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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-04-11

w. r. c.-THE REGULAR MEETING
of Seth Williams Womans Relief Corps,
No. Sc. second and fourth Friday even
ings at $50 at G.. A. Il. hall.
ANNIE L. FLETCHER President
ADA +. PURINT0N, Corps Secretary.
feb2s, tu-th&s sat Tyr
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-04-11

James X Estabropk of Brunswick,
intends t. plant 25.to 80 acres of pota-
toes this season. He sold 5000 bush
els last fall at a satisfactory price and
last week shipped sou bushels. Very
few in that section of the State have
been more successful in potato raising
than has Nh EStahroOk.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-04-11

John M. Todd, the veteran Portland
barber, Saturday observed the goth an
niversary of his birth. Quite q num-
Der of his friends, mindful of the fact
called during the day and evening al
the Home for Aged Men of which h
has been member for a few years
Mr.. Todd enjoys fairly good health ant
passes along the street with the steI
of man of so. Mr.. Todd since tllt
age of II has worked against the use
of rum and tobacco. He is today the
only living man in Maine whose name
is on the temperance pledges Of 1929
of 1S40, of the Sons of Temperance ant
others of recent date.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-04-11

A prominent Bath citizen a few
mornings ago started out for his
summer camp arrayed in his comfort
able outing regalia. Thus attred he
attracted the attention of an out-of-
town visitor who was looking fol-
snapshots for his collection. The Bath
man was rather pleased at the
strangers request for his picture I'M
til the man with the camera Informed
him that he had been looking for q
long time for typical Maine farmer
and that the Bath man filled the bill
TO perfection. 1t is needless to say
that the man with the camera did.not
get the much desired snapshots. Cyan
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-04-11

The New Meadows Boat Club is seek
ing to have the Gurnet channel i'm
proved. 1t was declared at the last
meeting of the club that Gurnet
bridge was at present unsafe and a
menace to navigation. The members
of the club are of the opinion that the
bridge should be widened and ele-
waited.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-04-11

The Bangor Commercial commends
the laying qualities of the flock OF
hens kept by Charles L. Mitchell of
81 Seventh street The flock numbers
II and began to lay Dec. II, laying up
to April : the total amount of So
eggs or II dozen. 1t is said that Mr..
Mitchell did not force his biddies for
egg production, but simply gave them
ordinary good care
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-04-11

Rise, for the day is passing;
The sound that yeH scarcely hear
Is the enemy mdrchin2 to battle
Arise, for the foe j. here.
stay not to- sharpen EoNr weapons
or the hour will strike at last,
When Your dreams Of coming battle
You may wax" to md it past.
adelaide A. Proctor
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-04-11

there was agitation for enforcement and
an increasing strictness in enforcement.
In the Second Period.
The total commitments to Jail in
creased OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. $40
Commitments for drunkenness in
creased NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. $50
Aroostook. Cumberland. Krox, Penohscot
and Washington.
If enforced prohibition is effective. as
it's friends claim. then there should be IL
decrease in vice and crime in the enforce
ment counties. and an increase in Vic'
and crime in the nnn-enforcement conn
ties.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-04-11

Work upon the laying of the new
pipe line between Sebago lake and
Portland by the Portland Water Dis
progress has already been made by
the large crew of men who started
work little over a week ago. The line
is about Is miles long and as the
average depth of the ditch which is
being dug is about seven feet it can
easily be seen what a tremendous task
il is.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-04-11

NJ e. o. p. KENNEBEC LODGE, NO.
PSI. meets in G. a. K. hall the first and
third Tuesday evenings of each month at
80 o'clock
MRS CADDIE B. LOVEJOY, Warden.
EMMA +. HOWE. Rec. Sec.
3. l.. NICHOLAS. Fin. Sec.
tu-th-Sat
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-04-11

NORTH-Mr Thra sher is home from
Breckton. Mass. for a short visit with
The Washington herald., 1911-02-26
HOW THEY MOVED TO TOWN

