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The times., 1898-01-25

Mrs. Robert Newton Harper gave large
and brilliant reception yesterday afternoon
from 8 to O'Clock, TO meet Mrs. John
i. Rixey, wife of Representative Rixey,
OF Virginia.
The hostess, wearing sheIl-pink satin
and ieweled tulie that harnsonized ef-
fectiyely with her brunette beauty, pre-
sented the large number OF callers to the
guest OF honor. who was gowned hand
somely in black poult de sole and cream
duchess lace. The ladies OF the assisting
group were Mrs. John S. Barbour, Mrs.
Guss, Mrs. Balm, Mrs. Truell, Mrs. Craw-
ford and Mrs. White.
Palms and roses were everywhere in
evidence throughout the beautiful rooms,
and the tea table was decorated with
lilies of the valley, mingled with srnilaX
vines and candles that burned under
shades of daintiest pink. The coterie
OF pretty girls in charge of the idyllic
attractive spot We're Miss Dolan. Miss
Baker, Miss Thompson. Miss Hynson, Miss
Tongue, Miss Piatt, Miss Began Miss
Drown, Miss Geyer, Miss Bailey, Miss Ban,
Miss Mantz, Miss Hoge, Miss Wise and
Miss Ruane.
An orchestra contributed beautiful music
throughout the receiving hours and at
the close OF the reception the young peo-
ile closed the evening with a dance.
The times., 1898-01-25

One of the notably brilliant events of
last night vas the reception held by Mr..
and Mrs Kauffmann.
MIS- hauffmann was assisted inreceiving
her guests ~ Miss Kaufman, the Misses
Emma and Miriam Kauffmann and Miss
Noyes, of South America.
The times., 1898-01-25

The dance given last night 10y Senator
ana Mrs. Murphy in honor OF their daugh-
ter, Miss Murphy, brought together the
seasons pretty ,uus i'll such numbers that,
with their cavaliers, they filled the great
white and gold ballroom, which was
fiorally rcrdaDt with palms.
Capt. Miclier ana Miss Murphy led the
cotilion, which was danced by sixty
couples, and the rayors were beautifully
dainty and unique.
The times., 1898-01-25
AE &c yxi.

Comfort and Robe Pat
terms, handsome designs;
high ColoriugS, also use
ful for curtain purposes.
The times., 1898-01-25

The Current Events Club will hold an
important meeting at Yrs. j. McLean's, on
Friday, at p. III. The subject being
'tThe Eastern Question"
The times., 1898-01-25
At SOC.

Full size Crockett Quilts,
fair quality, good value,
at 65c.
The times., 1898-01-25
At Sc

Cushion covers. heauti-
/, fui effects In Satteen and
creton. Newly imported
gobelin designs at zoe.
The times., 1898-01-25

Much better quality,
handsome designs, value
90c, for 65c.
The times., 1898-01-25

The Ladies Aid Society of Garden
Memorial Church will give country
SUPPER at No. 20 Monroe street, Ana
costa, Friday, from to 1 o O'Clock p. m
The times., 1898-01-25

The w. n. P. A. committee on press con-
Gress will meet at Willard's, Friday. at
7:30 p. m
The times., 1898-01-25

Mr.. JOHN NJ. Brenner is visiting his father
at the Ebhitt House.
The Portland daily press., 1898-12-02
TO AID IN IDENTIFICATION.
Permission to Bring Remains to Boston
Will Be Asked.

Boston, December 1.-General Manager
Liscomb and Agent Williams Of the Port
land Steamship company arrived In this
city tonight from Orlsans. They win call
upon Gov. Wolcott tomorrow and ask
that instructions be given TO the medical
examiners in towns along the Cape to
sea.. all bodies that may come ashore
from the :. steamer Portland,s.. to
Boston. They feel that relatives and
friends of the victims should not be COM
PEELED to make the journey to Cape Cod
in order to have an opportunity OF
identifying them. Agent Williams said
tonight:
.sThere are twenty -one bodies on the
Cape and most of them have been there
several days. Some have been identified
and some have not. Every one would
have been identified were they in Boston.
There are no doubts relatives Of persons
who were on board the Portland who feel
too poor to stand the expense OF the
journey / shall feel very bad If any OF the
bodies found should go to pauper'
grave marked unknown. shall make the
REQUEST of the Governor and l think II IT
is within his power it will lie granted.
General Manager Liscomb said tonight
the company would not buy an old boat
to take the place of the Portland. he
said what the company wanted was a
new boat and as good as it could get.
The Portland daily press., 1898-12-02
SAW PORTLAND AT 9 p. M.
Capt. Roix Thought Capt. Blanchard
Must BE Crazy.

