The Portland daily press., 1898-12-16

| Tt looks as though Portland was to have
another line of ocean steamers. An adyer-
tisement appears in Montreal paper
stating that the Beaver liner Gallia from
Liverpool December 10 and will come to
Portland via Halifax. 1t is understood
that she has on board 1000 Russian Jews
| which she will land at Halifax and then
come to Portland to load. This is fine
steamer and last winter had the contract
to carry the English mails from st. John
and Halifax.
There is freight for her here in Portland
and the Grand Trunk authorities admit
she is coming here once at least although
they are retisent about stating that it
is TO be permanent.
It is learned on good authority, how
ever, that the Grand Trunk is very
anxious to get the Beaver people here on
account of the fine cold storage capacity
these boats have. From these sources 1t is
learned that there Is good chance of this
company running.a line of ships to Port
land. The Grand Trunk evidently intends
to ill all vacancies left by the withdrawal
of the Dominion line.
The towboat Ice King was badly dam
aged on the Kenuebsc OF Wednesday in
trying to get the bark Ethel out OF the
river in order to tow her to Portland. The
tow boats bow was badly smashed and
the Ice King had to leave the Ethel on
the fats and return to Bath for repairs.
The towboat Nathaniel P. Doane ar
rived yesterday morning with the
schooner Sarah W. Lawrence in bow. The
Lawrence was caught in the first neavy
Gnle and was given up for lost but nnally
reported in a damaged condition. her
tcpmast is gone and part of her jibboom
is snapped off. She will discharge her
cargo of coal at the Maine Central.
The owners of the four Inasted schooner
King Philip have made an official report
at the Custom House at Baltimore OF the
loss of that vessel off Cape Cod during
the recent storm. By the disaster ten
lives.were lost, the victims were Captain
A. A. Duncan, W. A. Van Horn. I.
johnson, 7. A. Douglass, J. W. Comegys,
Ole Larsen, Bill Nilsson, Edward Brooks
and two unknown sailors. The schooner
was valued &C s27, 900 and the cargo OF
bituminous coal was insured for its full
value, $3.50.
There was great hustle at the Grand
Trunk freight sheds Wednesday night
and al day yesterday, and eight gangs
of men, 16 to each gang, exerted them
selves in piIing the freight into the big
| Allan liner Sandman. This ship was due
| to sail last Saturday but as she was lats
| in reaching here it was found impossible
to get her away before late last night.
She was to have been Christmas boat
had she sailed Saturday and, to certain
extent will fulfill that mission now. The
time from Christmas until New Years
day is made period of merry making in
the old country. The Sandman will be
late for Christmas, but expects to get in
in time to discharge her cargo of pro
visions before New Years. She will take
392 crates of turkeys or six freight car
loads and several crates of geese. Then
she will have her cold storage full of
perishable goods. There are SO4 cases Of
canned meats, butter, eggs, cheese and
hundreds of barrels of apples Unless the
day is very cold ALI this perishabIe part of
the cargo is put into vessel at night. 1T
is taken from the cold storage cars and
transferred as quickly as possible to the
refrigerators on the steamer.
The Numidian will take for one con-
signment nineteen cars of fresh beef,
which is somewhat of novelty for this
xvif e. No GpnoiaI a oQnfS
here who superintend the transfer of the
beef from the cars and see that it is
properly loaded into the ships
The German liner Alesia will make the
Strathgarry's trip to this port on account
of an accident to the latter boat. The
AIesia is fine ship and was much adj
mired last winter.
A diver was at work yesterday morning
under the icy waters of the dock between
No. and No. sheds. There was leak
about the bearings of the propeller shaft
of the Virginian, and the submarine
workman was putting new packing in to
stop the leak. 1t may have been cold
at the surface, covered with small flakes
of ice, the scene was very suggestive OF
an ice cold bath, and the average onlooker
shivered at the thought.
The Assyrisn of the Leyland line will
unload at Wilmington, N. c., on her next
trip, and will proceed to Portland light.
The Hamburg American liner Strathay,
which was expected to arrive in Boston
week ago. has not appeared yet. She will
come to Portland and discharge about
80, 600 bags of sugar. The Alesia of
the same line will follow short time
after and Will discharge 10000 bags of
sugar here.