Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-12-19

Portland hears that the big Congress
Square hotel will be enlarged in 1907
by an ald,t.t1 which viii make it one.
of the largest hotels IN New England.
The New England Journal of Educa-
ton prints list of So city school
superintendent outside of Maine who
are natives of this State. and the list
is by 10 means complete.
Lumber shipments by vessel from
Bangor this year are estimated at close
to 100 900, 900 feet. a decline of 40 to 50
millions on account of the AroOstOOk
and Piscataquis mills shipping via
Stockton and ScarSport. lee ship
mcnts We're in the neighborhood of So
600 tons. Much more ice was housed.
but being of poorer quality than usual
Their" was great waste ana Shrinkagc
and there was IL loss of about 10000
tons by the fire in the Stanford &
bennett house. There We're 23l ~
tons of coal received at the port. or
about $4,000 tons less than in 190J
II - tii'ooIl tiittt iiittll VI tIiN h'SS VIII
be made up in Il few years. through
the natural iIcrcaSr 'f the business.
II may not be generally known that
Ambassador to Austria Bellamy
Storcr, who has figured in con-
trovcrSy with Pres Roosevelt. comes
down from q Maine family. Mr. Storcr
himself is an Ohioan and has spent
much of his life in the Buckeye STATE.
but his father came from Maine and
was II member of Congress. The
family was prominent in Maine in the
earlier days of the State and two Of its
scIohS became members of the
National House Of Representatives.
The elder Bethany Storer, the father of
the present Bellamy StOrer, died in
Cincinnati June !. 1875. being then 81
years old. He was born at Portland.
Me. in March, 1898, graduated from
BoWdoin college, studied law and be-
gan to practice at Cincinnati in 1871.
He was a Wing and was elected to the
gath Congress by that party. He de-
cllned denomination to the House,
but served as a presidential clector on
the Clay ticket in 1914. Aftrrward he
served three terms as judge Of the
superior court for the district of
Cincinnati.
Most remarkable is the record of c.
|. kimball. the veteran mail clerk of
the Grand Trunk. For 50 years he has
not missed a regular trip from Portland
to Island Pond and Travelled in that
time over 100000 miles in the mail
car. Said Mr.. kimball in an interview
with the writer at his Portland home:
when l first came into the service
there were three of us. We were run
ming a car seven feet wide and 10 feet
long. We had no letter cases to dis
tribute our letters in and our instruc-
tons at that time We're not to open anv
packages of letters made up for a dis
trlDutIon office. We used no slips for
our packages and no labels for the
pouches. AT that time we had wooden
tags about six inches long that we used
1Or the sacks. Instead of using
pouches for the letters. in making UP
thru mail. we often used boxes from
ten to three feet long. just wide enough
and deep enough to stand letters up
edgewisc. Then we had our car en-
iarged to 20 feet long and six feet wide.
We now have a car 40 feet long We
hang so pouches where we formerly
had six. We have $50 pigeon holes or
letter catchcrs where we had none. and
make II connections with other r,,nc-