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Page T h e M a n I n T h e H a t h a w a y S h ir t Mary Woodman 3 Half Million Dollar Ad Hebron Academy ...... William A. Hatch 8 Deacon Barrows “Little Ewe Lamb” Nickel Bus Line ...... ;! ...... 15 Modern Transportation at Un-inflated Prices Maine Communities: Lewiston and Auburn ...... Richard A. Hebert 20

A r o u n d The Cracker Barrel > ___ Ruth Harvey 28 . Maine at Christmastime Skiing in Maine ...... 33 Winter Recreation Areas

Minstrelsy of Ma i n e ...... Edited by Dan Kelly 36 What is a Poet? Mother and Child ...... Don Boek Back Cover THE PINE CONE W IN TER 1952-53 VOL. 8, NO. 4

Published Quarterly by THE STATE OF MAINE PUBLICITY BUREAU PORTLAND - AUGUSTA - KITTERY - BANGOR - NEW YORK Main Office: 3 St. John St., Portland 4, Maine GUY P. BU TLER W ILLIAM A. HATCH Executive Manager Editorial Manager PINE CONE SUBSCRIPTION: $1 A YEAR (Printed in Maine on Maine-made Paper) The Man in the Hathaway Shirt

Few commercial advertising campaigns have created the furor that Hathaway’s “man with the patch” has since its introduction to the consumer public in September, 1951. An immediate half-million dollar boost in sales is proof that glamour appeal is not confined to the field of feminine fa hions.

B y Mary Woodman (Reprinted from the Waterville Morning Sentinel Sesqiiicentennhil Kdition)

A picture of a distinguished looking, paign that Hathaway’s president middle-aged man, wearing a black Ellerton M. Jette, credits with bring patch over his right eye, influenced ing about the half million dollar boost Americans to spend half a million dol­ This merchandising miracle occurret lars more for Hathaway shirts in the at a time when clothing and textile! fall of 1951 and spring of 1952 than were generally low and many othei in the previous year. shirt companies were barely holding This glamorized photograph was their own in sales. If times had beei the mainstay of an advertising cam­ good the man with the black patcl

WINTER, 1952-53 might have wrought even greater years worn a black patch on one eye, wonders. result of an accident that happened He appeared for the first time last on a fishing trip to Scotland when a September in the New Yorker Maga­ fly he was casting came back into his zine as “The Man in the Hathaway face. When Mr. Ogilvy brought into Shirt.” In the full page, color adver­ focus the elements of his finished ad­ tisement he was resplendent, soignee, vertisement the black patch had been irreproachable in dress, the mature, incorporated. seasoned sophisticate with ample This inspiration has brought him means and a talent for living. Most awards and fame in the advertising important of all, he wore a startling world. As already mentioned, it has black patch over one eye. also sold shirts. The reaction was instantaneous. Ronald Brown of D unham ’s of Thousands of letters from all over Maine, is a local witness to its ef­ the country and the world poured in­ ficacy. Dunham’s, with the largest to the Hathaway office in Waterville. stock of Hathaway shirts in the coun­ Publications, including Life, the Lon­ try, has seen its famous mail order don Daily Mirror and Paris news­ business increase in volume since the papers, carried stories about the strik­ beginning of the black patch advertis­ ing advertisement and the stir it had ing. “Some people just tear the page created. The New Yorker ran a car­ out of the magazine and say ‘Send a toon showing three men converging shirt like this,’ ” Mr. Brown remarked. on a clothing store and emerging with While the increased sales are high­ black patches on their right eyes. ly gratifying, Hathaway did not plan Some of the letters were fan mail, its advertising campaign with the addressed to the handsome model, who idea of producing a big volume, ac­ like Ezio Pinza, had proved that a cording to Melvyn Liggett, who is in middle-aged man can exert a glamor­ charge of the company’s manufactur­ ous, romantic appeal. He tuxmed out ing. Rather it aimed to convince to be equal to his billing. Debunkers American men that a quality shirt is who expected a commuter from Flat- worth the investment. bush were disappointed because the “Men who were willing enough to man with the black patch is a White pay $100 for a suit, didn’t w ant to Russian Count, son of a czarist gen­ put down more than $2.98 for a eral who fled from the Bolsheviks. shirt,” Mr. Liggett said. “We wanted to make those men realize that a good T he Count, in real life, does not shirt is not only more economical in wear a black patch. That was the in­ the long run, but is better looking, spiration of David Ogilvy, who more flattering to the appearance.” created the series of Hathaway ad­ vertisements in which he appears. With this in mind, texts of the Mr. Ogilvy, executive vice president Hathaway advertisements have con­ of the advertising firm of Hewitt, centrated on telling men why Hath­ Ogilvy, Benson & Mather, Inc., of away shirts are worth the extra New York, created his shirt model in money. Construction is emphasized, the image of a distinguished Amer­ for one thing. All Hathaway products ican diplomat, Lewis W. Douglas, im­ are manufactured with the single mediate past ambassador to Great needle stitching used by custom shirt B ritain. makers. Stitching is fine; there are Mr. Douglas, the impeccably 22 stitches to the inch. Sleeves are dressed, accomplished man of affairs, cut in one piece. The extra full- represented everything that Mr. Ogil­ shirts amounts to three extra yards vy wanted readers to associate with of cloth for every dozen. Hathaway shirts. In fact, he was But most of all Hathaway adver­ something of a shirt connoisseur him­ tising has talked about fabric. Copy­ self and favored custom shirts fault­ writers have grown lyrical about lessly made of the finest materials. woolen taffeta, linen batiste, hand- Musing on the personality of Mr. blocked paisleys. A typical advertise­ Douglas, whom he had long admired, ment reads “From St. Vincent in the Mr. Ogilvy remembered that the form­ British West Indies comes a cotton er ambassador had for two or three which looks like silk. It is called ‘Sea

4 THE PINE CONE “The man in the Hathaway Shirt," Baron George Wangell, is the son of a czarist general who fled from the Bolsheviks. He is modeling left, a Hathaway South Sea cotton shirt and right, the British Sea Island cotton shirt.

Island’ and it is much in vogue Fabric has been the special concern among English boulevardiers. of Hathaway’s president, Mr. Jette. “Sea Island Cotton had been de­ He is internationally recognized as a scribed as ‘soft as swansdown, lus­ fabric designer and most of the cloth trous as satin, absorbent as wool, dur­ purchased abroad by Hathaway has able as linen.’ During the war the been woven to his specifications. Mr. Royal Air Force used it instead of silk Jette, who includes a wide knowledge for parachutes. of antiques among his accomplish­ “The demand for superfine Sea ments, grew up in the garment and Island vastly exceeds the supply— textile business. His know-how and only 1,000 bales were produced last skill, combined with artistry, have year. Hathaway bought the lion’s been a big factor in the growth of share. . .” the C. F. H athaw ay Co., since he took An advertisement extolls pure silk over the presidency in 1932. foulard, hand-blocked in England; tattersall in superb woolen taffeta, It was Mr. Jette who instituted the imported from Perthshire; cashmere policy of upgrading the quality of woven for Hathaway in Scotland; Hathaway shirt. During the 1930s winter-weight gingham woven in when most manufacturers were con­ Scotland to Hathaway’s order. cerned with putting out the least ex­ This preoccupation with fabric has pensive product possible, he held his made Hathaway, since the war, the faith in the future of the high priced largest importer of shirtings in shirt. As a result the end of the de­ America. Purchases are made in pression saw Hathaway one of the England, Scotland, Ireland, France, few companies left in the quality field. Switzerland, Italy, India, China and Today it is one of the largest, if not Japan. the largest, manufacturer of high In all, Hathaway makes shirts in grade shirts. 8,000 different patterns of cloth and hundreds of different styles and col­ Development of the Hathaway lar designs. “Actually we’re doing name into a synonym for quality and semi-custom manufacturing on a vol­ style has been gradual. Ten years ume basis,” Mr. Liggett said. ago most of the company’s output was

WINTER, 1952-53 5 retailed under store labels. The first a third manufacturing establishment move toward a Hathaway identifica­ was inaugurated in Lowell, Mass. At tion was a red H bar tack at the side present about 75 per cent of the pro­ seams. Customers who learned to ap­ duction, handled by 600 employes, is preciate the features of Hathaway cut located in Waterville. and styling began to ask for the red- Although Hathaway has risen to marked shirts. The next step was the national prominence only in the last addition of the words “tailored by 20 years, the company has a long his­ Hathaway” to the store label. tory of solid business accomplishment. During the war Hathaway was al­ It grew up in the 19th century, the lowed to label the officers shirts it creation of Charles F. Hathaway, made for the Army and the shirts prototype of the hard-headed, ener­ made for the Wacs, Waves, and Spars. getic, pious Yankee. He founded the This helped to build up the reputa­ company in 1837 after a prelim inary tion of the Hathaway name. round with the publishing business. The humble beginnings of the con­ During the period when the policy cern are legendary today. Hathaway of upgrading and labeling was going cut shirts in the living room of his on the number of shirts produced home on Leighton Street and parceled steadily increased. It has gone from them out to Waterville women who 150,000 shirts yearly in 1931, to 600,- sewed them by hand in their homes. 000 in 1938, to 1,200,000 in 1948. The Periodically he made the trip by stage present production rate of 1,600,000 to Boston to sell the shirts and buy yearly represents an increase of 30 more cloth. per cent in the last four years. As the business prospered Hath­ This increase has been accom­ away found the capital to expand. panied by plant expansion. In 1945 Improvements in sewing machines the Silver Street factory in Water- made it practical to set up a small ville was opened, and two years ago factory. His expansion was along

