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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-23
HOIST IMMENSE GRANITE BLOCK.
One Weighing Thirty Tone Quarried at
Quincy for States Monument.

Boston, July pa block of granite
thirty feet long and weighing thirty
tone-one OF the largest quarried in this
State in long time-has just been
taken out of the Hitchcock Ledge Of
the Quincy Quarries Company. Owing
to its large size the block had to he
hoi-ed $50 feet and special rigging WAS
necessary to do this.
This stone is to be the shaft for the
soldiers monument to be erected in
Baton Rogue, La, to the memory of the
Union soldiers who fought i'm the Gulf
campaign. 1t is to be erected by the
State of Massachusetts, The monH-
ment will be simple in design, but
imposing in its massiveness. 1t is to
cut by j. N. White & Sons of West
Quincy and will be dedicated in Baton
Rough Nov. Is. The monument vii!
consist of three bases. a die and Il
shaft The front will be ornamented
with 4 bronze eagle, the seal of Massa :
chusetts in bronze and a bronze tab
let concentrating the memory of the
mennen for whom it is to be erected.
Il is estimated that the cutting of the
big stone will take off ten tone. The
monument when finished will stand
abouttifty feet high and will be obsisi
in style.
The Massachusetts party to the ded-
iciltion will leave Boston on New. 8 at
s p. NJ. on the Federal express. One
day will be passed in Washington
hree-quarters of a day in Mobile, two
nights and a day and at half i'm New
Orleans. two nights and d day and Il
half in Baton Rouge. A short stop
will be made in Vicksburg. long enough
to go through the National Park: one
day will b e spent at Chattanooga ana
Lookout Mountain, sox hours at Luray
caverns. one night and a day and a
half at Gettysburg.
Twenty Massachusetts regiments
and batteries were in the Department
of the Gulf. including the Fourth In
fantry. Twenty Sixth Infantry. Thir-
ticth Infantry. Thirty-First Infantry
Thirty Eighth Infantry. Forty First In
fantry, Forty-Second Infantry. Forty
Seventh Infantry. Forty Eighth In
fantry. Forty Ninth Infantry, F'iftieth
Infantry. Fifty Second Infantry. Fifty
Third Infantry. Second Light Battery.
Fourth Light Battery. Sixth Light
Battery. Seventh Light Battery.
Twelfth Light Battery. Thirteenth
Light Battery and Fourteenth Light
Battery.
Any of the surviving soldiers VINO
contemplate the trip should commune
cate with ID. r. Remington. State
House. Boston.
The monument commissioners ar"
General Charles n. Taylor. David T.
Remington and Colonel Eben =. stan
wood. The shaft will be unveiled by
Lena NJ. Remington. daughter of COM
missioner Remington.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-23
FIRST OF KIND.
New Electric Railroad System Planned
for Maine.

Boston. July 23.-The first 12OO-volt di-
rect current electric railroad system in
New England will be between Pressure
Isle and Washburn, Me, with an ulti-
mate additional extension of 10 miles
north to the st. John river. according to
an announcement made here Wednes-
day. The Aroostook Valley Railroad
animated with the Canadian Pacific
Railroad. are the promoters
BY virtue of a law comforting monopoly
within its territory. the Bangor & Aroos-
took Railroad is protected from inva-
sion by steam railroad. therefore the
new road will be built for electric oper-
ation. both passenger and freight Its
voltage will be the same as the New York
central Roads voltage through the Park
avenue tunnel. Power will be purchased,
according to the plans. from the Maine e.
New Brunswick Power CO. at Aroostook
Falls.
On the south the new road will CONNECT
with the Canadian Pacific.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-23
PROVEDITS WORTH.

In 1856 train on the Erie railroad,
OH board Of which there happened to
be an official of the road, arrived at it's
scheduled meeting point, and was OBJ
ligca to await the train from the OPP
posite direction AS time passed and
the other train did not appear, the Off
cial, becoming impatient at the long
delay. went to the telegraph Office and
wired the next station, asking if the
expected train had passed. On receiving
an answer that it had not, he wired
the station agent tc stop the train and
have il wait until the arrival of the
train on which he was riding. He then
requested the engineer to take the train
to the next station, but found that he
obje.ted, because it was irregular and
he had no faith ir the telegraph. Not
until the official mad commanded the
engineer tC start mis- train was the
movement made. Upon arriving at the
next station it was found that the 9TH
or train had not yet appeared; the tel
exrapn was again employed and the
u1ain moved un another station. This
demonstration of the saving in time
which could he effected by using the
telegraph led to the system of dispatch
ing trains which has existed unchal-
lensed until the present time.-Popular
Mechanics.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-23
A Substitute for Ivory.

