The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-01-26
Hamilton, VIM. Bennett, Lincoln f.
Hamilton, Winfield Hamilton.

Hamilton, VIM. Bennett, Lincoln F..
! Hamilton, Winfield Hamilton.
| From Yarmouth then came Charles
| Sweetsir, John Ii. Humphrey, Nicholas
| Hamilton, John D. Cleaves, Smith
Sawyer, Calvin Sawyer and Geo. II. Hill,
and Dennis Hamilton of Cumberland,
| who believes in the petition.
| Hon. Herbert NJ. Heath of Augusta
and E. Dudley Freeman, Esq, of Var.
mouth represented the petitioners, and
| Hon. Chas. +. Libby of Portland appear
| ed for the rcmonstrants.
E. Dudley Freeman appeared for the
Yarmouth petitioners, and said that the
petition was put in because if the pres
ent rate of digging goes on there is an
imminent danger of the determination of
CLAIMS within few years. The firm of
Hamilton & Co., large packers of CLANS
on Chebeague island, dig an enormous
number of CLAIMS. Then there is can
ming factory on Chebeague island that
| uses large number, many of which are
small and should be permitted to grow.
He lsaid that they came before the
committee on matter of pure business
and to secure the same rights in our
conditions were altogether different. At
that time there was no danger of the
determination Of these CLANS He called
att ention TO the statute providing that
towns may pass ordinances to regulate
the taking of CLAIMS and argued the much
greater need of such law than when it
was passed. Bnt the town of Yarmouth
is powerless as the matter now stands.
,r~a,,,
The story of the bridge which wasn't
built over Atkins bay in the town of
Phippsburg, and the difficulties between
the summer resorts at Fort Popham
and the town will be told to the commit
tee on towns next Tuesday afternoon. The
efforts of those interested in the summer
resort property at Fort Popham to secure
the building of bridge over Atkins
bav and so to shorten the way to their
summer houses and avoid bad piece of
road have been described. DR.. Fergu-
son of Phippsburg, the representative of
the town, does not favor the proposed
division.
The remonstrants will maintain as
their side of the case that the town could
not build the bridge because it would be
necessary to erect structure costing
some $40, 900, which is beyond the means
of the town. Phippsburg, like some 9th
er Maine towns, the town of Rome for
instance, has an expensive luxury IN the
shape of debt. This debt is large
enough to make it impossible under the
law for the town to borrow money to
build the bridge, and the sum required,
say the remonstrants, is much too heavy
burden to be raised by taxation. The
Fort Popham people say the town has
not given them good roads, but the re-
monstrants claim that with the excep-
tion of one short piece of
sandy road they have put the
highway leading to Fort Popham in good
condition Eat a considerable expense.
They also say that had not the Hon. P.
o. Vickery, who has been the principal
bridge builder been SO anxious to get his
bridge, the town would have fixed that
small Sahara in the road to Fort Popham.
The remonstrants also say that the peu
tioners want to put into their new town
about two-thirds of the old with about
the same proportion of the people. For
merly, they say, the northern part OF the
town was the wealthy section, but since
the development OF the summer resort
property in the south end, things have
changed and that is now better off, while
the northern section contains much poor
land many poor people.
Now there is more than one summer
resort in Pllippsburg. Some distance from
Fort Popham is Cape Small Point where
Hon. J. Ell. Manley of Augusta. and 9TH
ers have summer homes. Near Cape Small
Point is Morseis mountain, where an as
sociation in which some Portland people
are interested have made improvements.
In the proposed new town are three ice
ponds. the owners S of which pay a large
non resident tax. These people and in
terests it is said are not anxious to help
Mr.. Vickery and his friends
build that bridge. Whether the
Fort Popham people have a sufficient
grievance to warrant cutting up the town
or not will come up at the hearing. This
petition has SO signatures, but it is said
some of the signers will ask to have their
names removed. The remonstrants mum
ber 227.
Logs by Endless Chain.
The gentlemen interested in the
scheme to carry logs from Seeboomock
falls on the west branch of the Penobscot
across to the Great North bay Of Moose
head lake and so bringing them down
the Kennebec river have, it is said, defi-
nitely decided to transport the fallen
monarchs the forest on an endless
chain instead of by the construction of
canal. A canal by which water from the
Penobscot system would have found its
way into the Kennebec system or vice
versa, might have raised objections from
the interests located along the banks OF
these great streams. So the promoters
of the Seboomock falls enterprises will
build sluiceway of heavy timbers over
tile three quarters OF mile of level land
between the West branch and Moose
head. In This sluice will run an endless
chain, moved by a stationary steam en-
gine. The sluice will be of sufficient
width and depth to prevent logs lying
lengthwise on the chain from falling off.
At short intervals on the chain, there
will be sharp spikes or teeth. The chain
at the Penobscot end will run down into
the water. When the system is in opera
ton, the logs will be 'nosed'' as the
lumbermen say, up to the chain where it
comes out of the water. When the teeth
on the chain seize the log and drag it