Page 24. MAINE COASTAL NEWS March 2018 HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Maine Industry Journal - 1880 Continued from Page 23.
24 June Page 395. The MONOHAUSETT, a side-wheel
steamer of about 500 tons register, will go on the line between this city and Rockland about July 1, making daily trips each way and touching at all the usual landings on the bay and river.
* * * * * On Saturday last, the steamer NEW
BRNSWICK came on the Sanford route be- tween this city and Boston and this popular line will now, during the summer, make six trips per week, leaving Boston and Bangor each week day.
1 July Page 411. The new steamer QUEEN CITY is
about fi nished and Captain Barbour will make a trial trip in this new craft on the fourth.
8 July Page 11. A party of prominent young men from
this city are now cruising in a yacht along the Maine coast.
* * * * * The wooden boat NEW ENGLAND,
while passing up the St. John’s river a few days since, careened over on one side and her deck load of 580 steel rails slid into the water and was lost. The rails were for the New Brunswick Railway. * * * * *
The handsome steamer QUEEN CITY
made its trail trip on the Penobscot yesterday afternoon. A pleasant party of stockholders and invited guests participated in the excur- sion. The new craft will run in connection with the CITY OF BANGOR between here and Bar Harbor.
* * * * * The island of Campobello, which our
readers will remember as having been pur- chased by General Pike, of Calais, for Bos- ton and New York capitalists, is at present being surveyed under the direction of Pro- fessor N. S. Shaler, of Harvard University. When this work is completed, the island, containing thirty square miles, will be cut up into lots and converted into a fashionable summer resort. The company is organized with a capital of $1,000,000. Alexander Cochrane is president, and Quincy A. Shaw, Henry L. Higginson, George A. Goddard, F. B. Beaumont, Alex. S. Porter of Boston, and E. E. Chase, of the fi rm Chase, Higginson & Company, New York are directors. Alex. S. Porter, the well-known real estate broker of Boston is general manager. The large hotel to be erected immediately will be known as “The Owen”.
15 July Page 22.
Captain J. H. Moyle, superintendent
of the Blue Hill, and Captain Dunn, super- intendent of the Stewart, were in Bangor yesterday.
* * * * * Captain Henry A. Ford is in the city and
has favored us with a call. He is compiling an elaborate history of Penobscot County, which will be issued in a few months by Wil- liams Brothers, the well-known publishers.
Page 28. The Boston Commercial Bulletin says:
“The Cobb Lime Company is the only corporation which carries on the business of manufacturing lime and cement in Rock- land. Business is decidedly better this season than for several years. Last year the compa- ny made 100,000 casks more than the year previous and this year their manufacture will be 100,000 greater than last. They will double the capacity of their cement works this season and are now running day and night in the endeavor to supply the demand for their famous cement.”
O B B Continued from Page 5.
the next one was a 25 foot that he built. The next one was a 33 footer that he built. Then he had a 29 footer that had an outboard, which he built.” When Osmond worked with Mariner,
he built a number of outboard boats. “I was working with him one winter,” said Osmond, “and we were working on a big one but the lumber hadn't come. He said we might as well just build one of those outboards while we are waiting. We built two in 14 days.” Many will remember CORNED
HAKE, which Osmond said, “She made me famous. She was bigger, and she went pretty good for what power she had. I built her for Ivan Ray in Milbridge. He used to go over to the Rusty Anchor restaurant and they would get him going about racing. He wanted a bigger boat but he wanted her to go pretty good. Every time he'd go over there, they would tell him they was going to beat him, and down he would come and say ‘They are going to beat us.’ I said, ‘Well, let them beat us. We haven't even tried yet.’ It came along until we almost got her done and he didn't know what he wanted for an engine. He talked about a Volvo and an 892. They convinced him that they could get more power out of that Volvo. Well, that is what he went for. I was working on traps down on the wharf, and they came down and started working on the engine. They would go out across the bay and then come back and when
22 July Page 44. The new steam ferry TRANSIT has made its trial trip at the Sullivan Ferry. * * * * *
The steamer HENRY MORRISON
landed at the new wharf in Blue Hill for the fi rst time on Monday last. The offi cers of the boat are said to be highly pleased with the new landing.
* * * * * Parties have secured a contract to fur-
nish New Yorkers with 80,000 paving stones and are now obtaining them at the Worcester quarry in the town of Penobscot. The Collins Granite Company of East Blue Hill have received an order for 60,000 more. * * * * *
An interesting occasion in Blue Hill
was the recent hauling under the direction of superintendent Duff of a very large scow from the bay to Douglass Lake, where it is being used by the Mammoth Mining Com- pany. Thirteen yoke of oxen were required to transport the scow that distance. * * * * *
The wharf building at Peters’ Point,
Blue Hill, by superintendent Duff is now completed and proves a great convenience to the public. It is very neatly and substan- tially constructed, is easy of access from the village and is an excellent landing place for steamers and vessels. It is known as the Blue Hill Steamboat Wharf and is owned by Charles Duff of Blue Hill. and E. M. Mersey of this city. The steamers all land at this wharf now.
