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The Lumber Industry on Penobscot Waters

(Continued from last month) he early claim is made that one of the earliest following year trouble arose over the story of saw mills on Penobscot Bay was built administration of the affairs of the lands to there; but during the French and association. It appears that Marsh the cast of Pe­ Indian wars there were people living was inclined to be grasping, or the nobscot Bay there. They were driven off by the settlers thought so, and it was claimed and River is Indians after several people had been that a meeting had been called with- different in killed. In the year 1786, the General cut authority and the business tran­ many ways to Court of Massachusetts granted to sacted was illegal. The settlers carried that of the John Calderwood and others settled on their cause to the General Court and western shore. Fox Islands the lands embraced in the won out against Marsh. In 1764 the The land to several islands, 15,527 acres, on the attention of the General Court was the east was claimed by France until usual conditions. There were seventy- called to the fact that the settlers had the Treaty of Paris in 1763 cleared it two heads of families there at that not yet secured His Majesty’s consent from the French claim. In the third time. It is certain that several saw to the grant, although they had had year of the reign of King William and mills were in operation there at the an agent in London for that purpose Queen Mary they gave to the Massa­ above mentioned date. A considerable for some time at great expense to chusetts Bay Colony all the land be­ portion of the present town of Vinal themselves. They represented that tween the Kennebeck and Nova Scotia, Haven was heavily timbered and lum­ they had spent upwards of two thou­ but the Waldo Patent was already bering was carried on there for many sand pounds in clearing roads, build granted; so it was the east side of the years. Swan’s Island was also the ing houses and mills, and clearing river that was really affected by this scene of a small lumber operation ror fields. They were growing alarmed grant. some time. over the delay in securing the titles The Fox Islands were among the David Marsh, one of the soldiers at which they desired. In 1768 another earliest land marks of Penobscot Bay. Fort Point, was an enterprising young reminder was sent to the General They were so called because some man. He conceived the idea of estab­ Court that confirmation was still with- sailors had seen silver gray foxes lishing a colony on the east side of the held by the King. Probably the there. Several families settled there Penobscot River. He recruited a com­ gathering clouds of the war was the about the time of the planting of pany in Massachusetts of fifty men reason for the King withholding his George’s Plantation at Thomaston. and together they petitioned the Gen­ approval of the grant. The war came Without very good authority, the eral Court for a grant of land. At on and nothing had been done to re- the session of the Court of 1761 this petition was granted, and the land be­ tween the Penobscot and the Mount Desert Rivers was granted to Marsh and three hundred and fifty others. It was provided that the grant be divided into six townships. Later, ing the same session of the Court, it was ordered that the grant be divided in half by survey, Marsh and his associates to have one half and the other three hundred to have the re­ maining half. The selection was to be made by drawing lots. All this, of course, was to be subject to the ap- proval of the King. It was a long time before the King’s approval was secured and it cost the settlers a lot of money and much anxiety before they were secured in their title. There was reserved to His Majesty one-fifth ? part of all the gold, silver, ore and precious stones which shall happen to be found or gotten from the said tract of land. It was also required that they settle sixty families in each township within a year. All islands within ten leagues of the mainland went with the township adjoining. The

Page Two Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.—Pope. be encouraged. A part of the territory considered by the committee was this land to the east of the Penobscot granted to Marsh and his associates. Probably it was this report that led the Court to confirm Marsh’s grant in 1784. Lumbering was the chief industry of the settlers on Marsh’s lands. Mills were erected throughout the town­ ships. Every stream large enough to carry a mill was harnessed to the task of driving the saw. The story already 3 told of the development of the indus­ try on the west side of the Bay would be repeated in reciting the history of the east side. Penobscot was a lead­ ing town for some years, but was superceeded by Castine. Castine in time yielded first place to Belfast, across the Bay. Bucksport was settled by Col. Jonathan Buck in 1763. Col. Buck came from Haverhill, Mass. and was for a time an officer at Fort Pownal. He was associated with Marsh in se­ curing the grant of land and appears to have taken land in vicinity of Bucksport for his share. He had had a long and honorable career in the army, having been commissioned an officer in 1745. With Col. Buck was a man by the name of Joseph Gross, who was really the first man to settle in Bucksport. Mr. Buck himself came in 1764 and took charge of the build­ ing of a saw mill in that year, near the place where Spofford’s mill later was built. Mr. Buck was an unusual man. No portrait of him is in ex­ distance, so his descendants say; but a discription of him has come down to us. He was five feet and ten inches tall, not heavily built, erect and ener- getic. He was of fair complection, deep voice, and prominent Roman nose. He was possessed of a strong ’will, was courageous and morally up- right. He made a profound impression upon his settlement and left a long line of descendants who have taken important places in the world. Col. ward the settlers for their labor and tered upon and taken possession of Buck lumbered from the first of his patience. In 1784 the General Court various tracts of said lands, and still possession of this land. As has al- granted to the petitioners on its own continue to hold possession thereof, Afready been pointed out his first work right and authority five of the six contrary to law and justice; and . • was the erection of a saw mill. Pur­ townships of the original grant. It in­ whereas it is probable that further ging his life he built several mills and cluded all the land between the Pe­ trespasses may be committed, and operated them in sawing long lumber, nobscot and Union Rivers, except what illegal entries made, unless proper also staves and laths and clapboards. is now Penobscot and Castine, these measures are taken to prevent the He was also a large ship builder; were later added to the grant. The same; Therefore, Resolved, that probably the first on that side of the towns formed from this lot of land Jedediah Preble, Jonathan Greenleaf, Penobscot. His own ships carried the are Bucksport, Orland, Penobscot, David Sewall, John Lewis, and Wil output of his saw mills to the West Sedgwick, Blue Hill, and Surry. The liam Lithgow, Esquires, be, and here Indies and points along the Atlantic north line of the grant was established by are appointed a committee to ex coast. There were other lumber enter­ at a point on the river fifteen miles amine into all such trespasses.” prises besides that of Col. Buck, but north of Fort Pownal. It is not clear just what this com­ he was the leading man in the in­ In 1781 the General Court passed mittee did by way of discharging dustry for many years. a resolution which explains itself. It their duties, but three years later Orland has always been over­ is as follows: Whereas it has been there was a report made to the Court shadowed by its older and larger represented to the General Court, that by them to the effect that many of neighbor; but it entered the lumber divers trespassers have been com­ these settlers were on this land by industry from the first; several mitted on the unappropriated lands . some right, either by a grant or title streams made ready water power for belonging to the Commonwealth, and from the Indians. They advised that the saws and from the earliest days that divers persons have illegally en­ townships be laid out and settlements to recent times, Orland, East Orland

The child is father of the man.—Wordsworth. Page Three went into operation the same year. Mr. Brewer was joined in his enter­ prise by several other men and the land granted to them, or included within their petition, extended from the line of the Marsh grant to the grant made to Col. Jonathan Eddy, who settled at Eddington Bend. Brewer named his new settlement New Worcester, after the name of the town he had left behind. In 1788 it was incorporated under the name of Orrington. In 1812 the northern part was set off from Orrington and incor­ porated under the name of Brewer, after Col. John, the leading man in the enterprise. Like all the other early settlers, Col. Brewer and his associates had endless trouble secur­ ing title to the lands upon which they entered, but it was eventually accom­ plished. Col. Brewer and nearly all others in that early day, never lived to see their dreams fulfilled. Before their titles were secured the original plan and expectation was changed with and North Orland have depended shaver, the stave maker and the hoop largely upon lumbering enterprises. maker, were located all over the town­ changing conditions and in most cases Calvin Turner was the first to build ships. The wood lots within easy the hope of possession of large land a saw mill within the town in the reach of the Bay and River were estates vanished. In many cases the outlay in money was never returned year 1773. The location was just be­ drawn upon for the lime kilns on the low the present village of Orland. west side of the Bay. A man now from the enterprise. Col. Brewer ap­ pears to have been a hard man to get Logs were floated down the stream to living recalls that he has seen forty­ Castine to be loaded for market upon eight loads, by actual count, of wood on with. Numerous law suits which pass his father’s house in a single day grew out of his tendency to crowd ships that sailed to all parts of the others; and testimony given shows a world. Rafts of long sawed lumber on the way to the kilns down the Bay. disposition to ignore the rights of also went to Castine, which was the others, if not a disregard for prin­ early lumber market on the east side A bit of local color may be supplied ciples of honesty and truth. of the river. The scene was one of to us from the early days by a man Beside Col. Brewer’s saw mill other the livliest activity. Small clearings from either Orland or Bucksport, who mills were early in operation. In here and there marked the spots was giving a deposition to be used in 1772 James Budge erected a mill at where, in summer, small crops were a suit against Col. John Brewer in Mantawassuck Stream, at the bend grown for the family support; but the the Massachusetts courts. He deposed on the Brewer side and was soon man­ saw mill was the center of interest, for that he had been working with an­ ufacturing boards in sufficient quant- it was from this business that the other man “butting logs” at the mill ity to supply the local needs. Small ready money came. Small camps that all day. After supper in the board­ boats for fishing purposes were built housed the wood cutter, the shingle ing house, he and his fellow laborer retired to their bed and went to sleep. (Continued on page 13) About nine o’clock they were awak­ ened by music and the sound of sing­ ling and dancing. The joy was ap- parently not unmixed for there were soon sounds of disputes, followed by fighting. The men, much disturbed in their rest, arose and requested the revelers to be quite, pointing out that they were all hard working men and needed their rest in preparation for the work of the following day. The deponent remarks that rum was being freely used and many of the men were under its influence. They continued their carousal till daylight in spite of the protests of their companions of a more quiet disposition. A man by the name of John Brewer came from Worcester, Massachusetts, drawn by the reports of the soldiers at Fort Pownal, to locate a lumber busi­ ness somewhere upon the Penobscot. After due consideration and explora­ tion, he decided upon a spot for his mill on the Segeundedunk Stream in Brewer. His first visit was in 1770. He returned the following year and began the erection of the mill, which Isaiah Stetson, at the age of 54 years