Bucksport, December 1.-Captain 1. VIM.
A. Roix one of the most experienced
pilots on the coast, who took the steamer
Mt Desert from Rockland to Boston
Saturday, was seen by an Associated
Press representative today, here. Captain
Roix said that on Saturday night when
of The Graves about 9p. m, he passed
the Portland. The weather was very
threatening and it WAS showing hard.
Fifteen minutes later the storm broke
with terrific force. The pilot house crew
on the Mt. Desert looked astern frequent
ly, fully expecting that the Portland
would turn around and put back, and did
not think it possible that the boat would
try for Portland. Blanchard must be-
crazy, Captain Roix remarked to some
one in the pilot house at the time. Capt.
John Mcdonnell, considered one Of the
most experienced pilots on this coast
after carefully studying the situation
was quite confirmed in the opinion that
the Portland was trying for Provincetown,
when she struck, that she would not have
drifted the distance or struck in that spot
if her engines had been disabled as sup
posed.
The Portland daily press., 1898-12-02
LOSS HALF A MILLION.

Provincetown, December IAN at
tempt to fix the financial loss of Sunday e
storm in and around Provincetown and
including the steamer Portland wreck,
was made today by several men who have
large interests in coastwise shipping.
They made up partial list of vessels
both damaged and lost, and while all the
figures are simply estimates the tabuls-
tions reached were as follows: Lives lost
(probably) 1907 loss of property on land
sic 900; loss of marine property not In
cludine steamer Portland $500, 900; the
Portland $3.50, 1000; loss In money and
effects of passengers and sailors $50, 900.
Total, $50, 900.
The Portland daily press., 1898-12-02
Pains in the chest when a person has

Pains in the chest when person has a
cold indicate tendency toward pneumo-
MIA. A piece of flannel dampened with
Chamberlain's Pain Balm and bound on
to the chest over the seat of pain will
promptly relieve the pain and prevent
the threatened attack of pneumonia.
This same treatment will cure a lame
back in few hours Sold by ID. W. Hes
eltine g. Co., 3S7 Congress- St; Edward
w. Stevens, 107 Portland ST.; King s.
Raymond, Cumberland Mills; VIM, Ok
nard, 921 Congress ST.; 81, P. S, Gould,
Congress Square Hotel.
The Portland daily press., 1898-12-02
CAPT. LEIGHTON'S CONVERSATION
WITH CAPT. BLANCHARD.

Captain 9. II. Leighton of Rockland
reached Portland Yesterday morning. He
is an old mariner as well as an expert
enced steamboat captain, but Of late has
Eeen somewhat out of health. He knew
Captain Blanchard intimately and saw
him last Saturday about six O'Clock.
When he saw the captain Of the steamer
he spoke to him as follows:
Captain Blanchard, are you going to
sail such a night as thiss''
81 think shall, Captain Leighton, he
replied.
by George, captain, said Captain
Leighton, II really don't think this is q
ht night to leave port.
81 don't know about that" said Capt.
Blanchard. 1--WE may have good chance. !"
The Portland daily press., 1898-12-02
OTHER BODIES FOUND
Walter L. Bernis and Ansel Dyer'sA mons
the Number.

