Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-03
SPECIAL
ON |. A. E. ". SERVICE

The following Augusta Special to the
Lewiston journal, while not fully sub
scrihed to by all Augustans will be ap-
preciatcd by those who patronize the
road.
Dear Mr.. McAdoo:--lt you have time
after Strengthening out few Of those
Western railroads. and seeing to a few
chores around the treasury office could
you make a hurried trip to Augusta ami
fin up the electric road so il will run
right? Most any of the citizens in -Au
gusta. YIalloWell and Gardiner viii give
YOU shelter for a few nights, and we have
a number OF kind hearted organizations
that will furnish meals durip3 your So
iourn."
Now after this telegram gets to WASH
ngton, perhaps therc'll be something do
ing in street railway circles in the Ken
nebec valley.
There is said to be MOSS on some min
strel jokes, but there is n whole vegetab bic
garden on the Augusta division Of the l..
a. & ". which stands for Late all win
/ ter" line, or as one woman remarked the
other day, the "T.anguish and Wait rcar.
| IT all the things that have been. said
about the Augusta division, some anus
ing and some very sad, could he collected
IN one volume, BOUND in calf with the tail
inside it would make one of the best
| sellers that Conan DOYLE ever heard Of.
A good deal of it could never be used i'll !,
Sunday school quarterly.
| 1t is said to be the only scheduleless
road between Augusta and the north OF
Russia where there is a common carrier
between Tchakaibskoi and Jegoszinskaia.
When all the conditions are favorable.
when there is not a cloud in the sky and
the wind is directly west, with not too
much moisture in the air, the system ap-
pears to operate fairly weli--up to the
middle Of the afternoon. If ii gets very
cloudy the last of the afternoon, the cars
seem to get lost more or less. and if it
starts to snow, scarchers have to be sent
out for the cars The first flake does not
stall the road. but Il dozen flakes are apt
to clog the wheel. II one doesn't care
where he is going OF when he gets there,
the Augusta road meets these conditions
as well as any line on the western hemi-
sphere
road arc in the plight of the small boy
with the homemade pair of pants in tina
they can't tell whether they are coming
home or going 10 school.
For awhile there was a society lad in
Portland. pittsburg and other western
cities Of giving so-caled blind trolley
parties inviting the guests to enter a
car then pulling all the curtains down
and not letting the people know where
thcN were at" until the destination was
reached. ON the Augusta division blind
trolley parties can be given most any
time, without pulling down the curtains
The inan who could tell whore he was
at some days would be entitled to TO-
shares OF the 'unNatered stock.
~ course people realize that the Au-
glsta division is only a part of big
syndicate, perhaps the tail. 50 to speak,
hut the tail would Ike to wae once in a
while.
& 1t is understood that conditions in
Lewiston are different-that cars are ac-
while. and that in Portland they are
tolerably thick to the human vision. but
no one has Vet got blind in the kenneoec
valley Win the maddenins spectac!e Of
too many ears
! You see. says johnnie when the
kitchen clock is ~ minutes past q tina t
means 10 minutes Of and the real times
( IS j. minutes OF g..
That's about the way it sounds when