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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-02-12
GaRDiMER FIRE lADDles.
naksup d III Depssimsas aad Ne Eeuip
nssts iss work.

There are 127 salaried men in the Gardi-
ner fire department. There is not city
of its size in Maine with better facilities
for subduing fires. Under The competent
management Of Mr.. G. n. Drake, the IRE
department Of Gardiner has made . COM
mendable showing. A JouRSAL reporter
collected the following facts, regarding each
OF the various companies, and they will prob
ably serve to convey some idea Of the equip
ments Of the city for fire purposes. There
10 one hook and ladder company, in con-
nection with the Continental Hose Company,
No. 3. In this company there are 80 men,
20 for the hook and ladder, and 10 for the
hose.
Two fine engines are ready for immediate
use, Cobbossee, No. 1, and City Of Gardi-
ner, No. 2, the latter being located at South
Gardiner. The steamer companies have
II men to each company.
The Alerts, Hose Company No. l, has
10 men, as also have the Eagles, No. 2.
and the H. W. Jewett No. 4. The A. NJ.
Spear hose is volunteer company. The
Continental hook and ladder company 10
located in the city buildings on Church
street, Ward 3. The Continental hose at
the junction of Highland and Winter
streets, Ward 2. The Cobbessee engine
No. l is stationed at the junction of Water
and Central streets, Ward 4. City Of
Gardner steamer No. 10 located on River
avenue, South Gardiner, Ward 6. The
Alerts hose company has its home at the
junction of Water and Winter streets on the
corners of Wards 2, 3 and s.. The Eagles
have their quarters at the city buildings on
Church street, Ward 3. The A. M. Spear
Company on Lincoln street, corner Ward 5.
All the companies have fine uniforms ex-
cept the Spear and Jewett. Some have
finely furnished halls, carpeted floors, and
are fitted up very attractively. They also
have cups, trumpets and other prizes which
they have won at races and exhibition
contests. The Eagles and Continentals are
the running teams of the fire department.
The Continentals held the championship of
the State in their class for several years.
There is drum corps connected witkthe
Eagles and Continentals. The Alerts is
the Oldest company having been in existence
over 20 years. The Eagles is the original
steamer company which was organized un-
der A. j. Hooker and purchased the first
steamer engine. The Continental hook and
ladder company was organized in 1872 BY
Major J. W. Berry.
The water works in the city are fully suf-
ficient to meet all demands of the fire de-
partment. There are 80 bydrsnts located
at convenient points about the city. There
are 1000 feet of two and one half inch good
jacket hose, 5000 feet of which is new, and
1900 feet eclipse hose now on hand, besides
500 feet of two inch hose. The total value
Of the entire fire department is $2l, 1878.
For '93 and "a, the year ending March LIST,
the appropriation for expenses including
salaries was $4,000.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-02-12
Meeting Of Trustees Of cony Academy

The trustees of Cony Female Academy
held meeting on Saturday to fill the va
cancy in the Board created by the death Of
the late William II. Smith. Mr.. William
II. Williams was elected trustee, and Hon.
Jo,eph II. Williams was elected president
of the board in place of Mr.. Smith, and on
taking the chair offered the following me-
mortal:
The recent death of our friend and CO.
trustee, William r. Smith, at the ripe
age of eighty years, was an event not
wholly unexpected by Us. His age led US
to regard hi, life as precarious, and disease
which for long time threatened to take
him from us. was unyielding and likely to
remove him at any moment. At length bis
warm and generous heart failed him, and
now we shall see his face no more.
For period Of ~ years he presided over
our board with unfailing constancy and I'M
sbated interest, with pleasing manners and
wise Judgment that rendered our meetings,
whether for conference only or for decisive
action, az agreeable as mere psstime, and
conducive to the growthsand enduring use.
fulness of our academy.
The absence of such friend is irrepar-
able and we can only say Yale! ReqM-
escat in pace.
This memorial was ordered spread upon
the records as the sense of the board of
trustees.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-02-12

1.-THE Hustler" is the laugh making at
traction offered at the Opera house this
Monday evening Feb. IL. With the an
nouncement that most of the song and dance
features of this changeable fun-show are
new this season, is coupled the information
that the deep-voiced Irish comedian, John
Kernell, still personates the penniless per-
son whose habit of inventing impossible
money making schemes gives title to the
piece. Gus Mills, as the landlady and
Noble Thompson, the nimble soubrette, are
retained from the original company, and
improvements are found in the part of the
German, now played by agile and comical
Emil Heusel, and in that of tramp, per-
sonated by James T.. Smith. Many other
able people aid in the fun. A new feature
of the second act is Salvation Army rally.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-02-12