The main brick factory building on Leighton Street, Waterville, is still a glorified ell on the nineteenth century house. conservative lines, however, and the each of his workers as he divined “shirt m anufactory” building in 1853 He also provided them with the n consisted of an addition on his own efficient working tools available in house, already headquarters for the time and it was plain that he belie business. holiness and industriousness went gether. For instance, in 1872 : T he C. F. Hathaway Co., actually, chines operated by a steam system has never moved out of that original placed the original foot peddle : Hathaway living room—it has merely chines. By this time the plant ' added on. The main brick factory on already lighted by gas. Leighton Street is still a glorified ell When H athaw ay died in 1893, on the nineteenth century house. Ex­ the age of 76, the business was ta ecutive offices now occupy the space over by Col. C. H. Leighton. Im] where Hathaway cut his first shirts. tant in the management was Frank This circumstance gives the com­ Smith, who entered the company pany a perfect background for the 1882 when he was 15 years old, quality tradition that it publicizes. A continued to serve it into the 192 recent man with the black patch ad­ When Col. Leighton died in 1915 vertisement referred to the group of was succeeded by his son, E. dedicated craftsmen at Waterville, Leighton. Maine who had been making shirts, The quality tradition built up “man and boy” for 114 yeai’s. these men is cherished at Hatha^ H athaw ay’s original craftsmen today. The way to maintain t quality is to keep the pride of H j were expected to be not only skilled away employes in what they are workers, but models of sobriety and ing, according to Mr. Liggett. “If piousness. Their deeply religious ever lose our pride in the work employer, who walked to Benton every turn out that will be the day v Sunday to preach, kept a record in his lose our place in the quality field,’ diary of the state of conscience of said.

Fishing in Maine A ccording to the Eastport Sentinel, the days of wooden ships and iron men are not a legend of the past down east. Two local fishermen, Walter Malloch and his son Ellwood were out haul­ ing a weir off Campobello Island when they discovered, along with the expected herring, a 600 pound bluefin tuna in the nets. Fishing from a dory by flashlight is not the accepted way to catch giant tuna but the men were not inclined to let their valu­ able prize escape. Wielding the oars like a shillalah, the men stunned the huge fish, then one of them jumped overside into the mid-November water with a pocket jackknife, threw a half­ nelson around the still fighting monster and slit his throat. Like Ernest Hemingway’s “Old Man and the Sea,” they lashed their prize alongside and towed it into port. jj: s)s 5jc s)c Maine’s Broiler industry has become nationally recognized through the annual Broiler Days at Belfast. Although not new to the State, the impetus gained by this industry during the red meat shortage of World War II and steady growth since has placed it in the position of one of the fastest growing industries of the State of Maine.

WINTER, 1952-53 Hebron Academy

Despite the ravages of tire, weather and economic disaster, Hebron Academy has grown and prospered during its 150 year existence. Little did Deacon Barrows realize that his eloquent pleadings for the “little ewe lamb” would give to the community the modern preparatory school for boys that exists here today.

By William A. Hatch

I n the year 1819 the Elder John sued for the best advantage of the In­ Tripp, secretary of the Board of stitution under the present disaster.” Trustees of Hebron Academy, received A quorum could not be secured for the following notice from three mem­ several months, but finally on Decem­ bers of the Board, among them Wil­ ber 14, 1819, the entire Board met at liam Barrows, the founder of the the Barrows’ home in Hebron to con­ Academy: sider the future of Hebron Academy. Present also at this meeting was “Sir: As our Academy by a holy the Hon. Stephen Emery of Paris Hill and just providence is destroyed by who argued vigorously for the re­ tire you are requested to call a meet­ moval of the Academy to that com­ ing of the Trustees to be held at the munity. His argument lasted for house of William Barrows, Esq., on most of the morning session. In his Thursday the 18th. of the present own words spoken at the Semi- month, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, Centennial of the Academy: “The to see what course ought to be pur­ proposition fell upon the ear of Dea-

8 THE PINE CONE con Barrows like a peal of thunder. recognized as a high-ranking inde­ His emotions checked his utterance. pendent secondary school which pre­ He requested a delay till after din­ pares boys practically and soundly ner.” Following the adjournment the for college and for life. Trustees met to consider the other side The founding of Hebron Academy of this grave question. After a few follows the New England tradition. wox-ds by Elder Tripp in opposition, As early as 1779 Deacon Barrows the tall, spare Deacon arose to ad­ came to what is now Hebron to set up dress his colleagues for a full hour. his home. A young man at that time, He recalled the original grants to filled with patriotic sentiment (he had Hebron and Paris; he traced their reenlisted in Washington’s Army histories; he recited certain contrasts. after hearing Washington speak in The inhabitants of Paris are rich, he the dark days of December 1776) he said; Hebron’s are poor. Paris is a found through his army experience town of broad, fertile lands, large the need for moral values in life, a flocks and herds, and men who live in phenomenon occurring often these luxury. Hebron has few acres, but days. Looking inward and finding rocks, swamps, and barrens. But himself wanting in virtue, he reorgan- Hebron’s men and women have ized his life according to Christian labored day and night for their liter­ principles and zealously promoted the ary and educational societies. Then, welfare of the community. holding The Holy Bible with his fin­ It was through his efforts that as ger at the story of David and Nathan early as 1791 a church was estab­ in II Samuel XII he went on: “and lished in the obscure community, and now the purse proud people of Paris, a few years later he brought to that taking advantage of our misfortune, church as its minister the Elder John have come down to steal away our lit­ Tripp, who served the parish until his tle ewe lamb that we have nourished death in 1847. in our bosoms, the offspring of our In 1804 Barrows journeyed to Bos­ prayers and tears and toils.” It is ton to secure a charter from the Gen­ recorded that no other word was ever eral Court of Massachusetts for an spoken of the removal of Hebron from Academy. The petition, granted on its present location under the shade February 10, 1804, was signed by Gov­ of Singepole and Streaked Mountains. ernor Caleb Strong. Hebron Acad­ The eloquence and pious devotion of emy became a reality, thus following Deacon William Barrows had saved in its founding the New England tra­ Hebron Academy for Hebron. dition of guaranteeing for society T he spirit which guided this Rev­ physical, spiritual, and intellectual olutionary War Veteran during his security and opportunity for growth. life in Hebron is recorded in the fol­ It is interesting to note here that lowing words on a memorial on the on July 1, 1805, the Trustees of campus of the Academy: “I fear God Hebron Academy “voted that the seal and have :io other fear.” And a of the new academy be impressed with colored window in the Hebron Com­ the image of Dr. Benjamin Franklin.” munity Baptist Church perpetuates Franklin, too, as a young man had his memory with a picture of the “lit­ learned that the virtuous life with tle ewe lamb” which was nearly purpose is the most satisfying and stolen. productive life. He, too, had learned Deacon Barrows’ staunchness of that the abnegation of self and an in­ purpose and dedication to the teach­ terest in society lead to happiness. ing of young people have motivated And he, too, had been much interested Hebron Academy for nearly 150 years in spiritual and intellectual develop­ now. Beset by difficulties of person­ ment. Perhaps the Trustees of He­ nel and finances, and plagued by bron Academy saw a similarity be­ natural forces, the Academy has found tween Franklin and Barrows. strength in the Deacon’s spirit not only to meet and overcome obstacles F or about the first fifty years of its but to expand its material holdings existence Hebron Academy struggled and to develop its intellectual and to keep alive. Preceptor, as the head spiritual resources so that today it is of the school was then known, fol­

