The Portland daily press., 1897-02-06
fiARBoR FULL OF ICE.
But There Was Very Little Movement
Among the Vessels in Port.

oub 4hcf6 WAS very AAopAo
Among the Vessels in Port.
The harbor presented most picturesque
sight yesterday. The recent heavy Diow
and high tides broke up some OF the Ice
in the docks and yesterday noon 1t hoateo
out Into the harbor on the high tldo. no
whole harbor was white with hoatlng 400
and it extended down the bay MS Tar as
the eye could reach. The small boats naa
extremely hard work to get through shls
field of Ice, but the tow boats plougheo
through 1t with little trouble.
The shedding along Commercial sereet
and on many of the wharves is not OF the
best, and the heavy teams have dlMculSy
in getting about. In order to make 0he
lives of the teamsters bearaDle IL III
necessary that another snow storm come
along and stay with us while.
The Boston boat, the steamer Por1iano
did not reach hers yesterday Until elgnt
O'Clock In the morning. few minutes
later the St. Croix steamed into the
harbor from st. John on her way 10 bcs-
ton.
The tow boat business in Portland mar
Dor is very quiet at present and tnere is
a possibility that the tug Cornel'a COM.
manded by George Matthews Will go TO
Boothbay Harbor in few days to engage
IN the towing business. At this time of
year ct Boothbay there Is considerable
business done in loading ice directly
80 + ho froG water DOHQS III
the vicinity of Boothbsy, and the Cor
nelia, if she soss down to that port for
the season, will be the only available Tow
boat for the schooners which come there
to shin ice. Should the Cnrnelia go to
Boothbay, Walter Boardman will go in
her as the engineer.
The only fish arrival yesterday was o
Gloucester schooner, the Julia e. Whalen
with 30, 600. The steamer Hermann
Reesing brought in 400 Holsters for Nc
Donald late in the afternoon.
Mr.. Hughes, the owner of the wreck OF
the Robert L Garter, has gone back to
New York and will not attempt to make
any repairs on the vessel until the
middle of March. The schooner is to be
built into coal barge.
The steamship Peruvian of the Allan
line, which sailed from this port for
Glasgow on January Is, had Eli unusual
ly rough passage, the particulars of
which have just become known here
She sailed from this port on the 18th and
carried besides her big cargo OF grain and
miscellaneous mercandise $50 head Of
cattle and $40 sheep. The cattle were in
the pens on the upper deck. AT the
height of one of the gales the sea washed
50 high that she lost overheard one hun
drea head of cattle and thirty five sheep.
The brig Fl. b. Hussey went on the
mariue railway yesterday noon. She
will be thoroughly overhauled and re-
paired.
The schooner Maggie Hurley with coal
from Perth A mboy to Portland, narrow
ly escaped being wrecked Wednesday
afternoon by the breaking up OF the ice
in New Haven harbor.
The schooner Blanche II. King is on
her way to this port from Newport News
with cargo of coal.
l. ne AsHlhS sohoohci AipOI' ~ hSiAipAA
went out yesterday morning on cruise.
The schooner Cambridge with a "carg Q
of grain for down east has been in port
two weeks. She has made several at
tempts to sail but each time has beep
obliged to put back into port Shs final
ly got out of port yesterday morning.
The crew of the average fishing schoon-
er is generally composed of representa-
| tives of several different nationalties, but
there is one fisherman in port at present,
the Bells O'Neil, every member of whose
crew first saw the light of day in the
Emerald Isle. What is still more peculiar
every one OF them is native of the same
| town in the County Cork.