Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-08-23
THE TRAMP
Sketches His Weekend Travels
Along The Kennebec. New
Meadows and Seashore.

4VAC0OOWS 0IIQ OCdSIlOICs
Monday morning black and white
water spaniel carelessly ran across the
track at Richmond campground and
was struck by the morning train. The
dog was fatally wounded and was seen
by the passengers of the train as it
passed lying in his dying struggles on
the grass near the station. 1t was
very painful spectacle, causing women
to shrek and wiring their hands and
men to turn away
The Tramp noticed from the car
windows yesterday that the Kennebec
in the vicinity Of Gardiner and Halo
well was almost bridged> with RATS of
logs and that the booms of the saw
mills all along the riverside to Rich
mond on the Kennebec and Bowdoin-
ham on the Cathance are filled with
logs, while on the Kennebec thousands
OF the logs are piled up, in the yards
near the mills. indicating busy winter
in the sawmill industry.
The Journal Tramp hears of Bath
man who for 40 years had among the
mountains of Idaho fondly recollected
his boyhood days in Bath and prom
Used himself that some day before he
died he would return to Maine and the
shipping city and go out to Lemonts
Creek and paddle about the little sheet
of water in punt, as he had done so
many happy days in the holidays of his
boyhood This punt padding PROPOSE
ton became a fixed idea in the mind
summer he did come across the CONT
nent to Maine and obtaining a skiff on
the river side at Bath, hired a
teamster to haul it out to the shore of
the creek, where it was launched and
the Idaho man spent hours padding
on the pond, fishing for pickerel and
big pond lilies. even as he had in
school days. Then the idaho man was
satisfied to return to his home in the
Northwest.
The Journal Tramp at noontime
Sunday was smoking on the piazza
of the Clifford cottage. Popham beach.
The cottage commands view not
only of the surf and ocean to the SOUTH
but also of the mouth of the Kennebec
on the east, and while the Tramp was
watching a big four master entering
the kennebec, smoke wreaths were
seen ascending further up. and in a
moment the black hulk of the torpedo
boat destroyer Paulding was discov-
cred leaving the mouth of the river.
with only two tunnels in commission.
the boat not being sent along very
fast while in the Kennebec. Off Pond
Island however, the Paulding turned
to the eastward. let herself out a little
and bounded over the green waves of
old ocean with the speed of race
horse and in fifteen minutes was hull
down in the far east on her way to
the Rockland ocean race track. The
Paulding is flyer all right.
In spite of the dilapidated appear
ance of the hotel Rockledge on the
cliff at Silver Lake. Popham seems
to be fairly prosperous with summer
boarders and with cottages all we'll
filled. At the settlement on Adkins
Bay on the river shore of Popham
beach cute little library has just
been built for the use of the village
people, the expense having been de-
frayed by the summer folk.
week or ten days ago they had a
fair at Popham for the benefit of the
library and raised 5000.
Upon the horseshoe beach Sunday
noon everybody was bathing in the
surf. The Tramp means by every
body that all the ladies. young ana
old were in bathing in old ocean
The men at Popham do not seem to
care SO much for surf bathing as the
ladies and the Tramp figures that the
reason Is that the sea water is too 1
cold. being somewhere around so de-
grees. For some physiological rea-
son the fair sex can stand more cold,
especially surf bathing. than can or
will the men, and this reminds the
Tramp that big fat women are not
picturesque nymphs when sporting in
the embraces of Neptune.
Popham's most prosperous years
were those when it was in the hands
of the late Hon P. o. Vickery of Au-
gusta and the late Hon. Fritz Twitchell
of Bath. In those days the outlook
was that Popham would become a.
great watering place, possibly a rival
Of Bar Harbor. The old Ocean View
hotel, which has the grandest view
perhaps of any hotel on the Atlantic |
coast of sea and river and wood was
practically rebuilt and greatly enlarged |
until it became the famous Rock |
ledge, and for one or two seasons was
thronged with fashionable guests, but |