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The Portland daily press., 1898-01-08

Hon. Leonard Atwood Of Pennington
the president of the Franklin, Somerset
& Kennebec railroad. was in Augusta,
the first of the week, leaving Tuesday
night for Philadelphia. 1t is understood
that Mr.. Atwood was in Augusta to con-
fer with the managers of the Franklin &
Kennebec railroad to see if some plan
cannot be arranged between the two com
panies,S SO that some action can be taken
in the spring. 1t is also understood that
nothing definite has yet been arranged.
Contractor Keneick, of the Washing
ton county railroad, has returned to Ellis
worth from his trip West and South. He
says he has closed contracts with several
contractors for work here.
GRAND TRUNK APPOINTMENTS
Some weeks ago several emloyes of the
Grand Trunk Railway System accepted
positions on the Canadian government
Railway system, in connection with the
changes and additions to the staff inau.
gurated by Mr.. Harris, the General
Traffic Manager. The positions thus
created have now been filed by the man
agement of the Grand Trunk.
Mr.. W. K. Evans, of the freight claims
Office, succeeds Mr.. L. K. Dodd as rate
clerk in the General Freight Office. Mr.
Dodd went to the Interuolonial head
quarters at Moncton in the capacity of
chief clerk of the Freight Department.
Mr.. c. E. Prescott, of the Division
Freight office of Hamilton, comes to
Montreal to fill the vacancy in the Tariff
Bureau caused by the appointment of Mr..
E. Smiley to a position in the Inter
colonial Freight Department..
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GEN. GRosvENoR AND THE PREsI
DENT.

| The Hon. Charles 81. Grosyenor is a
gentleman of great yaTor, whatever may be
said of his discretion. When be gets warmed
up he hits heads right and left without
paying much attention to whom the
heads belong. In his present raid up on
the civil servi3e system the gentleman he
is hitting harder than anybody else is
the Hon. William Mckinley, President
of the United States, whose preliminary
canvass for that office was carried on
largely under his direction. Mr.. Grosve-
nor says that Mr.. Mckinley is not the
man to require subserviency and syco-
phancy from his friends. Very likely !,
but unless he is vastly different
from the rast of the human race, he is not
the man either to enjoy having shillelah
brandished in close proximity to his head,
especially when it is welded by SO yigor-
GUS a hand as MIR. Grosyenor's.
ALr. Grosyenor's chief complaint is that
the civil service system has become d
very different thing from what the au-
thors of the original law intended. If that
be so. where does the responsibility lie? OBJ
viously with the Presidents of the United
States, to whose keeping it was commit
ted, with power to extend, restrict,
or practically abolish. The civil
service system as it exists today is practi-
cally the creation of Presidents, the most
of whom have been Republicans. Every
one of them has extended its scope and
brought within its protection offices
which had previously been outside of it
and this too with the approval
of Republicans repeatedly expressed
in their national platform. But
the President who has done moro
than an other to secure permanency of
tenure to office holders-the thing of
which Gen. Grosvenor and the other as
sailants Of the civil service system COM
plain most-is President Mckinley. Pre-
vious to % recent order of his every en-
ployee of e department or office was re-
movable at pleasure by the head of it, the
only restraint upon the latter being what
might reside il the fact that though he
could remove at Will, he could not ap-
point except from an eligible list. But
under President McKinIeys order this
power is greatly modified, and now heads
of many departments and offices can only
remove for cause, that cause to be dis
tinctly specified, and the empdoye to be
given d hearing if he demands it. There
never has been an order or rule which SO
firmly established the employe in his en-
ployment as does this one. Hence we say
that the head that the Hon G. H.
Grosyenor is hitting the hardest Is that
of the President of the United States, not
the last one, but the present one.
Mr.. Mckinley deserves better treat
ment. In extending the civil service he
has done simply what the Republican
party declared in its national platform IT
was in favor of doing. To assail him di-
rectiy or indirectly for doing that strikes
us as pretty mean sort of business, espec-
tally for an Ohioan TO lead off in.
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That there is widespread dissasisfac-
ton over the way tho civil service law
has been administered much more than
owe its general principle. is quite patent
to the public by this time. Besides this
Dissatisfaction with the way it has been
administered, tn 3re is also strong feel
ing tnat it's principle has been applied in
places that tend to make it ridiculous.
To apply the machinery Of civil service
examination when there is need of a
SO ,b-Women or an hostler, as is now
,-gae, serves chiefly TO make the thing
ridiculous. -Biddefsrd Journal.
Is it the application of the machinery
to scrub women and hostlers that has SO
stirred up the York County Republican
committee?
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BoWDoiN COLLEGE.