Page Four The stronger the mind the greater the ambition.—Addison. Wall Paper- An Art and an Industry By C. W. Cousens

Perhaps the readers of The travel, the art of the Orient was in­ form because people were afraid they Northern see little connection between troduced into Europe, and has still might select a pattern that was too their work and mine. But there is a continued a potent factor in all later bold, a color that was too gay. close connection, for many tons of decorative cycles. Wallpaper Now at Its Golden Age paper are daily being made into beau­ Wallpaper at Its Worst tiful and artistic wallpapers to beauti­ But all fashions go in cycles—even fy American and Canadian homes. Wallpaper was undoubtedly at its the fashions of short hair for women Since wallpaper adorns the walls of worst during the reign of the good and burnsides and peg-top trousers one or more rooms in practically every Queen Victoria, a period when over­ for men. The pendulum swings, back home in this country, it is important ornamentation, meaningless art ob­ and forth, back and forth and to know something of its origin, his­ jects (such as hand-painted fire- sensible people try to keep with the tory, uses and decorative possibilities. shovels, rolling pins and such like) pendulum. An ugly, badly patterned paper is and the rococo in decoration were People began to grow weary of now hard to find, as art teaches this firmly entrenched in the hearts of the colorless homes, of a so-called “good industry how to make papers that are people. That was the era of fright­ taste” that meant dreary standardiz­ truly and lastingly decorative. But a fulness in wallpaper—cabbage roses ation. They longed once more for in­ paper that is excellent for one type of that seemed to stick out into the room dividuality, color, gaiety in the home, room may be ignorantly chosen for and mingle with the what-nots, the and, especially after the war, for another type of room, and badly patent-rockers, the tidies, the hand- decorations that would match the rest­ chosen paper may destroy the very painted coal scuttles, the wax flowers less, jazzy tempo at which life was effect the owner wished to obtain. So under glass coops, the plush albums being lived. Wallpaper, that is, fig­ a few basic principles in the choice of and the marble topped center tables. ured, colored, boldly patterned wall­ correct papers for all purposes are im­ The Victorian era came and went, paper, became again the mode. portant to know. as did the good Queen who gave it her Within the past year, no fewer than France, England and Holland are name. Reform set in, as indeed it had a dozen of the leading magazines pub­ all contestants for the honor of origin­ need to do, in matters sartorial and lished in the United States and de­ ating wallpaper. But the use of paint­ decorative. Somebody—or more likely, voted to the business of home-making, ed papers to cover the wall developed some group, perhaps taught by Mr. have published articles, usually by so gradually from the earlier use of William Morris, discovered that use­ authorities in the decorating world tapestries, printed linens, and other ful things could be simple and beauti­ commenting on the revived interest in cloth fabrics, that it is impossible to ful, and that only things which were figured and colored wallpaper. assign any one given time and place simple and at the same time useful House and Garden says: “Walls of origin. could possibly be considered beautiful. covered with interesting and colorful Certain it is, however, from historic Out went the gilded rolling pins, papers come as a relief after the long documents, such as wills and inven­ the what-nots, the “throws” and tidies, period of plain and paneled effects.” tories, that by the beginning of the the bows and ornaments, and with Country Life devotes a long illustrat­ Sixteenth Century decorated paper them went the cabbage roses and ed article to the decorative possibilities was used both in England and on the other wallpaper atrocities that the of wallpaper under the title, “Patterns continent, to decorate certain impor­ Victorian period had best loved. to the Fore in the Background.” Good tant rooms in monasteries, castles, and An era of simplicity began, and the Housekeeping carried a similar article palaces. In 1586 in Paris a guild was wallpaper makers began to offer plain, entitled “The Decorative Background.” formed of the paper painters of that restful, though perhaps a bit somber House and Garden ran a series of city—fore-runners of the painters’ papers of the cartridge, “oatmeal,” articles on correct patterns and types and paperhangers’ union, no doubt. stipple variety, brocade effects in self­ of paper for various rooms. Inter­ It was a thrifty Dutchman, one color, and dark, handsome, even sub­ national Studio carried an illustrated Herman Schinkel of Delft, who first dued tapestry designs. Dark green article on the revival of the patterned printed this decorative kind of paper, was the popular color of the day background. And so it goes. The thereby putting it within reach of (with red for dining rooms only) just highest authorities in the world of common mortals, when before that as gray and tan have these later years decoration now advocate the use of only princes, nobles and the very been the popular colors for walls as well-chosen color and pattern for the wealthy had been able to afford the well as hosiery. Flower designs were wall covering. expensixe hand-painted papers. One simple, dainty, almost too pale, and Plain papers may cover a well. But of the earliest types of this Holland they were kept exclusively in the bed­ only papers with color and design can paper was devoid of all design, being rooms. Simplicity was the slogan of actually decorate a wall. The only merely paper coated with gold, silver the day. problem that faces the home-maker, or bronze paint. People distrusted themselves, their then, is knowing what colors and what The seventeenth century papers own taste. They looked back upon the patterns and what textures are best were partly hand-painted and partly atrocities they had tolerated, yea, de­ fcr certain uses. hand-blocked. Of the former, scenes lighted in, but a few short years ago, A few general rules are all that depicting Bible incidents, popular and they trembled. The younger space here permits. Use bright, warm legends and historical events were generation, and that new breed of colors for north rooms, and cool colors, popular, and an artist would make a artists that began to spring up, the such as gray, green and blue, only in “set” of hand-painted sheets to fit the Interior Decorations, told them that rooms that have direct sunlight to room he had been commissioned to everything they had liked was all neutralize the cold effect of the paper. prepare paper for. wrong. Use small patterns for small rooms, About the middle of the seventeenth There was safety in simplicity. So and large patterns in large rooms; a century a new influence came into homes became as colorless as they had large design in a small room makes wallpaper, and indeed, into all fields before been colorful. Everybody ran the room seem even smaller, while a of decoration. This was the Chinese “the restful effect” into the ground. tiny pattern in a large room becomes influence, for with increased maritime Pattern and color were called bad insignificant. Avoid stripes for rooms

