Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-23

The craft, which is to be without equal
anywhere in her equipment, is to be
built for II. C. Sickler and T. c. Mea-
dows of New York City. The new
steamer is to be 176 feet in length, 266
feet beam, 1928 feet deep. Her engines
are to be 800 horse power, Is, "a, 40 by
30 inch stroke. Her capacity will be
6100 pounds or hoo more barrels than
any other similar boat on the coast.
She is to carry a double crew of "a
men. The hull of the steamer will be
built by the Cobb, Butler Co, of Rock
land, and will DE ready for delivery to
the Portland company by May Is. The
craft will be equipped with everything
that modern science can suggest so far
as it applies to the business in which
she is to be engaged. She will have Il
complete electrical plant and will have
splendid quarters for the large crew.
Five of the train hands of the kineo
branch of the Maine Central Railroad
are ill of typhoid fever. Raymond
Sawtelle, conductor of a passenger
train, is dangerously sick at his home
in Bingham and Ross Baker, engineer,
son of Lewis G. Baker of Moscow, is
suffering from the same disease in
Oakland. The other three are not
from that section. 1t is believed that
all contracted the disease at the Kineo
station settlement in lockwood.
This winter clans are to be shipped
fresh in the shell from Jonesport to
Boston. There have been bivalves oc-
casionally shipped this way IN the
past, but SO far as is known this is
the first time any attempt has been
made to establish a regular supply of
them for the oston market.
Word comes from the Roach River
section that Benjamin j. Woodard of
Dover, who has trapped in the Roach
river section for the past 20 years has
shot the largest bear on record, at
least it's the largest Woodland has any
record of, and he has seen some bears
during his life in the woods. Wood
ard struck a large fresh track in the
snow and knowing it was time for
bruin to seek his winter nest. kept the
trail until he came upon his bearShip
in a hollow pine log. Mr., Bear of course
stuck his head out to see what was
doing, a shot under the eye that did
not penetrate the brain, another in the
neck as he plunged by Woodland, laid
the bear at his feet. Five hundred
pounds" Woodland says he weighed,
and he ought to know as he perhaps
has seen and killed as many as any
man in Maine during the past 20 years,
and he had an almost perfect pelt
Hardly ever before We're sailors
known to be so scarce, says the Port
land Argus it being almost impossible
at the present time for vessels at New
England ports to secure crews. White
crews seem to be thing of the past
on board the larger sized coastwise
craft. and the colored sailors who of
late have been filing their places seem
to be drifting into other pursuits.
Many of the latter secured places as
firemen on board steamers at the time
of the unsuccessful strike of the Coast
wise Union last May and have held on
to the Jobs ever since. At any rate
very few of them have been seen in
this port of late, and despairing Of
getting crew here the owners of the
schooners Clarence Fl. Venner and
Malcolm Baxter, Jr., have engaged the
Boston tug Boxter to tow the two yes
sells to Philadelphia. where they are
under charter to load coal. The tug
will get $685. for the tow and with the
uncertain weather conditions of De-
cember she is likely to earn it.