Shows the life of an electric bill from start to finish through the employees and the machines they use--machines such as a Multilith press, a graphotype machine, and addressograph machine, a postal permit and sealing machine, and a Burrough's billing machine.
"The good old Christmas spirit burst upon the Company in full force as the excited voices of 170 children echoed though offices and halls. Christmas carols, the hum of mechanical toys, and gay notes from many harmonicas seemed to blend into one happy Yuletide song as the management of Hydro entertained the children, from 2 to 12 years of age, of all divisions in the Bangor division." Many photographs from the party are included, as is the original invitation to the staff party.
"There is something more than just training and education and environment that makes one man a good engineer and another man a clever merchant; one woman an accomplished seamstress and the next a cook with a reputation. Same are "born" engineers, "born" merchants or "born" cooks. Probably we all start thinking from the same point, the same zero hour or call it what you will. You think along one angle and I think along another, and, remember, there are 360 degrees on the compass. That doesn't mean that we have to think in opposite directions. It may be that we just don't quite see eye to eye. All of which leads to the statement that without doubt 99.9 per cent of our customers think that the meters we install in their homes or places of business are such complicated pieces of mechanism that a man must have six or eight University or Technical Institution diplomas before he can look a meter in the face without going dizzy."
Features a history of Harrington, many photographs of the Harrington sites and buildings of the time, and the announcement of Reddy Kilowatt joining the Bangor Hydro team.
Sample paragraph: "Such a panaramic picture brings to mind the inevitable comparison of today and yesterday. Of the advances made by civilization, from the time of that first Xmas illuminated by that brilliant star. From then until a comparatively few years ago, illuminated decoration was accomplished with wax candles. Hundreds of lives every year was the price exacted by sudden fires. Then the color scheme was a pale yellow shingin on green wreaths or glass ornaments. Now we get any effect that we desire by proper choice of colored light bulbs. The flexibility and safeness of electricity not only for Christmas lighting but as a household servant cannot be over-emphasized. And as yet we know comparitively little of what electricity can be made to do."
Our Railway: This issue of the Bangor Hydro-Electric News is dedicated to our Railway Department. It is therefore fitting and proper that we should comment upon the place and importance of our Railway in the communities which it serves. In this day when it seems that everybody in the world has an automobile and that motorized transportation is well nigh universal, it is well to point out that our Railway was the second street railway to be established in the United States. The first car was operated in April 1889. Service has continued from that time on. At the present time our Railway carries over three million passengers a year. Our cars travel over a million miles a year in the performance of their services and it takes then more than one hundred and twenty thousand hours in service to maintain their schedules.
Covers the history of the carbarn (garage for the street cars of the Bangor Street Railway) as well as featuring several pictures of the workers responsible for every aspect of the street cars, from the stockkeeper to the iron workers to the blacksmith to the electricians and the carpenters and the mechanics.
Includes the words to the Bangor Hydro Song (to tune "Among My Souvenirs"): This Bangor Hydro crowd / Will raise their voices loud / With Joy and glee to be here on thls glorious day / Our friendships stand the test / Our men are of the beat / Our girls will alwayes be within our memorles / We all work with a will / Wishes we try to fill / And we all do our best / For perfect satisfaction / This happy company / In many years to be / Will live in memory among our souvenirs.
Includes the announcement of new home construction projects by Bangor Hydro in Bangor, including on Royal Road -- a picture of a home at 114 Royal Road is featured on the December 1937 cover of Bangor Hydro Electric News. "Early this week construction is being started on the first Kelvin Home in Maine. It is being erected by the Bangor Hydro-Electric Company, end as announced by President Edward M. Graham, its completion will help to point the way toward moderate cost homes that will offer the latest and most modern facilities for cutting the cost of better living. This first Kelvin Home will be located on Royal Road in the Fairmount section of Bangor. Charles R. Gordon is the real estate agent and William H. McPherson is the contractor-builder. Mr. Graham and other officials have inspected several of the Kelvin Homes erected in other sections of the country and at Detroit they have seen the results of study by Kelvinator'e own research and engineering departments in their work with a number of the country's leading architects and builders. This home will have efficient, economical equipment for year 'round air-conditioning, electric cooking, refrigeration, and water heating and is so designed and constructed that it should cost the family living in this new home no more that it would cost the same family to live in an ordinary house."
