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In the summer of 1888, four public drinking fountains for man and beast were crected; one at the corner of Church and Main
WATERWORKS. POWER HOUSE AND DAM, CONSTRUCTED ISS7
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streets, and the others, respectively, at the junction of Church and High streets; and Cross and Main streets, and on High Street, opposite the Phoenix House. The two ornamental foun- tains, which are also entitled to free water, have never been placed, because of an overlooked clause in the contract.
In 1891, an amendment of the charter permitted the company to lay pipes in Northport. Two additional hydrants were added this year, making the whole number fifty-five. Three hydrants on North High Street and two on Waldo Avenue were placed in 1893.
SEWERS
Before the adoption of the present system, public sewers existed in several of the business streets, and in other localities, being principally used for conducting surface water. One of brick, on Spring Street, from High to Cross Street, a distance of twenty-eight rods, was constructed in 1887 at a cost of $12.50 per rod. This was the last one of that nature built.
In 1888, completion of the waterworks rendered a regular plan necessary, and the city government authorized a survey for the purpose, which resulted in adopting an elaborate system sub- mitted by Parks & Wheeler, civil engineers. This system is for sanitary purposes only, old drains and culverts being retained for carrying away storm waters.
An act of the Legislature, passed in 1889, having authorized the assessment of one half the cost of any sewer upon the owners of premises benefited by it, work was begun the following year, and a section from Congress Street down Franklin and Main streets was constructed. The plan contemplated an outlay of about $4000 each year until the whole system should be per- fected. The work has progressed annually, with a few exceptions, and the compact part of the city is now supplied with pipe sewers, all having a discharge into the deep waters of the harbor, where the tidal currents are sufficiently strong for harmless distribu- tion. A plan of the system accompanied the report of Parks & Wheeler, and plans of each year's work on a larger scale have been prepared by Hiram Pitcher Farrow, the engineer in charge.
The regulation of sewers is provided for in chapter 17 of the City Ordinances as revised and adopted in 1895.
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ELECTRIC LIGHTS
Their introduction was first presented in April, 1887, by H. A. Foster, but nothing resulted until the following year, when the organization of the Belfast Electric Company took place. Its charter authorized a general electric light, heat, and power plant in Belfast, Searsport, and Northport, and the operation of a grist mill in Belfast. The capital stock was $30,000, divided into 300 shares of par value of $100 each. The stockholders and directors were Robert Franklin Peirce, Hiram Emery Peirce, and Percival Cutter Peirce, of Belfast; Thomas T. Robinson and Robert P. Clapp, of Boston. Hiram Emery Peirce was president; Robert Franklin Peirce, treasurer; Percival Cutter Peirce, secretary.
Works were at once established at the mouth of Goose River. The plant started with a wheel which furnished 150 horse power. A steam engine was afterwards added, the water at times not affording sufficient power. In October, poles were erected from the dam to the lower bridge, and afterwards along the principal streets, requiring in all twenty miles of wire. The switch station was located in Peirce's Block, at the corner of Church and Franklin streets.
On Monday, December 31, 1888, the city was first lighted by electricity. Five arc lights were displayed, three at the Opera House and one each at the Court House and the pharmacy of Kilgore & Wilson, in Hayford Block. Incandescent lights also illuminated several stores. On Thursday evening, January 3, 1889, three street arc lights were turned on in Main Street.
In the summer of 1889, the Easton Electric Company, of New York, obtained permission from the city to erect poles for a new plant, upon condition that work should begin by August. It con- templated purchasing the property of the gas company. To save the franchise, a few poles were placed on Church Street.
In October, 1889, municipal authority for works was granted to the Westinghouse Electric Company, of Pittsburg, which proposed to utilize the privilege at Mason's Mills. The project was never carried into effect.
A corporation entitled the Belfast Gas-Light Company was organized in 1889. It was substantially the same as the old corporation by the same name, with the additional purpose of furnishing light, heat, and power by gas and electricity.
