Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-09-09

one day last week Wfille oneQfic2 LOOK
was passing through piece Of woods in
South Addison, he was suddenly attacked
by an animal resembling catamount.
SO determined was the varmint that Mr..
Look lost portion of his clothing he
fore he succeeded in beating his assail-
ant OFT
The tendency OF the summer popula-
tion to desert the resorts Of New
Hampshire for those Of Maine can
be seen from the following which a
correspondent of the Bangor Indus
trial journal sends that paper
with all this influx of strangers the
hotel men are not happy and tell me that
Maine is attracting their best paying
customers more and more each year,
There is much truth in this, and close
observer will readily detect that the
wealthy patrons Of former years are
absent. Landlords find it difficult to
keep up their former high prices and are
rapidly learning that they must cater to
a poorer class Hotels that few years
since charged four dollars per day for
board are now glad to fill their rooms
with bosrders at half that figure. Even
then the high priced houses are not
nearly as we'll filled as the cheaper board
ing houses. Farm houses where board
can be had at four dollars per week are
crowded to suffocation. But the land
lords bitterly complain and acknowledge
that the Maiue resorts are killing their
business"
Of course the White Mountain scenery
of the Granite State is indeed grand but
then people don't experience strong
desire to return every season to the
shadows Of the lofty'white hills" where
there isn't much incentive to exercise,
The healthy color, strengthened nerves
snd muscles that come from the exer-
cises INDUCED in at our seaside resorts
or are produced by the use Of rod and
rifle among the Maine woods are more
sought.
The FORK Couraut says that all classes
are interested in the protest against
Sunday trains over the York lIarbor &
Beach Railroad.
What Jolly time the Jolly tars of the
White squadron have had in Maine to be
sure.
Deer. moose and caribou are reported
as being very plenty In Names northern
wilderness, but the season for shooting
them does not open until October LIST.
when it comes to being round in the
way" the White Squadron must indeed
be bothersome. Says the Rockland Cour.
Ter Gazette Bockland didn't want visit
from the Squadron as the harbor Is SC
crowded with crafts. big and little, that
the feet would "oBly be. in the way
Mean while the Portland Express boasts
that those who came to see the feet will
spend SIS, 600, and the fleet itself fol
| neckties and provisions will disburst
$4,000, besides the fun of the thing
A Biddeford man who agreed TO pay
for all the fruit another man could eai
\ without stopping. began to feel uneasy
when, having disposed of dozen bana.
mas and dozen peaches the eater begsr
on the second half of dozen OF plums
The career Of Augustus j. Weise, who
was killed by the electric cars In Bangor
sunday evening. was an eventual one IL
some respects.
According teinformatfon recently re
ceived the deceased was shipwreckeG
sailor. but nothing is known about tn,
| vessel that he came from. About two
years ago while the new hotel was beinl
built at Dark Harbor, Long Island TIVE
| of the workmen for Contractor Sawyer
of this city, saw through glass an ohjec
| floating In the water some distance from
shore and upon going out in boat fount
weise and his little dog floating upon
boat which was bottom upward The,
were taken ashore and Weise came {,
Bangor where he obtained work.
How the State Fair people must hav
smiled yesterday.
The Portland Advertiser of Sept. I'll
contains another interesting letter from
the Bowdoin Labrador explorers. The,
were compelled TO lay at anchor for tiy,
days In Webeek liarbor. OF this piac,
and its inhabitants the correspondent
writes: Webeck Harbor Is inhabitet
wholly by nomadic Newfoundland fish
iermen, who pass their summers in takiu,
cod of the Labrador coast. while thei
| winters are spent on the Banks Tn,
Webeck fisherman has been exceedingl,
fortunate this year, and this Is eviden
from the fact that at this early date h,
has caught nearly his 'sfase- and Is abou
to return home. The hand liners hav,
done very little a. yet, while the traps
have Melted Is many as one hundred
quintals at fishing. The average pric,
which a fisherman receives for his cod |.
about three dollars per quintal. and on,
vessel after passing two weeks here lef
4 on the day following our arrival with ,