Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-02

"Say. who's this Arthur Gould
that's a candidate for U. S. Sem
ator?"
Such was the question asked OF a
Kennebec Journal reporter this week.
It's a fair question, too for there
are not many men in this section of
the State, among the rank and file of
the citizens, who know this down.
east Yankee who comes from up in
Arookstook county and who is very
decidedly senatorial possibility.
Down east Yankee" is really Just
about the best way to describe Mr..
Gould. He's six feet two and a halr
inches tall, built on the lines of Abe
Lincoln, with q complexion like
grizzled warrior and n hand shake
like u real farmer. Sixty eight years
old is he, but no one would ever
think it.
AS a matter of fact his three score
and more years rest so lightly on him
that he's still hitting perfectly on all
eight cylinders and IS in the sena-
torial fight with all of his big frame
and his long arms.
once any one meets Arthur Gould,
he's surely to remember him, not only
because of the candidates looks, but
also because of what he says and the
way he says 1t. His mannerisms are
particularly. Gouldesque: his Ian
guage is short clipped and his words
few. But when he says something
well. to use the language of the day
he just means it.
Wholly Self Made
II ever a man deserves the title Of
being self-made, then Arthur r.
Gould of Presque Isle does. He has
made himself More than that, he
has made lot of money himself for
! he IS generally reckoned in the mil
lionaire class.
"All this has come because he had
| vision" said one of his Augusta
| friends in speaking of the Aroostook
| man. arthur Gould has had fore
! sight, imagination and the courage
| necessary to carry out his plans"
How true this is best know by what
| Mr.. Gould has done.
He was born on a farm in East
! Corinth. He took all the hard knocks
| that farmers son is supposed to
| get. Then, when a young man, he
! took his long frame to Bangor TO 10
! into business for his brother. w. b.
/ Gould This latter assigned the
( youthful Arthur to TIRE task of selling
/ cigars to the retail trade.
| Particularly was it the chore Of
| Mr.. Gould to travel In Aroostook
| county. He went there. It was long
! before the days of the Bangor and
| Aroostook railway. but the young
( salesman made the trips sold cigars
/ and, incidentally, became so struck
I on the beauties and possibilities Of
| Aroostook county that he decided
! that he was real section of Maine.
SO powerful did Aroostook county
! fasten It's grip on him that in 1890.
| Mr.. Gould bought n lumber mill at
| FreSque Isle. 1t was not much OF a
| mill and those who know numbering,
| or thought they did, shook thei,,
heads and were free in their COM
! ment of the foolhardiness displayed
| by the young man.
| You'll go broke" thew told him
I'll not go broke" said he. And
! he hasn't
| The lumber mill in Pressure Isle IN
| TO the time Mr.. Gould took hold of il
had been part of the year proposi-
| tloh. Inc old New Brunswick rail-
! ROAD now the Canadian Pacific.
| passed through that section, and Mr..
| 1ouId conceived the idea of runnin 8,
| ms mill all the year round and shin
ping finished lumber to Boston and
| other places.
! Foolish, foolish. foolish again
said the dyed-in- the-wool lumber
men and railroad men.
AGAIN Mr.. Gould thought other
WISE He began to drum up trade.
told his proposition to those desir-
ing lumber in Boston and soon no
was shipping it by the carload out of
Aroostook. He was the first man who
ever shipped lumber by rail ont of
| northern Maine. But so succession
was ne that others have followed HE
example and have been successfuI
! On Another Project
IN MS search for more timber
lands to cut. Mr.. Gould came upon
the Aroostook falls in the AroostooI5
river. He saw the advantages Of
| developing these hydro eIectricaIIv-
But the falls were on the New
Brunswick side of the line. How
ever, Mr.. Gould got his charter from
Maine and also got charter from
New Brunswick and he built his
! hydro electric plant.
But there was a big reason back
OF all this. He wanted a railroad
from Presque Isle to Washhrrn. He
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