WINTER, 1952-53 9 lowed Preceptor in fairly rapid suc­ and are men who are interested cession, and the course of study varied education and who are steadfast with the needs and demands of stu­ the face of difficulty. dents, who came from the surround­ John F. Moody became Principal ing countryside and villages for an 1871 and served the Academy f< education. It was truly the determi­ eight years. He reorganized tl nation and foresight of the Trustees course of study along what we ca that made the Academy survive dur­ traditional lines today and first esta ing this period. The turnover of Pre­ lished classes, thus giving continuil ceptors was great, but the Trustees to the curriculum. As a result, tl served long terms, thus giving a first Hebron Commencement was cel needed continuity to the life of the brated in 1878. One of the membe: Academy. And the spirit of the Trus­ of that class is the Rev. Eleanor 1 tees of that period has been the spirit Forbes, graduate of Bates College ar of the Trustees since then. Hebron pastor emeritus of the First Univers; Academy owes much to such men as list Church of West Paris. Barrows, Tripp, Parris, Whitman and Cushman, to such men as the Honor­ I n 1885, Dr. William E. Sargen able Percival Bonney, the Honorable then a young man several years oi John D. Long, Freelan O. Stanley, of Bowdoin College, became Principi Roscoe Hupper, George Treat, and the of Hebron Academy. He remaine Honorable William B. Nulty. The at the Academy until his death i Trustees of the Academy have been 1922. A pparently the Academy we

The Sargent Memorial Gymnasium was erected in 1928. Top, left; Hebron boys hold a joint dance with the girls from O Grove (Pine Cone, Spring 'if9) and, right, outdoor graduation exercii for the class of 1952.

ready for Sargent’s powers as an edu­ stories of Sargent’s lending me cator and an administrator, for dur­ students, of his patience with ing his principalship Hebron ex­ frailty, and of his disciplining panded its physical plant, strength­ ward students with a fire loi ened and developed its curriculum, and effective. and began to attract students from During the administration the entire state of Maine and other Ralph L. Hunt, who became Pr parts of New England. Sargent in­ in 1923, Hebron became a boys’ troduced athletics in the Academy, and Dr. Hunt continued the tra in 1893 Hebron had its first football established by Dr. Sargent, team, which included such men as creased the number of buildii Clayton K. Brooks, George W. Treat, the campus by adding the Will and Otho H. Thompson. Sargent Gymnasium, the Stan! Perhaps “Billy” Sargent was the firmary, and the Stanley 1 best loved of Hebron’s Principals. A Arena, the first of its type man truly devoted to the development secondary schools. He also of young people, he was generous and Sturtevant House, which burnet sympathetic but firm when firmness in 1927. was needed. There are countless In 1943 as a result of diffi f

Below, left; Headmaster Claude L. Allen, Jr., discusses college requh ments with Phillip Montgomery, Camden and right, Sunday event, vesper services are held in the local Hebron Baptist Church. Evenings, the Hebron boys meet with the headmaster in the Common Room at Sturtevant House for informal discussions 071 all phases of school life.

arising irum World War II, the Trus­ enter colleges and universities froir tees voted to close the Academy. coast to coast. A partial list of col But once more the Trustees, led by leges in which Hebron graduates art George W. Treat, felt that Hebron now enrolled would include in addi Academy should function, and in 1946 tion to the Maine colleges and all tht with Claude L. Allen, Jr., former New England state universities, Hal­ teacher and administrator at Deerfield yard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Cor Academy, as Headmaster, the Acad­ nell, Dartmouth, Amherst, Wesleyan emy reopened with a new student Williams, M. I. T., and many others body and new faculty. Mr. Allen has continued at Hebron Academy the A lthough Hebron Academi spirit and philosophy of its founder. emphasizes the college preparatorj U nder Mr. Allen’s leadership curriculum, its chief interest is in th( Hebron has brought to Maine young development of the whole boy. It be men from some 15 states outside of lieves that with learning must com< New England, but the Academy is a sense of responsibility to mankind still as it has been since the days of Hence, it strives to develop charactei Deacon Barrows, a Maine Academy in its students so th a t they m ight g( with about one-third of its student on to college and into life with a con body from the State. So too its grad­ viction that there is a purpose in lif< uates in recent years have chosen to and that they are responsible for tht

12 THE PINE CONf carrying: out of that purpose. In snows. But immediately following short, Hebron Academy looks at its that unfortunate event, the Trustees curriculum as a part of the general voted to erect a new arena. The new education curriculum, the purpose of arena, completed in time for the 1952- which is to give to students a fund of 53 hockey season, is really an out­ related knowledge allied with values standingly fine structure, 100 ft. wide so that in the end the students’ facul­ and 205 ft. long, built of cinder block ties for judgment and creative ac­ with steel uprights supporting the tivity are developed and strength­ roof made of Oregon fir arches rein­ ened. forced with steel rings. The Academy health program is A ny good school needs only stu­ designed to meet all emergencies and dents who want to learn and a fac­ to give adequate and efficient treat­ ulty capable of stimulating and in­ ment of all diseases and injuries. The teresting boys in learning but Hebron Stanley Infirm ary, built in 1928, can is also fortunate in having excellent take care of 12 patients. There are facilities. Its two large dormitories, two resident nurses; and a competent Sturtevant House, in which 108 boys nearby doctor is on call at all times. and six masters live and in which Besides these buildings the Acad­ thei'e are the diningroom, a browsing emy owns houses for its faculty. library, and common rooms, and At­ With this physical plant Hebron is wood Hall, which houses 40 boys and equipped to give its students comfort­ three masters, make for comfortable able living, purposeful recreation, fine living. Sturtevant Hall, the class­ health protection, and hard, honest room building, was built in 1891. It scholastic work. includes classrooms, a large study hall, science laboratories, the Hanni­ One of the measures of a success­ bal Hamlin Library, the business of­ ful school is the type of man it edu­ fice, and the H eadm aster’s Office. cates and graduates. Since the early For its athletic program the Acad­ days of Hebron Academy, its Alumni emy is well equipped. The Sargent have been strong citizens and success­ Memorial Gymnasium, erected in ful men. One of its Alumni of the 1928, contains two basketball floors, 19th century was William Pitt Fes­ one of which is used for movies on senden, U. S. Senator and U. S. Con­ Saturday nights, a cage, a swimming- gressman. As Secretary of the Treas­ pool, and ample locker space. In ury (1864-1865) he revised the fi­ March of 1952 the Stanley A rena col­ nancial policy of the United States lapsed under the weight of heavy during the dark days of the Civil War.

Swimming in the Sargent Gymnasium pool and skiing on the many excellent trails around Hebron are both popular. head of the Securities Exchange Com mission and the Atomic Energy Com mission. Other Hebron Alumni who have dis tinguished themselves are Dr. Everet C. Herrick, President Emeritus o Andover Newton Theological Schoo the Honorable Bert M. Fernald, Gov ernor of Maine and U. S. Senatoi Brigadier General Spaulding Bisbet Maine Director of Civil Defense, t’n Honorable William B. Nulty, Su preme Judicial Court, Dr. Axel J Uppvall, Professor Emeritus of let landic Languages at the University o Pennsylvania, the Honorable Fred erick N. Allen, Chairman of Legis V: . • ' lative Investigating Committee i Maine, Roscoe H. Hupper, distin Sturtevant Hall, a classroom building, guished Admiralty Lawyer in Ne^ was built in 1891. York, Charles C. Dwyer, coach an teacher at Hebron Academy, and bril liant athletes and coaches such a Daniel MacFayden, Frederick Hai low, and Edward Jeremiah.

I n 1954 Hebron Academy will celt And as U. S. Senator he broke party brate its 150th birthday. As we i lines to cast the deciding vote in op­ the United States think of tim< position to the impeachment of Presi­ Hebron is an old school. Its founder dent Johnson. Hannibal Hamlin at­ gave it a spirit which has enabled i tended Hebron for one year, 1824- to endure and survive local and na 1825. At least 35 years of H am lin’s tional difficulties. And throughout it life were spent in serving his govern­ Hfe it has attem pted to contribute t ment. At various times he was Gov­ society. It has looked forward a ernor of the State of Maine, U. S. ways, planning for the welfare of it Congressman and Senator, and Vice students. It has constantly kept i President under Abraham Lincoln. mind the dictate of its incorporatin John D Long, Governor of Massa­ statute, being: chusetts, U. S. Congressman for four “for the purpose of promoting piet terms, and Secretary of the Navy in and virtue, and for the education the McKinley-Roosevelt Administra­ youth in such languages, and i tions, attended Hebron Academy. such of the liberal arts and science And in more recent times a Hebron as the Trustees hereinafter pre graduate, Sumner Pike, served as vided shall order and direct.”

Statisticians of the Boothbay Register have come up with the fact that if all of the lobsters shipped from Boothbay Harbor in a year were to leave over the road, under their own power, single file, the first lobster would arrive in Hartford, Conn, before the last left the Harbor. The Register’s “mathematical experts” also reveal that if all of these lobsters were thrown into a room twenty feet by twenty feet, the resultant heap would create a local skyscraper 175 feet in the air.

14 THE PINE CON Nickel Bus Line

Back in 1885, the Biddeford and Saco (pronounced “Socko”) Railroad Company was incorporated. It was an historic occasion for this booming coastal community as two sleek horses furnished locomotion for the first open, four-wheeled car carrying passengers between the two cities. The zone fare on this first car was five cents. To­ day, sixty-seven years later, the same five cents transports sons and grandsons of the early commuters over the same route, operated by the same company, here in Maine. It is the only line in the country that has held its prices at this level over this period.