The winter term at Bowtloin opened,
Tuesday PresidentsWilliam Dewitt Hyde
has returned from Europe and will again
assume the duties of president of the col
lege. The work of the three lower classes
has not been materially affected by the
presidents absence, but the senior class
in psychology, history of philosophy and
ethics will be obliged to do double work
during the remainder of tine year.
For the Junior class the winter term is
the period of social gaiety, the famous
junior assemblies occurring at this time.
The juLiors have elected the following
committee of arrangements for the assem-
blies: Henry W. Lancey of Pitsfield,
Joseph ID. Sinkinson of Portland, Wallace
III. White, Jr., of Lewiston. The first as
sembly will take place the second week
of the term.
During the Christmas vacation the
appointments for the '68 prize speaking
contest were made by the faculty. This
prize was contributed by the GLASS of 1868
and is given annually to the author of
the best written and spoken Grafton in
the senior class.
Excellence in theme writing and in
elocution is the basis on which the choice
of the six competitors Is made. The fol-
lowing members of the senior class will
compete for the prize at the close of the
present term: Percival Proctor Baxter
of Portland, John Wilbur Condor -of
Berlin, N. ii William Wjtherle Law
renee. of Portland; Thomas Littlefleid
Marble, of Gorham, N. H.; Robert Rob-
ertson Morson, of Upton. 2. e. L. ::
Frank Herbert Swan, of Westbrook
Gymnasium work at Bowdoin began,
this week, under the direction of DR..
Whittier Tho freshmen have Indian
club swinging; the sophomores, wrest-
ling and dumb bell exercises. the Juniors.
boxing and fencing with single sticks
and broadswords; the seniors, fencing
with foils. The candidates for positions
on the Varsity ball nine have ALREADY
commenced training under the supervis.
ion of Captain Ralph M. Greenlaw, '9s.
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Senator Gallinger is greatly stirred up
over the alleged pension abuses, but if he
had his way he would wipe out the civil
service reform law and open the door to
abuses compared to which the pension
abuses would pale into insignifcance.
Consistency is not one of DIR. Gallinger's
jewels
The Portland daily press., 1898-01-08

Mr. W. j. hunter, agent of the Great
Eastern Railway at Battle Creek, Mich,
succeeds Mr.. Robinson as travelling
freight agent at Detroit. Mr.. Robinson
has taken the position of Division Freight
a gent of the Intercolonial at ST. John,
N B.-Montreal StVr
The Portland daily press., 1898-01-08

The fight in Maryland against the cleo
ton of McConas to tie Senate is about as
bitter as that against Hanna. Eleven Re-
publicans arc enlisted in the opposition,
and German is plucking up hope that he
nay squeeze through after all.
The Portland daily press., 1898-01-08

4 Judas" Bushnell the Ohio Republican
papers call him now. He differs from. the
historic Judas in enc important respect,
however. He shows no inclination to
hang himself
The Portland daily press., 1898-01-08

