The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-03-15
WORK AT TERMINAL N. M. S. R. R.

The residents of Stockton Springs an(
Searsport are now looking forward to the
active resumption of operations at an6
around the terminal of the Northern Maine
| Seaport railroad in those towns. The citi
zens view the prospect for season Of hustle
with great satisfaction, for every indication
| seems to point to a season OF great activity
There will not be another season like the
last, when hundreds of men were employ.
ed and laying the rails for the road, but
| there will be enough going on this summer
| to make Stockton Springs one OF the great
| est scenes of activity on the Maine coast.
| Although the railroad has been completed
| and open to operation for some months all
| the work pertaining to it is not yet done.
large crew of Italians is still at Stockton
and the prospect is that they will be for a
,, long time to come Building construction
| is being carried forward and it is'nOt un-
common to see the men at work building
great fires for the purpose of thawing tae
ground so as to make excavation possible.
1t looks odd at these times to see crew of
% or 80 Italians at work digging up the
earth on which the burning Goals still re-
main, while all around them are big piles of
burning waste timber which is drawing
out the frost SO that there will be opportu-
nifty for them to work.
When the new road was opened to traffic,
the station at Kidder's Point, which is to
be the passenger terminal, was not COM
pleted In order that George Nj. HoughtOn,
assistant to the president OF the Seaport
road, and the other officers, might have
quarters in which to work, a passenger car
was remOdeled and run down upon track
on the wharf and therein was established
the office. Telegraph and telephone lines
were entered into it and it served its pur-
pose well.
Within the past two weeks the station
has reached condition which made occu-
pancy possible and the offices have been
moved into it. The car has been sent back
to the car shops, and will return to its regu-
1t is possible that there will be more
wharf building done at Mack's Point this
summer. c. Ii. Sprague & Sons of Boston,
who have charge of the dscharging of YES
sells at Mack'S Point, which is the coal dock,
are understood to be negotiating now with
the owners of the schooner Thomas W.
Lawson, the largest schooner atioat, with
the object of having the Lawson ply regu-
larly between Newport News or other big
coal ports and Mack'S Point. The Thomas
W, Lawson is the only seven-masted Schoon-
Ell in the world. She is 1856 feet long and
will carry upward of 1000 tons of coal.
To make adequate docking facilities for
the Lawson the Mack's Point coal dock will
have to be greatly enlarged. The dock is
now only 1S0 feet long, so that the big
schooner would project more than half her
length beyond the end of the dock. Ii the
coal people CLOSE In6 Qedl Will lHc oN utl .
of the Lawson an addition of $50 or 200 feet
will be built onto the Mack Point dock. Big
schoonerS and whaleback steamers have
been plying regularly to Mack's Point dur
ing the winter with coal and during the
last week in February two trains of 25 cars
each were run to points up the line OF the
Bangor Il AroostOok railroad with coal
from these vessels.
The people of Stockton Springs, Sears
port and Belfast have been much interested
to know whether or not the Seaport road
would be extended from SearSport to BEL
fast this year. In answer to question
from a Commercial man, Thursday, Presi-
dent Cram of the Northern Maine Seaport
railroad said that the road will not be eX-
tended to Belfast this year so far as he or
any body else connected with the road could
tell The material for this stretch of road
is al! on hand and the piece of road could be
built probably in short time, but it is evil
IDENTIFY the intention of the Seaport road
officials to let Belfast wait a while before
she is made the terminal of the Seaport
road.
The people along the line of the Seaport
road are availing themselves Of the advant-
ages offered by the road in getting quickly
from place to place. Frequently the general
agent aud superintendent of the road are
called upon to furnish special train to
carry party over the road to attend some
function in one or the other towns along
the line A large party of Frankfort peO-
pie is negotiating for a special tram to
bring them to Bangor to attend one OF the
big theatrical productions booked for the
Opera House here-Bangor Commercial.