Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-08-25
MAINE DISPATCHES,
SCENERY.
Along the Coast Of Eastern Maine.
Thr ough Fox Islands Thoroughfare to
Bar Harbor.
Special to the Kennebec Journal.
R,p H.pppp Nc Auu 81 1sss

BAR HARBoR, Me-, Aug. 81, 1888
Mr. Editor:
The aptness of Maine's coast for summer
pleasure and suffering, has been time and
or exaggerated according to the feelings of
the writer and perhaps there is nothing left
unsaid. Let's see.
Yesterday we arrived in Rocklaud at 8 20
Supper at the Thorndike House, a ramble
among the lime burners, the process patient
y explained to us by Mr. Case " ho is largely
interested in the business and with head
full of the new plan of using petroleum, a
fuel which is soon to be introduced, we
slumbered until o'clock this morning when
a sharp rap meaning breakfast and boat,
time on board the stanch little steamer,
Mt. Desert with perhaps half an hundred
other mortals, we were gliding smoothly down
the harbor through the fleet of sloops,
schooners and boats which dotted the slightly
rufiled surface of the bay. The passengers,
from the baby in arms, and the sombre ma
tron with gray ringlets carefully prepared ;
the woman who shows plainly that hard
honest work is her forte, and the fashionably
moulded form, built of-what? the drum
mer, the gentleman of leisure and doubly
sloping shoulders, suspended satchel cane
and umbrella, inse parable companions of that
monstrosity, the initials of whose name are
d. L. ID. f., were all there, and drank in the
cold morning air with evident disgust. Owls
Head on the right, Camden on the left is
lands, points, shoals. rocks, bell buoys, bea-
cons and spindles in all directions. Now aud
then cottage away by itself on some lonely
point told of the eccentrcity of its owner,
and the existing craze for a summer residence
on the coast of Maine. And who blames
them? Not /. Browns Island light we pass
just on our starboard, as the sailors say, with
Sugar Loaf on the port beam. On our right
Widow Island, with its magnificent marine
hospital, built last season by our government
AT most OF over Sbu,UbU- lney tell
Us that it is finely finished through
out, and is designed as refuge for
seamen who come to our shores, bringing
some contagious disease. We pass between
Vina Haven and North Haven, leave them
On the starboard aud post-quarter respective
ly, with Barbridge Island on post beam, four
=, . h., bn I;t,1n
ment of Burnt Cove, and away beyond the
first view of Mt. Desert, laboriousy push
ing its head up through the stony clouds and
chill atmosphere which have made noticea
BILE increase in the demand for overcoats and
wooden shawls. We pass Crotch, Russ.
George, Dumping Islands and Mark Island
Light, all looking grimly forbidding in the
uncertain greyness of the very uncomforta-
BILE day. As our little steamer glides swiftly
eastward the granite industry becomes more
pronounced; derricks ornament almost ev-
cry island, large or small, and Names Rock
bound Coast" is more fully appreciated. As
we run alongside the wharf at Green's Land
ing We are greeted with the combined per-
fume of three sardine factories, and succumb
to the overwhelming influence of that truly
American product Little fishes billed in lie"
At Southwest Harbor the increase in ac-
uvity and costume is very marked.
Head coverings are displayed that would
put to shame Russian serf and
make Sioux Indian turn purple with the
know ledge of his inability to kick himself all
over a ten acre lot. Coarse knit wooden jer-
seys seemed greatly in favor, and being worn
as an outside garment provoked the idea
that man had unwittingly got inside of his
grandfather's under shirt or that the Saliva
ton army apparel had sadly faded. As we
silently swept by Round Porcupine Island we
discovered fierce contiagratiou raging in the
very centre of the town. There was total
absence of the usual crowd at the wharf all
being employed doing some tall looking on as
the old Rodick stable went up in smoke. All
the carriages, belonging TO Mr.. Pineo, val
ueI at $500 were burned, the horses,
thirty in number being saved BY pitching
part of them out of the back end of the
building, down ten or twelve feet to the
ground. Strange to say none of them were
injured seriously. Sixteen hundred dollars
worth of new carriages, never put together
were burned. Insurance on building $500.
Not wishing to be mistaken for a National
banker we asked permission of our genial
friend, Wass, to stow ourselves away in
some secluded corner of Hotel Hamilton.
knowing from previous experience that our
and not caring 10 get us wound up, Freeman
accepted the inevitable and good wholesome,
we'll cooked and properly served bed and
board resulted with very mild requirements
of our sickly finances at our departure.
Rents are high at Bar Harbor. Perhaps the
mere item of rent would not be so exorbi-
tant, but when the blue sky is valued by the
square yard and Gods saline impregnsted
air is disposed of at so much la Whit, its time
TO seek a higher level and adorn the noun
tain top with our august presence, which
NAV be accomplished readily by letting the
lob to Cleaves Bros. and Gould, at so much
an hour. With ffty-four horses and wheeled
vehicle to match, Vanderbilt, Mr.. Whitney
and have as yet had no difficulty whatever
in closing out part of our surplus to this en-
terprising firm. Its raining, it's eleven
o'clock. and as freckle easily I'm going to
bed. Yours Huiy'
JAY EFF BEE.