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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-07-03
Water Powers
in Maine

The total capital. including stock
and bonds, of all public utility cor.
porations doing an electrical business
and reporting to the Public Utilities
Commission of the state Of Maine /,
s62. II2, ssa.
This includes all electric railroad.
In the State, which do not deyalon
their power but purchase the power
from electric development companies.
The capital stock and bonded indebted.
ness of these railroads Is abou.
s7,ooo.o0o. There Is also included in
the total amount reported to the
Utilities commission. electric com.
panies operated by steam power and
certain gas plants owned by companies
using electricity. The amount re-
ported also includes the capital stock
and bonds aggregating s4,sso.o 900 Of
two electric companies selling electric
current In Maine, but whose power
development Is located outside the
Va Ntst GhftsNs OtAt III view HAND
shire and one in the Province Of New
Brunswick. Finally, In the amount
reported Is all the capital stock and
bonds of those public service corpor.
atoms which buy their power from
electric development companies. but
which do not develop their own power.
The aggregate capital Of these last
mentioned corporations equals several
millions of dollars.
When the total capital stock and
bonds of the electric railroads, the
steam and gas plants and Others men.
toned is deducted from the $50, coo 900
reported TO the Public Utilities Com
mission. there remains but little in ex-
cess of $4,000. 600 TO represent the
capital stock and bonds Of all the
water power development companies
In the entire State.
Can a more absurd statement be
made concerning the capitalization Of
the Water Power Companies than that
quoted In the parallel column Il i'm.
plies that the construction of dams,
the acquisition of tiowage rights, the
transmission lines and the distributing
systems of all the leading and many Of
the smaller h ydro electric development
companies In the state has cost no
REAL MONEY.
Again we are constrained to ask,
why do the advocates Of State owner
ship deem IL necessary TO exaggerate
to the point Of absurdity2
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BLUEHILL.FALLS.

Stepheni Ward of Bermuda is the guest
OF Wallace Weston.
DIR. Mcdonald of Washington, ID. C.,
is in his cottage for the.summer.
June q. CRUMBS.
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COUNTY NEWS
AsHvlLLE

ASuNA A<lfs
Mrs. NJ. e. Bartlett is visiting in East
Dixmont.
Mrs. Flora Manseur OF Dixmont visited
her brother, NJ. E. Bartlett, recently.
Miss Cora Pinkham and Harry Week,
OF Bangor spent the Weekend st T.. A
aanna's.
Elliott schiefeiin, who Is attending
school at Groton, Mass, arrived home re-
Gently.
Miss Villa orcutt, who has been teach.
ing at West Gouldsb oro, closed her school
Friday with picnic At Tufts point.
Nj. and Mrs. Justin Johnson are guest:
OF SIR. Johnson's parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Reuel johnson. Mr.. Johnson is hons
from Camp Devens, where he is training
Another son, Henry, left for Camp pcvens
Monday.
A beautiful new gasoline lantern &c
illuminate the walk at the chapel ws.
presented the chapel by Mr. and Mrs
William schienelin. This lie only one o
the many gifts coming from tn,
Schieffelins which have been 90 much ap.
precisted.
June "a. PHOEBE.
WIN. Pettee left Monday for Thorasstor
to work In the shipysrds.
Mrs. Aquilla Bean of Unionville Wal
here few days last week.
Hugh Pettee left Wednesday for Bal
Harbor. for the summer.
Mrs. Geneva Young and daughter
Miriam, OF East Sullivan were weekend
guests OF Mrs. Emma Pettec.
Mrs. NJ. e. Bartlett has returned from
a visit in East Dixmont.
Harold Bachelor OF New burgh is EN-.
ployed at NJ. r. Bsrtiett's.
Mrs. Fronia Robertson and young son
of North Sullivan, are visiting at AS
Bunkeris.
Mrs. Frederick Osborn and children o
New York are guests at Mrs osborn'i
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William schietfelin
Lieut. W. J. sehieffeiin, IT,, and Mrs
SchiefelIn are guests at the Sehie ffelir
house tor a week.
The Schieffeiin and Hammond weirs ar,
catching a.feS bushels of herring at eset
tide.
Mrs. W. J. Schieneiin has organized
another bible contest in the sunds,
school. Each imember has to learn tbs
twenty.third Psalm, also the twelfth
chapter of Romans, and be present at th'
Sunday school each Sunday until Sept, ~
Miss Mary schieffelin told an interesting
story TO tie children at the last meeting
Mrs. William }. schierelin gave an in.
teresting talk on missionary work Ia
Africa .ths..Christian Endeavor meeting
Sunday evening.
July !. PHUBE.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-07-03

