The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1910-05-26

j. w. Barnes of Bath has just COM
pleted trolley catcher. The catch
er" is V shaped attachment, one
arm of which projects upward from
each side of the wheel. When the
wheel slips off the trolley it hits one
or the other of the arms and slides
back, guided accurately to the center.
1t works automatically. Mr.. Barnes
has a fine working model for trial. He
has received scores of letters in re-
gard to his invention.
In the Colombo (Ceylon) Observer
of April 5, appears an interesting
account of the ascent of a lofty noun
tain in that island by Mrs. A. A. Wa
terhouse. The feat, remarkable on
account of the lady's age, (73 years.
has an added interest for people In
this vicinity, Mrs. Warehouse being
a daughter of Carleton S. Bragg, a
prominent lumberman of Bangor who
died about 20 years ago, and a sister
of Mrs. Harlan p. Sargent of South
Brewer
A member of Shiloh, writing in Port
land Express Advertiser says: Il
think | may confidently predict that
in five years Shiloh will have passed
out of existence. A great many will
forget it, the ones who know of II
through the newspapers, but there are
the hundreds who will always be af-
fected by it and can never help re-
membering. Old men who have gone
there with their all, expecting to end
their lives in Gods service; young
men and women who have gone there
with the evangeliSt's spirit burning
within them, and lived away perhaps
the best and most useful ten years
! of their lives
BY the provisions of the naval ap-
preparation bill, which the Senate will
report on this week, six torpedo boat
destroyers will be recommended and
1t is expected that the Bath Iron
Works will receive contracts for
building part or all of them. This
company has been very successful in
constructing this class of war vessels
and are able to build better destroy
ers and at lower figure than other
shipbuiding concerns. Last year Con-
gress provided 100000 for each des-
troyer, but the Bath Iron Works sub
mitted bids considerably lower than
that figure and Senator Hale recon-
mended in the present naval bill that
these six torpedo boat destroyers shall
not cost over $750,000 each. The des-
troyers Reid and Flusser, built by the
Bath Iron Works, developed great
speed and are the fastest vessels of
their class in the American navy.
York ranscript.-Sewall's bridge
famous in the history of York, was put
out of commission Monday, through
the failure of the draw to work. 1t Is
said that craft in passing through
swung against the piers and spread
them, and that later the tower post
broke and the draw could not be open
ed. The Atlantic Shore Electric line
which uses this bridge, sent men to
the scene of the accident, and Spinney
the bridge builder, was employed to
get the bridge in shape tenn
porarily. Tuesday the electric COM
pany walked their passengers over the
bridge, rather than take the risk of
running cars over the damaged struc-
ture. Wednesday a tug attempted to
go through, when it was discovered
that the weights on one side of the
draw had been lost. This prevented
the draw from being raised. Sewalls
bridge enjoys the distinction of being
the first pier bridge built In America.
1t is 270 feet long and q feet wide.
1t was designed and built by Maj.
Samuel Sewall in 1861.