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HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Maine Industrial Journal - 1880 * * * * *


Lamoine where she will be used by the Sardine Packing Company. * * * * *


On and after Monday, April 28, the


steamers of the Sanford line will make four trips a week, each way, between this port and Boston; leaving Bangor every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday and Boston the same day.


* * * * * The steamer JAMES A GARY, of the


new propeller line between Bangor and New York, left the latter place yesterday on her fi rst trip, and will probably leave this city on the return voyage April 25th will be made.


. Weekly trips * * * * * It is understood that the new steam ferry


boat intended for the West Sullivan ferry is about ready to receive her machinery. It is to be hoped that Mr. Allen, the proprietor of the new craft, will be expeditious in putting her on the route.


29 April Page 262. F. M. Foote, in employ of the Portland


Steam Packet Company thirty-fi ve years, has been appointed superintendent engineer of the line, with headquarters in Portland.


Page 268. The Rockland Courier says the wharf


of May the MORRISON will stop at all the landings on the route. * * * * *


of the Blue Hill Steamboat Company at Ellsworth is being rapidly built and will be ready for use next week. The timber for one at East Blue Hill is being hauled and by the 1st


The latest steamboat proposition is to place on the Penobscot River a fast passen- ger steamer to make daily trips between this city and Rockland. It is proposed to form a stock company of $40,000 and purchase a suitable steamer for the route. The project is in the hands of competent steamboat men and its success seems assured. The projec-


tors have in view one of the swift New York passenger steamers which will make from 17 to 22 miles an hour.


6 May


Page 283. The steamer MOUNT DESERT will


take her place on the route between Rock- land and Sullivan about the 15th * * * * *


. The steamer HENRY MORRISON,


which plied between Rockland, Blue Hill and Ellsworth, is commanded by Captain O. A. Crockett and Mr. Ira T. Lovejoy offi ciates as clerk.


* * * * * In the shipyard of Goss, Sawyer &


Packard, at Bath, are now building one large three-masted schooner, 650 tons; one ship, about 1800 tons; one steamer, about 500 tons; one ship, 1800 tons; one schooner, keel just laid; one steam whaler, 500 tons; one ship, about 1800 tons. These vessels are unsurpassed in beauty of model and work- manship.


13 May Page 299.


Superintendent Duff has completed the


road to the new wharf at Peters’ Point in Blue Hill.


* * * * * The steamer MAY FIELD made a trip


from Bangor to Blue Hill and Ellsworth on Thursday.


* * * * * The Maine Steamship Company have


chartered the RAPIDAN, a steamer of 800 or 900 tons burden, to run between New York and Portland.


* * * * * The Sullivan steam ferryboat is waiting


to receive her machinery, which as expected to arrive some time since but has thus far failed to put in an appearance.


20 May Page 315. The steamers of the Bangor and Bar Harbor line are carrying large freight.


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LS DINGHY Portland’s foreign exports for the week ending May 7th


were valued at $180,156.78. * * * * *


The steamer JAMES A. GARY, of the


new line between Bangor and New York, is doing a good business.


* * * * * The steamer NEW BRUNSWICK will


be put on the Bangor and Boston route, in connection with the Sanford Line, the 20th of June.


* * * * * Harry B. Parker has been appointed


agent of the American Express Company, at Blue Hill. The company have also placed a messenger on the steamer HENRY MOR- RISON.


* * * * * Charles H. Bragdon, of Biddeford, has


secured a $40,000 contract to furnish stone for the government breakwater at New- buryport. The granite from Mr. Bragdon’s Biddeford quarries will be used. * * * * *


Steamer NEW BRUNSWICK will be


placed on the route between Bangor and Boston, in connection with the Sanford Line, the 20th


of June. Six trips per week, each


way, will be made by the steamers of this line during the summer. * * * * *


John S. Morris, of Portland, has pur-


chased the steamer SEA FLOWER, sold at auction in this city on Thursday last, for $1,765. The SEA FLOWER cost originally about $8,000 and has done service on the river for several years. She will be taken to Portland.


* * * * * The Eastport Sentinel says it is defi nite-


ly settled that the International Steamship Company are to run three of their steamers, the CITY OF PORTLAND, FALMOUTH and NEW YORK, the coming season, making four and possibly fi ve trips a week between Boston and St. John.


Page 316. In all probability the fast line, between


Bangor and Rockland will be established. The boat to be purchased will probably by the SHADY SIDE, one of the fast boats on the New York and Harlem route, which has been withdrawn since the running of elevated railway trains. The steamer is a side-wheeler of 444 tons and is said to be very fast. Besides the usual landings on the


bay and river, Rockport will probably be favored. [Rockland Courier] * * * * *


The Blue Hill correspondent of the


Commercial says the wharf at that place is now quite a busy place. Schooner REVE- NUE is discharging freight for H. B. Darling and others. Schooner CONCORDIA, coke, for the Douglass Mining Company and schooner NAPOLEON, English soft coal for same company. The correspondent also calls attention to the well-known fact that the entrance to Blue Hill harbor is one of the worst on the coast, being full of sunken ledges and not a buoy to mark them. Last Thursday the steamer MAY FIELD struck very heavily on one of them. Blue Hill now has two lines of steamers making regular trips to that port and this in connection with the extensive freight traffi c by sailing vessels is fully suffi cient to warrant calling the atten- tion of the Government to the condition of the harbor. If the channel can not be widened or straightened then the dangerous ledges and reefs should be at least marked so that their location could not be mistaken.


27 May Page 328.


THE COBB LIME COMPANY’S CE- MENT WORKS AT ROCKLAND [Rockland Courier]


There are very few people in this city


who are aware of the magnitude of the Cobb Lime Company’s Cement Works now in operation, and so a Courier representative paid them a visit last week in order to give readers of this newspaper some idea as to the manufacture of this celebrated Portland cement. We were kindly furnished all the de- tails of its manufacture and shown about the institution by A. W. Shaw, the gentlemanly and well informed superintendent, who by the way is the patenee and manufacturer of all the machinery used by the company, and it is extensive and includes much that is of the nicest workmanship. Sixteen men are kept busily at work in


the diff erent branches of the manufacture and the scene is animated enough. The works are being run day and night to fi ll orders, and have a capacity of 1000 barrels a month. It really looks as though the manufacture of this article is to play an important feature among our industries. Portland Cement is chemically de-


scribed as a double silicate of lime and alumina and possesses to a great degree


FOR SALE at THE LANDING SCHOOL ALDEN 21


YANKEE TENDER ARUNDEL 19


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