Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-29
SEWERAGE SYSTEM.
Togus Said to Have the Best in New
England.
The Hand Satchel That for a Wonder Did Not
Contain Togus Whiskey.

ToGUs, Aug. 2S,-( Special. The asser-
ton may seem a bold one, but it is never
theless true, that Togus has the best sys-
TEN of sewerage in New England and no
city in the country has a more perfect one
in a sanitary point of view. Every building
here has perfect and complete sewerage and
each building has its own cesspool. These
different pipes from all the buildings here
converge toward one central point which is
the main sewer completed last fall. The
point of meeting is not far from the quarters
of Co. G. on Rocklsnd street, nearly oppo-
site the end of the main hospital. If We
stop here this system has no
special merit over that of hundreds
of cities in New England, but
no surface water reaches any of the sewers
here. That is carried off entirely indepen-
dent of the sewerage into open drains on
the meadow esst of the Home buildings.
Herein is the superiority of the system here
over that in use in almost every city in the
country. Col. Waring, United States en-
gineer, recommends it as the only scientific
method, and his authority is undoubted.
The main sewer here is of l2-inch pipe, and
where it empties it is just one mile.
When Gov. Stephenson first came here
the sewerage was in deplorable condition.
II was carried off in wooden boxes or
drains, which were constantly out of order
and source of much discomfort
He at once comprehended that the gen.
erel health of the members demanded an
immediate change and to his energy and
foresight the Home is indebted for its pres
ent perfect system. OF course all neces-
sary drafts and plans were made in the
office of the chief engineer. Jos. b. Swift,
a veteran of Co. A, lst Massachusetts, Cav
airy, has had charge of all plumbing here
for over seven years. He was in business
in Boston for years, but increasing age and
infirmities compelled him to quit business
there, and he has had perhaps more to do
toward the practical work of the system
than any one else.
Monday is usually quiet day here there
being no band concert, but yesterday sew
eral parties of excursionists were here. A
party of about 80, Boston people mostly,
came up from Boothbay Harbor. Mr.. G..
p. Trott and wife of Jamaica Plains, Mr.
snd Mrs. Gray, Boston, Miss +. Finley,
Boston, and Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. ii. Thurs
Fton; lexington; mass..;- we're urncry rf1c
party.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. b. Walker Of Dorches-
ter, who are visiting in Augusta, were here,
also party from Monmouth, including
among them Mr.. and Mrs. Perkins and
Mrs. Loomis of Augusta.
By the way, the visitors here are, many
of them, fully alive to the feeling of loneli-
L,,,
lady was heard to remark, at is all lovely
and clean and comfortable, but then, it is
not Home, Sweet Home"
An old lady recently here was scru,iniz-
ing things very closely and at last she said
81 notice that almost all these men have
watches and chains" eyes, said an old
veteran, "if a man is good and causes no
trouble here for year, the governor gives
him silver watch; if he is extra good, he
gets gold one" pulling out a $50 ticker
from his pocket.
"Why, Ia sakes isn't that nice!
The sheriffs get fooled once in while
Recently, just at the edge of the evening,
a certain deputy saw man with big
valise making across the fields toward the
Gardiner road. Dropping the reins and
jumping from the wagon, he struck a lively
gait for old bluecoat. lie caught him. He
thought, well, he rather expected Togus
whiskey was in the valise. Imagine bis
disgust when the old fellow says "These
ere things belong to Higginbottom's wife
and you better let EN- alone" And he did.
Ask Deputy Ames how tall the fodder corn
IS that he ran through to catch his man.
Geo. c. Hatch. chief cook at the hos.
pitsl, is visiting Boston friends for 10 days.
Number on morning report, 1871. Nam
ber patients in hospital, 2Gl. General
health excellent.