Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-03
Maine Gossip
The Expert.
Since Tartarin has ridden
Upon the camel great
He thinks himself the pilot
OF Egypts ship of state
New York sun.

Since Tartarin has ridden
Upon the camel great
He thinks himself the pilot
or Egypts ship of state
Edward c. Stone, formerly we'll
known newspaper reporter in Port
land, later city editor of the Bidde-
ford Journal. has recently been pro-
NOTED from the Telegraph desk TO be
city editor of the Waterbury, CT. Re
publican. after working in the Con-
| necticut city only year.
noticed the name of Prof .. {. Wen
dali in connection with the reports of
observations of Halley'S Comet at
Harvard. 1t will be of interest to
kno" that Prof. Wendall of the as
Economical department At Harvard Is
native of Maine and graduate of
Rates College in the class OF 1868.
This was also the class OF President
Chase of Bates and the two have al
ways maintained Il close friendship.
Rich HunueweIl of Auburn contin-
les to receive furs almost as fast as
he did in the winter and every day
sees great boxes and bags piled up
in ting Auburn express office. These
furSf are now coming mostly from the
Anctlcs, as the Maine season is prac-
fically over In the frozen north the
furS are still good and will keep COM
ing several weeks longer.
,tI -
native resident of Sanford, recently
celebrated her S4th birthday. Though
d trolley line has passed her door for
IL years size has never ridden in such
a conveyance She has enjoyed an
automobile ride, however. She went
to school in the kitchen Of a farm
house when d child as it was the best
school that the town afforded at the
time.
Gasolene was first used as an aux
Hilary power in packets on the Maine
coast ten years ago. AS auxiliary
power it has been popular and has
paid well. This season d packet de-
pendent upon gasolene power alone
has been started on a regular run be-
tween Portland and Sebasco. She is
AZ feet over all. 1919 feet beam and
six feet deep and is designed for
freight purposes only. She has COM
modious pilot house and in her engine
room has a 16-hOrSepOWer engine.
Her carrying capacity is 20 tons OF
freight.
Of In,
was graduated from Bates College in
the class of 1905 is doing missionary
work at Foochow. China. and friends
have been somewhat anxious for her
welfare since the last native uprising.
Her father the Hon. Lucius Nj. Per-
kins of Alfred, in reply to an inquiry
states that the trouble is in adjoining
provinces from $50 to 200 miles away :.
A letter received from Miss Perkins
April u states that she is in good
health. This is her third year and she
| IS in charge of chain of Bible wom-
| on about half the size of Maine.
The story is told that once when
Capt. J. F. Murphy Of Bath was in a
Sou5a American port. he was ordered
to dress ship on some local holiday.
The port captain came alongside to
enforce the order in a glory Of gold
lace and gilt braid. Capt Murphy
grabbed him by the seat of his trous-
ers and the scruff Of his neck and
threw him overheard. The United
States frigate Omaha, which oppor-
timely arrived. took the Yankee skip
per's part. and the ofticious harbor-
master lost his job. Admiral Collins
Of the United States frigate Rich
mond, flagship at Callao. congratu-
lated Capt Murphy
Maine Woods: Recently we said n
few words about the Hungarian par
fridge. which is 50 rapidly growing in
favor in this country and which has
been "planted'' in several states with
good success. But let us not forget
our own partridge. the kingly ruffed
grouse. a gentleman who was called
upon at a Meguntic club dinner not
long ago To speak about the ruffed
grouse said that doubtless God might
have made q better game bird than
the ruffcd grouse. but doubtless God
never u1t. N'uI TtdupTS VIII piOD1DlN
all or nearly all of them. agree with
us in this sentiment. OF course. he
first problem with reference to pre-
serving our game birds of Maine is to
do the best we can for our rutfed
grouse Protect them as wei! as pos
sible and keep reducing the bag to
a reasonable numLcr of birds day
We allow too many shot now and it is
altogether probable that the open
time is longer than it ought to be.
There is nothing that is better worth
considering so far as the game inter
cStS are concerned in Maine than the
protection and saving of cur ruficd
grouse.
The Hallowell Register recently
printed a very interesting article re-
garding book compiled by Isaiah
Wood and printed by Goodale ana
Burton in 1914. which purports to de-
scribe with some accuracy til" towns
and boundaries of the District OF
Maine. The following paragraph IS
characteristic: There are IN Maine.
for the conveniences of merchants
banks. the stocks of which added'