Make your living room the largest and most cheerful in the house— with high ceiling, but use them to We have got to hustle to keep our was hardly more than a arid desert. make a low ceiling seem higher. Use State’s life blood—our boys and girls Today there are within forty miles light colored paper in dark rooms. and our men and women—with us, of the City Hall in Los Angeles more Use large scenic papers only in large and to bring others to us, or we will people than in the whole State of rooms such as ballrooms, hotel corri­ soon find we have fallen off the edge Maine. Florida was in much the same dors and drawing rooms, or the wide and landed butter side down. early condition. During the past ten hallways in very roomy country In a letter recently received from years the United States census show houses. Avoid a too bold pattern if Frank H. Purinton, Los Angeles, that Florida has the largest percent­ you wish to hang pictures, particular­ California, he says: age in growth of any state in the Union. Twenty-six towns and coun­ ly small ones, on the wall; a misty, “There are thousands of Easterners vague design is better for a back­ ties in Florida assess from one to two in Los Angeles, San Diego, Pasadena, mills on the valuation for advertising ground for pictures. etc., as well as in San Francisco, to Never decide on wallpaper without the Northward. Statistics, which I purposes. first deciding upon the effect you wish believe to be authentic state that Here’s what a letter written Dec. to obtain in the room under considera­ 75,000 people are coming from the 8, 1923, from Miami, Florida says: tion; select something that will en­ Eastern States to Los Angeles each “With about $15,000,000 in new hance the beauty of your other dec­ month. The majority of them are buildings in and around Miami we orations, and serve as a fitting back­ coming here with the intention of liv­ feel that our advertising campaign ground for the type of furniture you ing here. There are fifty whole fam­ should be made more thorough than will use in that room. Furniture of ilies just from Portland, Maine, whose ever before, as we must draw 25,000 the heavy, sturdy, craftsman type, for furniture, Mr. Jeans of Work street, extra two to four weeks stay people instance, would not look well against Portland, Maine, alone packed and to Miami to fill these new housing a delicate rose brocade effect, but de­ shipped to this city, since spring.” facilities.” Then follows a program mands a sturdy, rough-textured paper Why is this so? of what they are to do to interest people after they get there, such as such as a tapestry, leather, or cart­ It is because Californians have seen ridge paper. golf, swimming, a New Year’s pag­ the possibilities of advertising and eant, a flying boat meet, a Florida But know this: There is a paper have capitalized those possibilities manufactured for every type of room, state flower show, and a big musical with cold cash. festival in March. “To pay for all for every size pocket-book, for every What is the result? possible home use, from parlor and of this, will take all the money of the A recent editorial in the Los City Publicity Fund.” (Note that they library to glazed tile effects for Angeles Evening Herald states: kitchen and bathroom. have a municipal advertising fund “There were something like 700,000 raised by taxation) and the letter summer visitors to Southern Cali­ further reads: “We must also raise fornia in the four months of May, $40,000 besides to pay our bills.” June, July and August, 1923, accord­ That’s the way they do it in Florida Maine Publicity ing to well accredited statistics, and —they put up their hotels, apartment each spent on an average, $100 while houses and bungalows, plan their en­ here or a total of $70,000,000. To get tertainment and then go and get the this the All-Year Club (an advertis­ people to come there, through news­ Our State is rich in conditions ing organization similar to our State papers, magazines, beautifully printed which are greatly desired by both the of Maine Publicity Bureau) expended booklets and other publicity media. summer and winter tourist. But there $200,000 from January 1 to July 1. is a continuing need of making our If any merchant could duplicate that Portland, Oregon raised last year resources known. We have “the real record in returns from publicity out­ $300,000 to be spent $100,000 a year stuff” in this matter and the desiring lay, he would succeed, no matter what for three years in publicity alone. country and world should know of it. his line of trade might be. The great What are we doing? They want to know. It is in our in­ majority of those who visit Southern Other than the advertising done by terest for them to know. Thus both California go away as friends and do the railroads, two or three Chambers parties are benefited. Below we are not hesitate to spread the tidings of of Commerce in a small way, and a presenting some facts and figures as the wonders they have seen to those few hotels, about the only advertising furnished by the State of Maine Pub­ who remained at home.” money spent for Maine is the $30,000 licity Bureau. This Bureau as now “This Club has plans for the ex­ spent by the State of Maine Publicity arranged with headquarters in Port­ penditure of $350,000 during the first Bureau last year. And remember land is maintaining offices at Bangor, half of 1924. that this is spent for the entire state, Bangor House, and at Houlton in the “The All-Year Club of California not for a single city. The city of Times Office. From this data will be spent in 1923 $650,000 in publicity Miami, Florida (with a population of seen how comparatively little is done alone and they figure that this 29,571) spent five times that amount. in publicity in Maine: brought a return in tourist business Because the Canadian government Thomas B. Reed, while he was of three hundred and sixty-five million reports for 1923 show that the tour­ speaker of the House of Represent­ dollars.” ist business that year brought a atives, several years ago, in a gather­ Here’s another point they make revenue of $300,000,000, the Canadian ing in Washington of people from all which is worth listening to: Parliament at a recent session voted over the United States, in responding “A great many of these visitors an appropriation of half a million for Maine, offered this toast: come by their own motive power in dollars to be spent in advertising automobiles, and spread their bene­ alone. “Here’s to the State of Maine, factions in the way of trade along New York State with its Adiron- a land of the bluest skies, the the highway for hundreds of miles dacks, Michigan with its Great Lakes greenest earth, the richest air, before they reach the border of our country, Canada with its Nipigon the strongest and what is better state.” “The Club should have the Lake and other great wilderness the sturdiest men, the fairest and full co-operation of each enterprising regions, Colorado with its Rocky what is best of all, the truest merchant and industrial leader in this Mountain scenery are all competing women under the sun.” territory.” “Every dollar thus ex­ with us and spending dollars where These are tremendous assets to any pended will return with hundreds of we are spending pennies. Colorado State—but because we have them we companions.” last year spent $700,000 in advertis­ cannot sit supinely by and wait for Thirty-five years ago, before the ing. The 1923 annual report of the the rest of the world to find us out. era of irrigation, Southern California Ten Thousand Lakes Association of

Page Six Order is Heaven’s first law.—Pope. Minnesota shows that 740,000 tourists The Earl of Craven has a horror last year spent $41,000,000. of sham and pretence, a fact which You hear people say, “What’s the lends point to the following story: sense in spending money to bring Here and There Some little time back a friend of his, tourists here for only a few weeks, while strolling through Wardour why not try and induce people to street, saw and admired in a second­ come here for agricultural and in­ Phil Boldock has returned to his hand dealer’s shop a portrait of an dustrial opportunities and thus be­ home in Canada. admiral in full uniform. He offered come permanent residents.” fifty pounds for it, but the dealer de­ It is admitted that Maine has in­ Sterl Diamond has been visiting his clined to part with it for less than dustrial opportunities that should be family in Bangor. £75. As neither would give way the developed but how better can we get picture remained where it was. Not people to Maine to make investments long afterwards, while visiting at a than by bringing them here for a Carl Kelley is located with his country house, the friend saw the pic­ vacation and show them what we family at Norcross. ture hanging in the dining-room. He have. went towards it with an exclamation In Piscataquis County, which is a Thomas Leet has moved his family of surprise. “Hullo! What have you tourist county with its Moosehead, to Norcross from Millinocket. They got here?” “Oh, that’s a portrait that Chesuncook, and West Branch regions will be at Norcross for the summer. has just been bequeathed to us,” re­ and which is also regarded as a plied his host, a rather vulgar, boast­ county of agricultural development, ing man. “It is the portrait of one of we note these comparisons as shown Carl Hagerstrom is driving truck Nelson’s admirals, an ancestor of by figures which any one can see at on the Kineo-Pittston side. He re­ ours.” “Was he indeed?” was the the Assessors Office in the State cently made a visit to Bangor. comment. “A month ago he was with­ House, Augusta. in twenty-five pounds of becoming one The assessed valuation in resident of mine.” real estate for Piscataquis County A. P. Murray and William Patter­ shows an increase from $2,694,149 in son of the Greenville Shop were lately 1892 to $5,272,811 in 1920 or a gain on the Rockwood side repairing trucks. A certain governor-general of India, of 95% whereas the assessed valua­ who was a good statesman but an in­ tion in non-resident real estate (prop­ different sportsman, one day went erty owned by people who come here William Norton of the Grant Farm has been on a trip to Montreal, being shooting bears at Simla. He was a for the summer vacation period) very bad shot and got none, though shows an increase from $593,371 in away for the most of the month of April. there were plenty about. On his re­ 1892 to $3,216,590 in 1920, or a gain turn from the expedition his shikari of 442%. In personal estate the resident was asked what sport they had had; Yvonne Evoy is back at the Rock­ he replied, “The Sahib shot beauti­ assessed valuation shows an increase wood boarding house and is doing the from $1,042,011 in 1892 to $2,151,068 fully, but God was merciful to the cooking there. She has been away bears.” in 1920, a gain of 106%, whereas the for the winter. non-resident assessed valuation shows an increase from $96,925 in 1892 to An Oregoon man was trying to sell $868,639 in 1920, a gain of 1218%. A. L. Misho moved his family from Rockwood back to Costigan May 1st. a horse. The animal was broken- There is one family that comes to winded but sleek. The owner trotted Prouts Neck, Maine, every summer Mr. Misho has been spending a two him around for inspection and bring­ from Montreal whose bill for fruit weeks’ vacation. ing him back to the prospect stroked alone last summer averaged $175 a the horse’s back and remarked. month. This family is at their sum­ T. V. Whalon of the Seboomook “Hasn’t he a lovely coat?” The pros­ mer home at Prouts Neck for seven telephone exchange has left the pect removed his pipe and said, as he months in the year and their monthly switchboard and gone into the harness looked at the heaving flanks of the average expenditure is $5,000 or shop at Rockwood. animal: “Yeah, his coat’s all right, $35,000 for the season. but I don’t like his pants.” The summer tourist business of the State of Maine last year brought into William Pattern of the Greenville the state 700,000 tourists and $52,- Shop has been visiting in Boston and A high school boy asked a librarian 000,000 and left it here. on his return to Greenville stopped in for a copy of “Veins and Adenoids.” It must be acknowledged and faced Bangor. A search through books on physiology first as last, that the tourist business failed to reveal any such title. He is competitive and that tourists will was asked if he knew the author, and not come to Maine unless we go out William Harris has relieved Jack replied, “Why Shakespeare, I guess” after them and tell them why they Hazelton at the Boundry Cottage. Mr. —It was discovered he wanted “Venus should come to Maine for their vaca­ Harris has been scaling at the Rain­ and Adonis.” This is comparable to tion and what they will find here. bow Operation this past winter. the woman who wanted “She Sat in Are we going to look after and the Wood Box”—which was found to cultivate this tourist travel, expand be “The Satinwood Box.” it and have a new awakening before Mr. A. A. Starkey, who has been this great summer business has employed at the harness shop at slipped over the border into Quebec, Rockwood for some time, finished his “What are you reading, Charlie?” the White Mountains, the Adirondacks work there April 30 and went to Ban­ “It’s a book called ‘Child Training,’ or clear across the continent to Cali­ gor. that I borrowed from Mrs. Jones,” re­ fornia? That’s why we must wake turned the young son. up! “Do you find it amusing?” laughed Young Man—So Miss Ethel is your his mother. Modern Child (at children’s party) oldest sister? Who comes after her? “I’m not reading it for that. I —I say, old thing, this lemonade is Small Boy—Nobody ain’t come yet; merely wanted to see if I had been frightfully under proof!—Passing but pa says the first fellow that comes brought up properly.”—London Hum­ Show (London). can have her—Everybody’s Magazine. orist.

