Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-06

tie Pond, dug bitches and moved
slash in the effort to check the
flames, which was finally successful.
\ large acreage was burned over.
Mayor Louis ]. Brann Of Lewiston
has appointed Joseph Anthoine and
Auguste Gagnon TO represent the
Veterans Of the Spanish American
war on Il committee to arrange a
memorial TO the veterans of all
wars, to he erected in the Lewiston
City Park The memorial is TO cost
! about $4,000 and is to commem-
morate the service of all the sons Of
Lewiston, who have offered them
selves TO the nation in time OF war.
Members of the committee TO rep
resent the G. A. r. and the American
Legion viii soon be named.
While some estimated the crowd
at Old orchard Sunday as being
around $4,000, Chief of Police Lewis
N. Fowler gave il as his opinion that
the number was in the vicinity OF
10000. There is not the least doubt
, but that tho crowd was the record
enc so far this season. More than
5000 automobiles were parked in the
/ town. including machines from -
! different states. There were two biz
excursions to Old Orchard Sunday,
one from Manchester, n. H.. and the
/ other from points on the Maine
Central railroad between Bangor
and Portland. Some ] 500 en-
ploye3 of the 7-2G-4 factory came on
! two special trains and 900 more ar
rived in 200 automobiles. More than
| III 90 nCGEOnS tho MDilOn
Central excursion.
\ check was kept at Dunstan Cor
ner. on the Boston road, Sunday be-
tween the hours of S a. m. and s
p. m. on all automobile traffic pass
ing that point. The tahulation WAS
made by Marshall Eugene l.. Har-
mon OF CaSco for the Maine Pub
! hcity Bureau and the Maine Auto
mobile Association and showed n
total of S.123 cars to have passed
through Dunstan, 1000 more than
passed that point on the same day
and between the same hours "A year
ago. The tabulation OF cars from
the respective States as follows:
Massachusetts, 1,511, New Hamp-
shire 2S3; New York. 143: Connect
cut IS; Rhode Island So; New
Jersey 10; Quebec 80: PENNSYLVANIA
80; Vermont 81; Florida Is: Ontario
III: Iowa 9; Michigan 9; Illinois G.;
Ohio 6; Missouri ?: West Nirgini.,
); Wisconsin >; Colorado .: New
brunswick 0: Minnesota .: Indiana
II Georgia ]; District Of Columbia
l; Virginia /: Louisiana /: Nova
Scotia ! North Carolina |. The
| number Of Maine cars was 5,71S.
They are catching many horse
macherel near Bailey's island this
Summer. The fish have been school
ing in Casco bay and one nGn
counted the fins Of more than 20 of
them playing about in the bay a few
days ago. One fisherman caught
seven of them last week. two Of
which weighed over SEQ pounds.
( They have heen so plenty OF late
that the Portland market has been
giutted and the fishermen are now
getting but one cent a pound for
them. While on the Pacific and
some parts of tho Atlantic coast
these fish are caught with hook and
line. large hook and heavy line
being used and the fish sometimes
played for hours before they can be
hauled, the fishermen Of Casco bay
/ nave another method of getting
them. They follow the idea of tho
Old whalers and harpoon them. Tie
dart used is attached to 4 long
heavy line which is coiled in tn
bow of the boat and to the other
end is attached a large key. The
dart is thrown and If It hits It's
mark the fish starts TO run and the
line pays out at a rapid rate
Finally the length Of the line IS
reached and out goes the tub. The
fishermen then follow the tub in
their motorboat until the fish is
played out, then they go alongside.
put slip knot over its tail and
raise the fish into the boat. one
Bath man watched this fishing one
day last week. He says that from
the time the fish twitched the keg
out OF the boat and high in the air
that IL must have travelled So
Yards before the key struck the
water. He says the fish travelled
like an express train Ii is claimed
that In some cities the flesh Of these
fish is palmed of as sword fish by
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