Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-25
Of New England States
Are Guests Of Honor
Al Annual Dinner OF n. {.
Street Railway Club.
Governor Fernald Of Maine One
OF Postprandial Speakers.

| Boston, March PA more repre-
| sentative and notable gathering of the
governors of the New England states
than gathered at the annual dinner OF
the New England Street Railway Club
at the Hotel Somerset tonight was
probably never seen at an unofficial
| assembly in the East.
With the exception of Gov. Eben S.
Draper of Massachusetts. who was I'M
avoidably detained and was represent
ed by Lieut.. Governor Louis A. Froth-
ingham, every New England governor
was present. Seated at the head table
We're Gov. Frank b. Weeks of Con-
necticut, Gov. Abram j. Pothier of
/ Rhode Island, Gov George II. Prouty
Of Vermont, Gov. Henry B. Quinby of
New Hampshire and Gov. Bert NJ
Fernald of Maine. With these guests
We're Congressman Joseph T. Robin
| son of Arkansas James +. Shaw, presi-
dent Of the American Street and In
terurban Railway Association of Bos
ton; p. F. Sullivan. president of the
Boston & Northern and the Old Colony
Street Railway Cos, and William A.
Murphy, secretary of the Massachu-
sets governor.
| The general welfare of New Eng
land. the development of her resources
and the protection of her natural ad-
vantages were largely dwelt upon in
the speeches of the evening as Toast
master Russell A. Sears called upon
the notable guests in succession. The
flag of the old Bay State, which well
coined the guests was conspicuously
displayed with the Stars and Stripes
ut the back of the speakers table and
| the decorations were unusually inter-
| eSting.
Cahrles II. Hile of Boston, connected
with the Boston Elevated Railway Co.
| was elected the new president Of the
club at the business meeting preceding
| the dinner. The other officers chosen
were as follows:
| Vice presidents, Franklin Woodman,
Haverhill; Clavert Townley, New Lon
don, Conn.,, J. Brode Smith. Manches-
ter. n. H., G. s. Haley, Rutland, VT,
G. f. Berry, Portland, Me-, and D. +.
Sherman, Providence, r. l.; secretary,
John j. Lane. Boston; treasurer, e. p.
Shaw. Jr., South birmingham, Mass.
Governor Bert M. Fernald of Maine
said:
| Mr.. POSTMASTER and Gentlemen:
| New Englanders are getting closer
together these days, and I find in my
State disposition to disregard the
| Boundaries between Maine and the
| neighboring states, and to go in more
and more for bigger New England.
| PRESIDENT Mellen, of the New Haven
| system, recently spoke very capably
| on the subject and we agree with him.
| We people in Maine dearly love New
| England as whole, and we require
| no provocation to stand up for 1t on
| all occasions. And with every reason
| why we should.
When ]. myself visit some other
sections of the country, which It Is to
be presumed were made by the Gre
\ ator, although there is no visible in
| dicatiCn of ii, | recall Samuel john
| sons comment on country that he
| did not admire. Comparisons are obi
| GUS said Mr. Johnson, but God made
hell"
We have everything in New England
to inspire us to greater effort both in
| dustrially and socially. We have
| every announcement to the develop
ment of wealth, enterprise and popula-
ton, and you will pardon me IL say
that in the process thereof, you are
bound more and more to come to our
| shop up in Maine to trade. We have
the goods of q most alluring sort, I'M
| used natural resources undcveloped
| waterpowers, a great store of lumber,
| quarries, mines, fisheries. farms. ship
| building facilities and a sea coast full
| of deep-sea harbors. destined to be
| thriving centers of business. Year by
year we feel the stir of new impulses
| in Maine. We are coming more and
more to appreciate the value Of our un-
! developed natural resources. and we
are not disposed to be niggardly of
them 1t is true, we do object serious
| " to anyone's shooting the electricity
of our waterpowers over our borders
| up here into Massachusetts,, for in
| stance to run street car lines that were
better run on the basis of homemade
power, but we do not object to your
coming up into Maine and using this
| electricity. and, If you want to organ
| ize your corporations, we have, as it
may seem to you, unusual facilities
for incorporation of the same--al-
though ] can't promise you that these
facilities will exist forever. You, as
well as I. Doubtless. hope that the
State of Maine will soon have seven
million population instead Of seven
hundred thousand, for in that day it
would enhance the value OF every rail-
road in New England and make every
street car line. no matter where 1t may
be, the richer by that increase, but
it can't come except we grow within
our own borders. Certainly, 1t is not
part of our plan in Maine to become
merely a power station. so far az n.y.
o-electric power goes. Rather do we
want to become great manufacture
ing country in the furtherance of the
general plan for bigger and buster
New England, and for my part / pro-