Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-14

have been gathered within the last
few days in this manner.
Students and friends of Bates Col
lege gathered in Chase hall Wednes-
day night and paid fitting tribute to
four Garnet championship teams.
The Bates debating. winter sports,
cross country and hockey teams have
brought significant honor to their
institution this year and in recogni
ton of the fine work on the part of
the three Bates teams reception
was rendered the men who made
such high honors possible.
Plans for consolidation of the
Maine General Hospital, Maine Eye
and Ear Infirmary and the Chill
dren's Hospital were the principal
topic of discussion before the Port
land Medical Club at it's meeting in
the Lafayette Hotel, Thursday even
ing. DIR. IS. j. Beach opened the dis
cussion on the proposed consolida-
ton. DR.. G.. Fl. Coombs of the State
Department Of Health was another
speaker of the evening and show
ing OF moving pictures was a feature.
The Maine State Society OF WASH
ington. d. c., will hold it's March
meeting at the Thomson Community
Center. 18th and L Streets, n. W.,
Washington, on Saturday, March Is,
at +. NJ. &. J. Blanchard of the
reclamation service of the Depart
ment of the Interior, will give an in
structive lecture on 1.-The Harding
Tour of Alaska" with moving pic
lures. The officers of the associa-
ton are: President. Sanford Lynn
Porter: 1st vice president, DR.. Tim
othy F. Murphy: End. vice president,
Emma A. Jordan: Bird vice president.
John L. Hollihan; corresponding sec
tetary, Rose A. Dugan: recording
secretary, Frances NJ. Fernald;
treasurer, Charles S Sands; orator,
Hon. Ira G. Hersey.
Frank B. Nichols, editor and pub
Usher of the Bath Times, left Mon
Cay afternoon for a three months
trip in Europe He joined Mrs.
Nichols that night in Belmont, Mass,
at the home of their daughter, Mrs.
Paul X. Niven, and they sailed We'd
nesday on the Italian steamer Presi-
dente Wilson from Boston for Nedf-
terranean ports. Their first stop will
be at the Azores, then Madeira, Glib
raltar, Algiers and Palermo in Sicily.
Ihey VIII remain there a week, then
going to Naples and the surrounding
resorts. April they board a sister
steamer and go up the Adriatic.
touching at PatraS in Greece and
Ragusa in Austria. and landing at
Trieste. Other points to be visited
include Venice, Florence. Rome, Pisa,
Genoa. Nice, Monte Carlo, Cannes,
Milan, Switzerland, up the Rhine to
Weisbaden. thence to Paris and Lon
don. returning home on the Levia-
than early in July.
The contract for six meter Class
r sailing yacht has been given to
the Bath Iron Works. Ltd, from de-
signs by Burgess, Swasey & Paine of
Boston and the drafting crew has
just begun to lay down the plans.
She is for Frank c.. Paine of Bos-
ton, a grandson of Charles G.. Paine,
well known sportsman. This little
yacht will be all of wood and is to
enter the six meter races in the In
ternational races off Marblehead,
Mass, during the late summer Her
dimensions are 23ft. in. water line
length. 31ft. Sin. overall length. eft.
Gin. beam and she will draw about
5ft. Gin. She will be ready for de-
livery by early summer This is the
first craft of this kind that the Bath
Iron Works. Ltd, has ever built.
Work is progressing satisfactorily
upon the yacht Aras building at
the Bath Iron Works for Hugh CHS
holm of Portland and New York,
and she will probably take the water
the middle of May. She is now about
IS per cent done. This yacht is 127
feet long and will be driven by two
OO-horse power. six cylinder Winton
gasoline engines capable of sending
her through the water at 5 knots an
hour, She will have 5000 gallons
gasoline capacity. a quantity sufIi-
oient for 800 miles cruising radius.
in addition to building 100 COM
bined oil and cooling tanks for army
airpianes. the Bath Iron Works is
cverhauling a big turbine for the
Central Maine Power Co, at it's
central plant in Farmingdale. has the
contract for building two tank cars
for the Brown Co. for delivery at
their plant at Berlin, y. H.. ard is
to completely rebuild the firebox for
Maine Central locomotive COZ. the
largest type that this road now has
in use.
A resolution pleading the moral
support and influence of the Maine
State Master Plumbers to Nettie
May MacLean. who is charged with
man slaughter of her daughter was
adopted at the closing session of the
annual meeting of that body We'd
nesday at Portland. The resolution
as signed by seventy two members
and wives, is to be sent to Oscar
F. Volk of Tacoma, Washington, a
leading plumber. and father of the
girl who. with Kenneth r. MacLean,
faces the serious charge here. This