Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-01-14

Now that won't do at all. The
present generation should keep in
formed respecting the landmarks. 1t
is proper for many reasons that they
should be kept in mind and "Colonel'
folks who used to call him Cap
tain" just naturally ocme to call him
"Colonel'-has had lot to do with
! landmarks. so reporter made an
other effort.
This time the interview was under
the roof Of the pleasant home and the
auspices of a good book which the
host obligingly laid aside TO be agree
able. But even SO it was difficult to
convince him that he had something
interesting and profitable TO tell. s.
"Interesting?" Quite so. isn't it,
when. even though the words are fcw,
they tell of the career of a boy, born
in 1915 when Santa Claus, or tiny,
other clause in law or gospel wasn't
as considerate of boys as in this year
of grace. 1921. Imagine that boys
thoughts when but twelve years of
age he went aboard Il vessel at Gar
diner and around to Bangor and
there shipped on board the good ship
Jennie w. Paine. bound from Bangor
around the Horn to Callao. Oh, ycs.
a boy could understand them and il
them in mind. But how many boys
would have said "I'll stick by tic
ship" when his two companions hear
ing the officers of the vessel were
hrutal-and that meant something in
those days-decided to run away and
asked him to come along.
you see had no place to 60. and
the "Colonel' smiled rather grimly as
he recalled the incident. Yes, the
others got away but / staid. The
captains agreement with me was TO
pay me SIS a month, but at the end of
the voyage he was paying me 81 a
month. From the Peruvian coast we
went to Chincha Islands, thence to
Valencia, Spain, a fourteen months
cruiSe.'N
! OF course he had visions. For one
thing he studied navigation when
ever the opportunity offered, though
! he ever had in mind a wish to be
connected with some big industrial
enterprise, preferably on land. But
he stuck to his work for six years
and his last voyage was as first mate
of brig from Portland to South Am
erica Evidently he had made the
most of his opportunities.
Returning from that voyage he
came to Augusta and found employ
ment in tho picker room of the Ken
nebec Mill of which Daniel w. Will
Iiams was at that time the agent.
The lure of change, the aspiration to
better his conditions held firm grip
on him. And whether he worked in
the mills of Maine, Massachusetts.
Rhode Island or Texas, and he did
that, he did not lose sight of the OPP
portunities to get mp another rung
or two in the ladder until he became
agent Of the Savage cotton Mills of
MARYLAND q position which he held
for twenty-five years and only left
because the doctor ordered him to do
so.
Augusta had not lost its charm for
him and here he came, an invalid
with the fire of energy still burning.
LHc bought a farm out at what is now
called Morangs Crossing and went
into the fields for his health and
found it after year or SO. On the
death of Captain Nathaniel Cole. then
agent of the Edwards Manufacturing
Company, he accepted an offer to
succeed him in 1908 but year later
; went into the Fuller Holway Com
rany. He had planned to leave the
mill business but friends later in
1908, interested him in mill at FL
| berton, Georgia, of which lie was
made treasurer. The following year
/ the severe Illness of his wife decided
| him to remain in Augusta where he
retained his interest in the whole
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