The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1912-11-07

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First load of brush on the street Nov 9Th.
Good progress has been made the past week
in matchmaking post office square.
ADVERTISED LETTERS. The following let
tiers remained unclaimed in the Belfast post
Office for the week ending Nov 9Th. Ladies'
Mrs Elizabeth Brown, Miss Margaret Craig, e
letters), Mrs. Fannie Homes, Mrs. Della D.
Mank e letters), Miss Edith Stubs, Miss
WEIGH, Milliner. Gentlemen-James Breslau,
John E. Clifford, Percy Harvey Mr.. H. Har-
vey, James Hanson, Van Jones, G. E. Smith,
Jedediah Stuart, Jessie Weber, Blacksmith.
delightful Halloween picnic supper was
served last Thursday night in the E. K Brier
millinery parlor the young ladies' employed
there acting as hostesses. The room was
prettily decorated and the tables daintily ap-
pointed and decorated. Yellow chrysanthe-
NUNS formed the centerpeces and the favors
were in keeping with the season. The menu
included chicken salad, rolls, olives, fruit salad
oSINSu III grapefruit JdCh-o idHeCiASs SSiCiy,
pineapple whip, cake, coffee and nuts. Those
present were Mrs. Cleveland Downes, Mrs.
Charles W. Atkins, Mrs. Robert P. Coombs,
/ Miss Mary Hilton, Mrs. A. B. Wylie, Miss
Edythe Atkins, Miss Georgia Hall and Miss
Katherine E. Brier.
FISHING BOATS We saw at Mc1ntire's
wharf the other one of the present type of
fishing boats. She had long sharp bow, and
no bowsprit, the jibstay coming down to the
stem head. The jib had a boom and was sheet
ed to a traveller, so that in windward work her
two fore-and-aft sails required no attention.
A gasolene engine furnished power, to be used
in calm weather or in moving from berth to
berth. Many of the craft engaged in the fish
ing business now depend on power alone, and
some of the fishermen have had power in
stalled in their sloops. In sailing craft the
most perfect type yet developed in the Friend
ship sloop. We one moored in Camden
harhor not long ago in a fleet of up-to- date
yachts, some with mahogany planking and
extreme overhangs, and for pleasure, COM
fort and safety would have given her preced-
ence any one of the fleet. But this type
has probably had its day.
HALLOWEEN We have Halloween dances
and parties nova days, but not the observ-
ances of the olden times. Hallow Even, or
| Halloween is the name popularity given to the
eve or vigil of All Haliows or festival of All
Saints, which being the LIST of November Hal
loween is the evening of the 31st of October
In England it has long been customary to crack
uts, duck for apples in tub of water, and
perform other harmless fireside revelres
While the same thing can be said of Scotland,
/ the Halloween ceremonies of that country
partook more of superstitious character:
taking, among rustics, the form of charm
to discover who should be his or her partner
for life. These customs are summarized in
Burns well known poem, Halloween" but it
is too long for quotation and not readily UNDER
stood by any but Scotchman. Here is the
closing verse:
WI merry songs and friendly cracks,
wot they did no. weary:
And unco tales, and funny jokes.
Their sports were cheap and CHEEKY;
Till butter'd SONS, with fragrant lunt
Set a their CABS a. steerin'
Syne wi a social glass O. strunt
They parted off careerin'
Flu blythe that night.
In SAILING PACKET DAYS. Mr.. G. E. McIn-
tire has put in substantial slip at his fish
wharf formerly Lanes wharf) and has hand
derrick that will handle up to 1000 pounds
convenlences that would have been greatly ap-
preciated a third of century or more ago.
Then considerable portion of Belfast's trade
w with ho iSlo pdc ,,1o 81,
by means small sailing craft. Landing and
loading were then attended with difficulty
Boats arriving at low water would anchor off
and land on the shore from their tenders, and
as women often came on these shopping ex-
| petitions walking over mud flats or rocks
covered with Shiny seaweed was not an agree
able experience. We recall one incident where
boat had hauled in on the upper side of the
steamboat wharf to take on board a cooking
stove, and rope slipped or broke and the
stove went down between the boat and the
wharf and was total loss. The Journal at
that time. and later, urged that the city es.
tablish and maintain public landing, the need
for which was evident, and it would have been
good investment. In the 70's trade with
lslesboro was carried on mainly by two sailing
packets. the schooners Nora and Planet The
Nora was 11.32 tons, and was built in Belfast
in 1870. A few years ago she laid at mornings
in Gilkey's harbor and was used to take out SAIL
ing parties, but she has since disappeared
from the government list. The Planet is not
80 easily traced, as our file of government lists
is not complete, but we find in the 1884 list
the steamer Planet of 1892 ton hailing from
1slesboro. 1t was recalled that the schooner
Planet was withdrawn from the packet SER
vice. hauled out in what was then Dyer's yard
had steam power installed and was to be used in
connection with canning factory at Camden
Later Capt. E. L. Williams did q packet bust
ness between Belfast and Crow Cove, Isles
boro, in the sloop Edith, which he built, spared
and rugged himself, also making the sails.
Communication with Islesboro is now kept up
by the steamers Golden Rod and Anna Belle.