The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-03-18
OF INTEREST LONG SHORE.
Items of All Kinds Picked Up About
the WharYes.

the WharYes.
What the Fleet in the Harbor is Doing
Movements of Vessels and Minor Ac-
cidents Observation-Disclosures Machinery
To Be Shortly Tested.
The tug Belknap towed to sea the
schooner Oliver PaoKham from Horse
island yesterday. The vessel is loaded
with ice for New York.
The brig Henry B. Cleaves which has
been laying here about two months has
been chartered for a general cargo to
Cape Verde islands. She will load at
Boston,
The schooner Loring g. Ballard with
ice from Boothbay to New York has put
in to repair broken gait and torn fore
sail.
The Merrycoueag arrived Tuesday
afternoon and sailed yesterday morning
She brought large cargo among which
was $50 barrels of CLAIMS consigned most
~ to New York. Recently she broke one
Of the blades of her propeller and in
new wheel put on. Being unable tc
get on the railway at once the captain of
the Merryooneag decided to beach his
vessel and see il he couldn't make good
the loss of propeller blade In some way.
When the vessel was on the beach the
captain broke off the propeller blade OPP
posite the one that had already been
broken and with only two inns to the
wheel the Merryconeag is now being run.
1t makes her rather slow, but the expedi-
emit will answer until a new wheel can be
putin her.
Last Tuesday afternoon white object
came slowly drifting in past Bug light.
At first it appeared to be floating ice,
berg, but on nearer approach it proved to
be schooner encased in ice from stem.
to stern. When the schooner arrived at
Custom House wharf it was found to be
the Mariner of Gloucester. The stories
told by the captain and crew of their
terrible voyage was fully corloborated by
the general appearance Of she craft. Her
rigging was simply mass of ice and the
deck was covered with ice to depth of q
foot in some places. The Mariner has
been on a trip to Georges and in one way
has had successful voyage as there is
slowed away in her hold about 100. 600
pounds of cod and haddock. Yesterday
afternoon the schooner was discharging
her fish at the end of Commercial wharf.
The tide was lower than it has been for
a long time, and the deep keeled vessel
listed SO badly to port that her topmasts
fouled the rigging of the schooner Mary
E. Morse which was discharging coal at
A. R. Wri2ht's across the dock. Under
the greatest of difficulties the big cargo
was finally discharged.
The Lydia will take out 10, 600 bushels
of grain out of their port when she final
ly sails. This will be- the largest grain
cargo taken out of Portland this season
but does not equal by $4,000 the cargo
taekn out by the Scotsman on her last
trip IN here last winter.
Yesterday afternoon seven boats were
engaged in scallop fishing off Little
Diamond island. This shell fish Is found
In large quantities along these shores.
Workmen were engaged yesterday in
painting the haste of Spring Point Ledge
light. The color is black, though the
upper part of the light will probably be
painted some other color. The light
house is to be taken formal possession OF
by the government on April irst
The schooner Sarah e. Palmer is now
on her way here with cargo of coal
from Louisburg. The schooner Mary
e. Fl. Dow has also gone to Louisburg
to load with coal for Portland.
Already there have arrived sixteen car
loads of cattle at the East Deering stock
yards and twenty car loads more are on
their way here. These cattle are for ship
ment by the Lycia and Iona.
The Vancouver will carry out portion
of the fourteen Car loads of horses which
are on their way here and the Iona and
the Lydia will carry out the remainder.
A man named Skinner wb lie at work
with a treenail machine at the shipyarl
of the Portland Shipbuilding company
and had his arm badly twisted and in
jursd.