Show I fRfAK f CORPORATIONS S I STATE OF MAINE FOSTERS GROWTH OF ODD CONCERNS Late List of Those Which Have Died Iy Through Failure to Pay Taxes Show Some Organized for Peculiar Purposes Portland MeDo you want a company com-pany to supply the people of Mars with steam shovels to dig their canals I nals Do you want to form a company to raise bananas In Alaska Do you desire a concern to trade In the spirits spir-its of the heroes of tho past Well If you do come to Maine and file your papers You can form a corporation with a capital limit only exceeded by the skyline and It wont cost you enough to set you back very materially material-ly either For years Malno has been the Mecca for those who wished p launch companies com-panies The fees for granting a charter ole merely nominal The taxes ate still more so something like an annual annu-al franchise tax of 5 1 on 50000 capitalization capi-talization Almost no questions are asked and It Is as easy for a company with any object whatever and n few dollars to pay the necessary fees and printing to get a fullfledged charter as It Is for a man to get n drink In the city of Bangor and no man whoever who-ever went to that city and wanted the stuff that cheers but Inebriates ever went very dry either All sorts of fanciful corporations are tiled in the office of the secretary of state in Augusta and gaudily printed shares of the stock are offered to the public You need not limit your capitalization capi-talization to bo sure the more capital capi-tal you h have the more tax you ore supposed sup-posed to pay but after you have disposed dis-posed of your shares you probably wont pay your tax anyway and will let the charter of the company expire Tho other day a list of delinquent corporations was published cotpora lions whose charters were to expire on account of unpaid taxes It filled two pages in nonpareil type with close spacing at that But humlroda of others oth-ers are formed every month so a tow more or leas atent missed very much All kinds of companies are being floated all the time Companies to dig tunnels In regions where travel Is absolutely nil companies com-panies to raise mussels and put them on the market companies dealing In oil companies dealing In assurance about all of them have plenty of this for their stock In trade although It Is more commonly known as gall com panics dealing in patent medicines ol all kinds In synthetic coal If anyone any-one knows what that is In amuso meats and womens wear In rubber concrete paving stones enginesfoods and land are only too common The most Interesting ones aro the freak ones They abound from the propagation of cats to the saving ol souls Among few In the advertised list which havent paid their taxes art the Baldwin Airship company the Ar ttstic Dlsnlav eomnnnv tin Him u Blazes Heater company tho College of Physiognomy and Sublime Wisdom of Life the Boton Explomtlon I company com-pany the Beacon Ethical union the Conscience Law coipnration ono cor poratjon evidently has a conscience a concern organized up In Killer lathe n la-the purpose of dealing In bananas f company known simply as the Super latlvo company which didnt appear tc have any business at all a companj for tho development of two republics according to its title and so on ad In fliiltum et ad nauseam |