The Portland daily press., 1895-07-08
RUMFORD HISTORY.
The Remainder Of the Hearing at
Bethel.
POSTPONEMENT AT THE CLOSE OF
JUDGE SYMONDS' OPENING.
Because of an Effort to Come to an Agree
ment-Further Testimony for the Com
plainant-Judge Symond's Opening.
ESPECIAL TO THE PREss.l

ment-Further Iesu1mOuy Aor eho NoAiA-
plainant-Judge Symond's Opening.
ESPECIAL TO THE PREss.l
Bethel july 5th-The hearing in this
town before Judge Foster, on the motion
for a preliminary injunction, whereby
the Rumford Falls Paper Co., seeks to
restrain the Rumford Fall Power Co.,
from laying spur track that, it alleges,
will cause the shut down of the mill,
was reported in Saturdays PRESS up to
the conclusion of President Emery testl-
mony for the complainants. The hearing
continued up to the close OF Judge
Symonds' opening for the defense and was
then postponed as is stated later.
After President Emery, Manager
Schenck of the Paper Company, was the
next witness for the complainant.
MANAGER sCHENCK'S TESTIMONY.
:, Manager Schenck was the second wit
ness for the defense. Mr.. Libby asked
him what was the reason of the writing
of the letter received by him from Mr..
| Chisholm.
Mr.. Schenck said that he went to Mr.
Chisholm and told him that he wanted
letter that he could show to persons
that he wished to enlist in the enterprise
of building the mill. Thereupon Mr..
Chisholm wrote the letter and Mr.
Schenck used it successfully in securing
subscriptions to the stock of the paper
| company.
Manager Schenck exhibited plans and
explained them to show that the chang
| ing of the location of the tracks, SO as to
block the logs in the "haul-up," would
entail the dropping of the whole floor OF
the mill. Underneath the floor thare is
machinery that hasn't enough room at
present. and that would be run at great
disadvantage if the space were further
| contracted.
The non delivery of the coal at the point
desired would involve an expense OF
about $4,000 year for carriage The mill
in running under full time and capacity
at the present time They have contracts
to supply newspaper firms that must be
filled If the haul-up is blocked and the
logs thus prevented from coming into the
mill, the effect will be to shut down the
mill The seriousness of this would be
represented by the loss of a great deal OF
money, the cancell1ng of contracts and
the loss of the prestige of supplying all
orders on demand
If there had been any knowledge on
witness's part that this question would
ever come up and that the use of the log
"haul up'' might be interfered with, it
would have made great difference in
the witness's purpose to locate a mill
there Competition is so close now that
every feature of the location of a mill
must be considered, and the hauling in
carts of 10000 tons of coal year, cannot
be tolerated.
Even as the location of the track has
been in regard to the "haul-up,' large
and crooked logs occasionally get caught
and have to be chopped out.
If the track were changed as proposed
it would in witness's Judgment involve
the changing of the floor of the wood
room. where the logs enter, and all the
machinery in it would have to be dropped
down and the machinery underneath
| would be disarranged. This would be a
very serious matter. In fact the chang
| ing of the track would cause the disuse
of the 'shaul-up"
Witness had been familiar with the re-
tanning wall and had seen nothing to in
dictate that it was not strong enough to
support the track and cars in the present
| location.
Cross examined by Judge Symonds,
| witness had never made any careful estl
mate of the cost of changing the "haul
| up'. AS to why the haul-up in the first
place had not been designed so as to avoid
sacrificing one half of 40-foot street.
witness said that they had located theil
wood room at the, point that seemed mos
| suitable.
As to changing the level of the plat
form of the haul-up, one foot and hal
lower, without involving any serious
difficulty, witness couldn't state positive
| ly about that The moving OF the wooc
room backward would entail the chang
| ing of machinery and an expense of from
$4,000 to $4,000. Witness wasn't sure thai
that change would obviate the difficulty,
Original plans were presented by Judge
Symonds to show that there was moth
ing to indicate the presence of track OF
| Canal street or the log haul. up undel
the street. Mr.. Schenck stated that these
outside details are not always included
on the architects plans When the origi
nal plan was presented by Engineer Mix
er, they were building the mill The,
certainly did not understand that thai
plan was notice from the Power Com
pany that the arrangement of the sid'
track was only temporary. He under
stood, just exactly as Mr.. Emery stated
that the track would not be removed I'm
til it was demonstrated that it was iniu
rious to the Power company.