Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-29

Synod Hall on the cathedral grounds
and at the Architectural League
building and the building critics are
invited to send their views to Bishop
Greer or to any of tie trustees OF the
cathedral
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Charles \. Prouty's declaration oil
"wednesday that If he should enter
the contest for the United States SEN
atorship from Vermont, il would DC
as Republican, was followed, on
Thursday, by statement from thas'
II. Thompson, Progressive state CHAIR
man. that the party is satisfied with
all its conferences with the commits
sioner. The Progressive party Of
Vermont" said Mr.. Thompson, has
nothing to add to its announcement of
Wednesday and We are satisfied with
all our conferences with Mr.. I'routy
since last June to date. 1t may he
fairly inferred by the voters in Yer
mont that We know our own plans
and are playing this game in the open.
The Pacific Navigation Co. operat-
ing In Pacific waters from san Fran
cisco, Friday, began, at Washington
a proceeding before the Interstate
Commerce Commission against the
Southern Pacific and other trans-con-
tinental railroads, demanding that the
railways make through routes and
rates with the complainant on passen-
ger traffic. 1T was alleged that the
roads discriminate against the Pacific
NAVIGATION Co. and give preferential
advantages to its competitors by de-
nying it membership in the Trans
continental Passenger Association,
which automatically would cntitlo 1t
to the through routes ana joint rates.
Coy Samuel u. Felker, at the meet
ing Of the Governor and Council
Y hieh closed at $50. Thursday morn
ing, at Concord. y. H., made some
Of the most important appointments OF
his term. Hon. William II. Sawyer
is made justice Of the superior court
succeeding Judge Plummer, who has
been transferred to the supreme
bench; Frederick ". Chontell Is APP
pointed police commissioner of Man
chester; Fred y Gray, police COM
missioner of Portsmouth,; Charles II.
Rove of Concord, warden of the state
of Concord and DIR. Fred b. Taylor of
Concord. chaplain and physician of
that institution. respectively.
Steam shovels were. Friday, en-
pIoyed In tearing up the remnants OF
the nine-foot sewer. wrecked fer
mile In the Lawreneeville. Pa dis
trlct by an explosion of sewer gas,
last Wednesday. Debris had clogSed
tho channel and sewage and water
backing up had undermined the walls
of a brewery so that 1t was in danger
of falling Two hundred employees
we're ordered out of the brewery by
city inspectors. Large holes have APP
peared in the streets under which the
sever runs. and the Baltimore & Ohio
tracks at Thirty third street are un-Ss
der water. Engineers estimate that
fully 100000 damage had been done
and Director OF Public Works Her
ron announced, Friday. that the city
would replace the wrecked sewer with
an adequate tunnel at a cost of ST.
100000.
One of the nine-foot tusks of the
mastodon unearthed at Pennington,
u, laSe fseplei1iDei, Has oetii UNIV
cred by workmen who were enlargins
the original hole from which the mas
todons bones We're taken. Experts
from Peabody Museum Yale, who
were there, Friday, to superintend the
removal of the tusk from the earth
express confidence that its mate VIII
be found close by. According to the
experts the discovery is the more re-
markable fer the reason that no tusAs
have ever before been found with the
skeleton of q mastodon, the tusks now
In museums have been found sep
arately and often far from traces OF
other bones. This Is explained by the
fact that tho tusks are so much
heavier than the other bones that
they have generally sunk into the
earth much deeper and thus been
lost The peculiar earth formation i'll
this instance prevented such sinking.
The gigantic ivory tusk is nine feet
long around the outside curve. 23fa
inches in circumference and inches
in diameter at the base and tapers To
a point. 1t Is in an excellent state OF
preservation.