Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-05-25
SebastjCook & moOsehead
R.R. Wants Branch Track.
President Roosevelt Will Pre-
side al tuberculosis Congress.
Two Pardon Hearings Before Ex'
ecutiye Council tuesday.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Next Meeting Of Governor and Council
Tuesday, May 26, at 10 A. N.

Announcement was made Saturday
at the Office of the Board of Railroad
commissioners OF the receipt OF q pc
,ition from Rufus Burns of Pittsfield,
receiver of the Sebasticook & Moose
head Railway Co, asking the approval
nv the board Of the construction and
maintenance of branch track from
the companys main line in the town
If Palmyra to, its gravel bank near
Thompson's crossing, in the said
town.
The petition states that the com
nany is common carrier and that
rs main line Of railroad runs from
putsfeld through the towns Of Pal
mvra and Hartland to Mainstream in
Harmony. in Somerset county, and
that il is desirious Of constructing and
maintaining the branch track men
toned above; that it has made Il loca-
tion Of said branch track which is as
follows Beginning on the line Of said
railroad at a point 740 feet sOutherly
from the center of the main line of
said railroad at Thompson's crossing
in the town Of Palmyra, said railroad
running ~ 16deg 40sec. w. ut the
DOIltl UtHlicilci, eiiSiitt iiCA SA'NAAJ ~
a curve to the right of GGS.1o feet;
thence by a curve to the right OF 26o43
feet radius 100 feet; thence by d
curve to the right of 40o.4 feet; ra-
dius 100 feet; thence by curve 10 the
right of 45S3.75 feet; radius 5S feet;
thence IN a course north 3Ddeg. 15Sec.
feet f, go feet: thence by curve to
the left Of 29G.5l feet: radius 133 feet
to the center of the highway leading
from Niger bridge to Davis Corner
at a point 55S feet caSterlV TO the
Thomson crossing; thence by curve
to the left of 1875 feet: radius 6S
feet; thence N. S deg. w. 24U feet to
said gravel pit; that petition to the
board dated May 6, 1868, relates to the
crossing of this branch track over
said highway; that the petitioner
within said location has a license FROM
r. j. Goodrich, the owner of the land
at the south of said highway, to con-
struct and maintain said branch, and
owns the land at the north of said
highway. A hearing on the petition
will be assigned later.
In connection with the coming H.
ttIIltlIbIldl NoIlSItSS oIi
which Will De held at Washington, ID.
c., in September DR.. A. G. Young,
secretary of the State Board of Health,
has received notice that President
Roosevelt has accepted the presidency
of the congress- The Presidents letter
of acceptance to DR.. Lawrence F.
Flick, chairman of the committee of
arrangements, is in part as follows:
The White House,
Washington, May IL, 1908.
Sir:
1t is with great pleasure that | ac-
cept the presidency OF the ''Interna-
tiOnal Congress on tuberculosis
which is to meet in this city on Sept.
a. 1908. and extend its session to oct.
H. 1905 Official duties, however, may
prevent my presiding at the initial
meeting Of the Congress, in which case
l will deputzc Secretary Cortelyou.
The Importance of : the crusade
against tuberculosis, in the interest OF
which this Congress convenes. cannot
be overcstnlatcd when it is realized
that tuberculosis costs our country
100000 lives Il year. and the entire
world l.o00.000 lives a year, besides
constituting n most serious handicap
to material progress, prosperity ana
happiness, and being an enormous eX-
pense to society. most often in those
walks of life where the burden is least
bearable.
Science has demonstrated that this
disease can be stamped out, but the
rapidity and completeness with which
this can be accomplished depends up
on the promptneSs with which the new
doctrines about tuberculosis can be
inculcated into the minds of the people
and enSrafted upon our customs, HaD-
its and laws. The presence in our
midst of representatives of Worldwide
workers in this magnificent cause
gives an unusual opportunity for ac-