Consul General Robert r. Skinner. at
Hamburg. sends sthe. following report on
cit city. - &C concerning Which previous arti-
Giles have appeared in consular and trade
reports:
'Since 1902 new and fourishing indus
try has been created in Hamburg for
the conversion of milk into "a hard.
bony material resembling ivory, tortoise
shell and celluoid. and known in COM
merce as 'galalith.' Exports of this ma
teria to the United States We're as fol
lows: Value of the raw material, $1l.5l6
in 1907 and sl362O in 1908: value of manu-
featured articles. $5,147 in 1907 and $3.50
i'm 1908. Exports to the United States
fell off in 1908 in sympathy with general
business conditions, but otherwise the
trade tends to develop in a satisfactory
manner, thus establishing a new con-
Stunning market in Germany for an argi-
cultural product.
1.-The inventors of the process have
succeeded in obtaining an article which
is odorless and which takes a high roll
iSh and any color desired 1t is CON
verified into toilet articles. buttons, lomi-
noes. dice. chess, figures: piano keys,
raw material. called galalith. which is
forwards worked up by other manu-
facturers., who treat it Just about as
III would horn or cel1uloid.
"'Ni'e the perfected process of con-
version cannot be described it IS Fn,"n
E, II consists in hardening caSein
which must be produced from fresh
skinned milk distinguished from
commercial casein used in the manufac-
ture of paper, glue and color. The Ger
man concern finds is hast casein in
France. where the butter industry IS car
ried on upon a large scale. 1t contracts
with butter makers for their skim milk.
which now costs about 30 cents per go
butter makers. The skim milk is coag-
ulated with rennet. and the curds after
being pressed until they contain about
80 per cent of water: are shipped to Ger
many for the finishing process by which
they are made into blocks and tubes 1t
requires about 5000 liters otter equal
1o567 quartsl of skim milk to make 30
is worth about SIS so"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-23
Housekeeping Trials in Panama.

A word here on the trials of an
American housekeeper may appeal to
those at home who think they, have
distressing difficulties of the kind with
which to contend. In the first place,
if cleanliness is necessary in the states
it is thousand times more so here,
and yet not even the first principles of
this virtue are dreamed of by these
lazy people. The simplest cooking, be-
yond frying everything in one pen, is
an unknown art to most of them. It
takes four or five barefooted girls all
day to do the work one would accom-
piish elsewhere, and it is amusing to
see those who have lived all their lives
within earshot of the locomotive
whistle make the approach of the train
an excuse to drop broom and pail and
run to a point where they may catch a
glimpse of the passing cars.-Metro-
politan Magazine
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Enqlish PoIiteness.

that no comment appears necessary
Consular Report
The expression Thank YOU is much
more current in England tnan in Ameri-
ca. 1t is also used with much wider sig
nificance, often as the equivalent of II
beg your pardon" For instance, an Eng
lish person passing before another. or
perhaps jostling one or even treadng on
his foot, will say in apology, Thank
you" The phrase is heard constantly.
ia salesman in a shop or a newsboy on
the streets solicits your custom and you
refuse it, he will say Thank you" quite
as cheerfully as if you made purchase.
There is a difference in the utterance,
tco. The English emphasize the second
word very strongly. and finish with a
rising infection. as if asking a question.
An American is recognized at once by
his accentins the word thank" and clos
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-23