Sample paragraphs: "The picture on the cover of this month's magazine shows the type of cars used when the Bangor Street Railway first started, back in the '90's. Mr. Johnson, Superintendent of Transportation, states that the motorman shown on the front platform of the car was Capt. Joe Wentworth who was the first motorman to operate on electric car in the city of Bangor, and as Bangor was the second city in the United States to have an electric street railway, Capt. Wentworth was, no doubt, the second man to operate an electric car in the United States. Capt. Joe also helped to erect the trolley wire for the Bangor Street Railway before the cars were put in operation."
Describes the festivities of the annual employee outing/retreat at Lucerne-In-Maine. Also includes reprints of an August 27, 1936, Bangor Daily News article detailing Bangor Hydro forming the first mobile relief unit in the state and the second in the entire United States.
"The S S Iroquis caused quite a bit of excitement last Sunday morning when it ran aground on Bald Porcupine Island right outside of Bar Harbor The Shore Path and Water front were crowded all day with people from everywhere who had rushed here to see the huge liner run aground. Many thought it would be a matter of days before the ship could possibly be floated again, but at five p.m., with the help of full tide and the U.S.S. Owl, which was stationed here as mail base for President Roosevelt who is vacationing in Maine, the huge liner was pulled off the island very little damaged. As this paper goes to press, Bar Harbor is all agog trying to locate President Roosevelt who is reported to be dining at various places on the Island. The town is crowded with reporters, camera men, and secret service men but to date nothing definite has been found out."
Pages 15-16 are damaged. Page 2 is either missing or mislabeled. Page 8 offers a reciped for spinach pancakes. We have not tried this recipe; cannot vouch for its quality.
On Page 3 and 4 are pictures of four employees of this Company, who, at a recent meeting of the Business and Professional Women's Club, were elected to offices: Gladys M. Stetson, Mary F. Robinson, Wynona L. Boober, and Ruth E. Thomas. List of 103 employees who signed Safety Driving Pledges. Minutes of the Relief meeting of the Bangor Hydro-Electric Company. Photographs of equipment used in the General Office for making forms and printing the Bangor Hydro-Electric News. Six pages of "Kelvinator School" recipes by Dorothy Covert.
Notice of Frank Silliman 3rd leaving Bangor Hydro-Electric Company for a new position as President of Eastern Trust and Banking Company. Primary voltage of Eastport changed from 2300 volts to 4000 Y. Obituary for Edward A. Lucas, street car operator. Minutes of the annual meeting of Bangor Hydro-Electric Company Relief Association. Snapshot photographs of the Millinocket Line Truck stuck in the snow, in February 1934, submitted by R. A. Fernald.
Obituaries of Octave Currier of the Veazie Station, and George P. Lawrence, electrician in the motor department. Poem submitted by W. J. Brennan, State Safety Engineer: YOU BET YOUR LIFE: Do you speed when the sign says, "Beware"? You bet--your LIFE! Do you take chances when you should take care? You bet--your LIFE! Do you make blunders you never should make? Do you take dares that you oughtn't to take? What are you betting, man? YOU BET YOUR LIFE! You gain a second or maybe a minute--You bet your LIFE! Sometimes there may not be anything in it--You bet your LIFE! If you would bet you should figure the cost, Too late to argue with Fate when you're lost! Too late to claim that you've been double crossed! YOU BET YOUR LIFE!
Lists dozens of sales employees who competed in the annual lamp sales campaign. Colby Foss of Ellsworth sold 4,394 lamps to win the competition. George White of Bangor finished second with 4,089 lamps sold. Others in the competition sold as few as 6, so one wonders at the sales secrets of Foss and White.
To Every Employee: In 1928 your efforts in the Empty Socket Lamp Campaign placed your Company in High Standing! We are going to better this in 1929! It's an Employees Campaign for Employees only, and you can earn a little extra money. Participate in the celebration of Lights Golden Jubilee--The 50th Anniversary of Edison's Incadescent Lamp and help to place your company ahead of its 1928 position. Read the details inside.