Modern blue and cream steel coaches service the huge Bates, Pepperell and Saco-Lowell plants of the industrial in-town area of Biddeford and Saco. J. Burton Stride started as clerk for the Biddeford and Saco R. R. Company in 1919 and has been, progressively, Assistant Treasurer, General Manager and now President. “Burt,” as he is known up and down Main Street, says, “We are a small company but vie have held consumer prices down by attention to details and by purchasing the best of equipment and the right tools for every job.”

General Superintendent, Raymond V Bell, keeps an eye on the weather < zoell as his buses. His ultra-moder office at the garage is equipped wit all types of weather gauges. Arlii Bowe, secretary, has been with tl company twenty years. One of ht duties is to shovel the day's receip into this electric counting machine /< automatic sorting and counting. S ix ty - three trips are made each day between Biddeford-Saco and Old Orchard and nine to Camp Ellis. The Old Orchard run is the longest line in the sys­ tem, 7.6 miles. More trips are added during the busy summer months providing a bus every fifteen minutes to the resort section along Ocean Park and the Beach.

One-half million miles a year are open horse-drawn car for the line 67 travelled over the twenty miles ser­ years ago and has built the electric viced. Included in the Biddeford & cars and all of the rolling stock since. Saco Railroad Company lines are the Two working executives and one industrial and retail shopping centers secretary compose the “top brass” of of the two cities and the residential areas and outlying rural and resort the outfit. Eight regular drivers and sections along the eastern York two mechanics complete the company. County shore. The company went all­ The wage scale is comparable to that bus in 1939 when six ACF buses re­ paid by much larger transportation placed electric street cars on four lines and benefits to the workers such lines. Ten buses are now in operation as paid vacations, sick time, paid up in the expanded system. It is of inter­ insurance and compensation and est to note that the J. G. Brill Com­ Christmas bonus awards make the pany of Philadelphia, who furnished Biddeford & Saco Line a good place these modern coaches, made the first to work.

The bus (below), midway between the two cities, is headed for Old Orchard.

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H O 1 {* fg - Pride of the line and the envy of other lines is this compact, ivy-covered garage stra­ tegically located so that each bus passes twice during each trip. The elongated traffic light, left, hangs over the street and can call in any bus by lighting a combina­ tion of two colors of the multi-colored bea­ con. Each bus is coded with two different colors for identification. The garage was built as a car barn in 1894 and completely rebuilt and modernized in June 1939 to care for the newly acquired buses. It is com­ pletely equipped with electrically and hydraulically operated tools for every job from freeing a slug from a coin box to re­ placing a complete engine. Safety fea­ tures include adequate lighting throughout, a carbon monoxide alarm, such as those used in coal mines, which sets off a blatant buzzer if the gas content inside the garage exceeds .01 of 1% and two strategically located buttons that will immediately open the three large doors electrically. No cost or effort has been spared to make the 36 by 120 foot shop neat and efficient. A few of the countless money and labor saving devices to assure con­ tinual operation and safety are, above, a lift hoisting seven and one- half tons in the air; a metals x-ray machine, right, that tests every unit of running gear regularly for pos­ sible defects; below, left, an overhead spray washes each coach every night; and right, passengers stay aboard while this midget lift hoists the rear wheels and chains are put on, with the bus on its way in less than two minutes. This modern transport sys­ tem here in Maine is one answer to the wag who said, “What this country needs is a good five cent nickel.” Maine Communities

Lewiston and Auburn

Making up Maine’s second largest urban area, these combined communities measure up to the ideal formula as a place in which to “live, work and play.”

By Richard A. Hebert

Community Promotion Manager, Maine Publicity Bureau

W ith the word “ balance” being been less possible, due to deep-rootec stressed more and more in American civic rivalries and other historica community development, a quick, factors, to attempt a joint evaluatioi over-all glance at the principal Maine of two such distinct municipalities areas of urban population shows the The same also might be said of sue! Pine Tree State has a number of no­ other Maine community areas a< table examples with this desirable Portland-South Portland, Biddeford locale feature. Saco, Bangor - Brewer, Waterville ■ Principal accepted components of Winslow, to name only the more prom­ such community “balance” may be inent of the Maine “twin” cities am enumerated as economic, social, cul­ towns separated by rivers. tural and recreational, which spheres Today, while political character­ may further be subdivided or produce istics and municipal operations stil associated offshoots of valuable com­ may remain as distinctly separate en­ munal activities. A commonly- tities in such areas, the Americar expressed formula for the same “melting pot” process, hastened bj theme is seen in the search for the the flux of remarkable economic ex ideal community in which to “live, pansion, has made such an assess­ work and play.” ment of combined community values Viewed in the light of this simple highly desirable. Indicative of the formula, or analysed in detail accord­ trend are the several examples of ing to basic components, Lewiston and joint Chambers of Commerce for sucb Auburn, as a community area, must “twin” cities and towns. rank near the top of any list of “well- balanced” communities in Maine, or A uburn and Lewiston are situated even in the entire Northeast. on west and east banks, respectively Several decades ago, it might have of the Androscoggin River, which here

20 THE PINE CONE flows generally north-south through major generating plants convergir the center of the County of the same at the nearby Gulf Island switchir name in southwestern Maine. The station. In addition, the two-city art cities are at the site of one of the is ringed wiih modern substations, f< great falls in the mighty river, whose efficient and constant distribution < headwaters in the famous Rangeley electricity. Power for industry hi Lakes chain drain the vast mountain never been a lack in the Lewisto area of northwestern Maine and Auburn area, a situation which CM northeastern New Hampshire. planning engineers also have projec Here the first dam and mill was ed far into the foreseeable future. built in 1834, on the Lewiston side. A generation ago, when the vah Two years later a mile-long canal was of adver.ising slogans came into pop built, also on the Lewiston side, to lar recognition, Lewiston took fi supply process water and power to itself the title: “The Industrial Hea textile plants, beginning an area of of Maine.” Auburn prided itself ( industrial and population expansion being “The City of Homes” and ah which has continued for more than a “Maine’s Busy Shoe City.” Toda century. due to the growing diversification i Today, this section of the Andro­ industry in both cities, especially tl scoggin supports four large power de­ growth of the shoe industry in A velopments for industrial and do­ burn, the first title might be applh mestic use. It is near the geographic to both cities combined. center of the Central Maine Power Textiles became and still are tl Company network with transmission principal industrial product of Le^ lines from all of the power firm’s iston, and shoes and moccasins tl

Looking north along the Androscoggin River to the Great Falls above North Bridge, this air view shows three of the four bridges connecting the two cities, with a concentration of some of Lewiston's many large industrial buildings on the right. Many elm trees line Auburn’s in-town business and semi-residential section on the left. These construction views of Lewiston’s now-completed Montello Heights reservoir gives an indication of the size of the three-year, $425,000 project, which doubled the city’s water supply and is planned to take care of the city’s growth needs for 50 years into the future.

chief output in Auburn. Historically, ti'ial centers, while the remaining the first small shoe and boot manu­ towns are distinguished principally by factory in Maine was in Minot, from agricultural and small industrial which Auburn was separated as a components. new town in 1842. Agi'icultural efforts tend chiefly to While textiles and shoes still re­ dairy products, poultry, livestock, main the chief products of the two field crops, canning vegetables, forest cities, there are today no less than 20 products and fruits and berries, in separate industrial classifications in that order. the twin-city area. Some of these in­ Total population of the county is clude, beside textile and leather prod­ 83,717, but the effective normal retail ucts, a diversity of wood products, potential within 20 miles of the two paper boxes, apparel, mattresses, toys, cities is estimated at more than 125,- confections, brass and iron foundries, 000 persons. This helps explain the sheet metal fabrication, light machin­ strong mercantile and financial posi­ ery, industrial and consumer chemical tion of the two-city area, in addition preparations, brick, meat packing, to its industrial situation. food processing, baking and printing. A few approximate figures, based Out of a combined population of on latest census counts show the fol­ 64,220 (Lewiston, 41,142; Auburn, lowing for the two cities, allowing for 23,078), the industrial labor force of slight variations: Retail establish­ the two cities is estimated at about ments, 700; wholesale, 40; profes­ 25,000 persons, probably the highest sional offices, 300; total resources of percentage in Maine. Total indus­ eight banks, $100,000,000. In Au­ trial payrolls for the two cities rose burn, 89 per cent of the population is to a new peak of $32,751,981 in 1950, native-born; in Lewiston, 76.41 per while value of manufactured products cent, these percentages having risen is estimated currently as nearly considerably in recent years. Pre­ $120,000,000. dominating national origins are Eng­ lish, French-Canadian, Irish, German, Other principal economic features Italian, Jewish, Scottish, Lithuanian, of the two-city area may best be Greek and Polish. Number of dwell­ grasped by viewing Lewiston and Au­ ing units: Lewiston, 11,799; Auburn, burn also as a commercial, financial, 7,250. transportation and distribution center All these statistics show better than for nearly all of Androscoggin Coun­ the national average gains between ty, plus adjacent areas of Cumber­ 1920 and 1950, indicating the dynamic land, Oxford and Kennebec Counties. characteristics of the combined com­ Androscoggin has, in addition to munities. the two cities, 12 town areas. Three of Educational statistics also show an these—Lisbon Falls, Livermore Falls unusually strong base for the cultural and Mechanic Falls—also are indus­ development of the two cities. Bates

