The Portland daily press., 1897-11-29
HARgoR NOTES.
Arrival of the Partisan Yesterday After
noon.


the breakwater Before $50 p. m. she
was locked. As soon as her guns were
heard it was astonishing with what swift
ness an immense crowd collected at the
Grand Trunk wharves. They came on
loot, in teams and on eIectrics. There
must have been d coed thousand men,
women and children, all in Sunday at
tire, gathered, and it was very orderly,
well behaved crowd.
Ire Partisan, Capt. Barrett. left. Liver
pool. November 18th, and Neville, the
18th. She arrived at Halifax the morn
ing of the 27th, after an excellent passage
of eight days. AS rule the weather
was good, although some strong Wester-
ly winds were encountered. Among her
Passengers was q detachment OF ~Cu ma
rines and sailors Of the Royal navy, I'M
der their officers, bound to Bermuda, to
re ieve the crew of H. B. NJ. ship Ram
bier, and the men upon arrival OF the
Partisan were at once transferred to the
steamer that WAS TO take them to Ser
muda The ship had eight saloon and "A
storage passengers. OF this number
there were Ii Storage besides seyeral of
the saloon passengers for this port. The
destination of the II WAS two for Boston;
one, Hamilton; one, Berlin Falls; one,
San Angelo. Texas two, Manouie, Wis;
one, Webster, S D.; one, Euid, Okla.
Besides the United States and Dominion
inspectors there were present Assistant
General Baggage Master Hay of the
Grand Trunk, who looked after the bag
gage of the travellers to see it was cor
rectly checked through after inspection,
and Mr. j. C. Lund, who looked after
the ticI cts, and who is master of seven
languages. Acting immigration officer
w. F. Tobie examined the passengers,
while Hon. W. H. Anderson, surveyor
of the port, looked on.
Among the saloon passengers was Mr..
John Porteous, so long Grand Trunk
agent at Portland, who was warmly well
coined by many friends.
The Partisan brought about 1900 tons
of cargo. About $50 tons of China clay
was consigned to Morey at this port
1t is very uncommon to see five square
rugged vessels in port at one time but
there are, at present, two barkentines, two
barks and a brig loading at the upper
Commercial street wharyes. The Galatea
is an English vessel OF l,180 tons and is
loading lumber for South America. The
Normandy has been taking out ballast
and getting ready.to load. The Il. H..
Wright is loading and the Harriet S.
jackson and Nineveh are putting cooper
age aboard for the West Indies. This
makes quite an array of square Triggers.
The storm of Friday was a severe one
and one that prevented many steamers
and sailing vessels from making their
regular and intended voyages. Saturday
ming outside and some of the small boats
that started out after fish deemed it
prudent to put back into port.
The officers of the International line
steamer St. Croix report that they have
never exerienced tougher passage from
St. John to Portland than Fridays.
Even the engineers were seasick and the
passengers had far from an enjoyable
time
The Sadie Corey, has been hauled up at
Sturtivant's wharf for the winter. She
has been stripped of her sails and rigging
and everything made snug.
The steamer Reading is discharging
coal at A. r. Wright's.
Mr.. w. A. Wainwright of the Allan
line arrived here Saturday and opened the
Allan line office for the winter Mr.. W.
II. Robinson the agent of the line is ex-
pected to arrive in Portland today for the
winter. The erks of the Elder-D emp-
ster line leave Montreal Tuesday night for
Portland for the season.
A large number of passengers for the
Vancouver arrived Saturday morning
over the Grand Trunk road from Canada
Their baggage came through from Island
Pond in bond. A good many Of them are
going to their old homes for the holidays,
taking advantage of the special rates now
offered 1t was demonstrated that some
kind of quarters ought to be provided for
both incoming and outgoing passengers
1t is not very agreeable for them to wait
round in the rain and cold freight sheds.
The Vancouver of the Dominion line,
the first English steamship to sail from
Portland this season fired her farewell sa-
Lutte about half pasttwelve O'Clock Satur-
day night and headed out of the harbor.
loaded down with one of the largest cargoes
she has ever carried. She took with her
1875 passengers of which number fourteen
were saloon, twenty-five intermediate and
ninety Storage. Many of these passen-
gers have been accustomed for several
years past to sail on a Dominion steam
ship for the old country where they pass
the Christmas holidays with their friends
returning here soon after January first.
Nearly all of the passengers come from
Canada although there were many people
from the western part of this country on
board.
Among other articles in the cargo the
Vancouver were "a 1913 bushels Of wheat,
8,O97 bushels of peas, 1926 barrels of
Canadian apples. 1856 barrels of American
apples. 5,00) cases of eggs, /, 800 sacks of
-four, /. 800 sacks of oil cake, ten cars of