The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-08-06
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KINEO House, MoOsEHEAD LAKE, July 80,
1888. There Is no need of ny showing my
samples of geography, by telling you that
Moosehead Lake is the demijohn 50 to speak,
out of which the Kennebec river is poured. or
that it is the biggest fresh water sheet in
Maine, being about 40 miles long and from to
IL miles wide, or that there will be water here
when you and | are dryer than a winter killed
sermon. On nearly every side in the distance,
may be seen hills and mountains, aad the lake,
lying in this immense hollow. acts as a basin
for the enormous water shed for all this area
OF country. The foot of the lake Is about 100
miles from Bangor, and after leaving Green
vile everything is as wild as one of Joseph
| Cooks sermons.
| If | were a river and had this lake to back
me up and furnish capital, and water my stock
occasionally, | should not have much fear of
| falling, and as friend, | would advise the
kennebec river to play sweet on Moosehead
and do everything to please her, for should she
didn't leak, it would be good bye Kennebec !;
but as long as she is willing to let little Of
her surplus stock run over the dam at the out
let there will always be a Kennebec river.
am 50 positive Of this that am willing to make
bets on ii to small amount.
| Twenty miles up the lake promontory juts
out into it, somewhat resembling short leg
| a
| from the toe to the instep forms nice farm
and lawn, in the center of which is situated
the kineo House, while from the instep the
land gradually ascends till the leg represents
Mount kneo, which rises as abruptly from the
| fiat land below, as does a bootleg from the
| foot. or Il man in meeting suddenly taken with
the nose bleed. This mountain is about 500
feet high, unless YOU undertake to climb it,
| when it looms to the magnificent height of u
miles. | make thi, remark from very recent
experience and if you will excuse me for a
few minutes will battle my legs with arnica,
| for feel as If had loaned them for pair of
thills for dump cart, and they are amer
than the Sec'y of the Interior. (Expnnations
of this joke can be had at the Officer AS you
come up the lake the view you get of kineo Is
grand. The hotel, standing near the shore of
the lake, on beautiful green level piece of
! land, which extends back about half mile,
| from whence the mountain rises abruptly, bare
and rocky, except where occasionally in the
/ cracks and crevasses, some trees have taken
root, looking like pin feathers in a chicken, the
mountains side forms a background TO one of
the loyeliest pictures that ever came from
| dame Natures easel. When do wrestle with
art language generally lay it on lis back in the
! first tussle. The hotel is one of the best sum
| mer resort establishments that ever created a
famine in. To be strictly classical it is a rip
per. The dining room is 110X5l feet, and will
! seat 400. while there is room for 30 more to
| look in the door and hate themselves to think
they didn't get down to the first table The
house is heated by steam, lighted by ga>, has
starwaYs, steam elevator and ladders leading
to the rooms; electric bells, telegraph, billiards,
BARRIERS shop, post office and h-picks--in
! hotel except bed bugs and mosquitoes. The
guest is as free from bites The fisherman.
| There is everything here most. am almost
confident that if Il temperance lecturer was to
deliver a lecture in the parlor, and wanted d
smile to dust the cobweb> out of her throat
| that Mr. Dennen could skrmish around and
I find flask under rock somewhere. There
| is Il music room and dance hail. and Mel
Andrews is here with his fiddle, and where he
is there is Melody. The kitchen is a picture of
neatness. Everything is clean and sweet. The
cooking of soup and vegetables is done by steam
while the bread AMI pastry is baked in an old
fashioned brick oven. The dishes are kept IN
closets heated by steam. so that they are always
warm, and the meats and fish are in large refrg-
orator rooms, where they will keep longer than a
promise. The rooms are large and airy, and
one can see the lake from every sleeping room
in the house. The basement contains the bill
! Hard room, barber shop, wash room, steam
! laundry, engine room and servants dining
room. The first floor, the spacious office
reading room, dining hall. kitchen, parlor and
music room. while the second, third and fourth
| floors contain the sleeping rooms. Without
| any exception, the room service is way ahead
OF any hotel was ever in. If a guest uses a
towel. Gas many of Us do,) the minute he went
out. 1t was removed and clean one subsltut-
ed, and the pitcher retied, and the sugar rinsed
out of the bottom of the tumber, and this was
not done only once a day, but continuously ]
washed my face thirty-seven times one day
just to test the thing, and the three dozen and
one towels were removed, one at a time. and
| the thirty-eighth one looked up from the towe
rack, and asked me If didn't want to take q
bath. A hotel towel is little thing. but ah
how much grief and pleasure does that yard
of crash represent? How often have iumpeC
from bed, half asleep, with just time to catcl
train, and doused some water in the bowl
lathered my face We'll with soap, and rubbed my
eyes full of lathcr, and then, stone blind, reach
ed for the towel, where alas there was none
and where none had been since the last new
moon, and then frantlrally pranced about the
room, with eyes shut, trying to find the bell
with water dripping from my face and word
which would make good lamp lighters drip
ping, or ripping, from my mouth and finally
IN desperation, substituting the back draperl
of my only available garment for a towel
wiped my face and tumbled into my clothes
and tore to the office and paid $500 Il day fo
first class accommodations, and finally misseC
the train, and all for the want of one little in
nocent ten cent towel. There is none of th
funny business at the kineo, there is towe
in the air all the time. The woods are full o
them. The walters are most of them college
Students or young lady students from female
seminaries, and school teachers. / don't care
how high toned or gilt edged Il guest may be
he can eat meal in seven or eight languages
He can get fish ball in English, or dish o
hash in Latin, OF doughnut in Greek. H.
can pitch an order in any curve, up or side
wise, or with the drop, and the waiter viii
catch it with one hand every time. As | be
lieve iii Democratic Jeffersonian Simplicity,
just took my trout in plain u. S. language
fried brown. with IL couple of rare boiled eggs
IA cup of coffee and some rolls, that's all want
unless I'm hungry. Now the best hotel tina
was ever built can't keep itself, and venture
the remark that there are many more goo,
hotels than there are good landlords, bu
when Mr.. O. A. Dennen was turned out o