The Waterman contains an obituary OF
lady who had friends in Augusta and vicini-
,y, and from it is taken " That is believed will
be of interest to them:
Mrs. Mary Pierce (Farrowl simonds,
who died in Somerville, Mass, Feb. d,was
born in Wales, Maine, Jan. Z, 1928. At the
age of seventeen she united with the First
Baptist church of Bath, Me. She was
married to Mr.. Charles Henry Simonds in
Charleston n, Mass, Dec. 16, ls4l. She had
eight children, four of whom survive her. In
1919 the family removed to Melrose High
Ia, DIS, where they resided twenty years.
Mrs. Simonds will be well remembered by
the older residents of Melrose as one OF
the original members of the First Baptist
church Of that place. During the war che
went twice to Southern hospitals to nurse
and restore to the field of battle her Oldest
son. Mr.. and Mrs. Simonds subsequently
removed to Maiden, and then to Somerville.
For several years she has been an invalid,
and been obliged to pass the winters in the
South.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-02-12
Railroad Commissioners Reports.

THE demand for the report of the rail-
road commissioners has been so great that
it has become necessary to dissppoint many
of our citizens who greatly desire to get
one," said the clerk of the commission,
Saturday. ''It has been customary to send
some, on application, to bankers Snd lead
ing railroad companies outside the State,
who keep informed regarding the property
of Maine roads. The commissioners have
been obliged to deny such, and have dis
tributed them to citizens of the State, 50
far as the limited number will allow. The
last Legislature cut down the number to be
printed from 20OO to 1900, leaving for the
commissioners and librarian but 400, loo
being bound in the State documents" The
data 1t contains this year makes the report
unusually valuable.
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Fesa 4 10 lail.

"A barrel Of flour will not last Two days, .
remarked the cook as the jail 70 ! JOURNAL
reporter Saturday. The prisoner are given
certain kinds Of food on particulat dsys.
They are all hearty and generally eat all
given them.
Monday 1t dinner they have stewed peas.
Tuesday, beef soup. Wednesday, stewed
beans. Thursday beef soup. Friday,
boiled fish. Saturday, beef soup. Sunday,
baked beans and only two meals. Every day
for breakfast and supper they get hot coffee
and bread. The stews and soups contain
potatoes and turnips. Each man il allowed
one-half pound Of meat for dinner ON the
days this food il served.
The flour used is good grade and the
bread is much better than many Of the pris-
oners have been accustomed to. Bread 10
cooked every day. Saturday ~ pans, hold
ing four loaves each, we're the number
baked. These loaves are over enc foot in
length, about i've inches wide and eight
inches deep. One loaf il cut in six
pieces. Nearly so of these loaves are
baked each week.
Each prisoner has a tin dish about
eight inches long, six inches deep and
five inches wide, one spoon. and pint
dipper. A little window in the eide of the
kitchen is the place through which the food
is passed to those who distribute it among
the pris oners in their cells. While eating
all are locked up, save those who are
walters. twenty-five hours out Of the "a
the prisoners are in their cells, with the ex-
ception of those who are at work keeping
the Jail clean.
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The Sanitary Inspector.

The last number of the Sanitary Inspec-
tor published by the Maine State Board of
Health and edited by the secretary, DIR. A.
G.. Young, is full of the information con-
corning hy gienic matters necessary to the
we'll being Of the people.
The following editorials especially are of
timely interest:
The most dreadful of the diseases to be
spread by the splitting habit is consumption.
This kills more persons than any other dis
ease, an ! the ejectment of sputa where it
should not 20, is the cause of more cases
of consumption than all other acts and
causes combined.
More than once we have referred to the
danger of the digital transmission of ty-
phoid fever and cholera. An experiment
of Uffelman of Rostock is an emphatic re-
hinder of how this mode of transmiss sion
may occur. "a finger was moistened with
LIQUID containing cholera germs; an hour
later after the finger had dried, it was
rubbed on some roast beef, upon which a
great quantity Of germs were afterward de-
veloped.'
DR.. Young takes the position that Ia
grippe il communicable disease and adds
that Persons who have the disease should
therefore remember that their carelessness
may be the cause of unnecessary suffering
and perhaps death to others and those who
wish to escape the malady should, as much
As they can, keep away from sufferers from
influenza, or ala geippe," a. most persons
now call it.
Secretary Young is sending out circu-
lar in which he says:
In the opinion of the State board OF
health it is very important that there be
strict compliance with the provisions OF
this act. An unvaccinated community is
constantly in danger of an expensive and
| life-destroying outbreak Of small pox as the
result of chance introduction of its con-
tagion. In the past there have been too
many disastrous smallpox outbreaks due to
the neglect of vaccination. OF late years
our comparative exemption has been simply
good luck.
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Mai. sChilcott will muster in Co. l.,
end Rept., at Houlton, Feb. l4th. This
new company will include IS men and will
be one of the "crack" companies of the
State. Nearly all the men are active and
earnest young fellows who take pride in
the organization. Frank M. Hume has
the matter of organization in bis hands,
and Houlton man tells the JOURNAL that
il win be Captain Hume, Co. L, and first
rate captain, too.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-02-12

