Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-14

What About Bangor7

So Bangor has a bread linei Well,
If all stories are true Bangor is en-
titled to a bread line. When CONNER
cialism combines to break the power
of law that commercialiZed evil and
vice may prosper. the scene has been
set for bread lines.
What becames of the money of these
iumberjacks? Did they come back to
Bangor with anything to show for
their time in the camps? Is the
Bangor plan" still planning?
II has been suggested that a plot
had been Matched to drive the Gov
ernor into calling an extra session of
the Legislature, in order that Demo-
cratic leaders may complain of the
expense to the State. Recent focus
Of the attention Of several anti-Re-
publican newspapers of the State upon
Bangor, and repeated declarations that
the law is being openly violated there,
gives color to this suggestion.
Is Bangor as wide open as the DEM
ocratic press is pretending, or, was a
mine salted for the man who wrote
the Progressive platform, as was given
out as good joke" at Bangor that
day?
The Bangor News of Monday morn
ing published the following:
- +Aa Col ton
Army, upon whose shoulders appears to
have deyolved the task of caring for
Bangor's Army of the unemployed, is
working with characteristic energy all
pleased. 1t costs about SOS every time
the hungry horde is fed-and the Saliva
ton Army hasn't any too much money.
Il won't let EN- starve, however" said
Ensign Armstrong on Saturday. They
are all human beings, and many are
good fellows who are willing TO work.
And SO | shall keep on feeding them
Since nobody else seems willing to take
the job.
1t is the ensign's intention to give the
men as hearty a breakfast as possible
and feed them again-a trifie less sub
stantially-late In the afternoon. At din
ner time they must shift for themselves.
The menus are filling If not exactly va
ried. consisting to date largely of bread.
coffee, bologna sausage and occasional
baked beans. The ensign, who is a ver-
the supplies himself
IT wish you would suggest, however"
he said on Saturday TO the News, that
contributions will be gratefully received,
and any kind OF food will be a great help.
1t may be left at the police station or
brought directly to the barracks in Park
street"
On Sunday the army was fed by Sheriff
OConnell, but from now on the duty of
caring for it devolves upon Ensign Arm
strong.
in the same paper we find the fol-
lowing:
Deputy Sheriff Trask went to Old
he did was to drop in on mine host Per-
70 of the Hotel Fransway. 1t wasn't
exactly a social visit, either, for Trask
carried away Is quart bottles of whiskey,
two half-pints OF whiskey. and bottle
of cocktails. Then he went TO Charles
Berby's, not far away, where he got two
quart bottles and two pint bottles OF
whiskey. Followed, then, trip TO Fa-
bian Dumont's. two quarts OF whiskey
and one of rum being the reward. Per.
ro Berby and Dumont will be arraigneG
this morning in the Old Town municipal
court. All of which served to enliven q
eull Saturday i'm the up-riyer town.
Meantime, in Bangor, the usua
the transportation companies with thin
total OF seizures: l5 barrels of beer, ant
seven five-gallon kegs, nine three-gallor
cases, and one io-gallon case OF whiskey
II would seem that the sheriff ant
his deputies were active. We do not
know. We hear many reports and Il
lis certainly significant that men who
come from winters numbering oper-
atoms have not money TO live upon