The Portland daily press., 1898-12-15
HARBoR NOTES.
Items of Interest Picked Up Along the
Water Front.

The ice formed in the heads of the
docks Yesterday morning for the first time
this season. Some of the vessels which
come in had their hulls incased in ice
and looked like silver ships. The vapor
on the harbor all day was very thick, OBJ
scurlng the lower harbor entirely from
view In the early morning.
The tides havs been running very high
and very low this week and many Com
,nercial street cellars have had foot OF
water in them. Quite good deal Oh
damage has been done by the water.
Mr.. N. f. Trefetben has sent the smack
Lottie May to Bristol for a load OF iopsoers
to be taken from the pc und there.
Yesterday S lobster arrivals were rs fol-
lows: Minnie Davis, $500; Minnie Davis,
5000; Clara Marston. $500; Addie and
Hattie, $500; Edith Thompson, 1900.
The Aucocisco will tow Benefits pile
driver and other apparatus to Chebeague
island today, where work OF repairing
Littlehelds wharf will begin. The wharf
settled some time ago in the middle and
during the first hurricane the water lif ed
about 65 feet of the center of the wharf
and demolished it. The Long island land
ing will not be repaired until warmer
weather comes.
The fishing schooner Eva and Mildred
arrived yesterday afternoon at $50 and
will have new bowsprit put on. She
disposed of her trip of fish in Boston re-
ceiving five cents pound for them.
A crew of about fifty men are at work
blasting at Cushing's island where the
Notifications are to be built. They have
blasting enough to do to keep them busy
all winter. A small crew of men are at
Great Diamond keeping the machinery
and other things in order until the season
will adm it of renewal Of the work.
Mr.. Peleg Barker, owner of Custom
House wharf, will soon replace the build
ings destroyed at the recent fire. He in.
tends to put up freight sheds similar to
those now on Franklin wharf
The Allan liner Peruvian, Captain
Pickering, sailed for Glasgow Tuesday
night with a cargo of which the value of
the foreign shipments was $i27, 59S and of
the domestic S22.7
The largest fishing schooner afoat came
into the harbor yesterday morning with a
fare of $1,000 pounds. Nellie Dixon is
the name of the vessel that brought in
such an abundance of seafood. Last Sat
urday there was hardly a pound of fresh
fish In the city Of Portland, but If every
man, woman and child in the city sat
down to a fish dinner together. there
W ould be enough for us all in this one
vessels catch. The Amy Wixon and Eva
and NJ ildred also arrived with fish today.
The S. S. Monaghan of the Allan line
is expected TO arrive ut any time. This
ship will have the largest cargo that any
of the ocean ships have brought to this
port, so far this season. She will dis
charge 100 tons of general cargo here.
The Devona of the Thomson line will
be the first ship of that company to arrive
this season, and Is expected at almost any
time.
The Lycia will be the next of the Elder
Dempster line to arrive. She too is looked
for to arrive any day.
The three-masted schooner G. j. Will
lard. driven ashore near Eastport during
the recent storm, large holes having been
made in the hull, has been mended so
that the owners can float her land have
her lowed to Portland for the necessary
repairs.