The Republican journal., 1904-01-07


ton Co. was incorporated in March,
with capital stock Of $1,000, 900.
They do a general shipbuilding bust
ness in New York, Belfast, Islesboro
and other places. A building was erect
ed in the Pendleton yard and an electric
motor and band saw installed. Geo. A.
Gilchrest built shop 30x60 feet, 2
stories high, in his yard for carpenter,
paint, calkers' shop, ETC., and rebuilt
and enlarged the head-house at the rail
| way. He also put in and is using a num-
Der of woodworking machines brought
here by L. A. Coombs from his boat
shop in Vinalhaven.
| The Brown Medicine Co., organized
in 1902, to manufacture and sell Browns
Royal Stomach King, had a steady
growth in business. Nathan E. Brown,
one of the partners, died Oct 81; the
| business was recognized and new
company was incorporated Dec I'd, with
| S25, 900 capital, and called the Brown
Medical Company. VIM. A. Mackenzie
is president; Lewis A. Brown, vice
president; Bertrand L. Moore, treasu-
| rer; Mrs. Emma S. Mackenzie, clerk.
| The laboratory is in the Langwolthy
building on Church street.
Hutchins Bros. kept their granite
works on Front street up to the full
capacity throughout the year, and set a
| large number of monuments in Bel
fast and in nearby towns in Waldo,
| Knox and Hancock counties. They
use chiefly the Quincy, Hallowell, Oak
| Hill and Lincolnville stock.
| Mark Wood & Son had a good years
work on marble monuments and other
cemetery work.
! 80 q, Ia
workers, Bridge street, did large
terry work and employed full crew
| the Orlando Richards quarry in Lin
colnville and the firm uses the stock
for monument dies and other work re-
qniring dark, fine-grained stone, capa-
BILE of high polish.
E. l.. Macomber was kept busy at
his boat shop on Front street, where
he built a number of gasoline launches
for use both on the sea and on inland
waters, yawls for sea- going vessels, etc.
He put in boiler for steam heating,
enlarged his steam-box, put in an en-
CINE and some woodworking machinery
and otherwise enlarged and improved
his facilities for boat building.
| |. M. Cottrell opened a boat-shOp at
the foot of Commercial street in Janu-
airy. The business is in new building
30 x 80 feet, with platform 80 x 30 at
| the waterside There is space un-
der the platform in which to store
yachts aud boats during the winter.
MI. Cottrell has built a number of
gasoline, sail and row boats, and two
ice boats during the year, besides doing
submarine diving in Belfast and else
] where, and building the city sewer ex-
tension.
George I. Read, in addition to a good
run of steam heating work, and his
usual contract work on roller bushlngs
for a Gloucester firm, has the agency for
/ al auto-sparker attachment for gasoline
| engines, which met with general favor
| He also did general machine work,
/ principally on farm machinery and for
the local factories and mills.
Fred J. Stephenson had a good run
OF general work on the lighter kinds of
| machinery, ana did the machine work
| IN the manufacture OF the Condor pa
tent shoe Furnishing rolls.
| John F. Rogers continued making
| the Rogers patent vamp-makerS, and
did general machine business IN the
| RodoIf building Oh Common street.
| The Silver Lake Creamery of F. j.
Gerry Il Co steadily increased its bust
ness during the year. While the num-
Der of patrons and cows was largely in
creased the demand has increased even
faster, and the creamery is frequently
ders. \ Reid pasteurzer has been
| added. and some Improvements made
| in the line of time-saying in handling
the cream. The greater part of the
stock is bought as farmers cream" or
cream extracted in the farm separators
or by the deep setting method. 1t is
put through the pasteuriZer and the
creamery separator and is then known
as Is per cent. cream. The greater part
is shipped to Boston, but the firm has
large local trade in Belfast and Cam
den, and during the summer season IN
1slesboro, Northport and other resorts.
Mayo, White & Carter put in new
labelling machines at their bottling
works on Pleasant street; also large
boiler and a new engine. They had an
increase of orders over any previous
year. both in their bottling and con-
fectionery department.
p. l.. Strout built an additional poul
try house at his farm in East Belfast,
and otherwise enlarged and improved
his facilities. The new building is 10
feet long.
John Peavey built spur track for
tram-cars from the railroad tracks to
the end Of railroad wharf, for convent
ence in loading Oak Hill paving. He
shipped several cargoes during the sea-
son.
The cigar makers had prosperous
year. The name of the Standard Cigar
Co. at Citypoint was changed and the
business is now conducted under the
name of Frank NJ. Bailey. He has no
statesmen, but sells wholly from the
factory. The sale of his leading brand,
the Seth Bullock, increases every
month. |. L. Perry had an increased
sale on all his principal brands among
them the Belfast, Perry Pony and
Clean Stock and has improved and en-
larged the capacity of his factory c.
b. Eaton continues making the r. F.
d. and other brands and finds a good
demand. George E. Pendleton con-
tinues to make the brands that attain
ed popularity under former proprietors,
the Binding Tie, Road House, Trolley
and Swan Lake.
ii. Z. Pitcher set up a saw mill with
a 10 horsepower boiler and 60 horse
power engine just over the line in
Searsport, near the shore. He cut a
large amount of lumber on the Curtis
farm in Searsport last winter, and
worked it uD as best he could Some