Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-26

Central is the most comfortable and takes but
one day while the other requires two. At the
foot of the Lake are two hotels, where you
will be supplied with good fare, and if it is a
frosty morning bright, open, old fashioned,
wood fire will be blazing in an ample fire
place. Open wood fires are the rule after
you reach Dexter. Tarrying at Greenville
through the night, the next morning you step
aboard the steamer Fairy of the Wave" and
make the passage up the Lake in about three
hours to
THE KINEo HOUSE.
This house is the grand centre of sporting
operations, and the abiding place of hundreds
of ladies and gentlemen who seek retreat
from care and labor, and the enjoyment of
forests and waters. 1t is situated at the foot
of Mount Kineo, and is just half way from
the foot to the head of the Lake 1t stands
upon a little peninsula making out into the
Lake, and as you approach in the steamer
from below faces you and seems TO invite you
10 its shelter A, the rear Is Mount Kineo, a
solid wall Of Jagged rock, on the southern
side rising sheer from the water at its foot
$50 feet in height. A plummet suspended
from its summit would strike the birchen
canoe in which you may float at its base. So
deep is the water atone point where the cliff
comes down that lead and line have never yet
found the bottom. The house has two wings
of three stories each, with long extension
between them, the whole making hotel Of
very large capacity. Additions have been
made to it this season, and other additions are
already projected and will be completed to
accommodate the largely Increasing num-
Der of guests seeking it. 1t is kept in first
class style. No better table is spread at any
hotel in the State. Trout right from the Lake
are served at every meal if desired. A fine
large flock of Texel sheepgraze the mountain
side and furnish the richest and juciest mutton,
while beef comes from the settlement at the
foot of the Lake. 1t is the only house on the
eastern side of the Lake that we could dis
cover. On the western side there are a few
clearings, but upon both sides Of the Lake
from foot to head, there is almost an entire
forest stretching back as far as the eye can
see on either hand to the hills and mountains
The Kineo House is owned by Winthrop w.
Chenery of Boston. 1t as well as the other
property connected with it is under the imme-
date superintendent of o. A. DENIM, who
looks well to its business and the comfort of
the guests. Mr.. Chenery's name is familiar
to many of our readers as the proprietor of
the Highland Stock Farm" at Belmont.
Twenty years ago he came to Maine seeking
health for his wife. He arrived at Bangor,
and hearing Of Moosehead started for it. After
three days journey he reached Kineo.
There was then single house at the place as
now, kept by man named Barrows. Here
Mr.. Chenery and wife stopped, and have visit
few years ago the place being for sale he pur-
chased it and what was called the Kineo tract,
which includes the mountain. He bought
more for his own pleasure than from any other
motive, but has always made the place an
agreeable home for visitors. Three years ago
the old house was burned down. The next
year the new structure was built, but when it
will be finished if it is made to accommodate
all who seek Moosehead is doubtful. The
owner is a man of large and liberal heart and
active enterprise, and the house is most ably
managed by Mr.. DENIM 1t connects with
Greenville by steamer every day. When the
railroad is completed to the foot of the Lake,
connecting with the Bangor and Piscataqus
VI, Gu;1 A.
Maine Central, the route will be by rail and
steamer all the way. Then a Bostonian
may take the sleeping car in his city at eve
ming and the next day at noon find himself in
the bosom of Kineo, with guns, dogs and
fishing rods, ready for game in the afternoon.
WHERE VISITORS COME FROM.
Only a small part of them belong in Maine.
Indeed Maine people as mass are profoundly
ignorant of the attractions of Moosehead.
More Augusta people visit the Lake than from
any other place in the State. Massachusetts,,
Rhode Island, New York and Pennsylvania
are well represented on the hotel register.
The following names will give some idea of
the class of company which assemblies here.
From Boston we find such Representatives as
Hon. Harvey Jewell, T. Magoun, Jr., ]. B.
Glover, J. M. May, II. A. Hill, Winthrop M.
Chenery and Family; from Providence, A.
Daley, DIR. F. II. Peckham and Family, S. S.
Bucklin and Son, II. c. Nightingale; from
New York, Judge Sutherland and Family,
George C. Roberts and Family, M. A. Boil
mar and Wife, Cassius Darling, d. H.
Haight, F. L. Leland, VIM. Remsen, j. j.
Townesand, l. b. Minturn, Ii. II. Cammann,
DR.. l. II. Foster and Wife, Peter r. Strong /;
from Brooklyn, Walter Richmond; from
Philadelphia, Chas. E. Smith, Aubury Smith,
J. C. Pancoust; from Easton, Pa, Professor
Thomas C. Porter; from New Bedford, Rev.
d. d. VIM; from Waltham, Rev. Z. L.
Strong; from Buffalo, Rev. M. rockingham /;
from Augusta Maine, J. w. Clapp and Fam
;lv Hon I A Ricknell and Family Hon