Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-29

cane, he has excellent eyeSight, be-
ing able to read for hours at a
stretch without the use of glasses.
The Bailey Evening School of In
dustries at Bath concluded a very
successful year on Wednesday night
of last week When it was time for
the evening school to open last Fall
it seemed very doubtful If there
would be registration enough to
carry on suitable evening classes.
During the war times, when there
were so many men working at Bath,
the enrolment was made up mostly
Of them. Now that they have left,
the school has had to depend upon
the citizens of Bath to take ad-
vantage of these classes. The most
successful work this year was that
of the Home Economics Depart
ment. Miss Harriet Sweetser, State
supervisor of the Home Economics
department, outlined the courses to
follow, and Mrs. Ella Carey was APP
pointed supervisor. Another new
feature this year was the class in
home nursing directed by Miss Dol
loft of the Bath City hospital. The
classes in bookkeeping, shorthand,
typewriting, manual training, and
graded work were all very success
full. The Bailey Evening school
does not cost the city penny for
, operation. 1t is run entirely by trust
funds, state and federal aid.
Aroused by statements made at a
! shipping board hearing in Washing
ton that IS ships of the board were
sailing monthly and semi monthly
from Portland to foreign and Ameri-
can ports, Henry i. Merrill of Port
land, chairman of the port direc-
torate. stated that this was false.
He charged that the shipping board
is proceeding without any knowledge
of conditions when it maintains that
business of the port can be handled
by means of domestic vessels. Only
two regular services are maintained
| out of Portland by the board. Mr..
Merrill pointed out. Ninety five per
cent of the business at the port is
| carried on by foreign ships, he de-
clared, and he urged against the be-
lief that enforcement Of article % of
the merchant marine act, dis
criminal ting against foreign COM
merce would be beneficial. He said
that the statement made by Ship
ping Commissioner Frederick l.
Thompson in Washington, to the
effect that shipping board vessels
could take care of the freight situa-
ton at Portland was incorrect, be-
cause there were not enough ships
at that port to handle 1t all, without
aid of foreign vessels.
One of the largest real estate
transactions ever recorded in Knox
county, was contaminated at Rock
land last Saturday when attorneys
were brought from New York, Bos--
ton and Portland, representing the
areas in which this company is cen
tered. met there for the purpose of
transferring all the properties be-
longing to the New England Port
land Cement Company, the Traction
Securities Company, together with
their subsidiary corporations over to
the New England Portland Cement
and Lime Company, a new million
dollar corporation recently organic
ed under the laws Of Maine. Cor
porations formerly owning these
large properties, and containing all
of the extensive limestone and clay
deposits, Rockland shore property
and dwellings, were controlled large
ly by Eugene Mayer, Jr., now chair
man Of the war finance force, the
late John A. Black of New York, and
Alfred S. Black of Rockland, the last
of whom was until recently the
head of the Black chain of New
England Theaters, and who, 1t is
understood will retain large
financial interest with the new own
ers who have organized the New
England Portland Cement and Lime
Company. This company has al
ready succeeded in having under
written and sold 100000 in bonds.
The New York Trust Company of
New York City are the trustees.
The men behind the New England
Portland Cement and Lime Com
pany plan to make it one of New
England's largest industries
eventually. The construction of the
first unit of the lime plant, which
win consist of the latest type of
modern lime kilns having an ap-
proximate capacity of 100000 bar
rels of lime annually. will be fol-
lowed shortly by the construction Of
a cement plant having a capacity of
200 barrels day or 600, 900 annually.
so constructed that the capacity can
be increased from time to time.