Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-19
STATE HOUSE.
Important Hearing Regarding the
Cotton Industry Of the State.
According to Articles Of War, Battalion
Carries No Flag.

ms q. winch some of the leading mill
men OF the State were present.
The cotton manufacturers 90 ~
State believe they are taxed too high
in relation to the condition Of the mar.
ket and the other industries. and this
nearing was an appeal that their tax
alton be reduced.
The principal speaker was + w
Donaldson, treasurer of the lakewood
Company. w. H. K. Abbott OF the
Lockwood Mills. was also present
Robert Macarthur. agent of the Pen
perell and the Laconia Mills Of Bidde-
ford, II. L. Pratt, agent Of the Bates
Manufacturing Company of Lewiston.
and George w. Bean, agent of the An
drosscoggin Mills of Lewiston. We're
also present.
Mr.. Donaldson has recently been
South, where he is interested in cot
ton manufacturing. He gave some in
teresting figures and facts concerning
the manufacture there, as well as fig
ures upon the taxation, and the exemp-
ton of many from taxation in the
South. He dwelt upon the disparity
in the hours of labor between the cot
ton mills of the North and those of the
South. In his opinion the operatives of
the New England states are greatly
handicapped by the labor laws, which
will not allow them to work only so
many hours each day. He places a
higher estimate upon the intelligence
and efficiency of the cotton mill opera
tives in the South, than is generally
believed by people in New England
He gave extensive figures regarding
the valuation of cotton mill of the other
New England cities, especially those in
Connecticut and Rhode Island.
The assessors gave hearing to the
assessors of Waterville. in the after
noon.
The report of the railroad commission
ers will appear, this year, little earlier
than common. 1t will be issued inside a
month.
A correspondent of the Lewiston Jour-
nal, writes from Savannah, that the LIST
Maine Heavy Artillery needs a flag to
distinguish that organization from the
others. They say that not an inch of
flag has been given them to show that
they are from Maine. The real reason
why they have no flag, is that they are
not entitled, according to the articles of
war, to a flag, as they are. moth
ing but battalion. Only regiments
are entitled to flags. Were they entitled
to one, it could be procured from the Uni
ted States.
When they were sent South they had no
right to carry regimental flag, as they
could not without a special permit. This
was why the State did not advise the
friends to give them one. When they left
it was thought they would be attached to
some other regiment or portion of reg
iment. In that case they would have
flag.
However, should the friends in Maine
wish to give them one, Major Newcomb
could, without doubt, procure special
permit from General Lee to carry bat
TALON flag, as they are still unattached TO
any regiment, or division. 1t would be
all the easier to procure the permit, as
the Maine men are the only ones who
represent the artillery branch of the SER
vice, in the 7th Corps.
1t is amusing to see the men who enter
General Richards private office, and see
them inspect the curios of the Spanish
war, he has had presented him. what
interests them the most IS the little
Mauser carbine that was presented the
general by Captain Butler. 1t is car
bine that was in the fight at San Juan,
and was taken from Spanish prisoner.
To say that it looks ancient does not halt
express it. and there is no wonder tha1
the visitors remark at once, that the car
bine is old fashioned. 1t is not SO, now
ever, as it was made in the year 1871 ana
is a modern weapon. What ADDS 10 It's
ancient appearance, is the large STOCK
and thick wood that Surrounds the maya
zine. This is on there as protection 10
the hands There is such TWIST 10 the
barrel. that there is quite little friction
| in the discharge of the gun. To fire many
times heats the barrel greatly, and IL
soon becomes so very hot, that 1t would
require a man with salamander hands 10
hold it. With the thick layer OF WOOD II
can be held much longer. 1t is recoroeu
that in the battle in Egypt not long ago.
in which General Kitchner's force de-
feated the enemy, the soldiers had to go
to the rear several times to get new guns
their pieces became so very not from
constant firing. With the new kras-'or-
genson, the twist is not SO marked as III
the Mauser. and so there is less 1rlctloh'
! consequently less heat. This makes II
so that the manufacturers do not MAKE
so thick a stock. about the magazine.
| General Richards has a rifle OF the
| Krae-Jorgenson pattern of the make OF
1894. and it is interesting to study the aii-
/ ference between this and the Mauser.
The two following companies nleu GER
titicates of Incorporation FRIDAY:
Arizona Water Company has been or II,
ganized at Augusta for the PURPOSE ~
Constructing and operating WAFER ~, Mo esSa,
with 81, 500, 900 capital stock OF Wniei sooy'
is paid in. The officers are: rresiG ei,,,
Arthur b. Leach of New YORK E ,tifi
treasurer, Osborne w. Bright; Certiii
| u %. iNoyember Is, 1873.