The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-05-20

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Boston on the boat Friday en- route for Hart
ford, Conn.,. where she will join her husband,
Capt. Wade. Mrs. Nellie Kimball is at home
from the hospital, and is gaining every day.
Nina jackson is caring for her =. There will
be social and supper at the hall this, Thurs
day, evening. Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Hartshorn
and children and Mr. and Mrs. ]. A, Hartshorn
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Roller
son.
THE ELECTRIC ROAD TO CAMDEN The Cam.
den Herald of last week had this mention of
electric railroad talk" of which something
has been heard in this city of late. 1t has long
been the settled conviction that it is only
question of time when this projected road will
be built, and the indications are that the time
is near at hand. The Herald says:
There is considerable electric railroad talk in
the air. Just what it may come to is not GER
tain, but some of the large stockholders in the
Rockland, Thomaston & Camden St. Ry. were
in town last week and we understand that thew
were looking into the situation. An electric road
from here to Belfast has been talked of at
times for several years and it begins to look as
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near future. The plan talked of now is to run
the road up to Lake Megunticook across the
picturesque, fang and then swing back to the
coast beyond the mountain Such route
would open up one of the most picturesque
rides in New England 1t would also make
easily accessible many fine cottage lots around
Lake Megunticook and in Lincolnvle We
| hope to see building operations begun by
another year.
/ SHIPPING ITEMS. Schooner Young Brothers is
loading ice on the Kennebec for New York
She was built at Belfast in 1890 by Mcdonald
& Brown and was noted as flyer in her day
To settle the estate c. & j. R. Baker, an old
Boston ship chandlery firm, the sehooners
Brookline and John Proctor both three-mas-
tiers, were sold at auction last week in East
Boston. The Brookline, which was formerly
the Charles E. Schmidt, was bid in by Boston
men for $500. The Proctor went for $780,.
Schooner Charlotte T. Sibley has chartered to
load cut stone at Sullivan for Philadelphia 700.
Schooner jeremiah Smith has chartered to load
ice from Fred Smiths ice-house, Crescent
Beach, for City Island, N ". Schooner
Wawenock is chartered to load coal at St.
George, Staten Id, for Roekland, by the East
ern Steamship company. Capt. M. G. Dow
formerly of the barkentine Rebecca Crowell
and schooner Northland, is to be master of the
1,S00-ton schooner now building in the yard of
Gardiner G. Deering, Bath. =, Crowel & Thur
low of Boston have contracted to carly all the
ice new in the houses at Sargentville to Hobo
ken at 70 cents a ton. Practically all their ton
mage has coal charters for the season . The
Portland schooner which has been receiving ex-
tensive repairs here will be launched from Gil
chrest's marine railway the last of this week or
first of next. 1t is expected another Portland
schooner will take her place the railway. AL
though the papers have not been passed George
A. Gilchrest has completed negotiations for the
three-masted schooner James Slater now at
Port Jefferson, N. Y. The Slater is 266 tons net
and was built at Port jefferson in 1874. .Ac-
cording to an official of the Bangor & Aroos-
took railroad, large amount of lumber will be
shipped from Aroostook county points to New
York via the great terminals at Stockton
Springs He says the decline in the lumber
business at Stockton was due to the poor con-
diton of the New York market, as Boston lum-
Der is not shipped that way.
STEAMER NOTES. Hereafter the Eastern
Steamship Co. will collect storage for baggage
after it has remained in the baggage room at
the wharf for "a hours. The rates are as fol-
lows: Second day of "a hours or fraction
thereof, 25 cents; for each successive day up to
the 10th day, 10 cents; for 10 days to one
month, 81; for each successive day in suisse
quent months, 10 cents a day, with maximum
of 81 month. This new rule is in accordance
with the instructions issued on page of the
local and interdvision tariff pamphlet No. a.
effective April l, 1909. Perry Bros. of Rock
land have bought the Portland tug boat Cum
berland, of 25 tons net, built at Philadelphia in
1868, formerly the L. A. Belkrup. The name
of Capt. Ben Arey's steamer has been changed
from Percy V. to Anna Belle. :. Since last fall
a pair of gulls have made their home in the
harbor below the steamboat wharf just off the
mouth Of the sewer and may be seen there any
time of day, regardless of wind or weather
not changing their position more than few
yards Indeed, it is believed they do not leave
their station day night No other guls are
allowed to invade their territory and if any ap-
proach they are driven off. The birds are well
known on the boats and food is thrown to them
as the steamers come to the landing Steam
err Ruth, which wintered at the railroad wharf,
has been painted and put in condition for SER
vice. She is for sale or charter. - Work on
the steamboat wharf at Searsport will be COM
pleted in about a week and at Winterport in
about ten days. Work on the wharf at North
port Campground, now the property of the E.
S. S. Co., began this week. J. F. Spellman 4
Sons of Bangor have the contract. -. The new
turbiner Belfast of the Eastern Steamship
Co.'S fleet left Bath Monday for Boston to re-
ceive her furniture and fittings preparatory to
going on the Boston and Bangor route next
month.
The New LOBSTER LAW. There were two
amendments to the law relating to Holsters
enacted at the last session of the Legislature,
the most essential being that concerning
measurement Section II of Chapter Al reads
as amended
No person shall buy sell, give away or ex-
pose for sale or possess, for any purpose, any
lobster less than four and three-fourths inches
in length, alive or dead, cooked or uncooked,
measured in manner as follows: Taking the
length of the back of the lobster measured
from the end of the bone of the nose to the
center of the rear end of the body sheil; ana
any lobster shorter than the prescribed length
when caught shall be Immediately liberated
alive at the risk and cost of the parties taxing
them, under penalty of one dollar for each