Some weeks ago that Christian Mirror
in an editorial entitled "Our Superior
Court" alleged that lit is openly
charged that cases carried up to oul
Superior Courts are dismissed or the
penalties inflicted are SO inadequate, that
law breakers feel a sense of security in
their Illegal actions, and the executive
officers ind their labors negatived to such
an extent as to occasion the lassez faire
policy that now prevails, and AN appeal
was made to Judge Bonney, of the Supe-
rior Court of Cumberland county, to ex-
plain the action of his court, especially in
respect of The repeatedly published eA-
preston, mot to be brought forward I'M
less by special order of court in the light
OF Section 50, chapter n. of our statutes
This week the Mirror makes this naive
statement with regard to the above re-
quest:
The request was made of his honor,
Judge Bonney, as a man who IS held IN
highestsesteem among Us, both as Jurls6
and q Christian gentleman, with the con-
yiction, as we then stated, that an au-
thoritative statement from him would
remove the misapprehensiOns that have
arisen inv ew of the apparent conflict
between the decisions of the court and
The statutes OF the state Of Maine.
After this exordium the editor proceeds
to say that he has had an eminently salts
factory interview with his honor and that
his hcnor is all right as regards the en-
forcement of the law against liquor
traffic.
1t may not be amiss to suggest that if
the call upon Judge Bonney had been
made sometime before there would not
have heen any excuse fer insinuating
that 80 man who is held in the highest
esteem among us, both as a jurist and
Christian gentleman had SO conducted
his court that ''the law breakers feel a
sense Of security in their Illegal actions,
and the executive officers find their. labors
negasived to such an extent as to occasion
the laissez fsire policy that now pre-
walls
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TlRE PRESS.
SATURDAY, JANUARY s.

Tho Ohio politicians will remember
Gmfith's wife for long time to come,
not because she turned back, but because
shs turned Griffith back. !.
The Portland daily press., 1898-01-08

Representative Moody's suggestion that
the government employees over whom
President Cleveland threw protection By
his blanket order, be subjected to an
examination, strikes US as having some
reason in it. The most of these men were
8 lsatsd primarily because they were
Je1aocrats, and not because of special
fitness. They are not where they are as
u result OF d competitive examinations
We fail to see therefore where the injus-
tice would come in in requiring them to
submit to an examination. Certainly
it would DO directly in line with the prin-
ciple OF the law, which makes capacity
and fitness the test.
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Messrs. Poor & GreenOugh, New Yorl
Messrs. {. C. Stanwood & Co., Boston
offer for sale at 81 and accrued in
terest, $1,000, 900 of the above issue
of bonds, the remaining $l,OOO,OUO
having been sold.

Payable as follows:
ti0n.
March LIST.
are listed at the New York Stock Exchange.
Coupon accrues from Jan. 1, 1898.
uhThe following particulars are stated in let
ter from the President of the Company:
The Erie Telegraph g. Telephone Company,
in conjunction with the AMERICAN Bell
TELEPHONE COMPANY, owns and oper.
ates the subordinate corporations sconduct-
ing the Bell Telephone business in Cleveland,
Ohio land in all OF Minnesota, North and Sout h
Dakota. Texas ami Arkansas excepting only
Duluth and the Black Hills district)
The profits of the Erie Company. like those
,of the AMERICAN BELL TELEPHONY
COMPANY are derived from dividends on the
shares of the sub-companies belonging to it,and
for seven years its income account has been as
follows:
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FINANCIAL.
united GAS and
ELECTRIC co.
First Mortgage Five Per
Cent Gold Bonds.
DATED MARCH l. 1897. DUE MARCH |. 1917
Union Safe Deposit & Trust Co.,
Portland, Trustee.


This Company is corporation doing business
under charters granted by the Legislatures Of
the gas and electric plants which furnishes
municipal and domestic lighting in the cities OF
Dover, Rochester and Somersworth, in New
Hampshire, and In the towns of Berwick. and
North Berwick, in Maine. The population of
this territory aggregates about $4,000.
This Company not only furnishes the light for
the cities and towns named, but also supplies
the power used in operating the street railway
between Dover add Somersworth, and also
power used for manufacturing purposes.
This branch of business has never been de-
very large increase in the earning of this de-
partment
The Portland daily press., 1898-01-08

NOTCE-We have got the best flour in Port
IN land for all purposes, It win make raise
bread. biscuit an pastry. II is winter whea /
white as snow; and every barrel warranted or
money refunded ami only S5.75 a barrel.
WHITNEY, the Grocer, POI Congress st. al-l
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT.

FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
(From Official Statement of the Manager)
Capital Stock authorized and
Total amount of First Mortgage
Bond, authorized and issued, 250, 000. 90
Earnings from April l, 1895, to
April l, 1897. the time of opera
ton under present management
Gross Receipts, S139, 225.77
Net Earnings, 1902. 90
Original cost Of this property, 72aOO. 90
1t is certified to by two engineers
that the present Value of the
property is 504, 1851. 80
We are informed by the treasurer of the
corporation that the net earnings for the
wear ending in 1897, will exceed the interest
on the bonds by at least $4,000. ..
BOND ISSUE.
The total issue of bonds is $3.50, 000. 90
Secured by mortgage certified by attorneys
to be a first lien on the entire property and
franchise of the company, now owned or
hereafter acquired. The full amount of this
mortgage has been issued, therefore no adj
ditional first mortgage bonds can be issued.
EXAMINATION.
We have the favorable reports of two engi-
neers who made careful examination of
this property.
The legal papers have been drawn under
the com ined direction of Charles H. Tyler,
Esq, of Boston, Frank s. Streeter, ESQ.,, of
Concord New Hampshire, and Drummond
q Drummond of Portland, and they have
passed their opinions favorably upon this
issue of bonuS.
MANAGEMENT
The management of the Company is as
follows:
Albert Wallace, President, Rochester, New
Hampshire.
Hoil H. L. Shepherd, Treasurer and Gen
eral Manager, Rockport Maine.
Directors, Albert Wallace, Rochester, N.
H., john c. Nvel. George q. Wall zee,
Rochest 7, N. H.; Fred Il. Richards, Port
land, Me-; George E. Macomber, Augusta.
Me; II. L. Shepherd, Rockport, Me-, and
Berney C. Parsons Boston, Mass.
This corporation is controlled by well
known New England men and the directors
are men of local standing and position.
The Portland daily press., 1898-01-08

NOR sALE-Two lots near Western Prone
H'a5a one 40 and the other so feet 'front.'
- na Iso lots on West, Vaughan. Chadwick,
Nsoi TIark, State, Carroll, Danforth, Wey--
mouth and Portland, and other streets. For
Sa aRpTB u hsa Es'ssS fs ss
VAIL, 90
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Total. 81 1888, 806 81 $229,b6945 81, 459236.76
The net income for 1897 (partly estimateD is
$685., 900.
general business depression OF the period pre-
maintained. The net earnings for 1896 applica-
Bile to interesto on the bonds were $314,9l3.75,
and the management state that the expenditure
of the new capital VIII create more thah pro-
portionate increase of revenue.
The following is IL condensed statement OF the
condition OF the sub-conipanies December 81,
1906
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Ir. Latham True
(7eter knoya rs Char o. |, Tlus)

Teacher of Piano. Organ and Musical Theory
(surcsssor to Mr.. Harvey S. Murray will re-
turn from Leipzig, Germany, and resume teach
ing early in ,)anua y, 1898, at the studio former
y. occupied by Mr.. Murray, Room Is, Browns
Block. 537 Congress street.
jam div
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to on real se estnts ap I'd ips9
on life insurance policies, notes, bonds,
household goods and any good collateral
security W. 2. CARR, Rom 8, Oxford
Building, 1856 Middle street. ga
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LIABILITIES.
ASSETS.

