Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-10-10
MUSICAL FESTIVAL
Not Such a Success as that
Of Last Year.
Proposed Annexation Of Brewer to Ban.
gor Strongly Opposed.
New Washington County Road Will Open Up
Great Possibilities.

bangor, Me-, OCT. S.-(Speciaf).-THe
Maine Musical Festival closed, last
night. The festivalin Bangor, this year
has not been a success, that is, in point
ofattendance. Noone knows the reason,
| unless people did not have the money
to pay the high prices asked to hear
such world-famed artists as Gadski.
Williams. Davis and others. There is
some question whether or not Bangor
| will have the festival, next year. Sure
ly they will not unless more interest
| is manifested than was the case this
year. The festival was not advertised
| this season, the way Vt was last. It's
no use to talk, you can't draw people
to anything unless you use the news
| papers to do it. One can flood the
| country with all the posters in the
world, but when people want to know
anything about this or that thing, they
| look in the advertising columns of the
papers for the information.
There is no report in circulation that
| Messrs. Chapman & Chase have lost
| any money this year. Friday night,
| 100 people attended the concert
| Thursday night, there was something
| like 1900 people present. Neither night
compared favorably with the attend
ance. last year, for the first two nights
Tonight. the audience was large, but
| not what it should have been. There
is no doubt but what the festival man
ayers made a mistake in presenting
| programme of oratorio. People have
| IN no adn Cd tn,
| appreciate such a grand selection as
| Elijah" which was sung tonight. OF
course there are lots of people in Maine
who are familiar with oratorio, but it
| is the general opinion of people here
| that programme like that of Thurs
| day night would have been far more
| satisfactory.
Portland, it is said, will turn out in
large numbers for the festival, next
week. and may be the receipts on that
| end will offset the small attendance
and cash account on this end.
| The plan for anneXing Brewer to
Bangor has again been resurrecte1,
| and it is possible that something may
be done towards getting bill through
| the Legislature the coming winter TO
| that effect. But when the time comes
| there promises to be a great opposition
to the idea. There is nobody in Bangor
who would like to see Brewer annexed
except for one reason, and that is, that
| Bangor would get a free bridge, owned
| by the city. Brewer has everything 70
gain in annexation and outside of the
| free bridge. Bangor has everything to
lose. Brewer is a city of about 5000
people. covering a vast amount of terri
| tory. If that city was annexed to Ban
gor, the latter would have to provide
water works system, fire protection,
| police system, in fact everything and
for what good, just to get free bridge
The bridge is owned, today, by cor
| poration. 1t is great money maker,
and about the only income of some of
it's stockholders comes from this
bridge. The views of prominent cit
izen on the annexation matter are
| worth considering. He said: AS I
| look at it, to annex Brewer to Bangor
would be just the same as a farmer
who has finely cultivated and profit
able farm of few acres, going to work
| and annexing about 1000 acres of rocks,
just for the sake of acquiring more
property. do not believe that the an
ASAdli VIII ever DE maze.
| General Manager Henry F. Dowst of
| the Washington County Railroad, has
been in the city, this week. where he met
several of the stockholders of the road.
Trains will be running on the new rail-
road inside of two weeks, and it is pos
s1bie that they may run direct through
| to Bangor instead of connecting at Wash
ington Junction with the Maine Central
senger trains per day between this city
and Eastport. A train will leave this
city on the arrival of the early morning
tran :. from iI, t, the west. at such an hour
ness between Cherryfield and Eastport.
Another train will leave here on the ar
| rival of the afternoon express from Bos-
ton, and the idea is to get people to East
+, port in time for supper The two trains
coming west will will connect with the
noon train for Boston which leaves here
at l,sO P. NJ, and the night Pullman train
which departs at o'clock. The opening
of the Washington County road wilhmake
considerable difference in travel on the
Maine, Central between Bangor and
Calais have been obliged to go that way.
The American Express Co. will open
offices at every station, and Uncle Sans
mail clerks will run through to Calais in
stead of to Mt. Desert Ferry as is now
the case.
Capt. F. M. Hume of the Maine bat
teries. has been in the city for the past
day or two. He came to Bangor for the
purpose of attending the Maine Festival
with Mrs. Hume. who came down from
Houlton. and also to visit some of his
men who are i'll in this city and Old
Town. Capt. Hume says that there are
G6 men at present in the Maine batteries
who are ill at their homes or in the hos
pitals with typhoid fever. He says that
if the batteries were ordered to move to-
morrow, he does not believe that he could
move Is men who are in good health. The
cold weather is beginning to tell on the
boys at Augusta and an effort will be
made to have them moved at once. The
Maine batteries will either go to Annis-
ton or Huntsville. Ala, for the winter
The officers are hoping that they are to
be sent to Havana later in the winter.
Miss Townsend, Miss Louise r. Veazie
of this city, and Miss. Grace Goodenow.
will leave, next week. for Europe. to pass
the winter. They will sail from Boston
on the steamship Canada of the Domin-
ion Line.
Saturday was the biggest day of the
hunting season in shipment of game
through Bangor. Over 50 deer arrived
here on two trains. The cold weather of
the past few days has been just the
thing for the hunters
The only event of interest in the Gill
murder case at Bridgeport, CT, Satur-
day WAS the rpIeaSe Of Albert Fl Oxiqy