Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-10

served on an ArooStook grand jury.
The first woman member of the
Legislature from Maine was Dora
Pinkham Bradbury of Fort Kent.
Reading the story of the new Coal
discharging plant in the Times the
writer was reminded of the old days
when coal cargoes were brought into
Bath in schooners and when a single
horse was employed all day long
hosting the buckets of coal from the
hold of the vessel, walking ahead
until the bucket had reached the
height of the staging, then. after the
bucket was dumped, backing up until
the bucket was once more in the
hold ready to be filled again. What
a monotonous life for a horse that
must have been. Then came the
donkey engines which did the work
much more speedily and now comes
this latest mechanical contriyance,
operated by power and taking out
$50 to 200 tons an hour.-Bath Times.
One of the most interesting ex-
hibits of small portraits and paint
ings to Maine residents is that by w.
w. Gilchrist, Jr.. now shown at the
Cosmopolitan Club at Bath, which
opened Tuesday of this week, and
will continue for a week. The ability
and versatility of the artist are at
once recognized by the friends of
the subjects exhibited and critics.
Mr. Gilchrist is a Philadelphia by
birth and affiliations. He graduated
from the Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts and after extensive study
in Europe at Paris. London. Munich.
Holland and in Spain, returned to
America and became instructor of
portrait painting at the Art Students
League in New York. as we'll as at
the School of Design in Philadelphia,
Painting during that period portraits
of many prominent persons. In re-
cent years Mr.. Gilclrist has passed
large part of each Summer in
Maine, carrying on his work at his
Summer home in East Harpswcll.
painting many figure pictures and
landscapes as we'll as a number of
portraits in and about Portland and
Brunswick.
Hereafter Lewiston. Auburn and in
fact all places in that Section of
Maine will be supplied with bitumi-
nous coal from Bath, thereby elimin-
ating the long haul from Portland
which has heretofore. had a mon
opoly on coal dischargipg in Maine,
the Maine Central even discharging
coal there which has to be hauled to
Bath in cars and dumped aon to its
wharf shed here although there is
ample opportunity to discharge such
coal here. The ksnnebec Wharf &
Coal Co., has just discharged the
biggest cargo of soft coal ever
brought to Bath at it's newly equip
ped plant off Front street. the
steamer Corsica unloading more than
$500 tons and leaving this afternoon
for Hampton Roads to get similar
cargo. Every ounce of the coal was
taken from the big steamer by the
new powerful discharging and re-
claiming plant and it worked so sue
cessfully, demonstrating that it can
receive and distribute coal as
economically as any port in Maine,
that it will be used hereafter to feed
the field by water up and down the
Kennebec valley and by rail as far
, west as F'reeport east to Rockland
and to the entire northern and
northeastern section of Maine. This
is to be done by the company which
also operates similar plan in Port
land and manager Frank E. Low of
Portland, is confident that Bath is
the place to discharge coal for the
field mentioned, and not in Portland
The Kennebec river is deep enough
to accommodate docking facilities
The efficiency of the new plant was
shown by the fact that FIVE minutes
after the Corsica was locked the
digger had removed the first coal
from the cargo and will remove an
average of $50 tons an hour and NAV
be speeded up to capacity of, 200
! tons an hour while the yard has a
capacity of about $4,000 tons.