Self-trust is the essence of heroism.—Emerson. Page Seven whole time was spent in discussing the problem of educating the appren­ tice. Also at the recent meeting of the National Society for Vocational Education in conjunction with the Federal Board for Vocational Educa­ tion, this same topic was discussed for a day with representatives of the Federal Board, the New York Build­ ing Congress, the American Construc­ SPRUCEWOOD DEPARTMENT, GREAT NORTHERN PAPER COMPANY tion Council, and many local labor or­ Edited and Published by the ganizations. SOCIAL SERVICE DIVISION It was brought out at this meeting that while our national population Montford S. Hill, Superintendent was increasing, journeyman plumbers Oscar S. Smith and Aime J. Toussaint, Associates have dropped from 128,000 in 1910 to on the week of the fifteenth of each month. 103,000 last September and that other Gratis to the fortunate within the pale—gratis to the unfortunate without the pale. percentages of shortage were as fol­ lows: lathers, 57; plasterers, 54; All employees are asked to co-operate with news items, personals, photographs, | suggestions, anything that will please and not offend. Address all communications direct 3 masons, 50; painters, 47; sheet metal to Montford S. Hill, Superintendent, room 607, 6 State St., Bangor, Maine. Copy must | workers, 47; bricklayers, 39; steam be in by the tenth of the month. fitters, 38; hod carriers, 31; cement From the Press of the Furbush Printing Company, 108 Exchange St., Bangor, Me. finishers, 29; plumbers, 28; carpen­ ters, 25; electricians, 21; structural iron workers, 14; common laborers, boys are bound to be the burden of 12; and engineers, 3. While this is Editorial the town, for if they do not drift no doubt a problem in vocational edu­ around from job to job themselves, cation it should also be taken into con­ they will be handicapped by their sideration by those having to do with Trades and Industries—The limited education to get a position prevocational students. Non Vocational Problem that will sufficiently care for them and With about fifty per cent of our their future families. boys dropping out by the end of the How can this shifting difficulty be elementary course, something must be Industrial Education is a course of overcome? Is it not the work of the done to see that they are properly study whereby the boy is taught the high school in co-operation with the fitted to take the work which they will fundamentals of the various trades. grades to interest these boys in classes have to do. Is it because he wishes to In this work he has the opportunity of an industrial nature, giving them go to work or is it because the high to express himself, both in theory and the fundamentals they need to go into school has not that which he would practice. He develops his imagination local industries and prepare them for like to obtain that he leaves? Boys and his experiments, and by experi­ better opportunities and promotion? that they are, with the thoughts of menting, tends to find himself and his Unfortunately at the beginning, the man’s work with man’s pay, they soon likings of an industrial nature. industrial classes were branded as the become discouraged and leaving the In our high schools there is a place for dullards and, if a boy was work that they already have are liable definite aim in view for the boy taking unable to get along in his academic to join the gang without work, and the college course. He is preparing work he was sent into these classes become a follower of them. for college. The same is true of the with the failure stamp attached. This What is there to do for this boy? girl taking the commercial work. She theory, that he was fitted only for This is a big question and depends on is preparing to become a stenographer these classes has been proven untrue. at least four things: his choice, his or an office girl. We should therefore, In the grades where the work is com­ ability, the local industries, and have some definite aim in view for the pulsory for all boys, those doing the whether or not he has had any indus­ boy who will graduate from school, best work in the shops are also the trial work in the grades. If he has the one who is forced to leave school stars of the academic studies. Like­ had work in the grades, it should be through some unfortunate circum­ wise this has been proven true in the continued, majoring on that of his stances, or because he is tired of book high school. choice. If he has had no work of this work and thinks he wishes to leave to This type of work should not be type he should be given a general try­ go to work. placed on a basis a bit lower than any out period using the first year for What is this boy to do? Without other course in school. If it were not this and the second for work of his training of a trade nature, he must for the industries I am wondering choice. receive it in some shop, starting at the where we as teachers, would be look­ As every boy will probably sooner beginning, possibly at some line that ing for our pay checks. They are ab­ or later be the possessor of a home of he later finds he likes. The chances solutely necessary for the existence of his own, either rented or owned, it is are however, he will take the first job the towns and we must help to pre­ necessary that he know how to take that appears and, after spending a pare those who are entering thereon. care of it. Therefore he should know year or so, only to find he has picked According to the last census of the something about carpentry; household something he doesn’t like, will repeat United States 32.9% of the people are repair work, including the refinishing this process, wasting his time, a included in manufacturing and me­ of furniture, reseating of chairs, care source of trouble to the industry and chanical industries and 29.8% in agri­ and sharpening of tools, glazing, put­ discourage himself. culture and animal husbandry work. ting on locks, hinges, etc., soldering of There is also another problem that Is this not sufficient reason why we dishes, pans, etc., repair of agricul­ has to be faced in certain localities. should recognize this work in our tural implements, if in a rural sec­ The junior high school has made won­ schools? tion ; mixture and application of derful progress in helping the boy There seems to be considerable paints, stains, shellac and varnishes; over the gap between elementary and comment from the industrial people in electrical work, such as the wiring of high school. However where there is regard to the co-operation between door bells, hourse wiring, including no junior high school there seems to educators and the industries. At the the installation of lights, switches, be a tremendous dropping out at the recent meeting of the American fuses, and outlets, the repair of flat end of the elementary school. These Typothetae at Toronto, nearly the irons, toasters, etc., the mixture and

Page Eight To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.—Burke. working of concrete; plumbing and ing in mind that this cannot be done pipe fitting; and the necessary me­ at minute’s notice, as outsiders seem chanical drawing accompanying this to think when they wish work done in work. these classes. With one automobile to every seven In many of our schools courses are persons in the United States, is there offered boys on a unit system includ­ not a necessity for this course in our ing household repair, woodwork of a schools? All the above courses I rough and finished quality, electrical would strongly recommend for any of work, automobile repair, and work in our schools whether in the urban or concrete, this last being done when rural sections. outside conditions allow. This type of There are also other courses such work has found favor not only with as machine shop, printing, masonry, the boys but also with the school textile work, and any other that would ojcials and the town people in general. prepare the boy to enter on a local in­ For those who are not having in­ dustry, better qualified to work up to dustrial work but are interested in it, a profitable position. I will say that the state requirements call for a minimum of 180 minutes The question will probably arise as per week, per boy, covering not more to how we are going to equip the class than two years. There is also re­ room for all this work. In the small quired an average attendance of communities a general shop seems to twelve boys in the school. For the be preferable, large enough to give classes below the secondary standing room for the necessary variety of the requirements call for 300 minutes equipment. By having a general shop, per week, per boy previous to high the classes of twelve to fifteen boys school. can be divided so that very few will be doing the same line of work at the same time. This eliminates a big cost of equipment yet in due course of Sherman Rogers’ Talks time, by shifting from one unit to Bring Inspiration to City another each boy will have had the various types of work. color, or social order; it strenuously Will one teacher be able to teach Mr. Sherman Rogers will give an asserted that underneath vests or such a variety of work? In prac­ address at the Bangor High School waists all people were about alike— tically all of our teacher training Auditorium next Saturday evening. inherently honest and fair. Mr. schools of today, teachers are taught This is one of the features of the Rogers shattered the fallacy that a variety of work including all the vocational conference held in Bangor there was any necessity of ill-feeling above types. the present week. Mr. Rogers is the between employer or employe; be­ One point I wish to impress very Industrial Correspondent of the Out­ tween the banker or laborer; no dis­ strongly is that there should not be look Magazine. He is one of the fore­ tinction between character beneath over sixteen boys in any class, while most students of modern industrial overalls or broadcloth. twelve is better. Unlike the general conditions now oppearing on the pub­ Mr. Rogers radiated enthusiasm class room, where everyone is work­ lic platform. Everybody should hear tempered with a remarkable degree ing on the same subject, the industrial him. Let no industrial people miss of common sense. He did not theor­ work is wholly of an individual this privilege. The subject of the ize but illustrated every statement nature. No two boys are doing the address will be, “Leaders vs. Drivers.” with a concrete example of proven same thing as a rule, for even though The people of Middletown have practicability. The editor declared in several attempted like projects at the heard a series of addresses during positive terms that misunderstanding same time, they should be allowed to the week that will be remembered for was the cause of practically every work according to their abilities which a long time to come. When Sherman social ill, and his passionate plea for differ greatly. The boy is the objective Rogers, industrial editor of the Out­ of the work, and as such it should be labor to become a member of the look, one of the leading inspirational Civic Association was based on the nothing but individual work in all and logic-dealing orators on the pub­ sense of the word, that he may receive logic that fully ninety per cent of the lic platform, was engaged to speak business transacted by that body the most from the course. for the Civic Association drive much The teacher should use the job would directly affect the working men analysis as his guide, therefore mak­ was expected of him due to the fact and women of the city. He pleaded ing his own textbook from the knowl­ that Middletown business men and with the workers in Middletown in­ edge acquired by the student as he foremen had heard him before. dustries to shoulder responsibility, progresses on the job. This analysis Mr. Rogers, however, exceeded all participate in all the deliberations of is divided into seven parts: the job to expectations. He carried his audi­ the Association and guide its efforts be done; the objective in doing that ences by sheer power of sincerity, to promote the welfare of a unified job; the necessary information includ­ faith, and sound reasoning. No speak­ city. He gave the city the best there ing safety to man and stock that is er appearing in this city in years has was in him. Each one of his fifteen required to do the job; the necessary created a more favorable impression addresses was delivered with the trade science including any necessary on his hearers. Not due to any new punch of a human dynamo followed scientific facts; the trade drawing in­ theory, not at all—Rogers simply put by enthusiastic applause of his listen­ cluding all required drawing and blue­ the much discussed Golden Rule into ers. The orator portrayed graphically print reading; the trade mathematics practical, cool-headed, workable form. his own personal experiences in a needed by the boy; and the various He walked on the pet corns of em­ manner that instilled a newborn faith type jobs that would give the same ployer and employe alike without giv­ in the rapidly changing social order objectives for different boys while do­ ing offense to either. whereby reason was transplanting ing their various work. This vigorous personality quickly hate, confidence taking the place of I believe there should be a certain proved to those fortunate enough to ungrounded suspicions and friendly amount of repair work done around hear him that he believed in the hon­ contact between factions in industry the building and from home, but keep­ esty of all people regardless of creed, becoming an established policy.