"The Chelsea Amusement hall 10 nearly
paid for" remarked gentleman from that
place to . JOURNAL reporter Saturday.
I'VE have abo7t money enough on hand to
meet all the bills. It is the only hall in the
town and is credit to those who carried
through the undertaking. Ithas been paid
for by entertainments held in 1t. The hall
is 30x55, affordiug ample accommodations"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-02-12

Col. e. C. Harrington has unique walk
ine stick which he especially values since
the good ship Kearsarge was lost. The
cane is made from piece of live oak that
vas taken from the Kearsarge when the
vessel was undergoing repairs, and the
handle Of the cane was fashioned from =
niece Of steel taken from the ship. The
handle is in the form Of small caneon.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-02-12

Remember back NUNS
bsrs Of any part Of the
JOURNALS art port
folio, unless accompanied
by coupons Of the week
during which il WAS Of
fexed can only be OBJ
tanned upon payment q
Is cents
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-02-12

When the JOURNAL made its famous
book offer it thought it had Lives Of Blaine
enough ON hand to last 1t into April. More
than half Of our stock 10 gone, and it the
present rush continues oil will soon Be
gone. When the stock on hand il exhaust
ed it cannot be renewed. Holders Of cou-
pons should bring them in promptly.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-02-12

The Augusta Y's and We are invited by
the Gardiner w. c. 7. U. to be present al
an entertainment given by them at the M
+. church in Gardiner on Tuesday evening
Mrs. l.. N. M. Stevens will be present I'd
make an address.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-02-12

Mr., l.. Arquillof Cushnoc Heights WHOSE
lee was broken abort time ago, 10 rapidly
recovering under the care Of DR.. D. F. Lee
Clair.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-02-12

Miss Norwood, of Bowdoin, was guest
at the Augusta house Sunday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-02-12
81 owe MY LIFE TO YOU"
A Wilton, N. j., Girls Experience
With q Noted Massachusetts Woman.

ESPECIAL TO OUR LADY REApERs.]
Life is never more precious than in the
heyday of youth, when every dream is
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AUGUSTA SAVINGS blIK
Organised 1913.
BANKING ROOMS 2ss WATER St.

