The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-03-19
HARBOR NOTES.
Items of Interest Picked Up Along
Shore.

Items of Interest Picked Up Along
Shore.
Capt Harris, formerly of the schooner
Chapperel, has purchased the schooner
Mystic Tie and will run her as packet
along the coast. Her hailing port here
after will be st. George.
1t was surprise even to the best pilots
in the bar hor when the schoon-
er Augustus Palmer, drawing 81 feet and
eight inches of water, arrived here yes
terday morning and proceeded to get hard
and fast aground on the ebb of the tide
in the channel. No vessel has ever been
known to get aground at this poihU be-
FORE but the Palmr had to remain on the
mud bank until nearly high tide before
she was pulled off into deep water The
place where she grounded was just out
side the harbor masters buoy on the
middle ground. The Palmer is loaded
with coal from Louisburg consigned to
George Nj. Stanwood. She will discharge
her cargo at the Maine Central docks.
Yesterday forenoon the towboats Salem
and Rem Hur took the schooner Fanny
L. Child up between the bridges to the
ice house. She got aground on the Hats
on the ebb of the tide and remained there
until high water last night, when she
was pulled off without trouble.
There are only two English steamers at
the Grand Trunk docks now. Three large
four masters are there disoharging coal,
however, and the freight sheds and eleva-
tors are filled with frei ght and grain for
shipment. The season does not end I'M
til May first
Z The bark Antioch, after lying in the
harbor several days, sailed Thursday for
Rio de Janerio, Brazil, with 524, TAI feet
of white pine lumber, valued at So, 200.
Vessels that have been lying idle all
winter are now beginning.to go into COM
mission. The Mary 9. Stewart, which
has been tied up since last fall, has gone
to the Berlin Mills company's wharf
where she will load lumber for New
York.
G. r. r. of N. j., barge No. z, after
discharging her cargo of coal, has gone
to the Portland Cooperage company,
where she is loading empty barrels for
Glen sCove, N. Y. This, is something
ususual for coal barge-to carry away
return cargo of any kind.
Thursday afternoon as the little two
masted schooner Lille and Alice, loaded
with lumber, was coming into the har-
Dor she broke her rudder. She was near
enough port, however, SO she succeeded
in making harbor and came to an an
Choir just inside the breakwater. She
will repair here and proceed west.
International line steamer st. Croix
arrived yesterday morning from St. John
and sailed SOON afterward for Boston.
After discharging her cargo. in Boston she
will proceed to ST. John without touch
ing here. Tuesday she leaves St. John
for Boston via Portland. The Cum ber-
land left here last night for Boston. She
will sail from there Monday for Eastport
and St. John, touching at this port and
opening the season by making two boats
week. The ST. Croix and Cumberland
will run this way for month when the
former will lay off here and the State of
Maine will take her place. The st. Croix
will be put in thorough shape for the
summer rush and it is understood sew
eral staterooms will be built on her upper
deck.
The schooner Mary Storey has arrived
after months cruise after halibut. She
didn't meet with very good luck, but
had 1000 pounds all told.
1t is said that the Grand Trunk con-
templates the erection of fine depot at
the corner of Fore and India streets,
while the present depot will be torn down
to make room for another big elevator.
It is reported that these changes will be
made as soon as the steamship season
ends. The report could not be verified
last night, however.