Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-10
night in May in the year
1912, The description of that birth

1912. The description of that birth
night OF Montreal, by Parkman, is one
OF the most exquisite pieces of de-
scriptive writing in the English Ian
guage. Certainly no one should visit
Montreal without reading Parkman's
"Jesuits of North America"
In previous letters | have written
of Montreal. Suffice at this time to
say that two enjoyable days were
spent there, after which nights ride
on the Canadian Pacific railway
brought us to Greenville Junction,
Me-, at the lower extremity of Moose
mead lake. An early morning boat
ride OF twenty miles brought us to
klneo. at the foot of the bold and
beautiful promontory known as Kineo
mountain, and here we are.
At kineo.
kineo is far up in the Maine woods,
over $50 miles almost due north of
Portland, and is just a nights ride
from Boston. Kineo, the mountain, is
bald promontory jutting out from the
east shore of the Moosehead lake and
leaving its flintY face a thousand feet
straight up from the level of the water.
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whole great expanse of Moosehead
lake, forty miles long and two to eigh-
teen miles wide, is spread out in piano.
ramic loneliness, with bays, headlands,
islands all in sight. There is forest,
forest everywhere to the eastward,
| northward and westward, with Wind
ing streams and lakes cleaning like
silver in the sunlight.
Magnificent Hotel.
The Mount Kineo house, located on
a morrow strip of land jutting out into
the lake from the foot of the mountain,
is said to be the largest inland water
hotel in the country. 1t will ac--
commodate 500 guests and is magni-
ficent hosiery. The appointments are
strictly first class and the prices ex-
| ceedingly reasonable for the service
given. Certainly Manager Judkins and
| his staff of assistants understand the
art of caring for their guests, and rem
dering their sojourn pleasant from be-
ginning to end. The house is full and
at first one wonders what there can
| be way up in the woods of Maine that
| attracts SO many people every season
and makes them anxious to come
again. But a brief sojourn here soon
furnishes ample explanation Here ev-
cry kind of wholesome outdoor sport
can be had in the freedom of a natur-
al mammoth play ground Early in the
season there is superb fishing. Later
there is camp life in the deep wilder.
ness which has it's charms for every
true lover of nature. Parties go from
| Kineo to the head of the lake and then
plunge into the region of marvellous
picturesqueness and sport unbounded
There are regularly mapped out canoe
trips. ranging in length from q to 231
miles, and the tourists can hire guides
and buy or rent at the Kineo store all
necessary equipment and supplies for
such trips. This is the closed season
for game, and until October there is
no hunting save with the camera. The
latter, however, is great sport and
many superb snap shots of deer, moose
and other game are secured by enthus-
iastic kadokers. AS an instance two
wild deer crossed my path the other
day less than mile from the hotel.
i On October l the. hunting season op
ems and then it is that hundreds O
men (and some women, tool haster
i joyously to Names forest Businesses
i where some of the grandest rifle sport
in all America awaits them For the
i special accommodation of sportsmer
an annex of the Kineo hotel is kept on.
en- the year around. 1t is reliably stat
ed that the amount of moose, deer
bear and small game in the Maine for
ests is remarkably great, and is actual
lily increasing, rather than decreasing.
To the western man it is indeed g
/ strange experience to go east into one
of the Oldest states of the union and
find an almost unbroken and untrodden
wilderness. A. w. Lee.