Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-05-23

it, there will be no debt funding to
| repair even the great damage in
| flicted upon the city by the food.
| don't know just how we are 60
ing to do it," he told me as he stood
on the torn and tumbled river bank
and gave directions for the pro
place the iron structure which had
been swept down stream as If it were
toy. II haven't had chance to
| survey the full extent of the damage
for which the city will have to pay
but we are going to try to get along
some way without any bond issue"
| Mayor Foster has his way because
it is the peoples way, and the people
| of Ellsworth are public-spirited as
we'll as thrifty A concrete illustra-
| ton of the "pay-as-you-go" policy
| and of that public spirit, as we'll as
| of the harmonious relations between
| the city government and the citizens
| of Ellsworth. is afforded by the new
| high school building. The funds for
that fine structure have been pro-
vided partly by city appropriation
and partly by public subscription.
That's the way they do and get
things in Ellsworth without the i'm
position of any burdens upon poster
ity. They think posterity will have
burdens enough of it's own.
The food is indirectly responsible
for the city's having better protec-
ton against fire than ever. Mr.. Ire
fry, sales manager for the Mccain
fire pumping truck, was in Bangor
with one he was demonstrating when
the news of Ellsworth's plight
reached him. With the road much
of the way under water, he brought
| the truck the Twenty-Five miles from
Bangor and placed it at the city's
service. A citizens meeting recon-
mended the purchase of the truck,
| and the city council promptly car
ried out the recommendation.
Some citizens, naturally sensitive
| at the time to any avoidable expendi-
ture, thought the purchase Of the
truck a needless outlay. But had
fire broken out during that crisis
when Ellsworth was without water
their criticism would have changed
to thanksgiving.
Mayor Foster is one of the heads
of the Carroll Felt Shoe Company
which is thriving concern giving
good employment to $50 workers. He
also is largely interested in the log
and pulpwood business, for which
Ellsworth is an important center.
The Ellsworth Foundry Ma
chine Works, which manufactured
gasoline engines and mill machinery,
lost heavily by the flood. The ma
chine shop was carried bodily down
the river with motor boats and
yachts valued at 100000. The
boats, including a Vanderbilt yacht,
have been salvaged. The concerns
garage, one of the largest in the
State, was not stirred, and that bust
ness will be continued under the
name of the Buick Garage Company.
Two of the city's most enterprlsing
and public spirited citizens, John A.
Peters, Federal judge and former
Representative in Congress, and his
brother, Charles Peters, have con-
Quoted for many years the Foundry
& Machine Works, which the garage
company now succeeds.
The Ellsworth Hardwood Corpora
ton makes toys and wide variety
of novelties, and turns out woodwork
of all kinds. 1t is enlarging its ma
chine shop to meet a demand for
metal parts, forgings and castings.
Whitcomb, Haynes & Whitney and
the Charles ]. Treworgy Corporation
are large lumber and the Lincoln
Manufacturing Company large pulp
wood manufacturers at Ellsworth
Falls. They suffered heavy loss of
logs and pulpwood in the flood, but
the setback is only temporary.
There are many smaller industries.
while the stores of Ellsworth be-
speak progressiveness. The post
Office building, which narrowly es-
capped undermining by the flood, and
which, though only 500 feet from the
west side, became six miles distant
by road when the bridge went out, is
credit to the city. The public Ii
brcrv &c fine Colonial building, and
is well equipped. AS the shire town
of Hancock county, Ellsworth has an
ornate court house building, while
the county jail, from the outside,
looks like a conservatory.
The Liberty National bank, with
assets exceeding $1,000,0O0, the
Hancock County Savings bank and
the Union Trust Company are robust
institutions, which reflect the city's
financial stability.
The city has a wide-awake and
we'll edited weekly newspaper in The
Ellsworth American, which was es-
tablished in 1854. w. H. Titus is its
editor and manager. 1t showed great
enterprise in getting an emergency
edition with a graphic account of the
food printed in Bangor and in cir
culating it here only one day behind
it's regular date of publication. In
it's following edition it's injection of
humor into sidelights on the food
served to tighten the stout hearts of
many stricken readers in their con-
temptation of the wide spectacle of
ruin and chaos.