Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-03-25
|. PENOBSCOT OPEN.
Navigation Resumed on River,
Sunday and Monday.
Steamers fremont and Penobscot the
First to Reach Bangor.
Former Will Act as Ferry to Brewer
Until Bridge Is Rebuilt.

open to navigation has been announced
to the public in the midst of such eX-
citement and confusion that but little
attention has been paid to it. The re-
port that the ice went down was
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES vessels ever come III
was OF secondary consideration. 1t was
| day noon, after the second jam flowed
| from above the water works dam t.
! the sea, and already two steamers have
| forced their way through the boiling
current to the city, while a third is or
its way.
! The largest one, the familiar old
| Penobscut of the Boston line, poked he,
steel-shod bow around the High Head
| coal stages, Monday morning, at just
SCI O'Clock, reaching her berth on
Front street, 10 minutes later. She
sailed up in the midst of the usual bel
| lowing of mill whistles and the greet
, ings were answered with a will by
| Capt! Pierce. Little difficulty was OK
perlenced in hauling up alongside the
wharf ana IL minutes after she had
whistled for the landing trucks were
rafting out across the heavy planke
| into the sad looking freight sheds.
The Penobscot sailed down river last
December fOl the last time the Mon
| day following the mid December cloud
burst which came on Sunday, the 18th.
| She swung out into the river at $50 in
the afternoon, to face as ugly looking
mass as ever confronted a steamer.
went down all right, though, through
tons of anchor ice and thousands of
| logs to the sea. She has been running
regularly in hard winter and has
come up on the heels Of q freshet that
has beaten all records since 1916. She
looks as though she had seen some
heavy weather, as paint is missing in
spots and there's n dishevelled appear
ance about ner that speaks of hard
usage.
There were but three passengers
aboard. Monday morning, from Belfast,
but the freight was heavy and there
was a big lot of merchandise awaiting
her here, together with many passen-
gers. She left for Boston at II O'Clock
and is due here again, Wednesday
afternoon, to sail for Boston, Thurs
day morning.
The steamer fremont, excursion boat.
Bar Har6or liner, freighter and gen
eral utility craft, arrived off High
Head at 4.30 O'Clock Sunday afternoon,
and proceeded to Arey's wharf in
Brewer under the eyes of hundreds of
spectators who lined the water front
all Sunday afternoon. She has come
to take her place as the regular ferry
of the Maine Central until such time
as the railroad bridge can be repaired
Regular passengers will be carried
from Bangor to Brewer at the regular
railroad rates which are charged be-
tween the two cities, although the
|steamer will be too busy acting in the
capacity of railroad frcighter to cater
TO this class of trade
baggage, mail and express is loaded
on fiat cars at the western depot and
is pushed down to the loading platform
near the river, where another transfer
is made to the steamer. AT the Brewer
side it is taken in teams for transporta-
tiop to the trains that start from that
side. On account of the swift current
the fremont is kept headed upriver all
the time. drifting down, stern first,
from the Brewer ferryway to the old
Dole & Fogg wharf where she lands
her passengers in Bangor Capt
Gevrge H. Barbour is in command of
the fremont
The water in the saltwater branch of
the river was at its height on Sunday
and Monday noon saw a drop Of several
inches, although the river is as yet
very high. The lcwlands between here
and Saltwater are overlooked and the
road between the two waiting rooms
on the college campus is impossible.
All the logs along the river are safe.
the booms proving sufficiently strong
to hold them. The gang at Engers
mill cannot start until there is some
more drop in the water. All other mills
are running as usual.
The schooner Reuben Eastman.
which has made evident her possession
of as many lives as n cat through her
wintering at the Maine Central upper
wharf. is the first schooner to move
with freight in the Penobscot for the
season of 1902. She was taken by the
tug Bismarck to Stetsons yard in
Brewer at 11.30. o'clock Monday morn
ing with n cargo of iron which had
come in by rail for use in construction
of the new four-master that is to be
built there. After discharging her car
go she will be hauled out on the rail-
way for repairs in preparatio for the
summer service.
With every new foot of ground that
is explored on both the Brewer and
Bangor shores more flood damage is
found. Perhaps the most exasperating
of all is that at the Boston boat wharf
where a clear field is needed for the
proper handling of freight and passen-
gers at the opening of the season. The
offices are being repaired as fast as is
possible. and a big crew worked all dav
Sunday in the freight sheds trying to
put them into condition. The river wall
Of the inward bound shed has been
jammed in all out of shape and much
work will be necessary to right it.
AT the coal stages work of remaining
is under way and it is thought the
hosting platforms win be in readiness
by the time the first big schooners
commence to come in with cargoes.-