Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-07-15

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few, as most of the party had been oil
other excursions and attended the win
ter meeting of the association, some o
them for many years. There were OIL
this trip four of the five remaining mem
bers who helped organize the association
in lS64-Maj. E. Rowell of Hallowell
| H. K. Morrell of Gardiner, NJ. Y. Ricl
of Portland, and Frank G. Rich of Ban
gor. The full list, including some who
made shorter stay than the whole
week, is as follows:
CA. Pilsbury and wife, Belfast.
l.. II. Murch. Belfast.
II. +. BOwditch. Augusta.
Arthur Z. Forbes, Paris.
E. s. Stearns, Tomaston.
4. Rowell, Hallowell.
NJ n. Rich, Miss +. A. Rich, Portland.
A. R. Newcomb and wife, Brooklyn. n. Y.
John NJ. S Hunter and wife, Pennington.
l.. =. Evans and wife, Dover.
Walter Fl. Rich and wife. Portland.
George ID. Loring and wife, Portland.
r. g. Rich and wife, Bangor
Ira II. Joy and wife, Bangor.
e. W. Robbins and wife. Old Town.
Miss Grace Burgess. Belfast.
Miss Frances " Gulifer, Augusta.
II. X. Morrell and wife, Gardiner.
L o. Haskell. Pittsfeld.
j. P. Cilley, Rockland
+. W. Sanborn and wife. Norway.
=. e HcLeary and wife, Pennington.
W.P. Marston and wife, Hallowell.
Z. II. Bowden and wife, Dover.
After about an hours ride from Water
vile we left the main line of the Maine
Central at Newport Junction, and found
ourselves for time apparently being
whisked rapidly backward over the
route by which we had come, shortly
striking a course about north, through
Corinna, Dexter and Dover to Foxcroft
The villages of Dover and Foxcroft are
in many respects one community, the
Piscataquis River forming the town line
The railroad station is in FOxcroft, but
it is plainly labeled, dover and Fox
croft"
Here we take the Bangor and ARGOS
took Railroad, that portion of it which
was formerly the Bangor and Piscataquis
and again we find our car being hauled
rapidly backward, and have to turn the
seats over once more and lay out oul
points of compass anew. The road fol
lows up the Piscataquis River valley tC
the height of land within few miles Of
Moosehead Lake, and it becomes more
and more apparent as we go along thai
we are getting into the Maine woods
The villages along the route grow small
er, the farms less frequent, the woods
and hills increasingly conspicuous
features of the landscape. The last few
miles of the climb up the hill, from
Blanchard to Shirley, was really Difficult,
railroad building, and the track winds
in and out among the hills in a snaky
course which nowhere gives one view
from the rear platform of more than q
few rods of the rails. The road has beer
much improved in several ways during
the past few years, but when it was tirs'
in use parlor cars could not be run over
it on account of the short curves. Now
parlor car runs through from Boston
daily.
At Greenville Junction we pass under
the Canadian Pacific Railroad, which
skirts the shore of the lake for severa
miles, and transfer ourselves from the
train across the wharf to the steamer
for the sail up Moosehead Lake. And
by the way, speaking of the Canadian
Pacific, if you are ever in the part of the
country where it runs, and do not want
to be regarded as stranger, do not refer
to the road by its full name. No one
along it's line was ever known to call il
anything but the &C. p. r."
The train is due at Greenville Junction
at sos p. NJ, and the sail of twenty
miles up the lake takes nearly two hours
the boat being due at Kineo a little
after I. Nothing can ever be more re
freshing to tired and dusty travellers
even though the weather is far from
hot. than a sail over clear, still water
with woods all around and mountains
both near and afar. The sun, which
shone internationally during the closing
hours of the day, added to our enjoy
ment by bestowing its last rays on Noun
Kathadin, forty miles away, as we pass
ed the last stretch where it was visible
while everything else lay in shadow.
Our rooms at the hotel had been as
signed on the boat, so that on our arriva
it did not take three minutes to get tn
crowd into the quarters which the.
were to occupy for the week. And il
spite of the enjoyment of the sail, tn
esthetic gave way to the material enough
so that the party were decidedly glad t.
walk down the big dining room and pu
themselves in charge of Mine Host Jud
kins' attentive walters.
As to what Kineo is:
Moosehead Lake, the largest body O
water in lake-dotted Maine, has tOta
length of about forty miles, with vary
ing width. About midway of tn
length, Just off the eastern shore, a grea
block of hornblende was at some tim
thrown up into the air, and this bears it
Indian name of Mount Kineo. Its heigh
is anywhere from seven hundred to neal
ly thousand feet, according to the CT,
cumstances at the time of stating it.
heard it stated at different times as SO
feet, 900 feet, nearly thousand, and
little over 100. Whatever its exac
height, it is an impressive rock. 1t
east end is a perpendicular bluff, til
edge of which must be approached wit
caution, and the water at the foot of tn
bluff has been sounded to depth of Sc
feet without touching bottom.
On the south the mountain is les
precipitous, and on the north and wei
it slopes down to the water quite grady
ally. South of the mountain a woode
slope, quite steep in its upper portion
, stretches away from the mountain, an
! terminates in a neck of approximate
level land which runs out into the watt
some distance. The mountain and i
surrounding slopes are on peninsu
several miles in circumference. At ii
present height of water-the highe
: ever known in the lake-the neck of lar
D which forms the isthmus is only vic
: enough for good carriage road, and
slight rise more would make the who
Q thing an island.
r Near the extremity of the neck of laI
q which runs out south from the mOunta
stands Kineo. The nucleus of Kineo