The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-03-30
HARBoR NEWS.
Arrival of Fishing Fleet and Other Items
of Interest.

The fishing arrivals yesterday were the
schooners Leila B. Fernald, Robert and
Carr Julietta, Mary e. Hagan, II. L.
Wyman, Moses B. Linscott, Uncle Joe, }.
S. Glover and Ira Kilborn. In all these
vessels brought in about 100, eco, while
the small boat arrivals numbered about
Is, 600.
HOLSTERS are scarce and the trade is
rather dull at present. The Armeua
Morse and Charlotte Beal brought in 100
and 1900 respectively for j. W. Trefethen
yesterday.
The towboat Cornelia is to be repaired
for the summers business. She will re-
oeive coat of paint and have two raklsh
spars put in. Der stack is also to be
raked aft.
The schooner Miranda, Captain Flynn,
has gone to Clark's to load ice for New
York.
The steamship Labrador is the next
Dominion liner due here. She will arrive
on Sunday next
Both the Scotsman and the Devona are
being rapidly loaded for their trip across.
The schooners Cox and Green and
william johnson arrived with good sized
| cargoes of ccal.
The stone sloop N. M. Hamilton has
gone into the dry dock where she will be
re-caulked, newly painted and generally
overhanled.
Sunday morning about one O'Clock as
the Ira E. KilbUrn was coming in an
outgoing schooner, supposed to have been
the George +. Keen collided with her.
The man at the wheel saw the Kilborn
in time to try to avoid contact with her,
but not in time to succeed. There Was
some tearing away Of planking on the
Kilborn and from the ripping sounds on
board the other vessel it was evident that
| she did not escape unscathed. Both
vessels kept on their course, but the Kill
born will have to be patched up some be-
fore she can go out. The collision was
caused By darkness and was the fault Of
no one in particular.
| Captain s. P. Drinkwater Of the
schooner Matte B. Russell has taken
command of the bark Grace Deering,
now loading for South America.
| The new Bath schooner Frank A.
Palmer, arrived at Louisburg Saturday.
making the run from Bath in 4S hours.
The coastwise business starts in fairly
we'll. The captains are commencing Il
get their vessels into commission and
about the middle of April the business
will be in full blast. 1t has started slow.
ly for the past four or five years, but IL
is hoped this year will show an improve.
ment.
| The tramp steamer Istria, Captain
Huglioh of the Austro-A merlcan limo,
arrived outsids Sunday evening where
she dropped anchor and came in early
yesterday morning. The Istria sailed
from Trieste to New York with cargo
of fruit, sulphur, magnesia and large
amount of general merchandise. She dis.
charged portion of her cargo at New
York and proceeded to this port with 1850
tons of sulphur consigned to Chase,
Levitt & Co. The sulphur is for the
Burgess Su1phite Fibre company of Ber-
lin, N H., and work will commence at
once unloading it from the steamer into
the cars. The I5tria has been in regular
commission between Trieste and New Or
| leans for some time and this is her first
trip to this port. Captain Huglich told
reporter that he had quite rough
passage across. but that it was no worse
than usual for this season. The captain
is fine looking Austrian, az are the
entire crew, and is very intelligent and
pleasant of manner and conversation. He
says this is the finest harbor he has yet
come into. After the Istria dis charges
she will sail for New Orleans to take a
load of cotton for return cargo.
The Partisan will be here this morn
ing. She brings one cabin, seven inter-
mediate and twenty eight steerage pas
sengers for Portland.
The State of California. new steamer,
will be aided to the Allan feet this
season, and will run between Montreal
and Liverpool in summer and probably
Liverpool and Portland during the
| winter. She will take the place of the
SarQ1Dlan on bne SG. Lawrence rOuG6,
this latter vessel now being at Glasgow
undergoing extensive repairs She is re-
ceiving new engines of triple expansion
type and new boilers. 1t is expected that
later in the season and upon her compile
tion she will take the place of the Cartha-
ginian. The State of California is about
.4500 tons and is capable of accommodate
ing 200 passengers, and 10 ia every way a
| first class steamer.
The four masted schooner Addie II.
Anderson arrived yesterday morning with
large cargo of hard pine from Savan-
| nah, Georgia.
The Allan line steamship Scandi
navian, Captain Calvert, from glasgow
direct, arrived here last evening at six
o'clock. after an uneyentful passage OF
sixteen days. She brought 900 tons OF
cargo ircluding thirty five bales of wool
consigned to New York. 1t seems that
the wool shippers are very anxious to get
their oooda into thia cnuutrv hafOra Nav