Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-04-11

ber Co OF an BuTtll - ''e - -
| operator. having cut 53,0O0,Oo0. me
operations on both the st. John ana
| tho Allagash are larger this year thah
usual.
| Maine Woods: AT the oIuoSSot
hatchery. where there was hVe feet
of snow ii year ago today the ground
| is now bare and dry, and the Superln-
tendent. Mr. G. @. Hayford, has al
| ready begun the annual painting ol
the 100 fish lroughS. This work was
done late in May last year, Mr.. Hay
ford saws the season is all of three on
| C,ur weeks earlier than last year.
| If is understood that the Millin0cket,
a steamship of the Metropolitan line,
of 1000 tons, will be put in commission
early in May for regular passenger and
freight service between Stockton
Springs and New York. With the
esta bliShment Of regular steamship
service the r. & A. seaport terminal
will doubtless soon prove its value to
| ArOoStOok as an ocean freight Outlet.
With a steamship plying regularly ana
| capable of transporting at each tflp
| 200 carloads of potatoes the enterprise
should mean something for Aroostook.
| Pressure Isle Star Herald: President
| +. w. Cram arrived in his private car
Monday evening accompanied by
| Hugh Chaplin, Esq. leaving on the
afternoon train Of the following day.
During his stay here Mr.. Cram met
| - nd
| laid before them the arguments in
favor of further effort to open up
Northern Maine by the construction OF
what is known as the Allagash Branch.
The interest that Maine and particu-
larly Aroostook has in this enterprise
was strongly urged. The importance
| of this great work of development is
unquestiOned and it is certainly de-
| serving of the encouragement of all
citizens OF Maine who have the pros
perity of their State at heart
| r. Y StOrer of Brunswick has an
old sabre which was found embedded
in the ground at White House. Florida,
last winter The Brunswick Record
| says of the relic:-It has a long blade
! slightly curved toward the end. On
the hilt. which is evidently of brass,
| there is the inscription &C. S. A" and
Nashville Plow Works" Mr.. Storer
was interested to learn something
about the history that might be as
sociated with the weapon, and he was
informed by Robert Parrish, an old
resident of White House, that the
sabre was doubtless cast aside by
| q
army during their retreat from their
encampment at place now called
Marietta to White House. There
was a running fight for a distance of
about four miles, and a considerable
quantity of stores We're scattered by
the Confederates along the road
side. Mr. Parrish says that the
sabre might have been left at a later
skirmish, of which there were sew
eral, over the same field Mr..
Storer had a cypress case made for
the relic and will keep it as one of
the most interesting souvenirs Of his
| DR.. George G. I.stabrook of Rockland
is one of the few men now living who
saw Fort Sumter fired upon He is
| also 9. survivor of company who re-
sponded to Pres Buchanan's can for
$500 men to suppress the Mormon re-
| bol'ion in 1857. That company of
| 100 men was raised in New England to
assis, in subduing this rebellion is an
unrec"rded item of history that is
| probably not known today to more
than few score of persons. This
company was raised in Camden by
| the young dry goods clerk, Estabrook.
| Accompanied by Hon. Edwin Cush-
| ing, whose brother law was as
| sistant secretary of state. and Nathan
| iel Jones prominent Camden mer-
| chant young Estabrook Went on to
| Washington and was granted per-
| sonal interview with President Bu-
| chanan. He gave quiet attention
| while Estabrook explained the errand
which had brought him there. but ex-
| hibited the koenest interest when he
saw the company papers, the heading
OF which had been prepared by Alvin
X. Dunton of Camden. author of the
| onntonion system of nenmanshlp,
probably the finest writer of that per-
iod.
DID you write that" asked Presi-
dent Buchanan.
| f-stabrook made haste TO dlsclalm
the credit and explained who had done
it.
We'll. that's the finest writing l
ever saw said the President. and he
gazed at it some time, lost in admir-
alton.
In the end the company was ac-
cepted, as tribute to the young
mans loyalty and promptness, but
/ President Buchanan explained that the
government would send only those
troops nearest the scene Of action, SO
the only company raised in New Eng-
land for the purpose of fighting Nor
mons remained peacefully in the
background.