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[Special Dispatch to the Sunday Herald.]
HURRICANE ISLE, Me., April 27, 1907.
Work will begin in coming week here and at Vinalhaven on the quarrying of the granite for the Boston Museum of Fine Arts building, which is to be quarried at Hurricane Isle and Vinalhaven. 
The contract was awarded jointly to the Booth Bros. and the Hurricane Isle Granite companies and to the Bodwell Granite Company. One the two islands about 300 men will be employed, and it will take about nine months to complete the work. The contract calls for about $300,000 worth of material and labor.
Hurricane Isle, where the bulk of the stone is to be quarried, has at present a population of 257, but this will be largely increased during the stone cutting operations, as some of the stone cutters who are to be employed on this contract have already made plans for moving their families here.
The island is practically one huge rock in the clefts of which is some slight vegetation, and on it are located about 100 stone cutters' residences, only a story in height in order to withstand the heavy gales which sweep the island in the fall and winter. The island has daily communication with Rockland by steamer. Operations in granite on Hurricane Isle were begun by Davis Tillson in 1870, and the quarries are still managed by the estate of Gen. Tillson, and his
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[Special dispatch to the Sunday Herald.]
PORTLAND, Me., April 27, 1907. That
Cumberland county's new court house, which is rapidly assuming shape on Federals and Market streets, will cost at least $1,000,000, is the latest prediction of those in a way to know.
At first, when the county officials and the lawyers got together to discuss informally the need of more commodious accommodations for the courts and county servants, estimates of $500,000 were made as the maximum cost of a suitable building.
After the architects had been consulted, the estimates went up to $600,000, and it was that amount that the Legislature of 1905 empowered the county commissioners to spend for a county building.
It was then admitted that authority to raise additional money with which to furnish the building would probably have to be sought when again the Legislature convened. So at the recent session a bill was passed empowering the commissioners to increase their expenditure to $850,000.
Now comes the information that at least $150,000 more, and perhaps $200,000, will have to be raised before the building is completed and furnished, ready
in the fall of 1908.