s AS extension of thesystem becomes necessary
from time to time the share capital or the SUD
ordinate companies is incr eased and PAID Tor
at par by the Erie Telegraph and Telephone
Company and the AMERICAN Real TEL
EPHONE COMPANY in the same proper
ton as the capital already owned by them; Inc
object OF the issue OF bonds is to provide the
Erie Company with the means OF payment LOT
its proportion of such subscriptions as called
for.
the subordinate companies belonging TO the
Erie TeIeph he Company are deposited with
Ffhe Trustee. who shall counters1gn bonds
ONLY 60 extent two-thlris OF the par value
of i'd stocks SO deposited.
/ The mortgage provides that all the sub
companies are to be kept free from bonded
or floating debt or any action that could
canse impairment in the value of the shares.
the AMERICAN YELL TELEPHONE
CO is represented in the boards of each OF
he sub-companies by two OF It's principal
Ulcers.
The legal organization of all the com
panies. the physical condluon OF tne
anime and reported npon by experts nomi-
mated by the una ersigned.
TIRE UNDERSIGNED RECOMMEND
THE ABOVE BONDS AS A SAFE AND
DESIRABLE INVESTMENT.
POOR & GREENOUGH,
IS WALL ST, NEW YORK.
{. c. STANWOOD { CO.,
1871 DEvoNsH1RE ST., BOSTON.
jan811,13,15 nhcol
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ANTED-Burnham' Jellycon. No sugar.
w 4 child can make it Assorted tavors.
M.da in n minute. For dessert no equal
For economy it is the best. For sale by
grocers. In stock at MELCAEk CO.'S, and
The Portland daily press., 1898-01-08

p1OR sALE--A valuable farm within two
miles of Portland, about IS acres land,
With NICE buildings, consisting of French
ro avn frame dwelling house, IS rooms steam
heat ie - Earn IS by So, with cellar and siIo;
orchard Of 90 trees, choice , variety apples
1 Wiii PC cid at bargain. Apply to Real
Es ,ta tie 0ffice of BENJAMIN +. HARRIS, No.
As Exchange reet. Oh
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THOR SALE One of the best located board
ing houses i'll Portland, situated on
Rroyn Street. For further particulars in
ouire of A. G. LIBBY, AZ 10 Exchange St
81
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T5oR SALE-Or would exchange for farm
T. property, valuable patent. can turn
over 4 fortune to you at fair value, and
viii. For particulars address G. r. JONES,
Alton Bay, N. ii. 81
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-10-08

Denver. Oct. 3-The forest fires which
are devastating the western portion OF
the state are burning with undated fury,
only subsiding where fuel is exhausted.
A special from Red Cliff says:
Nothing is heard in Eagle county but
talk of fire from all sections. From re
ports of new territory in the grasp of the
demon, when a providential storm comes
and the summing up is made, there will
be little timber left to tell the tale. A
country now sending volumes OF fire and
smoke heayenward is Bear Willow and
Lake Creek, a magnificent stretch of for
est. This fire, from its direction, will be
swept on Camp Fulford, which has al
ready been scOrched from another direc-
| ton. Ranchmen on Gore creek are hay-
ing u desperate time saving their homes
as the Gore range foothills here send a
continuous run of flames for miles. Along
the side hills near AIinturn even the
ground is burning. Cattlemen are getting
their cattle into unburnt districts as rap
idly as possible, and even then are COM
PEELED to keep close watch on them and
keep them moving. A regular gale is
blowing through the country, which
means the fast travelling fire will be driven
! forward a hurricane of flames.
The deserted village of Gold Park was
reduced to ashes yesterday, dwellings,
barns and stOrehouses and the stamp mill
of the Gold Park NJ. & NJ. Co. being licked
up in few hours. This town is three
miles from the mouth of the Holy Cross,
The miners of that district fought nobly
to save the place. The Holy Cross is
closed down and the miners are entirely
exhausted from their night and day bat
tie with the flames
Many narrow escapes are reported from
different parts of the country Strong
men have succumbed to the smoke and
heat and must be carried off by their
comrades. AS yet no loss of life has oc-
Cured, but many head OF cattle and
horses have been burned.