DOGS CARRY THE MAIL,

one OF tfe UNIQUE sights to q Strang
er at the 500 is the fine dog team used
by Captain Mathews, of the local post
Office force in the delivery OF the Unit
ed States mail. Captain Mathews has
a route covering approximately 20
miles. and with the team usually COW
era the distance every day. The route
lies along the 500 River from the post
ofiice~in the heart OF the town tC a
small suburb called NeaseVille, or,
more POLITICALLY, after ar old Indian
tribe Algonquin. Sometimes the roads
are dritted so that it is almost impos-
sible to get through. but up to the
present time the big dogs have proved
themselves equal to any emergency. In
pleasant weather and binding snow
storms alike the team has trotted. on
its way for the past five winters, and
seems good for many more to come.
The dogs are named Spike and
Bounce, and are almost identical in size
shape. weight and color. They are as
large as Shetland ponies and weigh
over t"0 pounds each. They are St Ber-
nard and Newfoundland Captain
Mathews bitches them side by side to
specially constructed sleigh large
enough to hold himself, another pas
senger and the mail In fact, it will
hold many more, as observing persons
have noticed when the Captain leaves
for the city every morning. Then
there is always merry crowd of per-
haps 10 or dozen school children crowd
ed about the Captain in the sleigh and
hanging to it from all sides.
Spike and Bounce are fed on corn
meal and suet baked in cakes and
served piping hot on the snow with
occasionally little meat, but only at
rare intervals and ir small quantities.
as the Captain has found the team
works tetter on the simpler diet.
The dogs are six years old and have
Lesa making the lnaiisronte every day
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-23

has not yet made a reply. but if she
should accept the call she will be the
first woman in England to take charge
as minister of a congregational church.
The Rev. Gertrude Won PetZold until
recently HAD the distinction of being
the only woman minister of unitarian
church in England. A few weeks ago
she accepted a call to America.
1t is said that the leader of the
young Turkish party, Ahmed Ria
Bey, inspired and aided by his sister.
| a weli-known author, will shortly found
in Constantinople national college
for young women. The sultan has
granted a cite for the buildings at
FoOndoolll. and the scope of the col
lesse will shortly he discussed in parlia-
| ment. T'he American College for Girls
in Constantinoplc has for years been
doing admirable work, and the number
OF Turkish girls attending it has
greatly increased since the coming in
Of the new political regime.
Thirty women have been nominated
for places on the school board in Phila-
delphia. Among them is Miss Emily
Hallowell. sister of Miss Anna Hal
lowell, the first woman ever appointed
to the Philadelphia board of education.
Miss Emily Hallowell was for num-
Der of years the head of private
| school for girls. the only one in Phila-
delphia for a long time where girls
| could be prepared for college. Among
the candidates from the other wards
are DIR. Clara Marshall, dean of the
Woman's Medical college; DR.. Sarah
Lockrey, president of the Woman's
Medical Club of Philadelphia; Mrs.
Edwin c. Grice, member of the coun-
Gil of the National Educational asso-
citation; Miss Mary V. Kemp. head
worker in the Church Settlement
House, and Mrs. Catherine Tullidge.
founder of the Woman's Educational
Improvement association, which is now
trying to secure the appointment of
matron in each public school.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-23
The Southern Gary.

One-third of the steel which the
world uses each year is made in the
United States because we have over
$50 steel works which turn out about
II million tons each year. The iron ore
dc posts and the limestone deposits are
so extensive and located SO near each
other in many places That the smelters
are turning out the metal within sight
of the mines and quarries. Con-
sequcntly the steel can be manufac-
tGred at very low cost for the reason
that the raw material is 50 near the
seat of the industry itself. Southern
Gary is situated in what is called the
Brmin CHAM district which for the
last twenty years has been famous for
its deposits of iron ore, as we'll as
limestone and coal, in close association
with each otne". This fact has tempt
I'd iron makers to locate in the Bir-
mingham district. which for The last
twenty years has been famous for its
deposits of iron ore, as well as lime
stole ard coal, in close association
with each other. This fact has tempt
cd iron makers to locate in the Biz
mingham district in such numbers
comes the very large/proportion of the
American tonnage of basic iron.
The basic Zig iron which comes from
the Alabama furnaces soon became
known to the iron workers of the coun-
try. Shrewd Andrew Carnegie heard
of it in Pittsburg and sent for some
samples. The result of it was an order
from his company for no less than 25,-
00o tons of the iron This started a sort
Of boom, and after the Tennessee Coal
< Iron Company, which controlled the
furnaces. has sold 100000 tons. they be-
gar to think of the idea of making
oDen-heGrth steel. The result of their
plans was a plant that is one of the
mos, interesting, from an engineering
standpoint OF any in the world on ac-
count of its size, the mechanical install
lations and other features. From
these works come considerable per-
centage Of the open-hearth steel pro-
duced in the country, which amounts
to over six million tons in a year
Van Norden.
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Concerninu Wonen.