, asked This is the county seat We
have all the offices and here We will re-
main"
So the people living at Winner organ
lied county seat fight and carried the
matter before the voters at the Novem-
Der elections. BY agreement between the
two towns the loser agreed to abandon
its site and move bodily over to the
winner of the fight. True to its name,
Winner won out by a small vote, and
the very next day arrangements were
begun for the house moving.
The courthouse. big two-story frame
building, was the first to be moved, since
it was necessary that the big house lie
put in place before smaller houses block
ed the way. Two big traction engines
were hitched to il. and across the prairie
it went. the engines putting and snorting
like mogul locomotives. The distance
was three miles, and this was covered in
Just two hours. So evenly was the Job
carried on that clerks. writing at their
desks, were undisturbed.
After the courthouse and Jail were
moved, residences went over in regular
flocks. When nightfall overlook a house,
the structure was left by the roadside for
the night, and the family occupied 1t as
usual
Then the movers began on the business
HOuSSS, anu StOEe dlIeT SlOTe was taken
to Winner without business being inter-
rupted Banks were removed without the
money being locked up, and deposits
were received and checks paid without a
halt. The big schoolhouse was taken
over one afternoon after the pupils were
dismissed for the day, only half day
being lost by the students. Although the
men in charge of the engines offered to
take house, teachers, children and all.
the. authorities did not care to risk the
collapse OF the building when 1t was oc-
cupied by so many children.
The cost OF moving varied from $50 for
a dwelling to $500 for store filled with
goods. It cost nearly $1,O00 to take the
over to the new town and
put II in the position II now occupies.
Although the white men finally cap
ured Lamro. the Indians had the best
Of the, trade, as long before the coming
Of the railroad and the county seat war,
the willy Sioux had disposed OF their hold
lngs OF lots 70 the white men and re-
tanned for themselves only the Offices to
which they had been elected. Scarcely
an Indian was caught with any real
estate when the time for removal ar
lived.
The Washington herald., 1911-02-26
GRANITE SPAN; BEAcH DRVE. OVER kLINeLe Roao

length Of the single span is about sixty
five feet and the cost of the structure was
$500. .-. -.... s
After the erection of this little struc-
ture the admiration which it drew forth
was such that steps were almost immedl-
ately taken to secure appropriations for
the building of other bridges of some
what similar design, it being thought best
to keep the semi-naturaI style of archi-
lecture as much as possible so as not to
spoil the naturalness of the park with
any patiently artificial structures.
Accordingly an appropriation was asked
for and received for the construction of
another bridge to cross the creek at its
The Washington herald., 1911-02-26

Lamro, S. Oak, a town of 1000 inhab-
| itants and several hundred houses, was
put on wheels the other day and moved
over to Winner. s. OAK, where, as the
result of bitter county seat war and
agreement between the two towns il was
consolidated with Winner and as a town
ceased wholly to exist. Large store build
ings, with their valuable contents, were
moved intact. Banks, with their cash in
the vaults, were put on wheels and made
the trip across the prairie while the
clerks continued>t to work and money was
received and paid out to customers.
Without disturbing the officials, the
county courthouse was hitched to two of
the largest traction engines ever built
and was hauled from Lamro over to
Winner. where it was placed on founda-
ton previously prepared for it. The
Lamro Hotel, drawn by seventy-two
teams of horses. made the trip without
so much as ceasing business during a
single meal.
Lamro was unique in being a town
built by Indians for the use of white
men. Indians promoted the town, sold
lots, opened business houses, and, final
ly, elected themselves to Office. With
the exception Of Bruce Backus, we'll
known lawyer of that section of the
country, not a single white man was
elected to Office in that town, nor, for
that matter, In the county. Indians were
elected to the Offices of county commits
sioner, county judge, county treasurer,
and to all other places.
However, the Indians were at last out
generated by the white men. The red
men were familiar with many things. but
they did not understand the ways OF the
American railroad builders. Lamro was
promoted while the railroad was still
twenty miles away. but headed in that
direction. In fact, the survey ran
the spot upon which the Indians
built the town. But the railroad made a
detour Just great enough to put Lamro |
of the line OF road, and the white men !
built the town of Winner on the road and |
only three miles from the Indian town
In the meantime Lamro had grown |
rapidly and was a town OF 1000 people, |
with all sorts of business houses, grain |
elevators, lumber yards, &c. when the |
railroad went by. The organizers OF
Winner invited the Lamroites over TO
their town. but the Invitation was scorned- |
why should we move therey they ]
The Washington herald., 1911-02-26

