Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-08-18

AS military matters detained me one
day in Montreal on my return from
PeJawawa I dropped into hotel for
dinner says the Good Corner Corre-
spendent of the Mars Hill View. A
card hung on the wall of the dining
room which read: Dinner Scots" A
thermometer at the door registered SO
and a military uniform on such occa-
sions to one accustomed TO civilian
dress, is not the most comfortable
dress that one could wish for. Taking
off my service cap / laid it beside me
on another chair and ate my dinner.
What was my surprise, however to
find that my bill was s1.o0 which the
waiter explained as follows; You and
your cap took up two seats at this
table and no one else could possibly
occupy either, therefore your bill is
consequently double" 1 bowed to the
"SoI of Ham" and begged him to ex-
cuse me for my ignorance of their
rules and departed. About 6 p. M.
went up to Winsor st. station, got my
suitcase at the checking department,
substituted my cap for my helmet
(Which holds half a busheD and start
ed back for the same hotel for supper.
This time l made the same mistake
by design. After l ate my supper l
picked up my comrade seated beside
me. and gathering UP everything on
the table filled it to it's fullest capac-
ity. What are you doing?" angrily
demanded the waiter. catching me by
the shoulder. This hat" / replied sis
very hungry; it paid for its dinner but
didn't eat a bite, so think it nothing
more than right that it should have
as much as it can hold for supper" /
gave him 800 and took my departure.
That was July 18th and my family fin
ished the remainder of the helmetful
today, Aug. 3rd.
George G. Witham, formerly of
Pennington, and one time a reporter
on the Maine Woods, has been ap-
pointed executive secretary of the
Lynn, Mass, Business Mems assoeia-
ton. The new secretary is a we'll
known newspaper man in the New
England field. For several years he
has been connected with Boston news
papers, both in the editorial and adj
vertising departments. He has served
on the staffs of the Boston Post, Jour-
nal and Traveller, but comes to Lynn
from Manchester, N. H., where he was
affiliated with the editorial staff of
the Manchester Union Leader, the
largest newspaper in New Hampshire
and one of the largest IN New Eng
land outside Boston.
DR.. Albert Smith Bickmore, who died
wednesday night, Aug. 10, from pneu-
monia, was born at St, George, Me-,
on March 1, 1889. He was graduated
from Dartmouth in 1860 and for the
next four years studied with Prof.
Louis Agassiz in the Lawrence Scien-
tific School Of Harvard University. AS
child of years he went to France
with his father, and that voyage in
spired him with an abiding love Of ma
ture and the desire to travel. While
studying with Prof. Agassiz he became
assistant In the Harvard Museum and
went to Bermuda to collect fer that In
stitution, In the Civil War he served
with the Fourty-fourth Massachusetts
Volunteers. For three years he travel
ed through the Malay archipelago, then
through China and JAPAN across ST.
IBERIA and through Europe. q distance
OF $4,000 miles. In 1868 he became pro-
fsssor of natural history at Madison
now Colgate, University. In the follow
ing year he aided the Museum of Nat