The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-04-06
HARBoR NEWS.
Items Of Interest Picked Up Along the
Water Front

The Penobsont liver is still closed at
Bangor, and there Is a large gathering
of vessels at Bucksport aw aiting the 60
ing of the ice. Nearly every vessel which
comes In needs more or less repairing,
which makes work around the marine
railway and In the shipyards. The hsh-
ing fleet are already being overhaulsd for
the season on the Grand Banks. An
Italian bark unloaded salt with the inten-
ton OF towing to Bangor for her return
cergo of orange-b box shocks. for the Medi-
terranean, but the consigners got impa-
tient, and the entire cargo came down by
rail and has been put on board, the versei
being ready for sea.
The schooner John u. Randall, Capt
Crocker, which left this rort last Satur-
day night for Newport News arrived
there Tuesday, having made the passage
in three says.
The Leyland liner Assyrian, Captain
Dengle, sailed at 2. 20 p. m. yesterday.
Her regular captain, A. W. Irant, Is stili
confined in the Maine General hospital.
Her cargo included 1915 bushels wheat,
CESS sacks -four, $50 sacks rice, 5000 bales
hay, 4g6 pieces maple blocks, aoos pieces
lumber, 26oS pieces chair stock. 24a logs,
100 boxes phosphorus and 6'1 bales pulp
besides a miscellaneous cargo.
The Georgian is expected to leave the
other side for Portland Sunday next.
Arrivals were, schooners Lydia Grant,
British schooner Mosma, n. Z. Allen,
tug Paoli towing barge Radnor. tug
Cumberland and schooner Commerce.
The departures were schooner General
Banks, and tug Cumberland with barge
A In tow.
Tributes of respect to the memory of the
late Captain Benjamin Willard were OBJ
seryable along the harbor yesterday. Both
pilot boats and many steam vessels had
their flags At half mast.
The steamer Merryconeag fitted out with
a new boiler and generally overhauled,
resumed her place on the Rookland route
Wednesday morning.
The summer business at Portland of the
Thomson line will be in charge OF MIR.
r. j. Mcclure. He will be assisted by
Mr. Thomas Burke.
The sulphur steamer Bartry has finished
the discharge of her cargo and sailed for
Newport News.
Eighteen hundred and seventy three
was the total number of Holsters seized
by the wardens in Cumberland county
during the month of March.
The schooner Alice e. Clark sailed
from Philadelphia on April 1, and the
schooner Henry S. Little sailed from the
same port few hours behind her. Both
vessels arrived in Portland April 3, the
Clark at 4.S0 in the afternoon and the
Little in the evening.
An old timer poked her nose in the haT-
Dor yesterday. 1t was the schooner Polly,
built 90 years ago at Amestury, Mass,
with a record of service as a privateer
during the war of 1912 She wears her
age well and is solid in timber and plank.
Captain Mcfarland says she can hold her
own with any of them and on her trip
from Boothbay she gave several coasting
schooners a good beating. 1t was stern
chase for them in the wake of the Polly.
Some of the nurses of the Maine Gen
eral hospital wers entertained on the
steamer Assyrian Tuesday night.
Lobster arrivals: Lizzie May, 400;
for +. S. Willard; Clara Marston, 1900
Portland Lobster company.