Walter L. Bernis and Ansel Dyer'sA mong
the Number.
Chatham. Mass, December 1.-Ahe
body of man was picked up by Patr.'i-
man Kelly of the Chatham life saving
sta ion this morning and brought t.s
Chatham by Medical Examiner Munsell
and placed in charge OF Undertaken
Taylor. The following is description
of the body: Brown hair and reddish
mustache, 5 feet 10 inches In height amt
weight about 1850 pounds; very weh
dressed. Gold watch and chain, standing
collar and blue tie. A gold ring on the
third finger of the left hand having the
initials .:W. l.. b." on the inside, makes
it evident the body is that of Walter Y.
Bemis of Auburn, Me-. one OF tne foro-
lands passeug gers
In the pocket was ticket from. + ort-
land to Lewiston and stateroom key
number 130.
Two bodies, also, have just been re-
covered from the surf at Chatham OLD
Harbor station. tt is Thought enc may
be- that of Quar- Ansel Dyer on
tettoced in India ink on his left forearm
where is also imprinted the Amsrican
shield, a star and anchor with clasped
hands. The body was nude. the clio thing
having been washed off. The other nody
at Old Harbor station is that of 8 man
| feet II inches in height, about l4o POUNDS,
dark brown hair and mustaohe, dressen
in n black suit with a short blue over
coat. From paper found in the pocket
| it is thought the body is that Of Captain
Albert Dunbar of Boothbay, Me-, VINO
was also passenger on the lost steamer
| Those two bodies were viewed by Medicai
Examiner Munsell this afternoon. o0sn
will he nlaced in the care of Undertaken
Taylor The wind was blowing of shore
roday and this will tend to bring bodies
ashore in the undertow following the
Ieasterly gale of yesterday.
The Portland daily press., 1898-12-02
HAVE FAILED so FAR.
Two Portland Men Looking for Bodies OF
victims of Disaster.
ESPECIAL TO THE rHEss.l

ESPECIAL TO THE PEEssJ
Orleans, December THE PRESS cor
respondent saw Mr.. Frank L. Moseley OF
Portland on the. Cape Cod train today
Mr.. Moseley and Mr.. E. A. Baker OF
Portland have been in Provincetown In
search of Mr.. Bakers wife and Mis-
Emily Cobb, one OF her friends. Up to
the time saw Mr. Moseley their mission
had not been successful. Mr.. Baker had
inspected the bodies at Orleans, one OF
which was thought to be that OF his wife.
Mr.. Baker was nearly overcome by the
sad scene in the morgue. He did not find
his wife's body there and neither OF the
two young women was Miss Cobb. Mr..
Bakers daughter Harriet at first reported
on the steamer was not there. She has
been visiting friends in Boston and was
to return on the Portland boat, but at
the last moment decided to remain
awhile longer.
The Portland daily press., 1898-12-02
CAPTAIN ALONE RESPONSIBLE.
spEc1Ar, TO THE rREsssi

Boston, December 1.-The latest at
tempt to fix the responsibility for the
sailing Of the Portland elsewhere th an
upon the shoulders of Captain Blanchard
is made by an evening paper, which has
interviewed steamboat captains and
managers with the question ''should
Agent W illiams have taken steps to pre-
vent the sailing of the steamer in defiance
of orders9" With few exceptions the men
quoted say that an agent would have no
authority to take suoh action, and no
power to carry it out. 1t is stated here
that as no one was rescued there will be
no government inquiry into the cause Of
the wreck.
The Portland daily press., 1898-12-02
IN MEMoRIAM.

The following resolution was passed by
Lon gfsllow Lodge, No 4S, K.of P. at
their regular convention Wednesday even
ing:
Whereas, in the wreck of the Steamer
Portland, our community has been visit
ed by a calamity almost unparalleled in
it's history:
Resolved. that Longfellow Lodge, No.
43. knights OF Pythias, extends It's heart
felt coincidence to our fellow citizens
stricken beyond the power of language to
measure.
The Portland daily press., 1898-12-02
BRING AFFIoAvlTs.
Important Instructions from General
Manager Liscomb.