TRUsTKxs-Wm. 8. Badger, Aftsnas ND6S
J. H. Aanley. L. c. Cornish, Lendall Titoo0e.
Deposits received and placed o. inteeoet ~
Interest paid Or credited On account q ~ Gfeo
Wednesday Of February and August.
Deposits are exempt by law iron III ta1oos ~
accounts are strictly oon1deltaal.
Especial privileges AFFORDED % Exssulees, a
niniStratofs. Guardians. Trustees, nAs5ie1 We0
en- and minors.
aprsdtf EDWIN Q. DUDLEY. Treas.
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to $1,000, $500 and $500 for the respective
assignments. His education has fitted him
for nothing except to be naval officer.
No one wants TO give him $500 year to
superlntend the building of great ships.
The naval officer is the most helpless
man ON earth. He is away from nome so
much of the time that he gets out or touch
with home institutions and home INDUS
tries. He Is seldom fit for anything but
naval duty. Occasionally some o11lcer
who is on assignment at Washington takes
Ip the study of the law or medicine in his
spare hours. One or two officers gradu-
ated at the Law School this spring. Once
in while an officer like Captain Mahan;
whose work on "Sea-power in History
has created such a fur0Te in England, or
Lieutenant j. ID. j. Kelly, who has done
great deal of magazine writing OF light
character, displays talent with his pen.
Sometimes the naval officers develop
Inventive genius. But as rule the officer
sticks to his last" and retires finally in
capacitaed by sickness or age from
further service. Officers seldom leave the
navy to engage in other pursuits.
The United States navy, however. owes
much to is naval inventors. Many of the
devices used on our new ships of war are
the inventions of our own officers. Naval
constructors have contributed two of
those. The Navy Department paid to
Chief Constructor Wilson NOW retired) a
few years ago $4,000 for his invention of
an air port-hinge. The present chief con-
structor. Mr.. Hichborn, is the inventor of
an automatic life buoy which has been
adopted by the department. Lieutenant
briggs and Lieutenant Schroeder together
invented the Driggs-Schroeder Tapd-fire
gun, which is in use on some of the vessels
OF the new navy. Lieutenant Dashiell is
the inventor of a mechanism for rapid-fire
guns which has been adopted by the de-
partmeDt. Lieutenant Frank Fletcher is
the inventor of mount for rapid-fire guns,
which Is in use in our navy. Lieutenant
w. ii. Beehler Of the photographic office is
the inventor of a solarometer with which be
proposes to provide greater safety against
wrecks. Chef Engineer Webster has in
vented a clDOmeter for determining the
angle of the roll of a ship. Lieutenant
Diehl and Lieutenant Gibson have de-
vised 'cOm Densating biDnacle," in which
the magnetism of the steel hull of vessel
is cOunterbalaneed. Chief Engineer Towne
is the inventor OF boiler much used on
steam launches. Past Engineer Tobin is
the inventor of the Tobin bronze, which is
being used very generally. Captain How
ell is the inventor of an automobile tor
pedo.
Altogether the officers of the navy, who
have not had the advantages of foreign
education, are not the least useful or the
least ingenious of the graduates If An
napolis. GEORGE GRANTHAM Balm.
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MISCELLANEOUS,
now IS THE TIME
To Treat CataFrh- Months Treatment
During The Dry Season Is
Worth Two Months During the Rainy
Winter SeasOD-The Rate of So
Month Remains the Same.

1t has been the custom Of Drs. Copeland,
Wlnn and Neal each spring and summer that
they have been engaged in the pract ice of
medicine in this city to announce the advent of
the season as the most favorable for treating
eatarrh and all chronic diseases Of kindred
nature, the results of repeated and ofttimes
neglected colds.
They feel very grateful to the public for the
confidence with Which it accepts and responds
to their printed uiterances. Their many years.
experience in treating all forms of catarrhal
and kindred chronic diseases entities them TO
speak author itativey on the subject, and it is
particularly pleasing TO feel that the public APP
preciates and acknowledges this fact.
Their fore. following the usual custom, Drs.
Copeland, Winn and Neal desire o announce
the advent of The present favorable season.
Now is undoubtedly the time 10 treat catarrh.
Now we have nature TO assist us in the treat
ment instead OF retaTding it. months treat
ment now is worth more than TWO months dur
ing the winter. In fact, ia some aggravated
cases 1t is simply impossible TO effect cure
during tn winter months, and in these in
stances patients have been advised TO delay
treatment until summer.
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PAIRING THE BILLS.
The Supervisors Slash
Vigorously.
The Seven License Collectors Clerks
Fail to Get Their Last Years
Salary.

Sundry items of details engaged the at
tention of the Finance Committee of the
Board of Supervisors yesterday morning.
The only real lively business transacted
was the shelving of the salary bills OF
seven unhappy clerks from the License
Collectors Office. These gentlemen had
been struggling ever since June of last
year. when they were employed, to secure
their financial emolumeDt, and they really
expected to get IL yesterday. The urgent
necessity fund, under which they had
been employed at supposed salary of
500 per month, was exhausted before
their time came around last year. TIE
Supervisors yesterday cOolly informed
them that as the work performed had
been in the last fiscal year nothing could
be done Tor them now. The names Of the
clerks concerned are: j. NJ. Gilbert, S. S.
Crowley, c. Refs Jr.. Elgin McNab, w. +.
FITZGERALD, Peter Foley, Frank Cornyn.
The claim of City Improvements Company
for $50 for repairing sidewalks corner
of Twenty-second and Bartlett streets was
disallowed, on the ground that the CITY
was not Liable for the work dohe, it being
the place of the property-owners to pay
for it.
a. M. Ebbets' bill for S144 for bags de-
livered to the Fire Department with coal
and not returned as agreed was referred
to the District Attorney.
Official locksmith j. J. Cass was given
the pleasure of seeing his bill for 1892 de-
clined as exorbitant. BE claimed to have
furnished that moneys worth of locks and
keys for the new City Hall during April.
but the Supervisors thought otherwise.
1t was a mistake TO say above that no
lively deed was done at the meeting of the
committee, for there no little
quick spunk and decisiveness about
the way License Collector FRED Lees was
forbidden the luxury of buggy hence
forth. The gentleman was not present 10
express his opinion of the action. A saw
ing of fully $40 a month is effected by it.
Also there was some vigorous discussion
over Il. +. Osborne's bill for $500 for 500
feet of hose furnished at 80 cents per foot.
Gardener Deadly admitted that the bill was
a little bulky. 1t had passed him acct
deutally without correction. Previously
he had had to pay DO more than 80 cents
per foot with 10 per cent off for cash. The
account was rejected
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A Vicious G;rI.

