The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-08-19
Our George Goes to Aroostook.

enthusiasm and right down enjoyment, and to
Atwood, first, last, and every time, belongs the
credit for its inception, management and the
perfect carrying out of the excursion to its
minutest detail. No one has the least idea of
the magnitude of arranging such an excursion.
The issuing of the invitations; the delay in re-
ceiving replies; the numerous wants of some
recipients of invitations; the letters that came
in. asking invitations for friends. and their
sisters and their cousins and their aunts -
the arranging with the several railroads: the
forming of committees in the different towns
in which the party would stop; the details of
hotel and other accommodations. and hundreds
of matters are unknown TO any one but the pro-
jector. Probably no one but Atwood would
have attempted it, but he is an Aroostook
crank. and has believed in that county for
years, and he knew that if he could only induce
others to 60 there, that in every visitor he
would have a convert, and Il new convert is
several degrees hotter than All Old one. At
wood is persistent and has bull dog grip.
Once he fastens 10 an idea. Won may throw red
pepper and cold water, but he never lets 90.
If he were Young unmarried man, should
hate to be the girl that he got mashed Oh if
didn't happen to fancy him. lie would marry
me just as sure as the fact that you can't run
Oh a foul ball. All praise to Atwood. proprie-
tor of the Greatest Excursion on Earth! To
him belongs all credit. and one and all the eX-
cursion>ts chcerfully accord it.
The party met at Bangor from different parts
of the state and New England. We had
delegates from New Hampshire. Massachusetts,
Rhode Island Connecticut and Georgia. am
not much acquainted in Bangor. and ! made a
little mistake i'll securing my lodging place.
intended to put up at q hotel, but by some
means or other, | struggled into Il lunate
asylum. | did not have a chance to 90 about
the city any, but discovered that there are
several town clocks which strike the different
hours of the night. at least from ten in the
evening until six in the morning. | learned
this bN lying awake all night. | did not hear
whether there was any labor difficulties in
Bangor but | know those clocks We're on a
strike of certainty There did not seem to
be but one violent patient in the ASYLUM and
he was in the ward in which my room was.
i'll the same corridor and only one door from
me. | feel that | rightly diagnose his case,
when | assert that he was aboring under an
unnistakable fit of jim Jams There We're
some twenty convaescent patients besides my
self that will concur with me in this state
ment. They also laid awake all night. Nothing
could sleep within ten rooms of him, not even
a hard pine railroad sleeper. During the entire
night this maniac howled and raved and talked.
learned i'll the morning that he was Rhode
Island man. That state is so small. that one
cannot get on very EXTENDED drunk there
hut it is a mean trick to get full in one state
and then 20 into another and have the Jim
Jams. shall hereafter be sure when book
my name for 4 room that ii is hotel | am
registering at.
Arriving at the depot i'll the morning. we
found special train of five bran new ears, be-
longing to the New Brunswick r. Il. under the
personal supervision of Genl. Manager +. W.
Cram, who took charge Of the excursion. and
throughout the entire. trip did every thing
possible for the comfort and enjoyment of the
party. Cram is railroad man from the word
20. lie is cram full of it, Bangor bow
he has been train boy, has handled freight. run
an engine. punched tickets and worked HIM
self up to his present position by his own
eNertions and through pure merit He can
click a telegraph trausmitter, fire up an engine.
and run it GO miles IN hour. take il apart and
put 1t together again. make up a schedule. or
manage successfully Il. X. line. as he has
done the New Brunswick. He is Il quiut, un-
assuming gentleman. polite and aAlbc. and
possesses that rare quality so seldom possessed
by man, of being able to give polite answer
to question, and yet tell you nothing! This
happy faculty saves him the trouble of very
often telling his questioner that lis none of his
business. which men of ordinary calibre are
obliged to do. Manager Cram took the New
brunswick, when its shoes We're run down at
the heels. its trousers patched and ragged. its
bat Shockingly bad, and he now has it all
dressed up III new ears. steel rails and the best
of locomotives. and doing a large and lucrative
business. If | owned Il little railroad that
was III a decline, and OFF its feed. | should try
and get Manager Cram to take charge of it, and
II he could not bring it out of it, troubles.
should swap it for stock in some base ball club
In the party the press was well represented.
That veteran, { OIL. John NJ. Adams, of the Port
land Argus. is as gi,ldy as young boy when
he starts of on M excursion. He Just docs his
Democracy up in a little package.
and puts il behind the door at home. and no
body would ever know TO talk with him Whetll-
cr he WAS Il Democrat. Black Republican, or Il
Free Will Baptist. lie always takes Mrs. and
Miss Adams along with him. two more charm
ln% ladies than whom it is hard to find. and if
there is any fun anywhere about, they get their
full share of it. Then there is Rust of the
Progressive Age, Dakin of the Industrial Jour
nal and Burr of The Bangor Wing. When |
see Bro. Burr always want to lend him some
money without taking his note. His pleasant
smile and honest face. is worth more than Il
good many mems bond, Smith of the Lewiston
journal had not got out of sight of Bangor be-
fore he distinguished himself by losing his hat,
which blew oil as he was passing from one ear
to another. He sat right down in the corner
of the car. and what he said from that time till he
reached alccbor0, where he purchased anoth-
cr hat. would not make Verv large volume
Probably nothing can happen to Il man that
will make him feel more foolish than to be
minus hat in "A party of :, hundred and fifty
ladies and gentlemen. McClccrv of the Boston
journal is not an uproariouS chap. but he can
see a statistic farther with the naked eve
than | could with Lord Ross telescope The
editor of the journal has a hobby that a man
need not breathe. that it is all NONSENSE and he
will sit up all night holding his breath. and
burning incense. The other name for his be-
culiarity is asthma Mavo of the Fairfield
Journal is one of the whitest men YOU can find
when You don't take complexion into account.
| never shall forget Mavo when he met me a
at the State Fair. where beds were
searcer than hens teeth. how he lust put his
arm around me and took me into bed with him.
and | remember the sweet confidence he show
ed i'll me by getting into bed without first put
ting his watch and pocket book under his pill
low. And remember too how he snored, but
no matter about that now | have some artiti-
clal ear drums that | can hear about as well
a> ever Robbins of the Eastern State. Dcy-
ter. looks Just like our genial Atwood, set back
a dozen or fifteen wears If he had borrowed
Fred's glasses and assumed command of the
expedition ! think he could have fooled most
of the party. A. W. Cheever represented the
y. f. Farmer, but as | didn't see any one with
hay seed in his hair | somehow rot an idea
that We had no literary Changers with Us.
Kinds of the Portland Press and myself rcnre
>cnted the long and short of it. lie was the
member of the party. but ANYBODY
who takes him for spring chicken will be
sadly sold.
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