Bath Independent (Newspaper) - March 10, 1894, Bath, Maine r 11 1 Price One Original and Neighborly East Five VOL. 15. BATH. MARCH 10, 1894. NO. 10 HERNIA is often the cause of much Suffering and that can be avoided by a proper fitting Written the LIFE IN THE Hoi fired in Maine Thirty Years Ago Forests AND HOW THEY LIVE A Start For the Woods and Construction of a Log Palace Fourth Letter From the Home of Wild Cats Chewing We have made a specialty of fitting for many and keep all the latest Improvements in Rubber and Leather We warrant a perfect all -AT- ANDERSON'S Dm ONLY THREE There are teeth of pearly j There teeth And with tenth upon a plate Borne people have to and Dr. i If your - are sound 1 white keep them so. with I Tooth iIf your teeth are decayed or Second come and get them and filled with gold or Saw your natural ( If vnur teeth are call at our -I office and see some samples of 4 your cannot tell from natural To the Independent fire is burning in the office of the i and mine host B. N. Fieke spares no pains to make me Suppe is soon announced ami I am sure I d full justice to loado 1 retire early and the next morning alter breakfasting on some delicious moose I make my way to the house of gentleman with whom I have been T find him putting his horses into a wagon to me Introduce Henry Parsons is a giant born and reared in tbp six feet fall and weighing 225 lbs. He stands a specimen of well developed Kind to and remindful Of the be is a lion whenever there is rdi at on in He asks me if L win y for stumpage if the land own rs will appoint me 1 reply at T will fori a winter in c lying every night on fir wil | en 1 to help a lung trouble 1 1 ride with him as far as where I shall stay for a Mr. Parson was gone three days and came back with everything needful for a winter's Thirty Years Food for woodmen consisted of pork and beans twice each tea and codfish and for ginger bread twice a H. & Deists Over & MISS Tin some Here's the for my new Twenty-five that's remarkably cheap for a one and how well it becomes you MISS Papa 1 believe you are getting ready to tell me that I can't go to this pen in hastily for the Pars A SUN FLOWER OF Oh the the The jovial After the furious winter is How it i How it With its jovial Snow irom the moss and blossoms the sun of the Springs Willi the warmth it Bow it's golden rays Find their million Into the plants and ten thousand Sending birds back On joyful Oh the ways of the sun Since the world was In the million years its course has Millions have But its warmth so weird was welcome more any 1'lie Marine OUR LETTER HERE'S A Who Prefers River Water to a Pond WE When We Can Have Such a Pure Pond as to Drink with an opening in the middle of the root 4 by feet for the smoke Afield berth on each side to sleep a fire In the At one end of the camp was the and at the other the to the right of the door coming into the camp was the cook's where he made To the was the wood a space reserved to pile huge logs to keep tire during the usually badly every stormy day and there was always ah of ashes and cinders living The Practical and Cas HOUSE HEATING BY STEAM OR HOT ' Gas Fixtures Furnished Notice E. F. the night in a Baker entirely in that will accommodate Next day alt and teams reach our camp Two teams arc sent bark to Medway and one remains to for our We propose first class clean away the under and pitch our lent for a. temporary grind our sixes and commence down all the trees snug to the within BOOTS AND Cut Prices I my of Boots and Shoes forthe ilo days tnut will your is what 1 ehall make prices on many hinds that will warrant a Speedy a few of the 1 lot - 1 lot Ladies Kid 1 lot Children's 1 lot 1 lot Ladies Rubber 1 lot Men's Calf lace & 25c. LEMONT'S SHOE 51 Centre 4 4 GEM 9 9 1 10 Cents a Bottle Cures Coughs etc. Drug * were set on each side of the The meats wee cooked in iron kettles slung a four gallon teapot on the coals and the were cooked in the bean Now everything has changed and much better quarters ami food are I very much doubt the who work in the woods now are happier or healthier than were 25' years Parsons his teams to once haul his supplies from the railroad to Besides 'the old style now are furnished in addition salt and rice pearl spices A good cook is the first man to lumbermen and a first class one commands good Parsons hired one of his neighbors who had cooked for lie also hind Uncle William Dickey for his iu wood The Teams Were Four Days hauling everything irom the depot to In the around hiring a William and 1 were making juniper sleds for use on bare ground after going with a wagon as far as the will We started Monday with six horses by land and three batteau We rake a cook stove nearly as large as some of the ranges in large two large heaters and all the kitchen and table outfit and bedding for 20 The teams can haul on the sleds 700 to 900 each and two men can take in each one of the A supply of