Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-06-16
Eastern Maine Contractors and
Builders Finding Plenty to Do.
IA 5000 Foot Drain to Be Constructed
for RockIand Lime Trust.
Bangor Heir to $4,000 Settles Liabilities
Capt. Line" Jeweit's Career.


be a general boom in contract work an
over the State. In the western and cen
trail sections of Maine much has been
done in this respect during the past few
months, notably in Portland where the
contractors there have Just been awarded
the building Of many buildings for the
government at Fort William and Fort
I'reble. A Bangor contractor was called
to ROckland to figure on a job this week
which is unlike any ever done there or
probably in Maine. The line trust which
was organized there some time ago, and
which controls almost the entire output
of line in this State. is TO build Il drain
over 5000 feet long. 1t will take the wa
ter out of a quarry which is 100 feet deep
in many places ana which il filled to the
brim This drain viii reduce this water
to a depth Of 70 feet ana by 50 doing the
company will he able to get 100000 casks
of lime without much trouble. With the
pit full Of water not c1sk can be Sc
cured.
The drain runs to within $50 feet Of the
quarry through a marsh ana pasture. 1t
crosses brook which cannot be sur
passed by any to be found in the world
for being crooked. and II the drain goes
through 1t once 1t does ~ times When
the drain gets To within $50 feet 81 the
pit, there Is 14J feet which viii have I'd
be tunnelcd through a gravel bank. The
remaining 500 feet is a tunnel through
the solid lime rock. This job will cost
many thousands of dollars ANA there are
but few contractors In Maine who dare
To tackl" it bccaus. They are no; proper
~ confined far ,I1iDt- -u.1
The county commissioners Of Plscata-
quis county are soon to advertise for pro-
posals for the building Of new jail to
cost about $4,000 and this JOB will be
looked after by Bangor contractors. The
Maine Central Railroad IL Soon to AK fvr
bids On the construction Of the new
roundhousc here. which building will i,a
the finest OF IFS kind in the State. 1t will
have every convenience ami improve
ment. II VIII be built a good deal like
the shape Of q Keystone 1t Will De 70 Or
70 feet deep ana 100 feet long on the back
side ana Will have seven stalls with room
enough for % or 40 locomotives. This JOB
will be an expensive one for the. road
year ago work was first begun in ex-
c1VatinS for ii and now the time has ar
rived fur the building operations to be-
gin. The City Of Bangor Is also tu dn a
lot " work this yeur which will 20 tn
cost $4,000 Will be built. together with a
CrcmItury to- cost $.p'p and repairs to tn,
extent Of $500 will be made on the
Franklin street bridge.
Several tine residences are to be erect
Cd this summer George Il. Fretland has
just completed ana moved into ono Of the
hanG~1me-t houses in Bangor. ID is situ-
attd bH upper state street which is d-s-
tined to become a. bedutifrl as West
Broadway now is. Alongside Of Mr. Free
lands residence Harry J.. Arnold. a
prominent young Bangor business man,
is lu ulilI 4 new residence ana across
tho Street WIZ the tDr wa Y high hin. Il. "
Quiur. Ats begun tHc erection Nj " ntW
home. bli Town Will contribute it4 share
to III, contract work i'm the erection Of d
new brick school building 90 take thu
place of the high school building recently
burned there.
er Charles +. Notmtn. which vessel was
run down ANA sunk by ihe Mallory line
steamer Colorado last Monday. started
the old sea captains here to relating sto-
ricS about the Notman's commander
Capt. Line JeWett. IT WIS The first
disaster that has ever happened To Il YES
sci in his charge 1t was 70 have been
ing siN-mastcr built at Hatn. Line
Jrwrtt has always been known as man
who was afraid of nothing either ashore
or float. He is a typical Gown east coast
CT captain. Ola mariners have called him
in times past crazy. when they heard OF
some Of the daredevil feats of seaman
snip lIt II ne tth i''l I' L'4t' siii'l All ca
them have said that there would be
day when Line Jewett would meet
with smash. JtWttt never waited fur
wind VI weather when there WAS any pos
Sible chance OF getting anywhere. When
he was fisherman and was sailing out
of Portland he gave the dealers there d
turn that made their eyes stick out. He
came into Portland with full fare of
fish ana was in line to make a good thing
ont Of the trip. The weather hId been
50 bad that no one could get anywhere
and the dealers believing that it was 50
rough outside that Jewett could not get
away to another market. made pool
agreeing 10 pay him only a certain price
for his fish. and then divide. Jewett
found out what they had done. told them
to all 20 to the devil, ANA getting under
way i'll a bowling snuwstorm started for
Gloucester where he disposed Of his fish
at a big figure.
Jewctt graduated from that little fish
ing smack To a good sized schooner He
made fast trips and piled up dividends for
kent giving him bigger ana better YES
sells until. in 1891. the hoffman was built
for him at Bath. This vessel was jew
ett's pride. He Went up and down the
coast Ike 4 racehorse auI he made his
trips so quickly that the other captains
regarded him as being at the top notch
the shipping people all along the shore
by a feat that is without equal in the his
tory Of coasting. He left Newport News
one winters day together with a lot Of
There came terrible northeast snow
storm and the rest of the fleet anchored
in Vineyard Haven. The press report
that night read. Passed Sch. Charles u.
hoffman. Newport News for Portland"
The owners Of the vessel and the owners
Of the coal that She was carrying became
very uneasy when they read that IN the
papers the next morning. Along IN the
middle of the next afternoon there passed
in By Cape Elizabeth big fOur-maSted
schooner that looked like a floating ice
berg II was the hoffman almost com
pletelv buried in snow. Jewett sailed her
IN through Portland harbOr with every
sail set ana locked her at the coal piers
without the assistance OF tug. There
were no Golfers there ara he was quickly
discharged. Two days afterwards he WAS
running down by Cape Cod and met the
rest of the fleet coming up.
IL was by such performances as these
that Jpwett climbed the ladder Of success.
from master Of the little fishing schooner
Elsie Smith to the command Of the big
four master which was lost last Monday.
Jewett has been successful In other ways
too. Not long ago he married Cape
Elizabeth sChoolma am who is said to be
worth about $51on0 in her own right, and
now he is going to have one Of the two
biggest Schooners in the world, the Bath
six master that is to rival Gamblers giant
of the same rig.
4 Bangor business man came into pos
session of So 600 this week from his faith
cr's estate. He had been in business here
for several years and once he failed ana
,,-.s. b1n "a ca,+Ia for IN rents an bo JnI