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue.—Emerson. Greenville, May 1, 1924. foot of this rapid. It is a fall of thirty in the gang, but each one hesitated. My dear Mr. Hill: or thirty-five feet, at one plunge, into “It’s sure death,” they all said. I happened to come across this a hole of great depth which whirls When the jam started it would go story by C. A. Stephens in an old like a maelstrom. Logs will circle a through like an avalanche. There Portland Transcript, and thought you month here unless poled out. Right would be no time to climb back out of might like it for The Northern. in the throat of the rapid, just where the gorge. Whoever was down there the torrent bends over the ledge, there would have to go with it. The Boss Cordially yours, is what the drivers call the “center did not like to order men to such Fred D. Bigney. rock,” a point of the ledge rising duty, yet the jam was getting worse above water; and it is this rock which every hour, and he would probably renders the “suck hole” so trouble­ have done so but for Jack Burdeen. Written for the Portland Transcript, some and dangerous. The logs are Jack had been looking at the jam and August 8, 1874. apt to strike and hang on it. So down­ had struck out a plan for cutting JACK BURDEEN’S SPRUCE right and forceful is the plunge of away the pine stick. I have always the waters, that logs thirty feet long thought the brave fellow did it rather have struck against this rock and than see any of the rest of us sent By C. A. Stephens been riven in halves from end to end. down there. His plan was to stretch On the north side of the one of All lumber going down here is more or a warping-line from ledge to ledge those foaming “pitches,” which make less “broomed up” at the ends. directly over the falls, with a gang of the lumbermen dread the West Branch When we got down there that day men on each side to draw it tight, or (Penobscot) worst of all the Maine the situation was bad enough. One of slacken it, at the word. He would waters, there stands a smooth, black the big pine sticks, forty or fifty feet take his ax—he said—and go out on spruce, in the bark of which are cut long and four feet through, had hit the hawser, until he was directly over the words: against the center rock and swung the log. Then we might slacken the “jack burdeen, round to the north side. The end had rope and lower him down to it. He DROWNED HERE, caught under the edges of the shelving would cut it till it broke, then catch ledge. There it hung with the foam SPRING OF 1868” hold of the rope and we could pull flying over it, springing and “buck­ him up and draw him ashore. After Six years ago. ling” like a steel bow. The drivers some talk this project was adopted. The letters are still legible, though had seen it when it first struck and One end of the six hundred feet the tree has healed and will ere long had let a man down the ledge, but the warping lines was taken across the outgrow the scar. And thus the water pressed on the log so heavily river and twenty men sent over to memory of poor Jack is fading out. that it was impossible to dislodge it handle it. Jack then stripped to his This spruce was his only tombstone with the “peevys.” It completely shirt and red drawers, took his ax —the great, noble-hearted boy who blocked the north side of the channel. and threw one leg over the cable. I was lost here. The river above was completely cov­ don’t know whether the poor boy had He had been on the West Branch ered with logs. Every minute they any presentiment of his fate. He two springs. Though only eighteen, came driving down, and striking with shook my hand and said, “Wish me he was the most muscular man in the a dull thump, added their weight to luck!” whole gang, the tallest, and had the the pressure. When we got there the We paid out the line and the party quickest eye and the surest hand; and whole channel for a hundred rods on the other side drew him out over added to these a heart good and true above the falls was jammed full of the abyss; then slowly we let him as steel. Every man on the “drive” logs, clean to the bottom of the river. down, down under the rainbow, where loved that brown, kindly face. And And so swift and strong was the hot, mad mist flew up in wild gushes. the very way he lost his life, too, it stream that it kept rolling the logs up, It took strong nerves to face that came of his generous spirit, and his one over another, till the top of the frightful gully and not turn giddy. way of putting himself ahead to keep mass was in many places twenty and Guided only by his raised hand—for the other fellows out of danger. thirty feet above the water-level. Here nothing could be heard above the noise We were on Churchill’s drive—the huge logs three and four feet through of the cataract—we let him down till last drive of the season. There was might be seen standing endwise with his feet touched the trembling log. So nigh two million feet of lumber; and their butts in the air, slantwise, cross­ violently did bend and spring that it were short-handed to work so many wise and in every position. The river, was with difficulty he kept his footing logs through all the pitches, at once. white with foam-clots, ran through on it. We saw him look about him. It got strung out a good deal, and and around the mass, roaring like a coolly, it seemed, first to the log, then that made it worse. For two weeks score of mills; and a vast pond of to the hawser, then up the ledges not a man of us had taken off his dead water was thus dammed and where the gang were staring down— clothes. We didn’t get two hours sleep held back, all pressing on the first every man holding his breath. a night on an average; and we slept logs in the throat of the falls. Adjusting the rope he raised his ax. in our wet clothes, any where we could All the men were on the ledges on The bright blade gleamed in the nar­ catch a moment. the north side, looking down into the row chasm as he struck it deep into Jim Madigan, Jack, and I, were to­ abyss; and the Boss (Wheeler) was the green log. One—twice—three gether, when word was passed back tearing around like a mad man. I times. It cracked! He threw the ax. that the logs had jammed on the could see his lips fly, but not a word A mighty crash rang up, followed by “Suck Hole” pitch, about two miles could be heard above the deafening a noise like near, heavy thunder, or below. All hands were called to break roar and the thunder of the logs, rather like the roar of an earthquake, the jam. We hurried down the bank. rolling and tumbling one over another. beneath our feet. The jam had start­ This “suck hole” is one of the worst The rocks trembled under our feet; ed—was going! places on the stream. When logs jam and the spray and foam flew up in a But Jack had caught the line. We there it is next to impossible to get prodigious cloud. The volume of water jerked him up—up—up. It was all down to them; for on both sides there is enormous at this time of year, when done in a moment. One great log, are almost perpendicular ledges, fifty all the six feet of snow in the woods ending over like a billet, barely missed and sixty feet high. ' The current here is melting. I never saw a wilder his legs. We pulled with might and is just like an arrow, and very deep; scene. main. for the whole river flows through a The Boss was calling for volunteers Too late! Another longer log, gorge not more than eighty or a hun­ to go down and start off the big pine whirling over, struck the line and dred feet wide. The “pitch” is at the log. There were plenty of bold fellows whirled him down with it.

