Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-15
STATE HOUSE,
Automobile Registration
Business Fairly Lively.
Adjutant General Director to
Sell Obsolete Sailing Guns.
Work on the New Capitol Going
Along Steadily.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Next Meeting of Governor and Coun
Gil Friday, Oct. 28, at 10 A. M.


Although the season is getting lat,
and the winter months are but a few
weeks ahead there is still some ac-
tirity in the way OF automobile reg
istration and the clerk in charge OF
that department of the office of the
secretary of state reports that con-
Sidcring the lateness of the season the
applications are coming in fairly well
The number Of automobiles which
have been registered thus far this
month is %. ana the number of H.
censes which have been issued to oper-
ators is ~. Ten motor cycles have
been registered and one license has
been issued to a dealer. The receipts
in fees for the first IA days of the
month were $352
The books of the clerk show that
the total number Of automobiles which
have been registered to date from
the time that the law went into eff
feet June |, 1905, is 1179: total num-
Der of licenses issued to operators
is SO26: the total number of regis
trations of motor cycles is els. and
the total number of licenses issued
received in fees from these sources
is 49,, 290, divided as follows From
registration of motor cycles, $l4.35s;
from licenses issued to dealers. $16-
092; from registration of motor cycles,
s1230 from licenses issued to deal
ers, $3.50.
The total number of automobiles
which have been registered to date
from Jan. !. 1910, is 2319; the total
number of licenses issued to oper-
ators is 2fS9: the total number of
registrations of motor cycles is 143;
the total number of licenses issued to
dealers is Sc. From these sources
there has been received i'm fees $9l62.
divided as follows: From registration
of automobiles, $463S; from licenses
issued t" operators, $4S7S; from regis
tration of motor cycles. $685. from
licenses issued to dealers. $3.50.
The records show that there are
two less dealers licensed than in 1909.
that ten more motor cycles have been
registered thus far than during the
whole of the year 1909. and that there
have been 642 more operators licenses
granted than during the year named.
Announcement was made at the Of
flee Of the adiutant general Friday
that in accordance with instructions
received from the Secretary of War
at Washington. d. c., the two OBJ
solete Calling guns of A raliber.
With their carriages. etc. which arr
now stored with other military prop
ertr in the State storehouse. are to
be sold by the adjutant general. and
bids on the same are invited.
The two guns in question We're
drawn from the ordnance department
in 1891 when Henry NJ. Spragu" Of
Auburn was adjutant general There
We're at that time in the Maine Vol
unteer Militia two gun companies. So
cnlloi one of the Gatlings being as
signed TO each company. The First
Regiment gun COMPANY was located
at Lewiston and was under command
of Capt NJ j. Moriarty, and tn" Sec
ond Regiment gun company was 10
Gated at Brunswick under command of
lieut. w. q. Peterson, now lieutenant
colonel of the Coast Artillery Corps.
When the gun companies We're final
~ transferred to infantry ana .as-
-ianed To tho First Regiment as Com
panieS | and X. respectively, the two
Gatlin9 guns We're moved INTO the
state storehousr. Later they We're
for a time in the hands of the Naval
Reserve at Portland, but in late years
they have been held in the store
uGuse with other obsolete property be-
longing to the federal government.