The Portland daily press., 1897-07-17
HARBoR DRIFT.
Items of All Kinds Picked Up Along
Shore.

About twenty-five children of the
Bethel Sunday school, left Custom House
wharf at nine O'Clock for a picnic at
Long island A day of unalloyed pleas
ure was what the children looked forward
to enjoying.
The Boston yacht Quissett owned and
commanded by Mr.. A. S. Pratt, took out
small party of Portland people yester-
day morning for pleasure cruise.
The Brynlys has not yet returned from
the East, and race this week is probably
out of the question.
The D. W. Clark Ice company is a
benefactor these hot days as evidenced by
the steady stream of children with baskets
in their hands who gather around the
building and pick up the waste pieces of
ice 1t doubtless brings comfort to a
number of poor people.
At Randall & McAllister's the schoon-
er A. R. Keene is discharging coal. The
George Curtis, monster Rhode Island
porgy boat coaled up here yesterday. The
Sarah G. Ropes arrived with 1000 tons of
Pocahontas coal from Norfolk, and the
steamer Tamaqua, one of the largest of
the steel ocean tow boats, which came in
for fuel.
1t is reported in steamship circles that
the old International line steamer New
Brunswick, which was purchased some
time ago by Boston junk dealer, has
been chartered by parties in Providence
for six weeks, and will leave Boston Sat-
urday for that city, where she will run
on excursions between there and Nara
gansett Pier, Newport and Block Island.
After her charter runs out she will go to
Washington and run on the Potomac.
Captain William r. Kreger of the Sarah
G. Ropes says they had very narrow
escape on their way to Portland. They
were compelled to anchor off Nantucket
shoal and with two anchors out lay head
up to the wind in Wednesdays blow The
schooner drifted some and at one time the
breakers were only about forty feet away
and it was feared that the ship and all
hands were doomed. Fortunately, how
ever, the anchors held and the vessel was
at last gotten away from her dangerous
proximity to the shore.
The electric conveyor of the Inter-
national Steamship company at Eastport
is now working satisfactorily, and Mr..
Robinson, the contractor has returned to
Portland. The apparatus is labor saver,
at low tide doing away with labor of two
men that was necessary to push the loaded
truck up the long slip There is posi-
bility that the company will put one in
r1;, Tolr
The International Steamship company
are doing quite large freighting bust
ness at Lubec. They have some 25, 900
boxes of herring in the warehouse. The
fish were cured mostly at Lubec; some
came from Cutler and other surrounding
towns. The passenger list is increasing.
The company have a neat ladies' waiting
room and office. Mr.. E. L. Ring, the
agent appointed last September, finds
plenty of business to occupy his time.
The citizens of Lubec fully appreciate the
accommodations of the steamers in their
harbor. 20
The schooner Carrie Belle, Captain
Durwin, bound from Portland for Hills
boro, N. B., put into St. John, N. B.,
yesterday for slight repairs.
Captain Campbell Of the schooner VIM.
Todd, which recently arrived at this port
with cargo of cement, has gone to his
home in Calais, on account of severe at
tack of malaria. The schooner will be
taken to Calais by Captain Atkinson.
1t is reported that 'tAllie'' O'Brien for
many years steward on the Maine Steam
ship line, of late on the Cottage City, will
go to the Frank Jones. Mr.. O'Brien is a
very faithful and popular official and has
a legion of friends among the travelling
public.
The sloop yacht Marguerite of North
Haven, was in the harbor yesterday with
Captain I. T. Leadbetter and Mr.. c. F.
Brown on board.