Rumiord Falls Power Company,
Oxford Paper Company,
Great Northern Paper Company,
Union Water Power Company,
Union Electric Power Company,
Androscoggip Reservoir Company,
st. Croix Paper Company,
Central Maine Power Company,
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In an article published by
a newspaper Urging State
ownership Of water powers.
appears the following state
ment:
cit Is believed that up
wards of forty million dollars
Of wa;ered stock is now float
ing down the stream of time
in MGine's hydraulic specu-
lations.
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(Signed) VIM. NJ. Pennell, Publicity Agent

Androscoggin Mills,
International Paper Company,
Androscoggin Electric Company,
Hin Msnufscturing Company,
Lewiston Bleaehery & Dye WORKS,
Peppsreli Manufacturing Company
Bates Manufacturing Company,
Edwards Manufacturing Company
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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-05
OUTSIDE THE CITIES.

Mendoza: Zeal for the home and
foreign missions has led the Reverend
NJ Mahony to adopt a novel plan for
raising funds for the Society for the
Propagation of the Faith. He offered
the diocesan director of the society,
two fine horses to be disposed of for
the benefit of the missions. While
Father Byrnes was still revolving in
his mind plans for making use of this
offer-as original as it was generous,
Father Mahony took the matter d.
rectly into his own hands. One of the
horses, related to the far famed Dan
Patch, was advertised on most in
genious ticket on which zeal for the
missions struggled with praise for the
fine points of the steed. The whole
parish and many others were attract
ed to the sale which took place,
Thursday evening, December II. The
result for the missions was $500 net.
Father Mahony still has one horse
and as much ingenuity as ever.
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Sisters Of Atonement
NEW YORK NUNS EXPELLED
FROM THEIR HOME "A RESULT
OF THEIR CONVERSION.

A quit claim deed in the hands of
their opponents was the legal instru-
ment that expelled the Sisters of the
Atonement from their convent-home
and chapel in Graymoor, N. Y. The
court has ordered the community to,
vacate the premises within six days.
The, Sisters of the Atonement, an
Episcopalian community, had gone to
Graymoor, near Garrison, n. Y, Octo-
Der Is, 1899. An unwritten agreement
between Mother Lurana and the three
ladies interested in the little Gray
moor mission, Miss Chadwick, Miss
Elliot and her sister, Mrs. Nicolson,
allowed the Sisters the use of the
ground and the small church thereon
in consideration for relieving them of
the financial burden which they had
been bearing for the past years in
trying to keep alive the small Epis-
opalian mission-the average at
tendance had been from six to eight
persons a Sunday. Now, when the
Sisters of the Atonement, on October
80, 1909, in a body embraced the
Catholic faith, several persons, never
friendly to the Society of the Atone
ment, induced two of the ladies, the
Elliots, to institute court proceedings
to evict the Sisters from the grounds
on which stand the church and home
of the Sisters. The other trustee,
Miss Julia Fl. Chadwick, has stood by
the Sisters nobIy throughout the en-
tire litigation, and made every effort
in her power to bring about peace
full settlement; but her arguments
failed to convince the court of the Sis
ters' just claim The Sisters will not
appeal the case.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-05
A PRACTICAL PLAN
CARDINAL GIBBONS GIVES PLAN
TO END WAR IN 1918.

