Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-01
How to Navigate a Launch
Without Using Oil.
Successful Fishing Trip-Bad Effect of
Red lemonade-First AutomobiIe
on East Shorc-PersonaI Chat and
Gossip.
Manchester, July 30 1904


ness men of the capitol city, laid the
granite foundations of u cottage which
was finished the last of January. The
; lot which runs along the shore go feet,
and is some 200 feet deep, is ON the
Rachelder farm. 1t is reached by a
/ we'll made highway, an easy five min
utes' walk from the station of the
electric railroad. The lot slopes grad
ually to the lake. and is a vcritable for
est of young growth containing pine,
fir, cedar. hcmlock, spruce and birch.
The cottage, i'll all it's beauty, Is set
right down in this forest. a short dis
lance from the lake. The architcc-
| tire is combination of various schools
and is exceedingly pleasing to the eye.
There are no els or side issues one
/ root covering the entire structure The
front is encircled by a heavily pillared
veranda, 10 feet deep, the ceiling being
finished in Southern pine. At the
, north end is fair weather dining
room, leading out of the regular din
ing-room in the main house.
The living room is Il by "a feet.
| Pl2ined logs run along the ceiling be-
tween which and along the walls will
|
/ raj state. Window seats and fire seats.
cushioned, run around the room. All
| the windows are whole and swing in
/ ward. The family got this idea while
/ they were travelling in Germany. They
have the largest stone fireplace at the
lake, it being 10 feet wide. the opening
, being wide enough to take in Il cord
wood stick easily. There is a large
pantry between the dininS-room and
, Kitchen the latter room being IA by
16, with running water from a fine
we'll on the promises. There are four
! spacious sleeping rooms in the second
story. all finished III Southern pine.
| This is Il winter rs well us a summer
f; camp. a furnace being in the basement
/ The winter scenery here is fully as de-
liGhtful as in the summer. The eX
terror is shinClcd. the roof stained
greer and the walls brown. The cot
| tage is named for sweet little place
in Amalfi. on the coast Of Southern
Italy. THE Cappuccini." Taken all in
| all. it is one of the most elegant and
| delightful places on the lake
| a leading Augusta attorney, whose
! summer home is on the cast shore or
| the lake, has fine naphtha launch.
! Now this gentleman never undertakes
! to use a piece of machinery until he
! thoroughly understands it in every
part. He could take the engine apart
and put it together again. l don't
know but he could make an engine.
| To make sure that all his positions
We're perfectly right he consulted Ben
/ Of LIN
| naphtha launches. He understood that
| Ben told him that there WAS no oc-
| casion for using lubricatnE oil: he
had run his boat six years without us
ing any. So the lawyers launch has
| been hanging away all summer, doing
| good work. without using oil. until il
became as many OF us at the lake do
| remarkably dry. Indeed it refused to
d" it's regular work. and Ben was again
| consulted. IF Tenncy'S launch could
run six years without oil. why couldn't
| his run six weeks" But Ben. on be-
| ing appealed to, said he never made
any such statcmcnt:-th hat he said too
that his launch had run six years with
out repair. not without oil. Moral:
A naphtila launch will not run without
oil no more than a lawyer without
money.
| Mrs. LleveIlyn Rickford and daught-
= er, Dorothea, Of Brooklyn, N. Y, passed
/ the Sabbath at Glad Hand Inn" and
! are also the guests Of Dr. and Mrs.
| kinsman i'm the city. DIR. Einsman still
holds the pain, as the most royal enter
| tainer mere, as all who have been the
I Ii.
| fy At present tho doctor is plying
himself vigorously to his large person
al interests in the city and elsewhere
Capt. Willarm l.. McFadden and
friends visited Cuba" last week, land
! ing Il black bass.
( Postmaster John Y. Lane is response
| bic for the disappearance from the
| lake of a "speckled beauty" that
weighed more than q pound. Mr.. Lane
| is so modest that he has failed to report
| TO us a catch Of eleven large white
perch, 1Ured from the waters in the vi
| entity of 'Lady's Delight" John can
catch and eat fish with equal gusto.
| capt. r. n. Perncttc has for the sec
ond year established his tent near the
electric railroad station. where he is
ION. He has n commodious. fast and
graceful launch. the "Alcedo." which is
open for engagements to pleasure par
ties by the hour. day or week. He is
having a good business. and 7 am glad
to say gives the best Of satisfaction
/ tc all employing him.
| Fred II. Owen. the New York city
representative of Gannetts great paper,
/ comfort" who with his family has
been spending his vacation at Camp
Refuge is undoubtedly high line at
the lake this season, having captured
Curing his stay 156 fish,
! VIM. Moore. Esq, wife and son. are
at Grand View Mr.. Moore resides in
Brooklyn. n. Y. and has charge of the
harses that land all the immigrants
that come to the port of New York city.
Prof, Ham of Bowdoin College, is a
guest for few davs at Mr.. Charles s.
iilchhornS. He finds many flags on the
launches here with b Inscribed there
on.
! Mrs c. p. Burleigh hassrsturned from
New Hampshire and the Camp is again
open.
! Miss Christine Kennison Of Watervillc