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Anticipated competition from a second plant delayed measures for public street lights until the summer of 1890, when a contract was made by the city with the Belfast Electric Light Company, for twenty arc lights of 1200 candle power, from sunset to mid- night, standard time, during not less than 300 nights in each year for twenty years at a cost of seventeen cents per night for each light, or $1020 per year. The annual expense of gas-lights was then about $525. Locations for the new lights were selected as follows: At the draw on the lower bridge; on the corner of Washington and Bridge streets; corner of Church and Bridge; corner of Church and Peirce; corner of Front and Main; corner of Main and High; corner of Main and Congress; corner of Cross and Spring; corner of Church and Spring; corner of Miller and Cedar; corner of Miller and High; corner of Grove and Cedar; corner of Elm and Church; corner of Allyn and High (foot of the Square); corner of Commercial and High; corner of Commercial and Bay View; on Union Street near Robert Burgess's house; corner of Park and Church; corner of Pearl and Court; and corner of Pearl and Congress. The streets were thus lighted for the first time, September 13, 1890. The use of electricity for light and power steadily increased, and nearly all the smaller manufac- tories were soon equipped with meters.
By a legislative charter, granted in 1891, the Belfast Illumin- ating Company was formed, with power to purchase the rights and property of any gas-light or electric-light company estab- lished here, and to issue mortgage bonds under this authority. It was reorganized in 1895, under the name of the Belfast Light and Power Company.
The electric company and the old Belfast Gas-Light Company were consolidated. By the failure of Boston parties to furnish promised means, the new institution went into the hands of a receiver, and in 1895, its property was acquired by the Belfast Light and Power Company, which now manages both electric and gas works. Since October of that year, Charles H. Maxfield, formerly of Fairfield, has been superintendent. The office and switching plant of the electric portion was then removed to the Gas Company Building on Washington Street.
CHAPTER IV
BUILDINGS AND REAL ESTATE CHANGES
Buildings erected in 1875-1900 - Foundry - Masonic Temple - National Bank - Hayford Block sold - Skating Rink - Coliseum - Howes Block - Lancaster Stable - Phoenix Row partially rebuilt - Free Library - Odd Fellows' Block - Crosby Inn - Sale of Allyn Field - Catholic Church - Belfast National Bank Extension - Phoenix House Stable - Belfast Foundry - Railroad Freight House - West Meeting-House demolished - Court-House extension.
TT is recorded in the Belfast "Republican Journal" that, at the commencement of 1875, not a single building was un- occupied, and that on Bay View Street, since its location, twenty-four houses had been erected. The following is a list of buildings added during the year throughout the city : 1 -
Dwelling Houses
Ames, Captain George P., corner of Peirce and High streets.
Brown, Charles A., Belmont Avenue.
Carter, Horatio Herbert, Park Street.
Carter, Captain George R., corner of Commercial and Union streets. Cottrell, Christopher Y., Searsport Road.
Crosby, James T., Bay View Street.
Cullnan, John, Bay View Street.
Ellis, Samuel G., double tenement, High Street. Farrow, Milton F., Alto Street.
Fernald, James Frank, corner of Cedar and Bradbury streets.
Frost, Moses Warren, Bridge Street.
Goodenough, Rev. Simon, Congress Street.
Greer, James, Belmont Avenue.
Harmon, B. F., Miller Street. Hill, James, Waldo Avenue.
Hayford, Axel, double tenement, Cross Street.
Howard, Sanford, Bay View Street.
Hamilton, Ezra, Lincolnville Avenue.
Hopkins, Thomas J., Bay View Street.
Jewett, Jeremiah, Bay View Street.
Knight, George L., Cedar Street.
Lochrane, Peter, Lincolnville Avenue.
Mathews, Sanford Hills, High Street.
Nash, John W., Waldo Avenue.
Oakes, Isaac, Bridge Street.
1 To this list should be added the residences of Oliver Gordon Critchett and Asa Faunce on High Strect, and that of Charles Prescott Hazeltine on the corner of Cedar and Park streets, all in the process of construction during 1874.
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Page, Jacob W., High Street.
Paul, Edgar, Lincolnville Avenue.
Pilsbury, Charles Albert, Northport Avenue.
Pendleton, William, Federal Street.
Pote, George P.,1 Church Street. Speed, William E., Congress Street.
