The sun., 1903-06-21
VACATION TIDE SETS EAST
NEW ENGLiNUS CHARMS ARE a
LODESTONE TO NEW iORk.
Nsiuc's Forest Beauties ana Husse"
Coast I.ine--The White Mountains
A,ps OF the western WOrld-sperts'
mans Paradise. and Beio" a Region
Ideal for Rest and Peace and PieasuTe'

tuNn's Paradise, ana beiON NeS'"'
Ideal for Rest and Peace and Pieasure'
Real vacation land lies northeast OF the
city. to the farthest limit OF these United
States, and even beyond over the border
Eyerv steamboat, every railroad train
travelling in that direction will he packed
with holiday makers as soon as these cold
tlays OF June are left behind. The steam
boat piers will be piled high with baggage
and parlor car seats will be at premium
For everybody will be seeking the thicK
green woods the cool mountains, the
breezy seashore and the deep clear lakes
where the willy bass lie.
liza census could be taken OF all the long
term vacation people-those with more than
a week or SO in which to make holiday
who hasten out of the city when the heat OF
July begins to turn the mind to pleasanter
pictures than the glaring pavements pre-
sent, more than half would declare them
selves bound northeast. There lie the
whole nations great pleasure grounds IN
the heated term. To say nothing OF the
States own great park the Adirondacks
and the cool highlands near at hand, up
there are the Maine woods, the White
mountains. where the wind tempers the
summers sun, the bracing shore Of Maine,
Massachusetts and the whole New England
coast, the Sound beaches and the country
of the Berk shres, where the land of the
Puritans is at it, best,
First of all, il is the country for all the
city folks who would be hardy. Within It's
bounds are the rich mans Newport. the
fashionable Bar Harbor and Narragansett
Pier, Manchest er- by-tl e-Sea and a long
line of beach palaces where style and dis
play have their court All classes of people
travel northeast az summer reaches its
height. y.
But most of all ii is the woods and the
free life in hem, he wild coast line and the
surf-hammercd sands that are the attrac-
ton. There's canvas-cased fishing rod
and a gun case in at least every other little
group that sets out along that road, and
the baggage piles contain as many sweaters.
rough tweed coats and heavy shoes AZ
i'm naculatc, linen and spotless duck
garments New England's attractions
wouldn't he half so potent II the trout and
the bass we're not there and some dire
calamity should turn the deer and the
small game from theJ usual coverts.
Down IN Wall Street in the private office
of the head of great firm whose deals are
in many figures, there is photograph
OF woBderfuly fat and husky bass. He
surely was wonder, that bass. In all the
lake region I which he bossed it under
water there was no other Of such size and
weight. Then one day he tried a tussle
for a certain juicy frog with the visitor to
his haunts. and now his photograph hangs
on that visitors Office wal
Whenever anybody in tls,t Office mentions
the word fish, arms gu up, forefngers
point to that photograph on the wall and
there is a respectful silel ce while the proud
raptor tells the story of that battle up in
Maine of which the pictiHe is the trophy
He makes poor men rich: he has changed
he methods and future Of whole industry
time and again; the newspapers have printed
columns about the great things he has
done in business, But TIE feat of his life
about which he il proude st is the capture
of that fat. Iusty king of black bass
That Ia the sporting Instinct inherent
in every sturdy American. II sends them
by hundreds into the WOODS OF the North
east every year and bring, them hack with
fresh vigor for the real business of life.
And it helps to spread the cities wealth in
places which the general prosperity and
good times would never otherwise reach.
Maine Is the sporttsman's paradise. 1t
l
is that, too. Every kind of summer fun has
a hospitable home up in at,e. With its
coast OF hundred harbors and a Thousand
doors il Is a. wild and pict, uesque on its
outer edge as any part of the varied coast :
line of the continent can s low. Islands
ton cluster about its heat lands. They
are Of all proportions. from q. few rods to
a few miles and the yachts man coasting
among them or tive tourist coming upon a
view OF them from the land VOWS each in
turn to be the finest gem.
There ia a story to every cne, from XII, =
terry harbor to the south the oldest settle
ment in the State, and to the New Bruins
wick border, and the natives never fail
to tell it. The islands break the long At
ideal for .hathors. These beaches have
been famous from the times when Americans
first formed the seashore habit Many for
tunes have been made upon them, and now
there are along the coast line some OF the
most famous summer hotels in existence
attracting hundreds from all over the
York Beach. Troy Beach, kennebunk.
Old Orchard, Wells Beach and Scarboro'
are naniesto conjure with among the folks
who love Ae Maine seashore. No such
ocean vieSESDd pleasures are there any
where else IN sthe Union. Casco Bay M
famous for it's splendid scenery, and higher
up are Freeport, Boothbay Harbor, Moose
and Squirrel islands, Castine and the beauti-
full Penobscot Bay, Campolsello, favorite OF
Bostonians, and last of all and most pict-
uresque, if each did not have its own in
dividual charm. Mount Desert Island and
Bar Harbor, With oil the beauties Of the
Maine coast conoentrated within it and
all the fashion and gayety of the most lavish
social life this country has ever known
TO be seen.
There is large and a growing class,
though, to whom these seaooast beauties
hardly appeal. They have learned to
know inland Maine. its dense forests,
teeming with big game; its innumerable
trout-flled lakes, its glorious mountains
and beautiful, unspoiled rivers. Those
who have seen this wonderful park of
natures own making, where the great
green woods cover hill and dale as
far as the eye can see. and the only path
by which the traveller can really reach
you cannot touch with tales of the beauties
Of the MSlne seashore.
Somewhege, of course, the annual incur
sions Of the lumbermen have left their
traces In this wilderness, but you have to
seek to find them. To the average rambler
the Maine forests seem as virgin and as
beautiful as they have ever been. The
velvet-olad mountains, the clear lakes and
winding streams are still there, and their
Inhabitants, the moose, the sleek deer,
the black bear and all the scores OF smaller
jungle residents, protected by law against
Wholesale slsughtering these days, seem to
increase instead of to diminish each season.
1t Is al 40 big-2S 900 square miles OF 1t,
there are Altogether that there is room for
the lumberman and the folks who would