Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-31
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The Rev. Joseph y. JacQuermct
Of Fail River, Mass, who came 10
BiGdeford Dee. % il the interests ct
TIE remarkable temperance move
meat which he organized - Hc@r5
&so and which has spread through
Cut New England, left for his h0Ma
last Friday haVin" more than dorh'vl
the membership Ct Cerclc LaCordairc
III Bidd2.O"d. Nacn IL. Ju,ouCu}c-
came to 3iGdofOrd 4 week ago the
Ccrcie had i membership of approx
mattel! 200. AS a result oi the sc:'eat
mass meeting held il St Andres
church and subsequent meetings in
the same place, tie membership OF
the society is tar il advance Of 700.
The exact figure has not yet been de-
tcrmined.
Director of Eastern Steamship at
their meeting in Boston today are
expected to declare initial divi-
Gcnd on tie G5,254 shares no Far pre-
fe"red Stoc.i. This issue is entitled
to dividends at the rate Of $3.50 4
share annually. preceded by %. 534
shares of seven per cent. first pre-
fer.ed $1G0 par. Requirements Of the
two preferred issues are now. there
fore, on an annual dividend basis q
slightly less than S5OG,0 900. ALTHOUGH
Eastern Steamship il 1928 has been
handling 10 per cent more business
than in the previous yea, the COM
! pCnE has been faced by u horizontal
, rise Of expenses over which il has
| little or no control, such IS increased
| canal tolls, higher wages of Sea-lor.
! lon%&nCreGIel. etc. Thee Iir1.o-
costs have more than absorbed the
i increa2e il operating revenues.
: Friday was another busy Gay al
the Portland fish pier, tie entire
feet of fishing vessels that had some
! out the Gay before having come L2g,:.
! the majority during the ni5ht Il lev
! OF the Shippers remaining out 4 lit
! tie later. hoping to get another set"
! but giving UP the idea when it COM
| ln2ncGI showing about three o'clock
! yesterday morning. Two or three re-
| turned without any fish, but the
| majority made lair sized catches. the
/ total receipts for the day incIudia~,
! that landed by the boat fishermen
! being approximately 1CO,00J pounds.
! Among these not making & "set" was
! the schooner Eleanor. Caps. Tom
! BRIGHAM, she having put back with
eli speed afte: Gottin& Oh tn" fish
ing grounds, her skipper having been
, taken i'll with an attack of acute in
/ digestion, but was reported much
! better last night. Prices held up
Wei yesterday, in spite Of the LARGE
receipts. the dealers paying the fish
| ermen out OF the boats from five ia
: eight cents pound for cod. five
, cents for haddock, and tour cents for
| cusk, ha!c and pollock. Lobs,er; are
fifty-1ve cents q. pound live weight,
| the close competition on the part of
| the Boston buyers. some Of whom
| are offering sixty cents, having fore
| ed up the price the past Weck-Po-t-
| land Press Herald.
Pier conditions in many Of the
| leading ports of the old world will he
studied during the late Winter and
early Spring b. Hon. Edward w
| Hyde OF Bath, a director of the port
OF Portland, as a feature of a Mid
Winter trip to he taken by Mrs.
hyde and himself who sail from New,
York Feb"13 on the Fabre line steam
snip Providence for the Mediter-
rancan. Mr.. Hyde will paw mar
tcular attention to freight handling
condltlons at such well known ports
as Havre. Cherbdurg and Liverpool
| and his observations will undoubted-
~ prove of very great value to the
Maine directors. Mr. HYDE be-
comes the first director of the bort
to make Il foreign trip and had the
,, Idea iii mind at the time last sum
lner when Governor Baxter offered
nun the appointment and SO ii is
WIN the Governors full KNOWLEDGE
tlat he goes out of the country. but
the knowledge he will gain will be
OF lnestimable value to his associates
Mr.. and Mrs. Hyde will make thei,
nrst stop at Madeira afterwards 90
ing to Palermo. Naples and several
OF the important ports bordering on
the Mediterranean. They will leayc
the ship in Marseilles and 90 Ia
Monaco where they will meet NJ
Hyde's sister. Mrs. John c. Phillips
Formerly Miss Eleanor Hyde who
oy that time will have returned with
Mr' Phillips from a hunting trim in
africa. and will take a villa near
me great resort for the Spring. After
passing about three weeks in France
theY viii so to England and rctmY1
TO Bath the middle of NAV.