The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-09-09
Our Summer Resorts.

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tains OF on the seashore. Those who have
found such places rightly consider them
selves truly fortunate. And these require
ments are more easily found than the ma
jority suppose. But those who have en-
joyed these questionable resorts one year
cannot refrain from mentioning them to
their numerous dear friends and so, after
one or two seasons, the place where dozen
OF two of people found ease and comfort,
without unduly taxing their bank accounts,
is not only oyercrowded- decreasing the
amount of comfort in a ratio corresponding
with the increase of guests-but dons fash
ionable airs. and it is no longer popular for
the ladies to wear calico wrappers in the
morning, OF the gentlemen their flannel
suits, as they had been wont to do. In the
name of Comfort, do we not have enough
Of fashion and hivolity in the winter time?
That is the season for silks, satins and laces,
dress suits and dainty gloves When the
season for rest and relaxation comes, what
the weary and debilitatel most need is
change change of air, scene, and food,
and freedom from the restraints of bust
ness, or Of Il fashionable existence. Ease
cannot be found. at least 50 far rs the ma
jority of people are concerned, ut fash
lonable watering place. Hence. certain
adventurous spirits have set themselves
to discovering questionable resorts but,
like the western pioneer who sees cities
sprnglng up on his trail, they find Fash
ion treading as nimbly in their footsteps
as her burden Of Saratoga trunks will per-
nit, and forcing them on and ON.
We can recall to mind not a few sum
mer resorts, once pleasant, but now the
mockery of fashionable watering places,
with their excessive charges and equally
excessive discomfort5 One prosperous
season deudes naturally graspmg pro
prietor into the belief that his fortune is
made; that he can overcharge and inn
pose upon his guests as much as he likes,
and that they will all return, or as many
in their stead, another season. OF course
he will awake some day to find this most
Improbable delusion. Ills old guests he
will see no more, and there will be few
new ones to take their places. 1t is easier
to destroy Il reputation than to build one
up; and the hotel proprietor who has by
assiduous attention to hi. guests, ample
accommodations, and reasonable charges
secured goodly patronage, should see tc
it that it is not driven away by neglect
overcharges, and a misery table Let
him beware of killing the goose that lays
the golden eggs. This, however, is pure
ly a business matter for his own private
consideration. Why need the great pub
lie care? The world is wide. There arc
miles upon miles of sea coast and of noun
tain ranges, and along the coasts are shin
ing beaches, and in the mountains quiet
hooks, sleepily awaiting occupancy In,
deed, those who seek cannot fail tc
find places suited to their requirements,
whether they desire to tempt the brisk
sea breezes, WOO the gentle zephyrs OF
the wales, or breathe the rarilied atmos-
pherc of the mountain.
Just now the coast of Maine is growing
into deserved repute as 4 summer resort
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sea bathing, an invigorating air, boating,
fishing, and other amusements, at mOder-
ate expense. The artists made The Amer
lean people familiar long ago with the char
acterlstic features of Mount Desert, where
sea ana mountain are in close iuXtaposi-
ton, and :. everything doth suffer Il sea
change" But il is only Of late that the
summer tourists have followed in the foot
steps of the artist guild, and that the mod
est dwellings where the latter found shell
ter have given way to the pretentious sum
mer hotel. The watering places in the
vicinity Of Portland are too we'll known
to call tor special mention. Wells Beach
and Old Orchard Beach, with many lesser
resorts, are familiar rs household words
to the summer tourist. Camden, Castinc,
and Belfast, each offer many advantages
to the seeker for rest and relaxation, and
these are becoming more and more appre-
ciated year by year. We do not wish to
be considered as unduly eXalting our own
horn, but we think that for certain cooent
reasons Belfast is to be preferred as q place
of summer residence to many others and
we do expect to see. ere many seasons have
passed, the shore from the city to the Camp
Ground dotted with villas and cottages,
and Northport avenue adorned through
out its length, on eithet side, by pretty
summer homes, and the hard, smooth
roadway alive with spirited teams, and
gay with handsome equipages. We have
communication with the rest OF the world
by rail, steamboat. and telegraph, advan-
tages which the majority Of summer Wis
itors will appreciate; while those who de-
sire complete isolation may find it Il little
way from town. Them we have less fog
on this side OF the bay than is found from
here eastward to the Bay Of Fundy Those
who wish to shun civilization, and solita-
rilv commune with nature, will find no
end OF picturesque places on our coast,
where they may build their camps or
pitch their tents. There are white, sandy
beaches, smooth as a floor; beaches GOV
cred with colored pebbles, rounded by the
action of the waves little hooks in the
rocks, into which the waves dash with Il
sullen roar, but to which the sunlight only
finds its way in Struggling beams through
a dense overhanging growth of ever
green's; far-reaching lodges, over which
the sea breaks continually; bluff promon-
tories, upon which the waves dash with
sound as of cannonading; while here and
there the wreck of an Inflated vessel i'm
parts an air of melancholy to the scene.