The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-03-24
HARBoR NOTES.
Items of Interest Picked Up Along
Shore.

The Allan liner Laurentian, Captain
John Brown, arrived at 730 o'clock yes
terday morning from Liverpool with
about six hundred tons of cargo, six first
cabin passengers and thirty return
ing horse and cattlemen. Inspector of
immigration Elliot passed them ALL Chief
Officer Pitts r eports that the Laurentian
sailed from Liverpool Saturday, March
10. There were westerly winds the entire
passage and two severe gales were en-
countered. With this exception there was
nothing out of the ordinary winter
voyage. The first land, Cape Sable, was
sighted Tuesday and the steamer arrived
off Portland Head the same evening, but
did not come in to her dock until yester-
day morning. The local consignments
were: One parcel of books for the Rev.
C. P. Terry, $50 casks of China clay to
order and so casks for the paper manu-
facturers at Cumberland Mills. Besides
these there were bales of raw hides and
leather, boxes and cases of tin, casks of
red lead, bundles of iron, and miscellane-
GUS packages to order. Work of discharg-
ing began at once.
There was heavy sea on outside yester-
day.
. Captain E. P. Pickett of the barge
office put some packages of papers aboard
two British schooners yesterday morning
The barge Lincoln is discharging coal
on to cars at the old elevator wharf.
The large four masted schooner Charles
Davenport arrived yesterday afternoon
from Brunswick, Ca. with hard pine
sleepers for the Grand Trunk.
The J. S. Winslow from Wiscasset ar.
rived with partial cargo of ice. She
completes it with general merchandise at
this port and sails for Demerara.
The steamer Merriconeag was leaving
the wharf yesterday when stay bolt
which took about two hours.
Several boxes of heavy machinery ar
rived on the New York boat for Major
Hoxie.
Arrivals yesterday were: Steamer St.
Croix, schooner Emma Jane, Ellen M.
OOuSQUy, ISL 1GOWOhh, DAiuiaAi, Au'hO SAj
ST. John to Boston; Carson. British,
piling, Quaco, N. B., to Boston.
Mr.. Alexander Cook, formerly Of the
Grand Trunk, has accepted a position in
the New York steamship sheds as checker.
A large fleet of coalers is on the way to
Randall & McNllister. Among them are
the following: Barges Wilkesbarre from
Philadelphia, 1850 tons; Enos Soule from
Norfolk, $500 tons; G. r. r. of N. j.,
and Commerce from New York with 400
and 600 tons respectively; schooners,
Alice Coburn and Carrie A. Norton from
Baltimore with $500 and 1000 tons,
Charles P. hoffman from Norfolk, $500
tons.
At the New York boat yesterday morn
ing were several cases and crates of sup
plies for the United States Emergency de-
partment at Fort Preble.
Tuesday the steamer Phantom made an
attempt to haul the schooner Arcola to
Bustin's island. The Arcola will be re-
,nembered as the schooner that ran ashore
on Green Island early in the winter.
Parties at Bustin's island bought her
with the intention of taking her to the
island and making a wharf of her.
Though the Phantom exerted herself, she
was unable to bulge her. The idea may
be abandoned and crib of piling used
instead. The wharf is to be a landing
place for the Freeport boat