Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-01

queror. in whose days the men OF the
family were knights of great renown
and bravery.
The management of the new Rock
ledge at Popham say that it will take
four years to get the hotel property
fully Strengthened up. the way they
| intend II to look, with all its parks
and bungalows, and roads and new
buildings, lawns. fleet OF boats ana
other improvements under the plans.
Among one of the additions to the
hotel proper which will occupy site
right on the edge of the cliff near the
old steps will be a sun room, enclos-
ed by glass. The Rockledge will be
ready for the summer trade this year
| The first granite on Bangors new
100000 Federal Building was put in
place last week, the foundations hav-
ing been practically completed. The
| contractor claims that he will finish
the job well within his contract time,
which calls for occupancy in August,
1915.
"A
I and twenty from the town of Lin
coin on Mattamiscontis Lake is rail-
road laid with wooden rails. All rail-
roads were made of wood in the ear
( ly days of steam, but for the past
| fifty years, steel has been in almost
universal use. However at the head
of Mattamiscontis Lake, steel rails
J he rat he.
rought tote-roads from there to the
settlements are almost impossible for
loaded team. Yet some energetic
! lumberman of Maine oVercame this
obstacle OF transporting steel rails by
using the tall straight spruce which
! are common in that region. The small
/ err trees, that is those about six or
eight inches in diameter were cut
and hewed on three sides-the bot
/ tom, inside and top, the outside of the
! rail being left rough. These rails were
! laid on the best Of cedar ties and
! fastened to them by means of wooden
/ pins. The road bed was, of course
! rough and lacked the gravel ballast of
! the modern railroad. The road is as
| straight as an arrow and beginning
at the flowage of the lake runs back
/ towards Millinocket. II is perhaps
, mile long and was used to haul logs
! into the lake in the spring. From
mere the logs were towed across the
/ lake sluiced through a dam and drlv-
en- down the Mattamiscontis Brook in
to the Penobscot and thence to Ban
gcr The road is now in a dilapidated
! condition; the ties are rottlng ana
/ mvriads of ants have made their
! homes in the spruce rails. Grass and
bushes have grown up between the
rails and sleepers. but this mark of
/ energy of a generation ago remains
as an inspiration for operators in that
! district today.
The Maine Historical Society stand
i ing committee met Tuesday at Port
land and changed the date of the an
nual meeting from Tuesday, June 2S
| to Friday, June 26 at Brunswick. II
| was also voted TO exchange publia-
lions with the Royal Historical Soci-
/ ETY. IF London.
A tuneful whip poor-wlil has been
making life burdensome for the Bar
Harbor g. Union River Power Co. crew
which is erecting the power line to
! Bluehill Just nov the men are oe-
! cupying a camp on the East Bluehill
| road. After men have worked all
! day on pole line they are pretty apt
/ to seek their beds early. But about
the time they retire. the too friendly
uhip-p poor will starts his serenade.
When a mans trying to sleep, all the
romance goes out of the whip poor
Wills song at close quarters. One night
recently the bird seemed unusually
close. and time after time the men
! turned out to drive it off. The mo-
ment they stepped out of the camp the
song ceased, only to begin again when
thew had gone in. They were I'M
able to locate the bird, though 1t
sounded as if in the camp. Finally
the bird was discovered sitting under
the hood of the stove-pipe, singing
down the pipe into the camp to make
sure it's song would be heard. 1t isn't
| safe to talk POLITICALLY of the whip
poor-Vll around the camp.
Six Bowdoin men are represented
| among those who receive fellowship
appointments from Harvard University
for the year 1914-1915. The appoint
ments of Gibson IA and Pope IA are
in the list of university scholarships
specially reserved for seniors of high
| standing in American colleges. The
appointments received by Bowdoin
men follow: A Thayer scholarship,
Alfred Wandtke, Bowdoin, 10;
Whiting fellowship. Ellison Smullen
Purington, Bowdoin, 70; an Austin
scholarship, Sturgis Elleno Leavitt'
Bowdoin, '0S; University scholarship,
Leonard Henry Gibson, Bowdoin, IA
and Philip Huntley Pope, Bowdoin'
IA: a Francis Hathaway Cummings
scholarship, Edwin Johnson Fuller,
Bowdoin, '13.