Foreword: In presenting to the trade our catalogue of furnaces, ranges, stoves, sinks, hollow ware, etc., etc., we desire to give you something which will be a help in ordering goods. We wish you to bear in mind the fact that a personal examination of the goods themselves will give you a better idea of the quality and workmanship of all goods of our manufacture, no matter how nearly perfect the illustrator's art is.
Lists locations and rates for departures and arrivals for steamships from various points in Maine to Boston for the Eastern Steamship Company circa 1903-1904. Also lists agents for the company. Eastern Steamship Company offered service to Bangor, Hampden, Winterport, Searsport, Bucksport, Belfast, Camden, Rockland, Stonington, Southwest Harbor, Northeast Harbor, Seal Harbor, Bar Harbor, Portland, Bath, Popham Beach, Richmond, Gardiner, Hallowell, Augusta, Eastport, Lubec, St. John (New Brunswick), and Boothbay Harbor.
Commencing Monday, April 9, 1900, Steamers will leave Pier, 365 Atlantic Avenue, BOSTON, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, at 5.00 P.M. For Rockland, Camden, Belfast, Searsport, Bucksport, Winterport, Hampden and Bangor. For Bar Harbor and Way Landings.
The Penobscot Exchange Hotel on Exchange Street in Bangor, built in 1827 and remodeled a number of times, was a popular hotel in Bangor's history. Its proximity to Eastern Railway Station on the Bangor waterfront appealed to travelers. Fred G. Moon and James W. Cratty were the proprietors beginning in 1897. This pamphlet describes the accommodations offered and includes several pictures of the rooms.
To our Customers and Friends: In presenting to you this Catalogue of our Plows, Harrows and Cultivators we ask your careful consideration of the following facts: The implements described herein have been designed and constructed especially to meet the demands of the New England farmer. The first "Hussey" Plow was made over 60 years ago, and, although popular in its time, would look rather antiquated by the side of its polished and graceful descendant, the Hussey Plow of today. Our factory is located near the geographical centre of New England and we can make such prompt shipments that our New England customers are not obliged to carry a large number of our implements in stock.
Program of concert music in the grand saloon of the Palace Steamer City of Bangor, to be given on her trial trip, Boston, Saturday, June 16, 1894, by Gott's Orchestra, Geo. C. Gott, Leader.
Commencing Monday, June 15, 1891, steamers will leave Boston at 5.00 P.M., Bangor at 11.00 AM., in accordance with the following schedule. Subject to changes or unavoidable delays. SUNDAY TRIPS will be made on Aug. 21, Aug. 30, and Sept. 6. From BOSTON at 4.00 P.M. From BANGOR at 12.00 o'clock, noon.
The Sanford Steamship Company was incorporated in 1875; the wharf properties at several landings on the Penobscot River, and the steamer Cambridge and Katahdin having been owned previous to that time by a private association or firm, formed in pursuance of the laws of the State of New York, under the style of the Sanford Company, the line being generally known as Sanford's Independent Line. In 1875, these properties were all transferred to a new corporation, and the Sanford Steamship Company was incorporated and organized under the laws of Massachusetts. In January, 1882, by an enactment of the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the corporate name of the Sanford Steamship Company was changed to the Boston and Bangor Steamship Company.
The Consolidated Hampden Silver Mining Company is composed of two corporations organized under the general laws of Maine: The Dunton Silver Mining Company of Hampden, Maine, and the Hampden Silver Mining Company; whose property and capital stock were united under one management by a special act of the Legislature of Maine, approved February 13th, 1880. Pamphlet contains: 1) Geological Report upon the Dunton Mining Property by W.F. Stewart, Geologist and Mineralogist, Bangor, Maine, November 25th, 1879; 2) W.F. Stewart's letter from March 27th, 1880, to the President and Directors of the Consolidated Hampden Silver Mining Company; 3) The State of Maine's act, which was approved February 13, 1880, to consodiated the Hampden Silver Mining Company and the Dunton Silver Mining Company; and 4) The by-laws of the Consolidated Hampden Silver Mining Company.
The boats now running on this line are the Katahdin, the Penobscot, the Lewiston and the City of Bangor, and during the season daily trips are made. The Boston & Bangor Steamship Co., which came into possession of this line some years ago, also owns the steamer Rockland, which runs between Bangor and Rockland.
The fine public buildings seem to congregate on Hammond street, for in addition to those already named, are the new city hall and Columbia block. The former is an attractive and commodious building, well suited to the needs of the various city departments, and a building to which every citizen may point with pride, and through which every visitor should pass before leaving Bangor. It is owing to the energy and persistency of the present mayor, Hon. F. O. Beal, that the present attractive edifice is there, and then it was in the face of great opposition on the part of some who were opposed to the plan proposed for raising the money. The late Gen. Samuel F. Hersey left $100,000 to found a public library, and this money was to be put at interest, the income to be used for the purpose named. The city used this money to build its city hall, which is called the Hersey Memorial building, and the interest continues to go for the benefit of the library, which in turn is planning to build a home of its own on the corner of State street and Davenport square, next to the First Congregational church.
