The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-02-02
DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS soL,c,re,

i. Ferguson at high water with steamer
Waquot and IA powerful steam pump
heavy northeast snow storm commenced at
dusk and the attempt may have to be aban-
doned at midnight. The sails and rigging
stripped from schooner Richard S. Leaning,
wrecked on Long shOal, were sold at auc-
ton to-day.
Rockland, Jan. 81 Captain NJ. V. B.
Brewster OF ror: jefferson, Long Island,
N. Y, has closed a contract with Cobb,
Butler & Co., for the CONTRIBUTION of sim
gle deck, four-masted lumber schooner of
as follows: Keel, 116 feet; beam, 81 feet
hold, IL feet. The frame will be cut at
once by William Bisbee and upon it's ar
rival here about two months hence work
will begin Immediately. This ensures an
other busy summer at the yard and is good
news.
Newport, R. l., Jan. 26. The schooner
Henry Whitney of Machias, Maine, bound
from New York for Wareham, Mass, with
coal, parted her cable here early today and
went ashore at the south end of the harbor.
The Whitney is an old twO-masted vessel
and is leaking. The crew is on board but
are in no danger. Jan. q. The Whitney
Solicitor to float the craft has been aban-
doned for the present. The vessel is 81
years old and is thought to be in poor
shape.
Rockland, Jan. o. The weather was fine
today, compared with the gale of Wednes-
to the schOOners damaged by the storm.
The schooner James ROthWell of Boston,
which went ashore on Birch Island We'd
nesday, was flOated today at high tide and
lowed to this port by the tug F. NJ. Smith.
While stranded the schooner took in large
quantity of water but her seams closed
when the vessel was tioated and only a
slight thrush of water was observed during
the trip into this harbOr. The Rothwell
will be put on the marine railway at Cam
dem and repairs made.
The two master Maud Seward of Ston-
ington, which grounded on Birch Island
Bar " Wednesday, .aaa dragged oyer on TO; the
shore and full of water. Samuel Goss, the
owner, arrived here today. He hopes to be
able to float her. Mr.. Goss says he carried
no Insurance on the Seward.
While awaiting a cargo OF granite at Ston-
ingtOn yesterday the schooner Caroline Grey
sprang a leak. With pumps working she
was towed to this port today where she will
be repaired.
Baltimore, Jan. %. The barkantine Glad
Tidings, of the fleet of Rio coffee clippers
owned by c. Morton Stewart & Co., sailed
yesterday with a cargo of coal for New
London, Connecticut. The departure of
the Glad Tidings ends her career as a Rio
trader, and also her ownership at this port,
she having been sold to NJ. S. Gilbert of
Mystic, Conn. The new owner will have
the graceful barkantine converted into Il
three-masted schooner, and will use her in
the general coasting trade. The Glad It'd
ings is the third vessel of the coffee fleet to
be sold from this port during the past
year, the others being the barkantine
Frances and Amy. The Glad Tidings was
built at Belfast, Me-, in 1884 She is a
vessel of 6O5 tons net.
Boston, Jan. 81. Word was received
yesterday that the bark Rebecca Crowell,
Capt. Dow, which ran ashore 20 miles east
of Nassau on Jan. II, while bound from
San Juan, P. r., to this port with a cargo
of molasseS, has tloated aud arrived at Mas
sau. She jettsoned part of her cargo
while ashore, and is now discharging 1866
casks of molasses. the rem hinder of her
shipment, preparatory to hauling out for
an examination.