Shaw, Mrs. Kate, Bay View Street.
Sherman, Josephus, Bay View Street.
Swan, William Bachelder, Church Street.
Stearns, John Y., Union Street.
Strout, Frank, Searsport Road, East Side of the river.
Shuman, Elijah, Waldo Avenue.
Stevenson, William, Searsport Road, East Side of the river.
Warren, Napoleon Bonaparte, Northport Avenue.
Business Places
Cooper, Marcellus R. & Co., office, Front Street.
Carter, Milton F., brick store (building), Main Street. Gas Company Building, Washington Street. Hayford, Axel, briek carriage manufactory, Beaver Street. Hazeltine & Bickford, ice house, East Side of the river.
Lewis, Stephen S., heirs, storehouse on the wharf.
Mathews Bros., storehouse on Front Street.
Palmer, Lemuel Rich, stave-jointer workshop on Spring Street. Pitcher & Son, storehouse on the wharf.
1876. Among the dwelling houses built this year were those of William G. Cox, on Congress Street; of John H. Poor, South Cedar; of Horace Dean, on the East Side, and of Frank A. Cot- trell, Northport Avenue.
A new foundry, 180 feet long, was commenced by William Williams Castle, on Front Street. The William Harrison Conner house, on High Street, now the residence of Dr. Gustavus Clark Kilgore, was moved back ten feet. The house of John Warren White, at the corner of Church and Grove streets, was pur- chased by Captain Joseph S. Thombs. The lot now covered by the Masonic Temple, 82 by 46 feet, was sold for $7500.
1877. The following dwelling houses were built: Mrs. James Enright Burgess, East Side; Augustus Richmond Carter, Park Street; Milton F. Carter, Pearl Street; Sylvanus G. Cottrell, Cedar Street; Oscar W. French, Upper High Street; Henry C. Gray, Condon Street; Timothy Dexter Guptill, Durham Street;
1 The George P. Pote house. It was sold in 1878 to Captain J. Barnet Dur- ham, for $6000. Asa Abbott Howes is now the owner and occupant.
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George Edwin Johnson, Cedar Street; Nathaniel Emery Keen, Northport Avenue; James C. Mayo, off Northport Avenue; Charles Henry Mitchell, Cedar Street; Samuel Stimpson, Bridge Street; Benjamin F. Wells, Bridge Street. Other build- ings erected were the store of David Lancaster, Main Street, storehouse of Mathews Bros., at the corner of Cross and Pearl streets, and the large buildings on the Stock farm, East Side.
1878. Dwelling houses erected: John A. Briggs, Cedar Street; Ibrook E. Collins, Grove Street; Alpheus M. Dyer, off North- port Avenue; Mary Fahy, Waldo Avenue; Humphrey Nicholas Lancaster (tenement), Cross Street; Albert J. Meader, near Condon Street; Thomas Merrithew, Belmont Avenue; Albion King Paris Moore, Bridge Street; James Thomas Pottle, Congress Street; Horatio Spicer, North High Street; George Edmund Wallace, North High Street. Other ereetions were the Masonic Temple (see chapter XXXIV); the National Bank Building (see chapter XXXII). The William Quimby house, on the corner of Church and Spring Streets, was largely rebuilt by Dr. John George Brooks, being turned one quarter round, raised, and an additional story put under it, and new ell added. For widening High Street, a portion of the old Telegraph Building and of the Belfast Livery Company stable were removed. The former was erected about 1865, the latter in 1825, being first called Me- chanics' Row. (See plan, page 179).
1879. Dwelling houses erected: Edward Henry Colby, Upper High Street; Frank A. Gilkey, corner of Court and Miller streets; Charles Howard, Elm Street; Henry Lunt Lord, Park Street; James McKeen, Upper High Street; Samuel Moore and Charles W. Rogers, East Side, and George Stover, on Bell Street.
1880. Roseoe G. Lewis built a storehouse, 90 by 60 feet on Lewis's Wharf. The house on High Street, built by Charles H. Wording, was sold to Captain Henry Atherton Starrett, for $3000.