the oak thrives by the rude concussion of the storm.—Cowper. Gone! Gone to death like a flash! her cheeks and chin. Her earrings tween them, and the heavyweight lady Gone through the falls! were six inches in length and prob­ of North Africa started to push her­ A groan, a cry of horror, from the ably weighed a quarter of a pound. self into the carriage! great, rough human hearts on both She attempted to enter a third class I saw death from suffocation and I sides of the river blended with the carriage but she found the door too yelled a protest. Fatima abused me roar. “Too Almighty Bad!”—His small and she appealed to the guard. in Arabic; the driver asserted that epitaph. The guard pushed and struggled and, he had the right. The discussion But the jam was out. finally, Fat Fatima was thrust into brought a crowd. Ungallantly and We searched long in the “suck hole” the compartment and we moved off. with much emphasis I informed the and farther down. No trace of poor Later in this letter I will tell of my driver that I was not going to ride Jack was ever found. next meeting with her. with a veiled circus freak in a We came to Tlemcen, and when I ricketty carriage that possessed saw Tlemcen I was sorry that I had neither springs, lamps, or respectable not arranged my trip so that I wheels. The fat woman was hauled Dwyer Letter could stay over in the town. For from the steps and we drove off. Tlemcen, view from the train, is a I went to the Hotel Transatlantique. No. 7 place of wonder. Some day I will go The manager assured me that he had back and live for a little while in nineteen guests in his ten rooms. He Tlemcen just to prove that the dreams descended to the street to comfort me, I had of it as the train ran by the Central Hotel, at Oudjda, and at this point the Arab coachman century-old fortifications are really decided that I was a very wicked man. Morocco. On the Road to true. Seven hundred years ago Fez from Oran. I had come to the same decision about Tlemcen was in its prime. It was the him, so the hotel manager had to My dear Mrs. Homer: biggest trading station in North separate us. My baggage was tossed The railway station at Oran where Africa (with the one exception of into the street, and the coachman I bought my ticket for Fez is a Fez), and it has slipped into a color­ drove off with threats to come back splendid place. It is built in Oriental ful and picturesque old age. In the with the police. I would have wel­ style and from a distance it resembles afternoon sunlight it looked a fairy comed the police. It was getting late a mosque. I had three porters to city—a place that some imaginative and I had no place to sleep. carry my goods aboard the train, and artist might have painted for the Finally an Arab boy hunted up an­ the three, like all porters, not satis­ cover of a child’s storybook! I know other carriage and I was driven to fied with what I gave them, assured I made a mistake in not making a the Central Hotel whose kind land­ me in three languages that all the stop at Tlemcen. It is one of the lady took me in, gave me a very nice small money I had would not pass in blunders of my trip. room and brewed coffee for me. I am Morocco so it would be much better The train jogged on towards thankful to the landlady of the Cen­ for my pocket and soul if I handed it Morocco. By little farms and vine­ tral Hotel. It was the one place left over to them.’ They remained be­ yards, by little well-kept stations and for me. I had asked the manager of neath the window of my compartment whitewashed villages. There was a the Transatlantique if I might sit up assuring me on this point till the train look of peace upon everything. Shep­ in his parlor but he refused to allow started. herds were driving home flocks of me to do this. When you come to Your guide book will probably tell goats and sheep; the smoke of the Oudjda I would advise you to book you that there is no railway to evening meal curled up from the cen­ accommodation well in advance. Oudjda, but there is. I had a first tral opening in the tents of the Oudjda itself is worth a visit. It class compartment to myself during nomads; French and Spanish emi­ is an old and picturesque town. the entire, trip, and I enjoyed the run grants were working in small veg­ With all good wishes, immensely. The journey brought etable gardens. It was all different Yours very sincerely, further confirmation of the fertility of to what I thought it would be. It James Francis Dwyer. Algiers. All through the long after­ might have been New England. At noon I ran by farms and vineyards, one little station that had been made all carefully cared for. The French delightful with flowers the station­ Professor—Why are you taking have a great property in Algeria. Be­ master was in full uniform—long coat this course, Mr. Brown? fore many years have passed it will and gold laced cap. His wife was Student—Er—well, because I am be producing quite a large percentage busy watering the flowers. And we very fond of the subject. It gives of the grain required by the nation were within a few miles of the me a new insight into the problems that owns it. Moroccan border! which—er—I’m called upon to meet We came to Sidi Bel Abbes, and It was dark when we came to in everyday life. It has been an in­ Sidi Bel Abbes is famous throughout Oudjda. And at Oudjda there is a spiration to me. the world as the headquarters of the customs examination which is not of Professor—Very good. Now, Mr. Foreign Legion—la Legion Etrangere. a very severe kind. It is the first Smith, you tell one.—Washington We waited some twenty minutes here, town of Morocco. Columbus. the station very busy and animated. I managed to get through the cus­ And here at Sidi we took aboard a toms without trouble and I hired a lady who brought trouble to me later carriage to take myself and my be­ Mae—My modiste wrote to my hus­ in the evening. I will try and de­ longings to a hotel. It was then that band saying she would make nothing scribe her here. She weighed fully I met up with Fatima, the Arab lady more for me until the account is three hundred pounds, and her cos­ who had boarded the train at Sidi Bel settled. tume was the most colorful that I Abbes. Fatima had descended at Rae—And what did hubby do? have ever seen. Around her head Oudjda. Mae—He sent her a letter of and body she had wound pieces of Now the railway station is some thanks.—Philadelphia Public Ledger. silk of every tint—green, red, violet, distance from the town, and there was and crimson. She wore heel-less one carriage which I had engaged slippers but no stockings. Her face and into which I had stacked six pieces “Yes, that’s the price for two in the was covered by a veil, but she was of baggage. Fatima held an animated orchestra—want ’em or don’t ye?” careless about the veil and allowed conversation with the driver in “No, think I’ll take a little Medi­ everyone to see the tattoo marks on Arabic, some bargain was struck be­ terranean cruise instead.”—Judge.

By ceaseless action all that is subsists.—Cowper. Page Eleven HERE AND THERE Bangor Office Emma Shaw, who is waiting on tables at Seboomook took a ten days The following is taken from the vacation from May 1st to 10th at Atlantic City Evening Union: Bangor. CURTIS-SOUTAR NUPTIALS TUESDAY The ice went out of Moosehead Lake A wedding of much local interest May 9th. occurred on Tuesday April 29, when Miss Euphemia Anderson Soutar, daughter of Mrs. Charlotte Soutar, 79 Four dump truck and five dump Fairmount Ave., Newark, became the carts were recently taken from the bride of the Hon. Charles Warren Greenville Shop to Rockwood and Curtis, of Brewer, Me. The ceremony Seboomook for road work. at high noon was solemnized by Dr. Robert Scott Inglis in the First President Schenck and Mr. Arthur Presbyterian church. Hobson of Boston were at Pittston Miss Soutar was attended by her Farm May 2nd. Mr. Gilbert was also sister, Mrs. Ogden Williams, of with them. The party is at Little W Orange, N. J. Mr. Williams was best for some spring fishing. man to Mr. Curtis. Miss Soutar has been private sec­ retary to Henry W. Leeds, president, Mrs. Charles Russell, who has been and to J. Haines Lippincott, vice cooking at Pittston left there with her president of Chalfonte-Haddon Hall, Mr. E. K. Jenkins, who for some son, Charles, for Bangor May 13. Mrs. for six and a half years, during years has been at the head of the Angus Founier has taken Mrs. Rus­ which time she made many warm Vocational Division of the State Edu­ sell’s place. friends in Atlantic City. cational Department, has recently re­ Mr. Curtis is an ex-Mayor of signed and is now in charge of the Mr. Louis Cornier of the black­ Brewer, and a member of the Maine vocational work of the American smith force has been working for Legislature, prominent in Masonic, Wallpaper Association. Mr. Jenkins’ Charles P. Hatch at his sporting club and social circles, and is now work in the State has been of much camp. president of the Bangor-Brewer Lions importance to our industrial life, and Club. He is connected with the Great he has given to our vocational work Northern Paper Company, at Bangor, strong leadership. His many friends Cyril N. Buckley, who has been em­ Maine. join to wish him much success in his ployed at Lily Bay the past winter is After a trip to Washington, New new position and he will be greatly working for Connie Brosenhan with York and Boston, Mr. and Mrs. Cur­ missed by a host of acquaintances. the K. P. auto stage. tis will be at home, 44 Holyoke St., Brewer, Me., after May 15. Mr. A. L. Misho returned to Oklahoma Automobile Agent (after Seboomook May 13. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Beal are receiving lengthy explanations to Osage chief) congratulations on the arrival of a —Now I’ve gone over this car boy, Harold Alpheno, born May 10th. thoroughly with you; I’ve shown you ■ Louis Boyle has gone into the men’s every cam and shaft, and I’d like to clothing business at 79 Exchange St., I. W. Barker was in Portland last have your order. But is there still Bangor, under the firm name of week on business. anything you don’t understand; any Cormier & Boyle. questions you would like to ask? Chief—Yes; what makes it go?— We are informed that the stork Oklahoma Whirlwind. J. F. McInnis is at the Seboomook made a call to Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Lake and St. Johns R. R. Murdock, leaving them a Philip, Junior. “Now children,” said the teacher, “write down all you have learned Country Yokel (to angler)—Fish­ about King Alfred, and don’t say any­ ing, guv’nor? “Tact,” said the lecturer, “is es­ Angler (after three hours’ fruitless sential to good entertaining. I once thing about the burning of the cakes; I want to find out what else you angling)—No. I’m teaching worms to dined at a house where the hostess swim.—Tit-Bits. had no tact. Opposite me sat a know.” Half an hour later wee modest, quiet man. Suddenly he Jeanie handed in her effort: “King turned as red as a lobster on hearing Alfred visited a lady at a cottage, The marriage of a Michigan girl to his hostess say to her husband, ‘How but the less said about it the better.” a professional golfer is announced. inattentive you are, Charlie! You —Tit-Bits (London.) Those who are already married to must look after Mr. Brown better. amateurs say that her sportsmanship He’s helping himself to everything.’ ” is most remarkable.—Detroit News. —Pearson’s Weekly. Dealer—I sells you that coat at a Blank—My daughter’s musical edu­ great sacrifice. cation has been quite a profitable Customer—But you say that of all venture. “And did Edith say, ‘This is so your goods. How do you make a Rank—Really? sudden!’ when you proposed?” “No; living? Blank—Yes; I managed to buy the I said it myself. I wasn’t expecting Dealer—My friend, I makes a small bouses on either side of mine for less to be accepted at all.”—Boston Tran­ profit on the paper and string.—Tit- than half their value.—New York script. Bits. World.

