Page 24. MAINE COASTAL NEWS July 2018 HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Maine Industry Journal - 1882


24 February Page 122. John Caskley, of Minot, has taken the


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contract to make 600,000 cans for Burnham & Morrill, for next season’s crop of sweet corn. He employs about eight hands who turn out about 19,000 cans per week. * * * * *


The Newfoundlanders are having quite


a prosperous season. The catch of fi sh was not so large as in past years, but prices have been unusually high, and the railway furnishes abundant work cutting sleepers at fair wages.


* * * * * C. A. Dyer & Company of Portland


have leased the premises formerly occu- pied by the Portland Packing Company at Oceanville, Deer Isle and are arranging to do a large business the coming season in canning lobsters, clams and mackerel. * * * * *


In the Hurricane Granite Company’s


offi ce in this city is a fi ne photographic view of a train of 30 cars, in the yard at Portland, loaded with pavings from Hurricane Island


and bound for Chicago. The photograph is well taken and is worth seeing. [Rockland Courier]


Page 123. The lime business is fairly active con-


sidering the season and shipments are made almost daily. The Cobb Lime Company has several kilns afi re and have shipped several loads by rail and water during the week. Interviews with several manufacturers disclose a confi dent feeling and a general belief that the coming season is to be the best enjoyed by this industry for many years. They are all in good condition to meet the rush when it comes. [Rockland Courier] * * * * *


Mr. C. B. Harrington of Bath has on the


stocks a fi ne steam yacht for parties in New Bedford. She is 73 feet long, 13 feet beam, 5 feet 6 inches draught and will be schooner rigged. The cabins will be neatly furnished and she will be ready for launching early in May. This fi rm is also building a keel schooner yacht for Boston parties to be 44 feet long, 14 feet beam, 6 feet 10 inches draught. She will have an iron shoe on the keel of 3,000 pounds weight. It is expected


U. S. Coast Guard News Continued from Page 8.


the crew excelled in all assigned missions and should be exceptionally proud of their accomplishments,” said Cmdr. Mark Mc- Donnell, commanding offi cer of the Camp- bell. “Our eff orts to integrate with partner agencies and nations are key to the safe and successful execution of these complex in- terdiction operations as we work together to remove cocaine bound for the United States and help dismantle criminal networks.” Campbell is a 29-year-old Famous-Class


cutter homeported in Kittery, Maine, with a crew complement of 100.


Coast Guard welcomes new Northeast commander during time-honored cere- mony in Boston


06/04/2018 BOSTON — A change-of-command cere- mony for the First Coast Guard District was held Monday at Boston’s historic Faneuil Hall.


During the ceremony, Rear Adm. An-


drew J. Tiongson, assumed responsibilities of commander of the First Coast Guard District, which covers eight states, including 1,225 miles of coastline from the U.S., Ca- nadian border to northern New Jersey, and 1,300 miles off shore. “I am deeply grateful, honored, blessed,


and humbled to be your district command- er,” said Tiongson. “I hope to live up to the high bar you


set and build upon the strong foundation you left," Tiongson said to Poulin. Rear Adm. Steven D. Poulin, who


served as First District Commander for the past two years, will continue his Coast Guard career as the U.S. Southern Com- mand’s Director of Operations directing the U.S. military operations across the Caribbe- an Basin plus Central and South America. Poulin said the First Coast Guard Dis-


trict is world-class and will continue to do heroic things every day. Tiongson is a career cutterman whose


time at sea spans fi ve Coast Guard cutters and one U.S. Navy Ship. He has served as commanding offi cer aboard Coast Guard cutters Nantucket, Legare, and James. His most recent assignment was as Assistant Commandant for Resources and Chief Fi- nancial Offi cer at Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington D.C.