beauties Of the natural; where the hand
Of man has been applied only to beautify
and not to intrude the artificial; where
every surrounding appeals to the esthetic
in man and makes him forget the
humdrum. busy, bustling life of the city.
No mention has been made in this ar
ticle of the famous million dollar Con-
necticut avenue bridge, or the partly
completed Piney Branch structure. These
belong in a class by themselveIthe first
on account of its magniicence and the
latter because OF its style and the fact
that it is really removed from Rock Creek
Park. The four named and pictured here
with, together with the Q street bridge,
the plans for which were recently dis
cussed in The Washington Herald, are
sufficient to constitute examples of arti-
fetal yet apparently natural heautJ,
and undoubtedly go far toward making
the beauty Of our own Rock Creek Park
famous. One has only to talk to the
residents of other cities to find that our
park is better known for its many beau
ties in California than among our own
The Washington herald., 1911-02-26

I high authority, naturally induces a sus-
picion that secrets of great moment had
been confided to him-weighty secrets
that probably would have touched not
only the maiden name of his royal mis-
Htress, but placed her life in jeopardy. and
that he had preserved these inviolate
The same may be supposed with respect
to Mrs. Ashley
Elizabeth's rejection of the many pro.
posals of marriage made to her seems
very remarkauie in one who took pleasure
in the society of men and women, and
was by no means an ascetic. This has
always been a puzzle to historians In a
letter TO Lord Admiral Seymour, Eliza
beth says:
II have not the slightest intention of
being married, and il ever / should think
of it-which do not believe Is possible
&c.
Similar phrases occur again and again in
her letters. Why should she have so often
referred to the impossibility of being
married?
Other Masculine Traits.
If boundless ambition, unswerving de-
termination. ard merciless severity to her
enemies are masculine characteristics,
then certainly Queen Elizabeth was mas
culine in a nIgh degree. She sent her
most favored suitor, the Earl of Essex.
and her cousin and fellow-sovereign,
Mary Queen OF Scots. to the headsman's
block. 1t is true that on hearing that
Queen Mary had actually been executed
she displayed great emotion, and ordered
the arrest Of Sir William Dawson, who
had carried out her warrant. but there
Is every reason to believe this conduct
was due to policy. like all her other acts.
Again and again she boxed the ears of
a courtier who displeased her. She intim-
idated the wisest and boldest of her coun-
selors, such as Lord Burleigh, by her loud
voice and terrifying manner When the
greatest power in Europe-Spain-wit
many allies, threatened her with ami
1ilation. she put courage into her SOL
diers and sailors by her ringing words
and martial bearing. No emergency ever
found her lacking in courage and re-
source. Even on her deathbed her spirit
never forsook her
The constitution of her mind is ex-
snnpt from female weakness. and she Is
endowed with a masculine power of ap-
wrote Roger Ascham, the
great scholar of the day
Could woman have displayed all the
qualities mentioned7 Many persons will
doubtless say that she could. but GER
ainly these facts tend to support the
new that eshe" was man.
The Washington herald., 1911-02-26
CONCRETE BRIDGE CROSSING
CREEK AT ROSS DRIVE