22 THE PINE CONE College (Pine Cone, Winter, 1945-46) junior high schools, together wi on a beautiful campus in Lewiston, parochial school, two private sc has a normal co-educational enroll­ and one business college, all w ment of some 1,200 students. Lewis­ combined enrollment of about ton also has a business college, two pupils and students. high schools, nine elementary schools Each city has its own publ and seven kindergartens, besides brary, with a total of more than eight parochial schools, all with com­ 000 volumes, besides the Bates bined enrollment of some 7,700 pupils lege Library and several privat and students. Auburn has 17 public positories. Thirty-two churches i schools, including high school and two denominations serve the commur religious needs. The two cities wise have an adequate compleme the various professional service

Auburn’s Halloween project, one T he political complexion oJ of the most successful in New Eng­ two communities is one of their land, allowed this uninhibited water distinguishing features. Lewist color artist to decorate a Court recognized as preponderantly I Street store window. Auburn mer­ cratic, while Auburn is conside; chants donated prizes for the best stronghold of Republican politics, paintings, which washed off easily. burn was the first city in Mai adopt the Mayor - Council - Mai charter, in 1917. Lewiston has el mayors since 1863, but adopt Mayor-Council-Commission chart 1939. In Auburn, the City Mai is the executive and administrate ficer for the city. Differences in partisan po though sometimes heated, have g ally not been allowed to affec sential municipal cooperation bel the two cities, especially in i decades. As would be expected, Auburn residents work in Lev and vice versa. Shopping needs are filled interchangeably in th communities. Large gatherings, as conventions, will use the hote assembly hall facilities of both munities as if they were one. While Lewiston has the h Armory in the State of Maine, also for a convention and expo hall and indoor sport spectacles burn is the shire city of the Cc with the County Courthouse allied facilities. Auburn and Lewiston also are tegically located in relation tc standing recreational facilities, in a 25-mile radius of the main t connecting the two cities lie pa three lake chains and a large sej of the Casco Bay ai-ea. With miles are scores of additional and ponds and a large section < south - central Maine coastline, Auburn's notable city recreation program is expanding rapidly into the adult field, with arts and crafts classes gaming popularity. At the left is Superintendent James H. Grooms, director of Parks ami Recreation, looking over his wife’s hooked rug work. At the work table foreground, clockwise, are N. S. Trask, Miss Frances B. Went­ worth, Mrs. C. I. Gowell, Mrs. M. A Briggs, Oscar G. Holt, project director, and Mrs. Richard B. Gorman.

its beautiful peninsulas, island and national attention. While both pro bays. Woodland, farm tracts and grams are concerned primarily witi rolling hills characterize this section children and teen-agers, recent addi of Maine comprising the basin area tions have been made to serve adul of the lower Androscoggin River. groups in craft and hobby facilities With easy access to nearby vaca­ tioning, fishing and hunting, both in­ While space does not permit a de land a^;d coastal, recreational needs tailed exposition of the ever-increas within the two-city limits are by no ing recreational projects underway o means forgotten. Lewiston has two planned in the two cities, a timely city parks of 30 acres, several base­ note might be made of the man; ball and football parks, a professional Christmas season activities in boti hockey rink, and swimming and wad­ cities. Auburn also has establishei ing pools. Auburn, nearly twice as a highly popular Winter Carniva large in area (65.3 square miles to (Jan. 23-25 for 1953), with an un Lewiston’s 35), has six city parks, usually high percentage participate four bathing beaches, 12 playgrounds, by all school-age children. two football fields, four baseball fields, As the second largest shopping cen and four skating rinks. ter in Maine, Lewiston has taken con Notable expansion has been made siderable pride in its Christmas dec in recent years in both Auburn’s and orations, which are among the bes' Lewiston’s municipal recreation pro­ in Maine and draw much attentior grams. Both cities have full-time rec­ from other cities. The project, spon reation directors, with the Auburn su­ sored by the Lewiston Chamber ol perintendent also directing the Au­ Commerce, was started in 1949 as i burn park program. The Auburn five-year program, with additions be program has made such progress un­ ing made each year. This year i1 der the direction of James H. Grooms featured a life-size Nativity set, twc during the past six years as to attract 60-foot community trees, a replica o!

24 THE PINE CONE SS. Peter and Paul Church, two ever­ to traffic study and is pressing for green archways and 85 six-foot trees creation of a Parking Authority for on the business center light poles— off-street parking before the situation all of which are illuminated with stars gets worse. and multi-colored lights. Both cities also are alert to the Auburn and Lewiston both have need for new, diversified industries Chambers of Commerce, with the lat­ and this year Lewiston became the ter the much more active. The prin­ first city in Maine to create an Indus­ cipal national civic and service clubs trial Development Department. At also make outstanding contributions this writing, in addition to several to the community life of the two-city promising prospects, establishment of area. In addition to its annual a new shoe plant to employ up to 500 Christmas project, the Lewiston workers seems likely. The Chamber Chamber has given considerable effort of Commerce has prepared an “Essen-

One of the many sets decorating the Lewiston shopping section dur­ ing this Christmas season is this Nativity scene and 60-foot commu­ nity tree on one of the Main Street traffic islands. Lewiston has gained considerable favorable notice for its extensive Christmas dec­ orations, sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. Children of all ages use the Lewiston municipal swimming pool, provided by Maine's second largest city in its rapidly ex­ panding recreational pro­ gram.

Before and after views of Auburn's Pettingill Park, where a five- acre baseball park was fashioned from an alder swamp. The entire 50-acre tract will be developed completely in the next few years, giv­ ing Auburn one of the finest year-aronnd municipal recreational parks in the Nation.

26 THE PINE CON During the Springtime “high water” period, this is how the Great Falls look from the North Bridge. At freshet pitch, the volume of water is twice as great and affords an awe-inspiring spectacle. The famous Lewiston Canal, serving large textile industries, leads off from the dam at upper right.

tial Facts” booklet to attract industry are able to elaborate on each feature to the city. in the minutest detail. The annual New industry activities in Auburn city reports, for example, are annual are being handled mainly through the New England honor winners, indica­ City Manager, Bernal B. Allen and tive of the pride and interest of the this year resulted in the addition of a citizens in municipal affairs. new shoe plant. Auburn also is de­ One gets a distinct impression of veloping a prefabricated houses in­ dynamic community spirit in both dustry and civic leaders have the cities, a civic alertness in the major latchstring out for all types of indus­ fields upon which the prosperity and trial possibilities, small and large. well-being of the communities depend. Within the Chambers of Commerce is Community and business planning for a Lewiston-Auburn Industrial De­ the future seem to be constantly in velopment Committee, composed of the minds of the community leaders. leaders in the various fields of com­ The progress of both cities can be munity life. measured in the comparative statis­ tics in all departments of the two S pace limitations have not per­ cities for the past 30 years and more. mitted more than a sketchy outline of It has all added up to shaping the the principal basic factors which combined cities of Lewiston and Au­ make the Lewiston-Auburn commu­ burn into an inter-related, “balanced” nity one of the ideal “balanced” areas community, suiting extremely well the in Maine. The respective Chambers formula of being an excellent place in of Commerce and city governments which to “live, work and play.”

