Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-11-25
JAY EFF BEE
Relates The Difficulties Of Eastern Travel.
Personal Experiences on tho Road that
arc Full Of sugg

To the Editor OJ The journal:
This is an age of improvement, and al
though there blossoms out upon us unsus-
pecting mortals, something new, and good
and wise at every revolution Of this beautiful
world of ours, still it is a matter of doubt in
my mind whether or no the actual strides
ahead can keep pace with the demands Of
the people.
less, enjoying first-class hotel fare and
poker. meanwhile. The daring aeronaut
mounts into infnitude, waving a merry adieu
to the Fourth of July and the folks at work
at it, and we watch the clicking wires, in
vain, for particulars. The run to the Cali
forna coast is today a mere pastime. Bot
tied men and women shoot Niagara and fail
to report. The winters are nothing to what
they were when noe were boys, and still the
nations clamor for something new.
These and superior thoughts hustled each
other against our thickly ebcased mental ap-
paratus as we arose several hours previous
to the lark or arsenal gun and felt our way
from utter darkness into the effulgent bril-
liancy of Augustus well appointed railroad
depot.
MISERY loves company"-aud the half
score of us bound East swapped sympathies
and paid the difference. On board the train
slumbering sextets hurled perfumed snores
spitefully through the Opaque atmosphere
and we wondered if results would be equal to
the occasion.
Absorbent Waterville gathered to itself
passengers for Skowhegan, with the in
ducement of an hour and a half tarry, during
which strangers see the place and wish they
were prepared for futurity. Scarcely per
ceptible Burnham calls aloud for Belfast
seekers, and as our train plunges into eastern
darkness we allow our heavy eyelids to droop
and sweetly smile as imagination pictures diff
ficulties encountered in raising landlords
dead with sleep. a cool bed. doubtful slum
bers and cuss words hanging in vast corruga-
tions over DR.. Dyer's pill factory. Just dis
cerable Newport. Change for Corinna,
Dexter and-with only four hours and half
to wait. Great Scott Our feeble health
and fears of wrsngling among our heirs over
our life insurance make it be' alive that we
preserve our individuality, as surrounded by
semi -frigidity usually attending early fires,
we succumb TO the inc vitable and forgive
what "mght have been" had there been a
train leaving Augusta at $50 and running
through to Bangor. Here are our figures.
As we run into Wsterville tie oriental hori-
zon would begin to illume, and cup OF
c,ffee, perhaps, would be acceptable to those
of languid appetite of earlier hours, and the
time Of waiting would be reduced more than
an hour and half for those with business
in Skowhegan.
Arriving at Burnham At eight o'clock We
should be able to stretch our legs in the six
ty minutes required to "all aboard for Thorn
dyke, Brooks and Belfast" while at Newpor
we make close connections for Dexter an,
the great beyond-reacbing Bangor at $50
just as the merchants Of this great Eastern
metropolis are ready for business. Now
providing the Maine Central Railroad woult
furnish US q return train leaving Bangor e
80, we could catch up on friends At New
port who have been there but ten minutes
at Burnham they have been looking for u
an hour, but at Waterville We take the crow
that is now abliged to wait for the westwar'
bound Pullman. and having had from fve u
eleven hours in Skowhegan, Waterville, Bel
fast, Dexter or Bangor As the case may be
arrive in Augusta at q few minutes pas
seven. and, soothed and sustained by tn
knowledge that we have done our level bes,
we wrap the drapery of our eleven-dolla
chamber suit about US and lie down to dreaT
Of the perfection Of the railway facilities 0
the present day.
JAY EFf BEE.