The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-03-15
STEAMER NOTES. A. Fl. HanscOm, who
for many years has been general passenger

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Company, has been appointed assistant to
President Calvin Austin of that company
Mr.. Austin il president of the Eastern,
Clyde and Metropolitan Steamship COM
panies and is in New York much of the
time and upon Mr.. Hanscom therefore will
devolve much of the detail direction. Mr..
Hanscom has been for about 30 years in the
employ of companies operating the Boston
and Bangor line, and was the most trusted
and most competent purser on the line.
During the years of his duties as purSer
Mr. Hanscom resided for the most part at
the home of his wfe's parents, the late
Capt and Mrs. George Havener in Winter
port, but lived in Bangor for one season be-
fore going to Boston to assume his duties as
general passenger and ticket agent. His
deserved promotion is very pleasing to his
many friends in Maine. Capt l. E. Archl-
bald took his steamer NJ. & M. to the Port
land Company, Portland, last week where
her boiler and engine will be taken out and
put into the new steamer Captain Archi-
bald is building to run between Portsmouth,
n. H., and the Isles of Shoals. The hull OF
the NJ & NJ. will be sold. Steamer fremont,
Capt Benjamin Arey, went to Bucksport
Monday to wait the government inspectors.
After inspection the steamer will be repair
ed and painted preparatory to resuming
business on her route from Brooksvllle to
Bangor after the ice goes out 49,. The four
trips week schedule will probably go in
operation upon the Boston and Bangor
division of the Eastern Steamship Com
pany the latter part of the month. The big
white flyers, City of Bangor and City of
Rock land have been put in frst-class order
and are ready for business.
SEVEN OLD LADIES OF LAVENDER
Town The story of this operetta, which
is the feature of the Hospital fair for
this, Thursday, evening, is as follows: In
Lavender village there lived seven lovely
brides who quarreled with their husbands,
and to punish them the Fairy Macassa turn
ed them into seven old ladies and condemn
ed them to wander in search of their hus-
bands, whom she has turned into something
else, they know not what. They are given
a song by the fairy and should their hus-
bands hear it they would recognize them.
After much searching they find their hus
bands and are reunited. The scene is the
interior Of Professor IIaskens' tent, and the
cast will be as follows:
The Duchess. Anne NJ. Kittredge
Prof HaSkens... Bert l.. Davis
Elizabeth Chamberlain
Mildred McADdlasS
Kate Brier
The Old Ladies'. -. Helen Bird
Sarah Seavey
Frances Jones
Louise Heal
(Charles HammonS
Ernest Weber
Frank keene
The WaxwOrks. ....... Earl Talbot
Tom BOWker
Frank Gray
Clarence Hall
There will be solos by Mrs. E. s. Pitcher
and Miss Marian Wells; reading by Mrs. S.
A. Parker. Accompanies, Mrs. Ralph II.
Howes and Miss Mary f. Faunce.
SHIPPING ITEMS. 1t will be recollected
that few years ago W. II. Read came here
from Hancock county and proposed to
build two or three vessels, the frames to
come from Nova Scotia. The new shipyard
heard from at Rock land, and then at Bath,
with like project. Later he turned up liz
Portland and began operations in the yard
of the East End Yacht Club shipbuilding
plant. He started on fishing schooner,
which was named for himself, but owing to
financial difficulties she was left unfinished.
For months she lay exposed to the wind
and weather, money finally being advanced
to finish her, She was launched about "a
year ago, and last week was scuttled and
sunk for the second time. She is not owned
by Read but by VIM. r, Dresser of Port
land, who is at loss to know why any one
should desire to wreck her. 1t is thought,
however, to be the work of enemies of Read,
who are not aware that he does not own the
vessel The big six-masted schooner Viii
liam L. Douglass. with coal from Newport
News for Mack's Point, Searsport, was re-
ported in the bay Thursday by Capt Ben
nett Of the steamer Golden Rod, who pro-
nounced her a very handsome vessel....
Sch. Chester R. Lawrence arrived from
Boston March It'll with fertilizer for John
Sanborn and lumber for Mathews Bros.
1t is rumored that the 7masted schooner
Thomas W. Lawson has been chartered to
carry a full cargo of coal $500 tOnS) from
Newport News to San Francisco, which at
Sc per ton would pay her $4,000 for the
outward trip A possible return cargo of
lumber from Puget Sound is also limited at,
at SIS 80 per 1000 feet, which would bring
$4,000 more for the home trip. The
steam lighter Reliance which is engaged in
dredging at the Cape Jellison pier of the
n NJ S. R. r. came to Belfast Saturday for
water and landed at Lewis wharf. Sch.
Lizzie Lane, Captain Closson, has arrived
at Bucksport from Searsport to load ice for
Buzzard's Bay.
A SEVERE STORM. Last Fridays storm
was the worst of the season and the only
one to cause considerable damage. Snow
began falling in the afternoon in fine par
ticles which kept increasing in size until
the flakes were large enough to make
coverlid for an English sparrow. The wind
increased until it was blowing a gale from
the northeast, sleet mingled with the snow,
and at times it was almost rain. But for
the comparatively high temperature it might
have been called blizzard, and while eX-
treme cold with the high wind would have
added to creature discomfort it could hardly