"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.
When the Milford Power Station was built to supply power for the Eastern Manufacturing Company of South Brewer, Milford was confidently believed to have capacity enough for any possible future need of the paper mill. As time went on, the mill grew far beyond those early expectations and it became necessary to install a 1000 KW frequency changer at Veazie Station to supplement the capacity of Milford.
Provides photographs and extensive biographical information about Lincoln A. Gardner, Ralph A. Fernald, Albert E. Grose, William R. Wray, Leonard A. Austin, Roscoe H. Smith, Vernon E. Cushing, Leroy G. Vose, and Julius W. McDonald, managers at Bangor Hydro-Electric offices across the state.
Features photographs and descriptions of Eastern Manufacturing Co. operations "In the Woods" and "At the Mills." Also includes a profile of Arthur F. Reaviel ("Rip"), Superintendent of Lines in the Bangor District. "Your editors are pleased to dedicate this April number of the Bangor Hydro-Electric Company News to the Eastern Manufacturing Company. This industry located at Lincoln and South Brewer, is of great importance in the continued prosperity of the communities that we serve and therefore of equal importance to our company as the Electric Service Company serving these communities."
Provides photographs and biographical information about the Board of Directors of the company. The board members are Albert E. Bass, Harry A. Chapman, A. Langdon Freese, Harry W. Libbey, Garrett D. Speirs, and J. Norman Towle.
Photographs and narration detailing the new headquarters for Bangor Hydro-Electric Company at the corner of State and Exchange Streets (33 State Street) in Bangor, Maine.
Features a photograph and short article about the installation of cement ties for the street railway system on College Avenue in Orono, a picture of and story about the dam at Gilman Falls, and an extensive article about long-time employee, Elmer C. Cole.
Provides biographical and work history profiles for over two dozen employees of the Bangor Hydro-Electric Company. Also includes photographs and a lengthy description of a canoe trip along the East Machias River by employees of the company.
Details the efforts of the engineering and construction departments of the Bangor Hydro-Electric Company in improving the Veazie dam to accommodate the increasing demand for hydroelectric power. Also includes a profile of W. E. Bagley, a freight agent and substation operator for the company, who had worked for the company for 26 years.
Endorses employee participation in the "Empty Socket" campaign, a competition to sell cartons of 60-watt lamps. " A very large portion of the profits of the lamp sales are handed on to our employees but the Company will benefit by the increased load that will be derived if the campaign successfully fills every empty socket in every home that the Company serves." Also reports on the wedding of employees Grace Ethel Cotton and Harvard Edgar Moor, and ends with a memorial to Alvin R. Mann.
Profiles salesmen for Bangor Hydro-Electric Company in offices from Millinocket to Eastport. Honors long-time employees George W. Austin and Allen P. Royal.
Covers the history of the street railway business in Bangor, Maine and surrounding areas, from 1893 to 1928, as it transitioned from the Bangor Street Railway to being operated by Bangor Hydro-Electric Company. Profiles employees Edson E. Comins, Assistant Superintendent of Transportation in the Bangor office, and Mortimer D. Wentworth, a 30-year veteran trolley car operator.
Provides an extensive description of the Park Street Substation for the Bangor Hydro-Electric Company. At the time, the substation controlled all the lighting power and railway service in the cities of Bangor and Brewer and the towns of Hampden, Orrington, Newburg, Dixmont, Hermon, Levant, Etna, Carmel, Kenduskeag, Glenburn, Corinth, and Charleston. These services were to be in the near future extended to Garland, Exeter, and Bradford. The substation was also the headquarters for the Line Crew of the Bangor district, the Meter Department, and the Electrician's Crew. Also includes profiles of employees Arthur L. Davis and Charles H. Johnson, a legendary figure in the history of the company.
"The story of the Veazie Plant is almost the history of the whole development of hydro-electric plants in this country, for it is said to be the third to be put in commercial operation."
The long necessary book-storage addition to the library building was assured for 1958 by the unanimous action of the City Council on July 22, 1957 whereby was authorized a library bond issue of $100,000 and tax levy therefor...The addition will be a cube 100' x 30' x 30', with flat roof, directly at the rear of the present book-storage section of the library building. But three walls are required, as the fourth will be the rear wall of the present building. To save heat window area will be kept at a minimum. The new construction will provide one complete floor of shelving, at the level of the present main floor, with the necessary supporting columns below. The remaining floors of shelving, for which space is provided, may be added in later years as need requires and means permit. In the new building will be an automatic elevator, 3'6"'x4'8", to serve all levels of both buildings. There has never been any elevator in the present book-storage area of four floors. This has been a conspicuous lack.
It is gratifying to be able to report that the use of the library, as measured by the home use of books, increased 10% as compared with 1955. The total for 1956 was 322,642--for 1955, 292,553. The 1956 figure is the largest annual use in fourteen years. All departments–adult, children's, extension, music-shared in the increase. Obviously public interest, rather than any one thing that may have been done by the library other than meet the demand, is the explanation. The full use of clear plastic covers over the publishers' colorful book jackets may have whetted public interest. In two words, "improved packaging."...The supplying of home reading is far from being the only activity of the library. There is the reference department answering 12,329 questions--there is the job of giving out the Tello-Test answers 13,417 times--there are the book boxes supplied in 175 school rooms and 99 sets of encyclopedias in schools in Bangor. There are the 144 teaching units sent out by the children's department, the 102 story periods, the annual author's tea. There are seventeen exh1bits in the lecture hall and the 266 public meetings held free by 43 organizations in various rooms of the library. There is the intensive use of the reading room by high school students from one o'clock to four o'clock daily. There is the doctors' library at the Eastern Maine General Hospital and the law books in the Penobscot County Bar Library. The list could be extended a long way.
