Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-06

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that as no one had voiced any oppo-
sition to the increase of facilities he
felt that there could be no opposi-
ton.
Free Lance Pirates
Those automobile drivers who
'drive their cars anywhere and every
where and seek to pick up passen-
gers en- route were termed free lance
pirates by Henry j. Hart, counsel
for the Bangor & Aroostook Rail-
road. appearing before the commit
tee in behalf of the act to prevent
such auto owners injurinS the BUSH
ness of railroads and steamboat cor
porations at station or wharf prop
erty.
Mr.. Hart presented a new draft of
the original bill to the committee,
pointing out that this prohibits auto
owners or drivers from soliciting pas
sengers in any station or on any sta
tl3p grounds or wharves belonging to
any railroad and steamboat corpor-
alton in the State. Penalty for vio-
latlon is set by the act at a fine Of
not over 500.
r"o1tnedSC Aarbor District
Hearing on the measure proposed
by the Northeast Harbor Yater Dis
trict for the purpose of granting that
corporation added rights and increased
land holdings developed into a lengthy
debate between legal counsel for the
district and land owners of the yicini-
", with suggestion of personal feel
lngs in the matter cropping now and
then to the surface
David o. Roderick of Bar Harbor.
counsel for the water district, ex-
planned to the committee that his cli-
eht corporation desired to acquire, by
process of eminent domain. large
areas or lands around certain parts
OF upper and Lower Hadlock Ponds
on MT. Desert Island. This acquisi-
ton, he said. was entirely for the D,Ir.
pose of protecting the water supply
from pollution that might result if
the island were in future visited bv
untold thousands of tourists in re-
sponse to the advertising boom now
proposed.
In opposition to Mr.. RodericI, came
II. IL. Graham, Bar Harbor attorney.
representing land owners involved in
the proposed acquiring Of land. At
torney Graham could see no immediate
need of granting the water district
SUCH rights as desired and expressed
the pehef that Mr.. Roderick was
speculating entirely when he had said
lhat pollution might result" Mr.
Hraham was sure the present land
owners had no desire to allow the
waters to become polluted and would
protect their own property against
improper invasion by careless tour
ISIS. lie said further that in his in
terpretatlon of present law the water
uistrlct need have no fear FOR in the
event that need should suddenly arise
70 protect the property before the
Legislature again meets to Public
UTILITIES Commission has power to step
IN and take steps to prevent water
pollution.
George f. Kimball. Lewis f. Kim
ball, and II. II. Savage of Northeast
Harbor, owners of considerable Of the
properly included in the tract the wa
ter district would acquire by the pro-
posed act. were firmly opposed to the
measure. They thought the water
district was seeking too much right,
that it had already been given one
consideration after another at the
hands of succeeding Legislatures and
by the people in Northeast Harbor.
They were agreed that water rates
were out of all reason now, and Lewis
kimball remarked that 1.-The water
district is soaking the life out of US
now and still they want to take our
lands away fom us
A. X. Mcbride of the same town told
the committee that people of North