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12-1928 Bangor Hydro Electric News: December 1928, Volume 2, No.1 Bangor Hydro Electric Company
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lterry 1,Employees of t~e 1.Bangor i!!y~ro-1,Electric The Bangor Hydro-Electric News, our Company paper, is still an infant and we are now entering the second year of its publication. From the favorable reports I have received from many of the employees in our several districts I believe the paper is filling a long needed want in keeping the members of our organization informed of the Company's activities, its devel· opments and progress, thus bringing about a better understanding between the various divisions and departments. The year 1928 about to close, has been a year of progress. .Many extensions have been made into new communi· ties, transmission and distribution lines have been rebuilt and about 40,000,000 kilowatt hours per year have been added to our generating capacity. Approximately $1,000,000 has been spent on new construction and rebuilding. The Company functions as a whole and each em· ployee has his important part to perform. Ernest endeavor, loyalty and honest effort on the part of each employee has been given willingly and we enter into the new year with courage, and trust that by cooperative effort on the part of all employees we can make 1929 the best in the history of this Company. EDWARD M. GRAHAM, President ~ ~ .__ _...... ~--19\!--~~~i:s~·~---~~~-=-~. ~ 2 BANGOR HYDRO-ELECTRIC NEWS Harrington Again Leads In Commercial Sales BANGOR HYDRO-ELECTRIC NEWS For November The Harrington District showing PUBLIS H ED E V E R Y M ONTH over the one dollar mark, leads the FOR AND B Y E M PLOYEES Or btores in Commercial Department sales. The Company as a whole shows T H E BANGOR HYDRO-ELECTRIC COMPANY one of its best months in merchan rlising sales, exactly doubling the 1927 November sales. Vol. 2 Bangor, Maine, Decem ber 1928 No. 1 -:- Chief Ed., G. M. Stetson Mng. Ed., H. C. Dearborn News Ed., P. A. Mann .... Editorials .... ~O\'t:llBl':I! Sales per District Res. Meter The Old Year and the New Harrington ...... $1.24 Millinocket ...... 1.08 Bangor ...... 96 Just before turning our eyes ahead to the new year which is close Lincoln ...... 8:l upon us, it is profitable and interesting to sum up what has been clone in Old Town ...... 78 the year that we are about to leave. Plans for the future must grow out Har Harbor ...... 68 of the past, and it is from our experiences that we learn to improve our Eastport ...... 5-1 selves. / Carter, Jordan and Small Appliance Campaign Tracey Win November The merchandising department are Washer Contest preparing for their January small The sales contest in the merchan appliance campaign to feature a low disin3' department for the month of priced, first quality heating pad November was ~warded for th Merchandising Dept. Christmas Lighting In New Quarters Our Merchandising Department is endeavoring this year to interest our The work of remodeling the sec customers and particularly our em ployees in Christmas decorative ond floor at 31 Main street has been lighting. completed and the merchandising Attractive Christmas tree lighting department of the Company is outfits, candle outfits and other at occupying the new quarters. The tractive lighting effects are on dis offices of Mr. Haskell, Mr. Parkhurst play in our stores and our employees are urged to make use of these and Mr. Hammons are in this new articles to help our efforts toward location where there are also sales more and hetter Christmas lighting. men's and stenographers' offices. 4 BANGOR HYDRO-ELECTRIC NEWS CONCRETE TIE CONSTRUCTION By C. H. JOHNSON, Supa. of Tramporration The recent installation of cement purposes, and it is only a question of ties on the Old Town Division, at the time, experts estimate between twen entrance to the University of Maine, ty-live to forty years, before our presents a very fine appearance and forests wlll be gone. From these is an added attraction to the lo facts it may be seen that it is a cality. These ties were made up by most vital reason that cement ties our own men but are a product of be used wherever it is possible to do the ).laine Concrete Railroad Tie so. Corporation. The installation of this tie means This tie possesses all the qualities smooth riding, little noise, gr!'at(·r of a fine appearance, durability, quiet safety with faster travel, simplicity riding and security to the patrons of of construction, easily Installed and the road, and from results observed the clwapest cement tie that can he to date there can be no question but devised and salsfaC'lorlly carry traf that this tie over<"omes all previous fic. objections to cement ties and will We hParllly recommencl