The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-01-25
HARBoR NOTES.

Sunday was bright, clear and cold on
the water front.
The new elevator makes rapid progress
and the men were working lively yes
| terday.
There was a large crowd of people
down at the Grand Trunk wharves yes
terday watching the work on the eleya-
tor and the arrival of the steamer.
| Among the arrivals yesterday were the
schooner Chester r. Lawrence with
coal, the Arthur Binney with fish, the
| Eva and Mildred, fish, and the harken-
tine II. Hamlen from Boston, light, to
load for Guadaloupe
The tug Peter B. Bradley arrived yes
terday and also the schooner Jauies A.
Webster, light laden, and the Leona,
with phosphate.
The barkentine j. Fl. Hamlen towea
here from Boston Saturday and will go
on the marine railway.
The Grace Davis was hauled up on the
marine railway Saturday and her bottom
1 examined. In one place her planks mad
i been scraped to an inch thickness, but
she was not otherwise much damaged.
/ The George b. Kean, Eva and Mildred
and Arthur Benney. brought in 10, 0oO
fish each Saturday.
The schooner q. J. willard, Capt. York,
has been cleared for Fajordo, Porto
Rico, by Fred -. Allen & Co. Her cargo
| is as follows: Five hundred sugar shd.
shocks and heads, 996 molasses hid.
shocks and heads, 854 molasses punch1on
shocks and heads, 80 nolasses shocks and
heads, 200 prs. hid. heads. 10, 600 shingles,
10, 600 12-foot hoops, 10000 14-foot hoops,
1 bolt duck, bbls. pitch, do tar, IL
oars, pee. lumber, anchor and chain,
275 pkgs. mdse., 26, S25 feet boards.
| The Allan liner State Of Nebraska,
Brown, sailed from Liverpool for this port
January %. She has taken the place
of the Laurentian.
| The schooner Annie G. Hail. Capt.
Douglass Mclean, of this port. arrived
at Boston Thursday morning with her
flag at half-mast in memory Of Gustavus
ZENITH, who was drowned on the trip.
At II O'Clock on the night OF January II.
Kenth was on deck. He went to the lee
rail, when he was struck by sea and
went overheard. He was native Of
Prince Howard Island, about 20 years Of
age and unmarried.
| AS the schooner City Of Augusta was
being towed from Portland pier, where
she had been discharging coal, by the
| tug Sampson, Saturday morning. the
tide carried her in toward the wharf and
her flying jibboom struck the side Of
the United States barge office. The
| force of the blow smashed the window
and frame several inches out of posit-
| ion. The vessel recoi1ed from the wharf
and thus saved the side of the Office.
The barge Office crew have had two mar
row escapes this week. They have lost
the chimney off their building and now
came near losing part of the building
itself.
The schooner s. P. Black burn, Ross,
is on her way to this port from Norfolk
with a cargo of coal She is expected
to arrive this afternoon or this eve
i ming.
The steamer Williamsport is on her
way here from Philadelphia, having in
tow the barge Ellen Gowan with cargo
of coal.
Several Ruthless trials have been made
to float the schooner G. B. Paine, before
reported ashore near Eastport, and she
will probably be total loss. Part Of
her cargo together with sails and rigging
have been saved by lighters and the
schooner will be sold by auction as she
now lies.
The Portland bark Grace Deering has
been chartered to carry general cargo
from New York to New Zealand and re-
turn.
The schooner Albert Z. Butler is load
ing a cargo of lumber at Jacksonville,
Fla., for this port.
The four masters John Twohy, s. r.
Blackburn and Massassois, and the three
masters Georgia and VIM. M. Bird arrived
4 yesterday with COAL
The schooner Charles A. Campbell
sailed Saturday, and the schooner @. j.
Willard for Porto Rico, with cooperage.
the J. G.. Wltherel to Gencovs, L. l.,
with empty barrels, and the Alicia G.
Crosby, Capt. Bunker. for Baltimore.
The Vancouver of thu Dominion line,
arrived at Halifax at 7.30 a. m. yester-
day and will be in this port this morn
ing. She brings one saloon, two inter
mediate and IL steerage passengers, and
1900 tons freighs of which there Il
one box of tiles for II. W. Bryant, and
Ie5o casks Of china clay consigned to
Barring Sc Go.
The steamer Iona of the Thompson
line arrived about 4.S0 p. m. yesterday
from Leith, Scotland, the 18th inst.
She was Light or she would have been
in two days earlier She had good pas
sage. She went at once to the elevator
and began to take In $4,000 bushels Of
, grain.
Jeremiah Wilkin son.
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