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One o f Mainers Most Interesting Stores HE leading part that can be played by the department store in improving buying conditions was never better exem­ plified than in the establishment operated in Portland by Porteous, Mitchell and Braun Co. Modern methods in buying and selling, thorough attention to every detail and painstaking service have made the store a great institution, filling a real need in the State and community it serves.

The management and each rep­ resentative strive to make shopping a pleasant, profitable task. They seek always to give the best in quality and style for the price and to t e r m i n a t e transactions with pleasure to the customer. And in return t h e y ask co-operation in bringing to their a t t e n t i o n any detail in which they may have failed.

Porteous, Mitchell & Braun en­ joy every advantage in the buying and selection of -the merchandise they sell. In the case of staples, where quantitv buying results in lower prices, they purchase in con­ junction with many other stores.

They maintain direct representation in N ew York; in P a r i s and in other leading style centers and so are often the first to bring the sea­ son’s style successes to Maine. In addition to this, the store’s own staff of buyers make frequent trips to New York—where free from all fin­ ancial cares—they can devote their entire attention to selecting new mer­ chandise particularly adapted to the tastes and requirements of the store’s customers in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. It is interesting to note that 34 buyers from different departments have visited the New York market at different times within the last 3 months.

By means of these buying methods the store is kept in constant touch with sources of supply and often takes advantage of special conditions that arise from time to time to buy good quality, seasonable merchandise for less than its actual value. This price saving is invariably offered to the store’s customers.

The store itself is of just the riuht size to show and display a wonderful variety of merchandise but not so large as to make shopping wearisome.

Porteous, Mitchell & Braun take pride in the fact that while their stocks are always representative of

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the newest and the best and always offer comprehensive assortments, the merchandise itsell is so carefully chosen and sifted that it appeals to the discriminating taste, and meets the high standard of quality demand­ ed by their large clientele.

Porteous, Mitchell and Braun is also a store with a human side. The customer has but to enter the doors to feel a distinct atmosphere of home­ ness and cordial welcome. She is waited upon by clerks who are court­ eous and anxious to serve—not only in displaying goods but in helping the customer to make a satisfactory sel­ ection from the various types and styles of the article she wishes to buy.

A personal shopper of taste and ability serves customers who cannot visit the store frequently. The shop­ per fills mail orders with discrimin­ ation and care, assuring the out-oftown customer as good a selection and value as though she had shopped in person.

The store’s departments of home furnishings are constantly gathering information and ideas for the benefit of those who are purchasing for the home. Made up models showing how various types of curtains and draperies actually appear in the home are on display to help the customer obtain the best use from the things she does buy. The store also main­ tains a workroom for the making of curtains, draperies, windowshades, etc., whether one wishes them made of domestic fabrics or of the richest of foreign creations.

One of the store’s most interest­

ing corners is “The Petit Coin” a suite of furnished rooms giving val­ uable ideas in home decoration. It is also devoted to a display of unique art objects, both antique and foreign, for those seeking wedd­ ing and other gifts of more than or­ dinary attractiveness and charm. : Porteous, Mitchell and Braun are distinctly a part of the com­ munity they serve. They share in its joys and sometimes in its sor­ rows. The outstanding events in the life of many a family have been staged with their help. The new baby’s layette—later on his first short clothes—his first wash suits— his books: small daughter’s school and party frocks; later her linen shower, her trousseau for her wedd­ ing and the things for the new home so confidently and happily established have frequently been sel­ ected there. Thousands of people depend upon them for the necessities and many of the luxuries of life.

By following a definite policy year in and year out, the store has built up an enviable business and an even more enviable reputation for selling the best at the lowest possible prices.

The management states that there is no mystery to these principles that they are open to the use and knowb edge of all. They are: 1.

To sell only merchandise that is right in quality—right in style-" right -in price.

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To stand back of every d o l l a r s worth of merchandise sold.

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To never knowingly be under­ sold. That their prices shall al­ ways be at least as low as the same merchandise is sold else­ where—lower if possible.

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To give pleasant, courteous ser­ vice to everyone without dis­ crimination of any kind.

To rectify quickly and cheerfully any error made.

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To always strive to excel. To be careful not to become self-satis­ fied, to realize that it is not suf­ ficient to have done well in the past but to be constantly alert to improve both in merchandise and in service.

That it is not enough to set a high standard—that it must be lived up to every day in the year-

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By HENRY E. DUNNACK, State Librarian IN TWO PARTS

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in the territory now belonging to the State of Maine: (1) the period of HE geography and history of proprietary jurisdiction claimed and Maine are distinctive. The lo­ The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth in part exercised over sporadic set­ cation and topography of Maine give her a place of great advantage. in 1620. The history of Maine ante­ tlements: (2) the period of control Her history, dating back to the early dates that memorable event. Martin by Massachusetts, begun in 1652 and continued, with only temporary part of the seventeenth century, is Pring, an English explorer, was on interruptions, until Maine became full of stirring romance, matchless heroism and marvelous achievement. the coast of Maine in 1603. De- a state: (3) the period of statehood, 1 he picturesqueness, the scenic gran­ Monts, a Frenchman landed with beginning in 1820.

The State of Maine has a name deur of the State of Maine cannot be colonists on the island of St. Croix, appreciated fully without a setting below Calais, in 1604. Waymouth, which antedates the names of all of human activity. Among these with a band of English explorers other states except Virginia and rivers, lakes, woodlands, hills, moun­ was at St. Georges River in 1605. Massachusetts. The manner in which tains and shores the drama of civili­ Pring was here in 1606 again. The the name was given has been a mat­ zation has taken place, and this it Popham colonists established them­ ter of much controversy. Many is which lends charm to what nature selves at the mouth of the Kennebec historians assert that the name first has done. The achievements of men in 1607. There were Jesuit Colonists appeared in the chapter granted in on the foundations of nature are the on the Penobscot in 1611 and at 1639 by Charles I to Sir Ferdinando miracles of the ages. A stage may Mount Desert in 1613. English fish­ Gorges and that it was bestowed in be set, its scenic beauty unrivalled, ermen and traders were then on the compliment to the Queen of England, but the charm is in the living charac­ coasts from year to year. Captain a daughter of Henry IV of France, who was connected by title or ters who play upon it and the estate with the province of human interest they portray.

Meyne in France Others claim­ Along our shores sailed the ed that French colonists gave daring seamen, seeking new the name in memory of the ventures; up our rivers came same province. It is now, how­ the intrepid pioneers lured by ever, a matter of authoritative attractive intervales which lie record that the title “Province along our rivers; i n t o o u r of Maine” was first used in the boundless forests pushed the grant made by the council of hardy courageous woodman, New England to Sir Ferdinando all seeking to awaken the land Gorges and Captain John Ma­ oi fertility and riches from its son in 1622. Long before the sleep of ages. They held this appearance of the title in this new land against all foes until grant, the word “main” in the civilization gathered her forces sense of mainland had been in together for the transformation common use among the early of the wilderness into the com­ explorers along the New Eng­ fortable abode of prosperous land coast and it is from this generations. use that the name is derived.

The story of the centuries Residents of the islands along intervening between those who the coast to this day speak of first beheld our shores and “the main.” those who now enjoy the com­ forts of industry accumulated through many generations is ^ WHY MAINE IS VACATION more thrilling than fable, more LAND fascinating than fiction. The struggle to subdue the wild, to Maine is a great vacation uproot the forest and plant the farm, to harness the rivers and land because the average tem­ perature is 41.65 degrees. The make them giants of industry, the story of war and the courage summer heat is less than in Massachusetts, New York, Wis­ displayed by the men of Maine and the women also from the consin, Iowa and Dakota by skirmish with the Indian to about 32 per cent. Maine is participation in the world war should John Smith was at Monhegan in 1614. the best winter resort in the whole There were three epochs in the world, because the winter in Maine be known, understood and appre­ history of organized government with­ ciated by every citizen.

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The U NITED STATES A n Insight Into This Service and

By P h i l i p B. S h a r p e Member National Aeronautical Association ( Copyrighted, 1925.)

2,680 miles across the conti­ nent. The fastest rail sched­ ule is 90 hours.

In the next five and a half months, the Air Mail pilots flew a total of 1,283,671 miles, 329,525 of them at night. Not a single serious accident was recorded against a pilot until late in December.

During the past three years the Air Mail Service has trans­ ported more than 4,000,000 to take pounds of mail along the trans­ the sky continental route between New York and San Francisco with a total loss of only .005 of one per cent. This may be compared with the percentage of registered packages lost in the United States during 1922, or .0075 of one per cent —for one year. It is the safest me­ dium for carrying the mails.

What does the Air Mail consist of at present? The Service has 85 ma­ chines and 49 pilots, with the longest regularly operated airway in the world. Congress recently passed a bill that will permit the postmaster general to make contracts with pri­ vate individuals and corporations for the carrying of the mail. Added ap­ propriations have been made to in­ crease and broaden the service, and 1 this summer it will be extended from New York to Boston. Perhaps in the near future it will come from Bos­ ton to Portland and Bangor.

On January 1st of this year the Air Mail Service totaled up their books with these figures for the previous six

“ CT k r OR Wind, nor Rain, c / V nor Snow, nor Sleet, shall stay the Pilot in his Flight!

The spirit of the United States Air Mail is represented in above slogan. It is a spirit READY FOR THE HOP which can never die—the Air Daily, in all kinds of weather, the A ir M a il is ready Mail has come to stay. It will be permanent, a depart­ off fro m her landing-fields. Two ships ready to take to with their load of m ail matter. ment of the Government which will live as a vital necessity.

It is truly a necessity, and to modern tions is just this: There will be no Air business it is a vital question. Why? Mail Service for the Maine district un­ The United States Air Mail is a til suitable landing fields are estab­ saver of time and money. It has lished. This sentence sums up ev­ made good, and always will. It is erything. A landing field is to a not paying for itself, and it is very plane what a road is to a motor car doubtful if it ever will. The Post or truck. First come the landing Office Department has never paid for fields, then come the planes. Where itself. It isn’t supposed to. Mail is there are landing fields, supported by a service proposition for citizens of the demand for the service, the Air these United States. The Air Mail is Mail will come. also a service, and the fact that its Has the Air Mail made good? It patronage is uniform, steady, and reached this point in its career last valuable to modern business, means July, when transcontinental day-andthat the Air Mail has come to stay. night flying first came into being.

Will Portland ever have an Air After the first trip, the check up re­ Mail service? The writer thinks so. vealed these facts.

It will not come this year, but it will On the initial trip, after being car­ come as certainly as the night comes. ried 2,680 miles through space and The reason is just this—the Air Mail witnessing a change of airplanes, pi­ has never been a fad. It is a sound lots and mail pouches at each of the business venture. Air Mail does two 13 fields en route, the Air Mail ar­ things for modern business—it offers rived at the eastern terminus but six greater protection to the transporta­ minutes late. The next day the easttion of valuables, and it offers this bound machine arrived transportation at a saving of time. seven minutes early.

Time is money. Time always will be For several days the pi­ money, and in future years, time will lots held to their west­ be worth more than it is today. bound schedule of 34 The writer has made an extensive hours and 45 minutes study of the Air Mail service and its and their east -bound possibilities for Portland. There is schedule of 32 hours no use to attempt to evade the facts and 15 minutes. about the status of this service for Although more than the State of Maine. Interviews with eight hundred separate officials in the Army Air Service, in­ flights from 106 to 460 cluding Captain L. R. Knight, Corps miles in length were Air Officer, in charge of Army avia­ made during last July, tion activities in the First Corps there were but nine Area—the New England territory, forced landings. In the have been obtained. On a recent 31 days of last July the WHY THE AMPHIBIAN? visit to Boston, we discussed the fu­ Air Mail pilots flew The amphibian plane is needed in New England. This air ture of aviation in Maine with the 173,910 miles by day view of the route fro m the Boston Airport to Portland shows the Captain at Corps Area Headquar­ and by night in the av­ mountains and rivers encountered by the pilot. I t is emergency ters, Army Base, South Boston. erage time of 38 hours landings on territory such a r this that must be taken care of.

The substance of these investiga­ and six minutes for the

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AIR MAIL SERVICE I t ’s Standing in the State months. They had carried 4,742,216 the metropolis. The plane, carrying landing fields of Air Mail stations. letters and approximately 85 per cent from 300 to 500 pounds of mail, hops At night the pilots pick up their way were delivered on exact schedule. off at about 10 o’clock. Two hours by means of beacons not unlike the The revenue they received after de­ later it is at Bellefonte, Pa., 220 system used by mariners. They are ducting the regular two-cents-per- miles away. And so on. Midnight strung along the plains, making a ounce fee to turn over to the Post finds the pilot with the sack of mail Great White Way from Chicago to Office Department, was $318,354.98. in Omaha. The next day, 24 hours Cheyenne, Wyoming, 1,000 miles.

During that time the expenses were, after starting out, the pilot is over Other beacons are being installed, in round numbers, about $1,400,000. Salt Lake City, 2000 miles away. Be­ and will light the remainder of the Of this latter amount, about $400,000 fore nightfall he is within sight of the path. was rather a capital investment in­ Golden Gate. The next morning the Let’s get back to the beginning. stead of an expense. Between nine mail carrier leaves the letter with the What use is the Air Mail? Here is a and ten million dollars have been ap­ addressee. You mail it this afternoon little concrete example. The service propriated for the Air Mail Service it is received in San Francisco day saves a day in the transportation of since May 15, 1918. Of this amount, after tomorrow. Is that Service? securities by registered mail or by The return trip is made in about 32 express. On actual figures the aver­ about three and a half million is rep­ resented today in actual physical in­ hours—three hours less than the age daily transfer of money between ventory. Part of this consists of westbound trip. This is because of New York and Chicago is $5,000,000. emergency landing fields. At points prevailing westerly winds, but the At only 1 per cent interest, the saving about every 250 miles for the entire westbound pilot has the advantage in time means a saving of $50,000. width of the continent, regular land­ of three hours more of daylight as he Multiply that sum by four or even is flying with the sun. six, and see what enormous sums ing fields are established.

