Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-10
Maine Gossip
o State of Maine.

The pointed frs stand on thy hills,
Thy rivers seeks the oceans rest
And dimpled by the passing wind
Thy blue lakes smile upon thy breast
Thou art 50 fair O state of Maine;
For beautv's self doth with thee bidc,-
And pleasure-loving sons of men
Along thy green-fringed- highways rlue.
Long, long ago our fathers came,
Sought this new land SO strange ana iah1
And from the watch-towers OF thy mus
Thou Savest them the strength to DO
y vision of what could be done
O give a vision now, reveal
The truth unto the fathers son!
Thy sons, o Maine, fought for the slave.
Thy children shaped a nations fate.
But still greater task is thine
Fair guardian OF our northern gate.
Those days of old have passed away
\ battle cry rings out again.
Danish, Maine, from thy proud state
The sin which thrives on others pam!
O touch all hardened hearts with love
For saddened home where Woe is piled,
Where breaks woman's gentle heart
Where sleeps "a helpless little child.
Q state of Maine! Q grand old state
Make our strong men like men of old
Who gave their lives a sacrifice
Whose honor was not bought or sold.
a Bangor man has in his possession
d pcIih ilplN tilcit 10 VI iIIuNli illttAtSl
to Old Town people. being in form
like our present paper currency, but
in wording more like a promissory
note. The banks note was issued on
Oct. l, 1896, by The President, Direct
ors & Co. of The Bank of Old Town,
which promises to pay five dollars to
/. Adams, or bearer, on demand. The
note is dated at Orono and is signed
by J. Sinclair president and c. S.
Lane, cashier The note is numbered
1929 and bears for illustrations on its
face, q cut of the old Neaze railroad
train, an Indian sitting on rock,
and beaver gnawing u branch. One
end Of the note bears pastoral scene
and the other scene from black
smiths shop.
Bangor on April 50, last says the
Industrial Journal, was swept by a
fire that destroyed a hundred build
ings in the business district, together
with various public buildings. hotels,
schools, seven churches and about
three hundred houses devastating an
area a quarter-o f-mile wide by more
than a mile length, and causing
property loss of over three and-a-h II
millions of dollars. Eight months
have passed, bringing the season-fee-
ord of Bangor's building operations To
the close of the calendar year, ana
the new construction completed or in
progress, with projects contracted Tor
or planned for starting as soon as
seasonable weather conditions will
admit, include 40 mercantile or bust
ness blocks and buildings, 10 manufac-
turing and industrial establishments.
I churches, High school, public IL
brary ard various other buildings OF
public character, and about one
hundred residences and apartment
dwellings,, besides important pubic
works of miscellaneous description,
such as highway bridges, street i'm
provcments. street railway and electric
light and power reconstruction, tele-
phone and telegraph rehabilitation and
extensions, etc, representing at
rough but conservative estimate
total expenditure of $2,500,O00. Not
all of the building was in the burnt
district, but over ninety per cent. OF
it was by parties burned out in the
April fire. and While some of the new
buildings in the burned district were
planned before the fire, they We're
very few. Therefore Bangors record
of 2H millions building loss. and
replacement and addition of approx
mately 21a millions, over Ill per cent,
made or provided for within two
thirds OF a year, divided among sew
eral hundred different firms and ill.,
dividuals as owners, is one that is
unparalleled for a Maine city, and it
is doubtful if in city of it's size 1t
has been anywhere equalled.