The Portland daily press., 1896-03-25
GENERAL WATER FRONT NEWS.
A Lively Runaway ON Commercial st.
Yesterday Afternoon.

The Northerly Winds Are Keeping Vessels
From the Back Bay-Many Schooners
Are In, But Small Results-Coasters
Dropping in Now and Then-A Busy
Scene Last Evening.
Coasters are dropping in occasionally
now, but the wild is still unfavorable for
the coming of most of them.
There was lively runaway on Com
mercial street yesterday afternoon. 6. B.
Leavitt, of Deering, drove up to the store
of Stevens & Co., and hitching his horse
went to the second story of the building.
He soon after heard the whistle of a
freight train, and went down stairs, but
he was too late to stop his horse. The
animal made one spring, and darted off.
1t kept clear of the train, and everybody
Kept clear of the runaway. BY common
consent the horse was allowed to have all
OF the street not occupied by the train
This arrangement worked we'll until
Henry Stevens. driving jigger,
happened to turn into Commercial street.
and then the runaway went straight on
the jigger. demolishing the wagon, but
doing no further injury. ElbridgekJ Ohm
son, took the wreck home. and the horse,
no longer in a mood for running, walked
quietly behind the team.
The schooner Ella Fl, Parkhu1st, of
Gloucester, arrived here Saturday, and
will go out probably today, and it will
be months before Portland will see the
trim craft again. She will be fitted up
for the Banks for salt fish, and will be
gone about five months.
j. W. Trefethen, reported yesterday
the arrival of the following fishermen !:
Moses B. Linscott, with 10000 pounds
OF cod and paddock, L. B. Fernald with
5000 pounds, Robert and Carr with 8, 900
pounds, Leuta May with 1900 pounds,
Monticello with 5000, Mary Hagan with
10. 900 pounds and the Contest with 1000
pounds. The small boats brought in
about 20. 1000 pounds.
The steamer Louispurg, Dominion Coal
company, has again cleared for Portland
with coal.
The schooner Fred Cover, with coal for
the pottery, arrived Saturday, but owing
to a peculiar combination of circum-
stances, has not been able TO reach her
dock to discharge cargo. The heavy nor
therly winds have kept the tides down
and there has not even at the highest
tides been water enough in the Back Bay
channel to enable her to pass through.
There Is nothing to do but to wait for
change of wind, and the coming in of the
regular tides. 1t has been a long time
since such thing has occurred and the
detention of the schooner is of course
causing considerable daily loss.
There was one place last evening where
business was simply rushing, and that
was in and about the steamer wharyes.
The steamers Vancouver and the Mem
phis were taking cargo, and the work was
being pushed with all possible rapidity.
The demand for freight was of course
pressing, and to meet it the Grand Trunk
was discharging freight at all the sheds.
Then the Nunidian, just arrived from
Liverpool, via Halifax, had a cargo large
ly of perishable nature, and SO while
one set of men were rapidly unloading
freight cars, other men were working
their best taking the cargo of the Nu-
indian from the sheds to the cars as fast
as it was discharged.
Special after special went out, for the
cargo must be forwarded at oEce, but it
tried even the trained management of
the Grand Trunk here. The yard was full
of moving trains. Messengers went out
to call the trainmen to the Office, where
MI. Love rapidly made his assignments,
and Train Dispatcher Farrell WAS forced
to look sharply after the trains. Right of
way was of course given to the specials
with the valuable and perishable cargo Of
the Numidian.
''We shall work all night" said one of
the Grand Trunk men, but of course the
1--WE" was intended to mean the road,
and not any one gang of men. All night
the work was pushed forward as rapidly
as well could be. and of course the Gus
toms officers stayed through the night.
1t was busy scene.