Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-07-02
QUILL'S LETTER.
With Maine Press Party at the
Kineo House.
Ihirty-five Of Newspaper Fraternity
Enjoying Annual Excursion.
Some Incidents of First DAYS Round
of Pleasure.

iAouse, hiHeO, Me-, July L.
tSpeciaD.-The members of the Maine
Press Association with ladies to the
number of about So arrived here at 7.o5
last evening. The sun, especially en-
gagged for the occasion by Landlord
Judkins of the Mount Kineo House. an
peared to us on our trip up the lake
from Greenville and gave a vaudeville
show which added much to the enjoy
ment of the sail.
On arriving here, rooms were as
signed the party and after the dust of
travel had been removed we repaired to
the spacious dining-room where supper
was served. The white aprOned girls
who had charge of the feast recog-
nized, as they served the party, that
Old motto so familiar in all well APP
pointed newspaper offices: This is our
busy night. Please do not interrupt
the editors in their work. AT $50
when the all out signal was sounded,
the forms had all been made up and
the first impression taken.
Today, the real outing commences.
The committee in charge have arranged
for Il variety of games for the re-
mainder Of the week and, as 1 under
stand they are limited, 1 may take a
hand.
The hump just back Of the hotel ia
miiiarly known as Mount Kineo, looks
majestic, this morning, and has lost
none of it's grandeur since my last visit
here. last year. A dusky aborisne. the
owner of two high cheek bones and Il
pappoose or two whom l interviewed
in my thirst for geographical knowl-
edge. informed me cOnfidentially. UNI
der the rose, or the veranda, that the
big mountain had grown some since
last year / told him / thought it was
the people who groaned as they pushed
themselves toward the summit. He
WIS n philosophical, untutored child of
the forest with q liberal streak of
diplomacy in his makeup and as he
llacidly batted the lid of his left eye
at me, said "Wow, may be"
notice some of the larty take look
now ard then at the big mountain pre-
sumably to see if there are any visible
signs of it's getting restless and cutting
up some Mount Pelee shines on us by
belching forth any old thing of which
it may have an over stock. 1t looks
very docile and harmless at the present
time but should it start in to erupt, my
postofice address would be changed
and my cherished plans of penetrating
farther into the wooded interior would
be somewhat abbreviated.
One gets pretty lofty ideas up here.
1900 hundred feet above the sea level,
and when gentleman remarked to me
that his was the nearest to heaven that
he ever expected to get. l told nm
it was not so with the newspaper
man for man who runs paper ana
swaps subscriptions and advertising
for Early Rose potatoes and spinach
all his life this is but a way station, way
down toward the base. The proper
thing. just before breakfast. and in
fact any time during the day, is to
wear Landlord Judkins' S00-foot We
randa out by walking on it and hevel-
o,ing beautiful ingrowing appetite.
Ore of the boalders, q think he must
have been n jokeD whom / met IN my
promenades told me that last year
man came here from the West VINO
.,,,s,. nretty well run down, when he ar
r;ved. and. when he departed, ne hau
grown so corpulent that the porter had
to knock the door castings off his room
70 get him out / think this must nave
heen Indian legend so common up here
in the Maine woods so | give 1t for
what it is worth.
WAY down at the farther end OF the
yeranda | noticed an elderly gentle
man comfortably seated in cosy chair
with a Congressional Record open on
his knees. He was taking an after
dinner siesta. AS / approached MN
he aroused up with the book IN MS
hand and said, This is the greatest
remedy for insomnia in the world l
told him I had often heard of its being
used for packing cutlery in. on &C
count of the absence of moisture n It's
naces. but never before as a cure lot
the loss of sleep. He looked somewhat
surprised and said he referred to the
air and not the book. l apoiogized lot
nv b,under and we parted the best OF
friends.
II is surprising the luck some people
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