The Portland daily press., 1897-07-03
HARBoR DRIFT.
Various Items o Interest Picked up Along
the Wharves.

The st. Croix went on trial trip at
O'Clock yesterday afternoon, ana VIII go
to Boston Saturday morning. Monday
she goes on her route again after q
thorough oyerhauling at this port. She
has been entirely renovated throughout
and is a boat that the International
Steamship company may well be proud
of.
With colors flying and resplendent in
new paint and shining brass work the
steamer fremont took short trial trip
around the harbor yesterday afternoon.
She has been thoroughly overhauled and
many spectators admired the handsome
steamer as she lay at her dock by Frank
lin wharf. She leaves here at eight clock
this morning, and commencing Sunday
there will be three boats day to Boston.
Commencing Saturday the steamer
James I. Furber will carry visitors out to
the battleship Massachusetts.
A new lobster steamer has been attract
ing attention at Portland pier. She was
towed around from Back bay this noon.
where she was built by Mr.. Samuel Nor
Kali. L llS new DOtAU my 4SOo AoiAo e1AAA
has lobster well with a carrying capacl-
ty of 1000 live Holsters. Her shaft and
propeller are now in place and the rest OF
the machinery will be in the wood work
completed and the steamer ready to go in
to commission July Is. Her machinery
is being built by Orr s. Jennings. One of
Herreshoff' S designers was looking over
the lines of the new steamer and says
that if the power is put into her she will
prove very speedy. The power is to be all
that is required and the new steamer will
undoubtedly make some of them hustle.
The interested parties in the new steamer
are Dr. Clarence Baker, Mr.. G. W.
Marston and Mr.. A. L. johnson. She
will be used as a lobster carrier chiefly
but in dull times will do some service as
pleasure craft.
The Carrie Rogers had 1900 and the
Alya 20O0 live Holsters for c. W. Marston.
Reports along the Maine coast still
show that the porgies are very abundant.
One steamer caught 500 barrels last week
and another carried into her factory at
Round Pond 900 barrels on Monday last.
The Knickerbocker Towage company Of
Bath has libel case against the schooner
Mary E. H. G Dow which will come off
in Baltimore the first of September. The
libel is in the sum of $4,000.
The tug Fannie G. went above the
bridge to Knightville yesterday forenoon
and pulled off Mr.. John F. A. Merrill S
yacht Sirocco. The boat will be put in
commission at once and participate in the
races July 5.
Randall Bros yacht Pocahontas was
beached Wee 7day and 50J pounds of
lead put on h. centerboard. She was
launched Thursday at high water and
went on short cruise.
At Randall q McAllister's wharf the
scow Ajax is loading 200 tons of coal in
100 pound burlap bags. This coal is for
the Lighthouse service ON Matinious rock
Upon arrival at the rock the bags of coal
are taken from the lighter in dories and
must then be carried upon the backs of
men up the steep sides of the cliff to the
lighthouse.
The four masted schooner Augustus
Palmer arrived with 20S4 tons of coal for
the Boston & Maine railway.
The British schooner Marie Dolphin
sailed as did the Harvard II. Havey and
bark Antioch the latter to South America.
On the Antioch was one grateful mortal
little cabin boy without father or
mother. The Floating Society of
Christian Endeavor hunted him up few
days ago and now he is supplied as well
as the rest of the crew with an abundance
of good wholesome reading matter to re-
mind him of friends at home during the
long voyage.
The schooner Electric Light arrived
from Nova Scotia with 5000 live Holsters
tor Skillings.
The large steam yacht Scythian arrived
early yesterday morning. The yacht be-
longs to the New York Yacht club and is
a beauty. She is 1856 feet over all 20 feet
beam II feet deep and has draught of
13 feet. Her gross tonnage is 400 and her
net tonnage sS. Her owner Miss S. De-
Forest Day is with the yacht accom-
panied by a large party of ladies. Yester-
day morning the merry party paid Willard
Beach and Riverton visit. After look
ing around Portland they will proceed to
Bar Harbor and other eastern resorts.