The Republican journal., 1904-02-25

CnAI was SO nrM ana Cnlck SnOuI0 break un
so readily. Sunday, Feb. 14th, was the
people were going and coming on the har-
Dor all day. The inner harb0r Is still closed
with thick ice-Camden Herald.
ROCKLAND HAS AN ICE CHANNEL.
The steamers MineOla, W. G. Butnam
and Catherine went out of ROekland har.
Dor Feb. 10th through the ice channel. The
Catherine went to Dark Harb0r and re-
turned. The ice was eight or ten inches
thick on the edges of the channel. It was
crews of our schOOners frozen in the har-
Dor making afternoon calls upon one an
other afOOt instead of afloat.
THE vINALHAVEN SINKS AT HER DOCK.
The steamer Vinalhaven of the Vinalha-
ven Il Rockland Steamboat Co., sank at
Tillson's wharf, Rockand, at 1890 p. M,
Feb. 10th, her main deck disappearing
under water. She laid with list towards
the wharf with her upper hurricane decks
out of water. The Vinalhaven had been
tied up since December and was alongside
her sister steamer Gov. BOdwell. Beside
them were numerous other craft solidly
frozen in the S-inch ice. 1t is supposed the
ice pulled the oakum out of her seams.
Thursday fire engine pumped the water
out of her hold, and she floated so that fires
were lighted under her boilers and steam
gotten up. She was not seriously damaged.
The Vinalhaven was built in SearspOrt,
Me-, in 1892 and is of 149 gross tonnage, "a
feet long, 227 beam and 7.6 in depth.
FRENCHMAN'S BAY FROZEN OVER.
A Bar Harbor despatch of Feb. 18th says:
"Frenchman'S bay is practically frozen
over. For weeks the iron steamer Pema-
guild has been breaking her way from Bar
Harbor to Mount Desert Ferry, but reg
ular service has not been discontinued.
The ice is from eight to ten inches
thick and the steamer requires from three
to five hours to cover seven miles. Not
since 1888 has the bay been frozen hard
enough to obStruct navigation. In the
vicinity of the United States coaling station
NOTES ALONG SHORE.
Fiftyfour people drove across the Reach
from Deer Isle Feb. IA to Brooklin and took
dinner at Hotel Dority.
Union river bay was frozen over down to
the outer edge of Deer Isle, so that teams
drove from the island to Sargentville.
At St. George Georges river was solidly
frozen over and people crossed over to
Gushing on the ice, something that has not
been done since 1875
Machias bay was frozen farther out to
sea than at any time since 1888. The ice
extended to Round island. A can buoy on
Round island flats was displaced by the ice,
carried mile in southwesterly direction
and dropped in the passage between Round
island and Salt island
Feb. 18th several people from Pulpit Har-
Dor, North Haven, walked to Compass
island on the ice, a distance of four miles.
Others walked out into the bay for miles,
while one man had the satisfaction of trying
his luck for bottom fish he did not succeed,
however, in getting a bite.
The ice was strong about Cape Rozier.
Feb. 10Th two men came from Hog Island
to Blake's Point and Feb. 14th John Quinn
and Edward Howard came from Eagle
Island to Blake's Point, and the Misses
Clara and Augusta Carver came from Hog
island to get their mail and returned the
same day.
There is scarcity of grain both in Rock
land and in Camden. There are 1000 BUSH
els OF grain for the Camden grist mill in
one of the ice anchored vessels in the
stream and the firm has been compelled to
order another cargo, now on the way from
Boston. Eight four horse teams were
carrying grain to Rockport and Camden
Feb. 18th from the Maine Central station to
relieve the grain famine.