James Cardinal Gibbons issued on
Christmas day statement which will
arrest nationwide attention in re-
Spouse to an inquiry as to what he
believed the most essential thing to
be done to win the war.
The Cardinal said:
81 believe that the best way to end
the war early in the coming year is
for the Central Powers to make a
definite proposition and one that win
embrace all their aims and demands.
ION the part of the United States
I believe that the best governmental
action would be for the officials to put
themselves in receptive mood for
the generous consideration of any
peace offer that might come from the
Central Powers.
II think that all Americans should
put themselves in position to sym
pathetically receive and consider any
offer embodying fundamental conces
sions that would commend themselves
to the allies and to ponder over these
propositions in a dispassionate and
hroadminded way"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-05
BRITISH CATHOLICS
EMPIRE IN EUROPE NUMBERS
NEARLY SIX MILLlONS-ToTAL
MORE THAN THIRTEEN MIL
LIONS.

The Catholic population of the coun-
tries included in the British Empire
in Europe is given in the Catholic Di-
rectory as 5,893,918. Details of these
figures are as follows: England and
Wales, 1,S85,655; Scotland, $4,000;
Ireland, (191D, 3,232,070; Gibraltar,
(1911), 1878; Cyprus SIS, and
Malta (191D 203,010. In Asia,
Catholics in British territory are re-
turned at 2,3O7, 245, the staple number
being residents of India, which, with
Burmah included, has 1,904,286 Catho-
lies. In Africa the total figure is 557,-
667, the largest constituent in it being
the Uganda Protectorate with 230,65
Mauritius and dependencies coming
next with 122,424 Catholics, while the
returns from the various provinces in
the union of South Africa show 81, 035.
In British possessions on the Amer
lean Continent there are 3,314,4
Catholics, the greater part of these be-
ing in Canada, which, according to the
Government returns for the year 1911,
had 2,833,041 The Catholic popula.
ton of Australia is returned as being
1854. These figures give the total
number of Catholics in the British EN-
pire as 13,292,254.
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HOW THEY ENTERED
DELIVERIES OF JERUSALEM
MADE THEIR ENTRANCE INTO
THE HOLY CITY ON FOOT.

In the House of Commons Premier
Lloyd George read the following telc
gram from Gen. Allenby, dated Jeru-
salem, December IL:
Il entered the city officially at noon
today with few of my staff, the com
manders of the French and Italian de-
tachments, the heads of the political
missions, and the military attaches OF
France, Italy and America.
'yThe procession was all afoot, and
at Jaffa gate / was received by TIN
Guards, representing England, Scot.
land, Ireland, Wales, Australia, New
Zealand, India, France and Italy. The
population received me well.
Guards have been placed over the
holy places. My military governor IS
in contact with the acting custodian
and the Latin and Greek represent
tives. The governor has detailed an
officer to supervise the holy place..
The mosque. of Omar and the a-c3
around it have been placed under Mo-.
lem control, and a military Gordon
of Mohammedan officers and soldiers
has been established around the mos
que.
Orders have been Issued that no
non-Moselm is to pass within the cor
don without permission of the military
governor and the Moslem in charge "
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-05
TEARING DOWN MEXICO
WIFE OF DIPLOMAT SHOWS
WORK OF DETACHMENT INAu-
GURATED BY MEXICAN REVOLT
TIoNlSTS-THE FRIARS WERE
REAL FRIENDS OF THE PEOPLE.

