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the WINONA, a small steam yacht, which would accommodate about 15 persons, and which was at that time owned by Charles Pearl of Bangor. Before that time he was engaged for about two years in Curacoa, West Indies, in bridge construction. In his trips about Phillips Lake Mr. Cobb


realized, as he watched the throbs about two years and during this time he has been around the world in the boat twice. Mr. Hill was very much taken with the work of his engineer and he is reported to have said that his engines were never run in a more satisfactory manner than when they were under the charge of this same engineer from Brewer. Chief Engineer of MINNESOTA At the present time Mr. Hill has under


construction two steamships, which will be the largest steam crafts afl oat. They will be known as the MINNESOTA and the DAKOTA and they will be used for the Oriental trade. The MINNESOTA was launched last spring and will be fully completed some time next summer, probably in June, and Mr. Cobb has been appointed as the chief engineer of this fl oating palace. It is an honor which comes to but a few in this world and while his success rests lightly upon his shoulders the friends of Mr. Cobb in this city and abroad consider that his rapid rise in his profession is little short of miraculous. He is at present at work upon the installation of


the engines which are to drive this enormous boat.


6 November 1903 With the Ships


Captain of W. F. BABCOCK Sent 100 Miles for His Wife


ELEANOR A. BARTRAM in


Four-Masted Schooner was Launched Thursday at East Boothbay Davenport Disabled


The schooner FRANK T. STINSON,


Philadelphia, with 1499 tons of coal for the Howland Pulp & Paper Co., arrived Friday as did the schooners MAUD S., Vinalhaven; LEWIS R. FRENCH, Southwest Harbor; KITTY LAW(?), Rockland; J. CHESTER WOOD, Boston; BLOOMER, Rockport, lime for R. B. Dunning Co. Clearances Friday included the Italian


bark TERESINA, shooks by the T. J. Stewart Co., for Messina, and schooners NAWIGAWAW, Deer Isle, C. G. Chalmers; SUSAN STETSON, Boston, James Walker & Co.; MARY E. PALMER, coal port; L. SNOW, JR., Bar Harbor, Eastern Mfg. Co.; EDWARD STEWART, New York, Eastern Mfg. Co.; MARY J. ELLIOTT, Dark and Southwest Harbors, Morse & Co.; EDWARD L. WARREN, Diamond Island, Lowell & Engel, and the barge TUNNEL RIDGE, Philadelphia.


Sent Back for His Wife. The following dispatch from Baltimore


is of interest to Bangor people and all those acquainted with the captain: Baltimore, Maryland, Saturday: - After


starting on a 15,000 mile voyage around Cape Horn, Capt. Moxen anchored his ship, the W. F. BABCOCK, 100 miles from port until a tug could come back to Baltimore for his wife at a cost of $240. Mrs. Moxen was a resident of New


Zealand and is a strikingly handsome woman. She has been going to sea with Capt. Moxen for six years and has been all over the world. When the W. F. BABCOCK came to


Baltimore from San Francisco and New York she decided that she would not make the present trip around Cape Horn, and it was arranged that she spend the time ashore. When the BABCOCK sailed and Capt.


Moxen saw the waters of the bay widening out toward the sea, the emptiness of the ship’s big cabin was accentuated by the howl of the gale that swept about the vessel. He saw a four months’ voyage ahead of him. Capt. Moxen could not stand it, he must have his wife go, no matter how much it thinned his wallet. He ordered the ship anchored off


Windmill Point. The towing tug was asked to come alongside. It was agreed that the tug should get $10 an hour for returning 100 miles to Baltimore, waiting until Mrs. Moxen and her eff ects could be brought aboard and steaming down the bay to the ship. This was done and Mrs. Moxen is aboard


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for the long days and heavy gales off Cape Horn.


FRED A. DAVENPORT Disabled. The Bath schooner FRED A.


DAVENPORT, Capt. Kimball, bound to Bath with a cargo of pine from Darien for Percy & Small, arrived at Vineyard Haven Wednesday disabled. She experienced a heavy northwest gale on the 24th


inst about 40 miles south of


Hatteras and has her rudder damaged. She made temporary repairs so she could be steered and arrived in Vineyard Haven. She will be towed to Boston and then to Bath. News of the Shipping.


The schooner M. D. CRESSEY of


the Percy & Small fl eet arrived at Bath Wednesday from Boston and will repair at the Percy & Small yard. The new four-masted schooner


ELEANOR A. BARTRAM was launched at high water Thursday forenoon from the yard of Walter I. Adams, at East Boothbay. She has been rigged on the stocks and immediately after launching the tug PORTLAND towed her to Wiscasset where she will load part cargo of ice for Demerara, afterward going to Portland to complete loading. The BARTRAM is a fi nely modeled vessel of 100 tons, built in the thorough manner for which Master Adams is so well noted, and will hail from Portland, where she is owned by Andrew Adams and others. She will be commanded by Capt. Benjamin E. Pinkham, formerly of the schooner R. D. BIBBER.


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