Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-04-02
THE JOURNALS SPECIAL "BEE"
Relates bis Experience On the Road
Notes Among Logs. Indians, ehips Knees
and Iron Ore.

Ny interior filings we're visibly agitsted
As with other Drawn and muscle of our
State. ! stepped from the train at thi.
place. The stepping from the train was no,
the direct cause Of the earthquakeIy feeling
which pervaded what there vas mortal of
me, but it was the old story Of train in
motion, q little earelessness on my part.
+ Hence the sudden damage Of all the trousers
l had on As gaze at them now hanging
before the fire. drying as write, pangs of
remorse chase each other up and down nv
anatomy, as | think of the possibility Of
some tavnyskinned son Of sunny Italy or
other son Of - tramp, doing the country
within the ample folds Of ia fabrieos" Of
happier days. Hor got here was thusly-
left Augusta Monday on Jewet, and
scarcely woke to the magnificent grandeur
of everything until discovered that to full
NIL my mission | must freight myself to
Lincoln. took whole seat TO myself
and proceeded 10 photograph upon my
memory the panorama as il passed.
soiom.n Levi sell. suspender..
Soloman Levi on the platform was reaping
harvest from a half-intoxicated riverman
''4 MS ~ JlyDsfbrdl JDt sl.n-
penders mine trent var Won pig pargain at a
quayarter of-a-toller und dose schmal val
let to put der moni.h vas joust der ting uni
dish polite der pest cologne vas make you
schmell 80 sweet mine teer" The poor cuss
took 1t all in, and only ceased TO buy when
the train commenced to move. deluded
boot black nonchalently puffed cigarette in
direct opposition to law, and sqglrted huge
quantities of spittle through a convenient
hole IN his tooth. IN humble imi alton of an
improved hand Are extingusher. As We
moved up the road, groups of men and boys
we're seen beside the track playing cards and
pitching qu0its. and waiting, waiting. wait
ing" for move in logs At Oldtown We
wait half an hour, and notice many nationali-
ties and semi nati0nalities, and after still
further division Italian, French, and white
folks with blood al tangled into one in
eItricable hurrah. The continual excur-
sions across the track to the convenient shade
OF immense board piles was puzzler until
We noticed a visible increase in the height
and width of step, betoken an approaching
veariness peculiar I, this locality The en-
deavor To appear sober when you amt, is ter /
rlbly unbecoming to a man or a monkey, /
with odds in favor of the latter.
Across the Penob,eot in Milford as well /
as in Decentralization inclined people !
put in all their spare time splitting defective (
cedar bolts with the vain hope that some I'M
precedented summer sun will make them
burnsble. There is very little snOw-and .
what there is, is hiding its scarcity on the .
chilly side of fences, rocks and other con
yenient cool resorts.
The Penobscot split. at OIdtown
and islandizes that municipality. The. new
mills being built at Milford will be com
pleted some time during the early summer
and ready for the large drive that will come
down the river this season Two women
boarded the train at Oldtown. one of them
whistied her SIS through her teeth with I'M
necessary perseverance and with her com
panion cackled over the marvellous escapes of
a shopping excursion to Bangor, the result of
which was fourteen bundles for one and
twenty three for the other-some one or more
of which insisted on dropping on the floor.
The Mattawamkeag freight is proverbially
moderate, but learned from the conductor
that it was a great benefit to passengers, as
they could count the last-blocks. cedar posts.
shingles and hemlock bark that was stretched
promiscu ously behind wire fences, put up to
keep passengers from escaping into the
beautiful white birch and cedar background
and becoming too familiar with the saleable
products of this section.
Bran new boots with the soles solid full
of spikes betoken long days
and cherries nights on the
drive" and could see in Imagination the
red shirted hero of the Penobscot AS he shov-
eled in more baked beans at one sitting than
would last some families all summer. The
man carrying the boots, however, was
dressed ueif-in every sense of the word-in
clothes bought by hard-earned dollars away
on the bead waters of some my sterious
branch oi this great and glorious river.
Being yanked, wallopped and snapped over
any railroad by refractory freight train en-
CINE is no plessursbe experience, but if 1t is
the best you can do, you must needs stand it,
and resigned myself 10 fate As we scO0ted
over the Costigan fats to make up thirty
minutes lost time. Above Costigsn were
level lands small white birch grow tn, over
flowed boys, cord wood and hay stacks, minus
the hay 4 few dimtnutiye houses with
smoke curling lszily from doubtful chin
neys, hetokeHed occasional inhabitants and
the conductor calmly said Greenbush, the
application to be made later in the season
Here we saw the last of the woman with
twenty three bundles. fourteen having been
L. fl at tostgsn. Twenty three got moved
fully at the third trip. with the asst stance of
the accommodating brakeman and thanked
hun straight abe ad, square across and bias.
" histling through the aforementioned teeth
with unmistakable earnestness. II it were
possible