Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-07-25
STATE HOUSE.
Aroostook County Scent An
other Railroad Line.
Salary Commission Will Begin wek
Next Month.
Concerning Profession Of forestry
III
New Corporations.

New Corporations.
Up in that part of northern Maine
known as Aroostook county they are
talking of an important additiRf to the
railroad mileage of Maine. n is said
that the Fish River RailroAd Co. in
tends to build a road which shall ex-
tend from Masardis through WASH
burn, Wade, Perham and intervening
townships to Frenchvile on the st.
John river. The Fish River Co., which
is to a great extent, composed OF the
stockholders of the Bangor d Aroost
took, has not operated it's road since
the line was completed, having imme-
diately leased it to I've b. & 4. Now
the 3. Il A. has, made arrangements
for increasing it's capitalization half d
million dollars tceeRatie it TO purchase
the stock Of the roat, All of this
would indicate that i'wss the B. & A.,
rather than the FISH River Co., which
had the idea Of constructing the pro-
posed road.
Already it is sad that surveying
party, under Chic Engineer Burpee of
the b. & A.. is Engaged in making a
survey of the territory through which
the line rs expectd to pass.
AS yet, the ont intimation of such
road which hasbeen received by the
railroad commieioners is what mas APP
pearedsin newpapers, no application
having been pade for charter:
Mich inteyst is being shown in the
newchair ojforestry in the University
of Maine that the following sketch
of tn lie proAssor who will occupy it
when the Jchool opens next kall, is of
much intest:
Prof. sN. Spring is the son of Win
throp Yrton and Ellen FL {Newton)
Snrine 5oth New EnglandeFs, who be-
came oneers in Illinois and Iowa in
the my days. His father was a bus
inessaan, for more than 20 years con-
nect{ with the Mccormick Harvesting
Ma dne Co. of Chicago.
SE. Spring was born in Sioux City,
Low, Feb. S, 1876, and received his
e,vy education in the public schools of
IMars, Iowa, to which place his pa
. rlts moved few years after his birth.
Is immediate preparation for college
as in the LIE Mars High school and
preparatory school at Hull, Iowa. He
entered Yale in 1894, and received the
klegree of p. A. in 1898. For the first
three years after graduation he was
with the wholesale house of the John
V. Farwell Co. of Chicago. During this
time he became interested in forestry
and resigned his position to enter the
Yale Forestry school, from which he re-
ceived he degree of Master of Forestry
last June, the subject of his thesis be-
ing, The Extension of White Pine Over
Fields anu Pastures in New England.
During the past two years Prof.
Spring has visited lumber camps in
northern New Hampshire and YER
mont. and also in South Carolina, in or
der to become practically acquainted
with the methods employed in lumber
ing. In 1902. he became connected with
the United States Bureau of Forestry
and was associated with Albert w.
Cooper OF the bureau in a study of the
reproduction of white pine in Massa-
chusetts and New Hampshire. Dur
ing the present summer he is in charge
of a government party of five and is
engaged in making a detailed study OF
second growth white pine in New Eng
land, a continuation of the work done
along this line in 1902.
Prof. Spring was married in 1900, to
Miss Adah e. Bowman of New Haven,
and has one son. born June |. 1903.
The Joint commission. appointed by
the last Legislature to investigate the
fee system of State officers known as
the salary commission, will hold its
first meeting for business at Augusta,
Tuesday, August Is. They will com
mence a thorough and exhaustive eX-
animation of the salaries and fees re-
ceived by various State and county Of
ficials, with a view to abOlishing the
entire fee sysem as applied to compen-
sation for individual services rendered;
to fix proper salaries for all officials
and have all fees duly accounted for
and paid into the State treasury. The
commission is instructed to report its
findings to the next Legislature.
1t is not unnatural that among the
employees of the different departments
At
voices Of the different forms of out
door sports. and it is even so. OF
course, there are also. in the different
classes those who excel their fellows,
and rank among them as stars of the
first magnitude. These stars do not
shine preemnent at all times. but only
as the season at whose shrine they
worship swings into the proper place on
the orbit. Just now it is the fishing
season which has reached the meridian
and the stars of that constellation
shine with great brilliancy. To come
down to personalities, it seems to be
conceded by those within the walls OF
the Capitol, that the gentleman who is
entitled to carry off the palm as the
most inveterate fisherman is Hon. A. l.
Brown of Belfast, deputy secretary of
State. Almost every afternoon, one can
find him on one Of the late cars on the
Winthrop line bound for Cobbossee-
contee. There, he hires Il boat, and
with a well-fllled pipe between his
teeth and a pair of oars in his hands,
he pulls with his regular Harvard
stroke, far out over the quiet surface
of the lake to fish and mediate, but
mostly to fish. He is not particular
what kind of fish he catches, as long as
he catches them, for he fishes for the