The Portland daily press., 1872-03-27

Pure Wdter---Municipal Aid to Manufactures
Advice Of the Mayor-Neao City Buildings
etc., etc.
BANGOR March 25th, 1872.
MANUFACTURES.
Our city is at present agitated over the sub
ject of manufactures but as railroad fevers and
manufacturing fevers are quite common, we
predict general convalescence by the time the
river opens, when the enterprise of our citizens
will be directed to their natural avocations
WHAT SHALL BE DONE?
We are an energetic people; and our politics
are sound, and our faith mistaken, notwith-
standing the census shows us that we have not
prospered greatly as to population in the last
ten years. We havn't so many scholars in our
schools in proportion to our population as form
erly; our young men as soon as they are able to
write good hand, and keep fair set of books,
emigrate; we build no Ships we look about and
see the country slowly diminishing in popula-
ton, and wonder at it, and wondering write ar
ticles for the newspapers, calling on the people
to build railroads and manufactures, and do
something to stop the current of emigration
setting so steadily and continually westward.
HEALTHY BEVERAGE.
Taking advantage of this state of feeling
public spirited individuals are cont nually off
ering advice as to the way to do it. One pro-
poses before we plunge into the unknown
depths of the experimental future, to take
cold bath in Hat Case Pond, byi draining the
water of that little highland lake by means of
pipes laid through our streets, by the Bangor
Water Company.
THE OBJECTIVE POINT
Another incorporates himself into a manu-
featuring company, with charter sufficiently
broad to cover everything, from an iron foun-
dry to a shingle mill. Wooden ware, factories,
cotton and .woolen factories, shoe factories and
mill dams, are all talked about, but when it
comes to subscribing the capital it generally ap-
pears that the city treasury, in one form or an
other, is the objective point to which these en-
terprises tend, and so they have thus far failed.
GOOD ADVICE ABOUT ABEL LOOM HUMBUGs.
Our Mayor, in his speech, when nominated,
very happily stated that if our people would
take hold in real earnest and subscribe to home
enterprises one-half the money we have invest
ed in worthless oil wells, gold mines and Abel
Loom humbugs, we might soon make our city
all we wanted it. But, as illustrated in the for
nation of the Abel Loom company, there seems
to be desire among some of our enterprising
citizens, to start enterprises, to own them and
have other people or the city pay for them.
This sort of speculation, not to call it by worse
name, has had demoralizing effect, destroying
public confidence and materially retarding the
prosperity of our CITY,
NEW CITY BUILDINGS.
Mayor Wheelwrght proposes for the city to
purchase the old Billings property, and erect
thereon suitable public buildings; there may be
some objections to this on the ground of econo-
my. The proposed buildings will be at the cor
ner of Hammond and Franklin Streets and the
Muzzy Iron Works have for time immemorial
occupied the latter street, and have SO filled it
up with dirt and rubbish that the public have
practically ceased to frequent it.
We are not surprised to see that the opposi-
ton to the Mayors suggestion thus far, comes
from this institution, the presiding genius of
which contends that the location Of the City
Hall so near will break up and drive away from
the city his immense industry, employing as it
does score or more of men, being obliged as
as it is by reason its immense business, to ex-
clusively occupy this street. OBSERVER