and is in the stream
ready to sail for New York with a cargo
of ice. From there she will go to coal
port.
The schooner Elizabeth Foster, Boston
to Bucksport, was lowed into Gloucester
Monday by the fishing schooner Masco-
homo. The Foster was fallen in with on
Sunday about twenty five miles east of
Thatcher's island, vessel leaking and
crew badly frost bitten. The schooner
had been struck by squnll off Boon
island, and was almost capsized, losing
all her sails, the captain being knocked
down by the falling igging and severely
hurt.
The Scotsman of the Dominion line
was hauled over to the elevator last nigh
to take on her cargo of grain. She will
take out 10000 bushels of grain when
she sails.
The flags on all of the English steamers
in port were at half mast yesterday cut
OF respect for William Roe one Of the
firm of Allan, Roe & Co., who own the
Allan line and who died on Sunday in
Montreal.
The owners of the wrecked schooner
Calvin B. Orcutt have abandoned the
vessel to the underwriters Yesterday
the last piece of movable gear that could
be reached was taken out of the schooner
and little remains on board now except
ing the bulk and the main and foremost.
The vessel is wedged in between two
rocks nd has hole in her bottom.
Work on the Grand Trunk elevator IL
now being rushed forward with great
energy and big crowd of carpenters are
at work pulling up the superstructure.
The first section Of the high chimney has
also been put up.
The Gerono and Memnon are expected
to arrive at any time this morning.
CHRISTMAS. GRATITUDE.