Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-10
Maine Gossip
THE rIMELEss THINGS

Men write their names on marble, and
In little day
The wind-rush and the rain-wash erase
them quite away.
Men build them halls of grahite-and
Times ironic hand
Makes of their grandeur at the last but
rubble in the sand,
The towers of Troy and Babylon have
withered. bronze and stone;
The names of Nineveh and Tyre are
wind and dust alone.
They heaped their beams to heaven
they delved earths Utmost deeps-
And the slow turf alone may mark
where their dead pride now sleeps.
But frmer far than marble are stones
of mortal trust
And human hearts remember when
granite turns to dust;
And he who builds for human needs,
for service tried and sure.
While faith and honor fame undimmed.
his work will yet endure.
O builders, toilers, artisans, hewers Of
wood or stone,
Toi!er and task are dust at last; the
dream remains alone,
So let the FIRE Of high resolve harden
the baser clay
That Time may test your work at last
and turn. repulsed, away.
Ted Olson. in Forbes Magazine
IN. ".
The Portland Veteran Firemen's
Association has voted to attend the
muster to be held at Newburyport.
Mass, Friday. October u. Columbus
Day.
1t will cost Portland $3.50 because
of runaway steam road roller
which it owns. Two commissioners,
representing the city and the owner
of the damaged dwelling at Maison
and Winthrop streets. Mrs. Margaret
Gerahty. SO report. Mrs. Gerahty's
house WIS moved off its foundations
and nearly upset on Aug. 20.
While the subject for the Bates
Oxford debate at Lewiston. Sept -
has not been definitely decided on. 1t
is not improbable that it will relate
to the wisdom and right of France
entering the Ruhr. If the League of
Nations is the topic. Bates will take
the negative on the issue of Amer
ica's entering.
There are three handtubs in Bath,
the Senator Baxter. Sagadahock and
old Kennebec. Down in Parker
Head there is another old time ma
chine but it has not been in use since
the big fire in that village IN 1917.
1t is one of the old timers and a relic
of the days when the hand engines
were the chief instrument of protec-
ton against fires.
Speaking of the recent earthquake
in Japan, and the big typhoon at
Hong Kong a few weeks ago. Capt.
Frank G. burlington of Bath recalled
the tragedy in 1906 when Hong Kong
was visited by a great typhoon, one
Of the worst in it's history. During
that storm Capt. Puringtons steamer
was in port at Hong Kong and 1t
was one Of the four of the more than
so ships in the harbor. which es-
capped damage. Many of the vessels
were in port undergoing repairs and
could not get underway to prevent
being swept up by the sea. The
captains steamer. although at an
Choir, was kept at half speed ahead
all of the time the typhoon was on
and escaped damage. In the same
gale Capt. Purington saw the Bath
built ship S. P. Hitchcock, which was
at anchor outside the breakwater,
swept directly over the breakwater
and into the smooth water on the
IA feet in the tide in eight hours.
There were thousands of Chinese
living in small boats along the coast
who had no warning of the approach
ing typhoon and large percentage
Of them were drowned. Capt. Pur-
ington says that following the
typhoon the harbor was strewn with
the bodies of drowned Cinnamon but
a rule was made by the government
that any person reporting to the au-
thorities that they had seen body
in the harbor were compelled to pay
the costs of having the police locate
the body and burying 1t. AS re-
suit foreign shipping men in port
there did not report the sighting Of
bodies.
Incorporated under the name of
The Eastern Maine Realty Company,
Inc, the various Ku Klux Khan Or
CARNATIONS in Bangor, Brewer. Lin
coin, Dexter. Milo and other local- T,
ties in Eastern Maine recently
launched stock issue in preparation !
for the construction Of the Khan !
tabernacle in Veazie. This is ac-
cording to an announcement today !
by Kleagle Richard Howell. one of /
the directors of the corporation. who !
was one of the Kleagles who led the j
Klan parade in Milo last week. |
Kleagle Howell said that the Khan !
home is not to be a temporary struc- |
ture as at first planned, but a per- !
manent concrete building. The stock
issue, according to papers dled ct