The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-12-25
SEARSPORT.

Waltham, Mass.
B. H. Mudgett of Belfast was in town Mon.
day on business.
Capt and Mrs. H. G. Curtis left Monday to
spend Christmas with relatives in Boston.
DR.. and Mrs. S. L. Farchild and son Jay left
Monday for Pennsylvania to spend Christmas
Ship Timranda, Capt. N. F. Gilkey. arrived
at Montevideo Dec. 9th, Sc days from New
York.
Mrs Elizabeth Allen has gone to Orange, N
j., to spend the winter with her son, A. W.
Allen.
Mrs Alice T. Shute and son Calvin left Sat
urday for Boston, where they will spend the
winter.
Miss Rosamond Smith of Ashland is visiting
her aunt, Mrs. H. C. Holmes. on Howard
street.
from visit with her aunt, Mrs. Mary B. Sar-
gent. in Alton.
Miss Buck is at her home in Park from Fort
Fairfield, where she has been teaching, for the
holiday recess.
The Methodist church was prettily decorat-
ed and appropriate Christmas services were
held last Sunday.
Mrs. NJ. S. Dodge, who spent the summer
and fall in town, has gone to Springfield to
spend the winter.
Sch. George klnck arrived Thursday from
Baltimore with 800 tons of fertilizer to the
Hubbard Co. at Mack's Point.
Steamer George Hawley, Capt. Johnston,
finished discharging $500 tons of coal Satur-
day at the Penobscot Coal and Wharf dock and
sailed for Norfolk.
William H. Reed had his eye injured Monday
afternoon at the Penobscot coal dock and went
to Bangor Tuesday to have his eye cared for
by specialist.
James Pattee has been confined at the home
of his son, DIR. S. c. Pattee, for the past ten
days with severe attack of heart trouble, but
at this writing is improving.
Miss Georgia L. Ford left Monday for Day.
tona, Fla, where she will spend the winter.
The Western Union Telegraph Office here will
Re discontinued during her absence.
Cards have been received from Mrs Ella
Mowry, who is spending the winter the
West coast. She is at present at The Adel-
bert Apartments Los Angeles, Calf
a. c. Hopkins, manager of the Penobscot
Bay Electric Co., Belfast has been in town the
past week with crew of men setting poles
for connecting their plant with the Searsport
plant, which his company recently bought.
Mrs. Prudence McGilvery and Robert Frs
kline Pendleton, the young of Dr. Irwin E.
Pen 1ieton Of Lewiston, came over for the
week end with Capt. F. l. Pendleton and on
their return were accompanied by Capt. PEN
deton, who will spend the holidays with his
son, DR. Pendeton
Invitations have been received by friends in
town to the wedding of Raleigh Whittier and
Miss Jessie Louise Spaulding of Pittsfield,
which will take place in the Universalst
church, Pittsfield, Jan LIST. 1t will be fol-
lowed by reception. The groom is the son
of Conductor and Mrs. James Whittier of
Pittstield, for a number of years of Searsport
when Mr. Whittier was on the 8. & A. run be-
tween Searsport and Bangor. Young Whittier
has many friends in Searsport. The bride is
the daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Walter Scott
s. aulding, PttsfielJ.
The SEARsPoRT BARK MABEL l. MEYERS
The Boston Transcript of Dec 10Th had an ex-
celent half-tone Of tbs barkentine Mattel
Meyers on the railway. with the following ac-
count of this well known craft:
On the railway of the Atlantic Works in East
Boston Is sight which used to be common
enough IL this port but which, growing stead
lly more rare through the past two decades
VIII presently be Seen no more-a barkentine
hauled out for reeopperng of her bottom a
square-r1eger Of the American registry and
one OF me Few surviving vessels Of the once
Holflshlhg foreign going merchant navy,
lhe Mabel !, Meyers was built in Searsport
Me- twenty-five Years ago, when there were
Etii four other vessels from that port in the
deep water trade. All of them have gone to
Their last berths but this barkentine She has
been windJamnling up and down the western
Tceans, carrying lumber to Italy and to the
Argentine, picking up q charter where it was
to be rad. and crew on much the Same prin-
cinie, II net infrequently happens that the
-~Qmcers are obliged to accept crew which
knows nothing of manoeuvrinp souare-rig-
ged vessel, land then it's lick them into shape
the best way we can. The work has to be
done and they have to do it, that's ALL
On her last voyage the barkentine had the
rather unique experience of carrying an all
most exclusively Am arican crew. Of her three
Officers, Captain c. N Meyers and his brother
are Maine men. the cook, though a Cub n by
olrthj was naturalized American citizen, and
of the SIX men of the crew, two were from
Massachusetts and two from Maine, All were
young and nimbe men and sailing became. for
once, pleasure to the officers They could
hang on and carry sail as long as the sticks
Woaid stand II, confident that they had men
who could spring into the rigging and shorten
sal when the need came. In the twenty-five
years that the Meyers has bee poughing the
seas she has only been near her home port once
last year when she went to Stockton Springs
point four miles from Searsport, to load lum
her for Italy.
Like all deep-water men, Captain Meyers
asks only to be given plenty of sea room and
then lei the weather be what it WILL he under
takes to come through. "Pm not afraid OF
water, says he, what am afraid of is land
Let me take her off-shore two or three hun.
dred miles, and then if a hurricane comes
along. l snug her down and go below and turn
IN the same as you would in house on shore
know she will be there when the hurricane
has passed over. Oh, may lose spar or so
but that is ALL
The vessel has every appearance of the mos
palnstaklng up-keep. and with the present
care might be expected to weather the gales
OF another two decades. But the square rig Of