Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-05-14

There is everywhere q decided inter
"a IT, i" home week. Men in high
p ii u& At The State House are taking
great interest in the event and will
CO. operate in every way with the com
mittee.
Francis Wiggin Of Portland. who is
a. isting Hon. s. w. Matthews, com
missioner of Industrial and Labor
Statistics. in his forthcoming report.
was at that department. Saturday, and
reports that the work is progressing
splcndidly under the direction Of Nj.
Matthews He has lately returned
from Bath where he has been looking
over the ship-building. There he
learned that the Bath Iron Works have
orders enough on hand to keep the full
crew busy for two years, even though
another order were not taken.
Mr.. Wiggin expressed much pleasure
ana qualification at tho condition in
which he found the ship building in
Iustry. During the converse ton. he
said that the ship building industry is
now regaining tho Importance it had in
the State. years ago. when it was one
Of the principal industries. Sahooners
are now being built on stocks which
have not felt the touch Of a Keel for
years. In every part Of the STATE
where the industry was of much i'm
portance. there is renewal Of the old
activity.
There is one remarkable thing in the
ship-building. 1t is that six-masted
schooners. something that has never
Ln.r, - hafCraf Iaincr h,IiIr
So far he has found two of these in
process IF construction. one is at
Bath ANA the other at Camden The
five-master is nothing new. but that
was found to work to such an advan-
tage that sch IOncrs are being built on
larger scale. During His trip. he
found that two fiVc-masters are being
built at Waldo. four five and six-mas-
tiers at Camden ana 4 six-master at
Bath.
He has als5 had more or less talk
regarding the pulp and paper industry.
The mills on certain kinds Of paper
are being rushed to their full capacity.
During the trip he had a conversation
with one Of the leading manufacturers
ana from him learned that tn" high
price of paper is not due to the trust
but follows the natural laws Of supply
and demand. The supply being in
sufficient to meet the demand and con-
sequCntly the high price results.
The returns from the local boards
are beginning to come into the office
of the State assessors. 1t VIII be some
time before the returns from the cities
ana larger towns come in as it takes
so much time for the assessors to do
their work there. y great many of
the returns from the smaller towns
are in. but as yet comparisons cannot
be made.
one thing is patent by comparisons
with the work Of the present time ana
that If former years. That IS that
there is a growing taste for music III
all parts of the State. This is shown
bv the number Of musical instruments,
\ person is allowed by law to possess
Instruments up to the value of SD eX-
empt from taxation, 50 that how
many Of those instruments Of small
value there are in a place cannot be
known.
4 few wears ago there were but few
in the smaller low lis III lHC pt'it'
Now the number has greatly increased
until it would seem that there are but
few homes in the towns where there Is
not some form of musical lnstru-
ment
This seems to be especially true II
the families where there is daughter
In the families where the circun-
stances are limited especial effort Is
made ana in very many cases the m
strumcnt il purchased as the result OF
the efforts of the young lady.
1t is believed that the music in tn
schools has had 4 great deal 70 %
with the increased interest in music
for many of the pupils receive the frs
rudiments of a musical education
there. 1t is evident from the assess
ors' return that the love of music i
gaining a stronger hold in the STATE
ana especially in the smaller towns
Either that. or people nave NOR
money to spend in this line than for
/ Tncrly.
The danger point from the small