People's Ferry Company Report on 1916 17 Year Bath
Directors report year ending January 31 1917 from Bath Maine. Details repairs at Bath Iron Works engine work new oak deck exhaust, bottom steel plating, extended summer schedule 30 days longer, profits 4071.95 with prior losses erased. Notes high coal and supply costs, emergency fund $3000, cash $2002.71, liabilities small. Recommends Bath slip relocation and a larger boat to meet rising automobile traffic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
People’s Ferry Co
City of
Bath
People’s Ferry Company
Bath Iron Works
Marine Railway
Boothbay
Woolwich
Bath Savings Institution
Bath and Woolwich
Hull
Ferry Street
L. E. Thebeau
Couet Pee
State of Maine
Hull Department
Engine
Engine Department
Fe Chalet Dvernia Ae
Bath Savings Inst
Peathe Espeed
Sua eSee High School
Aeweas Grammar School
Ledger Report Shows Audited City Finances
The document records a 1916 1917 financial report with E. R. Leonard as treasurer and names Henry T. B. Leeman Ardene A. Stott and Sidney L. Eaton as directors and auditor. Totals include sixteen thousand eight hundred twelve dollars and seven cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry T. B. Leeman
Bath
Ardene
A. Stott
Woolwich
E. R. Leonard
Local Jottings From Augusta and Nearby Towns
Councillor F B Nichols and Senator Baxter returned to Augusta Tuesday. Charles McFadden plans to build in Snow Park this spring. Shipments resume over the M C R R after a threatened strike. The Belgian Children's Fund in New York received $41.27 from Grace Church's Colonial Club. U S Inspectors examined the four masted auxiliary schooner Sam C Mengel, due for commission next month. Fred A Willis regained his Bay Shore farm deed from a niece. A Junior Christian Endeavor St Patrick party drew forty at Central Congregational Church. Maine seal hunting returns show William B Gatchell and son killed 12 seals in February. South Center St hill buildings to be torn down for lumber. bids discussed. FTC warns coal producers spring price reductions must be justified. Whitewings Plymouth Rock rooster story ends with bantam rival killed. Phi Rhos press toward a March 27 banquet with 350 invites and 50 untraced names. Morse High Assembly Hall to host the Phi Rho banquet. Jaquiths host birthday party with many out of town guests. A young woman jailed 15 days for intoxication after city ceremonies. she came from Ellsworth and Bath, with a history of drinking and a black eye from a dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. B. Nichols
Baxter
Augusta
Charles McFadden
Snow Park
M.C.R.R
Harry M. Huse
Delmar HB. Bates
Grace Church
Colonial Club
Herbert Hoover
New York
Belgian Children’s Fund
U. S
H. L. Thompson
W. L. Blaisdell
Portland
Sam C. Mengel
I. W. Courser
Maine
South Harpswell
William B. Gatchell and
Everett W. Gatchell
Center St. Hill
A. H. Shaw
Federal Trade Commission
Nathaniel
Prawe
Arrowsie
Poultry
Nat
Plymouth Rock
Joseph Torrey
W. E. Hogan
Snipe
Fred Hill
Phi Rho
Morse High
H. G. Jaquith
Western Ave
Lewiston
House of Correction
Ellsworth
Popham
Sagadahoc
Bath
Joseph Berry
Mill Cove
Benjamin L. Rich
Fitchburg
Fred W. Brown
Georgetown
E. W. Dyer
Norway
Naval Defense Reserve
Charlestown Navy Yard
Dyer
W. J. Holbrook
Shepard St
Charles L. Oliver
Holbrook
Phi Rho Society
W. Smiley
Kelley Spear Yard
Neptune
Boston
Jefferson Theatre
Messrs
Klaw & Erlanger
Tremont Theatre
Frank H. Peterson
Cc. C. Mengel, Jr
Pensacola
Africa
Oldtown High
University of Maine
Bangor High
Bangor
Walter Sprague
Popham Beach
Petit Manan
Naval Reserve
United States
Ralph M. Packer
Perth Amboy
