The Republican journal., 1916-11-09

SHIPPING ITEMS. Some of the big schooners
in the offshore trade are getting big freights;
in SONS cases the charter for the outward voy-
age paying the fall cost of the vessel. Recent
sales: The barkenuine Kremlin built at Bath
in 1890 and owned by John S. Emery & Co. of
Boston, has been sold to the Maritime Trans
portation Company of New York for $55 O0O
cash. The schooners Edith, Eleanor A Percy
James W. Paul, Jr., and Ada +. Brown, sold
some time ago to Erling Monsen of London
have been disposed of to Norwegians for $780,
900. They were formerly employed in the coal
trade and the Paul has brought several cargoes
to Mack's Point. The old revenue cutter
Woodbury., which pstrolled the New England
coast for nearly half century and was sold
two years ago by the government to a junk
firm and later resold TO motion picture con-
Germ and used as a floating studio, has been
converted into schooner barge called the
Laksco. -. The FOUR asted schooner George
A. Gichrest is building at Thomaston for the
McQuesten Lumber Co. of Boston will not be
ready to be sent overheard until December
some weeks later than the time called for in
the contract, The delay is due to the inability
of the builder to have the lumber delivered in
time because of the car shortage. The two
masted schooner Marguerite. which sank off
Governors Island Sept. 9th in a collision with
the steam lighter Eureka and was raised by
the Scott Wrecking company after being aban-
doned by the owners, has been sold to the Ed
ward Bryant Company of Boston for $1,000
The vessel will be repaired and placed in the
lime trade between Rockland and Boston. The
schooner has big hole in her port bow.
FROM SUBSCRIBERS. DR.. W. H. Winslow
writes from Roxbury, Mass: "Glad to see you
have continued your auto cruises and given US
SO much interesting stuff about Belfast
scenery. ....A. W. Thompson writes from
Clayton, New Mexico: "Your two sketches
in The Journal of Oct, 18th were particularly
interesting That of old Fort Laramie, which
l am surprised to learn you visited in the late
ffties, depicts the surroundings then quite diff
ferent from those of today, and the Indians
| tepee has given plfce to irrigated fields of
grain and alfalfa. Parkman was there, l be-
lieve, in 1886. and returned to the east by way
of the present Denver, or near it, and the
Ar ansas; meeting, if my memory serves me
correctly, that renowned band of Missourians
under General Kearney, and Price and Dono-
phan, who several weeks later took Santa Fe
without firing shot. l trust you will con-
tinue these early annals of western life. They
are worth great deal to your readers.
"Swan Lake must be at it's best just now
and the thousand early recollections of that
locality are refreshed by your lines. Anent to
your mention of MIR. Simpsons love for ang-
ling, recall an old story that member of a
certain fishing party there used to gleefullv
relate. Among the members of this party
were Mr.. Simpson and the late Charles r.
Thombs, both ardent sportsmen, who were
standing that dark fall night the rocky
shore just above Cliff Cottage, where the party
was making its rendezvous. Fishing near
each other Mr.. Simpson had said, "Charles,
I'll bet you five dollars land the first trout"
which wager was at once taken. Not long af-
ter Mr.. Thombs got ''nibble" and as he did so,
in some manner he slipped. caught himself for
an instant, then pitched into the cold waters
of the pond. when his companion called,
"Hold on, Charles, that bet is off if you are
going to dive Tor 'em." How very few of
those congenial friends and sportemen of the
seventies are left"