Manager Liscomb of the Portland
Steamship company was on the Cape
Yesterday and returned to Boston at nine
o'clock last night He at once telegrAphed
the following very important information
TO this city: "Twenty-one bodies, total
recovered, half identified. Parties coming
to claim should bring afsdavits from
notary publics as TO their identity and
riohr to claim"
The Portland daily press., 1898-12-02
OWEN. MOORE & co.
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR

Emperor William is having made for
rs mend, the Sultan, a faithful imita-
tion Of the historic walking stick Of Fred
erick the great. 1t is to be surmountsd
with a knot of massive gold and to be
studded with diamonds.
|. Lady Henry Somerset. who has been in
poor health. has been Rliving almost in
eti rement in England Tor some time.
She has occupied her leisure in model.
ing statuette OF her late friend and 90
operator in the temperance cause, Miss
tranoes Willard,
The Netherlanders stand in the foremost
rank as coffee drinkers, using $40 ounces
o year to each inhabitant. We are but
fourth on the coffee drinking list, using
1875. 0o0, 600 pounds year. or 100 ounces
apiece. Russia, however, allows but three
ounces to each person.
john Arbuckle, the millionaire coffee
king. who is fighting the Sugar Trust,
will not remain in q place In which the
temperature is lower than his theory
thinks hygienic. Evary room IN ms mouse
and place of business is furnished Win
q Thermometer, which he inspects hourly.
William Barton, a New YozS news
paper man for fifty years until he retired
| in 1898, and some years before MS coming
10 this country q London Times reporter.
has inst died ut the age of eighty three.
| For forty wears he was the ship news
editor of the Herald, and the fact shows
| thai there is no "dead line" against
| com petent workmen.
| II ia understood that Lord Kitchener
while ON a visit to BaImoral presented
Oneen Victoria many interesting relics
~ the battle of Omdurmsn. The final
dsstiny of the Khalifa S standard is not
| at present known. but as it seems to have
heen captured by tine Sudanese troops 1t
| is Thought not improbable that 1t msy
hang in the Khedive's palace at Cairo.
| John Ferguson, who works on farm
near Calhoun, Ca, is fifty years old, just
over eight feet tall and weighs sl6 pounds.
Up to the age of twenty years he was an
Invalid. but after that he increased in
Drawn and muscle with miraculous
rapidity, until at the age of thirty he was
as he now is, yeritable giant. He is
forty-eight inches around the chest and
forty around the waist.
A London man named Onion has been
convicted of being drunk and disorderly
one thousand times. He makes a living
by writing poetry advocating temperance.
AS soon as he receives pay for poem he
goes off and gets drunk. He defends this
somewhat curious course by saying that
he couldn't writa such elective temper
ance poetry il he didn't get orunk. When
he received his millennial conviction the
other day he suggested that he ought to
get n souvenir to commemorate the event.
The Portland daily press., 1898-12-02
MrsCELLANEoUs.
no WAS Tt OF WORDS.
evidences Which Is Right to the Point ana
Reliable.

Ividcucs Which Is Right to the Point anu
Reliable.
Ju1ge Frank Ives OF District Court OF
Crookston, Mimi, says: For some Siine LING
l have used Stuart's Dyspepsia iauiele
with seeming great benefit with rev "a
ceptions have not been SO free lroni in-
digestion in twenty-five years. 60, *
George W. Roosevelt, U. :. Consut 20
brussels, Belgium: Stuart's DysPepsia
Tablets safe. pleasant to take, convent
ent co carry, give keen appetite, periece
digestion.
MIR. W. D. Tomlin, mechanical engl-
nger, Duluth, Mimi: One oox. Oh oeu,
arts Dyspepsia Tahlefs mas gol,e LaS s
work ana am again gaining nesh ana
strength. ,,. 7
was distressed and annoyed for two years
with throwing up food, often two or three
times a day; had no certainty OF retail r.
inc q meal if ate one. -Four boxes Oh
the tablets from my druggist nave Iulty
cured me. l find them pleasant to taKe'
convenient to carry .r.
Raw. g. d. Brown, Mondoyl, WIS:
The effects of Stuart's Dyspepsia laniees
is simply marvellous; J. quite hearty GIN
ner of broiled beefsteak causes no oisSress
since begun their use. ....,
Over six thousand people In the s1aut
of Michigan alone in 1884 were cureu y,
stomach troubles by Stuart's Dyspepsid
Tablets.
Fuu sized packages may be found at al
a,nogis,s at 80 cents, or sent by mall
receipr of price from +. A. stuart Co.i
Marshall, Mich. h a,s
Send for little book on stomach ois
eases mailed free.
The Portland daily press., 1898-12-02

