Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-06-29


have been reached at the mill across
the stream many have even been re-
minded Of the place where some people
are supposed to go when they die.
There is no accurate estimate of just
how hot it. is supposed to be in that
mysterious region, but some people
have ventured the remark that it has
been hotter in Waterville during the
past few days. But these have been
the impulsive who weigh not their
words and whose olfactory organs are
perhaps trifie sensitive to sulphite
Odors and whose sweat glands are in
good working order.
Thermometer readings have. been
governed chiefly by the physical con-
ditiOn of him who reads. One man
solemnly declared that his mercury
was up so high that only parachute
could save it from utter destruction
when it dropped back to normal. But
he was corpulent person to whom shirt
waists are not exactly becoming and
some allowance must be made for pre-
judice. Another man said that they
told him that it was hot but that per-
sonally he found it only comfortably
warm And he was dressed in high
collar. coat and vest But he had
passed mans allotted time on earth and
the future has no terror for him. They
say that man and the horse are the
only animals that sweat but it GER
tainly seems little unjust for them to
do the sweating for all the rest Of the
animal kingdom.
The Waterville & Fairfield Railway
and Light Co, propose, if the hot wave
lasts long enough for the repairs on
the dam over on the Messalonskee to
be completed. TO place a line of men
along the top of the rejuvinated struc-
ture. The stream has evaporated to
little more than brook and in the
natural course of events it would take
about week to regain the head Of
water that escaped through the hole
in the wall. But with picked crew
Of sweaters properly arranged it Is be-
lipved that sufficient head con be OBJ
tanned in a few hours.
I,ut really il has been hot. Now we
don't want it understood that Water
Vile is the hottest spot in the State
for we know this is false. II one had
nothing else to do but dodge the heat
he could have n very comfortable time
of il in the city. But when he has to
get right into it ut the office, the store
or on the street, it's hot. That shower
Thursday night. was an unexpected
blessing. The dust had been something
awful and the shower fixed ii. Yester-
day morning was fine but the after
noon. II was the moist sticky heat
that made you feel as if an elephant
mi - chest MI
when a i0-hoIse power engine would
be a very handy attachment To your
breathing apparatus. When you took
a glass of ice water or root beer il felt
as if il had gone down 20 feet and was
followed by a hot wave that neutrali-
Zed the effect in about two seconds.
|. Some of the men who We're working
out Of doors had to give up ana go
homo. old Sol ordered a strike and
there were no scabs to do the work
Even the Italians in the Maine Central
yard wished they We're back on one OF
the seven hills of Rene drinking ma
tive wine out of the skin of a black
goat. They must have been reminded
of home and mother as they tried to
sleep in those box cars. Thursday
night.
The man with the cottage wished he
had patched that roof last Sun lay in
stead of trolling for that big bass
When he thought of that piazza the
breeze rustling in the trees and the
gentle tapping of the waves on the
shore he said things and got SO much
hotter that the mercury jumped five
degrees when he got within 10 feet of
ii. Just think of pushing the boat
under that over hanging tree and be
ing rocked to sleep in the stern while
the breeze. coming over miles of wa
ter. famed your fevcred brow. It's
hot and it's sitting. People won't buy
goods and you can't do business with
the sweat dripping out of your back
hair and running down the back of
Your neck. But the stores must re-
main open just the same and the old
routine goes on. If it wasn't for the
bills it wouldn't be so hot would it?
oh yes, it was hot. Hot in the Of
flee. hot in the store. hot ut home hot
in the streets. hot on the cars. hot on
the teams. hot in the parks. hot in the
churches, more than hot in the mills.
hot on the ice cart. hot in the morning
hot at noon. hot at night, hot where
YOU happened to be and cool where YOU
wanted To be until you got there. The
water in the river was hot. the water
You drank was hot. the water that
ooZed ont Of YOU was hot. The pave
ment was hot, the rail red hot. the
things you ate, the things you handled
the things you said and even your
thoughts We're hot. Only the cellar
and the ice house We're cool and if you
Went there YOU were sure to get your
death of cold. Perhaps il was hotter
in New York. perhaps it was hotter
in other places. Perhaps people faint
cd under Walter Mains circus tent
wherever he happened to he. yesterday.
but it was hot in Waterville and We
can say with good grace. thank you"
and not ask for more.