Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-09-03

was last summer, the present season mas
in some localities been worse, as wells,
springs and streams clearly show, while
the pastures are desolation, and the
meadows but a. comparatively speaking,
barren waste"
The Washington Star says: The agi-
tation in favor of a government telegraph,
started by the late strike and the indifer
ence to public business and public interests
manifested by the Western Union. make
it quite certain that the subject will receive
early attention in the next Congress. In
anticipation of this important question be-
ing taken up, Postmaster General Ores
ham proposes to collect information in re
gard to the telegraph, its service, value
etc, for submission to Congress at the
opening ofthe session. His statistics will,
no doubt, be valuable aid to that body
in the solution OF the matter"
Boston will be very lively this week, at
the time of the two exhibitions. To be held
under the auspices OF the New Englnnd
Manufacturers and Mechanics Institute
and the Foreign Exhibition Association.
The show exclusively of foreign goods
will take place in the building of the Mas
sachu-ctts Charitable Mechanics A>soca-
ton. and opening on September ). will
continue until March. The space devoted
to this display is about two-third7 Is cx-
tensiye as that nj the Centennial at Phila-
delphia. The West and North will hc
very generallyreprcSented by contributions
at the other exhibition. tor which the State
OF North Carolina alone has voted SO. 600
for the purpose of presenting fully her
really great natural resources. The two
fairs will present an exceptional opportu-
tunity for studying the comparative merits
OF domestic and foreign production.
The Boston Advertiser says: The
American Institute Of Architects. which
was constituted in 1867. is holding its soy
cnteenth annual convention in Rhode Is
land. The institute i one ofthc very best
of professional societies in this country.
and deserves greater attention than it re-
ceives. not only on the part of the archi-
tects, but also on the part OF the public.
The institute attempts to do tor architects
what medical societies do for physicians.
1t is not merely a social company. but a
corporation of professional gentlemen.
-b.N, Il. A.
economic interests OF a pursuit which con-
Germs general society. The institute is
opposed tcyarchitectural competitions, -"
and demand that builder shall be "a
true artil skiImI draushtsman, a
mathemati nm. person endowed with
considers scientific knowledge. a me
chanic al arithmetician, man of
probity and \ gentleman"
shipbuil1hg on the Delaware this wear
has been very brisk. The Philadelphia
Press of Friday. gave a tull report of the
business done this wear. of which it saws
editorially: 1.-The careful review of the
ship-building trade on the Delaware which
we publish to-day will probably surprise
those unfamiliar with its extent. Ii will
be seen that 1906 tons of iron. steel and
wood vessels. together ninety-two in num-
Der, have been built SO tar this year. with
prospect of reaching 1905 tons
before the close OF the wear. The
Clyde shipyards, with which com.
parison is naturally invited. turned
out in 1882 291 vessels with a
tonnage OF 39l. 1884 tons. These
are the largest returns on record
for the Greenock yards. the tonnage OF
1881 being only S4l, 022 tons and at these
figures 50, 900 above 1880 and 90. 900 above
1874, the largest year prior to 1881. 1t is
less than eight years since the ship build
ing on the Clyde was no larger. measured
by tonnage. than the ship building now in
progress on the Delaware. and it will not
be many years before the shipyards here
are turning out a larger tonnage than is
yearly launched on the Clvde. The mos,
serious efficiency in the returns from our
own ship-building at present is il the con.
struction of steel vessels. Only five have
been built here this year: on the Clvde On
WITH an aggregate tonnage of los. 1874
tons, were launched in 1882. 81. coo tons in
1881, 1900 in 1880 and Is. 900 in 1879