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B y Ruth Harvey H oliday preparations are under way is quite captivating. She has spare< at our house and the days are filled no effort in assembling the unusual with purposeful activity. In antici­ What’s more, she apparently enjoy: pation, ruby red jars of cranberry doing it. sauce stand at attention on the A visit to the New England Indus kitchen counter, and nearby rest tries at Saco is always rewarding upside-down loaves of rich dark fruit­ We were especially interested thi: cake cooling from the oven. The din­ year in some glassware that we hadn’ ing room is in a constant state of seen before. There were punch sets (happy confusion with gifts, wrap­ cocktail and highball glasses, even i pings and ribbons scattered every­ complete table setting for four—al where, and dominating the living room in clear glass with a handpainted de is our diminutive fir tree all decked sign of Maine’s own pine cone an< out this year in silver and green. An tassel done in brown and green. Ii air of secrecy pervades the conversa­ addition, the prices were “down t< tion—it’s Christmas time again! earth.” A perfect wedding g ift fo; any couple who love the Pine Trei ’Long about this time of year we State. like to make special pre-holiday visits If you’ve been yearning for some o to some of the gift shops where we Len Libby’s chocolates (and wh< can glean new ideas not only for doesn’t occasionally), just sit dowi Christmas giving but for those inevi­ and send for the leaflet which de table birthdays, anniversaries, and scribes all the fine chocolates and can other occasions that seem to pop up dies you can buy there. For many o once the New Year gets under way. us, a box of Len Libby’s is a “must’ One of the most delightful gift whenever we drive out Higgins Bead shops we’ve visited recently is The way. Now you can make your per Christmas Shop on the Black Point sonal selections by mail, and in jus Road in Scarborough. Warm inviting the time it takes to fill your order am lights welcomed us from the dark­ rush it off to you, your “sweet tooth’ ness, and as we went up to the door, will be satisfied. The address is: Lei hospitable Mrs. Helen Libby Walsh Libby Candy Shop, Spurwink Road was just hanging a tiny lighted lan­ Scarborough. tern outside on the porch. Inside was Not all our gift shopping is dom a veritable fairy Christmas-land with in person. We’re one of those peoph pine and holly, angels and Santas. who read catalogues avidly. I t’s lot: There are gifts here to suit every of fun, especially when you’ve beei taste and purse, gifts from Maine able to beg, borrow, or steal one o: and around the world. Mrs. Walsh’s those weighty Sears, Roebuck 0] collection of tiny, hard-to-find items Montgomery Ward catalogues!

28 THE PINE CONI Maine’s Massachusetts House Work­ they are often to be found doin shop in Lincolnville has just issued its something worthwhile. One such i 1952-53 catalogue of gifts and Maine Mrs. Harold Dumont of Skowhegai Handicrafts. Open year-round, the Maine State Advisor of Women’s A; latchstring is always out for you who tivities of the National Foundatio are on the lookout for that perfect for Infantile Paralysis. Mrs. Di Maine remembrance—either for your­ mont was chosen to act as a consul self or for a gift. If you’d like some ant and to play a leading role in th Christmas cards done by Maine ar­ Foundation’s new organizational filn tists, you can find them here. Too, “Lights On.” Scenes for the pictui their various assortments of “Down- were shot by RKO Pathe Film Sti East” food delicacies are “eatables” dios of New York at Williamstow to make anyone happy, and include and Pittsfield, Mass., Hoosic, N. Y everything from clam chowder to In­ and Bennington, Vt. The film will I dian pudding. shown throughout the United Stat( Another very attractive little cata­ and Canada to assist March of Dirm logue of gift and wearable items has volunteers in the correct procedui just been received from Wincliff House for organization of the new “Mother at the Landing in Kennebunk. With March on Polio.” its novel cover design and Maine Louise B. Huart of Farmington h£ coast sketches by Robert Chace, it’s received word recently th a t h( pleasure-reading even if you don’t brother, Robert M. Butler of Newar avail yourself of some of the perfect N. J., a member of the faculty ( gifts until later. Photographic scenes Newark Academy since 1943, has bee of Maine on plastic coated place mats, appointed assistant headmaster ar the always wanted lobster bibs, and director of admissions of th a t l'l that beautiful sand dollar jewelry, year old day school for boys. M handcrafted in sterling by Clifford Butler received his degree from Bat< Russell, are just a few of the offer­ College and was a member of tl ings in the catalogue. Bates cross country and track tean Before we leave the subject of gift during his college days. items, we’d like to mention the Cape Professor Robert M. York, actir Shore Paper Products of South Port­ head of the Department of Histoi land whose products were recently and Government at the University < featured at Portland’s Union Station Maine, was named recently by Pres in the series of Made-in-Maine dis­ dent A rthur A. Hauck as a membi plays sponsored by the State Chamber of the faculty committee on admini of Commerce. We particularly like tration at the University. Profess* the notepaper with its water colors York, a Wilton native and Wiltc of Atlantic Coast sailing vessels done Academy graduate in the class * by Carl D. Lane of Rockport, a well- 1933, received his full professorsh known author and painter of nautical last July as one of the youngest pr subjects. They’re called “Offshore fessors in the field. He has conce Notes,” and if you’re as fascinated by trated on Maine history and is collet sailing schooners as we’ve always ing material for a history of the sta been you won’t be able to resist them. which he expects will be ready f Just a thought—they would even be publication by 1955. nice framed for a boy’s room! These Another University of Maine ma and other styles of typical Maine Clarence Albert Day, Extension Se notepaper, stationery, and other vice editor at the University, h paper products are available at the been honored by Epsilon Sigma PI gift shops. Also — their Cone and the national Extension honorary fr Tassel Pine Soap, which we are send­ ternity. Announcement of the awai ing as a remembrance along with our a certificate of recognition for I Christmas card to friends in Chicago, many years of outstanding work has that clean piney smell of a breeze- the field of agriculture, was made swept Maine summer. the fraternity’s annual dinner he November 9 in Washington, D. Maine people may not always Mr. Day is a native of Westfield make the headlines, but we notice Aroostook County, and was succt

WINTER, 1952-53 sively a farmer, school teacher, and ing them that he will be on hand f a county agricultural agent before the Congressional Reception Satu becoming Extension editor of the Uni­ day, January 17. Governor-elect Bu versity of Maine in 1935. He has ton Cross and Mrs. Cross are also e written several manuscripts about pected to be in the receiving line aloi Maine history, mainly concerning with the Congressional Delegation. agriculture. If you are working or living in t Capital and would like to meet oth Congratulations to the Maine So­ people from Maine, call or write t ciety of New York on the first edition corresponding secretary, and we knc of their News Letter, dated Novem­ she will be delighted to tell you : ber 7. Announcement was made of about the Maine Society of Washin the buffet supper and reunion on Fri­ ton. She is Mrs. W. Clark Nob day, November 28, at the Netherlands 1736 Columbia Road, N. W., Was Club, 10 Rockefeller Plaza, special ington, D. C., telephone H O bart 721 features to be movies of Maine college At the meeting of the Maine W football games and singing led by men’s Club of New York on Novel Johnny Jarvis and his popular ac­ ber 8th in the Astor Hotel, E cordion. Charles F. Phillips, President 1953 will m ark the 50th birthday of Bates College, spoke before an u this very active State group. A big usually large group. Dr. Philli formal Golden Anniversary Dinner is emphasized the place and need of t being planned for Thursday evening, liberal arts college in the twentie February 5th, at the Waldorf Astoria century. He recommended a liber Hotel. James Stacy Coles, new presi­ arts education as a means for a bro; dent of Bowdoin College, will be the basic background, as an influence guest speaker. Full details of the motivation of a career, and as i evening’s program will be announced avenue to promote ideas, ideals, ai in a later News Letter, but it prom­ attitudes in developing people of i ises to be a gala Maine-style evening. tegrity. A membership drive has been Three new members were admitb launched by the Society to obtain at into membership. Mrs. Rudolj least 50 new members before the Fager (Eva Merrill of Bowdoinham Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration. If Mrs. Chester Greenwood (Angel} you’re interested, just write for de­ Cleaves of Addison), and Mi tails concerning membership to The Dwight E. Libby. Reinstated w; Maine Society of New York, Con­ Mrs. Frederick Coombs of Franklin course 15, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New Some interesting meetings ha’ York 20, N. Y.—or call COlumbus been scheduled for the coming montl 5-2460. Officers elected at the So­ including a Christmas Carol party < ciety’s Business Meeting held in December 13, a travel program < Fraunces Tavern on May 8, 1952, are: January 10, a visit to Chinatown c Dwight E. Libby, President; Frank January 29, and on February 10th ; H. Burns, Vice President; Herbert M. the Hotel New Yorker, the Mail Lord, Secretary-Treasurer; and Mrs. Women’s Club will present the pr Edna Buzzell, Assistant Secretary- gram for the National Congress i T reasurer. States Societies. The Maine Society of Washington, like lots of other people the country (Our thanks to Miss Emetine 1 over, has taken up square dancing. Paige, of Portland, for the follounr At their meeting on November 18, the write-up on the recent Maine Your Stultz Cap Mountaineers from Wood- Composers Award, sponsored in tt stock, Va., provided music and in­ State by the Maine Broadcasters A struction for what we know was an sociation.) evening full of fun. Their December meeting, on the 5th, was a chowder npHREE INTERNATIONALLY acclaim< supper, their first in many years, with musicians met in Waterville c a film program to follow. August 27 with members of the Mail The Society has a letter from Broadcasters Association to judj Senator-elect Frederick Payne assur­ compositions submitted for the fir