It is not to be considered that the are saved through the use of it.

What sort of planes are used?

I he Air Mail saves the business DeHavilands, of which the Army Air same plane and the same pilot carry Service had a large surplus after the the mail from New York to San man 8 hours in communicating with war. When the Air Mail Service was Francisco in that time. It couldn’t Cleveland, 12 hours with Chicago, 19 started, they pocketed their pride, be done. The strain on a pilot would hours with Omaha, 23 hours with Denver, 28 hours with and, as they had but Cheyenne, 40 hours one million dollars for with Salt Lake City, 41 an experimental route, hours with Los Ange­ they borrowed some of les, and 58 hours with the Army ships and re­ San Francisco. built them to carry 600 Will the service pay? pounds of mail at a cost Probably not.

This of about $1,000 each. branch of the mail ser­ The Air Mail service vice costs about $4,000 is divided into three daily, while the revenue zones—New York to is but $2,000.

Chicago, Chicago to Indications show that Cheyenne, and Chey­ the revenue is consist­ enne to San Francisco. ent and regular and is The charge is 8 cents steadily growing. With per ounce per zone or the addition of feeding fraction there of. Twen­ lines — small branch ty-four cents carries a lines to feed the mail letter across the conti­ to the airports or ter­ nent to California. The minals as they are letter covers part of the called, the service will distance by train mail THE BEST LANDING-FIELD IN MAINE speed up through the from the Air Mail de­ Old Orchard Beach from the air.

This beach, when the elimination of train ser­ pots to the addressee. tide is out, has been pronounced the best available landingvice as a feeder. More 1here is no extra charge field in M aine, and last year was visited by 53 different business men will pat­ for this. planes. ronize it, and business What does this mean will grow in proportion. in delivery? A letter The rate is reasonably low for mailed at' the Portland Post Office to be beyond human endurance for a 33be sent by Air Mail to San Francisco hour trip. Pilots and planes are b u s i n e s s p u r p o s e s . A Chicago and so marked, receives special hand­ changed at various landing fields, and mail order house is reported to ling and is sent to New York City by the pilot does not have to do any be using $3,000 in air mail postage the early evening train. It leaves the work on his plane. A crew of ground each month, showing that it is of New York flying field by a plane. men at each airport handle this work value to their work. What if the ser­ This is Hazelhurst Field, Fong Island, and keep these ships in perfect shape. vice does not pay? It costs little.

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T he Magic M irror A n d How I t Came Into M y Possession

By THE GENTLEMAN WITH GLASSES

HE nature of the gift which I ask you to accept,” said Lamont, “ is weird, wonderful, strange beyond description. It is for that reason that I have asked you to spend the night with me at Great Neck, because we shall need this time of peaceful conference if I am to make the slightest progress in explaining to you the remarkable value of this gift to anyone who can comprehend and use its mysterious powers.”

He took from its case a cylindrical mirror about three inches in diameter and eight inches high, including the ebony base and crest of silver. I looked at this object with especial interest because in my childhood days I had seen and been greatly impressed by a mirror, cylindrical in shape al­ though somewhat smaller, which had a most astonishing power of turning hideous pictures into beautiful re­ flections. As 1 recalled it, this strange mirror had been made by the Chi­ nese over fifty years ago; and was accompanied by large picture cards which seemed to be mere splotches of color utterly without meaning. But marked also on each card was a disc on which the base of the silver cylinder was to be set; and to my amazement, when it was so placed I had seen these strange drawings and daubs of color on the cardboard translated by the rounding surface of the mirror into a picture of General Grant, for one; Louis Napoleon for another; the beautiful Empress Eugenie for a third, and so on. One I recall es­ pecially, a design in red, splotchy be­ yond any possible recognition; which however when reflected in the mirror proved to be a perfectly good red lobster.

I had never seen one of these pretty toys since that time, and I looked at the mirror now before me as a prob­ able revival of that clever trick in conical refractions. But in the pres­ ent case there were no accompanying cards. I mentioned the matter, therefore, to Lamont, who at that moment was engaged in taking a box of the Lords of England from his hu­ midor.

He turned suddenly toward me.— “ When did you ever see a mirror like that?” “ It was over fifty years ago,” I re­ plied. “ It was sent as a gift to the family from friends in San Francisco.

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I have a strong impression that the mirror and cards were of Chinese workmanship.” “ They were,” said Lamont. “ There is reference to such a device in some papers left by my brother. I will get them out. The Chinese were among the earliest people to be inter­ ested in mirrors, mention of them be­ ing found in Chinese literature as far back as the 9th century. The one you have described however was probably suggested by the magic mirrors of Japan.”

HIS remarkable story, writ­ ten in three parts, will con­ tinue in the next two num­ bers of this magazine. It has been secured for our subscribers at the cost of great effort on the part of the management. The vivid scenes and incidents of the narratives are drawn from real life, and its charatersstand out in sharp relief because they are real people. Deeper how­ ever than the dramatic quality of the story, the reader will recognize the subtle blending of the past and present and their combined foreshadowing. And the student of psychology will be impressed by the easy way in which action shuttles between the mystic and the known, all done so naturally that at the end the mind is left pondering on the deeper mean­ ings of life.

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He took a portfolio from a cabinet and drew forth several memorandums and clippings about mirrors. Refer­ ring to these occasionally, he contin­ ued: “ The Japanese made a type of mirror consisting of thin metal discs from 3 to 12 inches in diameter, and with handles cast in one piece. They used a hard, brittle alloy known as speculum metal, The polished face of these mirrors was slightly convex in form, so that a reflected image was of course proportionately reduced in size. The back of the disc was cov­ ered with ornamentation and in­ scribed in bold relief. In this type was the origin of the famous magic mirror. “ According to Dr. Reiger, great attention was attracted to these mir­

rors by a physical peculiarity which in a few cases they were found to pos­ sess. These were known as magic mirrors from the fact that when a strong beam of light was reflected from their smooth and polished surface and thrown upon a white screen, an image of the raised orna­ ments and characters upon the back of the mirror was formed with more or less distinctness in the disc of light upon the screen. This peculi­ arity was at no time especially observed by the Japanese; but in China it attracted attention as early as the 11th century, and mirrors pos­ sessed of this property sold among the Chinese at from ten to twenty times the price sought for the ordi­ nary nonsensitive article.” “ Poor Chinese,” I sighed; “ they began to put it over on them away back there.” “ At any rate,” continued Lamont, “ Dr. Reiger states that this was the origin of the magic mirror; from which started a train of fancy which has captured the imagination of peo- I pie in all lands to the present day. It was a very little thing that caused the magic in these occasional mir­ rors. But for eight hundred years that cause was a mystery. It re­ mained for a French scientist in 1847 one Cleophas Person by name, to discover the secret. It was so simple that it makes one laugh to think of it.

It was caused by poor workmanship.

It was due to an occasional flattening of the convex surface of the mirror; so that in these rare cases, in the sit­ uation above described, the orna­ mental figures on the back of the thin disc reflected in straight rays of light upon the screen. In trade par- ! lance, such a mirror was a second, j And it is, I think, the one example in all merchandising when a second sold at twenty times the value of the first.”

Lamont turned again to his port­ folio, and presently exclaimed: “ Lis­ ten to this! My brother makes this record in a note book which he posted from time to time whenever he found anything new about mirrors. Here is a reference to your cylinder and cards.—‘In recent years the Chinese made especially for the foreign trade a clever device of mirror and cards which had for a short time much pop­ ularity. It was produced in this way:

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a picture was reflected into a concave mirror. The hideous object which it made was accurately d-awn and painted upon paper. Then a convex mirror of the same curve was used from the same angle to reflect the drawing, and of course the reflection became again a perfect picture. When this was done in brilliant colors with well-known faces or objects the effect was remarkable. By painting these hideous and totally unrecognizable re­ flections upon cards, selling them with a convex mirror only, the Chinese placed upon the market a striking toy.” “ Very clever,” said I; “ with the opening of foreign commerce they capitalized their magic.

But ap­ parently it did not last. In all the fifty years since that time, I have nev­ er seen another combination like it, nor found anybody who ever has. I have a strong suspicion that the mirror was soon declared taboo by the Chinese authorities. It was too near the su­ perstitious for safety. The Chinese take no chances on stirring up devils.” “ True,” said Lamont; “ but they made these sets long enough for a few of them to fall into the hands of Dr. Reiger, a professor in the schools of Prague; and this brings me now to the introduction of my own peculiar mirror whose history I am about to unfold. “ My brother, as you know, was editor in chief of one of the great New York dailies. He had a remarkable and somewhat romantic career. And he had a hobby, a peculiar interest in mirrors. We reminded him once that this was sometimes considered a mark of insanity, and always a sign of van­ ity. But he calmly replied that our ignorant minds were thinking of looking-glasses; that he was inter­ ested in mirrors. And in college he wrote a poem, called the ‘Broken Mirror’ which attracted attention.

He went early into newspaper work; and after a few years was induced to buy into a paper called the ‘Burling­ ton Bugle’ up in Vermont.

It so happened that over in New Hampshire at that time was a news­ paper called the ‘Merrimac Mirror’, and its editor was a most conceited and pompous individual; so much so that it was noticeable in the whole conduct of his journal. It was not long before my brother, attracted first by the title, began to study the man; and in due course there ap­ peared every Saturday with the‘Bur­ lington Bugle’ a little folio called the ‘Vermont Vanity Case.’ My brother said he never worked so hard in his life. The ‘Merrimac Mirror’ was merely a foil for the ‘Vanity Case’;

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there were no personalities, nothing to offend good taste. And yet, within two months the ‘ Bu­ gle’ was on ev­ ery news - stand in th e tw o states. A vein of satire, a keen per ce pt i on of fundamental truths, a thor­ ough, knowledge of the agricul­ ture, industrial and p o l i t i c a l problems of the tw o s t a t e s were the ground from which my brother a t ­ tacked the foi­ bles of the ‘Mir­ ror.’ A few at­ tempts of its ed­ itor to hit back only served to bring the ‘Van­ ity Case’ into I had never seen one of those pretty toys greater promi­ since that time — ” nence. The farm­ ers roared with laughter. Traveling afford to close his eyes to its opinions; men discussed its articles on the train. there were too many people reading it.

New Hampshire turned to this Ver­ “ In course of time my brother as­ mont paper to learn about its own poli­ tics. Vermont politicians wondered sumed entire charge of this New what wa-comingnext. The paper wide­ York daily, and surrounded himself ned its scope. 11 humanized the dryest with a staff of brilliant young writers subjects. It touched with imagina­ who were willing to accept his sane tion the dullest problems. People and somewhat spiritual guidance. looked forward to Saturday night and About that time the owners of the the ‘Vanity Case.’ The circulation paper, fearful for his health, insisted of the ‘Bugle’ doubled within a year. that he go abroad for two months; In three years it was the greatest po­ and the results were so beneficial in every way that he continued the litical power in the two states. practice every succeeding summer. “ And then something happened; It was in one of these trips that he something that was sure to happen. met in the ancient city of Prague a A great Newspaper owner of New professor called Dr. Reiger who had York spent a summer in the hills of two great hobbies, namely mirrors Vermont. He heard about this editor and metals. It was in this region and inquired further. He was told that from southern Germany down as far he had a hobby for mirrors. ‘Seems as Venice that mirror making had to have a few reflections of his own!’ been a pursuit for centuries. Dr. he commented. In a month my bro­ Reiger was familiar with the entire ther had an invitation to visit New development of the craft, also with York and confer about newspaper the mirrors of the Orient. He had work. On his return from his con­ seen the magic mirror which I have ference he sold his interest in the described, and he possessed several ‘Bugle’, packed up his household sets of the Chinese novelty whichyou goods, and went with his family to have described. These gave him a New York. That was the end of the suggestion. He reasoned that if the ‘Vanity Case’; and within a year the right metal could be discovered and ‘Bugle’ sounded its last blast. used as the coating for the lenses or “ But in that same year a certain de­ for a cylinder, a more sensitive re­ partment of one of the Great New flection could be attained; unseen York dailies began to attract atten­ things in the air would be revealed; tion. Men in Washington sat up and and out of the present confused, mystook notice. No public man could Continued on page 40

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Wet and Dry Fishing The W it-fly seems to be most popular in N ew E ngland

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By WILLIAM G. HILL

“Billy” Hilly as his associates call himy is a well known angler' and sportsman in Maine, and what he says may well be taken as authority T one period nearly all the tackledealers in America were of Scotch-English or Irish birth, and had brought with them to this land their knowledge of the imple­ ments used in the “ old country” ; the flies they sold were all imported, and so the fishermen of this country came to know and use the flies most favorably known abroad.

In time, we invented methods of our own, copied the insects of our streams and lakes, and experienced fly-dressers grew up in this country.

Some of the waters in America are quite unlike those of Great Britain, and so require different flies; but other streams and conditions are sim­ ilar, and we are coming more and more, in the long-settled portions of the States to adopt the delicate flies and gossamer leaders effective in England.

The web-fly has been more gen­ erally used in New England than any other type, and a great many pat­ terns have proven good killers. The Parmacheenie Belle, Silver (Doctor, White Miller, Brown Hackle, Black Gnat, Royal Coachman, and Mon­ treal will never grow old and will al­ ways claim their full share of success wherever fly-fishing is done.

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Many of the later patterns of socalled Streamer flies have come into prominence in recent years and have proven wonderful killers. The Welch Rarebit, Jessaboo, Brown, White, and Bucktail Streamers have a place in the outfit of practically every good wet-fly fisherman today.

I have especially endeavored in this article to claim as ours no pattern of fly originating in Great Britain, even though by long adoption they have come to seem to be our own.

