The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-12-16


Washington Hose company will give Their
annual ball in the Opera House January 18th
feature of which will be moving pictures Of
famous fires. Reyes full orchestra will fur
nish music for dancing. There will be no pub
lie supper, but refreshments will be served af-
ter 10 O'Clock.
Kirby Lake, otherwise known as the Muck
POND, was thronged with skaters Monday after
noon and evening. Pitchers pond was report
ed frozen over in part with some op m water.
Another cold night would have brought out
the ice boats, but Monday nights storm of
snow, sleet and rain put damper on that
sport and ended the skating.
THE Fl REMENs SUPPER The three loca
fire companys united for an annual supper
which took place last Thursday night in the
Pythian banquet hall. The supper was furnish
ed by the Pythian Sisters and those who par
took are loud in their praise of the menu and
OF the manner in which it was served. After
the supper an adjournment was made to the
main hall for smoke talk. Capt A. D. HAYES
OF Seaside Hose was the POSTMASTER and first
called on the mayor, who congratulated the
firemen on the good work they had done in the
past year. Chief Engineer Clough and his as
sistants, Messrs. Cook and Shute, Capt George
F. Darby of Hose Co. No. l, M A. Pattershall.
fireman of Seaside Hose Company, Capt Aus
tin G. Jewett of Hook and Ladder Company
No and Capt. A. d. Hayes of Seaside Hose
Company, spoke on matters of interest to the
fire department, and it was felt that the even
ing had been proitably as well as enjoyably
spent.
SHIPPING ITEMS There is only one square
rigger owned in Portland, the bark Carrie
Winslow. e. Sen Elizabeth N. of Capt Nichol-
sons fleet cleared from Bucksport December
9th for Bay of Islands, Mid, for cargo Of
herring :. Capt. G. W. Pattershal has hauled
up the schooner Willis & Guy at New York for
the winter. :. Sch William Matheson arrived
at Bucksport December 9th from Gloucester,
where she discharged cargo of herring -.
The bark Sea King, now on the voyage from
Tacoma to Bath with a cargo of 100000 feet
OF lumber, is to be converted on arrival into a
barge, to be towed from port to port. The
Sea King is 1861 tons net and was built at
Bowdoinham in 1877. During the month of
November SO sail and steam vessels were built
in the United States, according to the report
of the bureau of navigation. On the Atlantic
and Gulf coasts 80 crafts were launched.
Wooden vessels out numbered those of steel
construction. Sch. Annie B. Mitchell, Capt.
E. S. Mcdonald, arrived at Rockland Decem
Der 9th from South Amboy with cargo of
coal. Capt. Mcdonald came home to remain
while his vessel was discharging. He expects
to make one more trip this season and then
haul up at New York. The new schooner
William E. Burnham, recently launched from
the yard of the Cobb, Butler Co. in Rockland,
has been chartered for her maiden voyage by
the T. J. Stewart Co. of Bangor to carry a
cargo of ice from Rockport to Nassau, N. P.
-. The Bath ship Aryan, Capt Whittier, for
whose safety great apprehension had been
felt, arrived at San Francisco December 9Th,
100 days from Philadelphia. Sch J. V. We'll
lington, formerly owned at that port has been
sold to Capt. Gilbert of New Bedford and will
be commanded by Capt. George Tinker, for
merly master of the schr Fortuna, and will be
used in the general coasting trade. The daily
papers print despatch from Kittery in which
it is said that there net reduction of 5000
tons in the Maine vessel feet during the past
twelve months because of the failure of the
shipbuilding yards of the State to keep pace
with the marine casualties which involved
property losses of nearly $1,000,000. The
heaviest loss was that of the steamer Horatio
Hall, and the next heaviest losers were j. s.
Winslow & Co. of Portland, four of their big
schooners having been wrecked Thomaston
lost three big vessels and Bath only one, the
four masted schooner William c. Tanner. The
despatch says further: "a number of old worm
out schooners have been hauled up and dis
masted. among them the Albert Pharo, John
Douglass, Maggie Mulvey, Osprey and W. A.
Slater" The Maggie MuIvey and William
Slater have been hauled up for several years,
but have not been dismasted. .Schs. E. S
Wilson and A. T. Miner loading hay, coal,
ETC. at Lewis wharf for Deer Isle. ... Capt
John w. Ryder went to Rockland yesterday to
Join schooner Annie B. Mitchell as mate. The
schooner is chartered to load paving at Somes
Sound for New York.
THE MCNABB IRON WORKS. The certificate
of organization OF the incorporation of the Nc
Nabb Iron Works was filed with the Registry of
Deeds December 9Th The capital stock is $780,
900; nothing paid in par value of stock 500;
corporators W c. McNabb and J. S. McDan-
iel of Atlanta, Ga, Maurice W. Lord, Austin W.
Heating and Ralph 0'C onnell of Belfast. The
officers are as follows: President Austin W.
Heating; clerk and treasurer, Maurice W
Lord; directors. Ralph O'Connell, Austin w.
Heating and Maurice W. Lord.
The purposes of said corporation are to
manufacture, build, construct operate let for
hire buy, sell, deal in and with, prepare for
market and market, automobiles, motor vehi-
Giles, power boats aeroplanes, bicycles and any
and all XII DIS of vehicles boats vessels and air
Ships whatever and whatsoever motor power
and Wberesoever used, and likewise of engines
and equipments in connection with the manu-
facture or operation of such vehicles, boats,
vessels and air ships, including all parts, ap-
paratus machinery, tools or property useful
in connection Herewith, to manufacture, ac-
cumulate, deal in and with, buy, sell, transfer
and supply compressed air, gasoline and anyand
all substances, agencies, things useful for or
used as motive power for motor vehicles, pow
err boats, or air ships
To carry on the business of manufacturing
dealers in and with dynamos and other electro
cal machinery and plants and to buy, sell,
manufacture, repair, convert, alter, let or
hire and deal in electrical appliances and goods
of every kind and character and machinery of
all manner and kind,