The Portland daily press., 1897-05-19
HARBoR DRIFT.
Various Items of Interest Picked mn AIon.
the Wharves.

The three masted schooner Clara
Leavitt was safely locked by the tue
Demeres st at the usual berth of the Sebas-
codegan. The Leavitt is the first large
schooner that has been in this dock for a
| long time. The reason for her visit was
a large cargo of soft coal from Philadel-
phia, which she commenced to discharge
at once for the Harpswell Steamboat COM
pany.
Traffic is very good at the Grand Trunk
just at present. Large quantities of
grain are going through daily to the
provinces, while cloud of fine white
dust around the new elevator proclaims
that there is life within. Cars unload
grain nearly every day into the new hop
pers and it is carried up to the bins.
There is hardly ever a time that there is
not coastwise vessel at the special spout.
Yesterday morning it was the Olive
Branch slowing away large cargo OF
corn.
A change will be noticed in the ticket
Office of the ferry company's waiting
room before long. Miss Caro- Elliot has
accepted position at the Poland Spring
house for the summer where she will have
charge of the periodical department.. She
leaves June 1, and her place will be filled
by Miss Anges Fisher of South Por tland.
Down on the end of one of the wharves
an odd looking old man sits every pleas
ant afternoon patiently fishing. He wears
unique gold chain about his neck at
tached to the end of which are two shin
ing silver fly hooks, feathers and all. No
one seems to know who he is, for he is
noticeably reticent in his manner and it
is difficult to engage him in conversation.
A peculiar feature of his fishing is that
no one ever saw him catch anything but
pollock and he always departs with good
string. This is not the usual experience
of wharf fishermen. Their strings of
eatable fish are usually varied by the oc-
casional smiling face of sculpin.
The forty eight ton schooner, Henry
Wilson, Essex built, twenty-five years
old, has been sold to W. H.. Holmes &
Co., Eastport.
The Juno from Boston arrived in the
harbor. She will tow the schooner Helen
H. Benedict, before reported leaking, to
New York.
The island steamers are carrying large
freights and many passengers these warm
days.
The contract for repairing the fire boat
has been awarded to Mills and Gilmore
by the committee on fire department. The
boat will be equipped with new smoke
stack and her machinery and hull will be
thoroughly overhauled.
The revenue cutter Woodbury. returned
to this port yesterday, after short cruise
to the eastward. She will, within few
weeks, lay up at Central wharf for re-
pairs and her crew will take up their
quarters on the wharf.
Work was commenced yesterday driving
piles for the extension of the Randall &
McAllister's wharf. W. F. Bennett &
Co. is doing the work.
The schooner Hard Chance finished
loading lumber yesterday at the Berlin
Mills Co. s wharf. She will sail for Bos-
ton shortly.
Men were at work yesterday making re-
pairs on the yacht Brentwood, which will
be put in first class condition for the
season.
The fish arrivals yesterday We're the
Bertha M. Mills, Henry Ellsworth,
Julietta and Ira Kilborne
Captain John Berry has arrived at
Buffalo and has purchased the new and
elegant steamer Island Bell, which is to
run between Portland and Peaks Island
the coming season, at five cent fare.
The steamer is very nearly new and said
to be very fast. She is fully equipped
with electricity and accommodates four
hundred passengers. She will go on the
route June first