Damariscotta
Lincoln All Stars
Attaya
Sullivan
Cummings
Thistle
Moses
Wyman
West Point
Bathman notes disorder worldwide and local social updates
A Bathman comments on worldly unrest while local society items report visitors, a sewing circle meeting, a picnic dinner, a vacation, substitute workers, a banquet invitation for the Androscoggin Tribe, resignations in the Bowdoinham teaching staff, a nurse's progress, and well wishes for Mrs Hutchins in Brooklyn recovering from pneumonia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. E. Rodick
Portland
Sedgwick Sewing Circle
G.A.R. Hall
Leland Plummer
Armstrong’s
Marshall McDonald
Lisbon
Androscoggin Tribe
R.M
Bath
Walter L. Hutchins
Brooklyn
N. Y
George Cutting
Robbins St
Louise Robinson
Brooklyn Hospital
Hutchings
Bath Area News Roundup and Maritime Notes
Friday events in Bath range from a maple sap start in Sagadahoc county to a Popham Beach visit and Bath parade crowds in Portland. Updates cover naval reserve enrollments, Barn remodels, Pemaquid fort restoration efforts, Phi Rho banquet plans, the Northern No. 7 barge arrival, Miss Springtime at Jefferson Theatre, Capt. Frank H. Peterson's Pensacola voyage, Morse High basketball results, and Bath Independent's win at Damarsicotta with standout performances by Attaya Sullivan and others.
Impressive Elmhurst Rites Mark Hyde Obsequies
A large Elmhurst funeral procession for J. Hyde drew 600 Bath Iron Works employees, with Bath dignitaries and out of town guests. Honorary and active pallbearers led the cortege from Elmhurst to Oak Grove Cemetery amid citywide business suspensions and a formal tribute by the Bath community.
Captain Olcott in town on business from Briry voyage
Capt William Olcott of the sc B E Briry visited town Tuesday and returns to Boston this morning. Briry now discharging coal in Boston and will finish this week before being chartered to load in Norfolk for Boston Portland or Bangor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Olcott
Sc. B. E. Briry
Boston
Briry
Norfolk
Portland
Bangor
Also Mentioned on This Page
People’s Ferry
Seave
Sidney L. Eaton
Tollsee Eeet
Bath Nat
Belgium
Copenhagen
Brunswick
Elmhurst
Oak Grove
Arthur J. Smith
Sons of Veterans
T. W. Hyde Camp
W. F. Nutter
Benjamin Brewster
Culbert McGay
Lincoln
Hyde Mausoleum
William DeWitt Hyde
Bowdoin College
Morris McDonald
Maine Central Railroad
William T. Cobb
Rockland
Edward P. Ricker
Poland Springs
Harold M. Sewall
Frederick Hale
Joseph M. Trott
Charles P. Wetherbee
John McInnes
Hubert H. McCarty
William S. Newell
B. F. Barker
William B. Haggett
Richard C. Gachenbach
William Lynch
North Division
Thomas W. Hyde
Charles A. Lockery
John C. Stevens
Robert Cochrane
Albert C. Colby
Henry E. Preble
J. C. Powell
The
Fore River Shipbuilding Co
Irving Cox
Cox & Stevens
Naval Architects of
C. M. Boyd
Newton
Mass
N. W
Horace Crosby
Harry M. Bigelow
Portland Press
Bath Chamber of Commerce
George E. Thompson
Harry E. Stetson
A. D. Stetson
George F. Johnson
Frank Brown
George W. Johnson
Fred H. Hartnett
Frank H. Percy
Robert B. Hatch
A. G. Page
S. R. Frye
Walter E. Chase
Augustus A. Percy
Edward B. Smith
John A. Morse
Charles A. Harriman
Wilbur C. Oliver
Oliver Moses
Charles H. ,Cahill
Edward W. Bridgham
Small
Bier
Lewiston, Augusta & Waterville Street Railway
Texas Steamship Co
John S. Hyde
Torrey Roller Bushing Works
Bath Box
Hyde Windlass
Mary A. Brown
High St
Rev
C. W. Harrison
Wesley M. E. Church
Robert Heggie
Leonard Gowell
William R. Melrose
George B. Holbrook
Oak Grove Cemetery
L. F.” Atwood
L. F2” Medicine Co
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