1883. Dwelling houses were built by James Clark, at the corner of High and Peirce streets; by Marcellus R. Cooper, on Spring Street; by Sylvanus G. Cottrell, on Cedar Street; by Wil- liam Orrin Cunningham, on Waldo Avenue; by Isaac Dunbar, on Vine Street, and by Augustus Kimball Wood, on Congress Street. The Hayford Block was sold to David Peirce, for $25,000; the George L. Knight house, on Cedar Street, to Albert G. Hunt,
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for $2700; the Leach house, on the corner of Church and Bridge streets, to Asa Abbott Howes, for $1530; and the Angier house and buildings on High Street to George O. Bailcy, for $2050. A house on Bay View Street, commenced in 1875, by Jeremiah Jewett, was taken down. Below High Street, next to the Froth- ingham lot, Captain Robert Hudson Coombs erected a skating- rink, 100 by 40 feet.
1884. Horatio Spicer built a house on Belmont Avenue, and Alfred S. Jackson one on the Poor's Mills Road. Asa Abbott Howes and Calvin Hervey purchased two small houses on the Morison lot, Main Street, and removed them to the Leach lot, on Bridge Street.
The Coliseum, 64 feet on Main Street by 150 deep, three stories high, was built by the Belfast Coliseum Company on the Morison lot, made vacant by the great fire of 1865. The front is of brick and the sides are covered with iron. The upper store was first occupied by William K. Morison, and the lower one by Conant & Co. On the second story was a skating rink, with a floor 135 by 60 feet, and various ante-rooms.
1885. Houses were built by Captain Christopher Y. Cottrell, at East Belfast, by Frank S. Coombs, Mayo Street, and by Horatio B. Spicer, on Belmont Avenue.
On the district burned July 12, Asa Abbott Howes and Mrs. Samuel A. Howes erected, at the corner of Main and High streets, the Howes block, of brick, 42 feet square, four stories on High Street, and containing four stores. Franklin Houston Durham was the builder. The first occupants were Rila Kit- tredge and Fred H. Frances, on Main Street, and M. F. Carter & Son and Field & West, in the High Street basement.
On the corner of High and Beaver streets, Humphrey Nicholas Lancaster built a brick stable, 92 by 103 feet, two stories high. The Bean store, adjoining the southerly side of the American House lot, was rebuilt, in its former proportions.
The William Pitcher storehouses and wharf were sold to Ben Hazeltine; the Paul Richard Hazeltine house, at the corner of Franklin and Court streets, to Benjamin Prescott Hazel- tine, for $3375; and the north half of the Johnson Block, on High Street, to Clarence Osgood Poor, for $5000.
Mrs. William M. Priest bought the Philo Hersey house, on Church Street, for $4000; Thomas B. Dinsmore, the Nathaniel
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M. Lowney house, on the same street, for $3500; and Dr. Samuel Worth Johnson, the Stephen S. Lewis house, on the corner of Court and Pearl streets, for $2350, and the adjoining Sidney Kalish house, for $1300.
1886. Among the erections were a double tenement house on the corner of Church and Elm streets, by Frank Houston Durham and Cyrus Brainard Hall; houses on Union Street, by Alpheus N. Dyer; on lower Congress Street, by Bainbridge H. Knowlton; by Lyman C. Putnam, on the Searsport Road; and by Wallace Turner, on Waldo Avenue.
A brick extension was added to the Allyn Block; a storehouse was built by William Colburn Marshall, on the Haraden Wharf; and a carriage repository by Edgar Filmore Hanson, at the cor- ner of Washington and Bridge streets.
Extensive improvements were made in the Puddle Dock vicinity by Nathan Foster Houston, Albion King Pierce, Wil- liam Bachelder Swan, and the Sibley Brothers, composing the Real Estate Company, by renovating old buildings and remov- ing others. The Robert Miller house, built in 1792, at the cor- ner of High and Miller streets, was sold for $70, to Asa Abbott Howes, and moved to Bridge Street.