As streams have become depleted, and the fish more shy, they need to be fished with greatest caution and skill; there is, therefore, a demand for smaller flies, delicately tied in colors less gaudy than those needed for the flies used on wild, unfrequent­ ed rivers and lakes. Experienced anglers have generally advocated using small flies, and have urged the observance of variations in color­ ings to accord with time of day, place, and season of the natural in­ sects upon which the trout may be feeding.

Flies dressed on eyed hooks float better and with less drying than those constructed on the old system. . .

Some discussion has been raised late­ ly on the comparative advantages of

turned-up and turned-down eyes, and much stress laid by some of our high­ est angling authorities on the directtion of the pull of the hook. In down­ stream fishing, with sunk fly, this point may certainly be of impor­ tance, but to the dry-fly fisherman, for whose perusal this work is in­ tended, seeing that the smallest drag is at once fatal, it cannot be materialFor attaching the flies, I am distinctly of opinion that the form of eye, in­ clining upwards, is more convenient, and therefore preferable.

For obvious reasons, it is well not to enter on any controversy as to the comparative merits of the two schools of fly-fishing—wet, or dry. Each is, beyond doubt, effective in its own particular streams and under circum­ stances favoring its use, and a con­ siderable degree of science is attained by the earnest followers of both.

To define dry-fly fishing, I should describe it as presenting to the rising fish the best possible imitation of the insect on which he is feeding, in its natural position. To analyze this further, it is necessary, firstly, to find a fish feeding on the winged insect; secondly, to present to him a good imitation of this insect, both as to

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A Case of Dual Personality — B ut no Jekyll or Hyde

By PHILIP B. SHARPE

TOMMY THE BOY

T V THO’S the fine-looking girl yy over there who just nodded to you? I wouldn’t mind knowing her myself. Fix it up for me, will you?”

I he place was back stage in the Jefferson Theater, and the speaker was a young newspaperman. The person addressed was the writer. An­ swering only the last question, we said that we would, and the fair mai­ den, as if in response to our unspoken wish, crossed over to meet us. After greeting her, the writer turned to his friend and said, “ May I present Mr. Martelle?” F ew persons have ever been more astonished at an introduc­ tion than the young man with us at that moment. He didn’t know what to reply. “ So this is Tom Martelle!” he blurted out. It was. While the news­ paperman was familiar with the fact that he was behind the scenes at Martelle’s latest show, “ Some Girl,” he was unable to tell which of the large collection of feminine pulchri­ tude “ she” was. This little incident only shows how perfect Martelle’s in­ terpretation of the eternal feminine is.

Yet Mr. Martelle is a real he-man.

Off stage he has none of the feminine traits which I have found in other fe­ male impersonators and costume models that I have met. It would be hard, indeed, for anyone to tell what Tom’s vocation is by meeting

him and talking with him on the street.

It was these two distinct personal­ ities which caused the writer to dis­ cuss in an informal way, the real quali­ fications of the female impersonator, —for Tom Martelle is considered to be the greatest of these who are still in active stage work. He is a second Julian Eltinge.

Tommy Martelle was born in Los Angeles twenty-eight years ago this month. He finished his high and prep­ aratory school education before coming East. It was in the second and third years of his high school training that he discovered his natural talent for im­ personation, as he was called upon to take the part of a girl in an amateur school. He filled his part well and became interested. After that came more amateur play impersonations with a great deal of practice and study of the eternal feminine in be­ tween.

After his school days were over, and even during summers between school seasons, Martelle played fem­ inine roles in vaudeville on Keith’s circuit as a star. He then stock starred for two seasons, and five years ago came east and formed his own company. “ One of the most useful pieces of work I ever did which was of value to me in this game was my impersona­ tion of various feminine types in moving pictures. Seeing my own work on the screen showed me many little faults which no coach could have brought home to me, and I then set out to eliminate these useless and unauthentic manneri sms, ” he says “ Now with seven years of this type of experience behind me, I commence to get an idea of what the work should incorporate.”

From several different chats during the week he was in Portland, we get a few valuable tips on his art. It is perhaps needless to say that Mar­ telle is better able to portray most feminine types than the majority of girls. When he plays a part he fits into it and plays it naturally, and one accepts his work without much criti­ cism. The person, on the stage and off, who gives one the impression that he or she is playing a part, very often is criticised because his or her work does not seem natural. Not so with Tommy Martelle. “ I t’s like this,” he confided, “ Girls, as a rule, act more than men. They

are continually acting, on the street, in their homes, in theater audiences, and at social affairs. Perhaps many girls will take issue with me on this.

I am casting no insult against their sex—if I was a woman-hater I never would be working at this profession. “ But to explain what I mean when’ I refer to the modern girl as acting; did you ever see a group of girls to­ gether-notice how they flatter each other—or knock, as the case may be?

One evidence of acting: they don’t mean what they say. They appear real chummy together when they don’t care for one another. More acting, and so on. “ To impersonate a girl one must spend much time in study of the va­ rious types. I continually study them, and I learn something new every day. Most people have an idea that to impersonate a woman one has but to put on dresses, a wig and some facial make-up, and there you are. Try it yourself and you will find that it won’t work. You might pose for a picture and get away wTith it, but the moment you move the jig is up. “ A girl walks differently from a man.

As a rule her toes point outward more and she lifts her foot, describes an arc with it, and places it down in front of the other. A man’s toes point straight ahead to a greater deContinued on page 42

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Sun-up

Philosophy in a Corner of Maine Or The Whole W orld Goes To Tony s

By BARONESS MICHAELINA NAMOVICH

“ Good evening, Tony!”

A perfumed, tuxedoed, and motley crew we have descended on the large, comforting restaurant that Tony has built out of nothing but a stomach full of dreams as he phrases it. Before prohibition, Tony’s purple-red wine used to be unstinted; now, Tony leers at us, Cheshire-wise, and offers us bits of philosophy and terrible cof-. fee. The dinners are still excellent, but prohibition seems to have made Tony’s cook morbid, and disinterested in the quality of the liquid nourish­ ment which, after all—and he may be right—is a mere detail.

Tony, swarthy, fat, and beaming, with a laugh like a nervous school­ boy’s, guides us to a choice table where he can command our meal and appreciate our newest jokes, for Tony, though he may never improve his pidgin English, has a ripe sense of humour that is especially good when the stories concern his countrymen— or any other men struggling toward their citizenship papers . . . “ I did such a number funny t ’ings myself—like a ostreech lookin’ for anodder hole to put the same ol’ head!”

He is just as amiable to the other guests in sight. For in the four walls of the restaurant, day after day, he refuses to be a prisoner to his pro-

1 “But you think I ’m gonna cry because I can’t see the world?”

fession . . . “ I ain’t never gon­ na be able to travel much, maybe,— I got tree kids to bring up, and, believea me, the last one, she’s a beauty —but anyway, I gotta stay on the job until they get a good start. But you theenk I ’m gonna cry because I can’t see the work? . . . Noton your life! I stay here, give people good theengs to eat, and they pay me good, too: And I talk to everybody, and you’d be surprise’ to see rfie kind of people what’s travelled! I talk to dem and believa me—I learn alot!

And what I don’t learn from dem I get outa magazines; lots o’ good magazines about Asia and odder places don’t cost so much as movin’ pictures! . . .

Twenty years ago Tony came to America steerage-wise, big and pow­ erful for his youth, “ always hungry under my belt.” His hands were even then gnarled by terrific outdoor labor to support not only himself but the family he adored. There was a little mother in the cottage at the foot of the vineyard slope that he had cultivated for the last time. Her back was getting more bent, but be­ fore she would suffer too much, Tony wanted to find one of those jobs of which his returning successful coun­ trymen boasted. A barber shop, per­ haps, wherein after a few years a man might extract enough to start the foundation for a house and send for his mother—and then open up an­ other barber shop! And when that was successful likewise, there was nothing for a red-blooded son to do but to send for the rest of his kin!

After a time, they came, too, when the clamoring under a man’s belt could be stopped definitely and at will.

New York, with its high buildings like so many massive careening card­ board nightmares, worried Tony for a time. Whenever he found the sun, the elevated trains rumbled through it and choked him with their dust.

There was hideous work on a farm for a dollar and a half a week, where the boy slept next to other exhausted males. Too tired, all of them, to ever talk of anything but the weather and how they might get through the win­ ter on their wages.—their wage of six dollars for thirty difficult days.

Once, one of these men who slept near Tony was convicted of a murder.

The sentence blotted out the man’s whole life within a prison. Tony

wept a little, kissed the murderer as he was being taken away, and prom­ ised incoherently that he would do someteeng for the man’s wife. For many months after that Tony sent her a careful third of his monthly I wage. Another third he hoarded for the shrunken little mother’s passage, and the rest he spent on books for— “ Say—at data time if a man I knew could read—why, he was just likea God to me! I couldn’ theenk of anytheeng I wanted to do more. Not even marryin’ Katreen! So you see how much dose books mean to me, hmm? . . .”

For twelve years now Tony has been sending at least fifty dollars every Christmas to that other man’s wife. He is more solicitious for her gifts than the ones for his children.

That other man never had the ordi­ nary hold of friendship over Tony: weather topics formed their most in­ timate discussions. The boy had been horified when the police came, but—he had slept next to him; life had been terrible for the poor devil; he, Tony, was strong and well—“ You only leev a hun’erd years, an’ it’s up to you to do someteeng weeth what God geevs you, hmm?”

It happened that the possibilities of a restaurant faded the pristine barber-shop ideal into insignificance. I The mellow success of “ Tony’s” i brought over the little mother, and American osteopaths have done much to straighten out the toil-warped back. Then a younger brother came, with a face of clear, dark, lean beau­ ty like that of a Roman god. He hopes to sing, but until he has mas­ tered the things that Tony has found good to know, he harbours his songs} in a patient silence.

With one vivid gesture Tony dis­ poses of that eternal fire-limned ques­ tion of the Universe, Human Life and!

Death, and the Hereafter: “ You see dis?” Tony has caught a tumbler half full of water, holding it before us so that the light shoots through with enchanting effect. “ Jus’ water: that’s all. Jus’ water. But every single drop—see—th e broad palm slants the contents of the glass —“ is relate’ to every other single drop. You can take each one out, but they all mix together very easy!

A few drops make a river, then a ocean, an’ the ocean she’s so beeg you can’t see the end—but the end—eet’s Continued on page 17

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The “ Quoddy” Project A IVa ter Storage Plan o f Great Dimensions

By ROSCOE C. EMERY

e r g EW localities in the State of by letting the water drain out through of them in water 175 feet deep, and #r i\Maine have been so prominent- specially constructed dams at low four years will be required for their ^ ly in the limelight of legislative tide. The difference in levels will av­ construction. A force of 5,000 men and other public interest during the erage 22 feet, which is a remarkable will be kept busy during that time, past two months as has the region “ head”, when it is remembered that and it is easy to see what this alone lying along our easternmost boundary the volume of water is almost un­ means in prosperity for the County of where the beautiful and historic Pas- limited, and that the supply will Washington, and through it, to the samaquoddy Bay stretches from the never be affected by drouth or any whole State.

But the greatest asset is expected mouths of the St. Croix and Maga- vagary of the rainfall. It will be guadavic Rivers to the Bay of Fundy utilized at a dam between the two to be the group of factories for the and separates our Maine-land from ponds, where a volume of water equal production of nitrates, electro-chem­ to that of Niagara will flow through icals and aluminum that will spring the Canadian territories beyond.

Passamaquoddy, or as it is more the turbines every twenty-four hours. up to utilize the cheap power avail­ The limits of this article do not per­ able at night, when the day users conveniently called, Quoddy, has long been famous for the rise and fall mit an extended description of the have switched off. Mr. Cooper will of its tides, which are exceeded no­ project. It is sufficient to say, how­ sell power to anyone who wants it, where and are matched in only two ever, that it involves the expenditure but the market in Maine being lim­ or three other localities in the world. of a hundred millions of dollars, and ited, will doubtless have to seek an outlet for his surplus in Massa­ And it is a project to develop chusetts. For this reason he the huge latent power in these was obliged to ask for a char­ tides that has now turned the ter from the state Fegislature, attention of all Maine Quoddyand the discussion over its ward. several provisions was one of Some twelve or fifteen years the outstanding features of the ago there came to Campobello recent session.

Island, now well known as the The charter was approved, summer home of Franklin but only under provisos which Roosevelt, a young engineer, fully protect Maine’s [first Dexter P. Cooper by name. claim on the power to be pro­ He wooed and won his bride duced. In order, however, to there and returned with her satisfy those who believed that each summer to visit the home the Republican party was com­ of her father, the late Bishop mitted to a policy opposing the Sturgis, until the press of pro­ exportation of power from the fessional duties made the long state, a referendum clause was eastward journey impractical. attached, and the charter will But his attention had been be voted on by all the people caught at the very first by the in the September election, possibilities in the great rise along with the Bond Issue, the and fall of the Quoddy tides, Bath Bridge, and the Primary and he registered a vow some­ Faw. time to*return,and develop the All of Washington County tremendous power he saw ly­ is hoping that the bill will be ing idle there. Fast year, afterapproved by the people of completing an arduous course Maine, for on this project is of labor as assistant to his bro­ settled all their hope of ma­ ther, Col. Hugh Cooper, en­ terial industrial advancement. gineer in charge of the Muscle What they think of it is well Shoals project, he saw his The Above M ap is a Reproduction of the Chart Filed by Dex­ set forth in the following let­ opportunity and came back to P . Cooper, with the Federal IVater Power Commissioner, E x ­ ter written by a former State Quoddy to work out the plans ter cept That the Dam Between Deer Island and Campobello, and that he had kept in mind so long. Across the Lubec Narrows, M arked by an X , Which Have Been Senator, W. N. Miner, several weeks ago: In general, his plan consists “ The possibilities opened in the creation, by a series of Abandoned, Have Been Left Out, and the New Dam, from Eastup for us by Cooper’s project dams, of two great ponds of port to Lubec, Inserted in Their Place. are tremendous. First of all, salt water, both with direct ac­ cess to the sea.

