The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-29
ALONG THE WATER FRONT.
Gossip Picked Up Along the Wharves
and on Commercial Street.

The schooners Seth NJ. Todd and Addie
E. Snow are on their way from Perth
Amboy to this port with coal.
| The brig Henry b. Cleaves is about
due here from Baltimore with a cargo OF
coal
The schooner Sarah E. Palmer is dis
charging coal at the Maine Central
wharf.
| The brig jennie Horlburt lost about
! 90, 900 feet of her deck load Of lumber
while on her way to this port.
The schooner Anna E. j. Morse is
shipping crew for New York with
shipping Com missioner Tolmnn. The
schooner William L. Roberts is also
| shipping crew for the coal ports.
Moore g. Wright, the contractors who
have recently finlshed very successful
contract in the harbor of St. John, are
now engaged in making extensive repairs
on their dredging machines and appara-
| tus. 1t in stated that this firm intsRds to
erect wharf.sand large store sheds on the
flats below Tnkey's bridge where they
will. In the future, make it their head
quarters
| There is some anxiety felt for the
safety of the fishing schooner Hattie I.
Phillips of Boston, she having been abb
sent three weeks on fishing trip to La
Have bank from Boston. The schooner
was provisioned for two weeks and was
expected to arrive home some days ago
She is commanded by Captain Michael
O'Brien Of Boston and carries crew If
twenty-five men, most CT them residing
| in Boston.
Over 270 car loads of freight arrived
over the tirand Trunk Sunday and to-
day. The greater part of it will be
shipped on the Scotsman.
The schooner Annie L. Wilder, Captain
Green wan discnar9ing cargo of salt at
| Lord Bros.
The big freighter MerrimaC, which
smiled from Portland recently with one
of the largest cargoes ever taken out OF
this port, will not be seen here again
this winter. She sailed from Bristol,
| December %, for New Orleans.
The steamship Gerono is expected to
arrive at this port on Wednesday. She
brings small general cargo.
The steamship Memnon of the Elder
Dempster line from Bristol, is expected
here Tuesday night or Wednesday morn
ing. SIZE brings large quantity of tin
plate for the United States and con-
siderable Canadian freight.
The Dominion liner Scotsman; Capt.
Enoch Maddox, arrived in port at IL
clook this morning from Liverpool via
Halifax. The Steamer had AN uneventful
passage and made fair time on the
voyage. She brought twelve steerage
passengers. They were all passed by In
spector Fogg. Among the passengers
were eight Russians, one Canadian and
one American. The Russians will go to
New York, Baltimore and Boston. The
Canadian will go to Quebec, while Port
land is good enough for the American
and he will remain here. The vessel had
366 tons of cargo measured by weight
and 937 tons computed by measurement.
The weight of fruit, dry goods and other
light freight ia computed by measure
| ment and 40 cubic feet of cargo is esti-
mated to weigh O ton. The greater
portion of the cargo was for Canadian
points The local consignments were 25
cases of oranges to j. l. Libby & Co., 80
cases of oranges to Winchester & Ross,
SOB packages of clay pipes to d. Terrence
8 Co., and $40 casks china clay to
Barring Bros & Co. The Scotsman is thu
biggest freiRhter that sails into the port
uring the wintor, and is q very hand
GONE vessel She will take out ESQ head
of cattle and large amount of freight
when she sails.
George A. Hartford S men are engaged
| in repairing breakwater on tho spar
deck of the Laurentian, a part of which
was carried away on her recsnt voyage
here.
A score or more of longshoremen, big
burly fellows for the most part, were
gathered under the lee of one of the
Grand Trunk sheds yesterday afternoon
amusing themselves by tossing about a
pair of hand car wheels weighing $50
pounds. Nearly every man in the crowd
shoulderad these wheels without much
apparsnt effort. The crowd talked in
the Irish language entirely, and while a
newspaper man stood by not word of
English was spoken.
"Did you ever see it SO quiet in your
life9" said the woman who travels about
the wharves and along the docks selling
soap, matches. handkerchiefs and other
small articles to the sailors and fisher
men. and who is known along the water
front as "Auntie "Well, never did.
never in my life. Why, haven't sold ten
cents worth of goods for week. It's
awful simply awful. What air we COM
in to anyway, I'd like to know" No
one seemed to be able to tell "Auutie''
lust what we were coming to, but one
weather beaten old salt with the smell Of
the ocean and it's fish about him, re-
marked with an oath that the Devil him
self could only answer that question.
"Swesr, do you? Well never see such
men to swear as you are? What do you