Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-01-22

: adequate protection against IRE and bushes
men are paying four per cent interest insar
snee annually. Further than that bushes
is there at a s,ands,ill, No bus usss ma
can cone into the town and engage in oasi
ness with such situation As that. they can
hot much longer stand the exhorbitsnt rate
charged. But sster is nor all. Ii is bu
one element in the whole msiter. As ss,
the interests Of the two parts are diverse
radically different Their ijeas as TO towI
pol cs are radically d.terent Until thi
vat question came up the qu sion ha III,
assumed any definite form, but water form
but Que liak in the chsin. Boothbsy TO-DAY
Is not what il was twenty or thirty wears ago
a smar, thriving fishing village. The,
must rely upon something else il
orier to keep abreast of the times.
But to keep abreast of other seashore resort,
ca the eoas, of Maine they must have til,
Improvements that other summer resort,
haze. Water is but one feature. Electric
lights, sewerage, new streets and sidewalks.
| These are live questions In business com
nunity. The water question came up lasl
May and was killed This, gentleman, is
the situation. Outsiders are ready to come in
and insiders are ready TO build sni improve
when they know that the policy OF the town
/ is on the line of improvement. An article
was inserted in the warrant TO see If the tow n
would give any inducement in the way OF
/ exemption from taxation but the article was
summsrily dismissed. MIR. Cornish said
that Boothbay is town of 1000 population
and that the propose / line of diyislon leaves
the old town 2250 inhabitants and the new
| 1850. The old town will have 56s polls the
new 45s. The real valuation of
the old town will be S39o,9jo, of
the new s456 s95, the personal in
the old town, 81 ,2S2, in the new sl67,S13.
| These figures are based on the assessment
of 1855. They show that the total valuation
of real and personal estate will b. for the
old town s474,ls2, and for the new s624,
| 2uS.
| Mr.. Cornish said in closing that as re-
suit of the proposed division each part will
be left to pursue its own policy in its own
way and at its own expense; the new town
Will forge ahead, grow and improve; the old
town will thereby also oe benefit by hsy-
ing a market for supplies as well as a market
for labor. The social and business relations
of the two parts are now pleasant municipal
affairs being the only bone of contention.
| DIVIDE them and all this municipal disagree
meni will disappear and all their relations
will be pleasant. In short, non-dlyis-
ion means bad feeling, stagna ion
and business depression for both
while division means good feeling,
4 pros perity and progress.
| As a matter of right and justice to them
we come before you To ask that the prayer
of these petitioners be granted.
| The first witness ca led to the stand vas B.
| + Greene, editor OF the Bo Jthbiy register.
Mr. Greenes testimony Was 10 the effect that
! there should be a division 4, the two paris I
the town were antagonistic as regar .s many
of their interests. In course of the tesimo-
ny many statistics were brought out which
were intended to establish claim for di,is-
ion and to show in what cnndition the two
towns would be in after separation.
Luther Mataoeks called for the division
] test Ii1td as follows;
am resident of Boothhay llage aud
have lived there twenty years. Been identi-
he'd in different branches of business there,
| nshing, ice, canning, etc. Have become
Intimately acquainted with people OF the
town III all these sections. Was residing
there i'll SO. A fire broke out that year
about the tirst OF November, | think, in the
night time. Was not a. hume. | was al
! Wlscasset that night, came home the next
| day. Have been informed that the damage
caused by the confagratlon was $50 900.
/
front of the Bouthbsy House, on Commercial
street. The only protection the village bad
( against fire " IS Il hand tub. bought by sub
! ,erlptluu. Think we had II about ten years
! Ia my jugment If it had been low water
or the wind had been blowing stronger that
nght, the rest of the town could not have
1 been saved. The second or the third day
after that we had meeting of the ciuzens.
\ committee was appointed " Investigate the
expense Of a steam fire engine and It's main
| tenauce The committee went To Bath the
/ ~ xt day after the meeting and reported in
the meeting few days later that the eS-
| pense of the steam fire engine would bes5ou0
| tor its purchase and 1t couldn't be mantained
less than $1,000 year and that system of
| reservoirs would have to be built in order to
| supply it with water in the back portions of
III, village. Engineers were invited To come
| here aud look over the route for water ~ stem
aud water. They were at our me, tlugs and
reported tfie feasibility of putting in plant
and made the estimate of the cost and yearly
rental, The expense OF the fire engine
st emed too much and the citizens looked
| upon the system of water works as prefer
able and better In every way. committee
of the citizens petitoned to give the neces-
sary local notices a ID for an act to form a
company for the purpose of putting in a
water system. This was granted by the
| next legislature, the legislature of 1851,
| Agents from insurance companies were
present at our meeting. We had been pay
| ing at the rate of two per cent. for insurance
IN the village and according to the statement
of Mr.. North, the secretary, | think, of the
combination of insurance companies, after
| ne had looked the matter over that the rate
| hos 20 tu .eA fpur mt
| la 81 received a let er from Scuil & Bradley
| representing insurance companies that were
| long most of the business in our
town. They stated that the risk was too great
| for them and they had almost wholly ceased
| insurlng in Boothbay. With the introduction
| of Wa.er system insurance would be de-
| creased When Senator Heath cane down
| IN the interests of the water company the
| .ectmen told him that his visit was needless
| they would lot listen to anything that he
might have 10 say. Since my residence
| in Boothbsy twenty years ago, she
| industries Ia. Boothtay hsv sutirely changed.
| 1t that that time ABOUT $50 fishing vessels
were engaged in mackerel and cod fisheries.
Owing to tue adverse treaty regula ions Of
| Canada We have lost the fleet with the ex-
| ceplon Of about 10 sails. Ia ls6G menhaden
oil manufacturing was commenced at Booth
oay aud at one time $1,000 to s50ot was iu-
vested IN factories and steamers. SIN e the
fire of 80 only nve buildings have been
built. The gentlemen whJ butt, surprising
that water was to be put in were Mr fpgra-
ham and Mr.. Remission. East oothbay
mas slap building or vessel bailding bus.
iness of its own exclusively. We
nave within our village the nufseture
Of superphosphate by the Cumberland
Bone Company. There are ice worsa a
deados Cove and up the river a. Blux Mar
rows on DsmsriscGtLa RIVER. fac genera
business OF the oil toSn on the north is prin-
c,pally farming and men sho w1r. un Iht
ace. On the east are mechanics who buit
! vessels
Ia the north portion of iba town are three
bridges, Hodgion's lsiani, Barter's ISLAND
and aawyeT's. Steps haye b .ea ta<en for
new bridge from 80 i,hpJrt to n. rev rot
ton of the town, a cIsr-er being granted il
- think, and committee was appointed
by each tova at the las. annual meetilgs ii
tue purpOse of grttIug ans cd specification
be suDmltted at the pe!t annaaI meetings.
The brdge wi. be >usit hy the two to-
Is viii be lkDJ f ct iong think. If vg ar,
oonxed 20 build halt OF that. . inins the II
ysnse OF mIints.i4lnz our bridges Will be
much more expensive tnan the Mamie zuc
OF those 10 the Old tosp, because their. hav,
been rehui!G ADD are Ia goo repair. | e.t!
mate the cost of the = yutnt,o b-fdgs a