Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-02-26
A LITTLE ROCKY MAINE ISL AND
What Has Been and is Being Done In
Granite.

Hurricane Island is situated in the beaui-
full Bay of Penobscot. Il lies about two
miles southsest from Vinalhaven; and three
miles from Carvers HaTbor on that island
10. population Is one that comes and goes
but The average is from 215 to 800 including
the children. AT present there are $50 in
all. The town draws school MONEY for
sixty pupils. There is one store run by thu
the proprietor of the Hurricane
Granite Co" The store is well
filed with the necessaries and many of
the luxuries Of lfe. The business manager
of this store is Mr. Taomas Sullivan of
R0ckand who is brilliant and aiftble gen
tleman. HIS courtesy is one OF hi. noted
characteristics The other gentle men promi
nentIy connected in the business manage
ment of this company On Hurricane are W
A. Healey Who Is book keeper and pay
master, and /. F. Landers who is superin
teudent of the granite cutting Mr.. Landers
ma, the fine faculty of telling good witty
story in an easy manner
This Granite Company was organized in
1870, and the town was Incorporated H. Feb
ruary, 1873. This town is comparatively a
small one its land contents being only one
hundred acres, but it ha, been of steady
growth and development. Many are the
HuItrFIs u lhOusdlls VI iO!idIs lliht
been earned in this little spot of earth in
the broad, heayIng sea. This company com
mt need in the spring of 1873 to do the
work of the II. ) Customs House, and
p. o. ." st Louis, Mo. and ended in the
spring of 1881, period of eight years
Durlng the greater part of that time there
were from 100 to 1000 men at work on this
small island Mr.. Landers showed the writer
n ~ thi. buIlI.
ing "The entire superstructure Of which
was furnished and cut by this company from
their quarries at Hurricane The company
at the present time is engaged on the work
of the Boston Court House. This job will
probably continue until late in the spring. The
granite is of first class quality which this
Company supplies. The proprietor of thi,
Company sGenl Davis Tllson of Rock land,
Ne who is graduate of West Point. The
general is spoken of highly by all those who
are in his employ which is one of the very
best recommendations possible for a man to
obtain. He must be a man of great ability
and energy of purpose to have accomplished
so much in few years. He
was Military Governor of Georgia after
the war and made great success in that de-
partment of military life.
The writer ha occasion to visit several of
the peoples homes on Hurricane, and he was
treated with great kindness and courtesy by
II EN- all. These little homes are as coy as
It is possible to make them, showing at once
the carefuuess and neatness of the ladies' on
this little island of the Bay. The men OF
the town have club just started, called
The Bachelors Club, where they assem-.
BILE few times a week and read talk, sing
and occasionally have an oyster supper
They are by no means wanting in hospitality
to strangers. The writer was kindly invited
to visit their coy and happy little club-room
whittier he went to pass away very pleasant
evening and enjoyed good oyster stew pre-
pared by the genial caterer. Mr. Sullivan.
VISITOR.