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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03
WHAT JACOB CAN TELL.
Chicago Elevator Starter Answer 1900
Queries Each Day.

Fifteen hundred questions day are
| answered by one man in Chicago's
City hall, 200 Randolph street.
This is an average number. for on
| a recent busy day, by actual count,
| it was more than 1900 The one-man
information bureau labors eight hours
day and six days a week, as ele-
vator starter. In addition to his duties
as official dispenser of knowledge he
marshals the thousands of Chicago
persons whodaily visit the Randolph
street structure. The information bu-
reau is William Jacobs, commonly
known as BILL" who for IS years has
been connected with the operation of
elevators in the old municipal build
ing, and at the present structure.
"Bill'' is said to know personally more
city Office holders and politicians than
Mayor Busse and all the city hall eX-
ecutives together.
Jacobs knows the floor and office
number of every occupant in the Ran
dolph street building, as well as their
names. political faith, general history
and whereabouts at all hours A large
number of the daily grist of inquiries
relates to these office holders and en-
ployes. Names of the aldermen, with
full data of the happenings of their
lives and their future hopes, are on
the tip of his tongue.
Officers and office holders i'll the
county buildings are also known to
Bill" He is asked every few minu-
tns where a certain judge is sitting
ard what is the status of a certain
81 81,
the federal and criminal courts and to
the many branches of the municipal
tribunals situated in the Michigan av-
enue building and at the various police
stations Then, there are the many
departments of the city government
that are situated in different build
iugs throughout Chicago. Bill knows
the location of each, the officers stu
ated in them and the best manner to
reach them in the quickest time.
The elevator starter-information bu-
reau daily answers multitude of
questions as to streets, railroad sta
tions, hotels, restaurants, theatres,
churches, buildings, baseball and
amusement parks, hospitals and ceme-
teries. He designates the points of in
terest in the city to strangers and
tells foreigners who cannot speak
word of English where to find their
consulates or friends
They all tell their troubles to me-"
said Bill"
Il answer 20 to, 80 questions every
day about marriage licenses alone
They come to me instead of going to
the county building Fifteen hundred
questions every day and that's only
an average. That number is beat to
death on busy days"
"Bill' talks English and German
and has working knowledge of Bo-
hemian, Polish and Swedish. When
he can't understand his uuestioners in
these tongues he provides an inter-
preter.-Chicago Daily News
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03
Maine Gossip
Thu New ACE.

Tho New Age.
When navies are forgotten
And fleets are useless thinSS'
When the dove shall warm her posoh
Beneath the eagles wings;
When memory of battles
At last is strange and old.
When nations have one banner
And creeds have found one fold;
When the Hand that sprinkles midnight
With its powdered drift of suns
Has hushed this tiny tumult
Of sects and swords and guns;
Then Hates last note of discord
In all Gods words shall cease,
In the conquest which is service,
In the victory which is peace.
Frederick Lawrence Knowles.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03

The political contest in New Jersey,
this fall. will be watched with more
than passing interest because of the
prominence of the leaders of both
parties. Against Doctor Woodrow
Wilson. president of Princeton uni
versity. whom the Democrats send to
the front. the Republicans have put
forward former Governor Briggs. In
him they have an orator who is able
to meet Doctor Wilson on the high
er plane of politics. Such campaign
should be wholly out of the common
place and should attarct the attention
of the entire country. For twenty
years New Jersey has been Repub-
lican, and it will require great effort
and vastly more than ordinary candi-
date to make it otherwise this year.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03
Money Talks.

At the conversation game it never balks.
You can hear it at the show.
Not particularly low.
At the opera it talks. talks. talks.
Money talks!
It's a chinner throughout all our earthly
walks.
At fashionable affair
You can hear a million air
It's opinions as it talks. talks. talks.
Money talks.
With a megaphone around town it stalks.
1t continually resoundS.
Overwhelming other sounds.
AS INCREASINGLY it talks. talks talks.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03
Vacation Horticulture.

The tiger lily in his den
An angry noise did make
The dandy lion roared aloud
Until the earth did quake
The daisy, scared and trembling,
Ne,er daring to look up
Faltered, then she stumbled
An spilled the buttercup.
The violets all shook with fear
And each one bowed her head
Ihe thought. though. was so awesome,
They near fell out of bed
For there the climbing columbine,
A very naughty lad,
Matched from his point of vantage
The modest lily pad.
Boston TRANSCRIPT.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03

The loss of one life and injuries to
several students resulted from the
"'tank rush at Purdue university.
Injuries which last through life are
not unusual in these college encoun-
tiers and each year sees more institu-
tions prohibiting them. Perhaps some
day it will be esteemed a mark of ad-
vancement to have eliminated entirely
all such unregulated ruffianism.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03
An Election Exclamation.

