The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-03-28
HARBOR NOTES.
Items of Interest Picked Up Along
Shore.

It was such fine day i. yesterday that
great numbers of people visited the
steamship wharves and Commercial
street was quite gay with promenaders.
The steamer Frank Jones arrived Sat-
urday night OF $50 O'Clock from Rock
land J and will reflt and go on her regular
route next Friday night.
Therel was a heavy fog bank outside
yesterday afternoon and the fog kept
drifting in and out of the harbor.
The tug Tamaqua arrived yesterday
towing the coal laden barge Glendower,
and the tug Ice King towing the barge
Enos Soule.
The schooner c. NJ. Gilmore, on a
coasting voyage, arrived for harbor,
dsep laden.
Schooner Maggie Todd, from Calais,
lumber laden, or Boston came in for a
harbor
The Emma Jane brought in a fare Of
flsh yesterday.
There was G large travel on the Eliza
Leth City all day.
Steamer John Eng,is from New York
locked about Ave o'clock yesterday after
noon.
The neutrality-suspicious. liner Alesia,
Captain Krech will sail early this morn
ing for Hamburg. She began taking
oats at nine O'Clock Friday morning, and
the stream poured into her in way that
made every one hustle. The actual time
that the grain was running down
through the matches was just thirty-seven
hours, and officials say that to load the
same amount at Montreal would have
taken at least ninety hours. Her cargo
will consist of 200, 900 bushels Of Chicago
clipped oats. $1,000 bushels of Canadian
yellow oats, 10000 bushels rye, 1880
bushels buckwheat, five cars asbestos and
ten cars lard. The Alesia has the dis
tinction of carrying away the largest
cargo of grain ever taken from any
American port. She carried no passengers.
The Elder. Dempster line Parkmore,
Captain Evans, sailed at IL n. m, Satur-
day, for Avonmouth dock with 81, $50
bushels wheat At 500 BUSHES oats, 1910
boxes cheese, boxes meats, 229 boxes
bacon, % cases hams, 10 pals lard, case
and 90 bales leather, 5000 bundles shocks,
1920 sacks -four, 1913 boxes provisions, SOC
pals lard, zoos pieces oak lumber. There
| were also So head of cattle. The foreign
exports were valued at s11o, 2e9 and the
domestic at $s7, sly.
The Allan liner California, Captain
Moore, sailed for Liverpool at 2 p. m.
Saturday with three cabin, IA inter
mediate, 25 Storage passengers and %, l2e
bushels wheat, 1913 boxes cheese. 299
packages butter, II packages sundries,
2135 sacks -four, 1887 pieces maple blocks,
1924 cases splints, 1908 packages chair
stock, 80 bales and cases leather, 784
bundles shocks. EAT boxes and 1870 tierces
hams, 1882 barrels apples, 65 packages fur
niture, 1872 cases mattresses, 121 packages
handles, SO packages hardware. 81 cases
| organs, 280 sacks bran, Sc packages empty
skips, ss Crafts pulleys, Is cases brooms.
Domestic: 1903 packages fresh pork, 1867
pieces oak lumber, 1906 sacks flour, II
barrels apples. The domestic exports
were valued at 1923, 800 and the foreign at
$149, $50.
The big Dominion liner Scotsman ar
rived last evening from Liverpool via
Halifax. She had pleasant trip. She
brought II intermediate and IL storage
Messengers, and 1900 tons of cargo. There
| were 499 casks of China clay for this
| market for Barring Bros, Boston and $40
casks for Morey & Co., Boston, besides
IA packages for the Canadian Express
comnany