The Portland daily press., 1897-11-18

abe First English Steamer Is Due Here
Sunday and the Army of Clerks Will
GetlHere saturday-Other Items Along
Shore.
The British schooner Brelion came in
Yesterday with 81 900 feet of lumber from
Nova Scotia.
The tow boat Monitor recently purchased
LOT use with the dredging fleet, arrived
here yesterday.
The schooners Ida G. Southland and
John B. Coyle are ready for sea. They
are bound to South America.
The steamship clerks Of the English
lines running to this city and the en-
ployes of the Grand Trunk railroad offices
together with the checkers and other
employees will arrive here from Montreal
on Sunday.
The big freight sheds at the Grand
Trunk have been wired for electric lights.
But for the prompt assistance of the
fire boat the tug A. Demarest would I'M
doubtedly have sunk in the dock between
Portland Pier and Commercial wharf yes
terday morning.
When the firemen turned out about s. 80
and went down into the fire room he
found water everywhere 1t had risen about
TWO feet above the furnace and put out
the ire and was gaining very rapidly.
Inc tug was also listing badly and
showed symptoms of speedily sinking
alongside the wharf.
The fremen at once aroused Engineer
GirArd of Engine Z, who i'll turn notified
capt. cloud. As pumping out sinking
tow boats is not on the regular list of
duties that the fireboat performs, Capt
Goud had to call up Chief Eldridge for
permission. The chief gave this and told
4 Capt. Goud to go ahead and get the water
out If he could. the tire boat backed IN
the wharf to the Demarest and running
a suction hose into her hold started her
pumps out and speedily lowered the
water SO that the tug could bs towed to
a place of safety.
4 The Denarest took on a good deal of
coal and water Tuesday and was very
deep in the water, so much SO in fact,
that it brought seam that the caulking
and this is probably where it ran in.
II Engine z had not been close at hand
the Demarest would have gone to the bot
tom as there was no tug boat available
The schooner Helena was towed in
Tuesday by the tug Demarest. The
Helena is bound i. from New York to Ban
4 gor and has had terribly roughfpassage.
She lost both anchors on the shoals off
Cape Cod and it was only by rare good
luck that the vessel was not driven ashore
u during IT, recent gale. Her bulwarks
were stove in, one boat was carried away
and the rigging was damaged. The
Helena will remain in the harbor lons
enough to make temporary repairs and
then proceed to Bangor. She is now al
+ Browns wharf.
RI William Dugan of this city, of the firm
of Trefethen Il Dugan of this city, is il
Bangor, actively engaged in dischargine
coal schooners. He discharged at Belfast
q the schooner Augusta, and at Bangor thu
6 Augustus Palmer and Charles A. Camp
cargo of the Mount Hope. Mr.. Dugar
? will probably remain in Bangor. while thu
river remains open for navigation Goa
will be forwarded rs rapidly as possible
to avoid the extra cost of trans shipment
= Mr.. Dugan is building up an extra lin,
+ of business very rapidly in connection
a with his partner, Mr.. Trefethen, of thu
a j. W. Trefethen house.
h The Grand Trunk is doing great worI
around the eastern end of this CITY from
! the Curtis shipyard to the Portland
y Rochester transfer. In six weeks cuI
vert has been stoned out, five single tract
a bridges have been built, the tracks laid
a spiked, surfaced and ballasted and nov
gravel trains are running over them.
David Rosenberg has been appointed in
O terpreter at this port and was sworn il
: yesterday. Mr.. Rosenberg has acted il
this capacity several winters and is very
n valuable assistant to the inspector Of i'm
< migration in unwinding the knotty pro
blems arising from the many tongues IL
J., the Storage of the ocean liners.
d Capt. Wilbur Gates. formerly of tn,
j steamer Eldorado, now employed by tn
a Grand Trunk, has just returned from
S Chicago where he took a young SEAL TIL
a seal has been kept at Biddeford Pool an,
J. was very tame. 1t was presented by Mr.
g. B. Reeve, traffic manager of the Crane
Trunk ito the Lincoln Park association
of Chicago and Capt. Gates saw it safel
;. through it's destination