The Portland daily press., 1897-01-21
SCHEMES PLENTIFUL.
Railroad Bills Pile Up In Commit
tee.
ELECTRIC LINE PROPOSED TO
HARPSWELL NECK.
Eastern Maine Hospital Committee Visits
Bangor Today-The State College Re-
port-The Fishery Laws To Be Codi-
fed.
IspEo1Ar TO THE pREss.l

ESPECIAL. TO THE PREsS.I
Augusta. January 20-The pile Of bills
in the custody of MIR. Kaler OF Scarboro,
the secretary of the railroad committee is
growing constantly larger and there are
Others 20 come. Today ex-Representative
skolfsld of Harpswell is here and he is
having bill prepared to charter an
electric road to extend from brunswick
to West Harpswell. The Bath and
Brunswick people have been supposed to
hold mortgage on this attractive bit OF
the earth but the Harpswel people are
evidently tired of waiting and want to
do something on their own account. AS
a side issue Mr. Skolfisld will have
bill introduced establishing village
corporation on Harpswell Neck so that
the peouIs living there may If they want
to do so, lend their credit to the railway
enterprise. Harpswell Neck is that part
of the town reached by steamer from
Portland and all Portlanders know what
a prettv place it Is. The new railway
would make this attractive shore of
Casco Bay easily accessible to the people
of Brunswick and Bath and other points
along the line of the Maine Central. In
summer it would afford a new and
pleasant way OF reaching Portland, nine
miles from Brunswick by the eleotrics
and then sail of sixteen miles up the
bay to the principal city of the state. II
this and the Harrison railway projects
should materialize, Cumberland county
towns would be greatly convenienced.
A bill will be introduced in day OF
two Of interest to Gorham people. In
1889, there was passed special law en-
powering school district No. in Gorham
to send it's pupils to the model schools
maintained in connection with the work
of the normal and schools and to apply
school moneys to the support OF those
schools. When the general law was
passed in 1S98 substituting for the OLD
district system the new plan OF town
schools, it became question whistler
the first district In Gorham was abolished
az there were provisions in the new law
under which districts which had been
made subjects of general legislation could
be still maintained. The Gorham select
men. however, went ahead and abolished
the district and now the special law ol
1854 having outlived its usefulness,
will probably be wiped off the statute
books.
Tomorrow forsuoon the commission or
the
EASTERN MAINE INSANE
hospital the committee Of the legislature
and many of the members will go tt
Bangor to inspect the work already don't
and hear about plans for the future
Oompa with the appropriation OF two
years ago, the s294, coo which the com
mission now asks for is an increase Of
about 100 per oeet. The last legislature
appropriated sl5O,0 AS this insane
hospital appropriation Is the largest O.
| the winter now there Is naturally goot
deal OF speculation as to what it's s1z'
will bs when it Is finally passed. Tit
1924, 600 will build two of four contem
plated pavilions. There are many OF th
members who are disposed to the opinion
that one building will be about all tina
| can be provided for this year. Others ar
surprised that the commission did no
ask for more money. One suggestion
which the PRESS correspondents heRrt
today was new one. The man wh'
| made it said: 81 was opposed to thl
| hospital, but it has been started ant
| must be finished now. 1t seems to M
| vuoui1 ha vyiCa n nuyA mans Anf
estimates made for the whole establish
ment and then raise the money by al
| issue of bonds These buildings are Il
| be used certainly for 6fty or sixty years
Why then should the tax payers be mad
| to pay million dollars In the next tel
years while the work goes OIL inspiecemea
| fashion; whom the burden by means o
bonds maturing from time to time coul'
| ne distributed over the life of the inst1tu
tionp 1 know that there will be objection
| to increasing 5he bonded debt, but never
| theless think n,y plan good one.
Certainly the suggestion is interesting
| but 1T isn't likely to receive serious at
| tention and its author does net expect 1t
lit will serve however, to give the Law
makers somtl1ing to talk about on tn
| excursion TO Bangor. which is evidentl
regarded In the light Of a holiday trip.
| When the members reached their seat
| this morning they found on their desk
printed troadsides on which was lnDl
| editorial from the Bangor Commercial
in which that paper while urging til
claims Of
THE STATE COLLEGE
on the treasury, denounced the report o.
that institution presented by the com
mittee, Nessrs. freeman, Clason an
Holman, ss prejudiced and unfair. Dr
Harris, the president of the college, whel
asked if he was ready to state the side
the college in the controversy, said tina
he should have something to say later
Dr. Harris did not declare the repor
| prejudiced. Instead ne spoke of it as
| fair presentation of the wives 1t EN- bodice
| although of course he did not admit tina
those were the right views. He adde(
| that there were one or two Statements
RHEUMATISM CURED IN A DAY.