The Portland daily press., 1897-04-02
HARBoR DRIFT.
Items of All Kinds Picked Up Along
Shore.

The only fish arrivals yesterday were
the Uncle Joe with IL. 1000 and the
Monticello with 1000. =s
The tug Carbonero came in yesterday
and began the work Of pumping out the
wreck Of the Robert I. Carter. An
attempt was to have been made last even
ing to pull this vessel off the flats
into deep water.
The following arrivals for the month
of March is reported: One.hundred and
two steamers, $50 schooners, barks and
number of large coal barges. This does
not include many small coasters.
The four masted schooner Sarah B.
Palmer sailed for coal port yesterday
morning.
Capt. Moore who formerly commanded
the Allan liner Monaghan. will oom-
mand the steamship State of california,
which formerly ran In the New. Y ork ser
vice but which viii be on the St. Law
renee route this summer.
The handsome Dominion liner Scots
man, Capt. E. Maddox, sailed from this
port for the last time this season at
O'Clock yesterday afternoon. On account
of her size and the outgoing tide the
she deyelopes a speed of II ID knots
She is fitted with bilge keels to prevent
rolling, and has already made . reputa-
tion among cattle Eshippers az being one
of the stead1est ships afloat.
Her engines are inverted triple expan-
sion with service condensers and were
built by Dunsmuir and jackson Of Glas-
Cow. She can carry 800 tons of water
ballast.
There are six large matches and eight
| powerful steam winches of the newest
pattern. One Of the special features that
was admired BY the visitors yesterday af-
ternooa was the Devona's aooommoda-
tions for carrying live stock. Her oapaci-
ty upon three decks Is about $50 head and
the mum Der to be taken today upon two
decks is 214 horses and 400 head Of cattle.
Her iron decks are covered with two and
one half inohss wood oaulked and pitched
with angle irons running fore and aft
to secure the wooden casing and to pre-
vent any moisture from reaching the
original deck thus keeping..it free from
rust and entailing cleanliness and eoono-
my in reconstruction for succeeding voy-
ages.
Upright stanchiops are made Of angle
iron so fitted as to be portable and easily
put away between the beams when the
middle deck Is required for cargo.
The great draw back to cattle carrying
in the steamship business has been the
great and continued expense for fitting.
and 1t was With view Of reducing this
drawback that these structures were
planned by Messrs. Thomson 8 Sons
manager MIR. Stewart Of Dundee.
Tho top decks covered In, roof and sides
with tongued and grooved wood making
comparatively water tight compart-
ment for the cattle, q very necessary
thing in taking live stock across the At
Portable doors are put at each batch.
so that upon arrival at the port OF desti-
nation the work of discharaing can be
begun at once Without the removal of
| stalls and the consequent breakaRe. Up
ON all the Thomson line steamers good,
comfortable quarters are provided for the
cattlemen in charge, and NO effort Is
spared to make their life what It should
be.
Fresh water is always carried In album
dance a matter which all shippers appre-
ciate.
The Devona takes out today 1000
bushels of grain, the largest amount oar
riel from this port this winter up to date
This vessel will sail sometime today.
John Murray, 1.-The well-known horseman
of this city, will take across % horses
| in the Devona and sell them in Eng.
land.