Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-01

| remember the ndIle-DodH o-aiiu
1take no substitute.
| houses have sprung up almost IN
single night and the farmers are fenc-
| ing hitherto unfenced land, clearing
new land and assuming a general air of
prosperity.
OF the 1870 soldiers buried in the
national cemetery near the site of An
Jacksonville prison, Georgia, $50 are
from Maine, and it was fitting that this
State should take steps to erect mon
ument there to their memory. The
commissioner is now there looking
over the ground. The Woman's Ma
tional Relief Corps own 81 acres of
land, comprising the site of the famous
Andersonvile prison, one fourth OF a
mile from the national cemetery, which
is about % acres in extent and is owned
and under the direct control of the U.
| S government The states of Ohio,
Massa chusetts and Connecticut are the
only ones which have completed mon
uments Pennsylvania having one now
under process of erection. Gov Hills
choice of members to serve on this
! COMMISSION SeeIllS ii very NlSc oiic,
Judge Walton being one of the most
esteemed members of the Maine jul
dietary. Mr.. Poor served the State
faithfully and well through the war
enduring for 10 months the horrors of
Andersonville prison. Senator Morse
is one of a family of five brothers.
who enlisted in the same company,
four of whom served their full term of
service and returned an unbroken band,
a fact the more remarkable that out
of 914 men who went at the same time
only 494 returned alive.
1t is believed that Colby's oldest liv-
ing graduate is also the oldest living
clergyman in the country. He is the
Rev. DR.. William Howe of Cambridge,
Mass, and is now 81 years old. He
graduated in the class of 1893. He is
still in fairly good health and only a
few weeks ago offciated at a funeral.
The controversy now going on in
| Canada over the proposal to require the
Grand Trunk Pacific, when built to car
; rv all of its freight to a Canadian port
for shipment across the ocean, II nat
urally of considerable interest to the
people of Maine and particularly of
Portland. 1t is not believed that
the Canadians can frame any scheme
Whereby the government can perma-
nentlv control the freight business of
the proposed road. General Manager
Hays let fall a bomb in the New
Brunswick camp the other day, when
he called attention to the fact that the
shipper would necessarily be outside
any agreement which might be ar
rived at between the road and the gov
crnmcnt and that the freight would
have to go by the route designated in
the bill of lading. Previous to that
time it had been thought that perhaps
lit would be sufficient to require the
lGrand Trunk Pacific in return for the
subsidy asked for to aid in building
the road to turn over its freight III
winter to the IntercolOnial at Quebec.
But now St. John has become con-
WINGED that that arrangement will not
do. for the reason that the Grand
> Trunk is suspected Of the intention to
exert its influence ever the shippers in
flavor of Portland. SO it will be urged
that the road must be extended into the
Maritime Provinces in order that
Grand Trunk interests may be divert
ed from the Maine port. Just how the
Montreal and IntercolOnial interests
will take this proposition remains to be
seen. in the meantime, st. John ac-
knowledCes that it has no facilities for
handling the business if it should get it.
| Portland relies upon the superior adj
! vantages of this port in every partlcu-
lar over the New Brunswick port. and
the fact that the shippers will natural
, lily prefer the shortest, safest and most
Convenient route for the shipment of
freight The Grand Trunks vast in
l terests already established will be
another element of strength in favor OF
Portland.
Since the porcupine has come in for