Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-03-13

h|' coffee accompanied by doIghnut.
and the like were very welcome asset.
# The day for the volunteers
Reach arano'.
,nher beings fortified with coffee thai
mover had tasted better. the shoveler;
were spurrcd on TO greater efforts anc
bi noon had reached to Morangs Cross
ing while the follow-up crew had prac'
;caily freed the tracks on Western
avenue hill from the COVERING Of ice. 4
proportion Of the workers returned L
the city in the express car for theii
MONDAY meal while others. with theil
hunger appeased by the coffee anc
doughnut brigade. STAYED on the spo
through the day.
The residents of Manchester were alsc
out in force. One crew OF Manchestei
shovelers working toward Augusta anc
another crew going in the opposite di
rection Their efforts were fully a;
strenuous as those from the Capita
City.
Jenny Helps EN-
In the afternoon the plow. Jenny.
having surmounted the obstacle OF
iced rails on Western avenue. rein
forced the deployed shovelcrs with
her battering steel nose which played
havoc with the already disheartened
snow drifts From then on the en-
envy retrcated rapidly before the I'D
Nancing shovelers. Attacked in inc
rear by the lake residents and in the
fore by fierce array of Augustans
the snow almost begged for mere i;
and at O'Clock the Manchester and
Capital city shoyelers met at Nor
rms Crossing.
hungry again by this time tie
workers struggled one by one into
Manchester and were invited into
The. Manchester Grange hall where
hearty refreshments, donated ~
Henry r. Cummings and the ladie~
IF the grange, were waiting for tbs
now weary workers.
Rescue Marooned Trolley Car
coffee, doughnuts. sandwiches and ap
pies again had their reviyifying effec
and the Augusta shovelers, augmentel
now b. those from Manchester. pushe,
on. By night they had reached neari,
10 Island Park station. digging out {
trolley car which had been stalled OF
that spot since February Il. Three cars
Including this one, carried the cold
hungry and weary men back to thu
city, the last entering the city at 80
o'clock
Valiant Work East Siders
The Army of the East Side made grea
headvay Friday along the line of at
lack, the Observation-Disclosures >electri
car tracks, the 80 strong forces pick
ing, hacking and shoveling their va.
steadily along. The roadbed was mas
ct ice, not soft, easily chopped ice. Blu
a hard, solid CONCEALED mass that yield
ed only after the most strenuous labor
t'rhis ice was the greatest obstacle o
the whole attack, as the big expires
blow could do nothing. BY night tn
workers had reached to Worthle!s.
There wasn't any singing and th2r
wasn't any brass band TO cheer III
men along their way. but the FIRE
uuent visits of the coffee doughnui
cookie cart warmed their spirits AM
FASTENED the work along. The Sal
walton Army served doughnuts &
all the men on the line. Henr,
Springer. not to he outdonc, pasSe(
out sandwiches which could not ~
aurpassed. The Ladies Auxiliary -
She American Legion did great WORT
also in furnishing hot coffee an
other refreshments for the men.
No Sisekers Present
4 man without a shovel was
strange sight indeed and some PEG
pie hardly knew their nearest friend
when Friend Shoveler was all dresses
up in his shovel-suit.
The huge mound of solid ice at tn
crossing at Pettingilrs Corner vanishe
under the persistent blow and pick Q
the shovelers' attack and they speede
along in great style. one man pickin
out the ice in the line of the rails az
The other man shoveling it away.
The squads on the east side woke
in two sections. one starting at Pettir
y,ll's Corner and the Cony High stu
dents starting at point some distanc
up the line towards Watervilie.
Quotes Civil War Slogan
We will fight along this line if i
lakes all day" said one of Augusta
leading citizens behind the shovel
Thursday forenoon as he straighten
I'd up to take a deep breath befor'
attacking another shovelful of ice.
Il broke my shovel" was the ans
wer which one man gave when ask
I'd why he wasn't shoveling. H
doubtless had very sufficient rea
son for not working just then, bu
tht lack of a snow shovel on Frida!
was indeed a deplorahle one. Snow
sbovels were at a premium and ever
the old coal shovel from the celia
bin was Called into action. SOM
shovels were large and some wer'
small, but what did that matter j
The spirit behind it was big?
Svpt. Bowie Busy Man
william Bowie. superintendent Of tn
electric road. acted as generalissim
and liason officer of both offensive'
plying back and forth and keeping !
touch with both the Winthrop and Wa
tervile lines. He stated last evenin
that he could not find words enough t
express his appreciation of the unselfis