Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-07-28
On The Road.
Heel Taps Of the kennebec Journal $
Tramp On the Paved Streets OF the
Queen City Of Eastern Maine.


| At the end of the rails the Tramp
entered BangOr's new Union depot. IL
could be easily mistaken for the pal
ace of king. 1t is the palace OF
King Industry the successful INDUS
try of the people of Eastern Maine.
| Bangor impressed the Tramp as IL
did President Taft. 1t Is very beau
| tifui and wide-aWake down-east town.
1t is nearly as lively as Boston and II
has more Of municipal magnetism than
| has the Massachusetts Hub one
| thing, the people as a class are super
| ior to those of Boston. The men
| looked bigger, more intelligent, and
better natured than those of Boston
town. The women are good lockers,
too, and know how to wear their
| clothes. There is more beauty and
style to be seen on individuals of the
| fair sex in Bangor than possibly in
any other city in Maine with the ex-
| ception of Rockland and Bath. But
| Bangor lacks in one respect-it has
| few red headed girls.
The architecture of the newer build
| ings in Bangor is substantial as we'll
as beautiful, notably appropriate for
| the severe winters of northeastern
Maine, and speaking of the winters,
Bangor is ice and snow bound SO
many weeks with the Kenduskeag and
Penobscot f1oored by Jacob Frost that
she can never be like Portland. con-
sidered all the year a seaport town,
and yet she has Bucksport for win
ter port.
Bangor is to be congratulated on its
| fine hotels. There are no better hotels
on the Atlantic coast than the Bangor
House and the Exchange. They are
beautiful, too, since both have been
renovated and largely rebuilt
They We're fixing things on the Elk
change building and had huge scat
folding rising to the sky on one side
and around the corner a tall ladder
something like a thousand feet high
had it's foot against the curbstone
The Tramp looked at the ladder and
passed it by, going into the street
then he watched to see if other super
stitious people would do the same.
Every body did as he watched for
few minutes and saw perhaps a couple
Of hundred people pass along. 1t is
bad luck to walk under ladder you
know, SO everybody crossed the lad
der on the outside in the street save
two good looking girls who were viva
ciously conversing upon the subject
of new hat and they did not observe
that the ladder was there.
AS the Tramp was drawing in his
notebook a sketch of the Bangor House
someone slapped him on the back and
looking up he confronted Manager F.
A. owen of the Bangor Opera house
and his son David. David these days
is a sedate and Industrious Granger,
but the father is the same old Frank
OF B. A. D. A. Kennebec days and the
days of the Buskin Club of Bangor
Frank is a natural genius as a COM
edian. His first words would convince
even stranger of this for he said
Mr.. Tramp, Bangor and Penobscot
county are going Democratic this fall"
1t is remarkable what comfort and
satisfaction Democrats year after year
and campaign after campaign take in
prOpheSying victories that never come.
AS the Tramp suggested this interest
ing and philosophical fact to Mgr.
Owen that genial Democrats face bore
shade of sadness and lost hope, but
for second only. He laughed and
said: Yes. that's so, but it is better
to hope and lose than never to have
hoped at ALL"
Looking in at the windows of the
Bangor News Office the Tramp noticed
the handsomest man he had seen in
N.
chair. looking out with that peculiar
expression which everybody recognizes
as newspaper stare. His expression
was so benignant that the Tramp
walked in and was Hospitality received
by the manager who has been with the
News for twenty years and has seen
it grow from struggling infant to
a stalwart and influential maturity.
Editor Reid was comfortably en-
gagged in directing other people in the
performance of their work but spared
his time between to Interestingly Cos
sip on newspaper affairs with the
Tramp
Next the Tramp walked across the
bridge and. going up the hill. found
himself In front Of the spic- and span
stylish sand prosperous appearing
Commercial Office. where, climbing
two flights, he was made to feel ar
home by City Editor Hall, who in adj
dition to being an able and talented
newspaper man is a big politician of
Bangor and. a mighty fine gentleman
to meet. IN the editorial department
OF the Commercial the Tramp was i'm
pressed with the large number of we'll
groomed and bright appearing editors
he met Mr.. Bass has reason for be-
ing proud of his editorial staff. And
the scribes all look as if they got
enough to eat-and smoke
Managing Editor Kelley, whom the
Tramp had not met for some years
was busy at mis- desk. but most cor
daily greeted the Journal scribe for