Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-17

a gas Jet would hardly be located in
such a place. Any light on the matter
VIII DE welcomed at the Bidde.ord
Journal office.
The work of laying rails for the
Brunswlck-Portland trolley line, as the
new road from Brunswick to Yarmouth
Is now pretty generally called, is well
under way with a big crew pushing
| 'hlhSs westward from Sunset hill, on
the outSklrts of the college town.
Meanwhile the powerhouse and car barn
at freepoft, two massive brick ana
stone structures which win be credst
to the village and reflect well upon the
intentions Of the promoters of the line,
are being rushed, and both are rising
fast above the foundations. The run
ming time will be one hour from Bruns-
wick to Yarmouth and a little less than
two hours to Portland.
To say that Lincoln is a rapidly
growing town would be expressing
matters lightly and the town will be a
very busy place the coming summer.
With two saw mills, n new $4,000
alton boarding house, and several new
residences going up there will be no
lack OF work for carpenters, this sum-
mer. The new mill will saw 100000
feet OF lumber per month. spur
track OF the Maine Central, two miles
long, is being built to reach the mills.
The big pulp mill is shipping its
products to all parts of the world.
A Calais man whose wife was visit
ing in PASSPORT, received telegram
the other evening, announcing that his
better half had been shot, and on
reaching the sardine town, discovered,
To his great relief, that the story was a
| hoax invented by some friends of his
who particularly wanted to see him.
l;ut he doesn't enter into the spirit of
the alleged joke as the perpetrators
think he ought to. and can't yet see
anything funny in it.
Thanks tor this years freshet, Isles
boro viii have a full ncdged saw mill
this year. Thousands of logs were
swept by the PenObscot mills for which
they We're destined and are strewn
decided in the interests of economy to
manufacture the lumber on the spot
Talk about lucky men! The two
luckiest men in Maine for many day
are Robert Mitchell and William Storey
of Lubec, who picked up a GO pound
lump of ambergris on the beach the
other day. and find that it is worth
about $4,000 in the New York market.
The finding of this material which
when disposed of, will make each of
the men comfortably rich, was purely
IN accident. Messrs. Storey and
Mitchell were at n camp on the small
island OF Campobcllo located but a
short distance from Lubec, and both
being ardent Sportsmen were hunting
wild duck. Strolling along the beach
each took n different route. They had
been separated but a few moments
when Mr.. Mitchell saw a peculiar look
ing object floating on the water near
the beach. Recalling his comrade both
men waded out and hauled the floating
stuff ashore. A close inspection proved
the stuff to be OF n waxy texture in
color grayish white and resembling
closely 4 piece of dirty tallow. That it
was not tallow or lard both men were
agreed and decided to haul it higher up
On the beach. Here they left it and
continued their hunt for ducks. That
evening around the campfire they
spoke of their curious find to their
companions. Capt. Isaac Parker and
George Tucker. The former, a retired
sea captain and a man who has seen
much of the world and is we'll read on
all current topics, listened with much
interest to the description of the pecu-
liar grayish white mass, and gave it as
his opinion that the lump was pure am
bergris, rare and very valuable sub
stance. The two finders were some
what incredulous at first but decided
at length to return the next morning to
where they had left the find and
bring it back to camp. This they did,
being accompanied by Mr.. Tucker who
picked up bits of the stuff-enough, in
fact, to make it profitable mornings
work, his share being one pound, for
which ne will probably get over $500.
Half in doubt as to the wisdom of
bothering with what appeared to be
soap grease, Storey and Mitchell car
ried the lump back to camp and later
brought it to the village. Wishing to
ascertain it's true value pieces of the
supposed ambergrfs were sent to vari-
Gus perfumery and drug houses in Bos-
ton and New York. and the reply was
telegraphed back that it was pure am
bergris, and agents of the houses
promptly came to Lubec. Ambergris,
it may be explained, is a morbid secre-
ton formed in me intestines OF the
sperm whale, and is in great demand
by the manufacturers of perfumery
though it formerly occupied no incon-
siderable place in medicine. 1t is some
times found floating in the water, as in
this case. and sometimes found inside
Il whale in cutting it up.