The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-07-09
EXCURSION TO MT. DESERT
Payson fuckers Bounteous Hospitality.

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Payson fuckers Bounteons Hospitality.
The excursion rendered from Portland to Bar
Harbor by Mr.. Payson Tucker Vice. President
of the Maine Central Railroad, to Department
Commander Warfeld, of the California deiega-
ton; Comrade S. B. Jones. Assistant General
Passenger Agent of the Union Pacific Railroad,
and their friends was one ever memorable in
the history of Grand Army Encampments. Mr..
Tucker was determined that the Californians
should not travel so far as Portland without
going the whole length of the United States
and enjoying as much as possible the hospi-
taities of the nethermost East In his beauti-
full home at Portland he rendered the gentle
men named and their friends an evening
reception when the Bar Harbor trip was plan
ned. Arrangements completed, party con-
sisting of about $50 reported for Mount Desert,
including Department Commander Warheld,
Mrs. Col. Kline, San Francisco;
GENERAL AND MRS. LOGAN,
Past Commander in Chief Paul Van Dervoort
and wife, ex-Gov. Fairchild and daughter, of
Wisconsin Gen. Robinson, Past Commander
in Chief, and Col Carter, Binghampton, n. Y:
DR.. Tucker and daughters, Oakland, CAL; Mrs.
Gen. l. K. Sherwood and Mrs. Gen. A. " Rice,
Ohio; Department Commander r. B. Brown
and Mrs. Lottie L. Myers Department Presi-
dent, Ohio; Mrs Maj. Anderson, Topeka, Kan;
Mrs. Henrietta Stiesmier, Department Presi-
dent of Missouri; Gen. and Mrs. Niche and
children, Covington, KY; Judge Advocate
General Austin and Acknowledgement Alcorn
and families; Capt. George E. Lemon, OF The
NATIONAL TRIBUNE; Past Commander-in-
Chief George f. Merrill, Corp. Tanner and
wife, and many others well known in Grand
Army circles. The boat left Portland at ii
o'clock, Friday night, and after glorious ocean
voyage reached Bar Harbor next morning at
1880. Buckboards and omnibuses were wait
ing to conduct the party to the West End Hotel,
and later up the winding mountain road to
Eagle Lake, nestled among the nights where
delicious home lunch was spread at the little
station. Then a sail across the lake in the
dancing little steamer to take the observation
car to the summit of Green Mountain, where q
handsome mountain house, Gaping the upper
most tip, commands view for so miles around
This is no inclined railway, circlng by easy
stages to the summit. The engine literally
CLIMBS THE STEEP ASCENT
in rs straight perpendicular line as one can
draw with pencil from base to apex. From
beyond the lake it looks like little black
burro toiling up the giddy way, dragging
miners outfit behind him. The engine is an
invention of 1883, and as the clamps clutch the
iron bars riyeted in the mountain rock, one
feels as secure as pushing over the level plain.
So masterful is the mind Of man in wrestling
with the obstacles of Nature.
Reaching the summit, the party disperse
some to gather the blossoms of pine and fir, the
silver lichen and mountain flowers; others to
seat themselves in the mountain house to gaze
their fill upon the sea, while their thoughts
and aspirations
"Sail and sail to golden shores
Beyond the Ephesian Isles"
We were favored with glorious day. The
threatening fog of the morning was lifted and
dotted over the deep blue sea were multitudinous
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shades of vivid green. We looked around upon
the surrounding nights holding up their crys-
tai cups of pure sparkling water, as offering
oblatiOns to the gods of the upper air. We
looked down upon the peaceful islands with
their white columns of incenses, poured out as
if to Neptune and his white-armed sprites.
And then we remembered that this is our
country, and of our God, HIS foundations are
among the mountains. So it seemed our hopes of
united destiny took wider sweep and a
broader range, and there was not a soul which
went down from that hight OF exaltation but
carried new inspiration and enlarged ideas of
the duties and privileges OF an American citi-
zen.
Returning to the beach, the rest of the day
was spent in driving around Mount Desert
Island, with its fine drives lined with pic
turesque cottages, and in gathering shells on
the sea shore. Then came fine dinner at the
West End, chatting on the broad piazza, the
RECEPTION OF THE cALIFoRNIANs
to Mr. Tucker in the hall, and the good -byes
to Gen. and Mrs. Logan, who left with Gen.
and Mrs. Bangs for Waterville the same even
ing, the latter being in waiting when the ex-
cursionists reached Bar Harbor. Commander
Warfield presided at the reception, and all the
remarks were most complimentary to our host,
Mr.. Tucker and his charming wife, who did so
much to contribute to the pleasure of the
guests. With princely liberality Mr.. Tucker
met all bills including lunches, hotel bill, and
conveyances, expanding not less than $25,O0O
for this purpose 1t is not to be wondered that
such gracious hospitality received its just need
Of praise. Sunday morning the party left via
the Maine Central by special train, transporta-
ton free, for Portland and Boston. 1t was
NOTABLE DAY
for the Grand Army, which with its boundless
enterprise organized that day two new socie-
ties, one known as "The Skelpers" the other
the None Such.' The members were form
ally initiated, and SO will be perpetuated the
glorious Bar Harbor trip. A movement. set on
foot by Commander Warfeld, of California,
and Gen. Niche, of Kentucky. resulted in the
contribution of upwards of $3.50 by the party to
secure in behalf of the Grand Army and
WOman's Relief Corps, an engraved testimo-
! NAL, handsomely framed, of Mr.. Peyson
fuckers hospitality. result of the trip was
| the tender to Mr.. Tucker, in behalf of the
Union Pacific, ola
| SPECIAL CAR TO CALIFORNIA
| next year for himself and friends, and Cali
fOrnia pledges herself to return tenfold the
honor heaped upon her by the royal gentlemen
| from Maine. Mr. Tucker is gentleman in the
| prime of life, of genial humor and boundless
| enterprise. His wife is one of the most at
| tractive and winning of women, and California
| and the West will esteem it privilege to make
4 ap,pIa ratu rms for favors conferred
Rosecrans's Advice to yallandigham.
The Dayton CO., Journal tells the following
Apropos of Vallandigham. We have the
story on good authority. When Vallandigham
arrived at Murfreesboro, Gen. Rosecrans went
to see him. 81 wanted to see you," said the
General-"I wanted to see you, Vallandigham,
to see whether you had rascal's face" Then
changing the subject rather abruptly-and