Vice Adm. Scott A Buschman, com-


mander of Coast Guard Atlantic Area, pre- sided over the ceremony. The First Coast Guard District includes


more than 12,000 active duty, reserve, civil- ian and auxiliary personnel. In an average year, the First Coast Guard District saves 427 lives, conducts 2,392 search and rescue cases, assists 4,536 people, and safeguards $115,000,000 in property at sea. The change-of-command ceremony is a


time-honored military tradition that marks a transfer of total responsibility and authority from one individual to another. The ceremo- ny is conducted before the assembled crew, as well as honored guests and dignitaries, in order to formally demonstrate the continuity of authority within a command.


Coast Guard asks public to help fi nd stolen buoy bells off Maine’s coast


05/31/2018 BOSTON — The Coast Guard is asking the public for information on the theft of brass sound signaling devices stolen from buoys off Maine’s coast over the previous six months. The brass gongs and bells were attached


to buoys to help mariners navigate safely during times of reduced visibility. They play a vital role in the safe passage of ships and mariners. It is thought the high-dollar devices are


being stolen and sold to nautical novelty shops or scrap metal yards. Federal offi cials are working closely with local law enforce- ment, shops, and scrap yards to identify per- petrators and reclaim the missing property. Tampering with aids to navigation is a


federal off ense and can lead to fi nes up to $25,000 per day or up to one year in prison. Anyone with information leading to a con- viction are eligible to receive up to one half of the fi ne imposed. “These thefts not only reduce the reli- ability of our aids to navigation system and put lives at risk, but they also create a burden and expense to the tax payer for the buoy tenders and crews responsible for main- taining the aids,” said Lt. Matthew Odom, Sector Northern New England’s waterways management division chief. Anyone with information regarding the


missing sound signaling devices are urged to contact the Sector Northern New England command center at 207-767-0303.


that she will be reckoned among the “fl yers”. * * * * *


An organization called the Belfast


Block Company with a capital stock of $5,000 was organized at the foundry Tues- day morning. The object of the corporation is the manufacture of vessels’ blocks and its factory is on the upper fl oor of the foundry building. The following are the offi cers: President, Dr. J. G. Brooks; Vice President William H. Hall; Secretary and Treasurer, C. J. Hall; Superintendent Isaac A. Murch; Director, John G. Brooks; W. H. Hall, W. A. Whitten. Work has started up and there is a prospect of a good business being done. [Journal]


* * * * * An interesting industrial establishment


in Castine to visit is the line factory located on Pleasant Street. It is owned by J. W. Dresser and the Superintendent, Joseph Surry, has had fi fty years’ experience in the business and is constantly working up to the highest perfection in the art. The work is done by steam power and the building is 450 feet in length. Thirteen hands are employed and all kinds of fi sh lines are manufactured which are packed in bales for the Boston market. The mackerel lines are made out of the best Sea Island cotton and so prepared that they will not kink in using. This is the only factory of the kind in the State. * * * * *


Ice harvesting forms the principal


winter occupation at Prospect Harbor in Gouldsboro. At the present time some 85 men and 15 horses are at work gathering the glistening harvest. The business is prosecut- ed by a company composed of Cherryfi eld gentlemen, among who are G. R. Campbell, A. L. Stewart and J. W. Coffi n. The company was organized fi ve years ago. The natural advantages for ice cutting here were by no means great. They found a pond about a mile from tide water with a little stream meander- ing across the interval. They constructed a dam across the stream thus fl owing a new pond within a few hundred yards of the salt water, dredged the channel so as to fl oat large vessels, built a wharf and an ice house 140 by 160 feet. During the fi rst few years of its existence the company was not successful, but in 1880 they made up for past losses and paid a handsome dividend. Encouraged by this they are preparing this winter to cut more ice than ever before. They have ground cleared and leveled for a new ice house, have kept some 20,000 tons clear of snow and have facilities for cutting and storing about 1,200 tons per day.


