The Portland daily press., 1897-02-19

Along Commercial Street and the
Docks
An unusual thing to be seen in Port
and barbor yesterday and something
which perhaps has never before been seen
hers was seven large ocean going steam
ships either loading or discharging car
goes. 1t speaks well for the future of this
magnificent harbor and for the growth OF
the city which relies iii great measure
on just such things as this to help IL
along. Unfortunately all of these steam
ships fly the cross of ST. George when
the Stars and Stripes woulu better be-
come them. The seven steamers in port
were: The Scotsman from Liverpool,
the Mong olian from Liverpool, the
Memnon from Bristol. the Peruvian
from Glasgow, the Corona from New-
castle, the Powhattan from Mediter-
ranean ports and the Cacouna from
sydney, Cape Breton.
The sohoonerssS. A. Payne which was
hbeiled Tuesday has settled the libel and
sailed yesterday.
The only fish arrival yesterday was
the schooner Sylvan Nunan with 1900
mixed fish. The Nunan is shore fisher
man and this kind of fish now COM
mands fair price, while off shore fisher
men are unable to get much for their
catches.
The schooner Celina went to Wiscasset
yesterday in tow of the tug Seguin. She
will partially load there with ice and
come back to Portland to complete gen
eral cargo for the Port O'Spain.
Today carpenters will commence work
on new freight drop on Portland pier
for the steamer Merryconeag which is to
land here on her trips from Bar Harbor
and Rockland.
A number of new cottages are to be
built at Or1's island this summer and
the, Ium Der for their obstruction is now
piled up on Portland pier awaiting ship
ment TO the island by scows.
The steamship Powhattan is dischara
ing sulphur. at No. 8 Grand Trunk
wharf. She will be obliged to be in Bos-
ton on Monday morning in order to tnke
her freight there for the Mediterranean.
An unusual sight was to be seen at the
Grand Trunk yesterday. The steam
ship Peruvian lay at the elevator and
while dischargina 800 tons of coal from
her forward hold was taking in grain
aft.
The Black Diamond steamship Cacouna
arrived here yesterday from Sydney, @.
B., with 1900 tons of coal for the Grand
Trunk. Dugan the stevedore has the con-
tract TO discharge this coal. The Caoouna
will probably continue to bring coal here
all summer for the railroad. Her captain
says he will return as soon as possible
for another cargo but fears he will be
delayed off Louisburg by the gigantic
fields of ice which now blockade that
port.
The British bark Strathorne ia on her
way here in ballast from the Barbados.
She will load lumber for South
America.
The Dominion line steamship Scots
man, Capt E. Maddox, sailed yester-
day for Liverpool az l. 80 p. m. She had
large cargo consisting OF 1886 bales of
ldys oCt OniCo Va oouUol, oO4O
blocks, 100 pieces birch timber, III cases
canned meats, 1869 boxes meats, 1905
sacks oatmeal, 1865 sacks oats, TAO bags
peas, "a packages organs, 4S2 sacks -four,
745 doors. 1701 pieces hard wood. 944
boxes cheese, AL packages butter, "a
cases furniture, 40 packages sundrles.
There was also 6344 barrels of Canadian
apples and 1872 barrels Maine apples.
This Scotsman also carried 651 head OF
cattle aud 70 horses. Her passenger list
comprised 8 saloon. intermediate and
IA storage passengers. 1t was stated that
this would be the last trip of the Scots
man would make to this port, but the
officials say she will come again.
The Memnon, OF the Elder Dempster
line sailed yesterday noon with a cargo
valued at about $3.50, 900, including 90, 25e
bushels Of grain, $500 boxes Of cheese.
100 packages OF butter. 100 bales of leath-
er, 1857 barrels of apples a49 head of cat
tle 6597 sacks Of -four, 7117 sacks of
bran, 1000 boxes of provisions. and mis-
oellaneous assortment of package cargo.
Maggie and Hodgdon are about ooinplet-
ing new knoekabout yacht, about
twenty feet long. She is in their boat
house on Merrill's whsrf. She promises
to be dandy craft and her builders ex-
poet her to give some of the fast ones
rub his summer.
The schooner Jennie G. Pillsbury,
having discharged her cargo, was in the
stream yesterday morning and later in
the day proceeded to Rockland.
Captain Horace Townsend of Fthe
steamer Phantom was in the city this
week and reports that there is scarcely
any Ice up the bay. The captain is busy
building two yachts this winter, cat
boat, about % feet long, for Mrs. Soule,
of Bustins' Island, and ~ foot sloop
for another party. The captain is
achieving quite reputation for build
ing fast yachts.
Captain Orville Pinkham of the
schoouel Clara f5oodwip who has baen