When James Whitcomb Riley was in
Cleveland lately q reporter oame upon
him while he was writing something on
the leaf of book. 1t was slow process,
and Riley seemed to appreciates 1T, for,
looking up at the reporter. he remarked :
s.Folks might consider me pretty slow
writer, but they would be wrong. / don't
write. print. It's safeguard, you
know. When man writes dialect poetry
he gets into the habit of thinking that
the dialect is important This may be q
mere affeotation on his part, but he is
apt to stiok to 1t. In this regard he meets
with no sympathy from the co1npositor,
Therefore, stopped writing and devoted
myself to print. It's slow, but it's fairly
sure.''
The Portland daily press., 1898-12-02
MANAGER LIsCoMB GONE TO
PROvINCEToWN.

M.naosr ], f. Lisoonab OF the Portland
stsam Packet Company telegraphed Mr..
partlett of the Maine Steamship company
+hot he had left Boston yesterday morn
inc on the first train for Proyincetown
and orleans on Cape Cod. Mr.. Liscomb
and the Steamship company are dong
ali they can to assist in the recovery OF
tho bodies and in caring for them, and
the people who are searching the Cape
shore.
The Portland daily press., 1898-12-02
VICTIMS FROM BROCKToN.

Brockton, December lat least two
of the victims of the ill-fated Portland
were residents of this city.
The man who Is given out in the Bos-
ton papers as G. E. Wilson, Bethel, Me-,
was up to Saturday clerk at Hotel Me-
tropolitan in this city. He was q man
abou 25 years old. He left this city Sat-
urday to go to Maine.
Fl. Garter, fireman, was for some time
employed in this city and left hers to
take his position on the Portland.
Lewis Metcalf Of Campeilo, is also sun
posed to be among theiviotims. His wife
is sick at Auburn, Me-, and he left Sat
urday to join her. He has not been heard
from sincs.
The Portland daily press., 1898-12-02

Mr.. Culver with his ex-
hibition of fine drawn
linen work from old Mex
leo will be at the needle
work counter only a few
days more. He will be
glad to show these mar
velous examples of deft
needlework to all who
are interested. Every
thing in his collection is
for sale and the prices ara
remarkably low.
The Portland daily press., 1898-12-02

The demonstration of
the kindergarten Blocks
still goes on in the Base
ment,
Bring the children in to
see these wonderfully in
teresting blocks and the
many different toys which
may be made from them.
The Portland daily press., 1898-12-02
PASSENGERS AND OFFICERS LOST.
More Sketches ofthe Victims of the Port
land.

