Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1925-09-30

Ethics" by Albert A. JOY, an ELS
worth boy now in the banking bust
ness in California. What constitutes
business ethics on the Pacific coast
applies equally to the Atlantic coast.
We commend the article to the read
ing of Mr.. joys many friends in Ellis
worth.
The state grange of Massachusetts,
has carried the fight of the farmers
against daylight-saviHg time, into the
courts. Suit has been brought in
the United States circuit court to de-
termine whether any state or any
town within state has a right to set
up time standard other than that
fixed for national use under the zone
system adopted by Congress. years
ago and commonly known as stand
ard time The outcome of this
unique suit will be awaited with ma
tional interest for if there is final
decision by the United States Su-
preme Court, the latter will be effec-
tive over the country as whole and
will settle for all time the legality of
so-called daylight saving"
In connection with the centennial
of the Hancock county organization
of Congregational churches, being
held in Ellsworth yesterday and to-
day, a booklet containing history
of the association for the past CEN
fury and brief historical sketches of
the tewnty-four churches affiliated
with it, has been issued. The work
of compiling this history was dele
gated to Rev. George S. Brookes of
the Ellsworth Congregational church,
at the conference last year. In filling
this assignment, Mr.. Brookes has
been painstaking and thorough, and
the result is not only history Of the
association and the churches, but a
valuable contribution to the his
torical literature of Hancock county
and of Maine. In a report of the
conference elsewhere in this issue,
we quote extensively from the
printed history, and from the centen-
nial address delivered yesterday by
Mr.. Brookes, in which he goes
further back into the religious his
tory of this county.
Better Station Needed.
Conditions at the Maine Central
railroad station in Ellsworth are rap
idly becoming unbearable to the
travelling public, the shippers of
freight, and the people of Ellsworth.
Business at the Ellsworth station has
increased by leaps and bounds the
past few summers, since it has be-
come the railroad terminus for sum-
;cIo
and other coast resorts of the
county. The automobile has done it.
Now the Maine Central itself is lay
ing plans to make Ellsworth the
terminus for it's line, continuing the
traffic from here by motor buses. Be-
fore this is done, however, the COM
pay should recognize conditions as
they exist here now and provide for
additional congestion.
The station and yard are entirely
inadequate for present traffic. At the
hour for the New York train, coming
and going, many days this past sum-
mer it was impossible for automo-
biles to get within many yards of
the station. All available space in
the yard, away in to the freight
house, was packed with parked cars,
as we'll as both sides of Main street,
both above and below the railroad
for many yards.
Another source of inconvenience Is
the blocking of Main street by trains
across the crossing every time one is
at the station One day during the
past week a funeral train was held
up at the crossing for twenty
minutes. Waits of ten and fifteen
minutes are common. What is true
at New York train time, is also true
to lesser degree at every other
train.
These are matters of serious in
convenience, but even greater H.
nancial loss is due to the inadequate
facilities for handling freight,
especially for shippers. On the switch
for loading, west of the main track,
there is but a single-way drive for
trucks. Delays Of fifteen to thirty
minutes with every truck load are
the rule. Such delays rapidly run
into money. One large shipper of
pulpwood has reduced the matter to
figures, and finds that it costs nearly
81 more a cord to load here, because
delays at the freight yard mean the
loss of one or two turns on the haul
to the station. Some relief could be
afforded by building two-way drive
alongside the loading switch, and the
railroad right of way Is wide enough
to permit this, but nothing has been
done.
The Maine Central, if it is to fol-
low its policy of "the public be
served" should take cognizance of
these conditions at once. From time
to time there have been rumors OF
plans afoot, but nothing has ma
terialized. The people Of Ellsworth,
and the travelling public using this
station, are putting up with accommo-
dations that were good enough fifty
odd years ago when the railroad was
built, and have been but little changed
since. Isn't it about time we had
something better?