Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-12
STATE HOUSE,
Wardens Find Nearly a Dozen
Dead Deer on Boundary.
About Naturalization Papers for the
Natives of Austria.
Many Knew All About "Fidders'
Reach'-State House Personals.

Reach'-State House Personals.
Nardens Pierce and Brown, who are
on duty along the boundary, have re
ported to Commissioner Carleton that
during the past winter they found II
dead deer. Nearly all We're young ami
mails and there was nothing about
them to indicate that they had been
killed. The animals We're all very poor
ANA it is supposed that they sue
cumbed To the severity of the weather,
not having vitality enough to with
stand the hardshiI,s Of the winter
''n Monday the executive department
received note from Secretary of State
John Hay i'll regard to the issuing Of
certificates Of naturalization to former
subjects of Austria Hungary. The
note sets forth that the L. :. depart
m"nt Of state has just received from
the Austrian ambassador that it is the
request OF his government that when
such certificates nre issued in the
United States distinction shall be.
made between the divisions of the en-
nire i'll giving the place of birth ANA not
describe former Hungarians as having
been born in Austria or vice vers;l Tn"
ambassador states that former subjects
Of Austria Hungary visiting their ma
tive Land suffer many Inconvenience,
if the land Of birth is Incorrectly given
in the certificate Of naturalization.
The many State House friends Of
Miss c0rnrlia T. Crosby. more familiar
~ known as Fly Rod" Names noted
woman guide, We're pleased to learn Oh
Monday that she WAS able to leave the
Maine General Hospital, Portland, on
Saturday. Miss Crosby has been in the
hospital for the past six months for IN
operation upon her knee. She went to
Sh' rWCpd. where She will be the guest
of friends for Il few weeks.
! 1t did not take 4 great deal Of time,
after Monday mornings issue of the
l Kenncbec Journal became circulated,
for information concerning the location
! of 'Fiddler's Reach" on the Kennebcc
\ river to become current. 1t WAS re-
: lnarkable the number of people who
knew Just where it was and could have
told had they been asked before In
their cases, as is usually the way. the
seeker for the knowledge did not once
think of them as being able to give the
information which WAS desired. 1t
seems that the reach is located about
| Two miles below the city of Bath ana.
while not indicated on the county map
in tn" atlas, is shown on local town
maps. In former tines it used to be
the custom Of the weir fishermen to eX-
tend their traps well out into the river,
50 that they Were very likely to inter
fcrc with navigation. which accounts
| @ which
Even since the passage of laws govern
ing the depth Of water into which the
welrs shall extend they have been
found in places where there WAS % feet
Of water.
AS to how the Reach secured its
name it is said HAT Il drunken sailor
on a vessel. which was passing through
the reach, fell overheard. while sitting
on the rail, playing fiddle. and was
drowned ana from that day the reach
has been known az "Fiddler's Reach"
| The vote of the executive council,
Tuesday. authorizing the adjutant-
general to sell the Old gun house at
! East Machias. brings to mind that this
is the last of fifty such houses that the
stat" once owned.
IN" old house has been going to
- pieces for some years and not long ago
the revolutionary field-ricCcS which it
guarded were brought to Augusta and
given Il place on the terrace at the rear
of the State House. Since then the
rain and the winds have done their
work so persistently that there isn't
D much of the old building left. The
East Machias man who wishes to buy it
estimates that it is worth from twelve
to fifteen dollars, and he has written
to ask the djutant-gcncral if there is
any objection to his standing his COW
in one corner of the building. provided
Il sale cannot be effected! The land on
which the house stands originally cost
the state $50 for 100 square feet 1t was
decided to the state by james Wood
ward. July l., 1896.
In the days when the Maine militia
consisted of eight divisions and there
were more major generals than there
are colonies in Kentucky, these artil-
lery gun houses We're to be found ..all
D over the state. Every section of the
state had its share Of artillery COM
I,aLies ana for each company the
state built Il gun house. Sometimes
the state bought the land. and some
times it didn't. There was 4 case IN
Wilton which gave the authorities no
end of trouble The gun house for the
Wilton Light ARTILLERY was built on
private land. The house was 3cX2o
feet in size and it WAS no sooner COM
ipleted in the late thirti"s than the own
or Of the land proceeded to partition off
> section of it, 90 feet long and Is feet
wide. Into this he nut his carriages
ana refused to bulge them an inch to
accommodate the cannon. The adju-
tant-gcncral fused and fumed but the
man remained firm. lie would neither
vacatc nor sell-excert at price
which the State thought altogether too
- long. "In the other end of the house.
writes the adjutant-Seneral in 1911,