Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-01
CORRESPONDENTS.

| New 1ork journAl. CORRESPONDENTS.
 | The RangeIey Lakes - The Journey | ThIthsr-Prohfbition i'm Portland-A' l Rangeley Lake-The Camp where Gen.
 eraI Harmon Enjoys Himself-The At ! fractions of Darlington Camp-A Sure Cure for a DIsordered Liver-The Forest PrimevaI-SIesPinga and Eating-.Go' I ing In'-A Beautiful TwiIfGht-GoOd Fishfng-A Dissipated Chab's Melan'
 chOIy Fate.
 MINeo POINT, Rangeley Lake, July 23.
 ! To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 | It is something of task to get here nt l doubt, but when once here a feeling that if l | were twice the trouble it would be worth thu
 taking forces itself upon you, and spirit O
 relief and conteAtment takes complete pos
 session of you. To-day the good people O New Haven may be enjoying the most de I lightfuI of summer weather, but if it is any 1 thing like some of the days that have passed 1 we cannot help exulting in the fact that VI are far from it and in region where tht | balmiest of winds, laden with the fragrance l of the balsam and the pine, delight oul senses and bring us renewed strength IT ! mind, body and soul. We eagerly infIate our lungs over and over again, feeling that we cannot take too deep draughts, and 1 knowing that with each the blood courses | more freely and purer through our veins. Sewer gas and malaria we have been nc ! stranger to, and have also been subject to ! their facilitating effects. But here no such | troubles encounter us and the lurking me- I mentoes of poison in our system fast give way to the most powerful enemy of all dis. ease, pure air.
 The route from New Haven to Portland is one of such general travel that 1t has few points of special interest, as they have be. come too well known to need repetition of description. But perhaps from Portland to Phillips, via the Maine Central railroad, one of the many ways of going to the Rangeley Lakes, will admit of a few words. Before leaving Portland allow us to record fact that has more than once forced itself Apor us, and that is that for a city which claims to be the center and stronghold of the Pro hibitionists, in State renowned for it's strict temperance laws, it presents more ''awfu examples and illustrates the need of reform for intemperance more freely than any othel city it is in our way to visit. At the Port land station one always meets with 8 crowd of people composed of all classes, from the backwoodsman to the modern dude. Never has it been the writer's fortune to min gle with this throng without observing more or less drunkenness. It is boast of many
 in this section that they can get all the liquor they want, and that they care little for the law. An instance of how liquor has been smuggled into the city, as related by fellow
 traveller, is as follows: Eggs arc blown by pricking small openings in both ends, and when the contents have been replaced by liquor the holes are cemented over. In this shape many ''appetizers'' have been success fully carried into town.
 The ride from Portland to Pennington must be decidedly tedious to one familiar with the route, but to the novice affords many points of interest. The train stops about every ten rods, the villages and june tions seeming legion. The country gradual ly grows more and more undulating until you find yourself gazing at mountains which would scorn to be called hills. At Phillips we leave the Maine Central for the narrow q novelty as we'll as curiosity. As you mean
 the depot great clouds of thick yellow smoke roll heavenward, and looking for the source l diminutive though important looking en- zine, seemingly small enough to be 'toted' l off on your back, stands there steaming and l hissing as though it was "great mogur' or one of the biggest roads Tn the country. The cars are alike diminutive in their construc l tion With the exception of having room ! for only one passenger in 8 seat, they are like the ordinary passenger car. The trair starts and for twenty miles you are whirled along at lively pace, with an occasiona stop for passenger who halls the train al you would a horse car. Hills, valleys streams and trestle work fly by until the enc of the road is reached, and when you leave ! the cars you feel as though you might hitch l your trunk strap to the locomotive and drag ! the train up to the hotel and tie it to tht | fence, where it would be handy for future ! use.
 Here at Phillips we have to stop ove | night before taking our stage ride of eight
 cen miles, which brings us into the begin ming of the Rangeley Lakes. Many 8 travelel
 has doubtless been surprised to find such {
 hotel on the edge of the wilderness as tn Elmwood, which is kept by Mir. Page Every ! thing set before you is worthy of a Delmoni | co, and all the details of ths house are suet as you would expect to find in 8 frst-clas ' place in the city. Our stage ride in tn morning, during which an ascent of twenty | five hundred feet is made and the beauty ant grandeur of mountain scenery form con ! stant panorama. brings us to the foot o ' RangeIy lake. The lake is situated righ ! among the mountains, the tops of which ar \ often lost in soft and snowy clouds lingering | in cotton-like piles until the suns bright ray ! hasten them away. The lake is about min water set back by one of the dams of tn \ Lewiston Water company. Pure water, | stony bottom and quantities of trout art ! special characteristics of it. At the lower ol ! outlet end is situated pleasant, homellke ! looking hotel called the Mountain View House, and. within stone's throw, on. [ knoll overlooking the lake and commanding I a mountain view to delight the eye of an ar I tist. lies the camp of Messrs. Harmon oi your city and Futile of Boston. Here is where one will find comforts that are uncom ! mon to the average camp. "A land flowing ! with milk and honey" with the addition oi an occasional slice of venison, s'spotteG beauties" by the quantity and ''etcs. g whict I we have no doubt some charitably disposed redskin left behind for use in case of sick
 I ness. When 6 man can sit on his front door | step and wait till he sees the trout breaking and splashing the water with their tails, anG
 then can take by the exercise of his wrist ant