The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-07-09
The Weather Bound Fleet Of Fisher
men and Coasters Sail.
THE SEASON HAS BEEN A POOR
ONE FOR THE FISHERMEN.

Nash on the Yacht Loyal Arriyes-Other
Items Along Shore.
The bright sunlight of yesterday after
noon started up business of all kinds
along the water front. The Casco Bay
steamers did rushing business, trans
porting hundreds of pleasure bent parties
to the islands The large weather bound
feet in the harbor took advantage of the
fair breeze in the morning to sail and in
the afternoon countless yachts were skim
ming over the surface of the bay.
The British tramp steamship Circuit Is
expected here shortly to load with spool
wood for Clark Skillins & Co., for
Scotland. She will probably take on
board her cargo at the Maine Central
wharves.
The schooner Waterman of Calais ar
rived here yesterday from Jonesport with
q cargo of lo,9Sl paving blocks on board
for the city of Portland. Two other
schooners are ON their way to this port
also loaded with paving blocks for the
city. These blocks are to be used in
paving the easterly side of India street
from Commercial street to Congress- and
the work on this thoroughfare will be-
gin at once.
The schooner Ralph K. Grant took
on load of 1000 bushels Of corn and 1000
bushels of oats for Frankfort, Maine.
She was loaded at the Grand Trunk ele-
vator by the Paris FIGURING company. 1t
took just half an hour to load this
| schooner after she reached the dock.
| The fishing schooner Emmie Wickson,
sailed early yesterday morning on a
sword fishing cruise, and she was fol-
| lowed later in the day by the schooner
Albert Black. The sword fish are very
| plentiful this season and are now work
ing rapidly eastward. The two schoon ers
which sailed yesterday will proceed at
| once to the Gorges banks and thence
work down again to Cape Cod. A large
number of Portland schooners will short
ly arrive here to fit out for sword fishing.
The Good Templar which recently
arrive here from Nova SCOTIA with
Holsters for C. W. Marston & Co., will
also fit out for sword fishing and sailed
yesterday to her home port to be put in
| shape for the summers cruise.
Over forty sail of fishermen got away
yesterday forenoon.
| The only fish arrival yesterday besides
| the small sail boats, was the Robert &
Carr with one hundred barrels of
mackerel consigned to Willard. The
season has been hard one for the fisher
men as the mackerel have not been
plentiful and what catches have been
made have been small. The big drag net
boats and seiners report that the
maokerel are now working on towards
shore. What maokereI have been brought
| in are running large, and are extremely
| fine fish.
Haddock are also reported as being
very scarce this year, and yesterday there
were very few to be bought in Portland.
The fishermen say that the haddock have
| been growing less plentiful every year.
| The topsail schooner Preference, Capt.
Baxter from Arrays, Porto Rico, with 500
hogshead of molasses for George S. Hunt
& Co., arrived yesterday after q quick
passa ge of fifteen days. This makes the
third cargo of molasses which has arrived
here within thirty hours, a very unusual
occurrence nova days.
The Preference attracted lots of atten-
tion along shore yesterday. She is q
handsome vessel, painted white and
carries her square rugged topsail on the
mainmast instead of tho fore, as they are
arranged on nearly all topsail schooners
She is probably the only vessel SO rugged
in the world and presents very unusual
appearance.
| The New York Central railroad coal
barges which have been lying in the
stream for several days were towed out Of
the harbor yesterday afternoon by the
tow boat Honeybrook of New York. The
coal barge of the Reading road was also
lowed out yesterday morning. The sea
tug Carbonero dropped into Portsmouth
on her way down to Portland, picked up
Reading coal barge there, then came to
Portland with this barge as tow, hitched
on to the other coal barge here and re-
turned to New York. The captains of
the tow boats about Portland considered
| ULlS ~ tOLy pCSuiidI dS UQ6
coal barge which was at Portsmouth had
to be towed over part of the way twice.
The sea tug Ice King. arrived here
Monday night and towed the echooners
Annie E. j. Morse and Sarah Kneeland
to the Kennebec, where they will load
with ice for the South.
| The schooner George P. Davenport.
Captain Mcleod, which has been dis
charging coal at the Maine Central
wharves was towed cut into the harbor
late yesterday afternoon by the tug
Belknap, and will sail this morning for
Newport News to load for Boston.
The schooner Frank L. Stinson arrived
here yesterday from Loaisburg with coal
for the Grand Trunk. Other coal ar
rival were the schooners o. H. Brown
and Sarah W. Lawrence from PhiIadel-
phia.
The departures yesterday morning were
the schooners Susan Frinais, N. Minot,
Grand Catch, Planter. Hattie Loring,
| RelloW besides large feet of coasters