The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03
HARBoR NOTES.
Items of Interest Picked Up Along tho
Wharves.

The schooner f. C. Yarnen has been
disch arging hard pine at this port lor
several weeks. She finally finished, anu
Tuesday Shipping Commissioner Ioimah
shipped crew for 6, return passage TO
St. Simonds, Ga. Among the crew were
three Swedes, John Holth, Alex Lawson
and Alex Olsen.
Wednesday afternoon they got tamper-
ing with the oil of joy and suddenly took
a decided dislike to the schooner, so
much SO in fact that they made up their
minds that they would not sail in her.
There Vas work to be done on board,
but they went down in the forecastie
and gathered up their dunnage, and left
the ship wish the avowed intention of
not sailing in her. Section 4, 59s of the
United States Revised Statutes provides
however, for just such cases as this. 1t
is an old statute, having been created IN
1890, and it has never been changed
since. 1t is certainly too old to De vlo-
lated. At least, SO thought Capt. ). d.
Bowen, so he swore out a warrant pe-
fore Justice of the Peace Bradley for the
mems apprehension. and Officer Greeley
started out in search of them. He found
them without much trouble in a sailor s
boarding house on Commercial street ana
escorted them to the police station. Inc
statute provides that the oeserters snail
be locked up and kept in custody until
the vessel sails, when they shall be placed
on board and must fulfill the contract
they agreed to when they signed the
shipping articles. The Yarnell Will
PROBABLY sail this morning and just be-
fore she leaves the men will be placed
on board. Capt. Bowen will pay all the
bills incurred by their arrest and in
generation which will amount to some
thing like 81 per Swede. which he will
take out of their pay so practically about
all the men gained by their. desertion is
a LITTLE more experience in the laws that
govern life on the ocean wave
The schooner Cynosure and the Lottie
May brought in Is. 200 pounds of fish.
1t Is getting now SO that it is pretty
hard to sign crew for large vessel I'M
less she is fitted with steam. The men
think there is altogether too much pull
ing involved in getting sail up by hand
on big four-master, and they are hard
ly to be blamed either. Nearly all the
big vessels have steam, however, those
without now being the exception.
The Henry p Mason sailed for Port
Spain with her Christmas cargo, and will
reach there in time for the holidays.
The cutter Woodbury. sailed to the east
ward.
The Merryconeag, which should have
arrived here Wednesday, did not arrive
until yesterday morning.
The steamer Elihu Thomson arrived
with a cargo of coal for A. R. Wright.
This steamer was formerly named the
Italia and was Norwegian tramp steam
er. She was built in Newcastle, Eng,
but is now owned in Marblehead. Mass.
Three four-masted schooners arrived
here yesterday.
The schooner E. and G. w. Kinds put
in here yesterday leaking badly.
The steamer State of Maine did not ar
rive here until dark last night.
Mr.. Stewart of the Elder Dempster line
arrived here yesterday and opened the
company's Office for the season.
Mr.James Thorn of the Hamburg Anne
rican line also arrived yesterday and
opened the company's Office.
The Park1nore, in ballast from Londcn,
is expected to reach here Saturday or
Sunday.