One, roughly cor­ the power produced will range be­ it means the present employment of responding to St. Andrews Bay, is to tween 500,000 and 800,000 horse­ 5,000 men for a period of four years be kept always at high-water level by power, making this the greatest en­ in construction work, and the expen­ admitting the sea-water at high tide. gineering development New England diture here of huge sums for sites, The other, corresponding to Cobscook has ever known. There will be ap­ supplies and material. This money Continued on page 43 Bay, is to be kept at low water level proximately four miles of dams, some

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Harry Ironhead Or Crashing ik e Crossing

By W. MAYO PAYSON

P L the most daring and adventurous of the youth of Jumbo City. Many an episode of his brief but meteoric race through life has been recorded in the “ Ironhead” Stories.”

Harry was born, and year by year grew up and older. His father, Charles Ironhead, was a rich, but honest, manufacturer of “ Dullo,” a liquid preparation guaranteed to re­ move shine from blue serge suits. In spite of many years of drinking his own product, Mr. Ironhead had never died and left Mrs. Ironhead and Harry in that poverty so necessary for a hero in a series of this kind.

Our hero felt keenly this handicap placed upon his sensitive and kindly nature, and strove to remove it by various means. The story, which deals with Harry’s attempt to kill his father by turning on the gas in the latter’s bedroom and how the gas, meeting the fumes of “ Dullo” on Mr. Ironhead’s breath, sank to the floor impotent, has been related in “ Gassed But Not Gone.”

Spurred by this and other similar failures and the good-natured ridicule which followed them, Harry became more reckless and adventurous than we should have wished him to be.

But having obtained the serial rights on his life, we feel bound to use them.

On the morning of his fourteenth birthday, Harry awoke with a feeling that there was something in the air.

He reached over to his radio beside the bed, to find out what it was: re­ ception was apparently very poor, as the only thing he could get was Sta­ tion W A S H broadcasting the “ Irish Washerwoman.” Disappoint­ ed, our hero leaped from the bed to

the window, and looking out, saw all the family underwear hanging on his aerial for a clothesline. With a gleam of fun in his eye, he reached for his pliers, which he always wore in the pocket of his pajamas, cut the aerial and let the clean clothes drop in the mud of the back yard.

Chuckling merrily at his little joke, our hero blithely put on his clothes and went down stairs to breakfast. “ Happy birthday, Son,” his mo­ ther cried, as she tossed him his cup of coffee, which Harry deftly caught and kept spinning on his index finger. “ Happy birthday,” son! echoed Mr. Ironhead, and Harry, with a gay leap, still keeping the coffee cup spinning on his finger, reached the chandelier over the dining-room breakfast-table. Quickly hooking his knees over the chandelier, Harry seized an egg and some bacon and en­ joyed a hearty breakfast. “ Well, my boy, we have a surprise for you this morning. Can you guess what it is,?” asked Mr. Ironhead.

Harry guessed a canoe, but he was not right fin fact, none of the charac­ ters in this series is right; if they were they wouldn’t be in itj. So Mr. Ironhead led Harry to the window, overlooking the driveway, and there, fin the driveway, not the window,) stood a gleaming new super-twelve speedster.

Our hero was almost speechless with delight, but recovering quickly he thanked his father with that fine deference and courtesy always so characteristic of the boy. “ Much obliged, old bean,” he cried in his boyish enthusiasm.

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“ You little knew,” his father con­ tinued, “ that the other night when you signed your name for me, you signed your application for a driver’s license. Here is your license, my boy: I thought it well to get it for you myself as the law does not permit a boy under sixteen to obtain a driv­ er’s license. Now go out and enjoy yourself,” and Mr. Ironhead gave him the license and a gentle push toward the door.

An automobile had long been the goal of our hero’s desires. He had read in many Monday papers of the autoists killed at grade crossings. To one of his adventurous nature, this had been a direct and annoying chal­ lenge which he had not been in po­ sition to accept. But now—he let the wings of his imagination spread themselves and saw himself skimming past the cowcatchers of those iron monsters and waving his hand deris­ ively at the engineer.

And so he planned his day’s cam­ paign: he would drive out to the Death’s Head Crossings. There the steel rails of the railroads crossed the road in two different places not more than one hundred feet apart.

So he drove out between these two crossings, his face gleaming with the spirit of adventure. There he parked and watched the tracks behind and before him for approaching trains.

Finally his patience was rewarded and he heard the rumble of a train on the tracks behind: he looked—a freight train was backing toward the crossing to pick up cars on the other side of the road. But just at that moment he heard the whistle of the Tri-State Limited, and then he saw its mighty engine approaching toward the crossing in front of him. Here was the game for him, no slow, drag­ ging freight, but a fast Express.

Speeding his motor, he waited the time when it would be a fair race be­ tween his speedster and the oncoming Express. Then he let in the gears.

With a mighty rush, the auto gath­ ered speed, but, alas, our hero had for a second confused the gear shift and gone into reverse. The speedster backed into the freight train with a smash, and the further adventures of Harry Ironhead will be recorded in “ Heavenly Home” or “ Crashing the Gate of St. Peter.”

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Institute of Modern Literature ’T his Institute held at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, has been instrumental in bringing together the most notable group o f contemporary literatii on one progra?n ever known in Maine

By AUSTIN H. MacCORMICK

HE graduation of two of the greatest literary figures in Amer­ ica, Longfellow and Hawthorne, from Bowdoin College in the Class of 1825 is being celebrated at the college this month by the bringing together of a notable group of present day writers in the Institute of Modern Literature. Never in Maine and seldom anywhere has so eminent a list of creative literary people been brought together on one program.

In arranging the Institute the Bow­ doin faculty committee in charge have had in mind Longfellow’s plea, made in his Commencement part, that our native writers be encouraged.

Those invited to participate represent American letters broadly, in many fields and both East and West.

Great Britain and France are also represented in the persons of James Stephens, the brilliant Irish poet and imaginative prose writer who wrote “The Crock of Gold,” and Professor Edmond Esteve of the University of Nancy, who will lecture in French.

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To Maine people greatest interest will center around Edna St. Vincent Millay, the young Maine poetess, born in Rockland, whose rise to fame has been meteoric. Among her bet­ ter known books of verse are “The Harp Weaver and Other poems.”

Margaret Deland, author of “Old Chester Tales” and “The Awakening of Helena Richie”, lives much of the year at Kennebunkport. Robert Frost is recognized as the leading poet of New England, just as Carl Sanburg’s virile poetry is representa­ tive of the middle west of which he writes in his “Chicago Poems” and other works. Willa Cather, author of “One of Ours” and “The Lost Lady,” is one of America’s leading novelists, 'while Christopher Morley, representing the essayists, has won distinction as columnist and poet as well as essayist.

Henry Seidel Canby, editor cd the Saturday Review of Literature, and Irving Babbitt are among the bestknown literary critics of today. The former ?t Yale and the latter at Har­ vard find time to combine pro­ fessorships with their work in the field of critism.

Modern drama of the most modern sort will be ‘ repre­ sented by Hatcher Hughes and Lau­ rence Stallings, both successful young d r a ma t i s t s . The former won the Pul­ itzer Prize in 1923 for his very success­ ful play, “Hell-bent for Heaven,” while Stallings is joint au­ thor of “What Price Glory,” the most talked-of play of the present New York Season.

Miss Millay is a Maine woman who has won an inter­ national reputation as a poet in a remarkably s h o r t time. She was born in the town of Rock­ land in this state

in 1892. She is a graduate of Vassar College and is married to Mr. E. J. Boissevain. At a very early age she wrote a remarkable poem called “Renascence” which attracted the’ attention of the critics. In 1922 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the best verse of that year, and in the next year she published her best volume of lyrics and sonnets, “The Harp-weaver.” She has also written several dramas in verse. Her work as a whole shows a rare intermingling of serious feeling and gay mockery.

She looks at life as a game, but a game that needs to be played with a certain mystic fervour. She em­ ploys precise and pungent images, and yet her verse has constantly the old singing quality that attracts the general reader. During the past year or so Miss Millay has been hailed by English reviewers as one of the outstanding x^merican poets of the present time. Several of her pieces deal with the coasts and coun­ trysides of Maine, and in one of her Continued on page 44

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A Fighting Man’s Bridge A n d That M an Fought A n d IVon

By SAM E. CONNOR

(TTY,? HEN, in the course of the y y next two or three years, the great Kennebec river is spanned by a monster structure of steel and concrete, across which flows a river of automobiles, while, beneath, express trains, fast and slow freights rumble and roar, carrying the goods of Maine’s coast to the great cities of the land and bringing back tourists, settlers and investors, what will be the thought of those who will observe the transformation?

Will the thoughts be of the wonder­ ful result of engineering skill or of the man whose pluck, undaunted courage and determination made it possible?

Somehow, I am very sure, I shall never look upon that structure with­ out seeing among its steel rods and beams the spirit of Senator Frank W. Carlton of Woolwich, Maine. They are going to call this bridge the “ Carl­ ton Bridge.” It is proper that they should. There are hundreds, aye thousands of engineers in this coun­ try, who, given the order with suf­ ficient capital back of them could have designed and constructed this bridge or one many times more diffi­ cult to build. Without such a man as Carlton they would never have been given the opportunity.

This bridge, when finished, will be Carlton’s bridge just as surely as though he had furnished every dollar of its costs, designed and supervised its erection. It has been his project, his ambition. He* has fought it through to the point where there is very little reason for thinking it will not be built.

11must not be supposed that Senator Carlton was the first man who ever thought of a bridge across the Kenne­ bec between Bath and Woolwich. He was not. The dream of such a means of crossing the river has long filled the minds of people living in those counties most affected by the bridge.

Even so long ago as when the old Knox & Lincoln railroad was built from Rockland to Woolwich, they talked of a bridge. That was all ever came of it—talk. It was too expen­ sive an undertaking. From time to time it has been suggested, and as often put aside as being too costly.

The bridge talk was renewed in 1922. It was then that Mr.Carlton became interested. He lived in Wool­ wich. He had watched the tide of

automobile travel into Maine in­ crease, had seen it swamp the facili­ ties of the old ferry service; and then he had watched the State take it over, enlarge the ferry facilities, only to witness their failure to meet the de­ mands. “ The State of Maine should build us a bridge,” said he.

That startled folks. They gasped and looked at him in wonder. It can’t be done, was the answer he got.

Then he did the thing which those who knew him best were not sur­ prised at. He announced himself as a candidate for the State Senate on a bridge-building platform. From that day to the present he has never stopped fighting for the bridge. He is a fighter; that doesn’t mean that he goes out and shakes his fist at ev­ ery man he meets and offers to “ lick him,” but that he will battle for a thing he believes to be right. It was this type of man needed to make the building of a bridge possible, espec­ ially the building of a State-owned structure.

At the Fegislative session of 1923, Senator Carlton introduced a bill submitting to the voters a constitu­ tional amendment authorizing the is­ suance of $3,000,000 of State bonds to be used in erecting this bill. That measure was a storm center for the entire session. It was defeated, but not because of lack of merit. There was a very different cause.

Senator Carlton didn’t know the game of legislative politics so well in

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1923 as he did when he returned to the legislature of 1925. That is the answer. They out-maneuvered him then, but it must be said to his credit that he killed his opponents’ pet measure of that session, so his de­ feat was not a complete rout.

Things were different in 1925.

Carlton had been busy. He had the State of Maine organized. He was in a position to put through his resolve, and he did so. Incidentally, he showed himself a wise general, for he found that there was a strong senti­ ment that the bridge should pay for itself. This could be done only in one way: that was by making it a toll bridge. He didn’t like this, but saw the force of the demand. He agreed to the proposition that tolls should be charged until such time as the debt which Maine shouldered to make the bridge possible had been wiped out. after which it should be toll-free.

That practically ended the fight so far as the legislature was concernedThe whole matter was sent to the people for their determination. They will pass upon it at a special election on the second Monday in September of this year. At this time there is every reason to believe that they will put the stamp of their approval upon the project.

Such is the history of how Senator Carlton got into the bridge matter, and the reason it has been an out­ standing issue in Maine for more than three years.

This proposed bridge will, in many ways, be one of the most notable en­ gineering projects in the history of Maine. It will present many prob­ lems, and when finished and in use will be one of the remarkable bridge structures in New England.

The tentative plan calls for a dou­ ble-deck bridge of steel construction, resting upon concrete and granite piers. The lower deck is to carry a single-track railroad, and the Maine Central Railroad Company has agreed to enter into a lease, which is exceedingly advantageous to Maine, practically guaranteeing the main-, tenance and interest on bonds. This will prove a money-saving proposi- L tion to the railroad, for it will then be able to abandon its present expen­ sively operated ferry service between Bath and Woolwich, as well as great­ ly reducing the running time between , Portland and Rockland for all trains'. l

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May On the upper deck there is to be a 20-foot roadway, consisting of a twoinch bituminous paving placed on a reinforced concrete slab. This will be practically indestructible. I here will be two five-foot walks of kyanized spruce. There will be six spans besides the draw span of the bridge.

The draw span will be of the same type as that installed in the KitteryPortsmouth bridge. It will lift, in­ stead of swing as the ordinary style of draws used in Maine bridges do.

The clearance between piers will be 200 feet, and when raised the floor of the span will be 135 feet above high water. In place on the piers its floor will be 15 feet above high water, thereby providing ample clearance for most of the river craft without necessitating the raising or lowering of the bridge draw. It will be oper­ ated by electric motors which will raise it to the highest point in two minutes of time.

