The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-04-08
AROUND THE DOCKS.
Gossip Which May Be Interest," &c Gath
cred in Many Places.

Gossip Which May Be Interest," ig Gath
cred in Many Places.
sHThe schooner Lucy A. Davis was towed
to Wiscasset yesterday and will load
with ice theirs. She will return to Port
land later and load general cargo for
Demerara.
The new elevator has been ready for
two weeks to receive grain and orders
from the general manager of the Grand
Trunk is the only thing necessary now
as the cars are all waiting on the tracks.
Everything has been thoroughly cleaned
up and the machinery works perfectly.
1t is understood that Mr.. A. J. Davis
of the old grain elevator, is to have
charge of the new building.
The British brig Moss Glen has COM
pleted discharging molasses at Union
wharf.
The schooner Pearline is due here with
large cargo of molastes from Huma-
Goa.
One Of the eastern packets carried b000
laths to Jonesporr from this port yester-
day. Jonesport is right in the heart OF
the lumber region and shipping laths
from Portland to this place is almost
like carrying GOAL to Newcastle or. WOOD
nutmegs to Connecticut.
A fisherman, sublimely unconscious
of where he was going, walked or the
edge Of Portland pier yesterday and took
a plunge bath in the dock. The man
was hauled out little the worse Tor
water, after some difficulty.
On the 18th Of the month the Merri-
ooneag will make three trips a week
from this port to Rookland.
The schooner Matthew Vassar, Jr.,
which has besn lying at the Berlin Mills
company's wharf, has been sold to a
man named Souls and she sailed yester-
day for an eastern port.
The Elder Dempster steamship Mem
non, Capt. ]. N. Bales, arrived from
Bristol at Q O'Clock yesterday forenoon.
She brought in fair-sized cargo OF gen.
eral merchandise billed through to
provincial points. The only local con-
signments was 1913 casks of china clay
to order. She also had 10 returning cat
tlemen. Capt. Bales reports very severe
passage. The Memnon sailed from Bristol
on March % at p. M, and encountered
heavy southwest and westerly gales I'M
til the 9th with boisterous seas. From
March % to 20 she fought her way
AGAINST strong winds from the south and
east. and from then until April 2,
strong westerly gales.
On April 2. In lat. Al. 40 north and
long. so. 40 west, monster iceburg over
500 feet long was passed.
All the way from Cape Sable to this
port east and southeast winds prevailed
accompanied most of the time by dense
fog.
She will discharge at once and take on
large cargo for her return passage.
The steamship Iona sails from Leith
for this port on the 10th. She will DC
the last Thomson liner to come here.
The Keldona OF the Thomson line Ii
expected to arrive here on Sunday. She
has cargo of GAS tons of coal.
| The steamship Captain of the Allan line
which is to come to Portland for freight
will stop at st. John, N. B., on her way
here to discharge cargo. The drant
Trunk officials have every reason to looh
back upon the season now drawing tt
close with commendable pride. The
roads Portland freight business has beer
the largest in It's history. Under thu
new management the freight for the wes1
received from New York by the New
York steamers has increased many pei
cent and especially since the commodioul
steamer John Englls was added to thu
| Portland and New York line
Capt. George Crockett OF the coastinl
schooner Emma W. Day. which carrier
grain between Portland, Boston and Win
terport, is one of the Oldest mariner
that comes into Portland. 1t Is claimed
that he has made 487 trips along thu
coast from Winterport to Boston. Th'
Day is very fast sailer.
| Work is to be rushed on the govern
ment contracts at Great Diamond Island
The sloop Belle is now on her way her
from Hurricane island with load O
stone
Can't. Kimball of the Life Saving ser
vice, will soon submit plans and adver
tise for bids for new life saving sta
ton at Damariscove, near Damariscotta
Model of Old Tower On the Hill.