Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-04

When fathers up at break of day
An loOkin very glum.
When our old dog just hides away
An waits for night to come.
When sister let's her hair hang down
An wears a funny blouse.
It's pretty plain to all the town
That mothers cleaning house.
When breakfast is a fierce pretense
An dinner is a joke;
When rugs are hangin on the iehce
An bric-a-brac is broke.
We tip-toe round, a-feelin SAD.
An still as any mouse. I.a
For home. sweet home. goes 10 tHe o''"
"' Washington Star.
They seem to have whole swarm or
fire bugs down at Bath.
The good word comes from Belgrade
Lakes that more summer visitors are
hooked than ever before at this date.
The Portland city government. with
an anpropriation Of 1000. makes good
beginning toward a Reed memorial.
II will be a long time before those
VINO attended the presentation of Parsi-
Fl, forget the wonders of that great
production.
It is only fair to explain that the
Paris from which comes the Peggy who
visits us, this week. Is not the beautiful
little village among the Oxford county
hills. 1t is somewhat larger and
much more wicked town.
Walter E. Adams who has been pro-
NOTED to the editorial staff of the Bos-
ton Herald after serving in turn as
Washington correspondent and city edi-
TOR, is an old Augusta hoy. He was
born in the old house on Green street
where his parents. NJ. end Mrs. John
G. Adams were then living. At present
he resides with his parents at Maiden.
Mass, whittier they moved from Au-
guSta in 1872.
Three prominent Bath gentlemen who
are enjoying themselves, this week, at
the Grand Lodge meetings in Portland
represent a total attendance OF 116
years at the sessions of the Grand
Masonic bodies. They were ex-Clerk of
"A consecutive annual sessions. Sheriff
John w. Ballou who has attended AZ.
and Scott Shorey who is attending his
3Oth session.
There are other good old Masons
among the veterans al the Grand Lodge
this week, who heat the records Of the
Bath brethren. A. NJ. Weather.
bee OF Warren is present for the 51st
consecutive year; Stephen Berry is
keeping the records for the 50th con-
secutive year, having begun to assist
his father when the latter was grand
secretary; Judge Larrabee of Gardiner
began to attend As years ago, but had
to miss a few years while absent from
the State.
Corrville is m.uch interested just now
in the trip of a woman of that town
whose age is 81 years to Massachusetts
where she has married man of 81
years.
The first game in the Maine college
series will be Bowdoin VS.. Bates at
Lewiston, next Saturday. and while the
interest is keen there is nothing like the
interest and enthusiasm aroused by
football.
Rockland had a distinguished guest
within it's borders. the past week. in
the person Of Franklin Simmons, the
celebrated American sculptor. who has
resided for the past 80 years In Italy.
Mr.. Simmons seemed very much
pleased with his visit to Rockland
where the first important piece Of sta
tuary designed by him is placed. This
is the monument i'm memory Of Major
General Hiram Berry. one Of the dis
tinguished of the Maine officers in the
Civil War. which occupies Il prominent
place in Achorn cemetery. Mr.. Sim
mons was born in Webster and spent
his boyhood in Bath.
The scout Chester to be built by the.
Bath Iron Works is new type of yes
sci in the American Navy. For years
naval experts have felt the want OF
something Of the kinda fast ship with
lOng-distance steaming aualities-whicn
can hover about an encmy's fleet and
report its doings to the American COM
| manGer. During the Spanish war the
| want was temporarily filled by pressing
| into service ocean sreyhounds Of the
transatlantic passenger fleet. 1t was
not until year ago that Congress was
prevailed upon to authorize the con-
structiOn of any scou: cruisers. Under
| that authorization the Chester, Birm-
ingham and Salem were planned.
These vessels will have a speed Of
twenty-four knots. which is greater
than that Of any vessel in our navy ex-
lcept torpedo vessels. While slightly
less than the speed of British scout
cruisers now building. the difference in
speed is more than Offset by the ability
to maintain Roadway in ell kinds of
weather. more than twice the coal
capacity Of the English scouts, and con-
sequently greatly increased radius of
action. The length of the scouts will
be 423 feet inches over all: breadth
46 feet inches; draught. 10 feet IL
inches; displacement. 164O TONS. total