* * * * * Brick making in Orland and Penobscot


– On the river road leading from Orland to Penobscot village we fi nd the following brick yards which turned out last year as follows: Andrew Ginn, 400,000; F. B. Gross, 600,000; A. W. A. B. Hutchings, 500,000; J. M. & F. S. Bray, 350,000; John H. Marks, 280,000 and Frederick B. Leach at Orland Point, 500,000. In Penobscot on the shores of the bay, W. P. Leach & Company made last season 350,000 and intended to double their product this year; W. S. Hutchings made 400,000; Wardwell, Leach & Sellers, 535,000; Bowden & Grindle, a little short of 1,000,000 and David Grindle, 280,000. It is expected that the number of yards and production will be increased considerably the coming season in the localities named. To burn the above bricks required about 2,250 cords of wood, worth from $3.00 to $3.25 per cord. It is estimated that it takes about seven cords of wood to burn 16,000 of brick. The residents on the Penobscot river road in Orland and Penobscot are a very busy people and in addition to brick making and managing their farms, cure a large quantity


of bank fi sh yearly, take care of their salmon and alewive weirs and smoke from 100,000 to 400,000 of the latter fi sh each season. Their smokehouses are mostly built on the banks of the river.


Page 124.


RAILROAD, STEAMBOAT AND HO- TELS NOTES


A meeting of the Blue Hill Steamboat Company will be held March 1st * * * * *


. George Moulton, Jr. of Bath is manufac-


turing a double steering wheel for the CITY OF RICHMOND, similar to that in the new steamer STATE OF MAINE. * * * * *


It is said if the Maine Central get control


of the Knox & Lincoln they will secure a fast steamer and put her on the river between this city and Rockland to connect with the trains. * * * * *


It is currently rumoured that the valu-


able wharf property known as Foster’s wharf, Boston, has passed into the hands of the Boston and Bangor Steamship Compa- ny. Foster’s wharf was formerly the landing place of the Sanford steamers, which have lately landed at Lincoln’s wharf. * * * * *


A company has been organized in


Portland consisting of General J. Marshall Brown, Hon. W. L. Putnam, E. H. Davis, Esq., and F. C. Payson to build a grain eleva- tor for the Grand Trunk Railway. The Grand Trunk intends to run steamers from Portland summers as well as winters. * * * * *


The annual report of the Sanford


Steamship Company just completed shows that the gross earnings for the last year were $295,609.06 and the expendi- tures $237,955.99 making the net income $57,653.07. Out of this $20,000 has been paid in dividends and the surplus for the year is $37,653.07. The stockholders have ratifi ed the change of name to the Boston and Bangor Steamship Company. * * * * *


Steamship ONTARIO, of the Dominion


Line, sailed from Portland for Liverpool on Saturday night last. She carried eight cabin passengers and a cargo of 2,600 tons. The following articles were among her cargo: 40,550 bushels and 4,065 bags wheat, 2,161 packages butter; 1,400 bags fl ours, 621 bags clover seed; 2,524 pails lard; 500 bags oatmeal; 488 packages bacon; 118 packages lard; 1,556 barrels apples; 5,162 boxes cheese; 1,750 boxes canned meat, 36 packages leather; 12 packages sundries; 265 barrels potash; 36 boxes nails; 18 cases boots and shoes; 92 cases canned meats; 500 boxes bacon and 39 chests tea Her cargo was valued at about $190,000.


NUGGETS We are indebted to Captain Henry A.


Ford of Detroit, Michigan, for late copies of Louisville, Kentucky, papers. Captain Ford is the gentleman in charge of the compiling of the new History of Penobscot County and he is now making a visit to Kentucky. * * * * *


The submarine cable between Eastport


and Grand Manan has again given out. It has not been in good working order since the fi rst of December. At the point where a schooner went ashore at that time the cable was so badly chafed as to be unserviceable, and all eff orts to repair it have been but partially successful.


3 March Page 137. A new iron shipbuilding yard is to be established at Alexandria, Virginia and


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