Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-09-30
Maine News Notes.

The first Maine state convention of the
American Legion, composed of the
soldiers and sailors of the great war, was
held at Bangor Wednesday. Albert
Greenlsw of Eastport was elected COM
mander, and Portland was selected as
the place of the 1920 convention. Fifty
four posts are now organized in the
state.
Miss Eunice Tolmsn, daughter of j. A.
Tolman of Rocklsnd left Monday for
Washington, d. c., on the initial stage
of what is expected to be journey to
Siberia. She will make brief visit with
her sisters Maria and Nellie In Auburn,
Mass, and unless government plans have
been changed meantime she will leave
Washington for Siberia Thursday, Sept.
25, going by the way of San Francisco,
Honolulu and the Philippine Islands.
The return home will be by the way of
Germany, Belgium and France, so that
she will have circumnayigsted the globe
before she again sees Rockland. Miss
Tolman is now a nurse in the regular
army, having previously been with the
Red Cross in the army reserve. In New
York City she was head nurse in a 40 bed
ward at Embsrkation Hospital No. 4.
From there she was transferred to the
Walter Reid Hospital in Washington,
and her services were valued so highly
that she was one of the four to be select
ed for the trip to Siberia.
The Adams Shipbuilding Co. of East
Boothbay is building as fine a house
boat as travels the Atlantic coast. The
house-vessel is being constructed for
John Hsnsn, the noted shoemsn Of
New York and yachtsmsn OF all the rest
of the world. The vessel will be 100
feet long and p feet wide, and will have
three decks and pilot house. She will
be propelled by two 100 81. P. crude oil
burning engines. The boat will be fin-
ished and furnished like palace. The
building contract itself will amount to
about SIS, 900 and the owner will furnish
lavishly. The vessel was designed by
Morgan Barney, the famous New York
naval architect. The framing out is
nearly completed and the ship should be
ready for the water about the first of the
coming year.
The big German gun, captured by the
Goth Division boys and carried by them
in all the divisions psrsdss, will repose
indefinitely on Boston common, it hsv-
ing been decided that 1t belongs to the
entire division and that Boston is a more
suitable place for 1t than New Haven,
which has made claim for it, on the
grounds that Ii was captured by Co. B,
102d Infantry, a Connecticut regiment
and gallant one. The 21O. millimeter
gun, which was capt95ed by the 26th ut
the battle OF TrugGy on July %, has had
q strenuous career. Several times the
2Sth has nearly lost it. immediately sf-
ter its capture 1t was taken by the
French Salvage Department, but was re-
turned on Gen. Edwards request. Then
1t lay for months on the pier at Brest
waiting shipment to Boston. Arrived at
Boston it was packed of to the Water
town Arsenal, where although addressed
to Gov. Mccall, Ii remained until Gen.
Edwards again rescued il. Hardly had
II been set up on the common, when the
Connecticut men put in a claim for it,
saying It had really been captured by
one Of the New Haven companies, B Co.
of the 102d. So warm became the con-
troversy that once, when a misunder-
standing gave the New Haven men an
excuse for claiming they bad permission
to take the gun, they attempted to carry
1t away bodily.