The Portland daily press., 1896-01-21
HARBOR NOTES.
Captain Allen Of the Alert Arrives in
Pvrt.
SERIOUS CHARGES ABOUT OUTER
LONG ISLAND.

Says the Clothing Is Not Distributed
Among the Destitute-Other Harbor
News.
Allen, arrived in the harbor yesterday
noon. it has been some time since the
yacht was hero. Captain A lien said that
he left Portland last time. the 2sth of
December and sailed for Outer Long
island in Blue Hill bay. Since then he
has been living aboard the Alert with his
wife, riding out the gales and holding
meetings whenever possible. During that
gale on the 3lst of December, when the
Viola M, Brewer, now In port. went
ashore at Indian Harbor, the Alert rode
out the storm at Stave island harpor, She
had to lay there aweek because of ice
aud wind. She lost the fuke of an
anchor. At Outer Long island, January
7th Captain Allen distributed a quantity
of clothing received from Portland people
on his last visit there. He found the
people very destitute for clothing. Some
of them haven't bedding enough to keep
| them warm at night. because last sum-
mer they had to burn their bedding on
account of canker srash, which disease
was somewhat epidemic. Three families
are thus destitute, and have to collect
large quantities of firewood and keep a
fire all night. They can't haul wood
because of the lack of snow and have had
to carry it ON their backs for one and
one-half and two miles, There are about
$50 people on Outer Long Island
''Probably fifty of them," said Captain
Allen, ''are without sufficient winter
clothing" "You see men coming along
with pare knees showing through their
trousers and big holes in their elbows and
those are all the Clothes they have.
"There's men there who were tagged
in to their houses this past summer be-
cause of the canker rash, They couldn't
go out to fishing and they havn't suit
able boats to go fishing in at this time of
the year. That.is why they are so desti-
tute.''
.'.Flagged in" means confined to their
houses by the authorities in order to pre-
vent the spread of the canker rash.
Captain Allen said that the clothing
that he took down from Portland just
after Christmas was not sufficient for
these destitute islanders and he had come
back after more. He should stay here till
next Monday. Next Sunday Secretary
Garland will hold special meeting for
seamen in the Y. M. C. A. rooms.
Captain Allen will be present and address
the meeting.
Captain Allen also wished to have it
stated in the PRESS that he had an
other object in coming to Portland He
will state to the church people here and
especially those who gave him clothing to
take to the destitute islanders that much
of the clothing already sent and received
at Outer Long island has not been dis
t1ibuted to the destitute people. He de-
clared that parties who received it were
in the bank. They had kept it and re-
fused to distribute it where needed except
for an equivalent in labor or money. He
himself lay in the harbor for a week and
one OF the barrels of clothing that he de-
livered to certain party was not dis
tributed while he was there. He expects
to receive next Thursday or Friday
letter from Outer Long Island confirming
his charges and signed by many of the
destitute people.
Captain Greenlaw, of the little schooner
| Addie, whose wife was so suddenly and
| pitifully taken violently insane last fall
said yesterday that now she Is as rational
as ever she was She lived at the farm
at Frepeort till she got SO much better
that she insisted on accompanying her
husband in the schooner as she has done
in the past. They came up to Portland
about two weeks ago and have been
living in the Addie in the dock at Port
land Pier, as they have done for several
winters. Mrs. Greenlaw has no remem.
brance of her strange fit of violent insani-
ty. She will not believe that she was
ever unkind to her husband.
Mr.. A. T. Barrett, druggist Of Cor
ham, N. H., and William Warren. a rail.
road brakeman, also OF Gorham, were the
only passengers on the steamer Man.
haitian which arrived from New York
Sunday evening. Mr.. Barrett has been a
cripple for many years and recently sus-
tanned severe injuries by falling down
flight of stairs. One foot was hurt 40
badly that amputation was necessary.
Mr.. Warren had also Undergone aznputa-
tion of foot as the result of an accident
in the railroad yard at Gorham. The two
men went to New York ten days ago and
while there procured artificial feet.
Captain Charles A. Goud. harbor
master, says that there are some parties
along the wharyes and docks who have
been violating the statute regsrdiro tho