30 THE PINE CON Young Composers Radio Awards, Miss Emeline K. Paige, Portlam sponsored jointly by the broadcasters executive secretary for the assocu and Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) of tion’s music committee. A third cor New York. testant, Miss Elizabeth H. Larsei Entertained at luncheon at the Elm­ Dexter, was unable to be present t wood Hotel by Faust Couture, WCOU, meet the distinguished judges, bi Lewiston, president of the association, sent a recording of her music froi Miss Marianne Kneisel, Blue Hill and Bennington, Vermont, where she ws New York City, Mme. Genia Neme- attending a music conference. Mis noff and Pierre Luboshutz, both of Larsen is attending Bennington Co Rockport and New York, were joined lege, Petra is at Colby, and Hache by Dr. Ermano Comparetti, head of at the New England Conservatory c the department of music at Colby Music. College, in an informal discussion of Both Miss Kneisel and Mr. and Mr the importance of discovering new Luboshutz (Mme. Nemenoff) ha\ music and encouraging young com­ been “permanent summer residents” c posers. Maine for a number of years, and e3 Others at the meeting were Jack pressed their satisfaction and plea! Atwood, WRDO, Augusta, MBA vice- ure at having a p art in this first effoi president; Carleton D. Brown, WTVL, to discover and reward young Main Waterville, secretary; Fred M. Petra composers of serious music. and Reginald Hachey, both of Water­ The judges’ decision gave first plac ville, young composers whose work to “Ajax” — a Prelude and Fugn was heard during the afternoon; and scored for flute, violin, trumpet, an

L eft to right— (seated) Emeline K. Paige, Portland; Mme. Genia Nemenoff, Pierre Luboshutz, both of Rockport and New York; Mari­ anne Kneisel, Blue Hill and New York; (standing) Carleton D. Brown, WTVL-WRKD, Waterville and Rockland; Reginald Hachey, Waterville; Jack Atwood, WRDO, Augusta; Dr. Ermano Comparetti, Colby College; Faust Couture, WCOU-WFAU, Lewiston and Augusta (president, Maine Broadcasting Association), and Fred M. Petra, Waterville.

WINTER, 1952-53 3 piano — by Fred Petra. Certificates writes: “I am not a Maine-iac in t of Merit and savings bonds were true sense of the word but I feel awarded to Miss Larsen and Hachey. am one, sort of by adoption. What Petra’s composition has earned him a there about Maine in particular a year’s full scholarship at Colby Col­ New England in general that mak lege—welcome news to a young man one from another state feel that sar who has been leading a dance band kinship toward a ‘Downeaster’ that after school to help finance his train­ experienced by natives of the Pi ing in the field of serious music. Tree State? Feeling that little is being com­ “Way back some thirty-odd yea posed with the performing abilities ago when I was a young Hoosi of students and amateurs in mind, housewife I answered a letter, a Petra plans to make these neglected pearing in the Sister’s corner of groups his chief interest. Contempo­ little magazine no longer in public rary music, he believes, should not be tion, which was w ritten by a youi reserved for the big orchestras and Maine housewife. There developed their seasoned players. Just as every­ correspondence that has 1 a s t c one who can read reads contemporary through the years. She and I we literature, so everyone who plays an the same age . . . and our lives ha instrument should have an opportunity paralleled in many ways. to play contemporary music. Petra “My pen pal has a wonderful fh hopes they’ll play his. for description and in her word p tures I felt I was learning to kne Because of an office error, some of Maine and Maine-iacs very well a our subscribers received two copies I liked w hat I knew. of the Summer issue of the Pine “Six years ago after years Cone. Here’s what one reader, Mrs. ‘someday’ planning, my daughter a: Elizabeth G. Gove of Long Cove Point I made our first visit to Maine. \ at South Bristol, wrote concerning flew from Indianapolis to Boston a: the mistake: made the remainder of the trip up “Because there were two copies I Lewiston by bus. There we were m didn’t hoard the summer issue quite by my friend and her family, Mr. a: as carefully and it strayed to one of Mrs. Charles B. Russell of E ast Sui the cottages where a guest found it ner. From that moment I found th contained some very interesting in­ as well as we thought we had kno\ formation that she could pass on to Maine and the Maine-iacs we real her daughter. The daughter is doing had no idea of the beauty and fasi graduate work in geography and nation of the state or the loval cardography and is writing her thesis qualities of her people.” on Maine, her Natural Resources and Mrs. Page goes on to tell us th Topography. When the guest men­ she has since made two more visits tioned the good material in the little the Pine Tree State and that she a: magazine I immediately got out my her family are now considering t old copies and she took them home possibility of making Maine the with her to Camp Hill, Penna.” permanent home. At the very lea; Another letter came to our desk a they intend to spend their vacatio short time ago from Mrs. Rose Page here! of Battle Ground, Indiana, that we’d A Merry Maine Christmas to y like to quote in part. Mrs. Page all!

A new 345 foot passenger-car ferry is being constructed by the Canadian Government scheduled for operation between Yar­ mouth, N. S. and Bar H arbor, Maine in the late Spring of 1951. The modern steel vessel will carry 300 cars and 600 passengers one round trip each day. The ship is being built at a cost of $3,926,000. 32 THE PINE C O Skiing In Maine

Skiing is a highly contagious disease. It attacks both men and women of all age groups. Symptoms start with the first flurry of snow and quickly develop into advance stages of “Winteritis.” The only known treatment is to don skis, get out on the slopes and swoosh down the trails and hills at every opportunity. The speech of those afflicted takes on a strange jargon of arlberg, sitz-mark and wooly bears and the condition usually lasts until long into the Spring. The heavy snows of last season and the popularity of Maine winter recreation areas resulted in more people finding pleasure in the activities on the slopes and the sociability of the ski lodge than ever before. It is estimated that this winter business was worth over a half million dollars to Maine. This year practically every community, school and college is planning winter carnivals and ski meets. Many of these will center around the ski tow areas listed below that will be in operation in Maine this season.

AROOSTOOK STATE PARK, ASHLAND SLOPES, A shland. Presque Isle. This popular State community development in Aroostoc Park is loci'ted four miles south of County just outside the town of Asl Presque Isle, ju st off U. S. Route 1. land. The rope tow serves ope It features a spacious lodge, a half practice slopes and slalom run. mile trail on Quoggy Joe Mountain lighted skating rink is located in tl and open slopes served by a 600' rope town for pleasure skating and hocke tow. games.

BAKER M OUNTAIN AREA, BAUNEG BEG SLOPES, Nort Bingham. This development is located Berwick. The area is three mile in the Maine snow belt and has two south of Sanford on the back road t tows, 1300' and 800', that service North Berwick. The open slope several open slopes and trails of all 4000' long and 1200' wide with a 60< gradients. A heated ski lodge is rope tow. A % mile trail is locate located here and lunches and coffee behinel the slopes, on Mt. Mari' are available at the snack bar. Slopes are lighted and a ski lodg and lunch bar are available.

WINTER, 1952-53 3 BETHEL SKI SLOPE, Bethel. Located on Route 35, the open slopes are lighted for night-time skiing and are serviced by a 1000' rope tow. A heated ski hut and lunch bar is avail­ able at the slope. The Swan’s Corner Slope, nearby, has a 30 meter jump and ihe Swan’s Corner Trail, 3000' long and 250' wide, has a maximum grade of 33°, vertical descent of 600'.

BLACK CAT MOUNTAIN AREA, Millinocket. Situ­ ated in the Katahdin region of central Maine, this develop­ ment features both open slopes and trails. The slope, 2400' long and 200' wide, has a 1500' rope tow. A practice slope, 500' long and heated ski hut and lunch bar are here. North Tower Trail, % mile long, with vertical descent of 412', is also serviced by tow.

CAMDEN SNOW BOWL, Camden Set in a natural am phitheatre, 3 miles west of the village, the area serves as a community recreation area. It has a large spacious ski lodge with lunch eon bar and recreation rooms anc open slopes with a 1200' rope tow anc several trails. Skating on pond a1 base of slopes, toboggan slide anc entire area lighted for night-time use

DEER HILL, Harrison. This arc-a DUNDEE HEIGHTS, North Gor is located 3 miles from village and ham. Within 14 miles of Portland features open practice slopes, 1900' this development serves the greatei long and 400' wide, with a 1200' rope Portland area. Practice slope has tow. There is a heated ski hut and 430' rope tow and is 450' long anc lunch bar available and a large park­ 500' wide. The vertical descent is 75 ing area. and it is lighted for night skiing. GORHAM SLOPES, Gorham. Also HI POINT TOW, A ugusta. Locatec serves the greater Portland area. 4 miles north of Augusta, on Route Located in Gorham village, on Route 27, this practice slops serves the 25, these practice slopes are within 10 Augusta-Waterville area. The slopes miles of Portland. This area is lighted are serviced by a 400' rope tow for night-time use. There are many skating ponds nearby

HURRICANE SLOPES, Cumberland. On the Old Country Road, 9 miles north of Portland, this area has a 1000' rope tow serving practice slopes, 1100' long and 600' wide. 1000' trail with vertical drop of 180' also in tow area. Lunches served at farmhouse at foot of slopes.

