The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-04-07
ra- ICE BLOCKADE RAISED.


- I.-..Iu.d. steamers Running as Usual.
.J Iuckade, which had shut Bel
u navigation since Feb. 7th, was
day, April 3d-a period of %
ugest ever known, except in
..,l uaygation was suspended from
April 18th, So days. For near
WEEKS the eastern bay had been
March 3oth the steamer City of
ul her first trip east from Bos-
t 8p river as far as Winterport
' lay strip of ice about half
-r interviewed between the open
..... ..e Turtle Head and the channel
.. 'u- revenue cutters off Northport,
..H- against the northern part of
.., held in position the ice field that
.-. uur harbor. Thursday night or
a. marning this strip broke away, and
....H,5 the revenue cutter Woodbury. ar
-t -.om Portland and began ice break
SIZE would steam up the bay SOME dis
--s men head across and then run down,
u,t.Hg out large fields. There were
.-.sra age cracks extending diagonally
-. 'H- bay and these materially facili-
.-- sae cutters work At one time in the
...u the ice field started and crashed
.t he monument until the cakes were
Tie top. Sunday morning strong
...-..se>t wind was blowing and when the
~,umed her work this, with the
-, -lJtjde, soon cleared the harbor of ice
. ,,rAmer fremont then Went ont and
the schoonerS Ira b. EllemS and
gl,S, loaded with fertilizer, which
ne days had been anchored in the
tter below. The cutter having com
Lee. work here, left at ! p, m. for
-a MI. where she forced her way into
I BOAT wharf. and about 3 p. M,
10 the harbor moved out into the
HE great delight of the crowd of
..- 'atuI> The stars and stripes We're
the breeze from the staff on the
.at wharf. the cutter, her captain
..,F Were given three cheers. aided by
side on the spool mill, to which the
l4>poudtd with blasts from her
steamer fremont, which had been
'u the winter at the Railroad wharf,
lay afternoon for Brook svllle to re-
.. ler route from Brook sville and Cas-
., udugs up river. The steamer
t4uedg tOWed two Scho0ners from
-rort to Rockport Sunday afternoon,
u4.oh She came into Belfast bay to in
-t,e the ice situation. Monday she re-
her regular trips on the Bucksport
mden route. The Golden Rod on the
pprt and Camden route and the Sill
on the Belfast, Castine and Isles
3o4tealSo resumed their trips Monday.
r~luer Pebobscot arrived about 8. 80
tom up river and left ON her regular
.r Boston.
"as busy along the water front Mon
1t the Railroad wharf the 3-masted
e uer Ira b. Ellems, Capt. Pinkham,
.H uteret, \. j., was diScharging phos-
-7'e tor John Sanborn, to be shipped by
'o lioult0n, and at Lewis wharf the g.
-a.,ed schooner Annie Bliss, Capt. Day,
Harren Island, was discharging phos-
4ae for l.. A. Knowlton 4 Co. At the
lD sde of the Swan & Sibley Co.'S
agi was the packet schooner Circle, just
7sd from Vinalhaven. Her captain was
LIED Sunday afternoon that the ice was
and he got ready at once to sail for Bel
-a.t lie reported meeting big field of
l.ug ice this side of Owls Head. At the
-3 ui the wharf schooner Harriet Rogers,
aW Patterson, was loaded with cord
f''d ior Ninalhaven, and schooner Maria
'roNteI, Capt. Turner, was loading hay
am The Belfast Fuel & Hay Co. for Mt.
'7sert The 3-masted schooner Arthur "
woodruff from Carteret, N. j., with
}hosphate, was anchored off the marine
AWAY Four other vessels with phosphate
'i~ At points near by bound for Belfast.
The ice while here, and in leaving, did
omparatively little damage 1t lifted and
moved short distance an abutment In the
4ndleton Bros ship yard and carried of
several mornings. At the Battery part OF
Ae abutment in front of the cottage OF
'bu X. Dunton was carried away. 1t was
&b,iantially built and had stood many
'e'ee storms. The Camp Ground wharf
as IN great danger, but escaped serious
.NNf} The small pier at Shore Acres
"h~a by Mr. Woodman, was carried
al also the outer end of the pier il
'ni of F. V. Cottrel's cottage. Mr.. Cot
rowed down Tuesday to look after hi.
't~itN, and reports that in places the ict
I1ed up on the shore 20 feet high