The Portland daily press., 1897-02-18
GLUT In MARKET.
Fish Are Selling at Very Low Prices
NOWo


With Their Cargoes-Merryconeag
Initial Trip to Portland-Other Notes.
There seems to be great glut In the
fish market at present, and few Usher
men have been able to dispose OF their
catches here at large prices, ii they
have been able to sell at all.
tuesday 20 schooners sailed into Bos-
ton and were able there to secure only
60 cents hundred weight. The schoon-
ers then sailed for Gloucest er and were
obliged to salt down atilast.
Yesterday the Elsie Smith with 10000
pounds, arrived here from Georges. The
skipper was offered 40 cents hundred
for his catch, but refused to sell and
sailed for Gloucester in hopes OF getting
better prices there.
The schooner Marsalo arrived with
1000 pounds of salt and 500 pounds OF
fresh fish. The captain was unable to
sell and win split andSsalt down his
fresh fab here. WhileY Oh the banks a
white pigeon few on board the Marsalo
and the captain now has the bird in his
possession. .ssE
The other fish arrival yesterday was
the Emma Withersll with4o,ooo pounds.
The steamship Memnon loaded it's live
stock last night and will sail early this
morning.
4 The crew of the steamer Powhattan Is
made up entirely of Sicillians, hardly
word Of English being spoken by any OF
them. The captain of the steamer says
they are sober and industrious and
make good crew. Each man receives
three pounds, ten shillings month and
bis board, which is very good pay.
amounting to about ST. per month.
The bark James Il. Hamlin and the
schooner Mary E. Morse are now ready
for sea and will sail very soon for the
south.
The steamship. Powhattan, model
tramp freight, boat, arrived here yester-
day with 1850 tons Of birthstone. She is
commanded by Capt. Harnden, ana
brought the birthstone from Girgenti by
way of Boston. The cargo is consigned
to John Munroe & Co. of Berlin Falls,
and will be used in the manufacture
of pulp.
The Merryconeag arrived yesterday
morning fron Boothbay harbor. She
sailed on her first return trip to Rock
land yesterday afternoon. At the request
of Capt. Bachelor. Capt. ]. L. Lorg
piloted her down on her first trip
through the inside passage. The Merry
coneag brought here 300 barrels and
boxes for the Boston boat, and on her
trip out OF Portland took out good load
of freight.
Crews have been signed and are
shipped yesterday for the Mary e. Morse,
bound for New York, where she will
take ice; the BeDjaimn f. Pool, for a
coal port and return, the James Fl. Ham,
lin for the West Indies, and the schooner
Grace Davis, also for the West Indies.
A Grew has also been signed for the
brig Jennie. hubert. bound to Fernan-
dina, where she will load hard pine.
At exactly 10 O'Clock yesterday fore
noon the Allan liner Monaghan, Capt.
Robert P. Moore, made fast to the big
posts of her wharf. 1t takes many hands
to dock big ocean steamer; many cries
of "slack away there, - 'scarry that port
bow lire along another course" and
many hoarse voiced commands from gilt
braided officers. The wharf was crowd
ed with interested onlookers and steve
dores waiting for the matches to be un-
,vttopod Topf Mooro roporkc q 10 dava,
passage. He left Liverpool Friday, Feb-
urary 8. The Monaghan had fine weather
to 40 degrees west longitude. After
that there was a succession of strong
westerly gales. Capt. Moore says he saw
no signs of ice which is unusual for this
at p. N. Monday and left there at
IA. M. Tuesdays From then until 10
o'clock Tuesday evening they were in
heavy snow storms. The Monaghan had
a light cargo of between 100 and 1900
tons consigned chiefly to Canada and the
West. The only local consignments
were 200 cases of china clay and 80 cases
of oranges.
There were three saloon, II intermedi-
ate and steeIage passengers and;14 re-
turning .oattlemen.
The Anna E. Morse has been chartered
to load ice at the Consolidate Ice Com
pany, for New York.
The Allan liner, Peruvian, Capt. G. Il.
Calvert. reached her dock in binding
snow storm about noon yesterday. The
Peruvian had fairly pleasant passage,
leaving Glasgow at midday OF Febru-
airy 8. She encountered hard gales dur
ing two days of her passage. She brought
the heaviest cargo of any steamer SO
far, from Glasgow this season. 1t con-
sisted Of 500 tons of coal for the Grand
Trunk and 900 tons of general merohan.
diee for Canadian points, There were
four returning cattlsmen on board.
The Peruvian showed clean bill of
health, and no one was detained by the
inspector of Immigration Crews will
work day and night discharging the
coal. While in mid ocean handsome