Mabel Dewitt. a 15-year-old girl, was
sent to the Magdalen Asylum by Judge
Joachimsen yesterday. She has been in
the service of Mrs. Brandt, 406 Cough
street. According to Mrs. Brandt. Mabel
is cursed with horribly bad temper and
has been playing the very mischief in the
house. Mrs. Brandt bore with her goings
on as long as she could, but when she
threatened to exterminate the whole fam
lily by dosing them with rat poison she de-
termined to get rid of her.
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ALL-NOOL STYLISH CLOTH CAPES, fancy
trimm ed, navys. browns and tans...... -.
............................. %, 81 so, So 90
EVERY ONE BARGAIN.
FINE ALL-wooL CAPES, braid or ribbon
IilhlIntu 30 OO, % 20, @8 w
EVERY ONE a BARGAIN.
NOBBY ALL-WOoL CLOTH CAPES, blacks
and tans, cream lace trimmed. ..............
EVERY NE 4 BARGAIN.
FINE BLACK CLOTH CAPES. trimmed either
with lace and jet or ribbons blacks onlv
80 w, 50 10, ~ W
EVERY ONE BARGAIN.
FIN EST BLACK AND COLOREO CLOTH
CAPES, very stylish, all coors and black
-........-- .-.......-.-...,...So w, 81 w. 30 w
EVERY ONE y BARGAIN.
FINE BLACK SILK MORE CAPES. trimmed,
all sizes. S12 5O, Sl3 90, SO %
EVERY ONE \ BAhGAIN.
FINE LACE AND JET TRIMMED SILK OR
MORE CAPES, all sizes.
SIS so, SO 90, $l7 90
EVtRY ONE A BARGAIN.
200 FINE INDIA SILK WAISTS. lined. red
and all fancy light fleets. So so, IS 90. IS so
EVERY ONE = BARGAIN.
EB- No goods exchanged during this sale. All
goods marked In plain fguTes-and greatly re-
duced.
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poem comprises twelve books, in all of
which the matter is artistically arrayed
and the interest carefully led up to a
climax. The poem is beautifully printed
and reflects credit on the publisher. Buff
falo, y. Y: Charles Wells Moulton.
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FINE TAN COVERT CLOTH DRESSES, new
Blazer styles, ali shades of tan..............
.".........................S 81 80, $40 90. St1 %
Reduced from SIS, $50 and $22 so.
EVERY o. BARGAIN.
FINE TAN COVERT CLOTH DRESSES, but
toned-up Jackets big revers. .............-.
s u 90, $l2 90, Sl4 W
Reduced from $40, $24 and $50.
EVERY ONE \ BARGAIN.
FINE TAN COVERT CLOTH DRESSES, one
buttoned cutaway styles. -
Observation-Disclosures. $l4 co. $40 80, SlS w
Reduced from SIS, ST so and $50.
EVEtY ONE BARGAIN.
NAVY AND BLACK SERGE DRESSES. new
Blazer styles. So 80. 81 So SO 90
Reduced from Sl3 So SO and SlS.
EVERY ONE BARGAIN.
FINEST NAVY AND BLACK SERGE
DRESSES, new Blazer styles, satin faced
Observation-Disclosures SIS 90, $40 90, S12 90
Reduced from $16, $lS and $50.
EVERY ONE a BARG 6IN.
DUCK DRESSES, tans, navys and whites
................. ........... So rs, So 90, $5 so
Reduced from 81. 50 aud SO.
EVERY ONE 4 BAkG AIN.
RENO country orders filed unless accompanied
by deposit Make sec nd choice always.
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For a WorfhY Charity.

Rev. William Gleason of st. Anthony's
Church will deliver lecture on "The Clio
ries of Heaven" at st. Francis Church
this evening at 1880 O'clock for the benefit
of the Children's Day Home cd Powell
street.