Page Twelve The better part of valor is discretion.—Shakespeare. tide on Condeskeag, where the Morse & Co. mills now are. There was a good supply of lumber upon the stream which continued to supply the mills there until about the year 1850. By the year 1800 Bangor was the scene of lively lumber business, large rafts of masts, boards, and ship timber were being shipped to Castine and Belfast for shipment to other points. By this date Bangor had become quite a settle­ ment. The town meetings were con­ sidering questions of education, re­ ligion, bridge and road building and steps were taken in these matters. The Bangor lumber business flour­ ished at first by making use of the local supply; but Bangor did not come to the “biggest lumber market in the world,” as you and I learned that it was when we were boys in school, by its local lumber supply. Bangor was never the scene of very extended lum­ Evidence of Bangor's Former Great Lumber Industry. ber manufacturing. The mills which (Continued from page 4) manufactured the lumber were located from the first. Jacob Dennett was the of Penjejawock Stream, a little above above on the river. Bangor superceed- earliest at boat building; a Mr. How­ where the railroad bridge now is, and ed Castine and Belfast as shipping ard made staves and manufactured assisted in building a dam and bridge points for lumber about the time when barrels. on that stream above, where, subse­ Maine became a state. It was due to The Revolution laid a heavy hand quently, was the county road.” About the advantage of Bangor as a ship­ upon the settlers upon both sides of fifteen years later he built a grist mill ping point that gave her the enor- the River, and aside from supplying near the same place, which was the mous business growth and the great the local needs and shipping an oc­ first grist mill in the Plantation. Be­ wealth which she enjoyed. Probably casional raft of lumber to Castine, the tween the year 1770 and 1780 came to the chartering of the first bank in lumber business did not flournish for Bangor families bearing names that 1814 marks the beginning of Bangor years. Indeed nothing appears to have were destined to be of vast importance as a financial center, and the begin­ flourished, for from all accounts the in the business life of the community. ning of extensive lumber business. settlers up the river were poorer and Business developed slowly for many 1816 seems to have been the year of found a living more difficult than those years. Trade with the Indians, fish­ marked increase in lumber trade for down the bay. It was not till the ing and hunting, together with lum­ it is remarked, “Bangor was resorted early part of the new century that bering in a small way continued to to for lumber this year from the East Brewer became associated with the support many of the people for a long as well as from the West. In the three lumber business in any outstanding time. The war came on and with it weeks next preceding August 17th, way. the hardships incident to war. The thirteen large vessels sailed from the Bangor was first settled by Jacob river was closed to such navigation as port for Lubec with cargoes of lum­ Buswell in 1769. The present site of had formerly been carried on. The ber. Several others sailed shortly the city was an ancient camping settlers suffered and some of them ground of the Tarratine Indians, went away. Provisions were very high known to them as Kadesquit, changed and almost impossible to obtain. Fish by English to Konduskeag. It was was about the only article of diet. The famous as a hunting and fishing war over, population went slowly on ground. Buswell was a squatter, and increasing. About the date 1791 an seems to have had no real object in author remarks that farms were in­ view in coming into the wilderness. creasing in size and number, but farm­ He brought with him a wife and nine ing did not occupy all the attention of children and erected a log cabin by the farmers. “The winters were long; the river bank not far from the foot timber was abundant, and they were of Newbury street at the intersection tempted to engage themselves in the of York and Boyd streets. Stephen, production of what has ever since been his son, recently married, came to join the chief staple of this region—lum­ his father the following year and ber. William Potter had built a small Caleb Goodwin with wife and eight mill on the falls under Lover’s Leap children joined them. In 1771-72 a as early as 1786, and Clark, Sher­ half dozen other families came to join burne and others could do not less the others. The original lumberman than contribute their share of shingles of Bangor is said to have been a man for the market. Fish began to be a by the name of Budge, who built a marketable commodity. The streams saw mill at City Point, called at first were full of them. * * * Vessels began Budge’s Point. Here he at first sawed to frequent the river, and the surplus boards for the local use in building, lumber and fish of the inhabitants but soon began to run rafts of boards were taken at remunerative prices.” and masts down the river to Castine. It would appear that Bangor began to Joseph Mansel came to Bangor from pick up about the year 1790. In 1795 Castine in 1771 and built a saw mill William Hammond and John Stewart for the Hathorns on the “easterly side erected a saw mill at the head of the

The true hero is the great wise man of duty.—Bushnell. came in about 1860 but their introduc­ tion was rather slow, but they came at last about 1890. 132,917 feet is an actual record for a day’s work for one of these crews. It is estimated that prior to 1832 there were cut on Pe­ nobscot waters 200,000,000 feet of logs; in the period from 1832 to 1855 the output was 2,978,603 feet. In the early days, pine was cut almost ex­ clusively, spruce attracting almost no attention until about the middle of the century. The pine was sawed mostly into boards and shipped to the West Indies where it was exchanged for gold, molasses and rum. In 1855, 23,000,000 feet of pine was surveyed at Bangor and only 78,000,000 feet of spruce. In 1861 spruce took the lead with a survey of 72,000,000 feet of spruce to 48,000,000 feet of pine. Spruce has maintained the lead ever since. The deal trade rapidly in- Sterns Mill, East Hampden creased after the Civil War. Four inch spruce plank was shipped in Shingles ... .147,760,000; value $443,280 large lots to Liverpool, Glasgow, Bris­ afterwards.” Many of the ships . 86,483,500; value 129,725 tol, and Rotterdam. From 20,000,000 carrying cargoes to and from Bangor Laths ...... 4,460,875; value 95,920 to 40,000,000 feet were shipped an­ were built in the yards here. In 1791 Clapboards Pickets ...... 1,271,980; value 15,264 nually to Europe, besides large quant­ Deacon William Boyd was engaged in 7,395,360; value 6,675 ities of two-inch and three-inch stuff building ships here. Staves ...... Broom hdls. 50,000; value 4,000 to South America. The years 1825 to 1840 saw the Among the lumber firms of Ban rapid development of the lumber Total value...... $749,864 gor, W. T. Pearson & Co. was one of trade here. The vast region of lum­ the oldest, established in 1849 by W. ber supply drained by the Penobscot Spool wood, last blocks, excelsior, tele­ T. Pearson. At one time he was the waters was being pentrated and vast graph poles, cedar posts, railing ties, largest saw mill owner in New Eng- shipments were made. The mills at ship timber, knees and spars added land. Veazie, Orono and Old Town were an imposing total to the value of lum­ L. & F. Strickland was another of sending rafts of lumber here to be re­ ber shipments. the oldest firms. Maj. Hastings shipped to all parts of the world. The A short statement of the lumber Strickland came to Bangor from military road from Bangor to Houl­ trade covering a period of a half cen­ Livermore in 1831. He was joined by ton, finished in 1830, vastly aided the tury may be of interest. his brother, Samuel D., and they be- lumbermen in reaching the waters In 1816, 1,000,000 feet of lumber gan manufacturing on the Kendus- farther up. The Veazie railroad had was manufactured at Bangor. By keag Stream. This was under the been built to Old Town in 1832. The 1831 the business had increased to firm name of S. D. & H. Strickland. country was generally prospering and 30,000,000 feet. 6000 feet per day was This concern dissolved in 1855. Short­ everything was ready for the new era. a big day’s work for the old single ly thereafter Major Strickland was Many of the old lumber and shipping saw crew, but with the coming of the joined by his son and the name be- firms of Bangor date back to these gang-saw in 1850 the crews working came W. H. Strickland and Co. They days. For a period covering more these saws often turned out 40,000 went to the West Branch of the Pe­ than half a century Bangor was chief­ feet in a single day. The rotary saw nobscot. The family have ever since ly interested in the lumber trade. It was also the center of the business in­ terest for the whole upper region of Penobscot lumbermen. Lumbermen’s supplies, and finances were largely furnished from this port. In 1883, an author writing about this matter states there were twenty­ one thousand cant dogs manufactured here in a single year. He also re­ marks that the incidentals of the lum­ ber trade were not neglected. The trade in brush handles and backs, ladders and the like brought $60,000 to Bangor in 1878, 4,620,000 staves, 420,000 barrel heads, 2,420,000 hoops shipped to all parts of the world brought $150,000 in a year. Doors, sash and blinds, box boards and things like that were shipped in large lots. In 1882, 171,000,000 feet of long lum­ ber was shipped at a value of $1,- 893,500. A list of short lumber for the same year is here given. Evidence of Bangor’s Former Great Lumber Industry.

