The Portland daily press., 1897-05-13
HARBoR DRIFT.
Various Items of Interest Picked up Along
the Wharves.

iious AtemS OF interest Picked up Along
the Wharves.
yesterday was very unattractive on the
water front. There was either pouring
rain or thick mist through which one
could not see a hand S length.
The John Englis arrived at 2 p. m.
Among the passengers were three China
men; two adults and little boy wearing
one of the latest wide collar turtle sweat
ers.
A fire pump is being placed in the tug
G. A. Dickey, Capt. Nat Haskell.
The foreign bark Mabel I. Myers ar
rived this morning in ballast from Barba-
does
The tWo-masted schooner Emma, is on
the Marine railway. She is being fitted
out for mackerel cruise and will sail in
few days in charge of Capt. Asom
Rackliff.
The Sebascodegan made an extra trip to
Harpswell yesterday morning Immediate
ly after her arrival from her regular trip.
Central railroad barge of New Jersey,
No IL, brought in a large cargo of coal.
The schooner Good Templar arrived
with 6O6O Holsters and the Judith Ann
with 5000.
1t is said that the John Englis will,
during the summer run direct from New
York to Portland without touching at
Cottage City land it is safe to predict that
she will make the trip in 20 hours or
better. She will, it is said, arrive in
Portland in time to connect with the
noon trains running east on the Maine
Central.
1t may not be generally known that
within short time 5000 barrels of sugar
have been landed in this city and every
barrel is in storage here. Prior to this
shipment there were three thousand bar
rels shipped here and they are in storage.
The alleged sugar trust is supposed to be
interested in this deal.
Contracts have been made whereby
vessels engaged in the coastwise trade
will take grain at the new elevator They
take from five to ten thousand bushels of
grain on each "Trip.
There will be an immense amount of
grain brought to this city during the
summer months, and necessarily it must
be stored in the eleva tor. From Port
Huron much of the grain destined for
European ports is shipped via the Grand
Trunk to Portland, to be distributed
from this port.
Naturally Portland stands in competit-
ion with Boston as an impo rtant eastern
shipping point, but since the elevator has
been in operation, Portland is making a
bid for her share of the patronage.
The grain business has been developed
gradually during the past two or three
years and has been gradually increasing
until now it has reached proportion
that will undoubtedly keep the big eleva-
tor in operation during the greater part
of the coming summer. At present there
is a large amount of grain from the inte-
rior destined for the lower provinces of
Canada that is now being shipped from
Boston and Canada. Eventually Port
land will handle these shipments and
they will be handled better and quicker
than before. Portland has the advan-
tage of being nearer to the provincial
ports than in Boston or New York. :
Three four masters with coal were in
| the harbor yesterday, the Mary Manner
ing, Charles P. hoffman and Maria O..
Teel.
The Mary E. Hoagan arrived with a
| cargo of fish.
The schooner Mary Ellen arrived from
Saco light to load lumber for New York.
The State of Maine arrived at a. M,
and left at 7.45 a. m.
| The fremont goes on in the Bay
| States place on the Boston route.
The ship J. B. Walker of Thomaston
was placed in Simpsons dry dock at
Boston, at high water, Tuesday morning,
| to be stripped, calked and newly cop
pered, preparatory to proceeding to New
York, to load case oil for Yokohama.
| Owing to the blocks not being properly
set or insufficient water in the dock,
nearly all the shores on the starboard side
holding the ship in position, gave way,
and the vessel keeled over in the dock.
While it it thought that no serious dam
age to the vessel will result, she may be
strained, and it was necessary to float her
out of the dock at high water last night,
when the dock was reblocked, and she
went in again this morning, to have
the work done 1t is said the ship had
quite list to starboard when she went
into the dock and this may account for
the accident.