The dignified old New York Even
ing Post breaks out with an exclama-
ton of. 20, He'll" and then goes on to
relieve it's startled readers feelings
by saying. THAT is the reason given
by almost every voter who proposes
to change his vote this fall 1t goes
on to explain that the reason is full
explicit and convincing. OF course
the conclusion is arrived at by differ
ent minds in different ways, but the
very expressive opinion (Which seems
to be universally describes not only
reasons but results
The above-quoted exclamation
probably expresses the feeling of GER
tain disgruntled voters of limited vo-
cabulary, but admitting the reason of
the disgust of such voters to be just
to certain extent, we might recall d
better reason in those industrial and
social conditions under the last Dem
ocratic administration. Even now,
the mere rcverting of memory by
some of the most intelligent people
who endured those days of about 1896
may indulge in an ejaculation fully as
strong as the one with which our
New York contemporary breaks forth
In speech at Dallas. Texas, in
1896. Senator r. p. Gore, a Democrat
of Oklahoma, said:
The trouble with the Democratic
party is, it is a party of statesmen
without craftsmanship, patriots with
out patriotism, heroes without hero
ism. Their policy begets farmers
without farming. laborers without la
for freemen without freedom s. =
The Fifty second Congress had a
Democratic majority of 14S, and if it
redeemed ii single pledge observed a
single promise, kept single COM
mand. or discharged a single oDliga-
ton made to the people of the United
States | will Quit the stump and re-
tire from the canvass.
THE Fifty-second Congress was
elected on retrenc1ment and economy,
the free coinage of silver and the re-
peal of the Mckinley law. In the
matter of economy that Congress ex-
ceeded the Republican $1,000, 900, 900
Congress by s4O,OOOOOO"
If the blind Democratic orator of
the Senate could conscientiously say
that of the 52nd Congress, what must
he have said, if he had spoken his
mind. of the 63rd, when both Senate
and House were Democratic and a
Democratic executive was in the
| chair? The result may with reason
have caused many explanations. fully
as strong as that of our New York
exchange. Those were the days that
gave us the Wilson German tariff bill,
which brought a deficit every year.
which closed our mills, threw millions
out of employment. reduced the wa
ges Of those left with jobs. thereby
| destroying the farmers market and
bringing ruin and misery to the entire
| country. If voter is sufficiently dis
gruntIed to exclaim 20 He'll" in these
days. he had better consider a long
time before he votes to re-raise the
| He'll of those days within the memory
| OF the present generation.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03

What enrages Mr.. Hearst and also
the Wall Street shearing machine most
of all is the growing conviction that
the country has little interest in what
they do. Their sensational reports for
the purpose of affecting the people or
the market are alike unread
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03

What is the size of an "insulting"
tip must now be considered. Walters
are entering into ar agreement to re-
fuse all such. Wonder how fast the
ratio of insult increases as the tip falls
under the dollar
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03


with the result that French gardening
is now an integral part of the educa-
ton of many reformatory children.
They finish their course with the ro-
bust belief in the soil which comes
from seeing it bear four crops sown
simultaneously and two more trans
planted later. There is nothing like
it for teaching the possibilities of the
mined to start one. The great sue
cess of the venture soon induced the
SOIL" said one instructor, and coming
fresh from a visit to one of these re-
formatories, surrounded at this sea-
son by gardens reaching their pitch of
fruitfulness, I felt that the very CEN
trail truth of education had been there
hit The home office had made a
home of a prison.
For the efficacy of this plan, it is
claimed that scores Of young crimi-
nails have been reformed and its in
fluence for good is more apparent ev-
cry year. The article says, THE gar
dening is intensive throughout. 1t
was suggestive sight, earlier in the
year to watch group of the smart
uniformed boys, most of them town
boys convicted of theft, engaged in
punching rhubarb. They enjoyed the
work for many reasons. A certain
manual pleasure belongs to the pull
ing and handling of such crops. The
sense of harvesting speaks to the
character through the fingers. Each
boy felt that his hand was busy with
things which would serve him and his
neighbors in after life.
In round figures the 100 boys have
one hundred acres OF land to live in
and to work. Parts are thick with
fruit: plum and other fruit trees;
gooseberries and small fruit under
meath; and earlier in the year bulbs
or other flowers made gay lines be-
WYNN tilS SoooCbClil Iol tlc
ground is cultivated intensively over
all it's space, and on the ground every
boy without exception begins his in
struction. Later he may learn tail
oring, or shoemaking, or carpentering
or cabinet making: but he begins on
the farm and among the animals, pigs
and cattle, or in the garden, in the
rhubarb patch. with the frames, or
among the fruit
Thus the writer in describing this
approach to ideal prison life, teaches
all of us that the farm and garden
pay as well as educate, and educate
the better for having paid. The oc-
cupation that of all others gives the
most pleasure and perhaps does most
good is the purely esthetic This con-
sists of planning and cultivating. 1t
requires that care and ingenuity be
expended. 1t urges the invention of
various devices. 1t brings enjoyment
substitutes the culture of picking for
the innate desire for stealing. 1t sub
stitutes progress for laziness, and
urges the mind on to grasp of bet
ter things and liking for those
things which produce and make to
ward higher life.
One might suggest that this ideal
prison life would be so attractive to
certain element of boyhood that they
would be inclined to commit petty
crimes for the sake of going there.
But little menace is to be found in
such a suggestion. 1t is the abnormal
boy who is found in such places, and
not the average. The abnormal boy
leans toward wrong naturally, but the
first and most marked of his charac-
teristics, as rule, is laziness He had
rather steal than work.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03

