Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1901-03-20
COUNTY AppoRrroNMENr.
Many Changes ia the CHASING OF Han
cock County Towns.

Many changes In the CHASING OF Han
cock County Towns.
After weeks OF deliberetion the Ham
cock county delegation has practically
decided upon its legislative rpportfon-
ment. The question was a particularly
difficult one for Hancock, as while the
county loses one representative by the
general apportionment, the town of Eden
has made so great an increase in popu-
Iation as to be entitled to representa-
tive by itself. Thus some very radical
changes have been necessary in the ar
rangement OF classes.
Following Is the new classification,
with the old classes in parallel columu
for comparison, and so arranged as to
show as nearly as possible at a glance the
changes that have been made. The pop
ulation of the new classes, according to
last years census, is also given:
NEW CLASSES. OLD GLASSES.
Ellsworth. pop. 4.as7 Ellsworth
Eden, pop. 4.s7e Mt Desert, Eden. Tire
mont, CRANBERRY 1.
Mt. Desert, fremont.
swans l., Cranber. stonington, Deer ISLE
ry L., pop. 4,I&s swans L., Isle au
Haut and Islands
not included In other
stonington, Deer Isle, classes.
Isle au Haut, Sedg.
wick, Eagle l., pop. sedgwick, Penobscot
ASH. Brookiin, Long Is.
land.
Castine, OrlaDd, Brook
nu, Brooksviie. Long orispd, Brooksville.
Island, Aurora, pop Castine.
3,s0s.
Bucksport. Verona.
Bucksport, Penobscot.
Dedssm, Mariaville, BluehilI, surry. Ded.
Amherst, Verona, ham.
Mariavilie, Amherst
Hancock. Trenton,
Buehill. surry, Han Lamoine. waltham.
cock, Lamoiue. Tren- Aurora, Otis, Plan
ton, pop. 4,65l tation SO, all terri
tory not included In
sullivan, Gouldsboro, otter classes.
Franklin, Eastbrook,
Winter Harbor, SCR, sullivan, Goudsboro,
rento, walthsm, town Franklin, Eastbrook.
ships Z, :. y. 10, 81, townships Z. $, ., 10,
IS, pop. t,s26. 81.
The delegation undoubtedly had some
difficult problems to overcome In the
Reconsideration, and dou btless there will
be some dissatisfaction among the towns.
For the most part tue classes are COM
posed OF towns which naturally group, or
else form chain OF towns. There is one
striking exception to this ruIe-the class
which includes Csstine, 0rland, Brook
lin, Brooksville, Long Island aud Aurora.
In this class only two towns may be said
to adioin--Csstine aud Brooksyilie.
Imagine the future candidate for repre-
sentative from this class starting out on
his campaign tour. G1ing north from
Brooksvilie he jumps over Penobseot to
Orland, and from there northeast thirty
miles by air line in mis- flying machine to
Aurora, passing over the towns of
Dedham, Otis, Mariaville aud Amherst in
his flight.
From Aurora he would head his fly wing
machine almost due south, passing over
nearly the full length of Hancock county
and heading straight out to sea until he
sighted Long Island. His log will have
marked something like fifty miles on this
run. Then he would have short sail of
twelve or fifteen miles over swans Island
to BROOKLYN, and then hop, skip and
jump OF four or five miles over Sedgwick
would bring him back to BrooksvilIe
again.
Not only is this class most widely
scattered, but it is also the largest class in
the county. II Long Island was taken
from the class and attached to the
Mt. Desert Tremont-Swan's Island class,
where 1t seems naturally to belong, the
Castine class would still be the largest in
the county, and the class to which it was
added would not be as large as two of the
other classes. Aurora could still be
spared from the Castiue class, and added
say TO the Bucksport class, aud there
would still be only three classes larger
than the CsstIne class.
These are merely changes which suggest
themselves to "a man up a tree" Ms in the
line OF Improvement. As stated above,
the Hancock delegation had unusual citii-
cu.ties, and doubtless thoroughly can
vassed all the objections to the present
arrangement. If the members of the del
egstion say, after all the time and worry
they have put in on the problem, that 1t is
the best they can do with it, who is bold
enough to say he can do better?
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At a joint republican caucus at the