The Republican journal., 1899-11-16
A Visit to Mount Waldo

will tell of some of the happenings and
changes that are working along in the new
order of things in our section. Our busi-
ness now, in part, is selling garden truck
and little of all the crops raised on a farm.
and our different routes are between Mt
Waldo granite quarries and Stockton
springs. In the first place we have our own
crew OF two good boys as helpers. Along on
this same route are Mr.. Trask of Newburg
with cabbages and Mr.. Scribner of Sears
port and Mr. Littlefield with onions, besides
other small dealers, so that people are we'll
supplied. The increased sale of cabbage has
been immense within few years The Ital-
lans are lovers of cabbage. Our sale at the
Italian boarding house was 100 head of big
ones, nearly two-horse load There are
now at Mt. Waldo 9S Italians and about ten
families are domcled there The works
have been greatly increased this year An
immense stone cutting building has been
erected with an engine overhead geared in
such way, with tracks on the sides, that a
stone can be taken to any part of the build
ing 100 feet away over all the other stone
and landed TO an inch where it is wanted
Then there is the new derrick and the Sf0-
ooo engine that sits on a car and all the
machinery swings on "a pivot with the oppo-
site emo from the derrick ballast Then
there Is another engine to hoist stone and
load ve ssels. By the way we went on board
double-deck beamed three-master that
was loading paving stone When a car load
Il
as l should call them, cart bodies placed
crossway of the car with ringbolts in the bed
pieces, two on each side of the box a
chain was hooked on the two sides, and a
fellow with red shirt on jumped upon a
pile of hammered stone and looked over
across the river onto Cod Lead marsh where
the little gravelly knoll is that the old pi-
oneer Anthony plowed and scraped all one
fall for Robert Kidd's treasures, and waved
his hand around in circle over his head,
and puff of steam started behind the shed,
up went the box and was lowered to the
hatch coamings, when the tail board was
knocked out with a sledge hammer and one
part of the chain was unlocked and
went one end of the box and down thunder
ed three tons of paving into the hold, with
two boxes more to go, and IS trips day can
be made. On Mosquito Mountain q trips
can be made in day, but they carry only
two boxes. Then Mt. Waldo abounds in en-
gines, One is located to pump water up the
mountain to use in the boilers and for drill
ing holes, and another is used for hosting
and getting down stone on the monumental
affair l don't know what it is called. Then
two more are used for drilling, so tnat when
everything is going there is quite puff of
steam and smoke, Everything looks as if
large amount of business could be done on
Mt. Waldo and til ere is a prospect this year
for better times coming; but along the bay
and river the exodus continues. AL along
the roads they keep going, and there does not
seem to be anything to keep the people here
Among the Italians many of the children
are good takers with only slight lisp
when their parents coufd hardly be under
stood. Some OF the women 5alA too fast un-
til they come to money and then they hesi-
tate and go slow, ] was trading with an
Italian woman when an Irish boy, who
looked Irish al over came along. He seemed
to be the boss boy in the village and when
the little pert Italian girl was telling what
she knew so briskly the boy burst out with,
"What do you know, you young dago?"
The little girl resented it intensely and
looked it, as she said, II will tell Mr. Some
body" l did not exactly hear the name,
but it brought the boy to civility and
friendly mood very quickly Mr.. Somebody
seemed to be good hacker among the Ital-
ian children in the valley, but / do not
know who he is.
FREEMAN PARTRIDGE.