The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-03-31
HARBOR DRIFT.
Items Of All Kinds Picked Up Along
Shore.

The schooner Golden Ball arrived with
cargo of hard pine yesterday.
Inc Emma Jane and George W. Pierce
each brought in fair catches yesterday.
Ihe schooner Nellie Burns which has
been thoroughly overhauled is all ready
to sail on trip to Nova Scotia for bait.
q When the new elevator is put in opera
ion it will greatly relieve the Grand
Trunk rolling stock, by freeing some
thing over thousand grain cars, which
are almost constantly waiting along tbs
line because the grain cannot be taken
care Of fast enough in Portland. The
new elevator has capacity of l. $50, 900
bushels. This is sufficient to load six or
seven steamers entirely with grain.
There were six steamers in port yester
day.
The passage of the schooner Mary E.
H. Dow, on her recent trip from the
mouth of the Kennebeo river to Louis
burg, Cape Breton, was several hours
quicker than was at first reported. The
| voyage was madein A 10 hours, the best
record ever made.
| TIE bark harriet S. jackson from
Pernambuoo reports a very severe passage
and encountered very severe gale while
off Cape Hatteras, during which her
main rigging was parted, some of her
| chain plates were loosened and she also
sustained considerable minor damages,
but not enough to delay her to any ex
| tent.
| The ice buoy placed off Spring Point
ledge to make the Fairway, has been re-
placed by first class can buoy for the
| summer season.
The schooner City of Augusta is at
Clark S ice house taking on o cargo for q
southern port. She will return with q
cargo of coal.
The schnoners Lucy A. Davis and
Miranda are undergoing extensive repairs
at Sturtevant's wharf.
There is one crew of fishermen that
have no reason for deploring the hard
times. The Gloucester schooner Mamie
q. Bohlin, Captain Thomas, is the lucky
craft and is probably high line for
the season. Previous to the last trip the
schooner had good luck but the latest
trip took the prize. The schooner was out
only fifteen days on a halibut trip and
during that time she stocked S216O, the
crew sharing $68. so.
| At the Grand Trunk stock yards about
twenty eight cars of stock are now walt
Ing to be loaded on the vessels in port.
nh VI
with ice and large general cargo sailed
yesterday morning for Demerara.
The oil steamer Maverick sailed yester-
day.
| Yesterday morning the two-maated
schooner Henry Chase brought the first
cargo Of Maohias bay gravel, and it was
rapidly unloaded. The travelling of the
new elevator roof commenced at once.
The inside of the elevator has been
thoroughly cleaned and put In readiness
for receiving it's first grain which will
| probably be today. Oars are now stand
ing on the tracks all loaded and awaiting
| the word to roll into the elevator to the
disoharging shovels.
The captain of the schooner Charlotte
Beal hauled her in on to the blocks at
Custom House wharf yesterday. He left
the vessel longer than he intended to and
when the tide went out she rolled over
on her beam ends, strained her 80 that
she leaks quite badly and has now gone
TO the marine railway for repairs.
The Thomson liner Corona, Captain
Baxter, arrived yesterday afternoon
shortly at about four o'clock. She sailed
from Newcastle March IS, making a
fourteen days passage. The trip was
pleasant and uneventful.
The coastwise schooner Mopang arrived
yesterday noon and the schooner. Eldorado
sailed from Widgery's wharf to the east
with general cargo.
The small boats brought In between
90, 600 and $4,000 pounds of fresh fish
yesterday.
| Arrival of the ParisiaD.
] eSteamer Partisan arrived yesterday
with 100 tons of freight. She reports a
fine passage. She brought cabin passen-
gers, 7 intermediate and 81 steerage pas
| sengers.
The Storage passengers were all well
supplied with money with the exception
of Russian named Samuel Belzman,
whose assets amounted to one dollar
and fifty cents. He wanted to go to New
York, declaring that he had relatives
there who would look after him. The in
/ spector of immigration, however. held
Belzman pending investigation as to the
realty of his metropolitan relatives.
/ Capt. Barrett reports having seen a
steamer, thought to be the Anchor liner
Anchoria, hound for New York, heading
straight for the ice that was met with,