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holy water, while the vessel relapsed from its bonds slipped out of the dry dock, evoked admiration.


The ceremony was performed at the request of the owner of the ANNA MURRAY – Timothy Murray, John B. Manning, and Capt. Birdsall, of New York. The vessel is of 3,000 tons, and is 210 feet long. It is to be used in trade between New York and the West Indies. Capt. Birdsall is in command.


27 June 1899 CATHERINE Disappeared in Penobscot Bay.


Bangor Excursion Managers Kept Wires Hot in Vain.


Board of Trade Torpedoes Suggested, But Fears are Subsiding.


Wanted: Information that will lead to the recovery of the hidden steamer CATHERINE.


That was the cry in Bangor on Monday.


The CATHERINE had been engaged by Messrs. Reed & Mountaine for an excursion down the bay last Sunday and over 350 people were disasppointed that morning to fi nd when they went to the wharf that she was not in this port. She left East Surry Saturday night bound for Bangor. After that her whereabouts was a mystery. The excursion tickets can be redeemed at Mountaine’s drug day’s excursion to Rockland. On Monday morning F. W. K. Reed, one of the excursion managers, called up Bucksport on the telephone, thinking that the CATHERINE might be in that port with broken machinery or thick weather as an excuse for not showing up. Bucksport had not seen or head of the missing craft. Mr. Reed then proceeded to call up Rockland and other places with no better result. No wire that could be pulled revealed the hiding place of the craft.


The captain of the steamer CASTINE which came to this city on Monday with an excursion from down the bay, was seen by reporters, to whom he said that it was announced down river that the CATHERINE had met with some small accident but that absolutely nothing was known of her whereabouts. In brief the steamer left East Surry Saturday night for this port to take the excursion out on Sunday, and has not been seen since. The most urgent inquiries from interested parties in Bangor failed to discover her whereabouts. Torpedoes Did It.


Late Monday afternoon an excited individual dashed into the Commercial offi ce with the information that if the city editor would kindly call up number umpet- ump four he could fi nd out all about the CATHERINE.


“Gimme umpety-ump four,” therefore called the boss scribbler over the wire. “Hello,” ye yelled a minute later, “can you tell us anything about the whereabouts of the excursion steamer CATHERINE?” “Sure thing!” was the confi dent reply. “Down here they say she struck a board- of-trade torpedo that got away from the government last summer and that she hasn’t come down yet. Always good to do favors, you know, - oh, yes, good day!” However, it has been defi nitely settled that this report is wholly without foundation. To Meet Dewey.


Another theory is, that the CATHERINE has started across the Atlantic to escort Admiral Dewey to New York. It is thought by many, however, that this theory is also improbable and it is pointed out that the boat, coming from a prohibition coast, had no proper outfi t for a celebration of that joyous character.


Where down the bay, where the mists are reported to be very thick. “Now it may be,” says a man who has sailed in Penobscot waters for 30 years, that she struck a regular


downeast fog and wasn’t able to force her way through it.” He then commenced to tell the reporter that ancient tale of the man who shingled his barn roof 40 feet out onto a June fog before he discovered his mistake, merely by way of showing that Maine mists are sometimes thick enough to prevent a steamer from forcing her way up river. But She’s Safe.


Nothwithstanding these conjectures, Messrs. Reed & Mountaine do not appear to worry much and confi dently state that the CATHERINE will be on hand next Sunday morning to carry the excursionists to Rockland strictly as advertised. She is a fi ne boat and will take down several hundreds of people without discomfort next Sunday.


29 June 1899 The CATHARINE is found. The steamer CATHERINE has been found. She is at Rockland. F. W. K. Reed, the excursion manager, received a telephone message from her captain on Wednesday morning, that official expressing much amusement at the idea that anything serious had happened. The CATHERINE reached a point just below Bucksport Sunday morning, on her way to Bangor, when, as the weather was very thick, the skipper, thinking that it would be useless to come up, turned and, without landing at Bucksport, started down the bay. Owing to the thick fog the CATHERINE had not been seen at Bucksport and consequently when Mr. Reed telephoned to that port nothing was known of the whereabouts of the steamer. She left Rockland on her regular trip to East Surry on Wednesday.


Hereafter the CATHERINE will come to this city Sunday morning rain or shine, and if the skies clear by moon an afternoon trip down the bay will be in order. The excursion to Rockland next Sunday will be largely attended.


Those who go on the excursion will have travelled more than 100 miles before their return to Bangor. As the price of tickets is but 50 cents it can readily be seen that is cheap mileage. The Bangor band will discourse music continuously on the trip and if Old Probsees fi t to favor this part of the globe with good weather, here is a chance to get one’s money’s worth down the bay.


