Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-09
STATE HOUSE.
Monthly Meeting Of Governor
and Council, Yesterday.
Miles Thompson Of Patten, Pardoned
from Bangor Jail.
Ralph B. White, Bangor, Confirmed as
Examiner of Embalmers.

DP regular HlecllUS Ol lilt
Governor and Council was held. yester-
day. beginning at a o'clock p. NJ. Be
sides routine business only three inn
portant matters engrossed the attention
of the Council. The session was short
and adjournment was had until Friday,
June -, at o'clock in the afternoon.
At the April session the question OF
confirming Ralph b. White of Bangor,
as a member of the board Of examiners
of enbalmers, created by act of the
LEGISLATURE, last winter, came up for
90. siGeration. At that time a protest
was filed from undertakers in Bangor
ard vicinity, against Whites confirma-
ton. G. G. Downing Dover, G. r. Eos
ter, Ellsworth, president of the Maine
IJndertakers' Association, Finnigan
Brothers, VIM. H. Clayton, Abel Hunt
and Wilder S. Varney, Bangor, sent
communications, and asked that the
matter be held over until the next ses-
sion for the purpose of a hearing. The
protest of the Bangor undertakers was
as follows:
To the Governor and Council:
The Undersigned undeGtakers and
embalmers of Bangor, do hereby re-
spectfully demonstrate against the APP
pointment of Ralph b. White of said
Bangor, as one of the committee of
state examiners, as provided by Chap
ter 98 of the Public Laws of 1903, for
the following reasons:
First That the said White is not q
competent man for the position.
Second. That the said White is not Il
practical undertaken and embalmer, as
provided in the above act
Third, That the said White is not
member of the Undertakers' and EN-
balmers Association of the State OF
Maine.
Fourth, That the said White is not
generally recognized as an undertaken
and "mbalmer by other undertakcr3
and emblamers in this State.
We respectfully request that the mat
ter be continued for hearing.
Mr.. Whites endorsements We're very
strong, and included Hon. f. B. Neal
ley, Gen. ~. 3. Farnham, Hon. Arthur
Chaplin, Lewis A. Barker, Esq, Hon.
+. Ga. lseal, Hon. VIM. Enge1, Represen-
tative George +. Cameron, Rev. Elmer
f. Pember, Col. Frederick H. Park
hurst, DIR. F.. b. Sanger, Postmaster
John NJ. Oak, Hon. F. M. Simpson, Dr.
Charles H. Burgess and Hon. Isaiah
*. Stetson.
When the matter was taken from the
table, yesterday, it was found that no
person representing the opposition was
present
Hon. Henry w. Mayo of Hampden,
appeared as counsel for Mr. White
who was also in attendance, and stated
to the Council that the strong support
which Mr.. White had presented was
amply sufficient to Warrant his con-
tlrmaticn. In executive session his
nomination was confirmed.
Councillor Haines of the kennebec
district presented the application of
Miles Thompson for pardon. He is now
an inmate of the county Jail at Bangor
for selling liquor and is dying with
diabetes. The application was made by
T.. 4. jordan. secretary of the Young
Mems. Christian Association of Ban
gor, and was supported by letters from
Dr. Galen NJ. Wooicock, the county
physician, and by the sheriff of the
county, Indy M. Gilman In eXecu-
tive session the pardon was granted.
The following communication was re-
ceived from Dr. A. G. Young. secretary
explains itself:
To the Honorable Governor and Coun-
ell:
Referring to the letter of May from
the office of the OVerscers of the poor of
Caribou, | would say that having re-
tcived information that smallpox eX-
listed in Common Plantation, | took Il
team from Caribou, Saturday, April 25,
and drove up through Conner Planta-
ton and Cyl Plantation to Van Buren,,
investigating the smallpox matter as
| went and making preliminary ar
engagements With the aSSeSSorS- for
stamping out the disease. l telegraphed
from Caribou to have DR.. Thompson
our medical inspector who has for some
time been in the MIdawaska region,
to meet me. Saturday evening, at Van
Ruren. He did so. Sunday, we sent
Il team up the river TO bring down his
assistant, Mr.. Sears Monday morn
ing. we all came down to Caribou and
| sent DR.. Thompson and Mr.. Sears
up to Conner Plantation to begin the
work of vaccination, particularly of all
exposed persons, willis Mr.. Sears on
his part was to begin Immediately the
work of disinfection of houses in which
the people had recovered from small
poX.
Reports from DR.. Thompson inform
me that they worked there two or three
days and then We're obliged to return
to Madawaska and Grand Isle to finish
up some work which they have there
intending as speedily as possible to
return to Connor Plantation and Cyr
Plantation.
| do not know whethey quarantine
was imposed by Dr. Thompson as the
agent of the State Board of Health,
or by the local Board of Health of
Conner Plantation. The instructions to
the medical inspectors are to insist
that the local boards of health. of or
eanized plantations as well as of towns.
do the work of preventing the spread
of smallpox at the expense of their
town.
The question has several times been
asked the State Board of Health
whether quarantined persons in plan
tations could be furnished with gro
ceries and necessary supplies by the
State Board of Health. The Board has
been obliged to answer that question
with a decided negative. The present