L K Lum'P'0'’ T he Courier-Gazette. V o l u m e 47. ROCKLAND, MAINE, TUESDAY, MARCH. I, 1892 N umbkr ». OUTLOOK. COMPLETE ELECTRIC RAILROADS tramways, as it is now to a considerable form independent lines Tliis wit- tlo TRIP OF THE JENNIE HARDNESS. up crumbs tlta t were thrown trom tin- , the jail in from ten to Hlteen years. extent on steam roads. method of railway development. Aft'r galley, and finally perched on a coil o l Read, ponder, reflect, and then vote Last week’s warm weather made ha­ The History of Steam Transportation to But tlie growth of a freighting busi- j a lime the consolidated lines were in t i t i r o i . i i r r”P" singing just the sweetest, gayest I “yes ” voc with the ice. The Travels of a Rockport Lady in Far- , ,, , J 1 Roarwni fails Be Repeated, j ness on the tratnwny lines would evi-I their turn extended and their tracks q h - , , 1 song that ever warbler was known Io Kespeotlolly, j dently soon demand for it a day busi- in connection with other lines westward titter, lie was caught and brought into CHARLES A. S y lv ester , I l has hern suggested that immigrants Ma rk Am es, Passenger Traffic First and Then ness, for this is altogether reasonable were made to form continuous and un- the cabin where lie made himself very H enry J. S l e e p e r , tie taxed $15 a head. Put it higher! Freight Carrying—The Electric Road I when properly prepared for, the speed I interrupted lines for freight and pas- ! Last Glimpse of Australia—A Christ­ mas Present—Beautiful Days at Se much nt homo, anil seeing the office | It looks as tho’ the standing room would and Neighboring Communities—A required on the track being not excess- I senger traffic from the great grain ami Commissioners of Knox County. all lie taken. Case in Hand—A Success. —A Visitor—The Mirage of Corsica door ajar lie found the way in there. ' ive at any time, and it requiring only cornfields of the West to tho cities of the At Mentone, the Beautiful. hopping onto the open chart, where no ROCKPORT OBITUARY. Before the name of James G. Blaine is proper terminal arrangements, such ns seaboard. doubt his exact position was ascertained. Since the announcement was made in stricken front the list of Presidential I turnouts, etc., and, perhaps, a supple­ Then there sprung into existence the I he last I saw of Australia was Oct The captain casually remarked that Helen M,. wife of C. D. Wheeler and tliis piper that tlie proposed electric possibilities the verdict of the Minne­ mentary tram delivery—which could be various through Irciglit lines, or their 29 when we were lowing out through J it certainly was a Nice bird daughter ofCapt. Jete McIntire, died railroad from Rockland to Camden and apolis convention must he awaited — made on small eleotrically propelled progenitors—for tho through freighting Sydney Heads in company with the I suddenly Wednesday n ig lit, about mid­ Thomaston was to he a complete rail­ vehicles—to accomplish the end de­ was at first done in the railway compan­ American mail steamer Alameda; and “dAUT.V. t. MENTONE, Philadelphia News. now. live months afterwards we are We S!,,In'1 T'ite into the harbor of night. Her age was 46. Some time road. with both passenger and freight sired. ies’ cars—and later the fast freiglit, or we nre ago she was injured by a fall from cars, there itas been a great deal of tho famous Winter resort Mentone, We see by the papers that one J. II. One of the notable tilings which wo transportation lines,which own their own basking in the smiles of sonny Italy. 1 which she never fully recovered. Manley states that Harrison shall have surprise expressed, ami quite a general witness to-day is tho stoutly and rapid rolling stock, and carry breadstuff's and Ottr voyage as far as the Strait ol Gib- wbich SloBnl9 in the wl'i‘°“e99 of ils raltar was an uneventful one. full of I Fronch hoU90’’ ntl'1 is 9,1 PP»r‘*-«f Rheumatism set in which coupled with the Maine Republican delegates. Who scepticism regarding freight transpor­ growtti of electric railway lines. The provisions from tlie far West at rates so heart trouble caused her death. She clear -lays anti smooth sailing, and with ° n elthor 9i,I° h? l,'ree »"•’ is this Manley who has signed, scaled tation by electricity. The argument horse railway is being constantly super­ low that it costs no more nowadays to was a most estimable woman, a neigh­ comparatively little col,I or disagreeable ! f,,ur lhou’"n<' hiKh- II >" and delivered the Maine Republican that