Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-27
AT CoBBoSSEE.
A Delightful Trip Down
the Lake.
What III. O.. Saw Along the
Beautiful Shores.
Increase Of Summer Cottages-A New
Summer SchooI-PersonaI Notes of
Those Enjoying Life by the Lake
During Heated Period.
Manchester, June Is. 1904

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the Lake, traversing its tranquil wa
tiers, winding in and out among it's pic
turesque Islands, are not aware of the
great beauty of this sheet of water. On
Tuesday 1t was my good fortune
through the courtesy of d. c. Robin
son, Esq, with his launch pilot" to
take a twenty-five miles trip to differ
ent parts of the Lake, and although
these enrapturing scenes have long
been familiar to me there are constant
changes going on which are exceeding
~ interesting. A large number of new
cottages meet the eye on both island
and the mainland; summer homes are
being planted in the groves and in the
openings; and though at the present
time few cottages are open, there are
the sights and sounds of preparation.
At Taylor's sound, we found riding
at her buoy Jack Taylor's new launch,
Minnie T." named for Mrs. Taylor, the
handsomest launch on the lake, 26 feet
IN length, with torpedo stern; painted
an old India red color; boat and engine
built by Tregurtha of South Boston,
This boat must have cost a thousand
dollars. The "Molonigan Club" to which
MIR. Taylor belongs, has recently built
a boat house. Near by it Charlie
Howes "Estelle H." the "old reliable"
formerly owned by the late Dr. Wilder
| There is primping up of the cot
taSes at the outlet. Bradstreets being
among the best there. On Emery's
| shore there are seventeen cottages, and
more are in process of erection. A neat
little story and hat cottage by Mar
tin & Pushard of Gardiner, this place
| being reached by carriage drive from
| that city. Alongside is Camp Cupid"
owned by E. +. Thornc of Gardiner
! kIlgore's cottage is ut the extreme end
of kilgore's point. Brookings & Buck
nam of Hallowell are finishing fine
cottage, which they hCre to have ready
for house warming on the 4th. 1t is
| pleasantly situated at Island Cove"
Will contain nine rooms, six of which
are sleeping rooms and veranda
Iafound three sides. They have 4
| launch with a one and half horse
power Palmer engine. The name of
| the cottage Is Island Cove cottage"
| Entering this cove is Dead Mans
Cove, grim name derived from the
| fact that years ago the dead body of a
man WAS found floating upon these wa
ters. on the nearby shore is the Dead
Mans Shook" the stump of an old
birch being by the ravages of time
transformed into the figure of woman
i'm white dress. holding parasol. The
figure is very realistic.
Stephen c. Whitmore, ESQ, of
Brunswick has purchased the entire
property known as Grams Point" in
Guiding the Richards camps. On this
point is situated the cottage of Rev. Mr..
Plant of Gardiner. where the summer
school was held last season, a charm
ing and slightly spot. At Wentworth's
Cove. George Wentworth of Gardiner
built fine cottage two years ago.
Here from 1.-THE Bite" you glide
down into Pinkham's Sound. and
spread out before you is a scene of
| cnrapturinE beauty, the wooded shore,
| the green fields stretching up from the
surface of the lake, reminding you of
the
Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood
| Stand dressed in living green
Islands overlap islands, and the great
outside world only appears as you
catch glimpses Of it through these en-
chanting vistas. Three new cottages
have been built below that Of Judge
Webster's-the cosy place where the
Judge smokes and sleeps and fishes.
with nothing to modest or make him
| afraid. Chas. TOwne of LitchfieId has
a nice and attractive little cottage on
| the cliff. Below is the club house.
built and occupied by the ST. Joseph's
Temperance Society Of Lewiston
| From here are revealed the hills Of
Monmouth and Litchied.
We made the trip up the meandering
"Juggernaut stream which leads
from the lake proper about two and
one half miles to East Monmouth
This is the canoists paradise. But I
| will let Mr.. Robinson describe it in his
own eloquent words in his book '"The
| Pilot" THE stream at this point
| possesses charm to the lover of
nature which is simply indescribabIe.
Below the dam and falls is broad
sheet of foaming rapids meandering
down through messy banks and
luNuriant low-branching willows, grow
| ing. partly in the stream and partly
upon the banks which i'm midsummer.
| are covered with lilies, fleur-de-lis and
| cardinal flowers, with here and there
gimpses of broad fields of daisies and
buttercups. Again. just below Indian
Rock it turns abruptly from a high
| wooded bank and flows on between
shores of long grasses. gradually grow
ing cratic and confused, till it mingles
| with the waters of the Jockmeyaw.
and. together. they lose themselves in
the great South Bay
The dam at East Monmouth sepa-
rates the Cobbosseecontee from Anna
bossacook Lake. and it is the proposition
Of Mr.. Robinson to construct a sort Of
sluiceway with windlass arrangement.
So that launches and other boats may
be taken across the dam from one lake
to the other-a project (which seems
entirely feasible. At many Of the farm
houses in this beautiful spot summer
bcarders are entertained. On a bluff
in sight Of the dam. is Camp Serene"
owned and occupied by Mr.. Geo. F.
Griffin of Boston-well named, peace
full and serene retreat.