While no definite steps in construc­ tion can be taken until after the peo­ ple have voted on the project, little time will be lost once they have given their approval. All the machinery is set and ready to be started once this sanction is given by the voters. The result is that early in the spring of 1926 actual construction work will have begun, both on the approaches and on the piers, while the steel for the superstructure will, no doubt, have begun to arrive. From that time until the bridge can be opened to travel, the work will be rushed, so that, by the opening of the tourist season in 1927 we all ought to be able to go down and take a ride across the “ Carlton Bridge.”

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there all right—Same you and me.

We leev, but we gotta mix! We help each odder like that, then we die an’ we go mix with the earth . . . . the rain she’s come down, an’ some­ day”—stubby fingers pointing de­ cisively upward—“ we all go to Heem An’ I don’ theenk that that’s the end. Likea the ocean,—there’s someteeng else when the ocean finish.

There is no end.”

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By Walter IV. Eastman Note— This section will be a regular feature of Sun- Up. Inquiries are invited from sub­ scribers relative to financial and investment matters but each inquiry must be signed by the writer’s own name and his address given.

Except where a request is made, the name will not be published in the columns of the magazine. All inquiries should be addressed to the Financial Editor of Sun- Up, 304 Press Building, Monument Square, Portland, Maine

There are two vital questions that are interesting security holders at the present time: First, is the bull mar­ ket in general over? And second, are we in the initial stage of a bear mar­ ket? Strong arguments can be ad­ vanced to support both a bullish or a bearish view-point. One thing is obvious—that the market as a whole overdiscounted any visible business improvement and for the past few weeks has been engaged in retracing its steps until a justification could be found for further appreciation in se­ curity values.

My theory is that an irregular mar­ ket can be looked for until the sum­ mer months, and then if the crop sit­ uation is satisfactory and tangible steps are taken in further tax reduc­ tion we can look for a further up­ swing in the market to last well into the fall of 1925. There appear to be still more attractive purchasing op­ portunities in the railroad group than in the industrial list, and many mer­ gers yet remain to be placed in op­ eration that will excite speculative enthusiasm. The competition of the Panana Canal with the so-called Northwestern roads has resulted in considerable switching into the South­ western and Eastern railroad groups.

A road such as Union Pacific, with its wealth of Treasury assets and earning power can stand such compe­ tition better than roads of the class of Great Northern and Northern Pacific, but even Union Pacific even­ tually is bound to find it a losing game, and even a short position over a period of time appears to be justi­ fied by the current and future out­ look. T he following should prove a selective list for the conservative in­ vestor, with due allowance for a spec­ ulative advance by fall: New York Central, Baltimore & Ohio, Southern Railway, St. Louis & San Francisco Common, Lehigh Valley, Wabash A and Louisville & Nashville. It is more than possible that a majority of the industrials have made their peak prices for this bull market. I he motors are having a spring rise, based

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These communities depend for their business on varied industries and varied commerce. If some are in a slump, others are sure to be in a boom.

Central Maine Power Company’s earnings from power come, not from a few big industries but from more than 500 industrial enterprises. Included in these 500 industries are over 100 different KINDS of business.

It is because the earnings of Central Maine Power Company are always steady, through all kinds of times, that the Company has been able to pay dividends for 19 consecutive years. We believe it will always continue to pay dividends for all time to come.

If you want a safe investment, backed by a business vital to the homes and industries of 193 communities buy Central Maine Power Company 7% Preferred Stock.

At least send in the coupon for a copy of the booklet, “Your Share.” It shows the property of the Company in pictures and gives you information that any Maine citizen would be interested to know.

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on unexpected satisfactory business, and this advance is merely a seasonal development. The coppers are dis­ appointing in their action, but the in­ dustry is still suffering from overpro­ duction and South American compe­ tition. Until the above factors are corrected we can expect nothing but rallies from time to time. The oils as a group should participate with the motors in a spring advance, and pur­ chases of Pan-American B, Phillips Petroleum, Marland, Standard Oils of California, and New Jersey, Pacific and Cosden should prove profitable at current levels. There are many miscellaneous issues that could well sell higher, and among them Montgomery Ward, Ginter Company, Allied Chemical, Foundation Com­ pany, Industrial Alcohol, United States Steel, and International Har­ vester are all attractive for higher prices later on. There is no need to reach for securities, but I would sug­ gest taking advantage of any decline between now and early summer for the purchase of the various issues re­ commended in this article.

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Ans. The St. Paul issues appear to have well discounted the worst that can happen in a market way, but still there is always the danger that the two classes of stock will be prac­ tically wiped out and you will be obliged to purchase again to retain your equity in the new company. It would be logical to suppose that both the common and preferred can be purchased at still lower levels about the time the assessments are payableThe amount of the payment is purely problematical, but $10 a share on the preferred and $20 a share on the com­ mon would be my estimate. If you are prepared and willing to go through with your holdings on such a possi­ bility you will win out in the end as the financial troubles of the road win

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size and color; thirdly, to present it to him in its natural position, or float­ ing on the surface of the water with its wings up, or what we technically term “ cocked” ; fourthly, to put the fly lightly on the water, so that it floats accurately over him without drag; and fifthly, to take care that all these conditions have been ful­ filled before the fish has seen the an­ gler or the reflection of his rod.

When new, the fly, of course, floats naturally, and the first throw with a new fly should accordingly be made with greatest care, as the most likely one to tempt the fish, and also be­ cause of each subsequent cast the probability of his suspicions being aroused by some slight mistake is ever increasing. After the fly has once been wetted, it must not be re­ turned at once to the water, but thoroughly dried by making a series

of false casts backwards and forwards in the air, so as to free the hackle, wings, and body from all moisture.

In the art of “ drying the fly,” as this process of wafting it to and fro is called, as well as in the act of throw­ ing, I need scarcely caution the ex­ perienced fly-fisher to give ample time to the line to travel out to its full extent before returning it, neglect of this precaution causing the fly to be “ cracked off,” and necessitating the loss of fly as well as time, and oc­ casionally temper, in knotting on a fresh one.

A line, before being used, should be kept in a dry place for at least six months, and should be well rubbed over with red-deer fat from end to end, to render it perfectly water­ proof. The deer fat makes the line float on the surface of the water, and the angler is enabled by its use to re­ turn, and consequently throw at least four yards more line without it.

The violent collapse of the stock market is not unnatural after the long upward trend of securities and the wild orgy in grains. But it may not be safe to attribute the whole trouble to the excesses of speculation.

Accurate information from the South indicates that the situation of their industries is similar to our own; spec­ ialties running day and night, staples on short time; and this in spite of all we have heard to the contrary. It is well, therefore, to bear in mind that the action of the market may point to a coming price adjustment with Europe. If so, it means an all-round reduction of the level, and a slow cor­ rection. Viewed in this light, the market may become significant to the entire country; and the concern of our own Government for tax reduc­ tion may prove to be especially well timed. For the competition of Europe must surely be tested out sooner or later; and the encouraging 'actors which we have for meeting it should not be heavily handicapped by official extravagance and high tax levies.

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There is no department of the postal service that pays its way except pos­ sibly first-class mail. The rural mail service last year cost us $86,000,000 while the Air Mail cost but $1,500,000. In the years to come, the ser­ vice will be broadened, and many ex­ perienced pilots have stated that there is a day coming when the Air Mail will carry all of the first-class mail, leaving the second, third and fcurth-class matter to the trains and relieving much of the congestion.

Several pilots who know New Eng­ land and its territory say that flying conditions here are not as favorable as in the inland states. The topog­ raphy of New England offers many objections to aviation, but they be­ lieve that this will be overcome through the developments of avia­ tion. The Amphibian plane is the coming ship. The plane that can land either on an established field or on the water is being developed, and tests show that the machine is suc­ cessful. A nationally known pilot tells the writer that it will cost from $300 to $800 to rebuild a present land plane or seaplane into an amphibian.

But it adds some 300 to 500 pounds of load.

I his same pilot states that with the amphibian idea in mind a plane can be built without adding much to the weight, the landing structure on one type re-enforcing that of the other.

With a plane of this type, a pilot need not fear the weather—and our New England fogs. He may cut across the coast line or follow the rivers and lakes, and if an emergency forces him down out of reach of a suitable land­ ing field, he can take the water, and then “ taxi” his ship along the sur­ face to the shore.

The Air Mail contains men, real men. The pilots are the finest and most fearless men obtainable. There is an opportunity for aviators in this service, and only the best are wanted to carry on the spirit of the United States Air Mail Service. “ Nor Wind, nor Rain, nor Snow, nor Sleet shall stay the Pilot in his Flight!”

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by Claire K. Kennedy formerly advertising writerfor Eastman s, Portland and Filene's, Boston

Instruments of all kinds for the band or orchestra; this de­ partment in our store has grown year by year until now it is one of the most complete in New England

Cressey & A llen 534 Congress St.

2nd and 3rd Floors

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M O THER’S DAY

Sunday, M ay 10

Only the most beautiful gift you can send is worthy to ex­ press the message of your heart; a love so deep that words cannot tell it. And flowers are the most beautiful, the most perfect gift for her.

And they can be delivered anywhere in the U. S. or Canada with­ in a few hours. This “Flower By Wire Service” is guaranteed.

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F OREMOST fashions for sumh , y f mer seem to be particularly to Maine women, and what luck!

For who doesn’t remember the usual needed modification of New York styles to Maine needs? Because we have always demanded appropriate­ ness of fashion, our style has often been “ cramped.” Many a frock that is charming against the sophisticated background of a “ town” party,; would be absurd if worn to our “ va- j cation-ey” affairs. Fortunately, how­ ever, Dame Fashion now advocates a type that promises immediate ac­ ceptance by Maine women.

Tailored Effects —a studied simplicity, now so talked of, is just what we have always clam- j ored for. Behold the striking exam­ ples of the tailored topcoat, slim, sleek and beltless,—the two-piece sport dress of kasha, flannel or fine knitted fabrics—the one-piece frock of tub-silk or high-colored silk crepe with its boyishly straight lines. Also the soft, crushable felt hat, often con­ spicuous for its lack of trimming—the tieless, strapless, buckleless pump with its comfortable medium heel.

Do not all these things breathe of Maine country clubs, the seashore and vacations?

Ensemble Suits —a fashion that instantly appeals to women who want the utmost in prac-1 ticability, for here is a three-fold econ­ omy—a coat, a suit, and a dress, and still a chance for varietyfssh! many of my friends have as many as three frocks to wear with the same twill coat, and the effect is so startlingly different that they are credited with having three costumes.j For example, a navy twill coat can be worn with a tailored navy crepe dress, a gay printed dress, or a smart rust-colored crepe.

Prims —are as variable and fascinating as Maine’s own climate. There are ex­ otic prints for “ slim young things” that are as brilliant as a Maine sun­ set—there are soft, inconspicuous prints that literally “ take off pounds” and are as mellow as a May moon­ light on your favorite lake. Prints are on a twelve-hour schedule, for in the morning they trip out in chintzylike morning frocks; in the afternoon, they “ tea” and shop in chic printed afternoon frocks; and in the evening, they grace many a dancing party in lovely bouffant printed chiffons. A ;

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For we have chosen the “unusual” and discarded the commonplace.

Fashions that may be simple, yet some clever touch lifts them out of the ordinary.

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CARLES’ We are showing, for evening wear, a new ar­ rangement. I t is called the COVABOB, or­ iginated by Louis of New York and Paris, and is the most adaptable piece we have yet seen.

I t may be attached to even a shingle bob.

COVABOB GOES ON W ITH THE LEAST TROUBLE, MAY BE DRESSED IN ANY STYLE AND IS VERY MODERATE IN PRICE.

Sports Ensembles, Tailleur Suits and Coats, French Felts and Bankok Hats, Silk and Wool Sports Frocks—correct as the mode demands, but refreshingly different.

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Priced as low as $10,75

Sweaters For cool evenings, for the sport dress, for almost any occassion, we are offering a wide variety of smart sweaters th at are up to the minute, in artistic color combinations. $2.98, $3.98, $4.75 and up.

SILK SCARFS in the seasons newest shades.

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Dress Coats for Spring— have a graceful sway; fabrics are m o r e pleasing than ever, alluring models in Twill, Faille, C han meen a n d Jeweltone.

Sport Coats— are unusually distinct­ ive and Springlike.

The favorite fabrics are T wee ds, Camel’s Flair and Cheviots.

Astonishingly Low Priced

L.H.Schlosberg Inc. 657 Congress Street

print there is for every woman, if she but choose wisely!

Shoes —for the most part are strikingly simple. Brown shoes for general wear, and black patent leather for dress wear lead. One new style that I notice in particular is a 50-50 affair, so to speak (black patent leather toe with brown kid back and heel.) Sport shoes are flat of heel and moderately broad of toe—and many new dis­ tinctive styles are shown in beige tones and white buck.

Hosiery —for general wear remains nude-like in color. Many clever variations are shown for sport wear, however. One new style is of silk and wool in a jacquard weave. Footwear often blends with the costume—and women who wish to accentuate their height will take this as a golden rule, as dif­ ferent-colored shoes and hosiery “ cut” height.

Accessories play a huge part in the faultless toi­ lette. Many a severely straight frock is “ feminized” by a pert shoulder flower or a brilliantly colored choker necklace. Chokers, however, should be shunned by larger women like the feared cream puff. Gloves are often beige in color and show tiny ruffled cuffs. Handkerchiefs offer an infinite variety, and you may individualize your costume by a quaint flowered or printed hankie“ ” at just the right angle in a tailored pocket.

Coats —are divided into two great classes, sport and dress. Sport coats are mannishly straight and have an English-y twang of tweedy materials.

Twill and silk coats divide honors for silk wear and show dashing flared effects, and are often banded with summer furs. Practically every wo­ man can wear a flared coat if she abides by these general rules: short, ripple flares around the bottom of the coat for tall figures—and long, point­ ed godet effects for shorter women.

