Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-05
STATE HOUSE NEWS.
Railroad Commissioners Hold Regular
Monthly Meeting, Wednesday.
Returns 10 Labor Bureau Secretary Mckeen
Attending Dairy Conference.

Commissioner Matthews CT the bureau
of labor and industrial statistics has
received returns, regarding the cost of
living of the workingmen of the State,
which will be a feature of is annual re-
port, which will appear the latter part of
this month
The daily cost of living per individual,
in families, to be 81 cents; rent food,
fuel and lights costing 81 cents, while
the cost per individual for single men for
board, which represents the above named
items, is 46 cents According to figures
obtained in 1891 these same items cost
respectively 33 cents, 23 cents and 10
cents, a lessening in the total daily cost of
living of the individual in the family Of
two cents, of the cost to the individual for
rent, food, fuel and lights two cents and
of the cost for board to the single man of
three cents. The average daily cost per
individual in families for the item of
food is Ii cents es against cost of IA
cent in 1891. Men with families saved
Is per cent of their incomes as compared
with II per cent in 1891, and single men
II per cent the same as in 1891.
The following new corporation has filed
its certificate with the secretary of State:
The Boston and Battle Mining Com
pany, organized at Portland, for the pur-
pose of acquiring, selling, exchanging
and developing mining property, with
1000, 600 capital stock of which 81 is
paid in. The officers are: President,
Charles Lawrence of Boston, Mass.
treasurer, F. Warren Halves Of Lynn,
Mass.
The railroad commissioners, at their
regular monthly meeting, Wednesday,
were as busy as bees all day. A great
amount of the usual routine matter was
disposed Of.
The commissioners approved the petit
ton of the Maine Central Railroad Com
pany for branch track and a crossing of
the highway in the town of Jay, to the
Otis Falls Pulp & Paper Co.'S mill.
The board approved the change in the
location of the highway in the town of
Veazie, on the line of the Bangor, Orono
& Old Town Street Railway. The Maine
Central Railroad Company was the petit
tonerln this case and ask that the Elec-
trio Road cross the Maine Central track
instead of at grade. The commissioners
decided to change the location of the
highway so as to permit crossings over
the Maine Central tracks, for the purpose
of avoiding a dangerous grade crossing,
which now exists there.
The commissioners also determined
that an overhead steel bridge shall be
built by the Maine Central, at a cost not
exceeding $40, 900, and that two-fifths of
the expense shall be borne by the Street
Railway. Outside of the bridge and
within the limits of the railway, the ex
pense shall be borne by the town of
Veazie.
The petition of the Portland II Cape
Elizabeth Street Railroad to cross the
tracks of the Portland Railroad in the
city of Portland, was approved by the
commissioners
The commissioners are now engaged in
closing out the business of the year, pre-
paratory to the completion of their annual
report. The board adjourned until Friday
forenoon, at 10 clock, in its room at
the State House
Secretary Mckecn of the State board of
agriculture is attending the state dairy
conference of the board, at Norway,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this
week.