The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-08-06
prices. Parties going into the woods can OBJ

prices. Parties going into the woods can OBJ
tain fit out here, at Bangor prices, and there
are first class guides always at the hotel, who
can show you where the fish and game-I came
near saying are, but meant ought to be. In
the basement of the house Is lunch room
where one can have lunch put up, or get one
from a lunch counter if he is going away before
meal time. There is separate dining room
here where nurses and small children ("little
squeaers' as Mr.. DENIM aptly put it,
can cat without disturbing the rest of the
people, if they want to yell or play base bawl
There is also children's play room ON the
first floor, and reading room, where all
the papers are on file, and writing materials,
and chance to write can be had. After half
own house, and you can go to bed on a splendid
spring bed, and sleep or lie awake, just as you
please. A broad piazza fifteen feet wide, ex-
tends around the main house, and when it rains
you can sit there and smoke, or walk about
without caring snap whether you own an
umbrella or not. With this place to stop at,
with the lake in front of you to look at and sail
have the sand to do it. and pleasant party of
30 ladies AM. gentlemen to associate with, if you
cannot enjoy week you are hard to suit. DR..
Lapham, Adams, Elwell, Pickard, Rowell. Ho-
man and Judge Baker are all about Il years old
while the rest of us have to sustain the dignity
Morse, one of the most entertaining Of men,
Every brick, stone, worm or insect, Is to him a
book in three volumes, and he can talk all day
about a bug no bigger than pin head, and
when he gets done, you wish he had Just com
menced, bat | do wish that he would let me tell
him which end CLAIMS head is on, but he
thinks he knows and as long as he is satisfied
won't grumbIe. Belonging to the House Is u
small propeller steamboat, which will carry
seNenty-tive passengers. She makes excursions
about the lake and runs or errands for the
house. She is called the kineo and was built
here Of native wood. all but one piece, her
stern-post, which is OAK and was brought from
Bath She is a little daisy if there ever was
one. She was modelled by IL Bath steamboat
builder, who came here and built her She
cost about $1,000, half of which was for her
machinery. She has compound engine and
will run right Oft u miles an hour without
using the WHIP and when you drop the snapper
gently on her off flank, the engineer tells me
she will do eighteen miles an hour without q
skip She came up from Greenyille yesterday
in an hour and fifteen minutes-20 miles.
tried to strike mp trade for her. I offered to
swap the May Queen for her, and give little
Maine Silver Mining Stock to boot. told Mr..
DENIM that the May Queen wasn't much Of an
excursion boat, but that she would make IL
splendid hear-e for a water funeral; but he
didn't seem inclined to trade, so the thing
slumpcd through, but came to the conclu sion
that the next time we undertake to build "A
steamboat in Belfast, that we better go out into
the backWoOds and learn how. | took ride in
this boat, and She Is as easy as an old felt hat,
no noise nor shake, but she lust speeds along
about her business, and when she Is going as
fast AS she can, if you want her to go a little
faster she can ard will, and don't get mad
about it either. If there is any out to her 1t i.
that sac is Il little crank-''tippy' mean. that
is if she is not trimmed evenly by the passen-
gers she tips down little on one side. This
could, l think, be easily remeded by ballast,
which could be moved from side to side--but
guess I'll wait till Mr. Dennen asks my advice
He knows what my address is. | looked the
thing all over and have concluded that after
the lake freezes over | shall come up here and
steal her, and put her on runners and bring her
to Belfast. Parties wishing to charter her
during the summer of Sc can address, enclosing
stamp, OUR GEORGE.