The Republican journal., 1913-11-20

to dwelIing-house known as the Hewes
house, owned by Hon. John S. Kimball;
both buildings were entirely consumed.
The house was occupied by two families
who barely escaped, losing most of their
household furniture. The wind was very
high and apprehensions were expressed
that the fire would be communicated to
other buildings in the vicinity by the fly
ing sparks. This was the occasion when
the young lady remarked, to the great
amusement of the by-standers, that she
wished" the wind or something else would
send some Of the sparks to her house it
was SO long since any of them had been
there. On the night of October 18th
the house and barn of Col. Watson Berry
and a house and barn occupied by Josiah
S. Witherell at the Upper Bridge were
burned. Nothing was saved except a
portion of their furniture and clothing.
The fire was first discovered on the roof
of Col. Berry's barn; how it came there
has never been satisfactorily ascertained.
On the morning of the oath fire broke
out on the westerly side of Main street
which consumed the following buildings:
a store owned by Joshua Pickard, occu-
pied by Luther Coombs, grocer, the old
building long known as the Babel. own
ed by William Tllden and Alonzo Osborn,
occupied in portion of the second story
by Mr.. T. as a paint-shop, on the lower
floor by Hersey and Wilder, tinplate-
workers, and William Quimby, provision
dealer, and the dwelling house of James
Cook, barber. On the site of those
buildings, saving that portion of the
premises afterwards appropriated to
widening the street, about thirty feet in
width, now stand the brick stores occu-
pied by Thomas W. Pitcher, Manly E.
! Dodge, William c. Marshall, B. c. Dins-
more and Son, George G. Pierce and H.
E. Mcdonald. A wooden building own
ed by the late Benjamin Hazeltine, ad-
joining Cooks house on the north, was
torn down to stop the progress of the
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represented by the brick store now occu-
pied by Edward A. Perry. A wooden
building which stood at the corner, where
McClintock's Block stands, occupied by
Ignatius Sargent, grocer, and Hendrie
and Bradbury, "a. H. dealers in hats
and furs, was saved only by great exer-
lions.
The Babel was one of the Oldest land
marks in our village. twas apparently
one building but was in fact two closely
united They were built about 1907; the
northerly portion by Deacon Stanley. and
Samuel Walton, the southerly by Squire
Nesmith, and were three stories high,
each story being of the same height;
they were reduced to two stories not
many years before the fire, as stated in
a previous chapter.
We had no reason to complain of the
lack of steamboat accommodations this
year. On the Sth of March the steamer
Portland, Capt. Thomas Rogers, made
her appearance on our waters. On the
9Th of April came the Penobscot, Capt.
t. G. JeWett, on the Sth the Governor.
her first appearance here, Capt. S. H.
Howes, on the 9th the Huntress, Capt.
d. Blanchard, and on the 18th of June
the 7. F. Secor, her first appearance,
Capt. T. B. Sanford The Penobscot
was called the Peoples Line and piled be-
tween Bangor and Boston; she was the
last to leave the route: making her last
trip to the west on the first of Deem
Der. The Huntress connected with the
railroad at Portland but was taken off
the route in May and the Governor took
her place. The Secor piled between this
place and Ellsworth, touching at inter
mediate points and making two trips
weekly; she ran until November. The
John W. Marshall, Capt. w. H. Byram,
was on the route few trips in the fall
of the year. The Bangor, propeller.
Capt. Charles H. Spear, was Oh the route
between Bangor and Boston a portion of
the season employed principally as a
freight boat. She was afterwards sold
to the Government and her name changed
to the ''Scourge.'
On the 21th of March Phoenix Hall,
having been handsomely fitted for the
uses of the Odd Fellows, was formally
dedicated as Odd Fellows Hall. The ded-
ication address was made by Rev. Rich
ard Woodruff of Thomaston; up to this
date a Hall owe. the store of Mr.. Cakes
Angler had been used for the meetings
of the Lodge.
At the annual Spring meeting, March
23d, Thomas Marshall, Benjamin F. Black
stone and Daniel Putnam were chosen
Selectmen, Joseph Wheeler, Clerk, and
Timothy Chase, Treasurer. Mr.. Wheel
er resigned his Office in July following
and Henry Colburn, ESQ.,, was elected in
his place on the 9th Of the same month.
Mr.. Colburn was elected Representa-
tive at the preceding fall election but
having temporarily removed to New
York an opinion prevailed that his office
was thereby vacated. A town meeting
was called to fill the vacancy. 1t was
held on the 9Th of April and Samuel S.
Hersey was elected The rjpht to the