| structure necessitated a much greater
| expenditure of time and money than any
Of the other medium-sized structures in
| the park .... -...- .
1t is technically known as "a three
hinged, Reinforced concrete rib arch"
which, upon being translated into ordi-
nary English, means there are three hinges
in the arch. so fashioned as to make
allowances for the changes in tempera-
ture. which, in Washington. are quite
rapid. The arch ring, or in this case
the rib, is made of concrete. REINFORCED
with steel rods. At the center and the
springing line, this arch ring is hinged,
and the cOntractions and expansions due
to changes in temperature are thus amply
provided for. The roadway is supported
by columns whose footings are in this
arch and the arches are held apart or
stihened by REINFORCED concrete branches
in the shape of flower boxes. In these
boxes have been planted vines and flower
ing shrubs, the intention being toSmake
this structure also as natural as possible.
The bridge has roadway of Is feet and
a total length of 163 feet 2 inches, with
a span of 100 feet. 1t was constructed
in 1907 by the bridge department of the
District and marks the first real attempt
Of the department to construct a bridge
that was artistic as well as difficult
enthusiastically.
Plan Further improvements.
These are the principal bridges in Rock
Greek Park which have aided in gaining
for that reservation the name of one Of
the handsomest parks in the country,
despite the fact that comparatively little
has been done to beautify it. But if the
plan known as the ''JudSon-pian" sue
ceeds in passing Congress and the gov
ernment purchases the remainder of the
Rock Creek Valley for a national park.
then will Washington truly be able to
speak of its park with the same pride
with which the citizens of Philadelphia,
Baltimore, New York, Chicago, San
Francisco, and the other large cities
mention their pleasure grounds.
And why should this not be? Is not
the Capital of the nation the fitting place
for the establishment of a park of this
kind, some sort of recreation ground
where can come the children of the
world and amuse themselves in its shad-
ows and leafy hooks; where the lovers
of nature can wander and drink in the
The Washington herald., 1911-02-26
EDIBLE BIRDS NESTS.

Nearly every boy and girl who studies
geography learns that the Chinese think
| that soup made from nests of birds is a
great table delicacy. Many children won
der at this, seeing that the birds nests
| in our own country are anything but
palatable, writes Anna Billings Gallup
in the Museum News There are, how
ever, plenty of birds nests good to eat,
and the Children's Museum in Bedford
Park, Brooklyn, now has on view two
of these remarkable structures, with the
even more remarkable little birds that
make them.
These tiny creatures OF the air belong
to the swift family and are related to
our chimney swift, although they are
called swiftlet because OF their small
size. They are only three inches long
and their ourstretched wings scarcely
exceed seven inches. In color they are
brownish-black above, with green and
purple metallic reflections. and brownish
below, mixed and f1ecked with white.
The wide, short mouth adapted for catch
ing insects on the wing, is as character
istic of the swiftlet as of its American
cousin.
They breed in limestone caves. very
numerous in their part of the world, the
famous Simud Putin or white cave. of
Nothern Borneo sheltering countless
thousands. This cave is jointly and yet
alternately used by swiftlets and bats,
the mammals lodging there by day and
the birds by night.
The nests are firmly attached to the
walls, many hundreds in single cavern
in remote recesses where the light never
penetrates. They are formed chiefly OF
mucus which is secreted by the large
saliyary glands in the throats of the birds,
and when dry looks like isinglass. The
nests of pure mucus are of first quail
ity and command high price. These are
bound up in packets with strips of rattan,
and generally weigh one catty, or one
and one-third pounds. A catty averages
forty nests and is scld for 800
Nests are taken three times a year.
Those of second quality are mixed with
rootlets, grass, &C, often showing traces
of blood from the efforts OF the birds to
produce saliva, and are less valuable
than the first nests. BY the time the
birds have been twice robbed the supply
of saliva seems to give out, and the third
quality of nests is composed of sticks
and moss cemented together and to the
rock with little saliva AS these are
nearly or quite worthless for food they
are left for the birds to breed in, but
they are usually destroyed at the end
of the season TO compel the birds to
build fresh white ones.
The nests are gathered by men stand
ing on thin rattan ladders fastened to
the ends OF long poles wedged against
the rocks. Two men stand on the lad
der, one carrying a long four-pronged
spear with lighted candle fixed to II
a few inches below the prongs. BY the
aid of this light suitable nest is found
and pierced with the prongs.
The Washington herald., 1911-02-26

