The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-05-15

will be closed and they win be free
TO cry: ION 70 campp'
The Washington and Baltimore camp
ers will leave here about June %, under
the care OF Mr.. sensner. going to New
York by rail. where steamer is taken
for Portland. thence by rail to sebago
Lake. and from there directly to camp.
Kineo is ideally situated on the east
bank Of Long Lake. which connects with
Songo River and Sebago Lake. forming
an uninterrupted waterway Of thirty
miles, affording excellent opportunities
Ior boating. bathing. and fishing. This
section was once the hunting and fish,
ing ground of Indian tribes, and they
have left behind them many evidences
OF their former occupancy.
Sebago Lake Qndian name for stretch
Of water) is fourteen miles long and
eleven wide. and is one of the grandest
inland waters Of Maine. Steaming along
It's eastern shore in the direction Of
Camp Kineo. one can see on the cliffs
to the right the celebrated images
painted by the Indians. These represent
an Indian wigwam with the chief OF the
tribe sitting at the doorway watching
over the nearby fire that is cooking his
evening meal. an Indian war dance: a
bear wounded by hunter and a deer
bounding over the rocks; a beautiful In
dian girl. who. when pursued by the
white men. jumped from a high cliff
and was killed: Captain Frye making
his leap for life into the water. The
captain. when chased by the Indians,
leaped from the cliff into the lake, sew
enty feet below. and swan to safety to
an island one-half mile away, now called
Frye's Island.
The Poets Waxed Eloquent.
Near here. too. IS Hawthorne Cave, a
favorite boyhood haunt Of Nathaniel
Hawthorne. Whittier has written in his
Funeral Trio of the sokokis:"
Around Sebago's lonely lake
There fingers not breeze to break
The mirror which its waters make.
The rolemn pines along its shore,
The frs which hang its gray rocks DER,
Are painted on its grassy shore.
The sun looked Ger with hay eye.
The snowy mountain-tops which lie
Piled eoldly up against the SKY.
Passing out Of Songo Lake, one en-
ters the Songo River. Qndian for out
let'D, the crookedest" and most inter-
esting OF rivers-there is none like It
in the world. In order 20 cover an air
line distance OF two and half miles
one must travel six and make twenty
seven complete turns. and at each turn
one could jump from the vessel tn the
shore.
LongfelIow says:
Nowhere such a devious stream,
Save in fancy or in dream.
Winding slow through bush and brake,
Links together lake by lake.
Walled with woods or sandy shelf
Ever doubling on Itself,
Flows the stream % still and slow,
That 1t hardly seems 10 aow
Never Grant knight Of old,
Lost on woodland OF on void,
Such a winding path pursued
Through the sylvan solitude
In the mirror Of its tide,
Tangled thickets on each side
Hang united, and between,
Floating cloud Of sky serene.
Buildings at the Camp.
To the main building at Camp IIineo.
no attached an oe7oa tooho -
storage room. and kitchen, modelled on
such a plan and so well equipped that
hey have been the envy OF every hosue-
Keeper who has seen them. However. |
he Hall is not provided with cut
;lass. mahogany furniture. and expen-
i've bric-a-brac. but the furniture and