Colors —Lovely pastel shades and vivid high colors are equally favored for sport wear. Roman stripes are shown in sport dresses, hat-bands and scarfs.

Beige and navy lead for street wear.

In brief, this is a season of “ Mainelike” clothes, and Maine shops are admirably prepared to show them to you. You may find a greater variety of good-looking clothes in larger cities but not a better variety.

Maine merchants have gleaned the “ cream” of fashions—and the fashions that you like best. One need but shop elsewhere to appreciate Maine shops and their easy-to-shop-in atmosphere.

No. 1-7737

BANGKOK Every summer ward­ robe that rightly thinks itself fashionable, boasts at least one Bangkok Hat, and of­ tentimes several. For the style-rightness of Bangkok is firmly es­ tablished.

A nd no w o n d er Fashion a p p ro v e s !

Does n o t Bangkok adapt itself equally well to jaunty sports hats and lovely chap­ eaux, wide-brimmed and picturesque ?

$8.95 E. F. Soule Co. 534 Congress Street Fourth Floor

W e Specialize in

When You Are Hungry

Hand Made Hats W hen in Portland be sure and visit the

Louise Hat Shop Portland

Y. M. C. A. Building

T elephone Forest 10230

Maine

There’s no place quite like the

Public Dining Room £1Y*W. C. A* A ll week day Luncheons 35c Special Chicken Dinner Sundays 75c Catering for Special Luncheons and Supper Parties

120 Free Street

38 Oak Street

Office Hours 9 to 4

NOVELTY R UG COM PANY

Mrs. Cordell’s

25 LANCASTER STREET

Employment Bureau 270 Middle Street, Portland, Maine

Rugs

HELP of ALL KINDS for PRIVATE HOMES HOTELS, INSTITUTIONS, CLUBS, RESTAURANTS Accommodating Cooks and Waitresses for Lunches and Parties

H and W oven From

Old Carpets

Rugs and Carpets Cleansed and Repaired PORTLAND,

MAINE

DICK LEWIS and his SOCIETY ORCHESTRA

Four Specialties For C ash

Cleaves Western Valleys Welch Anthracite Chance Cleaned Coal (guaranteed not over *\% im­ purities)

$16.56

Stove and Nut Egg

16.08 15.60

B. B. Coal containing a nicely pro­ portioned mixture Coak and Pea Coal

13.85

Sagamore Domestic stove and egg sizes

10.78

Let Us Serve You

Randall & McAllister M Commerciai St. ' C h a p m a n Arcade

’Phone Forest 100 ’Phone Forest 6780

Left to right: Arthur Fluett, Drums and Xylophone; Frank Conant, Banjo, Violin; Dick Lewis, Piano (re­ lief organist at the Strand T h eatre); Maurice Blumenthal, Violin; Arnold B. Stephenson, E b Baritone, Eb Alto and Bb Soprano Saxophones and Flute; John B. Goock, E b Alto, Bb Tenor and C Soprano Saxo­ phones, Clarinet, Violin and Xylophone.

This orchestra has appeared at many important occasions, among which are the Charity Ball, Dec. 31, 1924, Auto Show, Feb. 23-28; 11 pieces played for the Shrine at City Hall on Feb. 6. They play at the Portland Country Club every Saturday evening during the summer of 1925. They also appeared at the Junior League, Congress Square Hotel, April 13-14; Bosworth Party at Country Club, April 17, and at the Purpooduck Club.

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Sun-Up

Sun-Up's Editorial Page Righteous IV rath This page each month is to be devoted to the expression of opinions on any subjects of interest to Maine, which our readers or contributors may desire to send in to us. Editorials will be published anonymously, and the editor is most anxious to have numerous contributions.—e d i t o r

Sun - Up For years, in fact ever since Maine asserted its independence of Massachusetts, the State of Maine has held a unique position, both geo­ graphically and otherwise among the United States. The State of Maine is a natural-born leader among states; she is self-sustaining if need be, a producer of big men and women and of big ideas.

Appreciating these facts, Sun-Up Magazine is to be devoted to the furtherance of Maine’s interests. The name itself is indicative of its purpose. “ Sun u p ’’ is the colloqualism, prev­ alent in this part of the country some time ago, meaning sunrise. Sunrise! The first hour of the day, the dawning of new opportunities!

It is now the sun up; the dawn of a new era of Maine’s fame. For years, Maine has held an enviable position, yet never has she asserted herself. It is time that the world knew more about Maine.

It is our earnest desire that through the pages of Sun-Up, the wonderful things of Maine may find some small expression and that knowledge concerning Maine may be dis­ seminated. The Editors of Sun-Up believe thoroughly in the State of Maine, her people, her possibilities and her worth. You will find this belief expressed time and time again in Sun-Up. We trust that our policy will please our readers, for we are certain that it will help Maine if ever so little.

Sun-Up is the outgrowth of Shoppe Talke, which has proved a most successful local pub­ lication. Because of its success and the grow­ ing need in the State for just this thing, the name of Shoppe Talke has been changed to Sun-Up, and the policy of the magazine broad­ ened to that of a state-wide interest and scope.

It is a question whether some of our ancestors were not so given to righteous wrath that wrath became a habit without righteousness; flattening out eventually into just bad manners. Certain it is that the boasted virtue of never saying behind the back what would not wil­ lingly be said to the face, caused many unkind and dis­ agreeable things to be said both behind and before. The effect was especially bad upon village life. It led to much unnecessary heartburning, and it quickened many an ear to the call of other lands. We recollect the case of a boy who went from a Maine village to seek his fortune—and found it; became a great merchant prince, bank presi­ dent and other meritorious things. One day in the city, long years afterward, quite unaware of his identity, a man from his native village met him in company. Some turn in the conversation caused him to speak of the youth of his village. “ There was a boy in my day who had the queerest ideas. Everybody called him a lunkhead.

Finally he went away to the city. By the way, his name was L--- — , just the same as yours,” looking at the merchant prince. “ I have often wondered how that boy ever turned out”.—“ I was that boy,” said the great man quietly.

This habit of hectoring received encouragement from old example. An incident from times still earlier will serve. Two prominent citizens of a little town would not speak as they passed each other by. In some re­ spects this was fortunate; because what they had said to each other-before that time was something lacking in courtesy. The deepening bitterness became a scandal and reproach, till neighbors intervened, and finally the more obdurate one promised to relent; claiming stoutly meanwhile his advances would never be returned. One day he met his enemy, receptive, expectant. “ Good morning, Deacon Hobbs,” said he; “ you look blacker’n ever this morning, don’t yer!” And thrusting thus at a personal ' peculiarity, he sneered to the bystanders, “ There, I told ye he wouldn’t speak to me.”

We believe that in these days the Grange has done much to remove this unfortunate heritage of bad man­ ners. A very few years ago, a worthy family, of great charm, came from New York to buy a farm in Maine.

Why did they come? For the laudable purpose of get­ ting a living.—What brought them hither? The renown of scenery and the cheapness of land. But ways dif­ fer. They had peculiarities. They served tea to their friends upon the lawn. Carping comment crept along the road. Backbiting and mockery were again in the offing. But these people had joined the nearest Grange.

And one evening as the fall came on, there arose about the house such a loud to-do that all the inmates rushed out doors to learn the meaning of the uproar. . There they found upon that lawn a company from the Grange; with things to eat and games to play and, best of all, a friendly greeting. This family had shown its very good taste in coming to Maine. Incidentally, the Grange was showing its own very good taste in helping to keep them here. Long may its work go on.

May

Automobile Starting, Lighting and Ignition Storage Batteries

Brown-Leonard Co., Inc. Electricians W o o d fo r d s C or.

R A D IO

9 Preble St. Forest 2500

H O N E Y BEE CANDY SHOP Monument Square Portland, Maine

4o’clockor12o’clock BRAND

TEA is D e lic io u s and Invigorating Two Favorites are ORANGE PEKOE and FORMOSA BLEND T h e Twitchell-C hamplin Co .

Portland (f Boston HATCHET

COFFEE

W IR IN G

H O N E Y BEE C A N D IE S A R E B E T T E R —whether it be Chocolates or Bon Bons —ordinary favors (novel and attractive) —Honey Bee Sweets mean good taste and satisfaction Novel colors and flavors prepared in Ice Cream and Ices to fit the color scheme of smart social functions. Only the purest ingredients used.

OUR SATURDAY CANDY SPECIALS ARE W O RTH Y OF YOUR A TTEN TIO N

GEO. C. SHAW CO. 587 Congress St. Forest 2400

T e l. F orest 8 7 7 7

deser v es its p o p u l a r it y

Sun-Up

How to Boost Maine

Vulcan Gas Water Heater installed in your home ready for use for only

$1.50 Down Balance in Small Monthly Installments

Y

OU can enjoy the great conveniences of this truly wonderful Hot W ater Service

while paying for it.

Owing to the large number of orders we will be obliged to handle in a short length of time as a result of this liberal offer, we are ob­ liged to limit the number of heaters to be sold to 500. W hen they are gone the offer will be withdrawn. That is the reason we urge you to place your order at once.

If it is not convenient to call at our sales­ room and see the Heaters in operation, phone Forest 5500 for our representative to call who will be glad to go over with you your hot water problem.

Portland Gas Light Co. Forest 5500

5 Temple Street

We all want to see Maine grow and become more prosperous. From a strictly economic or business basis this can only be done through build­ ing up our industries.

To accomplish this, we must start consuming more goods that are grown or manufactured in Maine or sold by Maine concerns.

Analyze the following example: Cost of Raw Material 55% Cost of Manufacture (say) 10% Jobbing Profit (say) 10% Retail Profit (say) 25% If every purchaser and consumer could realize the immense possibili­ ties in the above figures, and buy Maine products whenever possible, our industries would probably double in production and sales.

The results would be, more people constantly employed, larger pay-rolls, greater buying power, and prosperity for all.

The extreme reverse of this is seen when a consumer purchases from out of State dealers. What Maine needs is more buying, or larger buyers. These can only be obtain­ ed through the steady employment of more people in our own indus­ tries.

In line with this fundamental prin­ ciple, you are boosting a Maine in­ dustry when you use SUPERB a CANNED GOODS, COFFEE, TEAS, ETC. We employ one hundred and thirty-five (135) in our business, paytaxes to the state and cities where we operate. Should our individual bus_ iness double in sales, we would be obliged to employ a great many more persons and pay greater taxes.

This same result could be possible in a great many industries in ovir state. THINK IT OVER.

Milliken, Tomlinson C o Adv.

May

The State of Maine

Albert M osely & Son NurserymervFlorists L a n d sc a p e G a rd e n e rs G a r d e n F u r n itu r e Greenhouse 26 Higgins St.

Store 155 Woodfords St.

Tel. Forest 9929

Woodfords,

Maine

The Congress Art Shoppe One place where you may be sure of finding something to your taste; something unusual and something nice.

Unique Gifts Authentic Art Things The

Congress Art Shoppe Congress Square Hotel Lobby

“Learn to Dance from a Professional”

Modern Ball Room Dancing and

Sensational Stage Dancing C lassical and Toe B allet

P riv a te a n d C la ss I n s tr u c tio n Individual A ttention is Qiven Every Student

Both Amateur and Professional Theatricals Produced and Coached also Original Stage Set Pieces and Curtains produced at a very low expense

Prof. Edward K. Bickford Studio of the Dance now located R o o m 12 537 C o n g re ss S t.,

B ro w n B lo ck P o r tla n d , M e:

T el. C o n n e c tio n

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is not so severe as is experienced in the corresponding latitudes in the interior. This is the result of the geographical position of the state.

The climate together with the variety of scenery, the hunting, fishing, canoeing and the high grade hotel accommodations brought 700,000 visi­ tors, who left forty-five million dol­ lars in the state of Maine in 1922.

In regard to the rainfall, it may be mentioned that records kept at twen­ ty-one different points in the state, extending over a series of years, give the mean depth in inches at 43.24.

Comparing these results with the results obtained from records kept at fifteen different points in six states, west of Maine in the same latitude, the rainfall of Maine is about 35 percent, in excess of these sections. The actual summer ex­ tends from May 31 to September 14, the period of general exemption from frost.

Records kept at twenty-one differ­ ent points show the mean rainfall for this period of summer to be 11.13 inches. The mean rainfall in winter of the state at the above twenty-one points is 10.13 inches. The mean depth of snow at seven different points is 83.02 inches, corresponding to 6.91 inches of water. The total downfall for the four and one-half months during which the snow falls is about 15.62 inches, 6.91 of which, as just shown above, comes in snow.

Therefore, about 44 per cent, of the total downfall during the four and one-half months of actual winter is snow. The per cent, during the three months of nominal winter is, of course, much greater.

It will be readily understood that the evenness of distribution of our rainfall is a very important condition of productiveness. On the other hand we are saved from frequent and protracted droughts, such as afflict the treeless section of the west, and on the other we are spared from the excessive and sudden rainfalls where everything is endangered by in­ undation. This equable rainfall is one of the great blessings we receive from our forests.

Queen Atlantic Imperial FOR COAL AND GAS —For All-the-Year Around —A Cool Kitchen in Hot Days —A Warm One on Cold Days —Hot W ater All The Time —Extreme Length Only 43 Inches

Portland Stove Foundry Company Foot of Chestnut Street

For daytime and street wear strap Pumps are most d e lig h tfu l. O f patent, gun metal or brilliant satin shades.

A ll sizes. Choice of m an y oth er styles.

