Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-10-18
DAILY KENNEBEc JOURNAL. MONDAY, OCTOBER IS, 1915.
tamination and excellent for domestic
purposes.

tamination and excellent for domestic
purposes.
The pulpit In the chapel at North
Ellsworth has an unusual history. AS
a part Of the outfit Of naval chap
lain. it made "a continued cruise OF
six years on board the. Y. s. ships
Powhatan. Lancaster and Trenton. Wis
iting more than so foreign ports. COW
ering the Atlantic coast from st.
Johns. Newfoundland, to Montevideo..
and from Southampton, England. into
the Mediterranean, down the African
coast. and up as far as Zanzibar on the
east side. 1t circumnavigated NADIA
gascar, crossed to South America and
returned to Africa It was trans
ferred from the Powhatan to the Lam
caster at Lisbon in 1884. to the Tren-
ton (sent out with a relief crew. at
Rio de Janeiro in 1887, and reached
New York in November Of that year.
Chaplain Tribou brought it to his
home, then in Ellsworth. and gave 1t to
te chapel which was built about that
time. He preached to the North Ellis
worth people from his old pulpit last
Sunday.
That considerable progress and de-
velopment is being made in Portland
this year is manifest by the building
construction reports. The number OF
permits and estimated cost of build
ings for the nine months of 1915 ex-
ceeds the total figure of 1914. DUR
ing 1914, 333 permits at an estimat-
ed cost of $1,166.S15. were issued. For
the nine months of 1915, ending Sept.
80. 391 permits have been issued at an
estimated cost of $1,330.9l9. The
amount of building operations planned
and in view for the next three months
warrant the belief that the building
operations in Portland for 1918 Will
be double those Of 1914.
The Rockland Courier-Gaze prints
letter from &C. d. S. G. Of South
Thomaston in which the writer offers
brief dissertation on the lobster in
dustry. Apparently all lobstermen. as
his letter indicates, are not pleased
with the condition Of the lobster indus
try in Maine.
Editor Of The Courier-Gazette:-
1 went down to the barber shop
Saturday to get a weeks growth Of
beard pulled out and found nearly all
the lobster fishermen in the place
gathered there. They had their
rapers with them and were talking
over the new lobster law in their own
way. 1t appeared one notary had
been helping the boys in making out
their papers and had charged them
the regular bill Of prices Gas the
granite cutters would say as mad.
out by the Knox county bar; but
il further appeared another fellow
had done some writing for the boys
and did it for the honor of the thing.
From that they began to read the
numbers Of their licenses and discuss
ing where the numbers should be
placed on their boats. At this the
barber got in word and said il he
could get over to Augusta some winter
he would have a law passed obliginS
. them to have their numbers tattooed
On their breasts. but there was such a
babel 1 didn't Understand whether
Brother. Snow wanted the fshermen's
breasts tattoned or the notary publ!c's.
At the any rate it was the unanimous
vote that George should be our next
representative to the legislature.
was asking the boys about that
lobster car I, sent YOU by parcel post.
They said il, was no ear at all, just a
s Lo
kind of strong smelling fish in those
little boxes, or bags. and fasten them
In the lobster pots to entice the lob
ster in, and In the language of an old
Irish friend of mine. 'um crawls in
but 'um no crawls out. l took thai
| little bait box for a car because when
was a kid in Rockiand and went in
swimming near the Calvin Ingrahanl
shpyard (where the granite plant now
isl there were millions of small lob
sters on top of the water, no larger
than sea fleas. That was before the
wise men of the east took the business
Of Matching Holsters out of natures
hands. AS for using bait to catch
Holsters when / was boy, all we kids
had to do was to roll our pant legs up.
take short handled gait and we could
get all We wanted out of the eel grass
down where the Railroad wharf now
is. Or we could use hoop nets and
get them from the wharf. The con-
trivance was made by taking a wire
hoop a little larger than the girls used
in their skirts those days. put a net
over it and then lower it on bottom.
When we wanted a lobster we hauled
the net and there was the lobster in it.
| So. Thomaston. c. d. S. G.
The chief detective of New York
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