Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-10-31
ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK.
RippIes on the Current of Life IN the
Metropolis.


just $3.50 to receive and declare the vote
of one Joseph Thomas on election day
Thomas has no greater drag than the
average man. His weight is about
right. his size normal and his job as
lumber yard boss isn't influential
| enough to shake the balance of power
! But Thomas has an entire election dis
! trict to himself. and the government
| would blow it's last cent rather than
! deprive sovereign of the blessed
privilege of voting. Who knows but
i what one lonesome vote may turn the
scale?
| Thomas is the only voter left in the
district stripped of homes to make
! room FOR st. Gabriers park. All others
have been banished. He is receiving
| more consideration from an omclal
point of view than any other voter IN
| the United States. The district cleo
/ ton board. much the same in person.
nei as the registration board, will sit
another day to receive Thomas vote.
| That will end it, however, for never
/ again will the city pay so much to give
t Thomas a chance to exercise his IN
| alienable right of suffrage.
Details have been given out about
| remarka BILE run made few days ago
by fast mail train on the New YORK
! Central railroad. There is now ofncial
, testimony to report that tram OF
an engine and six cars made the run
from Albany to New York. 143 miles,
in 142 minutes. averaging 6O.42 miles an
hour. The time made. two hours ana
/ twenty-five minutes, beats the regular
schedule of the Empire State express
by eighteen minutes. The regular
schedule of the train that made the
record. however, is three hours ana
twenty five minutes, and the schedule
running time of the other regular
trains on the road between this city
and Albany is about three hours and
ten minutes
The Empire State express. when
makes regularly the best run on the
road. carries usually three cars, some
times four. Car for car, those on the
Empire state are heavier than the mail
cars. but the mail train was composed
of six cars. all heavily laden, and, TAX
ing these facts into consideration, the
officers of the road said the other day
that n new record had been made. The
train left Albany one hour and ten
minutes late and it was to make up
this time thai the engineer bent his eff
forts so successfully. The run from
Rhineclff to Staatsburg, $40 miles. was
made in four minutes. or at the rate of
nearly eighty-three miles an hour, but
these performances were eclipSed be-
tween Croton. and Ossining, when the
engineer, pushing his engine to the
limit. made the 3.51 miles in exactly
two minutes, or at the tremendous rate
of lO5 miles an hour.
The run was made at an ideal hour
for making fast time. between Las and
4.0I in the morning. AS this was
practical railroading. the record run is
of greater significance than the results
of the Zossen speed trials in Germany.
Whatever may interest the average
New Yorker most. one of the things
that concerns him least is his mother
tongue writes Richard HolbrOok in
Metropolitan Magazine. IN the
choice of his clothes he is as Scrupulous
as any barbaric king. He is fond of
society mainly because he has friends
and because he likes to be in the
SWIM. Unlike the business man of
France or Italy. ne is seldom a fluent
talker and rather given to despising
those who are, his chief literature is in
journalese. When this average man
goes home he is usually in no mood to
think consecutively. His wife and
daughter are, however. quite likely to
be interested in good literature, and it
is noticeable that they generally speak
n1nD1ntlN- h., hn ha h,-in
his intellectual interests are mostly
commercial: he cares little for books, /
good or bad and he cares still less
about the language in which they are
written. ~* Frenchman are not often
nice in dress but they are keen to dis .
tinguish the niccties of language They !
are artists in everyday speech, and
French books. therefore. and even the
French newspapers. do not TEEN with
blundcrs. as do ours. Your upper
class Englishman also is so scrupulous
in this regard that he will hem and
hHw for the right word rather than be !
guilty of slang. In English drawing
rooms there are many persons who I,
seek through slang reputation for
genuine wit (such persons are not in !
frequent here), but whoever dislkes i
jargon and bad sounds will listen with
pleasure to the careful, sweetly modu- !
lated speech of the cultivated men and
women of England. Their language is
today as sweet and pure as it ever was,
and it Smacks of the SOIL"
DR." Olney Richmond, grand master !
Of the Order of the Magi. has been ar
rested or complaint of the County
Medical society, which accused him Of
practicing medicine without a license |
He gave powders to a woman detective
who pretended to be ill.
DR.. Richmond is about so years Oil
and began six weeks ago to advertise ,
that the Order of the Mag was ready
to instruct students. The seeker would
receive the explanation that the Order
of the Magi fiOurished on the continent
of Atlantis 1900 3. c. The continent !
according to Magi records, was sub !
merged in 1900 B. c.. when the MaGi
crowd fed to Egypt. In the new coun-
try the Magi. it appeared. prospered
until the dark ages. when priestcraft
beheadcd them all except two. Since
that time the mysteries of the order