The Republican journal., 1912-05-09

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Tomorrow, Friday night, will be orchestra
night at the Colonial Theatre, with music by
Lakes orchestra.
VOTERS MUST ENROLL. The primary election
for the nomination of party candidates for the
various officers to be elected this fall will be
held in this State June 18th. All who vote at
this election must be enrolled under the party
which they intend to vote with. Enrolment
can be made on the day Of the election, but it
will make a lot of trouble and delay if there
are many who neglect it until then. The City
Clerk has blanks to be filed out and voter
can enroll at his flee at any time. Republi-
cans must vote the Republican ballot, and
Democrats the Democratic one, and to prevent
those OF one party voting the other party s
ticket the enrolment is made Both parties
vote at the same time and bee, the same as
they do at a regular election, but voter must
vote the ticket of the party under which he is
enrolled, marking his choice of the candidates
that appear on the official ballot, or writing in
one for either office if he does not want either
who are on his party ballot.
The LIGHT ON THE MONUMENT. The gas
buoys now in use burn all day and all night A
Swedish inventor, however, has perfected a
device whereby stationery light may be gov
erned to considerable extent by the rising
and setting of the sun, which will of course
save gas, as none will be burning during the
day, when the sun is shining. The first of
these "keeper-less" light houses on this section
of the coast has just been installed on the
beacon known as 1.-THE Monument" in Belfast
bay The light has a distinctive flash, shining
ABOUT TWO seconds, then dark three seconds.
The lantern alone on this light cost $500. 1t
appears that certain persons have been max
ing targets for rifle practice of can buoys and
the lenses of gas buoys, the penalty for which
is very severe, and eople along shore are re-
quested to furnish the government with any
evidence they may have as to the damage or
destruction of aids to navigation.
The STREETS. The new street commissioner.
Capt. J. W. Burgess, has certainly made a
good beginning. The streets at the end of
last week, after what must have been COM
paratively small expenditure, looked better
than for many years. Instead of using a road
machine with four or five pairs of horses and
half a dozen men, one horse scraper, working
on the principle of the King drag and operated
by one man, was used to smooth and grade
the streets. With the road machine the sods
were scraped from the sides t. the middle of
the street and left, grass side up, so that but
tercups and daisies bloomed all summer in
the travelled way. From time immem mortal the
dead leaves and rubbish in the cutters have
been scraped each spring into the middle of
the streets-a practice condemned by all au-
thorities on roads-to make dust in dry and
mud IN wet weather. Capt. Burgess has had
this dirt hauled off and dumped, an improve
ment that must be apparent to every one.
There is nothing SO unsightly as waste paper
blowing about the streets, and while there is
city ordinance against throwing paper or other
rubbish into the streets it is largely ignored
If our citizens generally would refrain from
this practice it would help materially toward
making more beautiful Belfast
OPEN NIGHT OF THE BELFAST MUSICAL So
GETTY Last Tuesday the Belfast Musical So
ciety gave an open night in their hall, which
was Prettily decorated for the occasion. Mr..
E. S. Pitcher conducted, and in opening spoke
briefly of the difficult and unusual program to
be presented and said that Belfast was fortu-
nate in having talent that could cope with
such high class music The first part of the
program was the Japanese Song Cycle, Say
onara. by Chas. W. Cadman, one of this coun-
try's youngest and most talented composers,
and the four numbers were sung by Mrs. C. W.
Wescott, and were most beautifully rendered.
Mrs Elon B. Gilchrest was the accompanist
and gave full expression to the work of the
composer. In response to an encore Mrs
Wescott sang an Indian Lullaby, by A. ]. Stew
art. Part second was devoted to The Raven,
Poe's famous poem, with incidental music by
Max Heinrich. Miss Alice E. Simmons recited
the poem in very pleasing and effective man.
ner and Mrs. Elon B. Gichrest presided at the
piano. Miss Simmons responded to an encore
with James Whitcomb Riley's Sunshine in
the Heart" which was received with another
round of merited applause. 1t was very en-
joyable evening and the program was one
worthy of larger audience.