The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-09-17

arrangements for consulting the large
and valuable collection of books. The
library is now open from "a. m. to 10
p m. and the Faculty desire that
students shall pass much Of their time
especially evenings in this department OF
the college. The present accommoda-
tons in the rear of the college chapel are
entirely inadequate for the purpose.
Upon the whole it may be clearly seen
that this favorite Maine college, the
Alma Mater of so many great and good
men, of Longfellow and Hawthorne, OF
Andrew and Pierce, of Senator Fessen-
den and Chief Justice Fuller, is taking
on new and vigorous lease of life.
The present college year commenced
Tuesday, Sept. 18th, and the freshmen
class is expected to be large and prom
Using one numbering about go.
One word as to matter at the lower
end of Maine street, near the river We
mean the Cabot Mill. The old Factory
built in 1885, is now rapidly giving place
to a large and modern building in every
respect. 1t is four stories in height.
built upon the site of the former old
'sFactory boarding-house' and is now in
successful working order, at least one
half of it. The old mill is in process of de-
molition and the new building will be
extended at once to include half the
length of the old mill To show the re-
lative sizes of both factories, we may
state that the floor of the fourth story of
the new mill is as high as the vane upon
the cupola of the old factory. just
across the bridge on the Topsham side, the
Bowdoin Paper Mill is in full operation
both night and day with two crews OF
operatives, supplying among other news
papers the Portland Daily PRESS
with the white paper upon which
the journal is printed.
A new foot bridge has just been
thrown across the Androscoggin river
between the two bridges, the Topsham
travelling bridge and the Lewiston rail
road bridge. This is intended to aid in
developing the prospects of the corpora
ton at the Topsham side and to induce
operatives and others to build up flour
ishing locality at that point where land
is cheap, and very easy of drainage.
We passed by the fine old mansion in
Beech street in which Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe composed her immortal
work-.Uncle Toms Cabin and we
thought of the past, of the great refor-
matory and political effect which that
book has produced in our country; OF
the seemingly Providential leading OF
the talented anu oSCoolICu tl0uOAOoo W
the writing of such wonderful work
of how little she was aware of what she
was doing, as she ofttimes used to sit by
the cradle of her infant while she wrote
the exciting yet truthful word-pictures
of Southern life as it was in our country
in ante-belIuna days; of it's singular
success in a financial point of view; of the
many times which we have seen it repre-
sented upon the mimic stage; OF the
laughing and the weeping was interest
ing, yet SO pathetic withal. What a
wide range of characters represented:
St. Clair, George Harris and his wife
crossing the Ohio upon blocks OF ice,
chased by blood hounds, of never
shiftless Aunt Ophelia, of natural
Topsy, of lovely Eva, and finally
of. dear old Uncle Tom himself.
We remember to have seen Mrs.
Stowe several times in the college
church in those days, and now in her
later life she is nearing 1.-THE end OF
earth but her books and their influence
and her exemplary character will live
long after she shall have bid adieu to the
scenes of this sublunary sphere.
J. j. W. r,