The Republican journal., 1883-07-19
Our George with the Maine Press Elk
GO EAST YOUNG MAN I"


en- me, so | could stand the racket. Probably
there Is nothing that calls out the physical en-
durance of man like an excursion for pleas
ure. He will work harder Oh a weeks trip for
enjoyment, than he can possibly do by labor,
and when he gets home, he feels as if he ought
to go into the machine shop for repairs. Rid
| ing all day and all night in the cars, ''doing" a
city. trying to sleep in noisy hotel, to one I'M
accustomed to it, is harder than saving wood :
| but if one always stays at home, he will never
know what is going on around him, so as said.
went into training and when l left home I
was in good condition to endure the wear and
tear of the trip.
Taking the cars Monday afternoon, | pro-
ceeded to Bangor, where | got supper and had
few hours to devote to that city. At about
| 10 in the evening | got aboard the ..Flving
Yankee" train for st. John. | got berth in
the Pullman and turned in. Riding in a sleep
er is way ahead of sitting up all night in IA com
mon car, but green hand doesn't absorb large
amount of sleep the first night. | thought the
porter had made a mistake and made I'D nv
bed over the separator of threshing machine.
don't bother me any. can lie on nv back
and put my trOWsers on over my head with
considerable grace, and | know enough not to
get out into the aisle in the morning with moth
ing on but a pair of socks. l can get along my
self all right. but my heart Just bubbled over
with sympathy, when | saw fat woman
weighing about 200, in the lower berth opposite
t,.Iip to Jon u,
been arrayed in the proper habiliments in
which the true gentleman appears in lady 5
presence, | certainly should have offered to give
her llft, so to speak. As it was, the lady af-
ter several Intellectual struggles. wrapped her
upper deck in 4 shawl and sought the seclusion
of the end of the car, where she could stand up
and get better ''purchase' on her STAYS
At an early hour in the morning we arrived
at Carleton opposite st. John. where we took
the ferry across the river. The boat was an
Old, black dirty affair, with no attempt at style,
or hardly decency 1t was here | got the first
glimpse at whore the Yankee rather laws over
his neighbors III his manner of running a ferry
boat. When nearly across the river. the engine
was stopped and the boat drifted along. while
Il SAD faced man with a hat of the vintage of
1876, and Il suit of black shiny clothes, sailed
around among the passengers and collected 3 G.
for fare. Now Just you think of it. Stopping
ferry boat TO collect fares. Why in thunder
don't they get it either when YOU 90 on or when
you come off? He came along to me and |
handed him three pennies of our money! Said
he, "thcm'S no good to me" handing them
ho. I a..
able pennies, but he did not stop for me to ar
que the point long and the result is that am a
debtor to that ferry to the amount of three
cents. | didn't see anything while was gone
that broke me down so, as stopping that boat to
collect about 81 .>0 On arriving at the city, our
party was met by Il delegation of enthusiastic
hackmen. who seemed delighted to see us
think they thought we were deaf for they Yell
ed like Satan. | heard the words "Duferin, -
international" >" 'Nictoria." and "Roval." and
wishing to be with the nobility. | smiled on
one of the prime ministers of the ROYAL and
was driven to that hotel. and by the way. it is a
good house too and we'll kept
For the first time since starting, our party all
got together. holding an informal meeting in
the parlor> of the Royal. The party numbered
| about 80 ladies and gentlemen some 80 journals
and periodicals being represented, 4 list of
which will be found in another column. After
breakfast | embarked in rheumatickv looking
vehicle, hauled by couple of deceased horses.
| suppose they were deceased, as they were de-
void of life. and was driven over to Indiantown,
distance of some two miles. did not con-
slider that | could afford to jaw much about the
conveyance when the driver in answer to my
"hoW much:" said ct. | am economical nat
urally, bnt don't wear out my mouth in talk
ing when not over ) cts. is at stake. Ny visit to
lndantown wa, to call on our old citizcn AXel
lIayford, and a. | am sure his friends will be
glad TO know what he is doing, am going to
tell them. found him and his son William at
the lIayford, StctSon Co.'S steam saw mill on
the st. Johns river. ! did not find them them
dressed up in broadcoth and kid gloves. loating
around, picking their teeth with Il lath but |
u" find them in their old clothes, coats off, hard
at work setting up a new heading machine,
which had Just arrived from Camden. Was il
Il nice quiet place to make a call? Well, should
so remark; why, Womans rights convention
Is dead silence to it. Let me tell you what they
are doing here. and what they have got to DO it
with. The first person | saw as | approached
the right road. The main mill is 104Xl14 feet
long. two stories high, besides a basement
There are ellis 40 feet long, besides numerous
other shops and sheds. There are two gang
saws. and single saw on long lumber
with capacity of 40 NJ. deals per day. The
ath machines turn out 60 NJ, and the shnge
| machines, of which there are &, 60 NJ The ma.
chinery j. driven by 800 horse power engine
and the water for it is ''biled'' in ten boilers 40
feet long. The fires are made with sawdust
and fine stuff which is carried from all over
the mill on endless belts. 125 men are employ
ed, and the pay roll is about $4,000 a month.
The lumber is mostly spruce, though there is
some pine, and the shingles are CEDAR The
yard contains many acres, over which the luml-
Der is piled. There is wharf at the MILL where
any draught vessel can lie and load. After
spending half day there looking over the
thing. called myself together and held little
meeting, and decided that if my old friend was
not in position where he could make a dollar
III the next few years, that | was mistaken.
| don't believe he Is staying down there lust
doing all that business for fun. | was his guest
at dinner and had the pleasure of meeting all
his family, whom ! found well and contented,
| though not in love with the country, | Judged.
After dinner we took a ride and visited the
Suspension Bridge across the river St. John.
1t is IL fine structure, 20 feet above the water,
with Il span of $40 feet. it is Il free bridge, be-
ing owned by the government. The St. John
river contains a large amount of moisture, as it
drains about II million acres in Maine, Quebec
and New Brunswick, and it is all fired into the
Bay of Fundy through Il chasm between the
rocks, only five hundred feet wide. AT the
bridge is a peculiar fall. At low tide the river
has a tumble into the sea of fifteen feet, while
at high tide the Bay of Fundy rushes up into
the river like small boys into a circus making
i fall of the same distance, only the other way.
At half tide it is navigated in safety. Old ST..
John is no more. He passed away in 1877, the
cause of his demise being big fire. 200 acres
of the business part of the city was destroyed,
1000 houses on nine miles of street. This little
blaze cost some twenty or thirty million, which
Is the origin of the expression, sit costs like
blazes." New St. John is no more like the old,
than George Washington is like Dennis kearney.
| sat down on Il rock and actually cgied when