Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-20
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the cities and factory towns into
greater demand as residential locali-
ties Where there We're forests and
pastures there are now hundreds of
bungalows and other pretty homes.
Manufacturing prosperity is in evil
denee all through the State, especially
through central Maine The great adj
ditfon to the Bates Mill in Lewiston is
an example, as is the extension of the
Hazard Shoe Shop in Gardiner. Nam
ager Hazard of the latter industry
tells me that his big factory employs
English speaking employees who turn
out better grade of work than for
eigners and who, accustomed to Amer
lean manners and methods, make no
trouble. When the help has any real
or fancied grievance they bring IL to
the Office and talk it over. They have
thus no need of any union there. The
Hazard shop with the completion of
the new addition will be one of the
largest shoe factories in Maine Gar
diner is becoming shoe centre i'm
fact, like Auburn to the West. Rich
mond factories have so prospered that
Eel Bros. are planning another shop
in that town or Mechanics Falls The
laws CT Massachusetts, and the intro
duction of cheap foreign help, are
sending to other states many Of the
factories and mills and it is Maine
own fault, if she does not receive her
share Bath is seeking one or more
shoe FACTORIES to go with her immense
new box shop which has all the fall
been installing great quantities of new
machinery and which will he in oper-
alton in few more months. Rock
lands ever one of theSiiveliest of our
coast cities, is progressive and pros
porous, but they tell me that when
they get cheaper electricity over the
new line from WaterviIle that town Isl
going to fairly~b buzz Mayor Pattan-
gall and others of Waterville, next
TO Portland the liveliest city in
Maine" as Patt put it, is yet not con-
tent but is seeking more factories
through its board of trade. The tramp
OF train and trolley sees and is i'm
pressed by the industrial prosperity
and progress Of the State.
The Apple Crop.
A central Maine farmer on the troll
ley 'tother day surprised me by re-
marking that the average profit on
barrel of apples would be not more,
this fall, than around Is cents. He
figured out the profit as one knowing
to the facts. The cost of the barrel,
expense of picking and packing and
shipping he had at his tongues end
There was q fine crop but pickers
even women and girls. got from ST .50
to $500 day and board and help was
hard TO obtain even al; those wages.
Thousands of bushels of high grade
apples were consequently left unon the
trees in the orchards to rot and
freeze. Potatoes and hay are the
money makers of the farm. =, said he.
And yet the Maine apple has the finest
flavor OF all. But, as our farmer ac-
auaintance added, Some years there
is money in apples; and this year. too,
II the apples are stored.
Belongs to Governor BurIeiah.v
During my travels of hundreds of
miles this fall and in converse tions
with hundreds of Maine men.--Taff
men, Bull Moosers, Prohibitionists, So
cialists and Democrats, men of wealth
and influence, overseers of yards and
mills, farmers, day workers. rich and
poor, on train and trolley, on streets,
in offices and hotels and stores, when
ever the political topics of the day
have been discussed, which has been
often, subject that invariably came
up was the Senatorial question before
the coming Maine legislature and +
have not conyersed with one man, Is
recall at this writing, who did not
express as his conviction that Govern
or Edwin C. Burleigh was entitled to
election by the legislature. as the pri-
maries voted and that any other course
would be lacking in honor and insult
ing to the people of Maine. The pro-
posal of one or two men to have the
Legislators act otherwise I have heard
emphatically and unanimously con-
demned The latest proposition to have
another primary in January to vote
second time upon the Senatorial nomi-
nation is regarded in the light of a
joke.
In the beginning of the labors of the
Lilliputian opposition, some voters
We're puzzled over the proposal Cen
orally now all understand clearly the
true nature of the matter and more
emphatically denounee the scheme as
being untrue to Maine manhood honor
and even ordinary "hoss sense
Some weeks ago one of the most
prominent men OF Auburn said to me,
why, when we We're trying to get
this city new Federal building, it was
Congressman Burleigh who got to
work and aided us in pulling the thing
through Instead of needing any of
this opposition talk, every man in Au-
burn ought to have some gratitude
and with both hands up hurrah for
Senator Burleigh." A Bath man re-
calls that. as Congressman, Governor
Burleigh helped Bath obtain from Con-
gress similar aid for the Federal new
work there. AS the Auburn man con-
Guided, "Burleigh is always the right
man in the right place as Names rep
resentative in Washington.
Yesterday, on the electric car to
Waterville, an old veteran of the Civ
il War sat in the seat ahead of me
in the smoker Up came the subject
of the senatorial election, when the
grizzled hero of score of hot battles
way back in the CO.'S, voiced the opin-
ion of his brethren in that war by
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