Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-20

influenced by personal considerations
that it is quite possible for us to become
divided in present sentiment and losers
OF future good.
Can we not summarize the arguments
in behalf of accepting the site at the
corner of Water street and Brunswick
avenue?
|. A reasonable amount of money has
already been appropriated by the govern
ment for the purchase of some suitable
lot in a town of the size of Gardiner. 1t
should not be considered the easiest thing
in the world to secure a large approprla-
ton of money from the government for
a city of our size. Surely Uncle Sam is
not tearing off his coat tails in his hurry
to find such opportunities for investing
money Even If we were to show that
there was great probability of Gardiner S
doubling it's population within the next
10 years, which we certainly hope but can
not predict, we should still consider our
selves fortunate to secure government
building for our city. | venture to say
that the present appropriation has been
secured only as the result of the most
painstaking and careful effort on the
part of our congressman.
> Fitting application for the good in
tentions of the government already indi-
Gated should lead us to make every effort
possibIe to secure the site which has al
ready been selected by it's inspector
| While we should not for moment as
sumo that the government has any de-
| sire to settle matters Of local concern
vet their action as an impartial judge
! should have much weight in leading US
| to make all reasonable efforts to proVide
| this site chosen and desired by them. IN
| ii! such effort has been fully and widely
made is it a good business policy for u!
| to ask for "a new delegate to considel
| the selection of some other site!
3 The building as an ornsrncHation o
! our city would be most widely and con
stantly seen and appreciated by our citl
zens if it could be placed on the site al
ready selected
! g. 1t would be most constantly seen -,
| the increasing number Of travellers pass
| ing along our electric railway and binding
the Kennebec to the AndroscogSin. J
is matter of no small value to have tn
visitor and traveller so favorably i'm
/ dressed by the appearance of our bust
ness street as 10 speak wen VI IL "H'i'''
!; they go The other possible site whic
. has been mentioned must necessarily b
off this line of travel
J. Is there not a spirit of fairnes
which seeks to put over against some 9
! the handsome buildings at the lower en-
of Water street. including the public |
| brary a fitting and attractive bulidln
for the upper end of our trading section
Inasmuch as the large part of the mani
featuring and industrial life of the cit
, lies along the upper end of Water stree
ought not this new building to be place
at the same end?
6. For the geographic arrangement {
the streets and residences and therefor
| of the entire population, the site at Il
$ corner of Brunswick avenue and Watt
street would be the most central ar
r therefore the logical site.
n :. If the city is to have a substanti
{ growth in new industries for the next fl
? wears these must all be located along Il
dams of upper Water street. hence I'll
site selected will best accommodate II
t future industrial growth of the city.
IF there are to be added 500 or 1C
e homes to the city within the next
Il wears. wh.n we all most earnestly hor
: nearly all of these homes would in {
! probability be built in those portions
our city where the corner Of BrunsWi