Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-04
Petition From Northern
Railway Of Maine,
Timely Matter Relative 10 Feel
ing Toward National Guards.
Forestry Department: Has a Fine
Souvenir From. Lumber Camps.


the office Of the Board Of Railroad
Commissioners Of the receipt Of petit
ton from the Northern Railway of
Maine, praying that the board issue a
certificate approving Of an increase of
the capital stock Of the company, as
required by Section 10 of the COM
pany's charter.
The petition states that at a meet
ing Of the stockholders of the above
corporation held at Waterville, Dec.
20, 1907, it was voted by shares Of
capital stock as follows:
Whereas, 1t appears that the
amount of capital stock Of this cor
poratiOn is insufficient for the purposes
for which said corporation is organ
l1td and to meet the requirements Of
our purpose therefore, be it resolved,
that the capital stock of this corpor-
ation be increased from the sum of
s5o0.G0V, consisting Of 500 shares Of par
value of 500 each, to the sum Of
~ ,O0Q 900 consisting Of 10000 shares Of
tEI par value Of 500 each, all of which
shall be common stock: that the by
laws De amended in accordance there
with: and il is further resolved that
the president of said corporation pres
cnt to the honorable Board OF Railroad
Commissioners the necessary petition
for .heir approval for the increase of
SAID capital stock according to Section
10 Of the charter of this corporation.
and that the clerk shall cause the
certificate Of approval Of said increase
To be filed with tho secretary of State,
and that the treasurer pay to the
roc, -r.,s ,,f t..t foo
required for such increase"
Tho Northern Railway Of Maine was
chartered by special act Of the last
Legislature, for the purpose OF con-
structing. owning, operating and
maintaining a railway from some con-
venicnt point on the line near the
terminus Of the Bangor &, Aroostook
Railroad in the town Of Fort Kent in
Aroostook county, thence westerly
across the Fish river, through the
town Of Fort Kent and the plantations.
OF Saint John and Saint Francis, dis
tancc Of IL miles more or less to
point in Saint Francis plantat ton
nearly opposite the mouth of the Saint
Francis river, or to some other con-
venient point in the plantation. Also
between the point first mentioned on
the line Of the Bangor s. AroOstooll
Railroad il Fort Kent. thence in a
Eortherly and easterly direction
through the town of Fort Kent and
the towns Of Frenchville. Madawaska.
Grand Isle and Van Enren. a distance
OF a miles more or less to some con-
venient point near the terminus OF the
Bangor & Aroostook Railroad in the
town Of Van Buren,.
The corporators Of the railroad are
Vincent NJ. Theriault OF Fort Kent,
Patrick Theriault of Grand Isle. Eloi
r. Michaud OF Frcnchville. Edison f.
Goodrich of Watervile, and Arthur H.
Lewis Of Chicago, Ill. The officers Of
the corporation are as follows: PreSi-
dent. Edison f. Goodrich; vice presi-
dent, secretary and general counsel.
Vincent M. Theriault; vice president.
and treasurer. William J. Mabury
The charter Of the corporation was APP
proved. March 20. 1907.
Adjutant General Farnham has
received from William S. Simmons,
first lieutenant and secretary of the
Service School, NJ. V. NJ, at Boston.
Mass. the following communlc ation
for the press and which explains it
self
1t is no cXaggcration to state that
the average citizen throughout the
country thinks that the militia-man
exists solely to delight the eye.
IL this same citizen could know the
amount OF work performed yearly ny
his neighbor in the Guard for the
amount of compensation received. he
would indeed be astonished. Prob
ably also when he did find out. he
would merely think that "the fools are
mot all dead yet" and turn to his all
absorbing quest of the dollar.
The kind of citizen who would be
apt to think in this vein. however, is
not generally the wage-earner of
limited means. but is. unfortunately
for the service. the corporation man.
the business man, the employer of
labor, which men control millions Of
our fellow citizens aspirations and
daily lives. through the power Of
money.
The great stumbling block today
towards making for efficiency is the
indifference OF the average employer
OF labor to the needs Of our National
citizen police. and his attitude when