1887. More building took place than for several years. The dwelling houses were those of Miss Emily H. Alden, on Court Street; of Captain Robert Hudson Coombs, on Northport Avenue; of Captain Robert T. Emery, on Court Street; of Cap- tain John W. Jones on North High Street; of Dr. Gustavus Clark Kilgore, on Bridge Street; of Benjamin Libby on Bay View Street; of William H. McIntosh, on Bridge Street; the sheriff's house on Congress Street; the house of Wilson Staples, off Cross Street; of J. P. Tower, on Grove Street; and one of two tenements by Frances Whitmore at the corner of High and Spring streets; Herbert E. Bradman built a store on the East Side. The three southerly stores in Phoenix Row, partially de- stroyed by fire in June, were rebuilt, by David L. Peavey, Charles N. Black, and Mark Andrews. Other buildings were the free library, those of the waterworks, an addition to the post-office, an extension of the railroad station, a dry house by Mathews Brothers, an extension to the Masonic Temple, and one to Dodges' clothing factory on Common Street.
1888. The cost of buildings erected this year was estimated at
UPPER BRIDGE, PASSAGASSAWAKEAG RIVER
PASSAGASSAWAKEAG VALLEY. FROM BELFRY OF METHODIST CHURCH
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over $100,000. The dwelling houses were those of Mrs. Belinda E. Allen, off Congress Street; of Fred V. Cottrell, High Street; of Sidney Kalish, High Street; of H. N. Lancaster, on Cross Street; of William A. Lear, Mayo Street; of George W. Lewis, Waldo Avenue; of Captain Fred C. Pendleton, Northport Avenue; and of Cornelius I. Whitcomb, at Poor's Mills. Hum- phrey Nicholas Lancaster built a store, adjoining the livery company's stable on High Street; Sherman & Co., a leather board mill on Goose River; the Boston and Bangor Steamboat Company, a new waiting-room and freight house, and enlarged wharf; Arnold Harris, a brick extension to his Main Street Block; the Real Estate Company, an egg cooler on Common Street. The Frye Block, at the corner of Court and Miller streets, received additions and improvements.
The most important buildings were the Odd Fellows' Block, on the site of the American House, on Main Street, and the Crosby Inn, which latter was not fully completed until 1889. Full descriptions of these buildings are given in other chapters. This year, Cyrus Brainard Hall, Franklin Houston Durham, and James Clinton Durham bought the Pound lot, in Allyn Field, on Northport Avenue, containing thirteen acres, for house lots.
1889. The new buildings this year were not so numerous as in 1888, but included several substantial and expensive ones. The most prominent structure was Memorial Hall, an account of which appears in the chapter on Municipal Affairs. The Lewis Wharf Company erected a grist mill on its wharf, and Cooper Brothers, a storehouse on Front Street; Baker & Shales also built a storehouse. The dwelling houses were those of Miss Elizabeth Ann Barns, on Court Street; of Francis O. Greer, Commercial Street; of Levi Foster Howard, Bay View Street; of John Kenney, Northport Avenue; of Clarence M. Knowlton, Miller Street; Mrs. John Loso, Main Street; of Charles T. Rich- ards, Cedar Street; and of John B. Walton, Lincolnville Avenue. In July, the upper part of the cupola on the city building, at the corner of Main and High streets, was removed. It had become leaky. A plate glass front and various internal changes were added to the old wooden store opposite.
1890. Dr. Isaac Hills 1 erected the building on High Street which he now occupies. Dwelling houses were built by Charles 1 In conjunction with Israel Wood Parker.
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H. Brier, on Union Street; Albert Martin Carter, on Church Street; Horatio D. Mahoney, on Salmond Street; Augustine P. Mansfield, on Franklin Street; Albert Stevens, at East Belfast; and William Welch, on Union Street. A coal-shed was built for Fred George White, on Front Street, and a carriage house for the Belfast Livery Company, on Beaver Street.
