New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-13
SUMMER LEISURE.
MOUNT DESERT.

MOUNT DESERT.
>ECULIARTTIEs OF AN EASTERN FoG-INTFLLECrUAL
sERvIToRs AT THE HoTEL-GRANpEUR OF THE
COAST scENERY-TRAITs OF SOCIAL LIFE AT
BAR HAYBoR
frRoM An OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TR1BUNEl
BAR HARBoR, Mt. Desert Island, Me-, Aug
11-After n week of cropping hitherward by water ana
waiting here in fog, three days of sunshine have recon-
cIed my fate, and this land of shadowy noun
tains the roaring sea ride Homer and the GUIDE
book has become almost an enchanted isle. the very
fogs have contributed to the mystery and heightened e
beauty of the long stretches OF inland wafer anu tue
ragged granite hills These latter are series OF earn
like cones, with gradually retIeang lodges OF granite
sometimes Ike the sides of the Pyramids IN steps tit for
the tabled giants though the eastern side in several
cases, they split down with abrupt precipices.
The fog here is like fleece or some
hing that has substance. 1t doesn't spread out
haze and melt away like steam cloud, but cnSs
together and blows about in long shreds wrapping
itself around convenient headlands, like the hanging
Southern trees, the wool that tells of the
passage Of unucky sheep through thorns Every morn
ing the harbor nicely tucked in by it, if by cover
let and every day the rising sees rolled up and
folded as if by hands, across the neighborng
island knobs to he aired
But a.e morning hours induced by this leisuTely
process, and nobody thinks ii worth while to be about
before 10 O'Clock. l. rising with the fog look about
me and see certainly not what came forth into the
wilderness to find. behold clothed in soft raj
ment gOrgeOusly gotten up III bedtckng OF ruddy
stripe for the tennis ned clad in brilliant
and varied apparel than at home flash upon my vsion
driving by in vehicles ugly and stylish as the latest
English importatons on Fifth-ave.
Notwithstanding the wide dssimlarity OF physical
SURROUNDINGS the visitor rubs his and wonders If by
mistake he has not been set down in Newport or
Saratoga-Newport because all along the fine shore line
with its varying and intervening promontores are
cottages of graceful form and harmonious colors, some
of which with their red roofs and tmbers, look ike
gigantic leaves dropped amid the of pine
and hemock Saratoga because the streets of the town
proper lined with onbalconed hotels and the place
exists evidently only the accommodation of its
mer visitors The hotel registers and list OF cottage
holders show number of Newly DIRK, Philadelphia
Baltimore and Washington people The thrifty Yankee
gathers all these strangers to see his mountains and
breathe his invigorating Northern winds, and
proceeds to do for them completely the famous
Swiss nation of innkeepers." The that blacks
your boots is native with educated speech and easy
manner, and his words the words OF everybody
else to the great hotel clerk himself All are of the
stock, and all give you consciousness Of social
equality. The young woman who takes your order at
dinner spectacles and is undoubtedly school
maam in winter Yet you have indication that they
feel at all above their business There is constaint
They there to do your biddugand take money
And they certainly succeed in the latter portion of the
enterprise.
But the great vulgar crowd has yet invaded these
peaceful waters and fine shaded valleys and ewing the
distance from any great city, and the lack of beaches
md bathing TO nothing OF the occupation the
front by private holders, probably will The
public excluded outright from any noteworthy
ect view; but enough restriction felt give
or less the feeling of trespasser scrambled
around the rocks yesterday, peering into the pink
hoored anemOne cave, where the sarfish flourish,
watching the infinite combinations wave and rock as
the tide beat against the long and ragged projections
No one, who with opened eyes ga2es seward from
Great Head, forget the vision while memory treas
ures earh's beauty. This point is the southeastern
corner 10 speak of the island and the time
te emu OF the ridge OF mountains that wrinkles its hack
chance you look to the gateway of the Mediterra
mean ON the LETT across the entrance TO the bay which
yldes us from the mainland is Sehoodic Point, long
anger pointing silently southwark, with its whitewashed
lighthouse. Below, the foam-fringed which to-day
Hicks the crags lovingly, but which might III another
tnnes the coast with s recurring headands and cOves
where the hshernens boats are drawn up. On either
hand. further out, abrupt islands pierce the waery
level feathered with pines and edged with defiant cliffs,
few scattered sails catch the eye amid the glitter of
the blue waters aud earth and and sky take
after all in northern CLINE. Not here the soft
ST9e son'nsn a sky and yet here With Its own clear
be- Turning about, the mountain line rises behind.
realize that nearly Thousand altitude intervene
between him and the sharp line Of cliff reaching
Gardening forests under it's shadow it grows almost
Everything here less abrupt and it there
lore quite IN epng to pass nom the mo9ntans and the
tager takes her airing, driven by college undergrau-
tmergcs from of the mysterious gateways marked
M but The strange and curysnear object which
tne mountains or go to the beautiful inland lakes,
any number of seats from to four, aud
Is in construction between q see-saw
and hammock. -Four oneinch boards laid side by side
ana hung at each end over axle constitute body
&c may be any length but in the axles at
the extreme ends, without intervening braces Now II
one 81 the longest takes on six or eight stout people
alarmed pedestrian whom ii may pass anxiously
around for the rear end which be the
front and rear almost right angles and the spectator
waits IN nomenlaiy apprehension that some violent
heaye will snap the thing in the middle causing the
hueI part 10 1escrlbe somersault. But, somehow, il
uoesnt ana the cOnhding tourist goes from day to
DAY putting iab IL IL, while the shrewd native charges
about az much for its the New ork stabenan
gets for his welkept carriages.
Inc water craft are not peculiar Everything
be found here from the and the steam Yacht
down 10 the birch bark canoe which latter there are
great numbers. For some unknown these boats
can be had AT comparatively reasonable prices though
resorts Tut canoes also made order spot
Tor those WIT wish TO them. Ladies' fond Of
taDleax, seated In the bows under parasols Willie
the boats glide hther and thither with easy eortess
The waters here are clear the atmosphere and
put Tor their temperature would invite bathing IA in
Us there are those who take their daily dip though the
operation IL performed with celerity
The Portland steamers whistle and the rattle of the
Bangor coach are all that remind OF the outside
woIlo, ana even these seem rude intrusion that
the place The sun hides himself in glory behind
the NILS the last echo OF the
away across the Day and Mount Desert bids the world
goodnight. ~ ~
PERFECT DAY AT SARATOGA
SARATOGA SPRINGS, Aug. 1.-THE weather
toay mas been fully equal to that of YESTERDAY and
saratoga has been favored WITH another perfect snmmer
day.
Inc University Singers of New-Orleans gave a con-
cert this evening at the Congress.
Inc funeral OF the late Professor" Henri Gwynne