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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1899
Page
3
Bath news notes a busy spell with shipbuilding, lobster prices, rail changes, and social events. Arthur Sewall sails to New York while town plans trolley extensions to Small Point and Mere Point. Local figures such as Horace Lane and Walter Terry appear in various adventures, and municipal matters include a new canal boat test, an inaugural speech, and a Womans' Exchange move.
The Wesley church on A Mayflower is being painted on the exterior and steel ceiling and plaster work are ready inside. The church will be completed and dedicated in May.
Report notes an officer named Reynolds, a three year navy veteran and crack shot, involved in a pursuit near Sewall's mill pond. A beagle imported in a schooner is praised as a good dog. The fragment mentions captures and a coon in the Purington area but lacks full context.
The Bath Iron Works yard shows a new brick and granite office under construction with joiners laying hard wood floors and quartered oak. The main office for E. W. Hyde and Superintendent Charles R. Hanscom nears fixtures, while a scow load of brick arrived for the new machine shop at Tron Works.
A Bath couple dispute where the wife warns against publishing a libel for divorce in The Independent, fearing too many people will see it. The lawyer suggests The Independent, provoking the wife’s reaction and a quip about The Green Un losing an ad.
Citizens complain about Columbia stage hands standing in the wings watching the play. The practice ruins the illusion for audience members seated at the auditorium sides and leads some to think Bath is not a proper theater town.
A pig escape sparked a neighborhood chase on Monument Square as three youths corralled a black shoat while others shouted and sang. A team arrived to return the pig to William Fields' pen, ending the comic pursuit and leaving vivid impressions of the escape.
Chas W Morse of Bath and New York acquires No 724 Fifth Avenue New York from Helen Cutting for 185000. The transfer makes Morse the wealthiest Phi Rho member in the world. His fortune stems from a habit of saving and investing dollars, then stacking them on ice.
A framed theatre programme once passed to a Ford’s Theatre patron the night Lincoln was shot, bought in Boston by Mayor-elect Charles E Hyde. Hyde, noted for collecting antique souvenirs, paid $65 for the piece, part of a small yet notable state collection.
A citizen told the Inpendent that a natural swale from the Rodney Hyde farm could host a trolley line from the Foster's Point road past Sabino to Birch Point with low cost connecting to the L. B. and BR at Winneganee and New Meadows. The plan could extend to Small Point and Popham in years.
A citizen noted Wednesday that the Munson Consolidated Quarries in Monson, owned by Dr Bibber, Geo W Johnson, H A and Silas Duncan, and Geo Moulton, is a gold mine. The firm runs two open quarries and two full machinery sets with 47 men working around the clock. a single bench contains slate valued at 42,000 dollars.
The Aphrodite, the largest American pleasure craft and most magnificent steam yacht, will depart Bath Iron Works for New York under Captain Scott. It will stay at a New York pier until about May 23 for interior decoration described as a fairy dream. In late spring it will sail with Col. Payne and friends through Southern Europe visiting Genoa, Naples, Venice, Cannes, Nice, and Monte Carlo, a harbor favored by steam yachts and waving stars and stripes.
A large crew rushes finishing touches on the Arthur Sewall as it readies to depart Kennebec for New York and Frisco. Captain Bruce and first mate Murphy plan a skilled team. Six boys will learn the ropes as rigging and masts dominate the town view. Samuel Wade oversaw the rigging scale, while Mr Spence led steel ship construction. The first open car of the season rolled up Front Street to the car barn.
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