corn and oats must go for the Our hay we ' shall buy at within five miles of where we shall build Monday clear and All hands are up and horses and crew fed an hour or more before daylight Daylight begins to shine and gives the word to With a flourish of off the teams Six good boatmen are detailed to man the tin ee boats and six others to pull on tow line ascending the I go with the boats and we meet with no mishaps till we reached Grindstone In one of the worst the head boat puts out its tow line and as they are climbing the steepest the line the boatmen carelessly being oil and 11 ur in are in the We over rhn falls without any more and hear the teams coming along the ho ti up and Our wagons can go no We must take jumper sleds We a nre antl the cook is soon on hand getting 1 find a where two crews of us ramped down wet and tired years before It was in the middle of We had but no roof and in the morning we awoke with six Inches of snow upon u.s. I slept sound Cur dinner we push on with the boats over Crowfoot to the mouth of Mud Brook which we ascend four The Teams Divide Their Loads and leave the balance with the wagons and take an oiu that leads to within two miles of our camp lie crew Is sent on ahead to cut the The men small discharge cargoes and run back to the after the balance of I follow the team to get better Wo camp for We a blacksmith IS by 25, set up a forge and anvil in one end and for our ill the The next and lust building is li storehouse for our surplus hay A FEW OF The Business Men of Bath in 1850. away the brush level up the ground We have to provide room for 40,uieu.,u.iuL two 44 ft. in two 28, se build a large room 2-1 by 40 The walls re S feet Wnile building tlie we pierce holes lor one in each en for four or the sides a hewn floor is 'the cracks between che lugs are thoroughly dry inoss on the outside is plastered with a of blue The roof we cover with cedar shingles and a very tough till red paper Healer stoves are now set and doors are the windows put in and two benches 4U feet long set up on bk cks oh side the These Are Called Deacon W & Farnsworth it Clothing P & Crowell tailors John 11 G watchmaker and With the Bath Iron Works and the City of Lowell's UP The are on a level with seat partitioned for men in berth Seme poles lines are strung ' which runs fore dry our at one end for the t wo and beside the stove and to a room is titled the boss and scales In the Now London we find the following lias j nst returned from his trip to ou business connected with the f of the new steamer City of of the Bath Iron made a deep impression on Mr. It is larger and more complete than he was prepared to lind and had the of stimulating Mr. to effect its down where there is business to make it - The City of a beauty entitled to be called the Queen or Empress of the or some name as nig as both of them rolled into Her appointments are superior to anything to be found on any other boat up to Her speed is sure to be so fliat she can go through to New York in live hours if and for seaworthiness and eass in handling she will beat the Mar. 7, 1894. Editor prominent questions now agitating supply for with it brought from pond or For along an running water was more pure and safe to use for domestic purposes than stagnant Near the commencement of the late war a circular to the army was read by a board of army physicians instructing the soldiers not rheir when they have access to running as the was much more liable to The widi a rough sort of four two for company A place is made to keep the in plain such articles as woodsmen need to medicine and The camp for the men is completed At once every berth is houghed down with flr the bedding lamps lighted and a good fire It looks comfortable auu We have been three days building this part. The fourth day we construct an addition on north end feet with a large door through one as a place to store provisions and a chance for the men to grind their axes and whittle on warm The Kitchen and Dining Room call our attention which is connected to the store room or The size is 24 by 28 feet and the same as the Four tables aru made that will seat 10 men the cook stove set a large side table for the cook apd around the walls cupboards are A- by digging out a large and the plumbing is boring a hole through a piece of wood lengthwise and nailing a hole made in the wooden pipe goes through the si e tHe I ought to have d that such a one is put up in the men's part with wash soap and large towi Is and I should have before laying the kitchen that we dug a large Hole in the ground for a sort of for potatoes and other vegetables and reached by n trap The cook and berths in the The door opens into the The whole is feet long by 24 The crew at work on the main roads have cut a road 20 Our Boss now sends them to cut a road through to The rest of us commence to build the hovels for 10 These are built on the same plan as the camp 