Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-04-18

That Governor ODD VIII Dr one vi lIlclr
speakers, Memorial day.
The cheerful prediction comes frorh
the sap orchards that the flow of sap
Wednesday.
That murder in Il lumber camp of
northern Franklin promises to be an
-other unsolvcd mystery CT the Maine
woods
The work on the Aubu"n-Turncr cleo
trio road is progressing finely. Over
10000 ties are laid with 5000 more to be
put in place. The work CT laying tn"
rails will begin at once and the cars
Will be running when July arrives.
The Portland High girls, won the
eight games of basketball which they
played with Maine teams but they met
their Waterloo, Saturday, when they
played the Lowell girls who are thu
View England champions.
A funny incident of the enforcement
era happened in Old Town last week.
The sherffs were raiding place and a
large crowd gathered. which led an eX-
cited individual to suspect that fire
was in progress and ne pulled in fire
alarm The arrival of the hosemcn and
laying of the hose added greatly to the
excitement until it WAS learned that It
,-.,f. hat tod HI If
something stronger.
II turns out that .hc Springvalc fire
failure of the water supply. and for
that no man is to blame. The village
has n good pipe line and hydrant scrv-
ice. but the pressure failed. The
supply is taken from battlefield pond,
and that had been low for long time.
There was an emergency pump which
might have been us"l. but the fire
crippled the pumping apparatus at the
outset. and there was nothing to pre-
vent the spread of the flames. Between
the drought and the accident to the
pump it was case Of lard luck.
The playing Of Canncll. formerly of
Bridgton Academy 1ni Tufts college,
as an outfielder on the Boston Ma
tionals is not imprcssilg the baseball
experts in very pleasing fashion.
Here is what the Boston Globe says of
his work in Saturdays game when New
York beat Boston Il to o: "A comedy
element was infused into tn" game by
ccntcrfielder Camel. who came from
college with a reputation as football
PLAYER. Nobody Who saw Canneli :
performance today in boOting the ball
around the center garden will doubt his
ability to at least play Il good game OF
association ball. Three yellow errors
were charged to him. In addition to
this he furnished some fielding beside
which New Orleans mOl"sscs would be
like a cataract.
The Bangor News admits that the
elusive and rare tidbit known as the
"Penobscot river salmon is not in ev-
iGence as much as is usual this year,
though the canned article can be pur-
chased ut Il very reasonable price. On
the whole it is very much cheaper to
capture salmon in tin cans than try to
lure them from the cold water with ar
tificial flies.
IT is understood that the Maine Cen
trail and Boston and Maine railroads
are considering the proposition of en-
l;trging Union Station. at Portland.
Traffic through it since its erection
several years ago has increased so rap
idly that the structure has for some
time been much too small to take care
Of the business during the summer sea-
son. Each year a portion of the plat
form at either end of the station has to
be fenced in to take care of baggage,
the two rooms designed for this pur-
pose being too small to hold it all. 1t
is understood that the plan under con-
sderation is to build considerable of
an addition on either end Of the station
thus greatly erlarging the quarters of
the baggage department and also that
there is possibility that the train
shed may be considerably extended. 1t
is known that plans are now being con-
sidered for the changes, but nothing
definite has been decided upon. The
additions, however will be in strict
keeping with the present beauty of the
station and if anything they will add
much 10 its present imposing appear
ance and will act a monument to the |
wonderfully rapid growth of railroad |
travel to Portland and to Maine. The |
improvements will not be done in time
for this summers business as if the |
plans are carried out, it will require |
several months to complete the addi- |
lions and accomplish the proposed |
work.