Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-02
Maine Gossip
Waiting : for the Buale,

Amy tOi JUG oQYte,
We wait for the hugle; the night
The limbs Of the soldiers feel faded and
old
The field Of our bivouac is windy and
bare.
There is lead In our Joints. there is fros,
in our hair:
The future is veiled and its fortunes un-
known
As we lie with hushcd breath till thr
huglc is blown.
At the sound OF the bugle each comradc
shall spring
Like an arrow released from the strain
The courage, the impulse of youth shall
come back
To Danish the chill Of the drear bivouae
And sorrows and LOSSES and cares fade
Whcn. that nfc-giving signal proclains
the new day.
Though the blvouae Of age may put ice
And no tibrc Of steel in our siucw re-
mains;
, Though the comrades OF yesterdays
march are not her.
And the sunlight seems pale and the
branches are serc
I Though the sound of our cheering dies
down to Il moan
We shall find our lost youth when the
buele is blown.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
Camden las 1SEmced a pumpkin
, weighing IS pounds and Lincolnville
a squash weighing 50 pounds. Next,
! Promoters. of Kaleidoscope desireS
and plans. are lowering about Bangor
\ few are there with projects which
! would be a credit To the city and to
, these is extended courteous welcome
in hope of securing the industries
which they represent. Two of the most
recent Investigators contemplate SINH
I lar enterprises-the manufacture of
various hard wood articles from that
| sections abundant supply of birch and
maple. Clothes Wringers broom han
! dies, bucket holds and many other
j hard wood specialties are planned A
/ plant for the manufacture of paper
bags is being considered. One we'll
| known manufacturer of bag machin-
cry mas offered 10 put in what ma
/ chimes are needed upon condition that
/ the requisite amount of capital is
raised i'm Bangor Several business
Ifen have interested themselves in the
project and are al present considering
its possibilities. There is said L. be a
good profit in paper bags and the de-
mand for them is constant and steady
| Formerly assistant professor at Bow
doin college. Hudson Bridge Hastings,
has been elected professor of mechani-
cal drawing and surveying at Reed
college. Mr.. Hastings graduated from
| the Massachusetts Institute OF Tech
nology in 1907. Until the summer of
| 1910, he ghts@mechanical drawing
and surv eying at Bowdoin college He
was employed, as an expert consulting
engineer by the State Railroad Com
mission in Maine. and he was assoeia-
ted with the Massachusetts Harbcr
and Land Commission. For the past
year he has been structural engineer
with Joseph T Ryerson q Son in Chi
lcago. Mr.. Hastings will be chair man
of the committee on grounds and
buildings of the Reed Institute and
will direct the development OF the
campus of Reed college.
! Ii is announced in Boston that many
IMho have been for years amorg the
employees of the Boston & Maine rail
road are to lose their positions IN thu
troad'S program of retrenchmenL Sew
teral holding important positions are
reported due for dropping from the
salary list In fact, it is said that
hardly n department on the whole sys-
TEN viii escape in the pruning. Many
TRAINS will be included in the cuts
lalong all lines. Many of the changes
viii be brought about by the consoli-
ldating of divisions. The Old Concord
y md Montreal Railroad which was TAX
zen, over by the Boston and Maine, and
mace the Concord division win be
made a part of the Southern division
BY such an arrangement many of the
heads of departments will no longer
be as aociated with the Boston and
Maine. 1t is stated that special train
is now touring the system to ascertain
where cuts in the expense of main
tenance may be made. The inspec-
ton is in charge of those high in the
railroad management The reason I. p
this drastic action is the falling Of +
receipts The winter schedule s
into effect next Monday and ii :
ed that many of the regular WInGer
trains that were on last years sched-
ule will be conspicuous by their abb
sence on the coming arrangement.
/ correspondent of Maine Woods de-
scribes the carriage drive from Range
Hey to Weld as "tne grandest scenery
it has ever been my privilege to see"
and mentions particularly the first
glimpse of Wenb lake. guarded BY old
Saddleback and Tumbledown' noun
'tains Comment is made also upon the
thrifty appearance of the farms
The Grange hall. at Saco, was struck
and slightly damaged during the
thunder storm Of Monday afternoon,
aud the lightning played many pranks
, IN the vicinity. At the hall, the light
ming went down the chimney, played
; cver the cooking range and other
: metal work, put out all the electric
lights and by its flashing made
! vivid impression upon the people who
were working there. II visited the
basement. routing out workers, who
made a record time in reaching the
street. Transformers along North