Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-04

that there is underway in Maine work
that will approximate $5,O57 900. O.
this amount about $685., 900 is for resi-.
Dental work, including hotels. dornli.
tories, government barracks, etc, and
about $1,039,9 99 for mills and factories.
The amount of work projected is found
to be about 600, of this amount
| ST : 1861 900 being for residential work
and $1,677 900 for mills and factories.
1t is not very generally known. per-
| haps, that the late Frederick Law
| Olmstead, the great landscape archi-
tect and gardener, who died in Waiver
| ly, Mass, last week, made plans for
the laying out the campus for the
| University of Maine, soon after it was
decided to locate this college in Orono.
Mr.. Olmstead presented a report to the
trustees at their request, giving the
results Of his inspection and study with
plan for the laying out of the build
ings, grounds. athletic field, etc. 1t
has always been a matter of regret
that his plan was not accepted by the
trustees. 1t was, to be sure, as the
work of any master in any profession
would be, elaborate and somewhat ex-
penSiVe. So the trustees thought, when
his report and plan were rejected. 1t
reached far into the future and at that
time the trustees of the new institution
did not look very far into the future.
Had his plan been accepted and fol-
lowed the campus of the University OF
Maine would have been infinitely more
attractive and artistic than it is now.
Maine newspapers of Monday told in
brief the story of the rescue of the
crew of the Bath schooner Henry p.
in the gale of Saturday night and Sun
day. Tho vessel sank at half past one
o'clock Sunday morning and the crew
and passengers. II persons, took to the
ships small boat. Out nearly all night
and part of the next day they were
finally rescued by the New York yacht
clubs committee boat Navigator, on
which was G. Oliver Iselin, of the cup
yacht Reliance. The story as given by
the Associated Press, however, leaves
out the most thrilling and pathetic in
cidents connected with the wreck of
the Mason and the rescue of her officers,
crew and two passengers-Mr. and
Mrs. N. G. Marialous of New York, the
latter q sister of Capt. O. W. Frost of,
the Mason, who with her husband had
embarked on the schooner for what
both had expected to be a pleasant out
ing. Besides Mrs. Marialous the only
other woman on board the Mason was
Mrs. Chester Grover, wife of the stew
ard of the vessel, whose home is in
Tenants Harbor, this state. The
special report of the disaster in the
New York Times says: THE wife of a
humble steward of an American
schooner proved herself q heroine in
deed in the early hours of yesterday
morning, when with songs of good
cheer. she caused ten men, with one
the foundered schooner Henry P. Ma
sen to forget for the time being what
appeared to be a sure and speedy
death in the storm tracked waters of the
Atlantic. The woman who proved so
brave was Mrs. Chester Grover of Ten
ants Harbor, Me-, and the experiences
she underwent were enough to chill the
heart Of the bravest man, according to
the stories told by the Mason's crew
and the Sandy Hook lifesavers, who so
gallantly, with the assistance of G.
Oliver Iselin and other members of the
New York yacht club. effected the
rescue" All honor to the latest Maine
heroine.