The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-04-13
THE NEWS OF BELFAST.

"0 81 i""uaSiou ptIGS Ill tuc f1lSH SClOOl
have been assigned. Miss Louise Hall has
the valedictory and Miss Elizabeth A
Quimby the salutatory. The other parts
will be assigned by the class.
SHIPPING ITEMS. Sch. Merrill G. Hart,
which wlntered at this port and was recent
ly sold by George A. Gilchrest to Thomas
ton parties, was taken out on the marine
railway last week to be overhauled,
calked and painted. She is chartered to
Loaf. paving at Roberts Harbor. Vinal-
haven, for New York, at 81 per ton. Sch.
Sarah L. Davis, Pattershall, arrived at
Bucksport April 5th with $50 tons of ferti-
izer from Barren Island, New York, for
shipment up country by rail. Sch Ned P.
Walker has chartered to load rough granite
at Crotch Island, Stonington, for Clark
Island, st. George. where it will be cut for
the government dry dock at the Norfolk,
Va, navy yard; 60 cents per ton, loaded
and discharged. ...Sch. NJ K. Rawley has
chartered to load granite paving at Granite
Island, Vinalhaven, for New York, at S1.OO
per ton and wharfage. =. Sch. William Bis
bee has chartered to load granite posts at
Long Cove, st. George, for New York, at 81
per ton !; thence to Pamunky River, Va. to
load white oak timber for Percy & Small
Bath. Sch. c. B. Clark has chartered to
load rough stone at Pleasant River, Vinal-
haven, for New York, at S1.25 per ton. e.
load cut granite at Somes' Sound, Mt
Desert, for Baltimore, at 81 per ton... The
following coal charters are reported: Schs
Damietta Il Joanna, Hoboken to Belfast
rs cents; Sallie ron, Philadelphia to
Charleston, so cents Emma S. Briggs, Port
Jefferson to Hallowell, Sl.25; Annie 2.
Chase, New York to Portland, p t. Other
charters: Schs. Salle ron, Charleston to
Philadelphia, lumber, p. t.; Arthur Lord,
Jonesboro to New York, laths, 60 cents per
thousand; Nimbus, Fernandina to. New
York, lumber. if Philadelphia, $40; Well
fleet. New Orleans to North of Hatteras,
molasses, p. t.; Sadie Wilcutt, Webb's Cove
to New York, stone, p. t.; Mary E. Palmer,
Philadelphia to Bangor, coal, 50 cents, 10
days; ship Tillie E. Starbuck, Honolulu to
Delaware Breakwater, sugar, p. t.; sch.
Young Brothers, Philadelphia to Boston,
coal, Is CENTS. Sch. Robert W. was taken
ON Gilchrest's marine railway Saturday for
general repairs. She laid in the ice at Frank,
fort last winter and was badly chafed. The
schooner carries stone from the Mt Waldo
quarry to Bucksport for shipment by rail.
...Sch Susan StetsOn arrived from Boston
Saturday tn on IN GilcbroSt'S marina roll
way and will have quite extensive repairs.
Sch. George and Albert, whose loss is
in the marine column, was built at
Belfast by Garter & Co. in 1867 for Captain
Augustus Mcdonald .....P Part of the frame
for the schooner Gilchrest is to build for
the McQuesten'S of Boston has arrived by
rail from Thomaston and the hard pine is
due this week. Work was begun Monday
The vessel will be built where the sch.
Frank Barnet was built, just above the
marine railway. Sch. Hattie ii. Barbour
arrived at Stockton Springs last Sunday
from Port Jefferson with coal. Edward
P. McCaulder of Bucksport, son of Captain
now in command of the steel steamer San
turce, formerly the S. L. Morgan, a craft of
1886 tons, carrying crew of u men. She
phys between New York and Porto Rican
ports. Captain McCaulder has been i'll this
trade as first officer for several years..
John L. GosS of Stonington has bought in
Boston for $4,000 the tug Betsey Ross, for
use in towing the vessels loading at his
quarries ana at the adjoining quarres of
Ryan & Parker. The tug was built in Bos-
ton about one year ago, is 20 feet long and
has d capacity of $50 horsepower. Capt.
William L. Greenlaw of Stonington will
her.. The keel is stretched for
the new tive-masted schooner now under
construction in II. NJ. q r. L. Beams yard,
Camden. The Belfast Fuel X Hay Co. has
loaded sch. Harriet Lyman with hay at
Wnterport for Winter Ilarbor, and is load
ing sch. Maria Webster at the same place
for Somes' Sound and Northeast Harbor...
Sch. Windward has loaded a general cargo
for Swans Island, including hay for the
Belfast Fuel u Hay Co....Sch. F. Z. Pendle
ton arrived Tuesday from Perth Amboy
with 6S5 tons of hard coal for the Belfast
Fuel & Hay Co.