The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-24
THE BAY OF FUNDY.
Crofutt Getting Cool at the
Jumping-of Place.
HOW THEY GET THE SUN UP
No Hot Days. and August Strawberries Every
MOrning-Is the Hub Provincial
The Sardineries.

CAMPoBELLo, n. B., Aug. 10, 1S90.-ISpeciall
correspondence of The HERALD. This is
the jumping off place. 1t is .where Uncle
Sam loses his grip of the northeastern cor
ner of the continent.
''This is where the sun rises, / believe"
[ ventured to say enquifingly to woman
who was keeping store across the river, in
Eastport, Me. She was long, strong,
tough-lool1ing specimen of her gentle sex,
and her back was evidently able to stand
alone, and her fist could hammer beefsteak,
and her weather beaten eye looked sharply
after a bargain, and her jaw was pendulous
and loosely hung. $50 this is where the
sun rises,'' said.
eyes. sir" she answered with a snap,
''and we Jump out of bed early in the morn
ing and pry it up.with a crowbar."
did not express any surprise, for she
looked as If she could do it.
o, beloved reader! this is an ideal sum-
mer resort. l am writing in front of a fire
place ablaze with big wood fire. We sleep
under two blankets and spread. Most of
us wear our winter flannels. Last evening
the young folks had dance in the spacious
music room and fire of maple logs roared
at one end, while we read in the Boston
papers of the morning that the day before
had been the hottest day of the season and
that cattle were sunstruck in the streets.
Then we majestically arose and coolly took
turn in the Spanish dance.
| We had strawberries this morning for
breakfast, and we have them three times
| week, through August, large and savory
and f1avorous. Those are from Maine-the
New Brunswick strawberries, not ripe
yet, will come to the table in week or
two--early in September, | suppose
! Why on earth do people go to Saratoga,
and Richtield Springs, and the Berkshire
Hills, and Deer Park, and Chautauqua to
escape summer heat, when, for SIS more,
they can come here where there is not one
single uncomfortably warm day through
| all the Incorporate months. The health
board at Washington reports Eastport as
the second healthest place in the United
States-San Diego being the first Nobody
who prefers the sea need fly to the
mountains to avoid hay fever, for no hay
fever exists here, and that which is
brought here dies sudden death.
| The island of Campobello lies off the
southeast corner Of Maine, in Passama-
| quoddy bay, three miles from shore, and is,
politically, part of New Brunswick and
Canada. 1t is ten miles long and three
broad and sits high in the sea, washed by
the cooling waves and famed by all the
winds of the Bay of Fundy. at whose
mouth it lies. 1t is a pretty wild island yet,
mostly overgrown with a tangle of spruce
and tamarick but. by an odd incongruity, it
has one of the two or three best summer
hotels on the entire north Atlantic sea-
board.
BOSTON ALooFNEss.
A majority of the hundreds of guests
here seem to have good time. They make
each others acquaintance, and talk and
laugh and dance and boat together with
out demanding credentials before saying
''good morning." But there is a score of
Bostonians who are very solemn and Sc
cluded, The Boston boat brought them
here for 81 and having managed to get here
they are bent on being saturnine and con-
templative, rather than joyous. They look
suspiciously on all new corners and inquire
carefully into pedigrees before nodding.
| They are not to blame for this. They
are provincial and do not know any better.
Boston people do not often get very far
from home, and they are not well &C
quainted with the ways of the world. They
are not aware that the worlds way is to
salute politely any stranger on ship board
or at a summer-resort, indulging in con-
versation with perfect freedom and perfect
safety, knowing that there is an unWritten
compact that the casual acquaintanceship
thus formed shall not thereafter hold good
except by specific consent. People without
this knowledge of the worlds way and the
worlds tacit understanding-tha is, I'M
travelled folks like this covey of Boston
ducks and drakes-are speeches. and awk-
ward like jack tars in picture gallery and
they wrap themselves up in themselves
and really do not have bit good time.
They ought to go around and about this
land and other land-it is the only thing
that will ever warm them up.
THE QUoDDY HERMIT.
This fine cool island is a bequest from
George III. II 1761 that wrong headed ole
gentleman. in what we must regard as q
fit of inadvertence, gave it to one of his
most deserving naval officers, Admiral
William Owen, who here set up a colony
He shortly died on half pay, leaving baby
in an English kitchen across whose cradle
ne had spiked a bar sinister. William Fit
William, this boy. was accurately called
and when he grew up he ascertained tc
. whom be owed his left handed patronimics
He followed his father into the English
navy, endured privation, hardship and
disaster, fought his way to renown and the
friendship of Lord Nelson, became himself
an admiral, and fifty years after his father
! died he bought Canpobello and made it his
little principality. Like nautical despo
he ruled it from stem to gudgeon. Its bow
? was in the Passamaquoddy bay ana it;
! stern sheets futtered over the Bay
of Fundy, and between the larboarG
shrouds amidships, he set up his tai
flag and built quarter deck of plank ou
, over the sea, accessories of his vanity anC
symbols of his lordly authority. From the
cliff he fired guns of salute, and in full uni
form and with heavy sword in hand HI
strobe up and down his quarterback an(
? talked to himself out loud. He made all tn.
: inhabitants of the island fear him and pay
him tithes and an obedience akin to rever
ence. His castle on the cliffs was court anC
church, and he was parson and Judge, higl
; sheriff and parliament. He governed thi
mimic realm and enforced his whimsical
will for many years, and finally, in 1857 h
felt his end approaching, hung his swort
{ and cooked hat on an adjacent hemlock an,
reluctantly died. Mrs. Wells, who ha
|; written of ''The Quoddy Hermit in tn
l Atlantic, says of him, Connected and re
: ligious, authoritative and generous, humor
Gus and ceremonious, disputatious an
r frank, lover of women more than OF wine
his fame still fingers in many tale and ira
l dition."
> BENEDICT ARNOLD AND GEORGE WASHING
TON.
7 Benedict Arnold is one of the chief trad
p tions of this place. Within sight of til
+ window where write is an old-fashione
L-shaped house on Friar Head which, it
declared, the distinguished traitor occupie
as residence after he escaped from tina
embarrassing affair at West Point and &c
out of the country. Here he lived, it
said, and Toasted his eyes on the Unite
States right across the strait, and eve
r traded with its inhabitants.
f have tried hard to verify this tradition
d but succeeded in establishing it by til
It weight of other traditions. tits well know
# that General Lincoln, of revolutionar
e fame, established home after the declar;
d ton of peace. on one of the loveliest island