wife would take notice of the munifi-
cent gift which Mrs. Franklin Mac
Veagh, wife of the secretary of the
treasury, is planning for her husband
as a Christmas gift. 1t is said to be
a $3.50 600 home. But after all, some
one else would nave to present us with
the price of it's maintenance
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03

An Italian who applied for NATURAL
zatiOn papers in Pennsylvania the
other day knew that Taft was the
President, but had never heard of
Roosevelt. Well. he's likely to hear, if
he remains in the swift influences of
Philadelphia a year or. so.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03

A year and half ago. Alfred Ions
dale. kncwu as the Beer King" died
suddenly New York. He left no
WILL disposing of an estate valued
at $35.000.000 Now it is discovered
that this immensely rich American
heritage goes to three or four families
in Poland. Thus we are reminded that
when it rains porridge the dishes of
some people are right side up.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03

The irish League of America at
Buffalo. Wednesday, pledged itself to
raise within two years 500 900 for
home rule. Redmond is strongly
backed. Every year large sums are
raised and the Irish hope grows to-
ward the great goal of national in
dependence. Americans will rejoice to
see every Irish peasant the owner of
his own farm.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03
Augusta is prominently a conven'

Augusta is prominently conven-
ton CITY this week. With two con-
ventions in session here simultane-
ously for three days. that OF the
Maine State Baptist organizations
and that of the Maine State League
of Postmasters it would seem that the
capacities of the city for entertain
ment would be taxed to the utmost.
But Augusta with her splendid hotel
Accommodations and her hOspitable
homes is going to prove herself fully
equal to the occasion and the conven-
ton visitors of this week. like those
who have visited us in the past will
go home full of enthusiasm over the
cordial reception given them during
their stay in the State capital.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03

A famous Waldoboro schooner, the
Maggie Mulvey, recently belonging to
the Pendleton Bros fleet, is to be
broken up where she lays at the mar
inc graveyard at Belfast. The MulVey
was 252 tons net and was built at Wal
doboro in 1864. She was built in the
DAYS when there was fortune in small
coasters and made many profitable
trips in her day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03

Now the National Good Roads con-
gress Is in session at st. Louis, and We
hope the gathering will make as
strong an impress upon the nation as
did the similar one last preceding. at
Baltimore. 1t is time the nation was
awakened in favor of roadway i'm
provements. the building of modern
highways by the government and by
the state. Recognizing the automo-
bile as having given this subject a
commanding prominence, we are in
clined to give even the Old Nick the
credit due him, and to go on with the
work which has been started. BY
means of papers from specialists. and
reports from various states, and the
wide spread Of printers ink. the con-
gress is steadily promoting the sub
ject of perennial interest and one that
will place this country in as high a
class in regard to roads as any of
the countries of Europe which boast
of their fine highways. Maine is do
ing a gneatswork along this line, the
State now being extensively marked
with permanent good roads. A recent
map shows where these roads have
been made. The lines of ink printed
very black. showing the sections of
new road, are startlinsly suggestive
of a maggoty cheese. But we will
know what it means, and are de-
lighted with the result.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03

The corn shop at Bethel has finished
the season with a pack of $4,000 cases
to it's credit. The corn was of unusual
ly good quality and all gathered in
first class condition. The promised adj
vance in the price of corn will prob
ably encourage the farmers to in
crease their acreage.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03

Andrew D. White shrewdly advises
Comedians to consider the postage
stamp, which "sticks to one thing till
it gets there. Boston Transcript.
Did he say anything about licking"
at the start?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03

Thomas Vashaw of West Bethel has
a contract to get out 100000 feet of
lumber for the Berlin Mills Co. at
Grafton, ~ H., and is already in the
woods making preparations for his
winters work there. He also has
contract at Millsfield Store House, n.
H.. to cut $4,000 railroad ties, which he
expects to finish in October.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03

rim Woodruff will henceforth be
known by, his vest
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03
ODD FELLOWS HALL.

