The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-05-01
ARRIVAL OF THE IONA.
And Other Items, of Interest Along
Shore.

And Other Items of Interest Along
Shore
The small boats brought in about 10,
900 pounds of fish yesterday but there nc
large fish arrivals.
Two cargoes arrived yesterday for K.
q. Pingree & Co., the new firm which
has recently leased Sturtevant's wharf.
One of the cargoes came in the Lena
Maud from Nova Scotia and another
cargo was Of white pine lumber from
Nova Scotia which was brought here by
the sob oonez Clarine.
| Another foreign arrival yesterday was
the American schooner Edward Burton
with cargo of rock plaster for Carlton
Brothers This cargo was shipped at
Hillsboro, N. S.
The brig H. ii. Wright, the only vessel
Of this rig now owned in Portland was
in here yesterday with cargo of coal.
The steamer Emita is on the marine
railway being put in condition for her
summer business on the harbor run.
One of the latest additions to the equip
meut of the Casoo Bay lines waiting
rooms on Custom House wharf is wind
mill which will be used In the pumping
of water for use in the building. This
company now has superb rooms for the
| patrons of its harbor steamers.
The steamship Iona arrived here yestey-
day after a long and hard passage. This
vessel was delayed by five days of bad
weather, three days her machinery was
stock still while repairs we're made on q
broken shaft and to cap the climax tne
ship encountered some of those terrible
fogs which held the Iona up for about
| three days more. Taking it all in all it
was most disagreeable passage but al
though greatly delayed the Iona is now
at her dock and Is prepared to take on
board the last cargo of the season from
Portland.
This cargo will consist Of 100. 900
bushels of grain, 40 horses and over 400
cattle, together with q large amount of
package freight. 1t was TO- 80 yesterday
forenoon when the Iona was docked and
at twenty minutes to two O'Clock in the
afternoon she was taking in grain, which
is very quick work. The manager of the
Thomson line to which the Iona belongs
is hoping to get his vessel out of Port
land by Sunday night and things viii be
pushed on the loading of the big oargS
carrier as they never have before.
At the same time TINT the Iona was be-
ing loaded with grain yesterday the
Laurentian was also taking In the
balance Of her grain cargo and SO for the
first time this season there was an oppor-
tunity of seeing the big carrying belts in
the galleries at work. Everything ran
as smoothly as could be asked for and the
golden grain was poured into the hold
OF the big ships faster than the trimmers
could care for it. In fifteen minutes the,
Laurentian had been given 5000 bushels
and her cargo was completed. Had she
been loading at the old elevator 1t would
have taken three-quarters Of an hour to
load 5000 bushels.
The Portland pier will hardly DO reoog-
nizable when the extensive repairs now
in progress are completed. A new hard
pine side Talk has been laid for about
fifty feet; the Harpswell Steamboat COM
pany's waiting room has been enlarged
aud remodelled and put in FIRST class
shape to accommodate the traffic of the
summer.
A new slip has been built for the
Merryconeag and the freight shed at the
end of the wharf adapted for the steamers
USE
A new window is being built ON the
southeast corner of the barge office and
several needed improvements will be
made.
The Peoples Ferry waiting room has
been entirely renovated. Fresh coats of
shellac and varnish put on and the
crowds that wait here in the summer
will find clean oommodious quarters.
The steamer Sebasoodegan of the Harp
swell fine will leave Portland pier next
Sunday if pleasant, at 10 a. IN. s.and. 2 p. IN.
for Long Island. Chebsague and
Harpswell at and $50 p. IN. The usual
excursion fare will be charged for the
round trip. This will be the Il rst of the
regular Sunday trips to Harpswell.
The schooner Forester is unloaded
big cargo of edgings at Portland pier.
The masts for the new steamer Lincoln
now being built at Bath, are COMP leted.
They are OF Oregon Fine, So feet in
length.
The Hermann Reesing brought in a
cargo of 300 Holsters yesterday for N. F.
Trafethan