1891. Of building operations were the Catholic Church and the Belfast National Bank extension, descriptions of which are elsewhere given; a freight house by the Maine Central Railroad Company; the stable of Leonard L. Gentner, 72 by 48 feet, in connection with the Phoenix House; the Belfast Foundry and Machine Works, on Front Street; the enlargement of the foundry building on Front Street by the addition of a third story and hip roof; of a power house by Critchett & Sibley; a store by Horatio Herbert Carter, Jr .; and the following dwelling houses: John Crosby, at East Belfast; Charles W. Cross, Northport Avenue; Lewis O. Fernald, Cedar Street; Captain Sewell B. Fletcher, Bay View Street; Byron B. Greenlaw, Northport Avenue; Albert Robbins, at East Belfast; Captain Fred A. White, at Upper Bridge; James W. Wood, near Pitcher School-House.
1892. Several new residences were built or improved during the year. Among them were the following: Sylvanus T. Edge- comb's, Miller Street; Henry Austin Carter's, High Street; Edgar Filmore Hanson's, Northport Avenue; Nathaniel Gordon Pettengill's, Elm Street; Captain George Dickey Mahoney's, Salmond Street; William A. Lear's, lower Congress Street; Edmund Stevens's, Searsport Road; James Sholes, Waldo Avenue ; Durham and Hall, on Union Street.
Among the new business buildings, were the Dana Sarsaparilla Company's storehouse and power house; Marcellus R. Cooper's lumber sheds; William Colburn Marshall's storehouse; the Journal Office extension; an addition to Charles N. Black's store, on Phoenix Row; an extension of the Swan & Sibley Company's coal-sheds; the Maine Central coal-sheds and track-scales. Hiram Chase rebuilt the old Hydrant engine-house, which now stands on Spring Street.
1893. The dwelling houses built this year were those of George William Burkett, upper Main Street; of William W. Cates, High Street; Sewell B. Fletcher, Bay View Street; Albert O. Hall, Bay View Street; William Lyman Hall, High Street;
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Franklin Augustus Howard, Belmont Avenue; Sanford Howard, Union Street; Horatio H. McDonald, Northport Avenue; Frank Bowdoin Mathews, High Street. Other buildings were Carter & Company's blacksmith shop; Hutchings Bros.' stone-shed; Albert Cargill Burgess's storchouse; and the store of Herbert Jackson, at Poor's Mills.
1894. Dwellings were built by Wilder S. Grant, Perkins Road; James H. Dodge and Chester L. Pooler, John Street; John Leslie Colby, Cedar Street; Captain Sewell B. Fletcher, Bay View Street; Elijah Phillips, South Belfast; Calvin Hollis Mon- roe, Head of the Tide Road; Alfred Ellis, East Belfast; Charles H. Waterman, West Belfast; Dwight P. Palmer, Church Street; Dr. Gustavus Clark Kilgore, Bridge Street; and the St. Francis Rectory, Court Street.
Samuel M. R. Locke and Frank Rudolph Wiggin built a cot- tage between Patterson Point and Moose Point, and Phillips and Waterman, and Parish S. Strout, East Belfast, new sets of farm buildings. The stores of Mrs. Timothy Thorndike, Hiram Chase, and the Washburn estate, occupied by Mrs. John Carle, Hiram Chase & Son, and M. P. Woodcock & Son, were raised to three stories with ornamental fronts.
1895. The following residences were completed during the year: Chester L. Pooler, John Street; John Dolloff, Congress Street; Howard Murphy, Northport Avenue; Frank P. Blodgett and Bainbridge H. Knowlton, Cedar Street.
The Swan & Sibley Company built a storehouse on their wharf; Frank West Limeburner, a shop on Condon Street; and William Q. Spinney, one on Allyn Street; Lendal Tyler Shales built a storehouse, and Carle & Jones made a three-story enlarge- ment to the rear of their store on Main Street. In June, the old West Meeting-House, built in 1792, but which had been occupied for other purposes since 1837, was demolished.
1896. The only large buildings erected were the Grange Hall on Field Street, and the double tenement of Dr. John Chellis Ham and Alvin T. Condon, on Northport Avenue. Other houses were built as follows: James Warren Wallace, Waldo Avenue; Eben McIntire Sanborn, Lincolnville Avenue; Charles F. Shaw, Congress Street; Amasa Stetson Heal, Cedar Street; Allen Web- ber and Fred Patterson, Union Street; Otis Alden's cottage, Bay View Street.
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