29 July Page 54.
Captain J. H. Moyle, superintendent of
the Blue Hill, and Captain Daniel Dunn, su- perintendent of the Stewart, were in the city on Saturday last, and praised the Sabbath at Fort Point.
* * * * * Captain G. N. Armstrong has arrived in
they come in I would say that's not going to do it. They did that to her three times, but the last time they come back I said, ‘Now you are talking’ and we beat all of the big boats out there.” Osmond added, “She was just about the
same but only bigger. I never changed them much. He wanted her wide. He wanted an 11 foot stern no matter what. She was 14½ feet wide in the middle of her.” Later on Dave McGraw of Glas-spec
in Surry got a hold of CORNED HAKE and made some changes. He told Osmond he would make him rich, but it did not go as planned. Osmond said “They took a plug off the CORNED HAKE and then they stretched it this way and that way.” Unfortunately, Glas-spec would fail
and the mould would head north to Canada. Osmond was fortunate when he made
a deal with Barry and Terry Hutchins to market his designs through them at H&H Marine in Steuben. Osmond is certainly one very respected
builder and person. A great story he told was about a customer who did not show up often and just kept sending money down when asked to. Osmond said, “Joe Berterelli told me what he wanted and every time that we needed money we would call him and he would send it right down. His father would say, ‘Do you know where you are sending that money? You don't go look.’ He said, ‘I trust them people.’ We kept working on her and fi nally we had it done. His father showed up and said, ‘I guess you made out all right'.
Bangor, Maine all safe and sound. We wish him all manner of good luck during his vaca- tion and a safe return to his old campground in the fall. [Florence (WI) Mining News]
Page 59. The new steam ferryboat has com-
menced regular trips at Sullivan ferry. She is named the TRANSIT. * * * * *
Two large storehouses are to be built at
once at the new Blue Hill steamboat wharf at Peters’ Point, Blue Hill. The wharf is a model structure and is a great convenience to the public.
* * * * * The Collins Band of Portland has been
secured by the enterprising managers of the steamer CITY OF RICHMOND and will play on board that popular steamer on her trips between Portland and Mount Desert from now until September 20th
.
5 August Page 70.
Captain Dunn, superintendent of Stew-
art mine, passed through this city last Mon- day evening on his way to Portland where he meets his family who are en route from their former home in Michigan to take up their abode in Blue Hill.
Page 76. There is a curiosity at Cobb, Wright &
Company’s in the shape of a barrel of the Cobb Lime Company’s Portland cement, which fell overboard a short time ago. The action of the water has converted the cement into a mass as hard as adamant, which resists
every eff ort to break it. It is a fi ne testimonial of the excellence of Rockland’s new prod- uct. [Courier]
* * * * *
The lime manufacturers of Rockland all signed an agreement last week to run down their kilns and burn no more lime for two weeks. The last rock was put on the lime kiln on Monday last. This action is taken partly on account of scarcity of casks. The extreme- ly low price for casks which prevailed for several years caused a great many people to go out of the business of manufacturing them, and these have never resumed. Of late the supply from outside has almost entirely ceased, as the farmers have been so busy at haying and other farm work that they have not been able to get out much cask stuff . So the market has been pretty bare of casks for sometime. The demand for lime has been quite good, but there is plenty of stock to last until the kilns are lit again. The fall in the price of lime probably had a tendency to infl uence the manufacturers to shut down. [Opinion]
12 August Page 86.
Captain J. H. Moyle, superintendent of Blue Hill, was in the city Monday evening. He is very much leased with the present condition of his mine and works. * * * * *
Captain Henry A. Ford, and wife, after
a stay in our city of several weeks during which time they have engaged in collecting statistics for an elaborate History of Pe- nobscot County, departed for their home in Detroit, Michigan on Wednesday morning.
Page 91. The manufacture of lime in Rockland resumed operations his week. * * * * *
Carleton, Norwood & Company of
Rockport recently shipped sixteen hundred casks of lime to Jacksonville, Florida. * * * * *
The man-of-war YANTIC of the North
Atlantic Squadron came up the Penobscot several days ago and is now anchored a few miles below the city.
* * * * * Mr. Samuel Pillsbury is building a pat-
ent lime kiln in the place of two old fashion ones on his privilege, which have been out of use some time. He is also repairing the wharf and will burn lime next season. [Rockland Opinion]
Page 92. The elegant Fort Point House is now
well fi lled with summer boarders. Bangor people patronize the house well Saturdays and Sundays. The popular steamers of the Ross & Howell line take large numbers to Fort Point and Northport every Saturday and return Monday morning. Most of those who go to Northport own cottages and it is fortunate for them, for there is not a public house at this place worthy the name of a hotel.
* * * * * The new and commodious steamer
QUEEN CITY has been chartered by a party of Bangor gentlemen to make an excursion from this city to the Bagaduce on Tuesday, August 23rd
. The object of the trip is to en-
able our citizens to examine the well-known Dodge and Jones mineral properties located in North Brooksville on the shores of the Bagaduce River. The steamer will leave her wharf in this city, promptly at 8 AM. The sail down the Penobscot, around Castine and up that famous arm of the sea, known as Bagaduce will be one of great interest and doubtless a very large party will participate
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