The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-04-18
HARBOR NOTES.
item. ofIntere-t Picked UP Along the
water Front.

water Front.
The Aags we're at half mast on the tug
yesterday out of respect 70 the memory Of
the late Captain Thomas Matthews.
The Ajax was at work yesterday raisint
the boilers and engines of the tug Salem
n. Il. Gordon, the diver, was assisting
In the job.
The side-wheel steamer Penobscot o
the Bangor line is receiving extensive re
pairs at East Boston. The guards, pad
die boxes and other portions of her uppe
works are being renewed, and her interio
thoroughly renovated.
The Portland company has been max
ing several cast iron keels for centre
board yachts being built by Rice Bros. al
Boothbay. Three keels have already been
furnished, the heaviest weighing IA tons
The Allan liner Hibernian will sal
today, and the Norwegian which is nov
In port, will most likely be the las
steamer of this line to leave during the
present season, unless the 1uranian
should happen to touch here, which she
may do, II unable to get up the river to
Montreal.
The schooner Maggie Ellen was on tht
marine railway yesterday and the lob
ster steamer Herman Reesing and
schooner Matte J. Allies are waiting
their turn.
There were four masted sohooners AND
three masted schoopers yesterday in the
harbor loaded with coal.
The tug Valley Forge came in towing
the barge Suffolk.
Schooner Sarah Il Ellen got in with
coal, and other arrivals were schooners
Laura and Marion and Augustus Hunt.
Schooner Addie Jordan sailed with 6
load. of barrels for Glencove, N. Y
schooner Clara Goodwin sailed with Goa
and other departures were the Viking and
Geo. E. Walcott.
MIR. Otis Leighton. second officer Of TIT
steamer Bay State, was called to Mill
bridge, because of the..death of his sister
Steamship Arab, the last Of the Ley land
liners Doc ked this season for this port
sailed with general cargo on the l4tf
inst. from Liverpool.
HtNICito Nttp oPohSA aSA SAc"e ava
the following schooners: Frank T. Stin-
son from Portland to one or more GOA
ports and return to eastern waters
George A. Hanson, from Port land to the
kennebeo river, thence to Washington,
thence to coal port and return east.
A crew has been signed in Boston for
the bark Hattie q. Dixon, now in this
port and soon TO sail for Paysandu,
Uruguay. The men are expected to arrive
here today.
Office of the Light House Inspector,
First District.
Portland, Me-, April 10, 1880.
Notice is hereby given of the following
changes in aid to navigation on the
first lighthouse district:
,Quoddy Roads, Me-, Middle Ground
buoy, No. 2. red first class nun. report
ed February 10, dragged about 300 fee t to
southwark, was replaced on its station
April Is.
on Petit Manan Light Station, Me. /,
Simm's Rock buoy, red and black horl-
zontally stripped second class can, re-
ported adrift April 3, was replaced April
IL.
Meonak River, Me. On April II the
perches in this river, from Hollis Point
to Maldoboro, were replaced for the season
of navigation.
by order OF the light house board:
j. h. Cogswell,
Lieut.. Commander, Q. 5. N,
Inspector First l.. Ii. Dis.
The Portland and Mt. Desert Steamboat
company is having a tripod erected at
Birch point, near Machiasport, to aid the
Frank Jones in entering the river during
foggy weather.