In Diplomatic Days." Mrs. Nelson
O'Shaughnessy's recent book of rem
iniscences, she enthusiastically praises
the work of the Church in Mexico,
and gives the following reflections on
what she beheld in the town of Tex
coco:
"a crumbling, picturesque monas-
terry and inconceivably desolate, dusty
seminary join the church where, the
friars used to teach. Oh, the poor
friars! There is SO little account
taken of their ceaseless activities, of
how they found a wilderness, dotted
it with churches, schools and hospi-
tails, stamped it with a seal of match
less beauty, brought it out of the
worship of greedy gods, human sacri-
fees and denominations, counting no
cost, and showed as best they might
dim shapes of more benign powers,
l can't see what all the hue and cry
is about, all the revilings. We
couldn't match the record. We have
disfigured Mexico, wherever we have
set our seal. Frankly, I'm for the
friars."
The reason why the author of dip
lomatic Days" is frankly for the
friars' is because she has learned
from reading history that their spir
itual conquest of Mexico caused the
substitution of civilization for bar
barism, and of Christianity for idol
airy. The friars' untiring laborI
brought about not only the religious
regeneration of the country, but it
material and social betterment al
well. The Indians willingly fiocket
into the Church in vast numbers. TIL
renowned Friar Motolina, for instance
| is known to have baptized some 400
900 natives with his own hand, an,
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within a few years after the Spaniards
came the entire country had become
Catholic. Under the Church's foster
ing patronage education and learning
thrived and spread. The first printing
press in the Western Hemisphere was
set up in Mexico in 1886, and Dr.
John Culinary Shea gives a list OF
fifty books which were published be-
fore 1914, % years prior TO the date
a press reached the English colonies.
In 1924 school for Indians opened
it's doors; by 1543 the natives were
taking Industrial courses there, and
in 1853 the great University Of Mex
leo was started.
AS Mrs. O'Shaughnessy sadly owns,
we cannot match that record. On
the contrary 1--WE have disfigured
Mexico wherever we have set our
SEAL" BY giving official recognition
to the prosecuting Government that
controls a portion of Mexico, the
United States would seem to have
tacitly condoned all the acts of pill
lage, rape, murder and sacrilege which
have marked the rise to power of
Carranza and his associates. More
over, it was our unjustifiable inter-
ference in the affairs of Mexico that
made possible the unspeakable abomi-
nations of Villa and Carranza. With
out question, eve have disfigured
Mexico wherever we have set our
SEAL"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-05
WORK ON SUNDAYS
BISHOP OF SCRANTON URGES
MINERS TO WORK ON HOLY
DAYS so LONG AS THE NEED
SHALL EXIST.

The following letter, in which Right
Rev. M. J. Hoban, D. D., Bishop of
Scranton, Pa, requested miners to
work on holy days, was read in the
Churches of the diocese on recent
Sunday:
REV. Dear Sir:
"As you well know, the law of the
Church concerning rest from labor on
Holy Days of Obligation does not bind
when either necessity or charity calls
for help. At the present time there is
q shortage of fifty million tons of
coal. This precious fuel is badly
needed for railroads and factories, as
we'll as for our homes. The wheels of
industry may be stopped, people may
be thrown out of work and some may
even be frozen to death, if the heroic
men, who toll in the mines, do not use
every effort to send out more coal.
"As both necessity and charity call
for help, l would ask you to urge the
men of your congregation who are en-
gagged in the production of coal to
work on all Holy Days, except Christ
mas and New Years Day, as long as
the need shall exist.
Yours in Xto,
m. J. HOBAN,
Bishop of Scranton
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"OUR ITALIAN ALLIES
PAMPHLET OF THE METHODIST
CHURCH TELLS HOW TO MAKE
GOOD PRoTEsTANTs OUT OF
BAD NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
AMONG ITALIANS.

In an elaborate circular, recently
published, the Board of Home Mis-
sions and Church Extension of the
Methodist Episcopal Church gives an
interesting bit of information as to
it's ideals, motives and methods of
evangelization among the foreign-born
elements of our country.
The circular, profusely illustrated,
is called: "Our Italian Allies" After
estimating the number of Italian inn
migrants in this country at 100000,
and sketching their rise through the
ranks of our commoneSt unskilled
labor, through the proverbial fruit
stand and peanut membership, to the
more engaging and prosperous fields
of manufacture and the professions, it
points out that the vast majority of
these people are very slow in allow
ing themselves to lose their identity
of language and customs. Of the con-
dition of these Italian immigrants it
says: tNor are the low-lying, loosely
built shanties which fringe the ravines
in mining camps, centers of activities
calculated to pass at a full dress re
ception to Bishop or Mayor. The
Church and all other constructive
agencies have left him to this sort OF
thing" Of those who herd in the
cities we are informed that: This
community swarming is due in part
to the desire of the newly arrived i'm
migrant to be with folks from home
who talk his language, and in part tt
the difficulties set in the way of 9
foreigner who tries to edge into 9
section of the town occupied by older
inhabitants"
| Here is a large field open for worl
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-05
NEW CONVERT LEAGUE
CATHOLIC UNITY LEAGUE is
FORMED TO MAKE CONVERTS
SUCCESS ATTENDED EFFORTS
IN THIS DIRECTION IN NEW
YORK CITY.