Miss Julia Marlowe is one of the
most clever bookbinders. When at her
country place, 'Highmount, in the Cats
kills, she passes much of her time over
bookbinders' tools and machinery.
There is a movement among methO-
dists, headed by Mrs. Phebe Stone Bee
man, niece of Lucy Stone. to have
women granted the right to become or
dainad methodist ministers. Since 1872
women have been permitted to preach;
but, although after three years of
preaching men are ordained, women
are not.
The suffrage papers of England re-
port that the number of women elected
to office in Ireland during the last
twelve months has been gratifying to
all advocates of equal suffrage. Five
women We're elected as urban. district
and town councillors. forty-three wom-
ell as rural district councillors and as
poor law guardians 103 women.
fraternity house mothers are sug-
gested by President David Starr Jor-
dan of Leland Stanford university
who is trying to devise means for i'm
proving the scholarship of the members
of the secret societies. He believes
that the right woman presiding over
each fraternity house would have a
very beneficial influence on the scholar,
ship of the students.
Mrs. Sarah Albcrtson Glover. who
was painting at Taormina. thirty miles
from Messina, at the time of the earth
quake, is well-known figure in New
York art circles. She is also clever
writer on arts and crafts. Some years
ago she established a bungalow colony
on the south shore of Long Island, de-
signing the bunalows and doing the
interior decorations herself.
Miss Kate Gordon Of New Orleans,
as president of the Juvenile court cir
Gle, is leading movement to establish
state industrial school providing a
manual training for boys and girls.
She proposes tax of IS cents on every
*1,000 to pay the expenses The women
taxpayers of Louisiana, who have
right to vote on all questions relating
to taxation, have pretty generally let
1t be known that they are willing to
pay their share to establish the school.
Miss l.. r. c. Smith, sister of the
Rev. J. IT. c. Smith. curate Of All
Sairts. Southrool. England, has been
invited to become pastor of. large
English congregational church. She
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-23
800 PERISH.
90 Disastrous Earthquake on
& Coast Of; Sumatra
Following Eruption from VOL
Il cano Believed 10 Be Extinct.
TOrfentiaI Rains Follow Disaster
). Adding to the Loss.

Victoria, B. c., July 22.-News was
brought by the Norwegian steamer
T'ricolor, which passed in yesterday
from Sourabaya. Java, of a disastrous
earthquake on the coast of Sumatra,
, the second largest island in the Malay
Archipelago in mid-June. According
to the report received by the rricolor,
800 lives were lost.
The earthquake followed an eruption
of Mount Korintji, a volcanic peak
12400 feet high and inland 80 miles
from Indrapura. Mount korintji has
long been supposed to be an extinct
volcano, it's crater. having been filled
with a large lake.
Following the eruption OF the vo!ca-
no and the earthquake there were tor
rental rains. flooding the rivers and
causing additional losses. The disaster
is said to be one of the worst that has
ever occurred in Sumatra.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-23
WiIson-Sears.

The marriage of Miss Margaret Me-
lite Sears of Gardiner and Irving Will
son of Bath was solen1niZed at o'clock
Thursday evening at the home of the
brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. G.
Sears of ia West street. this city. Rev.
L. II. Clarke, pastor of the First Bap-
fist church ofticiated.
Miss Annie Shipley of Manchester, y.
H. an intimate friend of the bride was
bridesmaid and John Nilsson ofzBzth,s
brother of the groorns was best man.
After the ceremony, the*couple left on
the train for Portland and other places
where they will visit before returning
to High street where they have a newly
furnished home
= The bride is well known in Gardiner
and vicinity. For the pasfsfew yearA
she has been employed hyAfs LOtfe q
Keene, a local ,,nillner. I'll et sEGesA
has fer three years been IN the &npfoy
of Kelley &, Wheeler ofsS3f5 Water
street He is the son of Mrsand Mrs.
John Wilson of Bath. 4
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How Billiards Oriuinated.