ASYLUM LODGE NO. 20, REGULAR
meeting Friday evening at 8 O'Clock.
Work in Third degree Friday. Oct T. Re-
freshmentS.
E F. WESTON. N. q.
r. H. BROWN, Sec.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03

Herring are again numerous in Pas
samaquoddy bay, says the Eastport
correspondent of the Bangor Daily
News, and fish of suitable size for
canning are now being caught in large
quantities so that night work is neces-
sary at the canning factories to care
for tine many hogsheads of fish arriv-
ing during the day. The pack will fall
somewhat short for the entire season,
however. owing to the fact that the
early part Of the season was very I'M
successful.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03

the same squirrel, or another, was In
the garden after more corn.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03
JEPHTHA ENcAMPMENT, NO.

Meetings at o'clock every second and
fourth Tuesday. Work in Golden Rule
and Royal Purple degrees Tuesday. Oct.
II. Refreshments.
FRANK J. HAM, C. P.
G. w. MERRILL, Scribe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03

Evangelist S. Kimball. formerly SUI
perintendent of the Gardiner City mis-
sion attracted considerable attention
recently at the East Somerset fair at
Hartland with his Gospel wagon. The
crowd at first found it hard to adjust
itself to the fitness of running re-
ligious service in the midst of the usual
features of a fair, but Mr.. kimballs
genial personality and earnest manner
made deep impression upon many
who heard him.
c. F. Swift of Belfast vouches for
the truth of the following squirrel
story, which appears in the columns
of the Belfast Republican-Journa
Mrs. T. D. Barr a few days ago saw a
grey squirrel gnawing at a cornstalk
in the Swift garden. which adjoins her
home. Presently an ear of corn fell
to the ground followed by the squir-
rel. who took it up in his mouth, car
ried it under the fence, across the
street, up the steps in front of the
house of Mr.. Augustus Perry and
around to the rear of the house. The
ear of corn was nearly as large as the
squirrel and it was surprising that he
was able TO carry it. The next day
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03
The Maine government steamer

The Maine government steamer
Sheldrake, Capt. c. A. Packard, of
Rockland, has been in Passamaquoddy
bay and the neighboring waters dur
ing the past few days gathering up
seed Holsters for the hatchery located
at Boothbay and a large number Of
big crustaceans have been secured in
those waters. Capt. Packard states
that he secured on this trip an I'M
usually large number of seed Holsters.
The Sheldrake was at PASSPORT few
months ago and scattered countless
millions of the small fry about East
ern Maine waters.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03

John J. Boyle, for several years a
successful florist and prominently iden
as grand knight of Portland Council
and State deputy of the Grand Lodge
of Maine, left Portland Saturday for
Corpus Christi, Tex, where he expects
to engage in the hotel business. Mr..
Boyle is something of sportsman and
is the owner of two of the finest Eng
lish settlers in the East.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03

Citizens of Bangor engaged in a
sensational chase one day last week
after 7-months-old pig belonging to
Mayor Woodman, which had escaped
from captivity. The pig was finally
captured after wild chase down En-
change street by Car Inspector Whit
ney in the Union Station yard. The
Bangor Con mercial declares that
nothing has happened locally since
election that has caused so much eX
element.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03

The town Of Brooks has new indus
try, that of canning apples The new
factory there, which is a branch OF
the big canning plant OF Thorndike &
Hix in Rockland, will give employ
ment to 40 women. Apples above two
inches in diameter, either grated or
natural fruit, are used and the farm
ers receive 81 per barrel for their
fruit. Other products will be canned
if the Brooks farmers will supply the
material.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03

Rev. Fred Keightly Gamble, pastor
of the Methodist church at Pressure
Isle, has radical ideas in regard to the
solution of the hobo problem. Let
the town establish a small wood yard
under the control of the selectmen,
and then let the private citizen see
that all cases are referred to them,"
said Mr.. Gamble in a sermon last
Sunday evening. He also advocated
the solution Of the problem of good
streets through the aid of the hoboes.
favorng stone pile and the setting
the hobo to work breaking rocks for
his board. 30
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03
CANTON AUGUSTA, NO. 9 p. n

o CLOCK.
C. NJ TABER, Capt.
JOHN e. KELLER, Clerk.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03

F. r. Jordan of Winter street, Au
burn, reports that he raised this year
on a third of an acre of land S. bush
els of potatoes. Four potatoes out of
the lot weighed five pounds and an
ounce, while in some instances it took
but 20 to fill half bushel measure.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03

Partridges are reported to be unus-
ually plentiful along the line of the
Maine Central beyond Northern Maine
Junction. A number of good bags OF
the birds have been brought into the
city from Etna and Hermon says the
Bangor Commercial.