A group of Catholic laymen of the
city of New York have agreed to-
gether to canvass their friends and
acquaintance for funds to purchase
and distribute missionary literature
gratis among non-Catholics, and also
to finance courses of lectures whose
object is making converts. This is
evidently something more than one of
the many local undertakings with the
same ends in view, now met with in
various parts of our country; for these
Jealous laymen, nearly all of whom
are Knights of Columbus, have organ
lied and have taken a name-the
Catholic Unity League-and they have
chosen as their spiritual directors the
Paulist Fathers, the Revs. Bertrand L.
Conway and James M. ellis. James
A. Beha is president; Patrick r. Kin
ney, vice president; Charles Rush,
treasurer; Joseph r. Boldt, secretary.
Cardinal Farley has gladly given his
approval to this new venture in the
field of Americas conversion.
For the last three years doctrinal
lecture courses for nOn-CatholicS have
been given in New York city by the
Paulist Fathers under the auspices of
the knights of Columbus. Thousands
of earnest-minded inquirers attended
these lie ctures at the Church of St.
Paul the Apostle and at st. Patrick's
Cathedral, and scores of converts en-
tered the Church within six months
after their close. The enthusiastic CO.
operation of forty-two councils of the
Knights of Columbus and of sixty
eight pastors ensured the success of
this apostolate, and at the same time
suggested the need of an organization
to make the work permanent.
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interesting to compare the number of
adherents once adequate provision has
been made for their religious belief,
when the general apathy concerning
their religious welfare has been
changed to genuine interest.
Then we are told that there are not
over $4,000 Italians enrolled in the
fellowship of "the three hundred
Protestant or, as they call it, Evan
gelical churches and missions" How
strong the appeal of these 800 evan
gelical bodies must be to bat an aver
age of only 1868 converts.
AS last bit of barrage prior to
the "over the top" rally for funds
comes this bit of shrapnel Rome
wards: "Our Italian Ally is so often
a socialist or atheist as a result of
his effort to break away from the
dogmatism of Rome" Finally, comes
the inevitable assault on the pocket.
book of the reader to furnish the
funds for this liberty bond campaign
against the dogmatism-ridden Allies
of our Italian slums.
While much of the analysis of Ital
ian immigrant conditions has in il
food for thought and study for oul
own people and our own societies, il
also affords us an added incentive tt
counterfeit the influence of any sucf
agencies, whose chief motive in the
work Of CHARACTERIZATION is limited at il
it's side-thrusts at the Church. If We
have not a care for the immigran
others will.
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in so virgin soil, for: This very
uni Christian situation has certain
new and opportunity fraught challenge
to the Church of Jesus Christ. Their
being together indicates that they are
among us in numbers sufficient to de-
mand our attention. A recognition of
their presence places us on the de-
fensive so far as our prayer-life and
creed-reciting is concerned" How to
meet this situation is limited at when
the circular says: 1T is ours to teach
these sons of Garibaldi to read and
write English, to give them practical
information that will make them live
more easily and more safely; to pre-
pare them for American citizenship by
teaching them our laws, customs,
ideals and history with a Christian
Interpretation
So far this duty has not been lived
ND to, we are told. Probably a bit Of
self-reproach, for sthe greater num-
Der of our Italian allies in the United
States are socialist and atheist be-
cause crushed by the autocracy for
centuries and because nothing better
has ever been given them" This last
statement and the following choice
bit show the animus of Methodism's
work here to be identical with that
which caused so much of stir Incl
dent to the visit of a distinguished
ex-servant of the people a few years
ago in Rome. "Only a small number
comparatively have remained loyal to
the Roman Catholic Church whose
ways they came to know better here. .
How much of an opportunity these
poor people have had of getting to
know the ways of Rome here is given
by the circular itself in a predatory
remark to list of statistics on the
number of church members among
the Italians. The general apathy
concerning the religious welfare OF
the Italians in the United States" We
read, lis seen in the following com
munities in three New England States
having among them Italians to the
number of 500 to $500 and no proVi
sion made for their religious life by
either the Roman Catholic or Protes
| tant Church. ~ y" It will BIZ
a