The Republican journal., 1910-03-17

There will be Unitarian parish n.rtv -
Memorial hall Tomorrow. Fr;dav ev.r;,c
supper will be served at o'clock and dancing
Will be enjoyed later. Mrs. Harry w. Clark is
chairman of the committee in charge.
The annual ball of Seaside Hose Companv
will take place this. Thursday, evening in Sea
side Grange hall. Reyes orchestra will fur-
nish the music and Shire the refreshments and
good time is assured to all who attend. As
1t is benefit to the fremen full house is
expected.
Inc annual Easter sale, supper and enter
talnment, under the auspices of the Universal
ist Ladies Circle, will be held in the church
vestry Wednesday and Thursday, March 2sd
and oath. The sale will begin Wednesday af-
ternoon at 2.S0 O'Clock, and will consist of use
full and fancy articles and homemade CANDY.
Thursday evening supper will be served at
o'clock, and at o'clock an entertainment
entitled, 1.-THE Graduating Exercises Of Smith
sonian Academy" will be given by the Junior
Aid. Admission. including supper and enter
tainment, IS cents. Entertainment, 10 cents
The Belfast Western Union office has already
been well patronized for the night letter SER
vice, which was started by the Western Union
Company on March 7th. and which is a great
convenience to the public. The charge for
this service is the standard day rate for ten
words for the transmission of fifty words or
less, and one fifth of such standard day rate will
be charged for each additional ten words or
less - These loffars he -
English language, as no code words or foreign
languages will be accepted, and will be trans
mitted at night for delivery the following
morning.
STEAMER NoTEs. The steamer Rockland of
the Penobscot Bay and River Steamboat Com
pany, which is being placed in first-class con-
dition, will probably resume her trips on the
Bangor and Brooksville route on April 10th, or
as soon the ice will permit. The steamer
will leave Bangor this season at 215 instead Of
2 O'Clock so as to make connections with the
afternoon trains from Aroostook county. Capt
Bennett says there will be slight increase in
some of the passenger fares, but freight rates
will remain the same. The company promises
better service this season. 1t is expected
that the new steamer Northland Of the Maine
steamship company will be ready to run be-
tween New York and Portland by April LIST,
and will take the place of the burned steamer
Manhattan. The steamer Boston is now on the
route. The steamer City of Rockland of the
Eastern Steamship Company, which has been
in winter quarters at Bath, left for Boston last
Sunday morning to be made ready for the sea-
sons business. The Rockland Courier Gazette
says: "The -four trips a-week schedule will go
into effect about the first of April, when the
Boston and Bangor division will be handled
temporarily by the steamers City of Bangor
and City of Rockland The turbine steamers
City of Belfast and Camden will be in the
game before the daily trips begin. Steamer
James T. Morse is at Camden having boilers
repaired and receiving a thorough cleaning
and painting in anticipation of another busy
season. The company's wharves at North
Haven and South Buehill are to be extended
and the wharf at Belfast will be enlarged.
Steamer Massasoit arrived Monday from New
York with 200 tons of potash for the Coe-
Mortimer Co. and had also few tons of fish
scrap from Vinalhaven. See 9Th page for the
protest of the coastwise steamship companies
against proposed change in the interstate
commerce laws. The steamer Camden has
replaced the Belfast on the Bangor and Boston
route and came in Saturday The Belfast had
breakdown of one of her engines on her last
trip. She will go to Bath for repairs and spring
overhauling. Steamer fremont, which has
been hauled up here this winter was towed to
Bucksport last Saturday by steamer Stockton,
and will be got ready for the summer business.
THE LANGENDoRFF CONCERT. The Opera
House held large and enthusiastic audience
last Thursday evening to hear Madame Frieda
Langendorff, assisted by Miss Margaret Louise
Wilson, violinist, and Prof. VIM. R. Chapman
accompanist. Madame Langendorff has won
derful voice in range and volume, and the Sc
lections she sang afforded it full expression.
We use the word wonderful advisedly, for it
was hard to realize at times that the human
voice was capable of Producing such round,
full and well sustained tones. In oratorio, in
an auditorium capable of seating four or five
thousand people, Madame Langendorff would
be truly great, and would be heard to better
advantage than in a concert program in a
small hall The selections, while such as are
to be expected from singer of Madame Lam
gendorff's rank, appealed to the musical few
rather than to the many, who enjoy simpler
melodies, but there was no lack of enthusiasm
as evidenced by the applause which followed
each number. Miss Wilson, the violinist play
ed with the ease and skill of veteran-payed
SO well that many would like to have heard,
with the more difficult renditions, some of the
simpler strains that appeal to every one who
has music in his soul. Mr.. Chapman sustained
his reputation as an accomplished accompanist.
He was that, and not the principal, as some
accompanies are or try to be. Although the
artists were recalled after each number only
two encores were given, one by Madame Lam
gendorf and one by Miss Wilson, and early in
the evening each was called to the footlights
to receive handsome bouquet. Mr.. Chapman
made little speech concerning the coming
music festivals in Bangor and Portland in
which he complimented the Belfast Musical
Society, spoke OF the good work done by the
Belfast chorus at former festivals and of his
qualification that they were to appear in the