McDowell & Black Shoe Co. Congress St., Portland

Sun-Up

The only polish made that Cleans as it Polishes as it Varnishes Fine Furni­ ture—Automobiles E. L. G E L D E R T , INCORPORATED

M aine D istributors 453 Congress St. Tel. F 10430

FOR Y O U R

Mothers' Day & Memorial Day Flowers and Potted Plants VISIT U S A ll F low ers M ain e G ro w n Mail Orders Fulfilled

A. E. JO RDAN CO. Florists 588 Congress St. Tel. Forest 10142 opp. Congress Sq. Hotel

Our trees and wooded hills are sentinels of safety, and our quiet valleys are the abodes of peace and security. The humidity of the cli­ mate is remarkable. The air, on an average, is more than three-fourths saturated with moisture. Even in the summer months the air generally contains 75 per cent, of the amount of moisture it is capable of holding at that temperature. In other words, it is devoid of dry burning heat, in striking contrast with the scorching air of the treeless sections of our country and of our densely populated cities. This is why Maine is so much enjoyed as a vacation land by the large numbers who seek our hills, and forests during the hot months from the large cities of Bos­ ton, New York, Philadelphia and Washington. During the months of July and August the sky is usually bright and clear. In fact, bright­ ness and sunshine characterize our climate and the air contains an abun­ dance of ozone.

The M arguerite Says J ^ U R N T a n d b r o k e n h a ir is th e w o r k o f in c o m p e te n t o p e ra to rs . If y o u w ish lu s­ tr o u s , b e a u tifu lly d re sse d h a ir p a tro n iz e th e The Sun-Aero n n d H (lir-n -m p ter.

Our Salon is at

537 Congress Street Room 9

MAINE, THE STATE OF GREAT WATER POWERS

The Sign of Quality

S&H

ICE CREAM Simmons & H am m ond Manufacturing Co. Portland Auburn

Waterville Augusta

Bangor

Old Orchard

Dover, N- H.

The river system forms the grand­ est natural feature of the state. No other state in the Union has so many rivers and streams. Maine has 5,151 rivers and streams of a size sufficient to be marked upon the state map.

The lakes of Maine are famous for their extent and beauty. They form immense reservoirs for water, which are the source of the state’s hy­ droelectric power. The total num­ ber of these is 1,620. This does not include a multitude of ponds scatter­ ed over the state. The lakes have a combined water surface of 3,200 square miles of territory. The long extent of the Maine coast with its bays and coves and harbors is filled with islands. There are more than 400, ranging from 110 to 16,000 acres.

Maine is justly famous for her vaca­ tion opportunities, her natural scen­ ery, her mountains, lakes, rivers and seashore.

From All Corners o f the W orld F ro m R u ssia , C h in a , J a p a n — fro m h e re a n d th e r e in all civilized la n d s c o m e tr in k e ts to sw ell th e d isp la y o f th is little C o n g re ss S tre e t S h o p .

A w o n d e r f u l o ld h a n d -m a d e L a n te r n fro m R u ssia . . .

C h in e s e L in e n s, ra re a n d fin e A cru cifix o v e r o n e h u n d r e d y ears o ld fro m a c h u r c h in P aris . . . ........................

G ifts fo r W e d d in g s a n d J u n e g ra d u a te s.

In tim a te th in g s, e a c h w ith a h i s t o r y ..........................................

,3jantm0te jidjop Grace E. A llyn

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To be continued

fo r

P o r tla n d ,

Congress Street M a in e

May

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Why You should buy

Northern Foxes Because---------they are from selected high grade stock.

-----we cull and sell the pelt of foxes undesirable for breeding purposes.

-----the “Northern” ranching plans, although conservative, are profitable to the buyers. a. f o u r m o n t h s o l d n o r t h e r n b e a u t y -----we offer 100% co-operation to make each customer a success.

-----of the benefit of years of intensified application of breeding and selling foxes.

-----of competent and expert ranch supervision.

---- our selling and ranching plans are conservative and fair to the buyer.

-----we will lease your foxes for a period of years with a liberal guaranteed rental.

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“The Northern W ay” an interesting and instructive booklet will be mailed without obligations, on request

N orthern Fox Corporation RANCH WHITEFIELD, N. H.

CHAPMAN BUILDING PORTLAND, MAINE

The delicious and savory Italian dishes, served in approved Italian style. T hat is the secret of the Napoli.

If you like Italian cooking, and you are sure to like it, try the Napoli Restaurant where every­ thing is right.

The Napoli Restaurant 102 Middle Street

Portland, Maine

A R C A D E SODA SH O P C hapm an Arcade

“ Our Soda Fountain Specials Can’t Be Beat”

189 EXCHANGE STREET .

BANGOR, MAINE

You Run No Risks when keeping perishable goods in cold storage. The only cold storage plant in Maine is equipped to give you the finest service at reasonable prices.

Cold Storage Suggestions:

Eggs

Butter

Cheese M eat Poultry Fish Fruit Vegetables Floral Supplies Qame

LOANS may be arranged on goods stored here.

Let us explain.

SPECIAL HOT LUNCHEON Each Day, 8 A. M. to 9 P. M. Sundays, 12 M. to 6 P. M.

N ew England Cold Storage Co*

Before or After the Shoiv

FRANK H. ROBIE, Manager

INC.

DROP IN FOR A COZY LUNCH

Portland

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Sun-Up

DIRIGO— Our State Motto Call To Action Who would question day’s returning Though the night seem long and deep?

He who sees not Maine’s awakening Is, himself, still fast asleep.

Awake! Awake! for Maine is calling; Let the scales fall from your eyes; Now’s the time to clear the vision, Now’s the time to stir and rise!

It, O k p ic k o k t h k Govickwok

M arah s e v e n ta a n

19 3 ft.

B a i t o r , "3UH-VP" D ear Madam;I t i s a p le a s u r u to g r a a t th e a p p e a ra n c e o i a new S t a t e o a g a s in e w i t h i n o u r m ia 3 t. T h is i s a n o th e r a u g u ry o r th e a w a k en in g t h a t i s now g o in g on i n so many l i n e s o f a c t i v i t y i n th e S t a t e ox M aine.

Ancestral pride once tried to hold us, Conservatism had its day, Pessimism would have doomed us, But naught can now our progress stay.

Maine must prove “ Dirigo’s ” standard With a faith that never dies; We are one in aim and resource; One in courage. Watch us rise!

City of JJnrtlimb, JRaiat CXKCUTIVl DEPARTMENT A p ril 3rd 1 9 *

Klee V irginia L. Gate*.

Ml to r , food-Oat# Publishing 0 o ., P o rtlan d , Malm.

M3 dear Mies O etesiTour le '.te r , announcing the pub licatio n of a new msgsilns to be c alle d ’’3un-IJp," was r#oeivod and I aa plaasad to n<^e th a t i t s polioy w ill bs to promots the in te r e s ts o f the S tate of Ualne.

In view of the so t Ion o f the v ario u s towns and c i t i e s , as w ell a s th a t of the 3 ta te , In making a p propriations to boon Maine, th is seams to be a .p a rtic u la rly opportune time to b rin g Into sxlstenoe suoh a n agsline to help along the work.

I wish to extend a h e arty welcome to i t , a s w ell a s oonsnend the e n te rp rise of I ts sponsors.

Tou have my b est wishes fo r the continued auoeess of your nagailne.

Sin cerely yours.

t h e r e s h o u ld be anq?le m a t e r i a l a v a i l a b l e r o r a p r a j a e t suoh a s y o u have i n mind, and i t i s , w ith o u t q u e s t i o n , an o p p o r t u n i t y r o r v e ry r e a l s e r v i e e t o th e p r o g r e s s 01 o u r S t a t e i n w e l a in g i t s p e o p le

in to a

hom ogeneous w hole r e a d y t o s e r v e th e N a tio n i n * he t h i n g s i n whjota we a r e u n iq u e .

V ery o o r d l a l l y y o u r s .

R alph 0 . B r e w s te r .

Who would place a limit on us?

Who can guess what heights we’ll scale?

Opportunity is legion, Who dares whisper we shall fail!

Oh, may the brightness of our rising Shed Service that each need supplies!

Let’s ‘Tell the world” that we stand ready; Come to Maine and with her—Rise!

Sun-Up! Sun-Up! The hours are golden, There’s a work for each to do; Let Sun-Up light the way of progress And bring Maine’s message home to you.

May

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Wood Qarages —are Most Ecomical to Build

H

DESIGNS ARE DISTINCTIVE

You who are paying Rent —

$254.0T wo Car, $ 3 7 8 .00

One Car.

A G G E T T ’S Q om ogram O

Let me SHOW YOU how to be YOUR OW N LANDLORD.

Send for Catalogue

of Cottages and Qarages If you have a House, Office, Store, or any kind of Building to remodel why not consult

D o you know that you can finance a hom e by paying just a little more than rent 1

F. W . C U N N IN G H A M & SOMS

Inform ation given gla d ly and puts you under no obligation

181 State Street Pine State Bldg.

Phone for Our Representative

H. B. HAGGETT, Real Estate 97 Exchange St.

Phone Forest 2 9 0 6

Building F. A. Rutnery Arthur B. Fels Co. Engineer Materials Interior Finish Doors W indows Cement Shingles

537 Congress Street Tel. Forest 4343

Tel. Forest 3758

Room 16

We are prepared to handle any kind of a job in building con­ struction, large or small

Notv located in New and Larger quarters at

40*42 U nion Street PORTLAND, ME.

Are You Acquainted

V icIoSY

with the various new effects in wall firnishingsf I f not, why not see a specialist in this line.

PIPELESS FURNACE

TTAVE you ever considered the saving in Fuel ^ made possible by a Pipeless Furnace as an auxiliary heating unit ? The decreased opera^ ting cost during spring and fall firing will soon pay for your installation. Qet our prices.

P* C* LORING & CO. 102 PREBLE STREET

Heating, Ventilating and Power Plants

B r o w n Block

N* T. FO X CO* Inc*

Phone Forest 9161-

and Contractor

Qeneral Contractors

Portland, Maine

Exclusive A gents for W illiam son H eater Co., Boston, M ass.

The walls of your home may he finished most attractively by one who makes a study of this form of interior decorations.

E. M. W ILLM AN will help you in your decorating problems 51 O ak Street

Phone Forest 3 8 0 3

Pagt'38

S u n -U p

H ilo’s Who in M aine— A n d Why MARTIN W O O D a n d STEEL Office Furniture Filing E quipm ent Steel Shelving U nderw riters Safes A ll leading lines “LOWEST PRICES IN AMERICA”

“ Say it w ith Flowers”

Vose-Smith Company Florists 646 Congress Street Portland, Maine Plants and Flowers for all occasions Artistic Designs a Specialty

Tel. Preble 294 Day or Night

Graymore Hotel

Cafe

and

Cafeteria ¥

W hen You are Puzzled to find a new or better place to eat think of the Graymore. In the Graymore C a f e t e r i a you will find the some­ thing you have been searching for.

Good food, pleasant surroundings and a general atmosphere of well being

Hotel Graymore Preble Street Portland

Maine

(Adams) Gov. R a l p h O . B r e w s t e r B E C A U S E of his vision of a better -LA Maine. Because he has shown the determination to do some­ thing for Maine. Because he is con­ vinced that Maine is the best State in the Union and is prepared to prove it.

Ralph O. Brewster was born in Dexter, Maine, on Washington’s Birthday, 1888.

He is a graduate of Dexter High School and of Bowdoin College, leav­ ing a remarkably fine record behind him in both institutions.

Following his graduation from Bowdoin, he taught school for one year at Castine High School and then entered Harvard Law School, where he worked his way and showed his usual high scholarship.

In 1912, he began his political ca­ reer, working in the interests of Gov­ ernor Parkhurst. He came to Port­ land shortly after and established a Law practice.

In 1916 he was nominated and elected to the House of Representa­ tives but resigned to enter. military service.

In 1922, he was elected to the State Senate, and in his term there achieved the distinction of being the only man to put through two amendments to the State Constitution which were adopted by the people. One of these was the absent voters’ privilege.

On April 20, 1915, he married Miss Dorothy Foss of Portland. There are two sons, Charles and Owen. Mrs. Brewster is a graduate of Wellesley.

Governor Brewster is a member of the Church of Christ, Scientist, Chat­ ter member of the American Legion, member of the Woodfords Club, Maine Historical Society, American Bar Association, and of the Maine and Cumberland County Bar Asso­ ciations.

(^DECAUSE, although he is not a J A Maine man born, it is not his fault, and he is now a real M aine Man. Because he is turning his abil_ ity and knowledge to a whole-hearted effort to make a Maine city one of the best. Because, although he is a big enough man to be independent, he is so independent he prefers to be a Big Man. Harry A. Brinkerhoff, City M ana­ ger of the city of Portland.

Mr. Brinkerhoff is 54 years of age.

Born in Rutherford, N. J., of Dutch stock established in this country for over 300 years.

Educated in the public schools of Rutherford, and entered upon his ca­ reer as a draughtsman for Westinghouse, Kerr& Company of New York.

He was with this concern for about 23 years, working his wayvto the po­ sition of an engineer of unusual abil­ ity. While with this company, h e traveled extensively throughout the Southern, Northern and Western parts of this country.

On one enterprise of Westinghouse Kerr & Co., he spent several years in Winnipeg, having charge of hotel office building and railroad con­ tracts.

This training was especially good for his present position, as he super­ vised work involving hundreds of thousands of dollars and thousands of workmen.

He married Miss Susie Adams GriggS of Passaic, and there are two daughters Miss Adelaide Brinkerhoff, 24, an d Miss Frances Edna Brinkerhoff, 22.

Since coming to Portland, Mr. Brinkerhoff has displayed much Qf the ability which pushed him to the front in engineering circles. The city of Portland is fortunate in obtaining his services.