30 feet The cribs from hollow The floors are polos laid and smoothed with an The horses face each eight on a with a space between 10 feet wide for hay and grain QUITE A ROAD That Described by a E A J Israel G A G W H li B W-P Converse F Wiliard siove C B F daguerreotype gallery Sawyer I Henry booksellers ' and Mitchell & Kendall & Z Hyde & Loring S Davis boots Elijah tin ware etc. r ' A. Smith & S W Peleg insurance agents Elisha books and A I M B a 1 11 House John Elliot F G Sagadahoc John B Morrison Samuel Clark & W D ifc F & John V & O Levi Charles Arnold & ship B T J B X SP D Arthur sail Publishers of Northern K publisher of Eastern A citizen was describing to a friend of his an electric road he had seen while on a recent visit to A little belonging to the Pink poultry happened to be flying overhead and brought to the sanctum what was - Speaker No. just from his Massachusetts I saw the electric road that runs from Boston to Maiden and I tell you it was a us about said his in the first place each car was as big as a M. C. K. R. passenger said Speaker No. 2. repeated Speaker No. 1. wa- every inch as big as a M. C. K. H. passenger car and the trolley was as big as a Ou trolley and attached to the car three big wheels as big as car wheels and there was no -on trolley wire instead of on dfr here but how y did went like A YEAR'S DEATHS Of the Shipping STRONG AND New Bridges for City Public From the report of Supt. Ramsay the Independent takes the following figures relating to the mortality of Bath during the municipal year ending Feb. 28,1894: number of deaths in the city of 174; number of strangers brought 28number of citizens brought 13; strangers who died here and - carried 1; Whole number of 192. Gilts of At the conservatory Slipt Ramsay and staff have just completed three strong and handsome rustic bridges for cemetery and The bridge for the frog on the from the old straight across and with less ornamental The old one was The bridges are plain but neat and a cedar with the bark They have floors will We learn from the committee in charge the arrangement for the G. A. R. Fair March 27th, 28th and 29th, that many new features have already been booked for the fair which wiil make it the most attractive held here for several The committees are now placing the season tickets on and will number of tickets a line gold now on in the window of C. also to the person selling the second largest number a ten dollar gold The amount of ice stored on tie in the winter of 1819-'50, was 5.U0(r;;-$lih> winter 1.230,008- tons have been soldiers were also instructed if they were compelled to drink from pools or to pour the wafer Irom one in a manner would purify it and render it less liable to produce It has also been asserted scientists that if the ocean was not d tides and winds that the water of ihe ocean a lid seas would soon corrupt and dangerous to the lives of every -ing - When the company introducing river water into our villager they had it by our college professor of pronounced and The main objection to using water was that it was the ol cities above us on ilie For answer to this ithe water asserted that running water became pure after flowing a Wilis fiom which water by a suction pump are more liable to become foul than those Irom which the water is raised by a chain pump or the agitation the water by a chain pump tends to purify it. A friend in whose supply of water is the Charles river has a keg of sand in his sink which is changed Into this sand he lets the water run and filter through the same and is. drawn from the bottom of the keg by a and he asserts the is pure and harmless by this process of purifying it. On the other hand a friend in who uses water me that during the hot summer months the water brought into his home by a pipe becomes foul smelling aud tasting bad to be employed to open stream in the cellar from which he takes out a pint or more of dead grasshoppers and small dead which are decaying and fouling the In the article in the last Independent the writer mentions that the patrons of water company in Brunswick supposed for a year they were supplied with water drawn from Snow's brook and were with the quality of the while at the same time they were using water drawn from the This more than u mile in length drains a a slaughter house water was from this supply for one there was an complaint of its The people of your of have a choice from where the water supply of the city shall be for myself I should prefer water taken from a running stream rather than that - E. Ei N. The citizens of In town April 27, 1850, by a vote of 324 yeas to 211 loaned its credit to the Kennebec and Portland R. R. for The first venture the city made in Morse was HARDWARE and SHIP We sell the finest tools in the such as Wakefield & pii e wrenches Coe's Monkey L. S. fine Machine Henry - Hand and AVood Stanley Rule and Level Company's Iron JOHNSON 1124 Front Me. 63
