The Republican journal., 1913-04-03
The meeting Of the Associated Charities an.

/ The meeting of the Associated Charities ap-
| pointed for last M onday evening at the Bap-
| fist vestry has been postponed to next Monday
evening.
| STEAMER NoTEs. The steamer Belfast of
| the Eastern Steamship Co arrived in Bangor
! at 1885 o'clock last Thursday afternoon, the
first trip of the season. She sailed upon her
return trip with passengers and freight at 2 10
, p. m. She arrived again Saturday and return
ed to Boston Monday and was then withdrawn
; from the line for thorough overhauling, pre-
paratory to resuming the route when the sum
mer schedule goes into effect Last Monday
the spring schedule went into effect. the Cam
den and the City of Bangor leaving Belfast for
Boston four times week, on Monday, Wednes-
day, Thursday and Saturday, and arriving from
| Boston Tuesday. Wednesday, Friday and Sat
urday The Belfast remained at her dock
,, here last Thursday night because of the storm
prevailing and sft for Boston at 3 a M Fri
day. She left her return a little before
midnight Friday. The Eastern Steamship
corporation has reduced the par value of the
common stock from $50 to s25 per share. This
means that where there was formerly $4,000
900 par of comm n stock there is now So 000-
| COO, although the number of shares remains
unchanged. This reduction was made at spe-
cal meeting in February and the Boston News
Bureau says it has not affected the market
price of the common, which is about $40 per
share compared with high point last year of
$34. The purpose of the reduction is to make
l%lo
property facts. Incidentally the company is
! able to write down the book value of its steam
ships and other property assets by CORE
spending amount.
SHIPPING ITEMS. The Journal has received
from Capt. F. P. Whittier a photo of the
schooner John Bossert as she lay head on
in the dock at Brooklyn, N. Y, after her
collision with the steamship Kanawha, Feb.
%, 1913. Her bowsprit and all headgear was
carried away, and rail stove in the port
side abreast the foremost. mass of broken
spars, rigging, etc, hangs from the bows. In
note Capt. Whittier says: 1.-The Kanawha
towed US in from off Absecom to Sandy Hook
All that wreckage was in the water and we
hung il up and after the cargo was out il hung
as in the picture The damage to the schoon-
er was between $1,000 and $1,000 . The bark
Penobscot was recently burned to the waters
edge at Conception, Uruguay, while discharg
ing cargo at the dock. She was one of the
many vessels built at Bucksport by W. H.
Gem and N. T. Hill back in the 70's. For
many years she was commanded by the late
Capt. Peter McCauder. Among the schoon-
ers tied up around New York for the winter
and now in commission or getting ready for
business, are the Annie P. Chase, c. B. Clark,
Charlotte T. Sibley, Edith McIntire, Ella NJ
Storer, Florence and Lillian, Harold c. Beech
er, Henrietta Simmons, Henry R. Tilton. Ida
B. Gibson, Irene E. Merservey. Izetta, Kit
Carson, Lizzie d. Small, Lottie Beard, Melissa
Trask, N. E. Aver, Telumah and William D.
Hilton. -. Sch. Susie P. Oliver has discharged
fertilizer at this port for Jackson Hall and
was towed to Bangor to load lumber. Barge
No. 2, R. & R. l. Co., has discharged fertilizer
for the Coe- Mortimer Co.. Sch N. E. Aver,
Capt. A. B. Marcel. is loading stone at VinaI-
haven for New York. E. Sch. Annie B. Mitchell,
Capt. E. S. Mcdonald has loaded stone at
Somes Sound and sailed for New York The
schooner Frederick Roessner, which has been
thoroughly overhauled and rugged under the
supervision of Capt. ]. O. Hayes, will be ready
for sea when her sails are bent NJ S. Lord &
Co., who are making them, were delayed by
! the non arrival of material but have them
nearly completed. The coasting vessels that
have been laid up during the winter are get
ting into commission Lumber freiphts are
reported good at eastern Maine and Nova
Scotia ports. The bark Mary Barry from
Pensacola for Ponce, P. R., with a cargo of
| lumber, has been abandoned off Cape Hat
teras The crew has been landed at havana
Cuba. The Barry was built as barkentine
| in 1882 at East Deering, and was formerly
known as the Jessie MacGregor.