if electricity will move lourteon seded by the electric tramway, while have a barrel of flour carried from Min­ bor and friend in every sense of the weather We came around the Cape to 8 ° f I’1 ,c" thnt ‘*>6 sun always party to the Harrison managers long be­ tons of people it certainly can move all now lines projected, even in the most neapolis to Boston by rail than it does to word, always ready to engage in any the south’nrdol the-roaring forties” and 9,,,nes ^ere, and the place is famous fore tlie National Convention is held? fourteen tons of merchandize does not remote towns of the country, are in­ carry the same barrel of Ilnur from Bos­ good work for the good of others, genial were with the alh,truss ami penguin for for t,,R l’r°,luution "f B kln<1 <>f sectu to have anv especial weight, lor tended to be run by the eleetric cur­ ton to Everett in an express team. and pleasant in all the walks of life and the invariable reply is that it has never rent. weeks together ! ',,luon which is not to bo found at other Wi! are indebted largely to a series of SIMILAR AGENCIES. never flinching when duty called her been done. This answer shows that tlie Sections which are fortunately pro­ On..... just before Christmas a teal P°rr,'9 in tl,B Md‘>'d'’rranean. articles in the Boston Herald the past In the development, of tho electric Every morning at sunrise we used to to scenes of sickness or suffering- She apparent scepticism is based entirely vided with abundant water power—in duck flew on hoard, and as ottr stock of year for tho facts contained in the railway we behold somewhat similar see the mirage of Corsica, looming up was a member of the M E. Church of upon ignorance. A case in hand may lit any cases where, owing to a combi­ delicacies had considerably diminished electric railroad article which appears agencies at work. In that system we against the gold and crimson of tlie this place and proved by her life that elsewhere. Tlie article in question will perhaps enlighten our readers some­ nation of circumstances, such power lias since passing the "Horn,’’ we looked j now witness the construction of many southeastern horizon. I l was nearly she was indeed a Christian. She leaves what. heretofore remain unutiliz ■ 1. or utilized upon the timely arrival of poor web foot be found of no little interest just at this -mail sections of railways, designed, ninety miles away, hut appeared to be a large circle of relatives and friends time. The prophecy of the future on a very small scate—tire waking up in tlie light, of a special Providence. Of THE ITRSi EXI'EIEIMENT. primarily, to meet tlte wants of local not more than ten As the sun came to mourn Iter untimely death. to tho fact that they can obtain at a course, it was sent to us expressly lor development of electric railways into a travel, such as connecting the residential up it slowly fadetl away, and in a few The first phase of the electric system nominal cost, not only an abundance of our Christmas dinner; this we did not The funeral services o f Mrs. Albert network of freight and passenger lines w itli the business or the industrial centre minutes nothing was to he seen lint the which is now in process of growth, it is power to run electric railways, but doubt How could it lie otherwise when Hartford, who died quite suddenly last that will connect community, county of such places, or of affording cheaper bright blue sea, the radiant morning true, is that of exclusive provision for power to operate machinery, current to here we were 450 mi led from tlie nearest I week, were held at the family residence, and common wealth seems likely to have facilities for reaching the railway sta­ and our own snug little ship witli her passengers; but the very means pro­ light their streets and homes, anil even laud [Falkland Islands] and without J Wednesday altcrnoon. Rev. F. A. Snow an early fulfilment. That Knox County tions. I shining spars and snowy sails, lazily vided for the propulsion of passenger to warm, ventilate, as well as to furnish bird of any kind with which to glace officiating. will have the first complete electric In other cases where villages occur ’ drifting nlong with the current or ears, (rails and electric conductors) are heat for cooking and other household and give dignity to our feast on the mer­ railroad in the state is a matter for local adjacent to one another we find the lines modestly pushing her way through the just ns applicable to freight as to pas- needs.