Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-18

week, upon it's $4,000 library building.
The honor of being Bangor's Me-
mortal day orator is greater than that
Of any presidential nomination which
General Miles is likely to get.
1t is figured that Millinocket now has
a population of $500. The census of
1900 gave it 1144.
Bangor News: If our clergymen
would spend more time in digging bait
for capturing and holding the men who
should go to church next, Sunday, there
would be fewer bath-breakers go
out of town for amusement.
schedule for the coming fall and has
dropped three colleges. Amherst,
Brown and Wesleyan. The usual
games with the Maine colleges, Bow
doin, U. of NJ. and Bates are all re-
tanned, however.
1t seems to be the general opinion of
the contractors and builders that more
houses will be built in Houlton this
summer than last. The ground has al
ready been broken for 26 residences and
there are others which have not been
started as yet. Many buildings are yet
needed to supply the demand.
Winthrop Budget: Now that the
open cars are beginning to run on the
trolley lines the annual howl over the
end seat hog is ascending to heaven,
but it looks to us that the bowler has
about as much pork under his skin as
the end seat hog. The only difference
is that one has both feet in the trough,
and the other squeals because he isn't
in too.
There were wild times on Bangor
streets. last Saturday night. The town
seemed full of bad hoboes and "a were
run in before anything like peace
reigned. Two or three of them had
tried hold ups and one tried to shoot a
policeman.
SoIllCo q uiol ololy 1lOlll AullO
which tells of cat owned by A. w.
Murray, the miller, which sits on a
rock in the stream and catches suckers
with her paw as they go by. making a
regular business of it a"d growing "a.
on the fish thus captured.
Names youngest author is Miss
Leona Bickwell of East Deering, age
~, the daughter of a missionary who
has just published How a Little Girl
tells in a pleasing and simple way the
story of her journey to South Africa
and her experiences and impressions
among the Beers. l
Municipal government comes high i'll
Bangor, but the city has no idea of try
ing to get along without it. A writer
in the Commercial figures that the
daily cost is $1,224 the items for the
principal departments of the city for
each day in the year are as follows:
Highways, $12628; all bridges, $27.72;
schools, s1S9.22; pauper. s57.47: incl
dentals. $SO.46: buildings. $3.50; parks
$12.O6: salaries, $3S.3S: fire, $500; police.
$3.50; sewers, 1871; water, $1S5.47;,
liquor agency, $1O.67; electrical, $11S.09;
interest, s53.49; discount. s39.97.
The widest and shortest stretch of
railroad in the State of Maine and in
the country as far as some of the old |
men in this vicinity know is tn
operation on the land just north of the |
Bath Iron Works and the outfit is at |
tracing lots of attention, says the Bath |
Times. The road is about 400 feet |
long built the same as regular steam |
car track but the gauge is nearly three |
times as wide as the standard gauge |
used by steam cars. 1t Is twelve feet |
across, while the railroad gauge is four |
feet eight and one-half inches. Regu-
la ton rails were used in the construc-
ton. The track was built for an inn
mense travelling crane to travel over in |
handling the heavy armOr plates which |
will be placed on the battleship Georgia. /
The plates vary in weight from four to
thirty-two tons each and it is difficult |
job to unload them from the cars and
store them in a convenient place until
needed. The travelling crane which has |
been built expressly for this purpose is
an odd and if anything, a homely struc-
ture built of heavy timbers with a
wheel at each corner to run along the
track. One man described it as having
a foundation like a saw horse. The
wheels have a flange on each edge,
making it almost impossible for the
wheels to leave the track. The crane
is about sixteen feet above the rail and
is wide enough to allow a common
freight car to run under it and hoist.
AS soon as the armor plate is lifted
clear of the freight car by hand, the
car is pushed away and the crane is
sent up the track by means Of an end
less hawsed arrangement attached to a
steam winch at the head of the wharf.
The freight car is admitted under the
crane by the removal of two short
pieces of the rails of the big track.
A memorial in honor of the late
Francis Boot, Harvard man of the
class of 1881, and musical composer