The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-07-16
The Champion Flag.
DECISION IN FAVOR OF THE PORTLAND CADETS

Yesterday the committee on the Fourth of
July celebration, to whom was referred the
after of the champion flag, made their report
which is a very thorough and exhaustive one.
They review the circumstances under which the
flag was first competed for, showing that the
rules declared it "open to any regularly organ
lied militia or other military company of this
State" But after that time it was the express
intention of the committee to exclude all COM
panies from competition except those "duly
organized under the laws of Maine'' 1t was
supposed at the time that the law would enable
Cadets to be thus organized, but defect in the
Cadet Companies thus far formed renders it i'm
possible. Such companies the Bowdoin and
Portland Cadets can be licensed" only, not
duly organized" They also say that at the
time of the challenge the Bowdoins had receiv-
ed no more than verbal license. The report
of the Adjutant General letters of Gen. Cham
berlain, and statutes of the State are quoted
to substantiate the position of the committee.
The committee think that as they framed the
rules they are competent to interpret them
The report concludes with the following de-
cision:
That the Bowdoin Cadets, Co. E., were Who'll
ly ineligible to compete for the flag; that IL
would have been a breach of their trust il the
Portland Cadets had suffered the flag to be
taken possession of by the Rowdoin or any
| other company of cadets; that the Portland
| Cadets are still entitled to hold it, and that ii
| il be won from them by any proper military
| organization, they cannot, as at present organ
lied and constituted, compete for its re posses
sion. The committee are therefore ready to re-
store the flag to the keeping of the Portland
Cadets at the option of that Company.
GUIDE TO PoRTLAND.-Loring Short & Har-
mon have just issued the illustrated Guide
Book for Portland and Vicinity edited by
"Our Young Woman about Town." Her name
gives assurance that the work is written in
sprightly and entertaining manner, and t nat it
will be worth perusal for its literary merit if
for nothing elJe But its style is not its ouly
good quality. The description of the city and
the places of interest in its vicinity are very
full and complete. The book is crammed with
statistics enough to satisfy Gradgrind, and the
charming descriptions of summer resorts will
be very attractive to tourists. Willis's sum-
mary of Portland history and Meals account
of the great fire are prised within the COW
ers of the volume and it contains illustrations
| of public buildings and summer resorts
| THAT DIsoRDERlY HoUsE.-The dsorderly
house on Dow street still retains its unenviable
reputation, notwithstanding it has been SO re-
Gently cleaned out by the police, and the noto-
rous Mrs. Stetson sent out of the State. Her
place has been filled by characters full as no.
torious and abandoned. On Thursday night of
last week the families in the vicinity of this
house work kept awake from eleven o'clock
until daylight the next morning by drunken
brawl. Last night about eleven o'clock the
| neighbors were aroused from their slumbers
by crazy drunken woman, an occupant OF
this house, screaming murder at the top of her
voice. The police were promptly upon the,
spot and removed the abandoned creature to
the lookup, 1t is great wrong and outrage
| upon community to put such class of mis-
cradle tenants into buildings in respectable por-
| tions of the city, to make the night hdeous
| with their drunken brawls and profanity.
July Is. E. c.