1t is fact not generally known ihat
the game of billiards was invented bY d
pawnbroker, William Kew by name, who
fiourished in London some time in the
sixteenth century.
This inventive avuncular relative If :he
needy used to employ his leisure hours
in wet weather when trade was lull by
takink down the three balls which wee
the insignia of his profession ana push
ing them about the countNr of mis- shop
with yard stick after the manner of
the game as at present played. and US
ing boxes fastened to The sides of his
counter for pockets.
Out of this was developed a table
with a fence of slight elevation about il
to keep the balls from rolling on the
floor and to enable the rlayer 20 make
what have since become known as
cushion shots-New World OF Billiards.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-23

Arthur G. Robinson OF the firm Of
Cross q Robinson, while at work taking
care of hay in the loft of his stable on
Highland avenue, Tuesday fell to the
barn ,loor and weakened the Joint OF
one Of his ankles which he hurt num-
Der OF years ago playing base ball and
his condition was SO serious that DIR.
Fred NJ cole was sent for who has
since been looking after the injured
member. Although able to be around,
there is considerable of limp in Mr..
RobinsOn's gait.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-23
WIRE GlEANlNGS.
Items of Interest Condensed for the
= Journals Busy Readers.

The Warike crisis, which has suddenly
appeared between the Argentine repub-
lie and Bolivia, is a result of the heated
contention over the rich territory of Acre.
lying between bolivia and Peru. The
boundary dispute was finally referred to
President Alcorta of Argentina who re-
!. Gently rendered a decision favorable to
Peru This angered Bolivia. At the Be-
livian capital of La Paz, mob stormed
:, the residence Of the Argentine minister
and at interior points the argentine con-
sulates were the centers of indisnities.
Fire swept across the southern part Of
Long Branchs business section late We'd
nesday afternoon and did $780, 900 damage
before the local firemen, reinforced by ap
paratus from neig-.uoring shore resorts
and aided by hundreds of cottagers and
summer residents. succeeded in checking
its advance to the exclusive residential
section and the great shore hotels. Start
ing in a livery stable near Second avenue.
the flames destroyed dozen frame build
ings. including the Coulter House, four
story hotel of modern construction which
had not been opened this season. ii will
be almost total loss.
dispatch from Worcester. Mass
states that as special memorial of his
first wife, Katherine Mortimer, and her
daughter, Mary Mortimer, Judge Francis
"A. Gaskill, who died at York, Me-. last
week. leaves a total of 100000 in public
requests according to information made
public Wednesday. Ten thousand dollars
is left to Brown University, $1,000 to the
Worcester Temporary Home and Day
Nursery. The money is to become avail
able upon the death of his second wife,
Josephine Gaskill, and the balance is
then to go to his son. George A. The
value of the estate is not known.
The governing committee of the New
York Stock Exchange Wednesday adopted
resolution abolishing the committee on
unlisted securities and forbidding further
dealings in such stocks on the floor of
the exchange after April l. 1910 This
action has been recommended by the
special committee of five. appointed by
governing committee. and is in line
with suggestions contained in the recent
report of the White committee to Gov
ernor Hughes. The list thus abandoned
are many of the stocks known as spec
ulative specialties such as. among Others
Amalgamated Copper. Anaconda. Ma
tioEal Biscuit preferred. Tennessee Cop
per. Utah Copper. American Wooden and
American Shelters preferred.
President Taft has received through the
Chinese legation cabegram from the
Prince Regent of China stating in effect
that the Chinese foreign office had been
directd to take up negotiations with the
American charge i'm Pekin for the admis-
sion of American capital to participation
in the railroad loan on equal terms with
the bankers of Great Britain, France and
Germany. This cablegram was in reply
to one sent by the President several days
ago. This assurance from the prince re-
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TousIed, But Happy.

Hunting the hare with beagles is a
particularly attractive sport for women
The outskirts of the London suburbs
rims with the shouts of women beaglers
on Saturdays. 1t is a curious sight tc
sea fiftv or a hundred women rushing
pell-mell behind the beasles after hare
Round and, round they go. tousled be-
dragglea and faces adj aglow. No won
der their complexio,is are the envy OF
the world. The sight of an English
woman chasing hare on foot, through
stiles. heller SHELTER over everything
would make German hausfrau sit down
in the middle of the road with hel
hands folded helplessly in front of her
Town and Country.