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T he M agic M irror Continued from page 9

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tifying, shapeless splotches of human activity would stand forth the beau­ tiful primary picture—the picture in fact of the divine purpose. “ He worked unceasingly with his crucibles, and at last discovered a strange amalgam which he called stellaradium; and using it for a coating he produced a cylinder which you see before you. There is not another like it in the world. The mirror is not a reflector in the ordi­ nary sense. He did not intend it should be. Nevertheless it did not react in the way he had hoped. In fact it did not even act; and for a month he went about in a daze of dis­ appointment. “ It chanced one day that the fight­ ing among the students of the Prague schools was particularly severe, Ger­ man and Serb contending with the accumulated bitterness of twenty generations; and for a time Dr. Reiger forgot his pondering, and set about it to quell the general uproar.

He never understood the power by which he was able to separate the leaders, and in his study later to bring them to laughter. But this is what he did. “ He told them the tale of the Kil­ kenny cats, how they bit and fit until they ate each other up, and then in­ stead of two cats there weren’t any.

He pictured the tombs of the noble knights, their good swords rust, their bones now dust, their souls with God we trust. But what could the good Lord do with such a motley collec­ tion, all fighting like very devils for the love of God ? He showed what a grotesque idol the nations of Europe had set up for themselves;what pan­ demonium their prayers produced as, full 'of selfishness and hate, they met like warring winds about the heavenly throne. He declared the greatest danger to the civilization of Europe was that some day the Deity might grant these prayers, the whole of them together, and thus at a single stroke reveal their mockery and scourge their makers. “ Then he turned to the example of America, where North and South had composed their differences and reared the structure of a mighty nation; a nation whose aim, however imper­ fectly attained, was the protection of human rights and the freedom of man: with the result that over a continent, from coast to coast, from Hudson Bay to the great Mexican Gulf, the nations dwelt in harmony, a feeble but increasing echo of the

heavenly chorus heard long ago o’er the hills of Palestine. “ That night, as Dr. Reiger sat in his study, musing upon the stirring events of the day, he was startled by a sudden flash in the room; and look­ ing about in much bewilderment to find its cause, he was amazed to dis­ cover that the forgotten cylinder u p ­ on his table had suddenly become a magic mirror. Its surface was aglow with purple light, and in its wonder­ ful depths he saw the ancient city o f Prague, its gates and towers, the stone bridge across the Moldava River, the lofty domes of the medieval cathedrals, and the royal palace on the hill of Hradchin rising above the clouds. These past glories of the old Bohemian kingdom became the back­ ground presently of a marvelous company. The statues of the Chris­ tian martyrs which supported the bridge came gradually to life, and he saw their faces smile upon him. 'The beautiful images of the saints in the niches of the cathedral became trans­ formed to human beings; and leaving their places, crossed the bridge to give him greeting and bestow their blessing. And then through the gate of the city, still nearer in the fore­ ground, came St. Sava, who seven hundred years before had renounced his royal titles to establish so plain and prosaic but mighty a thing as public schools in his father’s realm.

Thus what was beautiful and noble in the life of that ancient kingdom came that night to meet the soul o f one who on that day had done a deed to lift his fellow men. “ Dr. Reiger lived but three years after that event; but when he died, the German students and the Serbs formed in columns and marched be­ hind their leaders to do homage to his memory and scatter flowers upon the grave of a fellow man.”

Lamont paused and became lost in meditation. A long silence followed.

The twilight had passed. The night was deepening. Through the w in­ dows overlooking the Sound we could now see the lights upon the passing transports, and my mind went back through the ages to the craft th a t man had used to venture from the safety of the shore out into the u n ­ known sea; the Phoenician caravel, the Spanish galleon, the barkentine, the modern liner. At that very m o­ ment, through the air, messages were passing from these liners to the shore, passing from the shore in turn to pick Continued on page 44

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gree and he puts them down a great deal further apart in a sideways di­ rection. Then there are little things about walk, carriage, poise of the head, and such that differ greatly in the male and female of the species. “ Lest I give the impression that there is but one general type of girl, I had better deny it here. Girls differ greatly. I have never seen any two whom I could call alike. There is the engenue, the flapper, the vamp, the matron, the fussy old maid,—several other main types down to the demure little miss. All are interesting— some as an example of what not to incorporate in my work, others as useful and interesting characters.

Not all girls are interesting. I find many boresome to me. I find many others who give me valuable infor­ mation as to the little things. Many girls are so unusual as to make it im­ possible for one to classify them.

They do not belong to any one class, but are a jumbled hodge-podge of several types. “ In my early stage work I found it rather difficult to get used to some feminine attire. After some practice it did not seem so hard. This is due to two reasons, first because I got used to it, and second, because the styles have changed. Tight clothes were my first difficulty. Corsets were terrible. I can fully sympathize with the woman in her steps towards the more comfortable clothes. I never want to see some of those styles back. “ It takes a long time to acquire carriage, yet the every-day girl is the easiest to impersonate. One sees so much of it that it does not take long to get the minor details perfected.

The housewife, that simple, settled matron, is the hardest type to play perfectly. There is a large field for one to overdo many little things and thus spoil it.”

The business of impersonation is by no means a plaything. Where in many positions a man’s physique amounts to little, Martelle has to watch his figure carefully. He must diet at all times. Fat must be elim­ inated, muscular development kept down, and on the other hand he cannot not permit himself to become flabby.

Walking is his favorite outdoor sport.

He does a great deal of it every day, and while those arms appear as round and symmetrical as a woman’s, there is an amazing amount of strength

concealed in them. Proper food and exercise is his explanation.

With ordinary male attire, M r.

Martelle weighs about 139 pounds, but one would hardly think it to look at him, so well is it carried. He is about five feet seven inches tall, and while he is a quiet sort of chap, he is one who would be popular with any group of fellows.

In his most recent show he has 12 costume changes, and his feminine wardrobe is very complete. All gowns used, together with the para­ sols and miscellaneous articles of fem­ inine lore are designed for him in Paris by a personal representative, Mme. Yvonne Keiviat, who designs them and has them produced. The original plates are then destroyed, and the creations protected by copy­ right. These must very often be re­ placed due to the strain of quick changes on the stage, and while Tom doesn’t handle the purchasing of these articles of wearing apparel, he states that costumes cost his mana­ gers nearly $15,000 annually.

In June the “ Some Girl” company will close its season, which has been very successful up to the latest re­ port. The latter part of March the writer received a brief note from Martelle, stating that this season would prove the most successful his company has ever enjoyed, and that, following closing in New York, he would take a few weeks’ vacation motoring through Maine if his pres­ ent plans are possible. Motoring has always had a strong appeal for Mr. Martelle, and the State of Maine has been visited by him during several vacation tours in the past few years. “ I took a trip too early in 1923,” he remarked, “ and I got stuck in the mud. That was early in May. "I he latter part of June has always proved fine.” “ Just tell the girls that the less street make-up they use the better they will look,” was one of his com­ ments.” I know a little about the eternal feminine, and I can sympaththize. But I also know what its effect is on the men. When you get right down to it you can’t fool a man a great deal. Powder is necessary— it is terrible to have one’s nose shine— but rouge and lipstick look sad in the eyes of men, who often say,“ I won­ der what she looks like without that junk.’ ”

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The “ Quoddy” Project Continued from page 13

will benefit the whole of the county, and ultimately, the state. Next, it will give Eastport, Lubec, Deer Is­ land, the Canadian mainland a sys­ tem of short connecting roadways over the dams,—a big convenience and advantage. Third, it will create two great salt-water lakes, almost without tide, and suitable for bath­ ing, boating, and fishing, thus greatly enhancing our attractions to summer visitors. Fourth, it will give Calais and St. Stephen deep water at their wharves during the whole day, and greatly beautify the river below them; it will constitute an engineering project so vast and unique that peo­ ple will come from all over the world to see it,—and to reach here they must traverse the entire state, pat­ ronizing hotels, supply stations, stores and railroads. Sixth, it will bring a cluster of industries to establish them­ selves along the banks of the River and the Bay, employing men, bring­ ing in settlers, raising taxable valua­ tions and building up this section as no one has ever dreamed it could be built up. Nor should it be forgotten that one of these industries will be the production of nitrates, which means cheap fertilizer for every far­ mer in the state. Lastly, if this tidal project is successful, as we are sure it will be, other similar developments are sure to come along the coast of Maine and the shore of the Bay of Fundy, areas which now promise to become the power house of the East, with all that implies. Tidal power may accomplish for this region what coal has done for Pennsylvania and the industrial regions of France, Eng­ land and Germany. “ The value of this to the state is not hard to see. In this connection, it should be mentioned that Cooper, if his project goes through, will be in a position to act as a power banker for every big industry in the state in time of drouth and low water. They can come to him for power when they need it, securing it through the agen­ cies already established, for he has no intention of retailing power or of com­ peting with any distributing concern.

The memory of shut-downs along the Kennebec and Penobscot because of low water is too recent to be forgot­ ten, and the saving and security this project could guarantee to industries located on these rivers, and to their employees, would be nothing short of tremendous. “ I personally cannot see any sound argument that can be advanced against the bill,—that is, any honest

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argument. The Fernald law was in­ tended solely for fluvial power,— from lakes, streams and rivers. Many of us who supported it at one time are now beginning to see that it has ac­ complished no real good, and has held back rather than assisted in develop­ ing our resources. Perhaps, too, it was political rather than economic in origin and purpose. But whether it was wise or not, it has no possible ap­ plication to tidal power, which in this case is so great that to limit it to this state would be simply to kill the project. Don’t lose sight of that fact.

Any man who opposes this charter is not out to build up the state of Maine.

He is out, for some motive of his own, to prevent Cooper from starting.

There isn’t any other interpretation to be placed on opposition in this case. The benefits are so great, and the risk of damage to anyone is so ut­ terly negligible, that no opposition should be tolerated, especially in these days of the splendid Maine Forward movement that Ralph Brew­ ster is leading so brilliantly, and that is leavening the whole state with the spirit of co-operation and energy. “ Whatever justification there may be for the so-called Fernald law lies in the fact that power produced on streams and rivers is usually not too large to be used right at hand, if other conditions permit. This pro­ ject is too big for that, do tie it up to a local market would be to kill it and check all the vast benefits that might flow from it. I can’t think the Legislature of Maine would take such a negative, futile, and unjustifiable step. “ The men behind the Publicity Bureau have rightly asserted that in­ dustrial development follows summer business, and they prove their case with the examples of Florida and Cal­ ifornia. Well, here is the industrial development of the first magnitude that is following summer business, for Cooper first came to Quoddy as a summer visitor some twelve or four­ teen years ago. He came, he saw, he got the idea, and we hope he will con­ quer.”

The Magic M irror Continued from page 40

these liners up at sea. If Dr. Reiger had seen within a mirror more than others could find therein, the exalta­ tion of his spirit on that day had merely caught a higher vision, a broadcasting nearer the divine. Who was I? to criticise and doubt.—I awoke from a reverie myself.—“ A beautiful story,” said I; “ it seems like a legend.”

Sun-Up “ It will be one, said Lamont; “ his memory is already enshrined in the annals of Bohemia.—As for the mir­ ror, it is here; for Dr. Reiger be­ queathed it to my brother. Between these two men had grown the deepest friendship. Kindred spirits, they groped ahead of the present in the same direction. When Dr. Reiger died, my brother wrote an editorial on international friendship that at­ tracted attention in two continents. “ Of course my brother knew some of the peculiarities of the magic mir­ ror which had come into his posses­ sion, and his first thought was this: ‘The mirror will give a keener vision, a higher editorial sense for newspaper work.’ But hesoonunderstood it better.

The mirror made the perfect picture.

Seemingly therefore it never reflected anything bad. What was beautiful, noble, inspiring in the life of the past or the present could be seen in its depths when mind and soul were tuned to receive its starlike rays.

But what was base, degrading, degen­ erate was never there. Consequent­ ly, some people of the present as well as the past were conspicuous by their absence. And what could a news­ paper do with such a mirror? Re­ flecting only good, it left out ninetenths of the news, and alarmingly curtailed the headlines. “ But my brother took this discov­ ery much to heart, and it had a marked effect upon his paper for the rest of his life.”

(To be Continued.)

Institute of Literature Continued from page 15

F r i d a y , M a y 8, 8 . 1 5 p . m .

Carl Sandburg, “Romanticism and Realism in Modern Poetry” Saturday, M

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Willa Cather, “The Talk About Technique” T h u r s d a y , M a y 1 4 , 3 . 0 0 p. m .

Professor Edmond Esteve (Lec­ ture in French!—“Longfellow in France” T h u r s d a y , M ay 1 4 , 8 . 1 5 p . m .

Laurence Stallings, “The Modern Drama” F r i d a y , M ay 1 5 , 8 . 1 5 p . m .

Christopher Morley, “The Phan­ tasy Aspect of Literature.”

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G irl in the D resden Gallery

By Clara Marcelle Greene

Maiden with the eyes of blue, When Dame Nature fashioned you, In her dainty tricksy mood, She regarded no man’s good.

When she molded form and limb, To her fairest, fullest whim,— When she bent where roses blow, When she mimicked Cupid’s bow,—

poems she expresses a sharp yearning for the sea-scenes that she was familiar with in childhood.

For the curving of your lips, Tint of cheek and finger-tips,—

The lectures of the Institute will be open to the public. Bowdoin un­ dergraduates will have the oppor­ tunity to come close to those writers, for each one will conduct a small informal Round Table Conference open only to undergraduates.

Laughing to herself the while, She was conjuring your smile,—

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Robert Frost, “Vocal Imagination” T u e s d a y , M ay 5, 8 . 1 5 p . m

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Readings from her poems.

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Hatcher Hughes, “Modern Ten­ dencies in the American Drama” T

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Margaret Deland, “Some Ways of Writing Short Stories”

When love’s lances light she hid In the quiver of your lid,— Reckless of unshielded hearts Thus imperilled by their darts,— Ah, beshrew her! She was mad, Or more prudence she had had!

She was drunken with the wine Of her own voluptuous vine!

When she lastly robbed the skiei For the azure of your eyes, Certes, men must be forgiven If they look there seeking Heaven!