The Republican journal., 1886-05-13
Salubrl0uS Stockton.

There are few places that offer 50 many
natural attractions to the summer tourist, in
Guiding all modern cunyenenceS. without the
hustle and the dust of most summer resorts.
The handsome hotel on the bluff at Fort Point
with It's one hundred and TWENTY-FIVE hand
Somcly fun niShcd rooms and all the modern con-
venIenctS, with its livery stable and bowling
alley. just i'll the edge Of the large. handsome
hardwood grove. that comes close to the hotel :;
and the steamboat and pleasure boat landing
Just down through the grove, hardly two hum
tlred yards from the hotel, where steamers from
Boston, Bangor. Bar llarbor. and all the inn
portant summer resorts on the coast of Maine,
connect daily. Also the daily overland mail
from the east. west and north, combine to give
Stockton superior advantages for pleasure seek
erS. There ON the bluff near the hotel is the
lighthouse and nearer than the lighthouse are
the ruins of old Fort PowncIl, built under ali-
thority of the English during the English and
French war.
Along these shores are the fish wrirs, where
all fish inhabiting this coast are daily captured.
and of these shores the tourists 90 in small
boats with lines and gafts and catch small fish.
such rs founders, tomcod and mackercl, and
Holsters. crabs, starsh, lumptish, catfish, ETC.,
also the common hamper, congo and electric
cells. And on the beaches are to be found in
abundance all kinds of sea shells. and sea weeds,
including Irish moss, from which blanc mango
Is made, and CLANS, common and razor, guohogs.
horseshoe fish and wrinkles. The waters abound
with jelly fish and scm-jey fish called Squi,lS
which last named fish fills the water around it
with black ink when approached by danger,
and then escapes in the darkness it thus creates.
On the land the carriage roads are well kept,
are dry and hard. with but little or no dust and
for the most part are lined on either side with
trees, Shrubhefy and vines, with all kinds of
berries, and the trees are filed with squirrels
both common red, large grey and ying squir-
rcl> also all kinds of singing birds. Seals and
al rn i'm si,rbt al b,.
coast, and pleasure boats for sailing or rowing,
and bathing facilities and Sport>men'S outfits
are always ut hand. A pleasant ride to the top
Of Fletcher hill, rising from the village, gives
one view of all of Penobscot Bay, and beyond
the bay to the borders of the ocean, taking into
the view nearly Il hundred islands, Riding
north only seven miles takes one over pleas
ant drive, oNerhung much of the way by the
great beautiful branches of giant trees, in which
distance Is the great salt marshes and the Mt
Waldo granite quarrleS, and the great mountain
ITSELF the largest of the kind in the State. In
the town are the great health-givng mineral
springs, to which so many resort for the wa
tiers, and here too is II great mine of paint min
eral that has never yet been turned to account.
Here. too, the great peat beds. and here is
the source of the Blood Brook, so-called be-
cause of its red waters. 1t is best known as Il
trout brook, for hundreds of the speckled
beauties are taken from it every year. On
Blanchards hill is Il silver mine that Yields
SOME le specimens Oh DOtll silver ana gQtt, Dlt
the air in the shaft is foul that it is too I'M
healthy to be worked. Rabbits and partridgcs
are abundant in all the woods and groves, and
beautiful ride of about ten miles to the north
west, over fine roads, through hilly, pictur-
csquc country, brings one to Swan Lake, with
its acres of pond lilies.
The whole town numbers less than thou
sand inhabitants, but in summer it seems as
though each house entertained a summer visi-
tor, who comes as a relative. and many of its
private houses take boarders, and in these farm
houses the butter. milk, cream vegetables, ber-
rics, beef. pork and poultry are all of the best
and freshest of home productions. The nights
are cool and night and day the air is sweet,
pure and refreshing, alternately favored with
the brine from the sea, and the rich foliage and
new hay of the groves and fields of the coun-
try. Stockton is quite as much Il health as Il
pleasure resort. In the village overlooking both
the harbor and the cove, is a sung, comfortable,
village tavern, well arranged and managed, and
noted for its homeike surroundings inside and
out Here are two livery stables and three
markets, and several stores, each of which is an
ornament to a cultured village. This is proba-
bly, the home of more sea captains than any other
town of the size in America. Perhaps for this
reason more than any other, the people are
familiar by travel with the whole world. The
town was one of the pioneers in the temper
ance cause, and as result the morals of the
place are above the average, and IA drunken per-
son on the street would be the town talk for a
season. 1t is quite probable that some liquor is
sold and drunk, but this is so completely an
underground matter that only here and there Il
person seems to be certain of this The people
are social and much given to pleasure parties
on the water and through the groves. to ear
rage drives and rambles along the beaches.
The town has but little industry. Except its
humble farming it has only one mill for saving
planning and grist, two clothes making establish
ments and its fishing industries. The most of
its income is from the sea and from out of town
industries, and of the citizens at home nearly
half of them may always be considered as here
on vacations. This operates to make the town
Il kind of semi-pleaSure resort within itself, and
is no doubt the cause of much of the social
gena'ity of the people. Stockton is u neat.
cultured and happy. boarding place but it doesn't
offer much for business. The people live here
very largely for the sake Of living, and for to-
day. The ghost of Shylock is never seen with