The Portland daily press., 1900-12-12
Opening of the Univer-
salist Fair.
Meeting of Women's Clubs
Personal Items.

The annual fair OF the westbrook Uni
versaIist church opened las evening Nerv
successfully in the Mestbrook opera
house. The hall an d the several booths
have been decorated in tasty as well as
artistic manner. Each booth is decorated
differently. the prevailing type, however,
being white. The fair is to run through
the entire week and on Thursday noon
the annual turkey dinner is to tie served
from IL to 9 O'Clock. The entertainment
last evening was presented by local talent
with the following programmes; Mi ID.
ii. Holdsworth, bass soloist, entertained
in instrumental solos and a monologue
sitter which the one act farce entitled
"Swift's Specific" was presented.
Miss Georgia King of Hallowell has
been the guest of Miss Spear during the
past few days,
Miss Rhoda Doe has returned from q
visit with her brother In Somerville,
Mass.
Miss Eta Razee has returned to her
home in Somerville, Mass after having
been the guest of Postmaster C.B. Wood
man and family the past week.
The West End W. U. Il. U. will meet
Thursday afternoon at the home OF Mrs
N. A. whitney, Spring street.
The Current Events club will meet
Thursday afternoon at the home Of Mrs.
Alonzo Libby. The SUBJECT is to be Re-
ligion." Papers on ''Jerusalem, yester-
day and today; and synoDsis of Ian Nc
CIaren's "Lifs of the Master" also on
'Oberammergau and its Rival" are to
be read.
DR.. j. i. HARVEY the Cumberland
Mills dentist, is to build residence for
himself and family ON Fore street.
Conductor j. Ii. Whithsr OF the Wess-
brook division Of the Portland Railroad
company was called away yesterday on a
brief businesses trip.
Amelia Baesley, thu three year old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Herhsrt Bees
ley, died yesterday morning at the homs
of the parents on Mechanic street with
diphtheria. The body was buried yester-
day afternoon at Woodlawn cemetery.
MADISON FALLS POWER co.
The large power plant of the Madison
Falls Power company located at Madison
Falls, South Windham, organized last
spring for the purpose of furnishing DOW
er for the Westbrook, windham and
. Naples Electric Railway company, the
Dana Warp mills and the new Haskell
silk mill, all of Westbrook has been COM
pleted and the final tests were made yes
terday afternoon to the satisfaction OF the
power company and the engineers in
charge of the construction.
The work on the drain for the new
power station was not commenced until
May, 1900 The old dam was largely re-
built and in addition one hundred and
forty feet OF new dam was constructed.
The canal has been blasted out OF ledge
and the channels through which the
waste water flows have been drilled
through thirty tive feet of rock. The new
power house is a neat brick structure,
measuring sixty feet in length by thirty
feet in width, and Is twenty feet high.
The Dower house is located on the Cor
ham side of the Presumpscot river at
South Windham, and Is some over four
miles from westbrook. The electrical
generating machinery is divided into
bnfee uults, n8BroSahinE aoooU iOo" n"A ~
power under ordinary conditions Each
INIT consists of general electric, alter
mating current, revolving field dynamo,
directly connected by shafting to three
Hercules water wheels. The water is
conducted through the canal from the
pond, and Is received into thres fumes,
each of which supplies generating set.
The dynamos each supply 264 kilowatts
under tenslop:of 10, 900 volts of eiectrioi-
". The dynamos are SO arranged that
Il ey can be used independently or to-
gethsr as required. Two small genera.
tors, or exciters are in use for the pur-
pose of exciting the fields of the large