Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-01

IS6 IN 1905 and by the opening of the
next automobile season the number
OF registered machines in this State
will undoubtedly be considerably over
1000. The proportion to which automo-
bile ownership has grown in Maine and
the large number of matters besides
these proposed legislative acts, which
are likely to come up from year to
year In which concentrated action on
the part of automobile owners is de-
slrable, has made such an organization
seem like necessity to the owners of
machines.
For the past two weeks the business
men of Bar Harbor, the greater part
Of whom are in favor of the act intro
duced by Representative Joy of Eden,
and automobiles of the State, who
are opposed to the measure, have had
representatives at work at Augusta
and both sides will be represented by
able counsel at the hearing Wednes-
day, which promises to be the most in
teresting of the session thus far. A
large delegation of residents of Bar
Harbor, Mt. Desert, fremont and
Southwest Harbor will arrive in the
city Tuesday night in order to be
present at the hearing. Hon. Charles
F. Johnson of Waterville, Hon. Oscar
F. Fellows of Bangor and Bion Z.
Whitney of Bar Harbor will represent
the remonstrants at the hearing
Wednesday and Hon. F. S. Clark and
Z. N. Benson of Bar Harbor will APP
pear in the interests of the summer
colony and the majority of the bust
ness men of Bar Harbor, who are in
favor of having the act passed this
winter.
At the present time there are only
two automobiles owned in Bar Harbor
and those are kept at HulPs Cove, six
miles away, and when the owners
wish to take out the machines they
in order to get them. The remonstrants
do not ask for chance to use the fash
ionable drives of Bar Harbor, all they
ask is the use of one road for their
machines in order that they may get
in and cut of the four towns on the is
land and that they may reach Bar
Harbor by automobile and depart from
there.
The bill introduced by Representa-
tive Havey of Sullivan, prohibiting au-
tomobiles from passing through that
town would of necessity exclude them
from the fashionable summer resort of
Grindstone nearly opposite Bar Har-
Dor, and from Sorrento, the summer
home of Chief Justice Fuller, who is a
Maine man. In connection with auto
mobile legislation a petition has been
presented by the selectmen of Scion
and others asking that automobiles be
prohibited from the streets of Scion
three days a week, namely every 9TH
er day, and Representative Patterson
of Scion has introduced a bill asking
for the prohibition of automobiles from
the streets of Scion and Athens for
three days in each week, but Just
what days are not specified. Opponents
of the kind of prohibition suggested for
Scion and Athens argue that if such
a bill We're made law q man might
start out on an automobile ride in full
accordance with the provisions of the
law but being delayed, or staying out
later than he expected might find him.
self before he was aware of it break
ing law and operating his machine
on one of the prohibited days. No dates
of hearings for the Havey and Patter-
sen bills have yet been assigned.
The following orders have been is
sued from the office of the adjutant
general:
General Orders No. 8.
I. In accordance with the require
ments of Section IA of the Militia
Act of 1908, the annual inspection for
1909 of the several organizations of the
National Guard of the State of Maine,
by an officer of the United States army
detailed for that purpose, will be made
as follows:
Sanford, Co. +, list Infantry, Thurs
day, March %.
Portland, Co. L, 1st Infantry, Friday,
March &c.
Lewiston, co. /, list Infantry, Mon
day, March 90
Auburn, Co. G, 1st Infantry, Tuesday,
March 80.
Brunswick, CO. K, 1st Infantry
Wednesday, March 81.
Bath, Co. D, list Infantry, Thursday
April 1.
Lewiston, Co. H, list Infantry, Fri
day, April 2.
Rumford, Co. B, I'd Infantry. Mon
day, April 5.
Livermore Falls, Co. C, I'd Infantry,
Wednesday,, April T.
Pennington, Co. K, I'd Infantry,
Thursday. April S.
Augusta, State storehouses, Friday
and Saturday, April 9 and TO-
Augusta, Co. M, I'd Infantry. Mon
day, April IL.
Skowhegan, Co. E. I'd Infantry,
Tuesday, April 10.
Dover Co. F, I'd Infantry, Wednes-
day, April IA.
Waterville, Co. H, I'd Infantry,
Thursday, April 15
Gardiner, Co. A, I'd Infantry, Friday,
April 16.
Portland, Co. B, 1st Infantry, Mon
day, April 10.
Westbrook, Co. M. list Infantry,
Tuesday, April 20.
Biddeford, Co. G, list Infantry
Wednesday, April 81.
Portland, Co. A, 1st Infantry, Thurs
day, April %.
Norway, Co. D, I'd Infantry, Friday,
April %.
Bangor, Co. G, I'd Infantry, Monday,
April 26.
Houlton, Co. l., I'd Infantry, Tuesday,