Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-17

Yachts, Sea Meadows, Mountain
Heights ond Ocean Views.
Snecial Corrcsnondence of The Evening Star


Heights Dnd Ocean Views.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
BAR HARBOR, August 17.-Here the
pleasure seeker will fird much about to
amuse and the staid traveller, searching
for the fold of general information, may
fill a chapter in the daily journal by idly
Spending the hours CT a bright day. with
brisk winds, following the water view of
Mount Desert Island. You see fine har-
bors and mount aims, and you realize why
ChampIain named the wild spot on first
sight "PIsle des Monts Deserts" for one
sees a continuous rising of mountains.
with rocks ard pines, which today hide the
scattered hooks chosen for the 100000
cottage.
The winter passed near the Bay of
Naples may be followed by the stimulat-
ing climate of Americas Sorrento, where
is the ''Mayne stage" summer home of our
Chief Justice Fuller, and the camping out
Red Lodge of Secretary Lamont.
All this picturesque simplicity invites civ
ilizaticn to center here, a cosmopolitan
social circle. one great charm of Bar Har-
hor colonies. The little steamer makes
frequent trips across F'renchman'S Bay
the origin of the name due to the cousin
of Louis XIV granting islands located in
these waters to Antoine de la Motto Ca
diliac for military services.
sights Hulrs Cove, where lived and were
buried the descendants Of this illustrious
Frenchman, and for whom Lafayette and
Thomas jefferson interceded in 1877, with
Massachusetts should deed the whole of
Mount Desert Island to him. We can
picture Thomas Jefferson. at this momen-
tous revolutionary period, turning his at
tention to grant a claim in this desert
region. OF how little value then did these
$4,000 acres seem, which today are held
as good as a bank account.
Continuing the trip from Bar Harbor, we
so oceanward passing the steam yacht
Visitor, such an attraction to the outlook
that when one picks UP anchor the vacant
space gives impression that porcupine
island has left.
lined on Schooner Rock pass the monu-
ment and watch the ocean drive as it
winds along the shore with land marks of
red houses amid the pines. Green Mount
ain House. loo feet above sea, proves to
be land light house to give points of
the compass for blackboard or captain
pilot 1t is also test of courage to rush
down this mountain road according to
the drivers account who tells of not stop
ping from top to finish" and no one was
frightened, for it was not a heightened
party-only natives
Seal cliffs give anchorage for sloops and
schooners laden with Maine pine, and in
the inlet stands the hotel with mountain
background quite like primitive picture
Of Scotlard's BallnOral The cliffs off
Northeast Harbor are lined with roomy
,iaZZacd villas, each owning a landing for
the small white sails that fit past the
handy steamer or the naphtha launch. and
one fancieS this is the kindergarten for
boat training speed.
a full ocean sweep as we head for
Somes Sound, and one is bewildered where
we may turn, yet we advance within the
touch of trees on the rock shores, WI here
mountains overlook deep waters. Here are
orked valuable granite quarrieS and just
beyond we land apparently on the mead
owS where within stones throw is the
ScmesVille hotel, a typical down-east white
painted house with green blinds. By the
telephone order for chicken dinner we con-
dude the young broilers are made tender
expect from the opposite cove to see a
f1Cck of wild ducks spring up to invite
mornings shooting, as Maine game laws
ard prohibition do not apply to the sea
coast. A duck, partridge or salmon is
cooked when caught, and the claret from
is swallowed quickly, after the old lady's
theory of the worlds being upside down,
for tell her 'the cup of tea is handed her
upside down, she quickly drinks the con-
tents without waiting to see.
Our little steamers bell of departure
merrily rings and the loud whistles re
peat the calls at return landings, still the
eye follows along shore or seward, and
the eXhilaratirg marine view surrounds U.s.
Thus a steamers trip from New York Bay
memory two of the loveiest water ap-
Iroaches in the United States, and Bar
Harbor, affording anchorage for such
pTincely yachts, so CALAMITY named Con-
pueror, Corsair and Valiant, to which add
the arrival of our White Squadron" this
zenith of water charm surely must entice
hitier for trial speed the Visilant and the
Defender