The Republican journal., 1913-12-25
Annals of Belfast for Half
a Century.
BY AN OLD SETTLER
(Hon. VIM. G. Crosby.)
CHAPTER XLVI. (lS49.)

sippi and Ohio rivers. On the 9th came
the ''Hippoferaean Arena! 1t made its
entrance to the village preceded by the
Sacred Egyptian Dragon Chariot of
Isis and Osiris, drawn by ten Egyptian
Camels.' - The beautiful Fairy carriage
drawn by twenty Liliputian Ponies bring
ing up the rear of the procession, the
toute ensemble of which surpasses any
thing which language can express" at
least, so the handbils read.
During heavy thunder shower on the
9TH the office of the Telegraph Company
was entered in the absence of the opera
tor and the relay magnet demolished.
The burglar was well known here by the
name of Chain Lightning; the general
opinion was that he made his way into
the office on the wire. What the conse-
quence would have been to Lightning. or
the operator had he been at his post, was
problematical.
At the annual fall meeting, September
10th, the votes for Governor were as fol-
lows: Hubbard, Demo-, 32l, Hamlin,
Wing, 260, Talbot, Freesoil, 20 Daniel
Putnam, Wing, was reelected Repre-
sentative to the legislature by 33l votes
against 26S for sill others.
During Election week the ''Fakir of
Ava" and his Fakiress, gave three ex-
hibitions of their skill as magicians at
Washington Hall.
The Waldo Agricultural Society held
its third annual Fair and Show here on
the second and third of October. Rev.
Mr.. Fletcher delivered an address at the
Unitarian Church on the evening of the
first day, and in the evening of the sec
ond there was a large gathering at the
Town Hall, with music, feasting and
dancing.
A session of the Teachers Institute
commenced on the 23d and closed on the
I'd of November. The Board of Instruc-
tion consisted of Hon. E. M. Thurston.
See. of the Board OF Education, Dexter
A. Hawkins, now prominent citizen of
New York, and DR.. George S. Rawson
of Feltonville, Mass. During the session
public lectures were delivered by Rev.
Messrs. Palfrey, Cutter and Kicker and
W. G. Crosby, Esq, of this place, Rev.
Mr.. Wiswall of Brooks, and Messrs.
Thurston and Rawson of the Board of
Instruction.
The construction of marine railway
on the flats near Miller wharf was COM
menced this fall 1t was not completed
until March following. On the 26th Of
of IS tons, was taken onto it. The prem
ises are now occupied by David W. Dyer
and Son.
The California fever which was raging
al the opening of the year had not en-
tirely subsidized at its close. A company
of about forty adventures for the gold
en- land purchased a bark of 274 tons,
built by Cakes Angler and others, launch
cd from the ship-yard of Master Carter,
ACIOUtl ~ III, anu idlileU lIlc w IilllI ".
Alden in honor of our fellow citizen who
was to take the command Of her. She
sailed for San Francisco, under COM
mand of Capt Alden, on the morning Of
the Sth of December; she arrived there
on the Gil day of May following. The
Argonauts Of her predecessor, the Sui
- 81 ~ G..
US with speech and prayer; those of the
". 0. Alden with a complimentary ball
at the new Foundry and supper at the
New England House on the evening of
Thanksgiving Day, the 29th of Novem-
Der. A list of the managers at that
Ball will not be without interest to those
who remember it; they were Samuel G.
Tnurlow, CHARLES GILES, William B.
Swan, John b. Wadlin, Lewis w. Howes,
HARVEY p. HUTCHINSON, GEORGE B.
MOORE ard NOAH G. CLARK. Those
in small caps have gone to- walk the
golden street, the others, with the
exception Of Mr.. Howes, are still
IFHiS 1NIIeleSH VI Tue
eight passengers on the bark were
residents in this place; six of them are
dead; three of them are resident in CALI
fornia; four only of them are now resi-
dent here.
Among the vessels launched here this
year were the following: Briggs, L. R.
Palmer of about 200 tons. China, 176, R.
Patterson, z27, l. B. Lunt, 1870, Reindeer
100; barques, Alexina, 245. Rhone, 349,
VIM. o. Alden, 274, A. R. Taft, 318, Lii
las. 1898; schooners, D. P, 12O, City
Point, 100, Abby Gale, los.
The Belfast Foundry Manufacturing
Company was organized on the 18th of
August. During the summer building
was erected by the company on the site
occupied by the one burned in the fire
Of 1873. That building was burned in
the night of June "a, 1851; the building
erected in its stead was completed early
in the year following.
Our last chapter closed with an emu
of those once prominent IN our
business community who died this year.
The list embraced, with others, the names
of Hon. Nathan Read, Capt. Ephraim