The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-01-29
Annals of Belfast for Halt
a Century.
BY AN OLD SETTLER
(Hon. VIM. G. Crosby.)
CHAPTER Ii. (l853.)

The popular amueemenIe VI SuAs yeoi
were inaugurated in January by the ex-
hibition at City Hall for several days Of
the Seven Mile Mirror, Panorama OF
the river St. Lawrence and the lakes
There was a concert of instrumental
music by William H. Whedden and 9th
ers at Pierce's Hall in the evening OF the
twentieth. The Misses Macomber, as
sisted by Mr.. Covert, gave concert Of
vocal music at the same place on the 9Th
of june theatrical company under
the management of Mr.. J. P. Adams
gave a series of performances at City
Hall in May.
Messrs. Baker and Edwards became
landlords of the New England House.. in
January, succeeding Luther A. Coombs;
and in June, Mr.. N W. Holmes with
drew from the American House and Mr..
Baker assumed the sole management.
We had lively times with the steamers
this year; competition at one time bring
ing the fare to Boston down to fifty
CcHtS. VII luG lullQ VI dIl0oly Vic
Boston, Capt T.B. Sanford, commenced
running to Boston, making one trip
weekly, and touching at Portland; in
April she began to make two trips per
week direct to Boston. The Admiral,
Capt. Wood, commenced running be-
tween Boston, Frankfort and Eastport
early in April; her last trip to the west
was on the 26th day Of March. The
Eastern State, Capt. Foster Harding,
began early in April to make one trip
per week to Boston; in July she was
taken off the route and sold to parties in
Philadelphia. The new steamer Daniel
Webster, Capt. Joseph Farwell, made
her first appearance here on the 2lst of
April. A list of her officers will not be
without interest to parties residing here
who had interest in her at the time.
They were Capt. Blanchard, previously
of the Huntress, First Pilot, Capt. A.
Spear of Rockland, Second, W. L. PEN
nell and P. Richardson, Engineers, Ed
ward Gushing, Clerk. S. K. Lowell,
Steward, and J. F. Gould, Baggage
master: The Penobscot, Capt. Flowers,
came early in May and made her last
trip on the 18th of November; she adj
vertised as the New Outside Line, and
as the Outside Opposition Line. The
Governor, Capt. Rogers, came on the
4th of May, ran on the outside route,
and advertised as the Peoples Line. In
July the Lawrence, Capt. Deering, began
to run between this place and Ellsworth.
In December, the Ocean, Capt. E. H.
Sanford, came on to run through the
winter. Capt. Sanford died in 1865.
This year for the first time, according
to the recollection of the compiler. the
appelation of Sanford's Independent
Line was adopted.
The lecturers before the Lyceum dur
ing the winter were DR.. Ezra S. Gam
nett of Boston, on New England. Rev.
John Pierpont of Medford, Mass, a
poem entitled the Scholars Hope, Rev.
Henry Giles, of Bucksport, FIVE lectures
on the civilized man, embracing the He
brew, the Greek, or man of culture, the
Roman, or man Of sway, the Medieval,
or man of personal force, the man of the
Age, or man of social power. The
fourth annual course before the Lyceum
commenced in December The first lee
ture was by Hon. Josiah Quincy of Bos-
ton, on the Mormons. He was followed
by William c. Williamson, Esq, of this
place, now resident in Boston, with a
poem the title of which was Past and
Present. The only other lecture of the
year, so far as remembered. was by Rev.
E. H. Chaplin of New York on Temper
ance; it was delivered in the evening of
the 9th of September.
About the first of March there was a
change in the proprietorship as well as
the name of the State Signal. Mr., D.
II. Prime became its proprietor by pur-
chase from Mr.. Avery, and continued its
publication under the name of the Bel
fast Signal until November following,
when he sold out to Messrs. ]. r. Steph-
ems and Co. They published few num-
bers and discontinued it. The Signal
had been from Its birth, in 1910, a
staunch advocate of the principles of
the Wing party. Its publishers became
aware of the fact that the Wing party
was Every sick man," and withdrew
just in time to escape attending the fu-
neral. On the I'd of May the copartner-
ship existing between Levi R. Wing and
George B. Moore, publishers of the
Journal, was dissolved, and Mr.. Moore
became sole proprietor and editor.
There was a Grand Ball at Pierce
Hall on the evening of March 4th-Inau-
guration Day. The prominent feature
was the veteran Major Jack Douglass,
who made music on the occasion for the
grandchildren Of those who nearly half a
century before tripped it on ''the light,
fantastic toe" to the sound of his fiddle.
On the 14th the people met to elect
officers for the new city. The wardroom
of Ward ! was the Academy; of Ward
2, at the brick school house formerly the
Town Hall; of Ward 3, at the Vestry of
tho North Church. of Ward a. at the