The Republican journal., 1886-07-01
Maine Matters.
EWS AND GOSSIP FROM ALL OVER THE STATI
SIIPBUILDING AT BATH.

| Maine Matters.
NEWS AND GOSSIP FROM ALL OVER THE STATE
sIIPBUILDING AT BATH.
The Sarah Lawrence, launched at Bath last
week. is said to be the largest schooner in the
world. Her dimensions are as follows: keel
203 feet; beam 45 feet; hold % feet length
over all 235 feet. She measures 400 tons and
is of fine model. From the cat-hcads hang
| two large anchors weighing respectively 800
and 1900 pounds. In the middle house is the
| power that works the running rigging, an
chors and loading tackle of the whole schoon-
er, Il noiscess, fricion-gear, hosting engine
from the iron work department of the New
England Shipbuilding Company The wind
lass, one of the Bath Iron works best, is situat-
ed on the forward part of the house.
The matches, four in number, are immense
| in size, being 20 feet square. The depth of
| hold is over twenty-three feet at these raising,
beneath which, the keelson 6 feet high, is
covered with iron straps, protection against
the falling coal for carrying which the Law
renee is especially designed. The cabin is eX-
| ceedingly large and very handsomely finished
in hard woods. The captains cabin is nearly
as large as a drawing room. 1t is furnished ill
cherry, with raw silk upholstering. Both the
middle house and the cabin are below the
level of the deck, their roofs being Just on
! level with the rail. The deck is flush, with
! tight waist. Going below decks we find that
the Lawrence is almost vast as ship.
|
| deck, which adds greatly to the appearance of
| thorough workmanship apparent i'll every tim
Der. The hull is lined or ceilcd with thirteen
| inch yellow pine. the wood of the planking.
| he frame is of oak and hackmatack Long
''pointers,' or beams Of oak, run obiquely
| from the deck forward down on the ceiling to
| the stem as additional braciGg. The knees are
| OF as large dimensions us in {. large ship. This
schooner is to have the four tallcSt masts afoat.
| They are 10 feet in length. With the top
| maSts they will measure l3G feet 10 raise
| them to their places no sheers could be found
long enough. jibboom y feet in length, %
| inches in diameter. and ji@"er boom, IS feet in
| length and Is inches in diameter, are to be
used. All of these massive spars are of Oregon
| pine. The bowsprit is the largest ever put
into any style Of vessel. Ii is 10 feet in length
and b inches in diameter. The spread of
canvas ON these sticks will be about 5000 yards.
| The standing rigging is entirely of wire. The
Sarah Lawrence halls from Taunton, Mass,
where she is owned. She is to be commanded
by Capt. Jacob Phillips, of the home port.
The New England Shipbuiiding Co. have
contracted to build 1900 ton propeller, 225
feet in length, to run between New y ork and
Boston. The Iron Works will build the engine.
| The 100 ton four na>ted schooner Eva Is.
| Douglas, Of New York, has been rugged upon
the stocks and will Slide into the river on the
18th. Capt. r. Il. Anderson will command
| her. Her sister ship, the Cassie +. Bronson,
will be launched July 10th. She will be com
manded by Capt. VIM. A. Anderson. Both
| commanders are OF New Ork.
The keel fora 400 ton schooner for Baltimore
| parties has Just been stretched. Another for Il
200-tonner for Philadelphia parties has been
| laid.
An S00-tonncr for New Haven parties has
| been commenced.
| \ 800 ton whaling bark for New Bedford
| parties is timbered out.
The Mt. Waldo, the New York Paving Block
| Co.'S frei@htng steamer, is receiving a Steeplc
| compound engine at the Iron Works Depart
| mcnt.
saturday a contract was closed by the New
| England Shipbudny Company to build
steamer for the Maine Steamship Company to
be placed on the Portland and New York route.
The contract includes the building of the hull
and machinery The engine and boilers will
| be built ut the New England Iron works. The
steamer will he Of the propeller class and is to
be 225 feet long and will register about 1900
| tons. She is to be completed in the early part
of next SprnG.
| FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
Aarcccnt meeting in Portland of the Maine
| Woman Suffrage Association letters We're read
| by Mr. +. W. Hamilton from Coz. Fred
y. Dow, Rev. Samuel Longfeow, Governor
! Robbie. Stanley Il. Pnen, and Hon. &. +. Libby.
| Rev. Samuel LongfclloW. in the course Of his
letter. submitted the following propositions:
| I. Women are governed, and have a right to
a voice in the making of the laws, to give or to
withhold their consent to the government.
| ,, They are taxed, and have right to
voice in the laying of taxes.
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I, An active interest in such matters is equal
" an educational influence, in increasing the
| intelligence of the community upon which the
| stability of good government depends.
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man, and elevate the moral force of society
upon winch its stability 50 much more depends.
mon oi,ilitv tl' ln. 80. fo,. No whoIn III
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| mo os ;Ilntrir,I aS nn, On arcou,,t Of race nr
| rojor
| Hon ,b,rloy Il Ju1,, v.roto. Tho ,r,e,,-
mrnts in favnr of this 'ro,,nsitinn have hrnn
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tbey must have found :, Ind ,mnn+ IN eyn,y ra-
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necessities Of the hour demand that her juds-
pertaining to the welfare of the people.
SONS OF MAINE IN CALIFORNIA.
Natives of the State of Maine now residents
of California have an organization known rs
the State of Maine Association. Its objects are
social enjoyment and the keeping alive of menl-
orieS of Maine. Its membership is composed
of former residents of Maine, and their luS-
bands or wives and Children and is acquired
by signing the roll and paving fifty cents For
nine wears annual reunions have been held the
one this wear occurring at Bodgers Park, East
Oakland, on the fifteenth of last month The
reunion was so much Of Il success that a PAM
phlct was issued, giving the plan of the organ-
zation, and a report of the exercises An ora
ton was delivered bv Rev G. d. Barrows pas
tor of the First CONGREGATIONAL church in san
Francisco, and a native Of Frvebury. and an
original poem was read bv Mrs, Sarah b. Earle
of Baldwin, Me. The association has l6l mem