The Portland daily press., 1896-02-27

destined to come when Maine should
lead in the manufacture of both pulp and
paper. The best wood for pulp is spruce,
and Northern Maine IS full of this arti-
ole, aud it is likewise easily accessible.
The rapidly multiplying uses for wood
pulp open to Wlde field of usefulness
Tor the fiber of our forest, while the nu-
merous and superb water power to be
found throughout the state generate the
power to convert the same into pulp and
paper Great possibilities are before Maine
IN this direction.
Concerning the summer resorts OF the
state Mr.. Matthews says:
Maine has been justly styled the Play
ground of the Nation. " Its rare COM
bination of mountain, lake and seaooast,
together with a climate thoroughly in
MIGRATING, eminently fits this northeast
ern section of Uncle Sans domain to be
the summer abode of the great tourist
nublic. Remarkable indeed has been the
growth of that tide of summer travel,
which each season visits our shores.
lakes and mountains in increasing num-
b9rs. Hotels innumerable, both great
and small have been reared at both in
land and seashore resorts for the accom-
mediation of this invading army, whose
visitation is welcome to ALL
Many of the visitors prefer summer
homes of their own, and cottage life is
popular among a large number. The
outcome of this growing tendency to pre-
fer the cottage to the hotel, has been the
erection of cottages by the thousands
and involving many million dollars. At
Bar Harbor and many other Maine re-
sorts, summer cottages truly palatial, have
been reared, and here, through the
months of the summer, wealth and fash
ion from distant cities hold sway. And
thara are Also accom- n0OdatjOps at both
seashore and the interior for those who
prefer less pretentious quarters, summer
boarding b puses of an excellent character
Astounding everywhere.
While NJ aine has long been known as
resort p Rr excellence in the summer
months, yet it is only within recent
years that the tourist business has as
summed anything like its present immense
proportions. Names attractions have
only to be- beralded abroad in order to
draw people hither, and the liInited ad-
vertising already done has resulted in
benehtting tle state and its people a
thousand fold With the growth and
development of railroad and steamship
lines, localit les heretofore inaccessible
have been Or, lught into easy resch from
the outside world, and resorts have
sprung up all over the state. The great
transportation lines have labored earnest
ly in spreadiI abroad information as
TO Names tsort advantages and they
reaped substa initial benefits in the rapid
~ expanded tr svel.
The summer resort industry is in reali-
ty one of tho most profitable of all the
lines of business in Maine, and it's future
development is exceedingly promising.
Several hundrids of thousands come
from away ca III year, and the amount
Of money this puts in circulation aggre-
gates in the vicinity of $40, 600, 900 annu-
ally.
Mr.. Richard IL. Chalk, inspector of fac
tories made the following report:
During the year 1893 factories and work
shops have betsn visited and inspected
20 of Which have been visited second
time, and 10 THIRD time, making in all
1929 visits. of these, 10 were cotton
mills, Al woolen mills, 80 shoe shops. IS
paper and pulp mills, % machine shops,
IA box factories . laundries, AZ bakeries,
besides 43 other manufacturing estab-
lishments of VAT ious kinds. The total
number of child rem under is years of
age found emplo yed was 1880, of which
643 were over IL and 547 under Is years
old. By far tho largest part. go were
at work in the cotton mills while 1874
were in the woele n mills. and 43 in the
shoe shops, leaving but 90 in all other
employments. or the children between
Is and Il years old 513 were in the cot
IOli lille, OF III bIlj WUUIGu 20 III
the shoe shops amt II in all other indus
tries, while Of those under 10 years 457
were in cotton m Ills, 81 in wooden mills,
IL i'll shoe shops and six in al, others
of the 93 children illegally employed.
ordered out of the mills. 81 were found
IN cotton mills. "a in woolon miIls and
two in shoe shops. In eight cotton mills,
two wooden mills. one shoe shop, sani-
tary improvements were ordered. OF the
total number inspected 100 pay weekly,
ll5 pay fortnightly, and 1S pay monthly.
AS general rule the cotton and wooden
mills and pulp and paper mills pay fort
nightly, while under industries, very
generally pay weekly. But few, only
| IS out of the 2S3, pay monthly, and
these are scattered through large num-
Der of industries and are the exception to
the general rule. Pulp and paper mills
and bakeries average II hours work per
oay, spruce gum manufacturers ten and
half, and all others 10 hours. In the
general conditions of the mills and shops
considerable improvement is noted
over former years.