this lie to last a lifetime. the Hallroacl World. Ac·cording to experts, It Is estl In the c·nt whkh appears above, matf'd that 26',1, of llH• lumber in lhe at the right is :\Ir. Sydney Smith, thf' l:nited States was wasted last year Inventor, ancl Mil'hael Achlison, fore which was so muc·h needed for other man, who Installed the ties. BANGOR HYDRO-ELECTRIC NEWS 5 A CONSTRUCTION EPISODE A P A R T OF G ILMAN FALLS •• THE SCENE OF THE RESCUE LOCATION Not all the heroism is confined to tirely from the view of the men on our soldiers, our sailors or our fire the gate and hope was given up. men, whom we think of as daily However, one of the Milford men. facing danger, and if need be, court Charles Weymouth, had heard the ing death. shout when Therriault first struck Our construction crews assume the water and had made his way almost as many risks and face dan· downstream as rapidly as possible gers day by day with none of the along the shore, on the chance that glamor of the uniform nor the glory Therriault would be caught in an of bands and flapping flags and many eddy and could be brought ashore. an act of heroism is performed that As it chanced, this was just what goes unsung and unnoted. happened and Weymouth, without a The construction crew has been moment's hesitation, clad as he was making some repairs to the Taintor in heavy clothes and with heavy rub Gate section of the Gilman Falls dam ber hoots, plunged into the icy water and on Wednesday were engaged in and seized Therriault and dragged building a scaffold on top of the him ashore. thirty-foot gate which was partially Therriault afterward said that for opened, when one of the men, Phillip awhile he was able to swim, but the Therriault, dropped one end of a intense cold of the water had so long plank in the water. In an en· stiffened his muscles that when he deavor to save the plank, he was reached the eddy, he could no longer knocked off of the gate and thrown swim, and was completely exhausted into the swift water, flowing through and had given up hope. the gate opening. A shout went up Both men were bundled into a car from his companions but so turbulent and taken to Old Town for a rest a11d and so rapid was the current that a change of clothing and both ap no help could he extended and the peared on the job the following Commercial Dept. Items (E. l\I. Woodcock, Reporter) COMPLIMENTS OF THOSE T he washing machine department crew is working hard for their WHOSE DEPARTMENTS monthly quota, and are determineo this for a little whilP ffaH hPen soothed or turned aslcll' lowing a two weeks' vacation spent Then 1rn out and burn thP tile." lly a q ulet voke of kindnPHH. in Pennsylvania and at his home. Sele<'tl'cl. Selel'tPd. BANGOR HYDRO-ELECTRIC NEWS 7 Veterans Service List We give below a list of those employees whose anniversaries come during the period from December 15th to January 15th: Years Humphrey, Leslie C., Car Operator , December 22, 1917...... 11 Tait, Roland P., Lineman, Old Town ., December 19, 1921...... 7 Coffin, Harold W., P lanning Engineer, Bangor, Dec. 26, 1922...... 6 Tasker, Lester B., Substation Operator, Bangor, December 31, 1923. . . . 5 The system did not prove successful. feeder, was well able to handle the at least in its a pplication to the entire traffic. With the building o~ Penobscot Central with their heavy the East Corinth substation the freight business, and u ltimately a Charleston line voltage was raised steam generating station was built at from 6600 to 13,200 throughout its en Kenduskeag. Stor age batteries were tire length, beginning at Valley installed at Morse's Mill, Kendus Avenue, Bangor. keag, East Corinth and Charleston. The freight business in these days In 1903, after the Penobscot Cen was of much greater magnitude than tral had gone through bankruptcy now. Pulpwood, cordwood, bark, and been purchased by the Bangor cedar ties, pressed hay and potatoes Railway & Electric Company, a 6600 were the principal products handled volt transmission circuit was run to in bulk, and five-car trains were the Kenduskeag, where a railway sub rule rather than the exception. station was installed. At the same In 1918, while Phifer Smith was time the storage battery at Morse's Chief Engineer, and Arthur Davis Elmer W. Cole was retired and the trolley system of was in charge of electrical construc the two railroads were tied together. tion and maintenance, Elmer was On March 26th, 1928, Elmer Cole With the installation of the sub sent to Ellsworth to rewind a dam completed twenty-five years of con station, the steam power station at TRAVELER'S IRON $6 95 WAFFLE IRON $10.00 GENERAL ELECTRIC EASY WASHERS HOTPOINT REFRIGERATORS EUREK.-·~ VACUUM AND N,ELVINATORS SWEEPERS UNIVE-,3AL RANGES 1111Y ~_:AtCl"'Y SPECIAL PRICES TO EMPLOYEES