Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-03-18
Maine GOSSIP

Maine Gossip
Mr.. and Mrs. Maynard s. Bird of
Portland were passengers on the
China Mail Company steamer Nam
king, which sailed recently from San
Francisco for Japan. They are to
visit Yokohama, Nagaski. Shanghai
and Manila.
That there is little demand for sail
ing vessels just now is shown by the
fact that two fine schooners, built on
the Kennebec and launched last fall
their maiden trips but are still tied
up awaiting better times. This indi-
Gates that business in the wooden
shipyards of the Atlantic coast is
dull and likely to remain SO until
there is demand for vessels.
But it is not the wooden vessel alone
which has suffered, for there are
hundreds of steamers tied up along
the coast. Until such time as there
is demand sufficient to keep these
craft busy at fair rates, there will not
be many more built.
A rather discouraging incident hap
pened one evening recently at least
discouraging to three of the senior A.
C. I. boys at Mars Hill, who were
musically, mechanically and other
wise inclined, had labored long and
vigorously to produce a urdygurdy
to be used in their play, had the in
strument finally completed, set on
wheels and painted red and stored
in Wesley Shaw's barn. Evidently
the horse, occupying the barn, dis
liked the color of the instrument as
he worked himself loose in the night
and kicked the handles off the Gre
alton, which necessitated the spend
ing Of much more time, capital and
labor, to put the instrument in con-
dition again. Some joke, but the boys
couldn't see it that way.
A Rockland woman, Mrs. George
Mclaughlin, has recently received
from her daughter, Miss Lottie
a program of a con-
cert given at the Vanderbilt hotel,
in New York, on Sunday, February
q, which. is of especial interest to
Maine people just now, from the fact
that Miss Mclaughlin appeared with
Justin Lawrie, the tenor who has
been singing in Chapman's concerts
throughout the State recently. Miss
sang the duet from
Faust" Finale, Third Act, with Mr..
Lawrie and three solo numbers, at
Cadman, Life and
DEATH" Coleridge!Taylor, and Song
of the Open" La Forge. Miss Nc
Laughlin is an artist of whom Rock
land people feel very proud and is one
whom they would like to hear
oftener. At present she is singing on
the Strand Circuit.
While cutting big oak in Winne-
gance the other day, the Morse
brothers found ingrown in the trunk
an aged wooden spout which indi-
Gated that perhaps so years ago some
boy, nistaking the tree for a maple,
had tapped it in the sapping season.
There was no sign on the outside of
the tree that it had ever been tapped.
These oaks are being cut for the
Texas Steamship Co.
Up in Katahdin township is
mountain containing so much iron
ore that leaves falling on the soil be-
come impregnated with the mineral
and seem like leaves Of metal. Years
ago iron works were in operation in
that region, as the earth was full of
the ore. The methods for getting the
ore smelted were simplex A furnace
100 feet high, burning 10000 cords of
wood a year made enough charcoal
to smelt the iron, and "a tons of pig
iron were turned out a day. This
was hauled to Bangor to the foun.
dries. For some inexplicable reason.
improved methods of transportation
dealt a blow to the iron works from
which it has never recovered; the
last ore was mined in 1882 and since
that year the furnace and great
chimney used in the industry have
been standing idle.
Following the policy of several hos
pitfalls in Portland, the eight-hour
schedule for nurses at the DR.. Files
Hospital in that city has been .es-
tablished and is proving satisfactory.
AS in other hospitals throughout the
this schedule is not a hard
and fast rule for all of the nurses
gladly continue over q set hour in
all emergency cases without question
when their services are required. BY
the arrangement now generally OBJ
served the nurses have more oppor-
tunity for recreation and study.
WEEKS MILLS
Mrs. McLain and son John have re-