The Republican journal., 1883-08-23

| Bar Harbor to the Lake by oxen, the trip taking
! 20 days. The trip across the Lake is about two
miles, and you land at a little wharf at the
| base of the mountain. and look up 1900 feet
| 10 its top. You can see before you railroad
! track one and quarter miles long. making an
almost straight line up the mountain side. look
| ing like tear track down the check of dirty
! faced boy. You stand at the lower end of the
| track and look at the top end minute and the
| back of your neck will ache YOU have to tip Your
head so and you must 60 up there in car.
| \ on wonder how in the deuce you can do it,
and you begin TO investigate the Green Noun
tain X. r. You find that the trees on the line
of the track have been felled and cleared of.
| Then what little dirt covered the rocks was
scraped off and then huge logs. rough squared,
We're boted to the rocks with three iron bolts
each Of l. inch iron. Tlmbers We're then bolted
TO these logs till the proper grade was reached.
| when the ties We're bolttd on. all ready for the
rails. The pitch Of the mountain is 50 regular
that in Very few places does the track rise more
than three feet above the solid side of the noun
tain. The track il of regular width guage. and
between the rails in the centre are two wrought
iron tanges bolted TO the tie and barred across
|
fange>, of l. inch iron and about four inches
apart Into this huge cog wheel on the en-
CINE maSheS and As it revolveS the engine and
car climb the mountain. The locomotive has
resemblance to an ordinary one, only the
boiler Is at an angle instead Of being level, and
underneath are the cog W heels. The ear i like
an open car on the horse railroads, and has
eight seats across the car. holding six persons
each. The car goes ahead going UP and behind
coming down The engine and car are not con-
nected, and either can be stopped ut Will; and
the road on the whole i safer than an ordinary
railroad. looked the thing over and examined
the engine 5 toe mails, for knew he had got to
SUCK lhem m ana cla" Tor all he was worth.
~ "ooaIu' ahu ia "e Sot- EVERY passenger
80 gov" ~ II nc u'uh "tlSh over Two pounds,
anu sfa>peu inc Top OF Inc scar IN front OF NM
y Jtlh' "Hd Il FAtlic as lhe pail cIcheu on lhe
"hte'' ana We began 70 20 W tht mountain
ooi'i"'e we eIep' "Iohs ut ABOUT th' pace tha'
Nn'p 5'Vs " ~ ~ ~ "h'n ny 'Iliiihs 'l'lV
""o'''l i'''o" 'ieie "u'"" - iilli' "
"'n' at '"ou' " SO" WIN s'''' put We went
He os''P' steam o'e" OUT " H't"hi' lhV 'oss
i''''e"' we engine I"uhNtH ny ~ pA'>' ana
''l'S III his toe mans and pu>hvd ~ llt NelAs
1900 0", '>'' o'.i 'i'''' 'ii,' ''', "'!oh
y - N4e" Wy" Il ii'> i'''' h'"" nv push i''
~ 49, l">i' 49, ''o>'V" ''''i'4 ~ w.
ST." 'eu up 'He 'I"ch' Iooh'u "ll''" ~" ="
Il pi'ee 'h"l seemed ihc soihS up yep I"o-
"el' HAT Sl"ut one 1901 rise III 'HIec'
la' oeth ~ an ~ q NtH''''S' ot' ''Ntl went
| Il
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~ 'n" "i''" ny V'''no' + VIZ 20 ana u"
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'.
49, ~ ~ - pms
'0'A7 90 o''ioo' "''iin5 io0ii'' P'iIUA -" ~
80 ~ q" o'S'' az : ~ "i'o" 7 ITS ''ie
scope oh Clear uaH you can see most ,Ftry-
'niiS 'AeeP' no" an! o"uH """ nerve enough
= ~, ~ : ''o''l 'i'i'' III io">' : N'F' ~
- "'e'' 20 rs y - 'H' ""Neil! y
-Noi'NPo'' iH' mouse i h'" V'e"h ana wen
h'p'' - 'o''> 'ii"n oiic "ol''N " TVI " u'n-
st 'IeIo' 'hu ny Se's "P from Ihe I"pIe
"o'N' ~ ""s A' ""s ~ V"'i m" "oil"l
gu" . N'!i nv "!i'i"S iooln Is M any " pau
= - p" " '''' '''' =" '''''' Ii
= IT o0''' - IT - sli"'Sli' ~" '"'S"""lll
'NN l"'n''" IL :. a. ~" So '''' II =
one VI 'ne p''''itS. "'iIn5 iooli'> ever ~"
: ''' 0
'o"1 y 'ii0 1T ~ - o'p'''i S'oIN
~ tn' 'o'P''s 80 'ii' 80" = p''ii'
~ '"u9V' nv i0''' 'i'' anu car
'os' F'oo0o' ny loVolLotlN' "ei7I> |" 'onH ana
~ D''''' ~ 'l' It's Noul''l'' Io",' ''l'' :
'''' - ~ ''''' 4o'N'
r ing down The mountain there was Il little rough
7 car hitched TO the engine that was used to haul
~ ,,,, :; f H. l.l r,i w ,
g Is 'ol'' ~ - rs Ho''l' tHi> 81 "'n'
E ahead Of the engine coming down, and a. moth
! ing was in front Of if. there was AN unob>truct-
~ ,.;,,,- tu :; 11.1 n. I,.+> = ,
? :" NiNN iioin ~ l'>NV" '"' 'oi'""N'"' ~
could ride down IN II. and ht sand could. |
| would have given five dollars if he had said
...no I'M ! t;j ,,o+ ;,.. ~ r.l ,,t ,tt,.,. la
t .
! tinS MS consent III Sol Ahu ~ "e ptE'h y
| descend my heart crtpt up my back, and got
. M. ~ thr nYnn ~ tbr n.,L ,nI huno ~ iii >y4
I
stopped III 'Ilt looI Oh tilt mountain. h"' 'll'
view was grand. and when found that | hal
n DOT down alive was Glad tb,t ! rode down in
! - :,
/ 'lle i4eslueHt c"l' 10 sHo" no" S''eP ii'
grade is in some places. as | sat in the ear scN.
l ar,1 times the TRACK nit.had dawn ,o suadnnIv
, 1,.i .,:.:tI a, .i, XII
II MAJ \ seemed y II II ofohe on enlirtIH ana
would get within twenty feet Of the brink OF
the Grad. w. forn / oould ~, tbp tr,.l, ao,in
II -
II WAS AZ those tlihts' is thought 81 'h'l zen
ton engine, and Il car of fifty passengers behind
: me- tbat wanted 70 oct ot1'and sit On thc fence
o , %. H.
ana see the procession so o!' but lN''
: through it, 50 that ! am able TO lie Just as hare
a as | ever rouId I don't expprt ouv one who
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, nevertheless If is rs trup as truth itself every
a WIZ w. u -. ,1,,,,h l,,..,,,. 4 !
a Justice to Mount Desert for Bar Harbor is bu
/ a SINAI part Of the island. There are numer
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