The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-01-07
Tire Republican Journal Thursday Morning. January T. 1897

| trips with fresh fish until he was accident
ly drowned, Oct 10Th. There was larg-
er number Of arrivals than usual OF small
| fishing craft, but their cargoes were light.
| The number of salmon taken IN the bay
was not as large as usual.
The fresh water fishing is improving
from year to year, owing to the work OF
the Waldo County Fish Protective Asso-
citation. Swan Lake in Swanville, Little
River between Belfast and Ncrthport, AND
Georges Pond in Liberty, have each re-
ceived supplies of young fish from the U.
S. Fisheries Department.
The Belfast Gun Club held series OF
sixteen cup shoots during the season. The
cup was won by Charles r. Coombs, who
made As points.
A number of our sportsmen went into
the northern Maine woods for big game,
and brought home fine specimens of deer.
Woodcock and partridge shooting was
fair and some of the hunters made excel
lent records Charles R. Coombs and two
friends from Rockland bagged rs birds in
4 days.
THE YACHTING SEASON.
Almost continuous bad weather during
the months when yachting is in order
made the season a poor one. Three new
yachts were added to the local fleet, all
sloops-the Glide, SO feet over all, built
for W. B. Decrow, the Katherine, % feet
over all, built by S. B. Holt, and one of the
same length built by l. w. Parker. The
two first were of the Defender model, and
Mr.. Parker built from lines given in The
Rudder, yachting magazine published
in New York These were the first at
tempts here at modern designs and all were
successful. The Glide easily established
her supremacy, and Mr.. Parker has a very
fast and very comfortable boat. o. X.
Webster is building one from the same
lines, but four feet longer, and this is the
only craft now under construction. There
were no races during the season. The
Edna was given new top with increased
free board and the Alice B. had a new
mast and larger mainsail. Among the
visiting yachts were the sIoops Sasin. Capt.
Isaac Dunbar, and the Ralph, Capt J. f..
Robinson, both of Ninalhaven. A num-
Der of Boston yachts, steam and sail, call
ed here.
THE WEATHER..
This universal subject furnished unusu-
al material for conversation and news
paper articles the past year This vicini-
ty was visited by three heavy rains, the
first OF which, on March list, caused The
most disastrous flood ever known here
Eight bridges in Belfast were either Who'll
ly or partially carried away, including a
large section of the lower bridge, and
nearly all of the upper bridge, across the
harbor. The Citypoint and Quincy BRIDGES
the Quincy mill, and some of the smaller
bridges farther up the stream, were carried
away. A few weeks later it was found
that the White bridge was damaged, and
one OF its abutments gave way. The high
bridge on the Head of the Tide road was
50 weakened that it was necessary to re-
build portions of the stone work.
The second heavy rain was Aug. 9th, the
rainfall being 3. A inches inside of 3 hours
the largest days rainfall ever recorded
here up to that time. There was some
thunder and lightning, though the heavi-
est part of the shower passed over the
towns west of Belfast. The damage to the
highways was over $500.
Sept. 9th occurred another storm, the
rainfall exceeding that of the previous
storm, being 5.61 for the day. The house
of P. G. Hunt was struck by lightning
and badly damaged. The Downes bridge
near Quincy mills was carried away and a
good deal of damage done to the highways
everywhere.
Other storms which were very severe
along the coast did little or no damage
here.
The usual cold and hot waves came at
the proper seasons. The mercury reached
160 below zero Jan. 9th and Feb. 18th.
April 18th was hot day for the season,
the average being 57'. May 10th, the
average was ~; July II, S0.33. The
first snow of the winter of '96 was Nov.
21st, but it lasted only a few days. The
ground has since been bare. The first
zero weather was Dec. Sd.
Mr. l.. NJ. Murch's record shows as
follows for the year.