Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-08-16
THE TRAMP
Pixies Down the Line and Then
Hikes Back Again.

The Tramp was Interested SATURDAY
and also Monday morning In oDser'
ing a huge raft Of logs between Haiio
well and Gardiner, bound for daroi-
ner MILL The raft occupied nan ol
the river and upon 1t was house ois
enough for a lodging house on shore
It looked and was, in way, nuBe
houseboat and the crew of river dr'V
ers on the raft seemed evidently to pc
enioying life. Another raft SATURDAY
was being towed into Gardiner by 4
power boat. A grand Improvement
upon the old ash breeze.
The cemetery board in Bath has just
completed the grading and hnisnlns
touches of the new Druid park whlch
Is the vestibule of the shipping city
cemetery park system. EVERYBODY
who passes in auto or trolley, in car
riages or on foot, admires the beauty
of the new park, and it's practlcai
business value Is shown in the fact
that diagonally opposite a citizen oil
good taste is building himself a resi-
dence.
park Saturday asserted that the noat-
ing island, the diamond shaped mower
bed, supported at the corners ny
Druid stones, is more unique anu
beautiful than any flower bed III any
of the Boston parks.
1t is costing the Shipping CITY some
$1,000 to dig out the stone founoatloiis
of the piers of the old Bull ROCK prlose
at New Meadows. The work had 10
be done owing to an order from WASH
ington. Two lighters are engaged
getting out these stone piers ana rem
der the entire river from Navigation.
The Tramp learns that Hon. Harold
NJ. Sewall has presented to New Mead
ows Inn, to be hung in the dining
room, two large pictures which ne sent
To Hawaii to obtain for the purpose OF
this Dresentation One IS of native
sacrificial grave near Hawaii and
another is a group picture portfaylng
Hawaiian life. Both these pictures
were sent to Mr.. Sewall from the
Sandwich Islands at his order and W4e
handsomely framed by the donor upon
their arrival in Maine. They were
then presented to landlord Chas. H.
Cahill to be hung as stated IN the
dining room of the Inn. Landlord
Cahlrs Handsome Dan, blooded
pointer dog, surprised the owner one
day last week by bringing in from the
adjacent woods a muskrat and
woodchuck. Dan thinks it about time
for some Sport to take him into the
a uGnflp
hint to his master that he was
hunting dog.
At the Inn Sunday night the Tramp
discovered Roy Strout of Brunswick
wet as the proverbial drowned rat.
Mr.. Strout. few minutes before, was
standing on the bow of his yacht,
Ripple" when it bumped against the
stern of another boat. Mr.. Strout
lost his equilibrium and took a cold
plunge in the New Meadows, swim
ming ashore to the Inn float.
One day recently Senator Frye came
down from Lewiston and dined at the
Inn. Names distinguished Senator
was in excellent health and cheerful in
spirit and his feet We're again all right.
The Sagadahoc Republican county
and town committees with distinguish
ed guests to the number of so dined
Monday at the Inn and talked over the
political situation. The members of
the various committees reported that
the Republican party in SaSadahoc
county was more united than it had
been for half dozen years.
Congressman Swasey was present
with good council and hopeful with
his good cheer. Hon. H. NJ. Sewall was
another distinguished guest.
This week Wednesday, there will be
a reunion of the Simpson family of
Maine at the Inn.
Everybody knows Scion Cahill, and
incidentally everybody likes Scion.
The Journal Tramp met Scion on
Commercial street Sunday night in
Bath just as the crowds were pouring
into the street from the wharves of
the Eastern Steamship Company and
Boston boat
This reminds me-" said Mr.. Cahill,
of a picnic pier in New York town.
Never saw so many people before IN
my life"
On the boat wharveS the purser of
the Wiwurna found time to remark to
the Tramp that the excursion and
tourist business had picked up Won
derfully during the month of August
AMI was now enormous, possibly bent
iTg the record for the last half duZen
years.
Coming up the line Monday morning
the Tramp was pleased to see that the
steamer Islander was going down river
black with people bound to the shore
In a trolley car Sunday night the