particularly attractive, the road leading
under the trees almost at right angles
TO the bridge and then turning, with a
graceful sweep, to cross the creek. The
gentle wave impaired to the top of the
bridge and the sustaining walls gives
1t most pleasing appearance which one
misses in so many other otherwise pleas
ing rustic structures. In the fall the
vista from the road is particularly in
viting, the soft green's and reds OF the
leaves combining most pleasantly with
the dull. soft gray of the bridge, the
Leffect of the whole scene being one OF
quiet and repose.
Continuing across this bridge and along
the Beach drive, the seeker after the
beautiful will soon find himself in view
of what is probably the most artistic
structure in the park and. indeed, some
go so far as to say that it is the equal of
any similar bridge in any park in the
country. ..t
This is known colloquially as the Bowl
der Bridge, from the fact that it is built
entirely of powders so closely resem-
bling the rocks in the bed of the creek
that the casual observer is sure that
they were taken from the stream itself.
But. strange to relate, all of the rocks
forming this highly artistic structure
came from distance, the contractors
natural powders. The great majority of
the rocks had to be hauled from fifty to
hundred miles, it being no easy task
to discover rocks which resembled close
ly those of the bed of Rock Creek.
The construction of this little bridge
is highly artistic bit of work. The aim
of the contractors was to simulate the
work of nature as much as possible, and
the result is that, at first sight, many
IL ,N.nv-a hi.
length over all is about $50 feet and the
bridge has a span of so feet and a road
way of % feet. 1t cost about 5000
Praised by Expert.
1t was this bridge which moved c. R
Young, A. NJ, in his speech delivered
before the general section of the Cana
dian Society of Civil Engineers on Feb
ruary Of the present year. to say:
THE span in question crosses Rock
Creek, rapid stone-strewn stream in
the national park, Washington, d. c.,
and the local conditions were admirably
expressed by the use of bowlder-faced
arch. In wild rocky regions, with swiftly
flowing streams, bridges should be ex-
pressive Of and in harmony with the
-ough, primitive conditions existing !
around them. Bold powerful structures.
absolutely without ornamentation. will |
alone do justice to such surroundings. |
Such a bridge is this one at the Capital |
II the United States, and, of its kind, ii |
S as fine an example as can be found in |
he country
OF the second structure mentioned In |
his article. the "gum-drop BRIDGE the |
'ame authority said:
Where the landscape becomes thinly /
wooded. more regular and perhaps more /
arefully kept, more graceful structures.
With evidences OF greater finish. should
,e adopted. Such one crosses Rock
sreek in the national park. Washington.
}. c.. at point where its usual wildness
s succeeded by regular grass-covered
The Washington herald., 1911-02-26

with the cobble-stone belt-course at the
parapet was adopted as suggestive of the
gravelly bed of the stream at this point. -
Bridge Across Ross Drive.
While this bridge is undoubtedly the
gem of the park from an artistic stand
point, there is yet another which, from
the view of the architect or bridge build
er holds even more charm. This is the
structure which one sees merely as a
ribbon of roadway crossing the creek at
Ross drive. Although by no means as
rustic in appearance as either of the
other bridges above described, this
The Washington herald., 1911-02-26
NO NEED TO WORRY.

At the dress rehearsal 1t became ap-
parent to all old hands that IL was going
to be nip and tuck whether the new play
was success or not. The young actor
who had been cast for his second speak
ing part was less disturbed than any
body else about professional criticism.
IT never care much for what those tel-
lows say he drawled. Come right
down to 1t. the only criticism that I am
really afraid of il that OF the fremen
who clear the aisles. Pretty discerning
chaps, those frenen are"
''Firemen?" sniffed an old actor. Good
Lord. boy. IL we ever get to the point
where the firemen have to be called In
to clear the aisles. you won't have TO
worry over what anybody thinks Of you
The Washington herald., 1911-02-26

junction with Broad branch. This was
built in 1901 at cost Of A.150 and has a
length, of sixty-nine feet with roadway
of twenty-th three feet. e.. ..-
The "Gum-drOp, Bridge.
Owing to its somewhat peculiar con-
struction and the fact it is finished in
pebble dash, to conform with the gravelly
conditions of the stream at this point,
the bridge has come to be known as the
gum-drop bridge" the rows of pebbles
near the top being supposed to resemble
the food which DR.. Cook is reported to
have fed to his Eskimos
The approach to this little structure is