Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-25
Board Of. Trade Considers
The Z !. Ferry Question,
Thoughtful Address BY The
| President, Or, 4. A. Mnhken.
Deaths Reported Of I'm. R. Tllden
! And Mrs. Bssiah Swift.

me regular monthly meeting of the
Board of Trade combined with a smoker
and social hour was held at the City
hall last night Reports were made
from the committee which met the Bos-
ton Merchants Association at Augusta,
also from the committee appearing be-
l-fere the county commissioners last
month, respecting the opening Of a fer
ry between Chelsea and HallowelI Re-
marks were made by Mayor d. c.
Skillin in regard to granolithic side
| walks to be laid on Water street. The
| secretary was authorized to have 300
copies of the new bylaws printed for
distribution among the members The
matter of how to raise finances came in
for discussion. There were differences
of opinion. At another meeting the
subject will receive attention.
| The following suggestively thought
full address by the president, DR.. H. A.
| Milliken, was well received and given
| hearty applause.
| With the coming of spring and
warm weather, the gradual return of
the country to normal condition, pros
poets of a satisfactory settlement of the
| great tariff question especially to New
England, we are unconsciously enter
ing on q period of prosperity, the sta
bility. of which is unprecedented in the
history of this country, NJ i. 1
In Maine, where natural. resources
have been neglected. the eye OF capital
is watching eagerly. Capital is nearly
ready to make it's mighty influence felt
in this State. Every Board Of Trade
is alive and new boards are being or
| cra nj i,1nn &c
for us right here to get together and
do some good team work. An indi-
yidual can, if he finds anything wrong
with his own business, adjust it right
without much difficulty if he be SO dis
posed; but municipality is different,
because we must agree as whole We
are of many minds. and majority must
rule. Consequently it takes town or
city longer to adjust it's bad business
features than it would a private ind-
vidual So it is very necessary for us
to work together in harmony.
There are many things that we can
do and must do. Nature placed us on
a large and navigable river, easy of
| access and in the very heart of the
State, with the best of railroad and
trolley service. Surrounding us is the
best agricultural section in Maine out
side OF the Aroostook River valley,
1t has only been recently known that
Potatoes and other paying crops can
be grown here as well as in Aroostook,
requiring no more fertilizer, and these
crops can be shipped without being
charged the excessive rates that are
charged or the z. &. A.. We must ad-
vertise that we have good farms around
us; farmers are good substantial people
and their wealth is a great asset to
any city ''r T. ~ :t+
Again, we are gradually nearing the
point where we are large enough to
have new Federal postoffice building.
IN order to get this we must patroEize
| the postofiice. We should agitate using
the mail as much as possible. and use
the mail to advertise Hallowell, at the
same time, and it won't be long be-
fore somebody will sit up and take
notice.
We have been in need of a modern
business block tor long time. We are
now going to have one, and if this
| proves a profitable investment, as 1t
| cannot possibly do otherwise, it won't
be long before we will have another.
| We are going to have new and mod
| ern pitch macadam street and grano-
hthic sidewalk. This cannot do other
| wise than increase the value of prop
erty on Water street and make it avail
able for fixing over into modern tene-
ments of which we are in great need,
for we couldn't house SO families today
if called upon TO. do so. We must agi-
tate that private individuals who own
property fix the same in presentable
and rentable condition, or else pull the
same down in order to make room for
other new buildings. We are going to
have new manufacturing industries 10
date here, before we are aware of it,
and we must be prepared to house the
lpDple. +.'t-
| I'm closing | wish to say that we must
have better attendance to these Board
of Trade meetings; it is for your own
interest to, attend. A man who sits
down and grumbles about the loss OF
business and the condition of his bust
ness and won't do anything to helE
better his condition. won't attenG
,oard Of Trade: meetings and wants
someone else tordo everything for hin
So h. can get a living easily and make
money, don't deserve any sympathy on
patronage, and shouldn't have It,
| We are alb In the same boat anC
should pull together. The same in
ducements that, bed the. early pioneer
: to choose this spot as his home, viz
The fertile land. the river. the granite
! all still. exist and much has been added
which counts for good. The city is what
: we make it. and if We are to live here
we might as we'll have what is due u:
ard better our. condition as much az
possible.
Z on motion of Gen: C. W. Tilden. Z
committee for the proper observance q
Fourth of July was appointed by tn
5 president as follows: E. o. Beane, A
3. Church and n. l.. O,Connor.
Charles O'Brien- put his motor boa1
, Madge. into the Kennebec yesterday.