John Jones, cook. married man, lived
in rear Of North Street school. He was
q fmember of A. nj. E. church and
le aves wife.
Everett Huston, I'd steward. lived on
Lafayette street. He was married TWO
years ago. He left wife, mother and sister
dependent upon him for support.
Lee Foreman, a colored man. the secono
steward of the Portland, was about thirty
two years old and unmarried. He had
been employed on the boat several years.
Stephen Howard, colored man, and
head cook of the Portland, had been IN
the employ of the company for many
years. He was born in st. John, N. 3. !,
and came to Boston over thirty years
ago. He was fifty mine years OF age ana
one of the best known cooks in Boston.
He leaves two married daughters and
three young grandchildren.
William Lattimer the head saloon man
of the Portland, was tw enty .seven years
old and single. He had been on the Port
land in the same capacity for the past four
years. His birthplace was at st. Croix,
W. /.
". H. Cash, a colored man, ana
waiter on the Inflated steamer, went TO
Boston from North Carolina, about ten
years ago. He was thirty -four years old.
He had made his home with Mr. and Mrs.
s. Il. Harris at 20 Dartmouth street place
In that city.
George II. Cropley, "a years old Ct
South Portland was deck hand on the
steamer Portland. He was OH the steam
er on that fatal Saturday when she left
Boston. Mr.. Cropiey was married and is
survived by wife and one child. His
father is Mr.. Alton Cropley, clerk at
Center s. McDowell's.
ANOTHER MARROW ESCAPE.
Mr.. Ralph S.Norton of the firm Of Nor
ton, Hall 4 Co., had narrow escape
from meeting the fate OF those lost on the
steamer Portland. He went to Boston
on Friday night in company with Hon.
4. Dudley Freeman, whose body passed
through Portland last pight on its way
home to Yarmouth. Saturday night
udC WOnpuCI l0o0OA ~ eiACheCAAaS uuuu
Mr.. Norton decided the Portland would
not sail and so came home by train. He
intended to come home by the steamer
until late Saturday afternoon.
LOUIS F. UNDERWOOD IS ALIVE.
Louis F. Underwood Of Portia nd, the
football player, known to his friends as
sBobby" Underwood, who was reported
in the list of passengers on the Portland
did not take passage on the steamer as
supposed. A message received from him
assures his friends that he is in Boston.
alive and we'll.
e. II. PHILLIPS ALL RIGHT.
A letter was received yesterday in West
brook from Mr.. E. h. Phillips of the
lumber firm of Phillips & Webb OF that
city stating that he was in North Caro-
lima. Mr.. Phillips started from West.
brook for Boston laot week and as re
ported in yesterdays papers there was
some anxiety as to his whereabouts as 1t
was feared he must have started or the
steamer Portland. Mr.. Phillips writes
that he had other business that required
his attention and SO left for that section
Of the country the latter part of last week.
The Portland daily press., 1898-12-02

wearing black skirt. III body was to
be sent to Eastman tonigA t. Early TINS
evening word came that two pooies na9
heen found OF Old HarboA- station, on
Chatham, and another. that OF waiter
T.. Benis, Auburn, Me-, had bs.'en picked
up off Chatham life saving stabkon.
There remain at ProvincetoS7n gnree
unidentified bodies, two males ana one
female,
The Portland daily press., 1898-12-02
THE MopERN MoTHER

Has found that her little ones are i'm.
proved more by the pleasant Syrup oi
Figs, when in need of the laxative effect
Of gentle remedy, than by any other.
Children enjoy it and it benefits them.
The true remedy, Syrup Of Figs. is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only.
The Portland daily press., 1898-12-02
BUCKspoRT MAN IN CREW.

Buoksport, December News of the
missing steamer Pen. agost is anxiously
awaited here as Bucksporhaman was in
the crew. Bert J. Lampher. adeJkhand,
aged 35. who has wife and two small
children here. Lampher was making a
single trip was substitute for Quarter
master Harrison Grey, who is at his home
here.
The Portland daily press., 1898-12-02
NEW ApvERrrsEmENTs.
Portland, December, ., 1898.
Basement

TIME Basement
l. salesroom is a
fascinating place
for the children these
days. A large proportion
of it is given to those
things which are of spec
ial interest to children at
this time of year and the
children have already
found it out.
Wooden toys, rubber
toys, iron toys, horns,
drums, guns, whistles,
Jump jacks, whips, carts,
horses, dogs and cows.
Banks. boats, blocks,
books and balls. Dolls of
all degrees, with elegant
wardrobes to fit them.
Dolls furniture, dinner
sets and trunks. Every
sort of game and puzzle
that has been invented,
jump ropes, hoops.
marbles. tops, musical in
struments, magic Ian
terms, steam engines
there's no end to the va
riety.
The Portland daily press., 1898-12-02
To the
|kitchen=sink

grease and CRIME cling
fast and worry the
hOuSekeeper.
FELS-NAPTHA soap
loosens the grease, puri-
flies the sink and pre-
vents danger to
health.
Grocers sell 1T feis 4 Co., Phila,
The Portland daily press., 1898-12-02

u.,l,s Cough Syrup cures Group
,; DI r;,I fha children's life but keep his
Wonderful re medy on hand. Price 20 cts