JOHN ABBOT TITCOMB MEMO­ RIAL SLOPES, F armington. E xten­ sive development with large ski lodge, two tows, small practice jump and three trails. 1100' and 600' tows serve slopes, 1500' long and 450' wide. Extensive children’s program. Snack bar in lodge and slopes lighted for night skiing. KING’S MOUNTAIN SLOPE, LONE MOUNTAIN, A ndover. Bangor. Close to Bangor, this area Located in the snow region of features three trails and open slopes. Rumford-Andover, the areja has a 1000' slope on King’s Mountain is 1000' T bar cable tow and a 40 m eter 500' wide and has 700' rope tow. Bald jump. Slope is 500' wide and 2000' Mountain Trail, 4 miles long; Ledge long. Site of intercollegiate jumping Trail, % mile long; and Chapman meets. Heated hut and many cross Trail, V\ mile long. Heated ski hut. country and downhill trails in ai’ea.

McF a r l a n d ’s h i l l , bar harbor. NORTH’S HILL, Wilton. Operated This development, down on the coast, by Wilton Community Ski Tow As­ serves the Mt. Desert Island area. sociation with extensive children’s The open slopes are serviced by a program at slopes. Open slopes with 1330' rope tow. Ski hut and lunch 400' rope tow. Warming hut. stand in area. Active outing club program at slopes.

NORWAY SKI SLOPE, Norway. Ju st off the main street of Norway, this tow area serves the twin towns of Norway-South Paris. The slopes cover 4 acres with an average grade of 18%. The 600' rope tow serves both the slopes and a V2 mile tiail. Many restaurants located in town close by the area. PLEASANT MOUNTAIN AREA, Bridgton. One of the largest develop­ ments in Maine, located between Bridgton and Fryeburg, on Route 302. Three tows, 1200', 1000' and 500', serve the many open slopes and trails. Open slope is 2500' wide. Jack Spratt Trail, 1% miles long, and Pleasant Mountain Trail, 1% miles long, lead off the slopes. Ski lodge, repair shop, lunch bar, instruction.

QUODDY SKI CLUB SLOPES, Pembroke. Located in the Passamaquoddy Bay region serving the communities of Eastport and Lubec in Washington County. Rope tow on open practice slopes with active ski club program.

REIDER CHRISTIANSEN HILL, Rumford. 55 meter jump, rated as one of the best in the East. Site of FIS Meet (1950) and Olympic Try­ outs (1951). Two other jumps in area, 20 meter and 10 meter. Two cross country trails have been cut here, one, 18 kilometers and the other, 30 kilometers, used for Olympic Team practice and qualifying contests.

SUGAR LOAF MOUNTAIN, Kingfield. A rea now under development on the side of Maine’s second highest mountain (4,237'). Trail has vertical drop of 2,500' in IV2 miles. Upper slopes have average grade of 33° and lower slopes, 10-15°. Average snow cover, 120 inches. Site of annual Giant Sugar Slalom races. Minstrelsy of Maine

Edited by Dan Kelly

Editor of As Maine Writes: An Anthology of the Poetry Fellowship of Maine, and Reed: A Magazine of Maine Poetry.

P o e m s , to be eligible for consideration for this Department, should be about Maine or of particular interest to lovers of Maine. While at least minimum standards of craftsmanship will be required, selections will be made on the basis of reader interest, rather than critical perfection. Only previously un­ published poems should be submitted. All submissions should be sent directly to D an K e ll y , Editor, Minstrelsy of Maine Department, 37 Stone Street, Augusta, Maine; and should be accompanied by the usual stamped, self- addressed envelope for return of the material if not found available.

marginalia W hat is the poet.? The question Oddly enough, with the symbols of may never be fully answered, indeed, poetry this equation makes very good each answer poses yet another ques­ sense. Yet, the poet can never forget tion Any attempt to explore the that the individual is always a dif­ question involves a contradiction in ferent answer and humanity is al­ terms for the poet is at once a part ways the same answer. Little won­ of fhe people and apart from the peo­ der that the poet is a seldom and a ple. He is with them and not with rare flowering. So great a sensitivity them, he stands alone surrounded. is required that the mere contempla­ This paradox is a profound necessity tion serves to frighten, confound or of the poet for without it he is an in­ blind the tentative soul. Still, this complete being. Without his height­ need not be so if the approach is made ened aloneness the poet is not unique with perceptive self-awareness, an in­ and is, without doubt, happier; with­ quiring mind and an understanding out his common oneness with human­ heart. ity the poet is not in touch with the What is the poet? Well, he most source of his greatness and is, equally certainly is a question mark. He is without doubt, lonelier. an enigmatic equation; a part of and yet apart from the people. The poet The most successful poet, therefore, is a question answering himself and would seem to be the poet who walks an answer questioning himself. the narrow tightrope of individuality, falling neither to the left into the mediocrity of the masses nor to the POET right into the eccentricity of the few. Who looks upon old sights He must square the realities of many With new vision with the reality of one; he must prove Or upon old visions with the wonderful illogical mathe­ With new sight. matics of poetry that the sum total Dan Kelly of all equals the sum of one, and that Book End the sum of one is the total of all. Augusta, Maine

36 THE PINE CONE When I Was Ten December Morning When I was ten I owned a world A hundred ice-spun harps apart, Fingered by the wind Its voice was music as it beckoned me Release their silver notes To secret places in the wooded glades Bell-like upon the air. Where fairies dwelt; to shrub and leafy tree Never a carol lovelier Where gnomes and elves were waiting Than this impromptu song, to perform Chance collaboration My bidding as their princess, and I Of temperature and rain. knew The joy of beauty in a flower’s cup, Don Boek And fragrance of its sweetness wet with dew. The birds were friends and laughter in their song Promised Land Was echoed in my heart; my skipping He keeps these acres now because feet Of verses written long ago: Released the magic of my happiness About a mystic lake with stars In rope-spun cadence and staccato Repeated in the depths below; beat. About the dainty track of deer I spoke the language of the universe, In snow new fallen in the wood; People and animals alike to share About the mayflowers at his feet And love; the nights were deep and That made the spring seem right and sweet with sleep, good; Enchanted as a breath of summer air. About the gull within his cove The sun was brighter, and the That tried to seek security; shadows filled About the Shaker bell that tolled With mystery unbelievable since then; Its quiet Sabbath melody; A-tiptoe on the summit of a dream, About the loveliness that grew The rainbow’s gold was mine, when I Where once it died in midnight flame. was ten. For here were love and laughter, In a Ladd Brown peace And sorrow—sweet beyond a name. So memory recalls to him Passing Summer A heaven held within his hand, And crystal moments to create Summ. is a deer on the run. A kind of ancient promised land. July hesitates, poised on polished hooves, A delbert M. J akeman Tossing leafy antlers skyward. August leaps over the fence of September, Raising its white flagtail of Snowflakes “Winter’s coming, winter’s coming,” And summer is passed. Each rounded white inflection Carved from time and space Mrs. Robert Higgins Displays the sweet perfection Of an artless grace. Day After An Ice Storm The solid and the tenuous, The instant and eternity Black and white Are webbed in a curious enclosed in crystal Anonymity. shining in the sun ---- the birch tree bends Substance of the storm, before the wind Thy fragile symmetry ice tinkling Enclose in its form crystal tunes. Infinity. Catharine Cates A ddison L iberman

WINTER, 1952-53 37 Winter Peace Orientation The frozen brook is now at ease, If her name were as the water, flow Her peace is made with winter’s ing, . storm. Or as the lichen green, content; if sh Quiet she lies in her ivory tomb were And trees let fall a snowy tear Native to repose, in deep-rooted vi Remembering sounds they cannot brancy at rest, hear. We had caught her consummate, i’ Don Conant her colloquy Of depth with depth and heard i poetry completed Rosemary Is For Love In the singing integration of herself We are the sum of all we meet. E leanor D. Coli A blending of spring and winter. Like crocuses False Spring cushioned in the snow making the heart leap Spring fumbling at her winter wrap: to see them grow, too early A p art of Now shivers in the snow-filled air the tenderness put forth. Plumed willows weep into the river All that is sweet Mirroring their deep despair. with the bitter lost Brave lilacs like ice-covered sentrie: like mint springing Dream longingly of June. up through the rue The gnarled old pine, still winter clad my heart leaps keeps sighing, at the sight of you. “Too soon, too soon, too soon.” Madaleine Salisbury Hinkley Winifred C. Blanchari

In a church yard near Mercer stands a monument to a tree. It was erected in 1936 by Kilbridge Gray, formerly of Madison, in memory of an elm tree which stood in 1870 on the east bank of the stream a short distance north of the village bridge. A bronze tablet attached to a grinding stone taken from an old grist mill in Mercer states that the tree was 32 feet in circum­ ference at breast height and was twice hit by lightning. The tree was believed to be the largest ever grown in New England.

L atest in the list of Maine-made products to go to market packaged in the distinctive blue, white and red State of Maine trademark is maple syrup. Members of the Maine Maple Grow­ ers Association recently adopted a uniform label featuring a colorful six-color maple harvest scene and Grade “A” Maine syrup should be on grocers shelves in this container early in the Spring.

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