Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1899-09-05
OVER THE SUNRISE Rours.
EXCURSION or THE MAINE PRESS Asso-
CITATION TO WASHINGTON COUNTY.

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CITATION TO WASHINGTON COUNTY.
FOURTH AND LAST LETTER. WHICH
! RELATES VARIOUS EVENTS AT Ex-
! cEEDISG GREAT LENGTH.
| The banquet Of Friday night ct th
Ne-mat-ta-no, at which / was not pres
ent, Ia described by those who wer
there as hitting close to our week o
entertainment. / was assured BY ON
of those present, that short time Be
fore he sat at banquet which was civ
en- by man Of wealth, without limiting
the cost, and that with the exception o.
a semi-clrcle OF wine glasses which wer'
kept filed at the last-named banquet, tht
sfiair at the Ne-mat-ta-no was its squa
In every respect. After some three hour
had been consumed in disposing OF tht
several courses, a pleasant session oi
sfter-dinner talk was had, at which Mr.
M. N. Rich presided, and remarks wer>
made by several members Of the assOcta-
ton, Mr.. Curran, and Mr.. Pierce, thu
host, whose remarks were mainly de-
scriptive of life In Jamaica. Mayor
Lesvitt of Esstport, the members OF th<
city council and the board OF trade, had
been invited to this banquet, but the fog
shut In; and while the captain OF th<
Alice would agree to take them to the
hotel, he would not take them bach
until morning. So they decided to stay
at home. II they had come, they might
as well have stayed, for our party didn'i
get to bed Till the small hours Of thf
morning. and had to turn out again be-
fore daylight to catch their train.
Meanwhile | was speeding westward,
with the prospect Of getting fairly
comfortable nights sleep, and had had
my berth made up early 10 enjoy it.
WAS getting deliciously drowsy, when
heard stir aud talk about all the pas
sengers having TO change cars. sleep
lily chuckled TO myself at the Ignorance
OF some people, for knew was 10 q
through car; but pretty soon the con-
ductor and porter came through and
poked their heads into the berths and
informed us thst all the passengers had
got TO transfer around n wreck.
I set out TO tell them that had paid
for nv berth, and should stay In II, and
they could dump their old car over the
bank or leave lt anywhere else that they
wanted to; but concluding that would
better 90 along, now had got started,
dug myself out, rubbed my eyes open,
and stumbled through the dark, around
half mile OF wrecking train and other
stuff, 10 another train. Three freight
cars had been derailed In the accident,
and they had had time TO clear up only
about half the wreckAge.
After long time consumed In making
the transfer. we moved on. When We
got TO Washington Junction, IL was mid
night, and we were an hour and half
late. Here they announced that our train
would go through to Bangor, but that
we were so late the Portland train
wouldn't wait for Us. That knocked
me out on getting home Saturday mofn-
ing. pulled out my time tables and
made some hasty calculations, resulting
In decision 10 get some slcep and re-
Join the party the next day; 90, ss the
train pulled into the next station, Ellis
worth, gathered up my traps, jumped
of, wrote my name on the register Of
the American House, and went to bed.
The train which brought our party Ar
rived In Ellsworth little before noon
on Saturday; and about half an hour
before train time the proprietor OF the
hotel informed me that portion OF our
party hsd telephoned to him, saying
that a dozen of them were going TO stop
of, take dinner with him and 90 to Bar
Harbor TO spend Sunday. j thought the
situation over, counted my money, and
made second lightning change OF plan.
And so II happened, that when the
train came in, did not get aboard and
90 homs with the larger crowd, but In
stead Joined the Bar Hsrbor party, and
went back to the American House.
The original intention had been 70 20
Bar Harbor Saturday night, but finding
that our Ellsworth friends insisted upon
entertaining Us during both afternoon
and evening, and that We could stay
there not only pleasantly and comfort
ably, but at considerably less expense,
we decided TO wait until Sunday morn.
Ing before going to Bar Hsrbor.
We were the invited guests for the
afternoon Of two members OF the Press
Association, X. N. Campbell OF the Els
worth Enterprise and y. w. Rollins OF
the Ellsworth American. They said they
wanted to give as blackboard ride
around town and then 20 out TO the club
house and have little lunch. We took
the blackboard ride around the city,
which Is q city OF many pleasant homes
and some elegant residences, by far the
most notable Of which Is that OF Senator
Hale, on the top Of the hill, east Of the
city, with extensive tree-covered grounds
around IL.
From the town We drove out to the
club house Of the Nicolin Club. This
club 10 composed Of leading men Of Els
worth. and has q club house about six
miles from town, on the shore Of what 10
sometimes called Nicoliu Lake, bot more
frequently, according TO our unpoettcai
Yankee style, Branch Pond. IL 10
beautiful sheet of water, and the club
house, though built in the ordinary style
of summer cottages, without finish, ID
furnished for the highest degree OF COM
fort. A steward Is kept there the year
around.
had begun to wonder, before We
reached the club house, II our lunch
wasn't going to "spotl our supper" but
ceased to wonder when, after we had
disported ourselves on the shore for q
time with great pleasure, We were called
to sit down. Lunch is q very elastic
term, and In this instance 1t covered
most appetizing supper, ut which our
hosts did the honors admirably. The
steward Of the club is particularly noted
for his biscuits and his doughnuts, and
his reputation IL fully earned; and after
lunch the ladies Of the party invaded the
kitchen 10 q body and interviewed him,
to find out how he made them.
Our return to the city was just In time
to enable rs to accept the courtesy OF
seats for the evening, rendered "a by the
Morrison Comedy Co., which was play
ing weeks stand In the place. The
play was old enoAgh to shave It's time"
-"Ten Nights In Bar Room"-but was
well played, and with some good spec
ialties, gave US very pleasant evening.
The sun rose Sunday morning on -
beautiful summer day 10 ever'was seen,
but we did not get to Bar Harbor, and
our expectations OF qsiet and pleasant
days enjoyment were rudely disap-
pointed.
We took a regular Sunday train which
leaves Ellsworth between and 10. The
war ships were 10 the harbor, and we
knew In vague sort Of way that the
Maine Central was running excursion
trains on that day; but probably none
Of US bad fully realized that we were TO
be part Of crowded Sunday excursion,
or had thought of the jam into which we
would get. Our train had two engines,
With twelve or more cars, all filed about
to the limit Of their standing room. We