Page Fourteen Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy.—Franklin. Evolution Wise Words on Taxation Some time before your ma and pa Were wed, a spiral neoula “A tax is a compulsory contribution Within the void of heaven whirled, of the wealth of a person or body of Which, when condensed, became our persons for the service of the public world. powers. It should be productive, eco­ At first, the planetary tot nomical in collection, justly distribut­ Was gaseous and piping hot; ed, and elastic. The real aim should be Then it acquired an atmosphere, so to direct taxation as to interfere to A hydrosphere then did appear, the smallest extent with the forces Which fell to earth as boiling tears, that promote accumulation.”—Bas­ And, after several million years, table, one of the greatest of modern Produced some rather tepid seas. financial economists, Public Finance. Upon the waves of one of these Appeared a flock of amoebae— And from these protozoa we Pussy Willows Can trace the Family Tree of Life, The evolutionary strife. What do we welcome first of all In order came the zoophyte; Coming in early spring, The Palaeolithic trilobite; Ere ice and snow have left the fields, True fishes, crabs amphibian; Ere the wild pear’s blossoming? Then reptiles in the Permian; And then the giant dinosaurs, In field and marsh, in woodsy space, And next our flying ancestors. Well do the children know Where, on their sap-reddened stems But on the Tree’s most noble twig, The pussy willows grow. John Morison We find the forbears of the pig, The lemur, and the hairy ape. All winter long they have safely slept been identified with the lumbering in­ Just here we like to think a gape In their polished cases brown, terests. Philo Strickland, a brother Occurs between all this and man. But now the sun and the children call of W. H., is still living. A Sttickland At any rate, when next we scan “Wake up and come to town!” office is still maintained in Bangor by This later phylogenic bough, Col. F. H. Strickland. We find, beneath a sloping brow, They hear that call and the pussy-face General Samuel Veazie was also The homo of Neanderthal. Changes from day to day, identified with the development of And then, within a lake-side kraal, To a velvet dress of wondrous grace, Bangor. The scenes of his lumber op- Some gentlemen with trousers on; A satiny, silver-gray. erations were at Old Town, but he And next a bloke in Babylon; lived in Bangor and was associated To the weary one on his bed of pain, with its financial interests. He came Egyptians, then, and Jews and Greeks, The pussy willows bring to Bangor in 1831 from Portland Of whom our earliest history speaks; A message sweet, a promise plain, where he was born in 1787. The Chinese in the Orient, With the coming of the spring. And here and there a Christian gent; Isiah Stetson and George Stetson The Romans, Teutons, Gauls and Kelts There are yearning hearts in far off were manufacturers of lumber under Which, later on, were something else. lands, the firm name of Stetson & Co. This Columbus, then, and Bonaparte Homesick for days of old, firm dates back to 1860. They operat­ And Francois A. N. C. Delsarte; Who, for a pussy willow spray, ed what was called the Bruce mill on And Democrats and traffic cops, Would gladly give their gold. the Kenduskeag Stream. Their lum­ And some who keep tobacco shops; ber was shipped to the West Indies Reformers, vegetarians; Your pussy willows: there they stand in ships which they built themselves Kiwanis and Rotarians; On shelf or mantle-place; at Brewer. A King, a clown, a Ph. D., But all too soon we see each puss, Other firms of importance are the And Henry Ford, and you, and me. Changing its baby face. F. W. Ayer & Co., James Walker & Co., Gould & Hastings, and B. B. Since “omne vivum ex ovo,” ’Till it turns to a fluffy, tawny thing, Thatcher. There is no evidence to show Ripening to its fall. Anything like a detailed history of That Nature now will shut up But Oh! the pleasure unalloyed, these and other lumber firms and lum- And evolution here will stop. Of seeing it at all! ber business men would require space —Mrs. H. N. Shaw much greater than can be devoted to And yet, it seems most dubious this sketch. That Nature can improve on us. Orono, April, 1924. —Ralph Barton in “Science in Rhyme (To be continued) Without Reason” (Putnam). Just as the guards were leading his client away, the lawyer stopped “What does this mean, sir?” said “She seems a brilliant conversa­ and shook hands with the recent de­ the boss to the man coming in a half tionalist.” fendant. “I’m sorry I couldn’t do hour late. more for you, old man,” he apologized. “Rather; you should her her play “Don’t mention it, sir,” replied the “It was on account of the awful fog whist.”—Boston Transcript. this morning, sir,” the fellow ex­ prisoner politely. “Ain’t five years plained. enough?”—Lorillard’s Magazine. “Fog, fog!” espostulated the boss, —Do you believe in heredity? “why, what has the fog to do with it? Wagg—No; the Father of His “Don’t know her? Why, she lives You do not live across the bay.” Country could not tell a lie, but you in the same square with you.” “No sir, I know I don’t; but you do don’t find any of his children with the “Yes, but she’s not in the same and I thought you would be late.” same trouble.—Boston Transcript. circle.”—Cleveland Leader.

Men are but children of a larger growth.—Dryden. Page Fifteen HERE AND THERE “There was a professional golfer one gave the baker. ‘How much bread day who entered a golfing competition. do you sell a day?’ the customer He won it. Furthermore, he broke a asked. ‘Some 400 pounds on the Henry Marquie, the Northern paint­ lot of records for long drives and so average,’ said the baker. ‘I can tell you,’ said the customer, ‘how to sell er, was in Bangor on business Sat­ on. It was a triumph. Well, of course, when the golfer came back to 500 pounds,’ ‘Can you?’ said the urday, May 17. the clubhouse a crowd of fans gath­ baker eagerly; ‘what’s the idee?’ ‘Give ered around him. They all had just full weight,’ said the customer.” Walter Dunn has begun his duties one question to ask him. What ball at Pittston Farm, going there from had he been using? On hearing that question he frowned. He hemmed and The door of the postoffice opened, the Blair Farm. hawed a bit. Then he said: ‘Well, I and a man whom the postmistress haven’t decided yet’.” did not recognize as one of the people living in the district walked in. “I am Bobby was of an inquiring turn of expecting a registered letter to be left mind, but mother usually managed to The old lady had reached her hun­ here for me,” he announced, as he ap­ answer his questions. “Why does dredth year in good health and proached the counter. “What name, daddy go to town every day,” he asked strength, and the vicar was talking please?” asked the postmistress. The on one occasion. “To work so that you with her, in anticipation of finding man gave his name and the letter and I can have good dinners,” mother material for a sermon. “And now will was produced, but the woman had replied promptly. Next day, as Bobby you tell me,” he said, “what has been her doubts as to whether she ought sat down to dinner, he looked dis­ the main source of your vitality, what to give it up, as she had no means of paragingly at the fare provided, then has seemed to you to be the chief identifying the caller. Upon hearing turned an accusing eye on father: basis of the wonderful vigor of your this the stranger took a photograph “You didn’t do much today, did you?” mind and body, what has helped and from his pocket and handed it to the he remarked. supported you through all your days postmistress, remarking: “I think of trials and sorrows?” The old lady that ought to satisfy you as to who Colonel Edward H. R. Green said at thought hard for a moment, and a I am.” She looked long and earnestly a dinner in his South Dartmouth bright smile illuminated her face as at the portrait and then said: “Yes, country house: “The more revolutions she answered: “Victuals!” that’s you, right enough. Here’s your there are, the fewer titled foreigners letter.” will carry our rich girls off to Europe. A New York girl said to her father Love levels all ranks, so does prison. Some time back Mr. Justice Wills Uncle Meadows—I see it says here the other day: ‘Didn’t I hear Count de some of them London banks have been Coldirodi’s voice? Where is he?’ ‘He sent the son of a marquis into penal servitude for seven years. When he doin’ business for thirty years and and I have just had a conference,’ the more and never closed their doors. girl’s father answered, ‘and he is now was at Parkhurst prison he was told off to tidy up the cell of an elderly Mrs. Meadows—Dear me, how care­ in the library figuring out whether he less! I wonder anybody trusts ’em loves you or not.’ ” convict who was for reasons of health unable to do the work himself. “Wot’s with their money.—Pearson’s Weekly. yer name?” asked the ancient “lag” The sailor was engaged in conver­ in a surly tone. “I am Lord So-and- so,” was the reply, mentioning a name Doctor—You are slightly morbid, sation by the benign old gentleman. my dear lady. You should look about “You have evidently had an adven­ which was famous before the Wars of the Roses. The other gazed at him you and marry again. turous life,” said the old gentleman. Widow—O doctor, is—is this a pro­ “And what was the last thing that in amazement and then burst into derisive laughter. “First time in my posal? happened to you?” “Well, sir,” said Doctor—Allow me to remind you, the sailor, “only a few weeks ago I blooming life I have had a lord-in­ waiting!” madam, that a doctor prescribes had an operation. When I came to medicine, but he doesn’t take it.— the doctor told me he had left a New York Tribune. sponge inside me, and it’s there still.” Billy Merson tells an amusing story “Dear me! Does it cause you any pain concerning a man who recently paid a at all?” “Oh, no, sir—no pain. But visit to Paris. He took his wife with “I have noticed,” said the off-hand it does make me terribly thirsty!” him, and as neither of them had been philosopher, “that a woman will get a to the French capital before, they golf dress when she has no intention to play golf.” “That’s so,” agreed the “France is beginning to wake up,” promised themselves a good time. They began by treating themselves to man with the golf sticks. “And,” remarked former British Premier continued the off-hand philosopher, Baldwin, the other day. “Now she is a good dinner. Towards the close of the meal, he was telling his wife that “she will get a ball gown when she going to let some of the rest of us cares nothing about dancing, and a help the world out of its financial her French pronunciation was all wrong, and that she shouldn’t say tennis dress when she wouldn’t play chaos. The position of France re­ tennis for fear she will freckle, and a minds me of an occasion when a small “merci” as if it was our English word “mercy.” “Now I’ll give that bathing suit when she has no thought motor boat turned over and its two of going into the water, and a riding occupants had a tough time swimming waiter ten francs,” he told her, “and you listen carefully.” He slipped the habit when the very thought of climb­ ashore. As they finally lay puffing ing on a horse gives her the chills, on the sand, one man said: ‘My gosh, man a ten-franc note, and the reply was, “Thanks, very much, sir.” and—” “Yes,” interrupted the other, that was hard work! I never thought “but when she gets a wedding dress I’d make it against the pull of the she means business. Ever notice tide.’ ‘Tide nothing,’ retorted his President DeForest of the Metro­ that?”—Judge. friend. ‘I had the launch tied to that politan Art Museum discussed at a emergency rope you wear around your dinner in New York, the art fake waist.’ ” scandals, which are now exciting She—My husband certainly does Paris. “Only little dealers fake,” he enjoy smoking in his den. Has your Jack Dempsey, apropos of a movie said. “In art, as in everything else, husband a den? queen’s recommendation of thirty­ honestly alone succeeds. It was good Other She—No, he growls all over seven toilet soaps, told this story: advice, after all, that the customer the house.—Williams Purple Cow.

Tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep.—Young.