15 September 1899 Schooner WM. B. PALMER Sailed Thursday.


Fashionable Launching at Bath on Next Tuesday.


DISCOUNT POWER TOOLS CORDED POWER TOOLS CORDLESS POWER TOOLS FUELED POWER TOOLS PNEUMATIC POWER TOOLS FASTENERS HAND TOOLS


MATERIAL HANDLING


POWER TOOL ACCESSORIES SAFETY SUPPLIES WELDING SUPPLIES


Various Shipping News of Interest – Recent Freights and Charters. The fourmaster schooner WM. B.


PALMER fi nished discharging coal at High head on Thursday afternoon and sailed late in the day for Philadelphia; Trefethen & Dugan’s stevedores are now at work on the fourmasted MAJOR PICKANDS. The vessels which are now at High head waiting to be discharged are the barge MALVERN, the fourmasted barkentine, Jas. W. ELWEEL and the GEN. S. E. MERWIN.


The fourmasted schooners JOHN F.


RANDALL and CHAS. K. SCHULL are on their way to Bangor with coal. The schooner S. E. TYRON has


fi nished discharging coal at Biddeford and is now on her way to Frankfort to load stone for the Mt. Waldo Granite Co. The schooner HATHORNE D. PERRY is chartered to bring coal to Bangor. Three of the crew of the ship JOHN R.


KELLEY, Capt. Chapman, of Bath, wrecked off Cape Horn, May 25, arrived in New York this week on the British steamship PARANA. They were Frank Heiman of Staten Island, Edward Larzen, a Swede, and


Adolph Lindbery. Capt. Chapman sold the ship and her cargo for $1000. Fears for the CLEAVES. The brig, HENRY B. CLEAVES, built in Bath in 1874, sailed from Gonaives, Hayti, July 27, bound for Stamford, Connecticut, with a full cargo of logwood. She is now long overdue and having been out in the August hurricane, her owners fear that she has foundered, with the probably loss of her crew, although there is some chance that the men were taken off by some passing vessel and may yet be heard from. The CLEAVES registered 370 net tons, and owned by W. S. Jordan & Co., of Portland, Capt. Wm. Nelson of Jonesport, and others. Capt. Nelson had stayed at home this voyage giving up the command to his son.


With the loss of the CLEAVES the brig rig disappears from the Portland fl eet, she having been for some time the last of her class owned there.


The three and fourmasted schooners have almost entirely taken the place of square rigged vessel. A Fashionable Launching.


Next Tuesday forenoon at 11:15 o’clock the time for the launching of the magnifi cent steel yacht VIRGINIA from the yard of her builders, the Bath Iron Works, and the gates of the yard will be thrown open to the public shortly before the interesting event takes place.


Isaac Stern and Stern Bros., New York, owner of the craft, will leave Boston next Monday morning at 9:45 with three special cars conveying a party of 30 guests and Delmonico’s chef with a corps of waiters to the City of Ships.


The party will pass Monday night in Brunswick and leave for Bath the following morning, arriving there at 8:30.


An excursion will be enjoyed down the river on one of the steamers before the launching occurs.


The yacht will be named MISS STERN, the daughter of the owner.


Following the launching, a banquet will be served on the second fl oor of the Bath Iron Works offi ce, given by Mr. Stern to his guests and the Iron Works offi ce, given by Mr. Stern to his guests and the Iron Works offi cials. It will be in charge of the caterers from Delmonico’s and will be an elaborate spread.


After the banquet the Stern party will leave Bath on their cars at 3:30. The cars will be drawn to Portland by a special engine. The yacht will be ready to enter commission the fi rst of January and her owner will probably sail in Mediterranean waters during the winter months and remain in Europe during a part of the summer of 1900. The VIRGINIA is 185 feet over all; 165 feet on the water line; 25 feet, nine inches beam; 15 feet, four inches depth of hold and 12 feet draught. Thereis a deck house the full length of the central portion of the vessel, the roof of which will be carried to the rail line forming a sun deck. The craft will be fi nished up in the highest style of the yachtman’s art and make an ideal home for one who loves the sea. Freight and Charters.


Bark JESSE MCGREGER, and schooner S. M. BIRD, South Amboy to Portsmouth, New Hampshire; coal, 80 cents. Schooner KATHERINE D. PERRY, Philadelphia to Bangor, 1700 tons of coal, $1.


Schooner MAGGIE HART, New York to Sierre Leone, general cargo, private terms.


Schooner W. J. LERMOND, Baltimore to New Orleans, coal, $1.80, free discharge and lighterage dues.


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