Ellsworth American., 1883-07-19

| Among the newspaper Writer'S vino attend
ed the opening Of the Green Mountain rail-
way, at Mount Desert, no one is more ide-
~ known than George Alfred Townsend,
c"Gath,') whose letters are always filled
with interesting gossip about the men he
meets, or has met in the past, and the plsc-
es he has visited. In the supplement To the
Ner York Tribune Of July l, under "'rhe
! Personal Notes and Notions Of Broadway
Y Lounger' he gives the following relative
to his visit to Mount Desert
last week visited Mount Desert Island
with party of Bangor gentlemen among
/ whom ~ere ex-senator Hamlm and his son,
= General Charles Hamlin, and at Bar Har-
; bor We found Senator Eugene Hale with his
! boy, Chandler Hale, now about eight or nine
/ years old. and resembling both his father
and grandfather. The excursion was to
| open what is confuslngly called the Green
Mountain Railroad, there being on the
island high mountain overlooking both the
! sea and the inland. which has the same name
the better known mountsin range Of
! Vermont. Mount Washington having for
several years maintained cog-wheel and
/ cog-track railroad in perfect safety and
/ sometimes earning dividends Of 40 per cent
the Bangor men put about 100000 into an
! imitation enterprise about five niles from
TIE town of Bar, the journey being broken
by the beautiful Eagle Lake, which is about
300 feet above the town, to which il is at
once a reservoir and fishing pond. A buck
board drive up the mountain to the lake,
and a steamboat ride around the lake,
bring the traveller to the foot of the inclined
plane, which is more than one mile long
and rises in that mile about a quarter Of
mile vertically.
There may elsewhere be in this world as
fine a view as from the Green mountain,
.522 feet above the sea, but | have not
seen or heard of it. The Welsh coast has
some lofty promenades and drives, but the
archipelago character of the Mount Desert
coast is not observed in Wales. Indeed,
Irish scenery most resembles that of Maine
and thought of the Lakes OF Killarney as
| looked down upon Bar and its inets,
which could hardly be distinguished from
the mountain lakes, of which there are sew
efal at higher levels, but from the mountain
top these lakes appear depressed like the
| sea. The forest also and the crags play
Their part IN tins landscape and tie peculiar
| IL lyory-iike sails of vessels in American
waters, touched by the sun, seem larger
nautiluses propelled by some marine spirit
| The fogs are seen rising from this height AS
they organize on the bosom of the sea
and with mililary precision and all the
Jesditiy OF tactics, proceed TO ascend the
| adjacent mountains. throwing out their skir-
mlsh lines anc fringes of cavalry and in the
rear bringing up their cloud of volley- firing
and al last OF artillery, 1t would seem ;
, and from tins observation point one can
nearly penetrate this beautiful mist and see
the active principle al work there. The
hidden conqueror comes bounding on the
mountain top until one can almost touch
the spira!s of his pipe and feel the Whit Of
his tobacco. and suddenly as the air grows
chill, as If all the ghosts out of the sea had
meant TO touch Us, there is e change Of i'm
! pulse or of tactics, and away goes the fog
/ in another direction, and We see it eating
up the lakes and overwhelming the forests
| far below. have studied storms and mrages
but never saw such fogs as can be beheld
from the height Of Mount Desert Island :;
they are not at all universal but seem To be
local. and while one OF them Is ascending
the mountain like some of the GEM in the
arabian Nights" the rest of the landscape
except where he ireads, is bright as Arabia
10 the sun.
The people IN Name generally say that
their present Senatorial representation full,
grntlte, Their State pride. Hale is one Of
the youngest men to reach the Senate, beng
now oni, foriy-se,en Years old. Yet he has
been sixteen wears in legislative life and be-
fore that had been nine years prosecuting al
torne. of his county. He and Senator Hamlin
his predecessor. were born in the same count,
which is next to New Hampshire but the,
came out to Eastern Malre-which NAV be
called pioneer New England corresponding
TO the Western States. Hamin was a mem
Der Of the Maine legislature in 1896. when
| Hale Was bora. | looked with some inter
est a, the old Vic. President. now seventy
four years OF age, and his successor. both
haze-eyed men, and General Charles Ham
| lin, the statesman's sou, was probably older
/ than NJ. Hale, as be has two son. about
10 be graduated at liar, ard College. Some
one remarked that Mr.. Hale was impulsive,
and Governor Haml'n said NO; be never
acts I'LL be has distilled an idea through that
| clear. cool brain Of his" In Hale's Office
| is son of Governor liamln as partner
! Mr.. Hanln has been twice married and
his present wife, who is very highly esteemed
| by everybody, was the sister Of his first wife
Wes, End Hotel The State of Maine. |
think. can challenge any organized COM
nun'y on the globe for the independent
condition of her people. While none are
| very rich, We have no paupers. The poor
system is next TO a nonentity in Maine
Everybody is industrious. and although We
might seem not 10 have the richest soil, We
keep our people in the State, and YOU may
! 60 from house TO house and you will find no
| complaints Restlessness and the passion
| for great wealth have not entered into this
community. A greater degree Of indi .idual
| liberty is to be found here than in any old
State, vet without violence or disorder We
| have some men who must lead rough lives,
! ike the lunbermen, but when they come down
to Bangor and the large towns to take an
occasional spree, it is genial, and they spend
their money anG 90 back cheerfullv to work
again. We are about to settle our
Aroostook count.y with native and with
Northern European element, and it is going
to make a noble valley, Ike the wheat
plains Of Minnesota, first yielding the lumber
ard next the grain. The mountains ard sea-
coasts Of Maine will be preferred over any
on the American coast between Labrador
and Florida, ard we are already perceiving
the influence Of the money derived in this
way, through the addition ofthings Of culture
to orr farn-houses and cabins. Ready
money has that use at least, that it allows
people to crafty tastes that mere barter
would not do"