Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1906-02-14

one of the most important on the east
ern Maine coast, guiding to safe harbor
storm tossed craft from the open sea out
side and the treacherous inside waters in
winter. This will be in line with Matini-
Gus Rock light, twenty-four miles south
east.
Lobster fishing is the great native in
dustry, and York island is regarded as the
most prolific lobster point in Maine.
Probably the most distinguished sum-
mer resident Of Isle au Haut last summer
is the famous artist, Lewis
Herzog, of New York, who recently fig
ured in one of the most interesting and
important will cases, involving 100000,
of the century. Mr.. Herzog and wife &C.
cupied one of the club cottages two years
ago, but last summer he decided that
the accommodations provided by the VIII
layers better suited his democratic tastes,
and early in the season his yacht Vesta,
of the n. Y. Y. c., anchored off the A. j.
FL. Turner modest home, and the Herzogs
took up their quarters there for the rest
of the season with their retinue of ser
wants.
1t was the simple, honest life of the
Turner's that appealed to the Bohemian
spirit of Artist Herzog, and with his
family he passed the summer with them,
entered into the quiet, pastoral life OF the
people and endeared himself and family to
the islanders.
1t was not an unusual sight to see the
millionaire artist assisting A. j. III. Tur-
ner at the forge in the early mornings at
his neat shop next door to the Turner
home, or participating with the islanders
in pulling their lobster traps. Mr.. Her
zog has been visiting the Maine coast
since youth, and probably has more
photograph views of it than any other
man. Two OF his paintings at the st.
Louis fair are Isle au Haut scenes one
shop scene and the other a fog bound
mackerel feet. Mr.. Herzog's paintings
are in the most prominent salons Of
Europe, where he won high honors when
a student in the great art centres of the
old world.
Mr. Herzog, although young man and
the recipient of art honors to an unusual
degree, is modesty itself, and notwith-
standing the fact that Mrs. Herzog, by the
recent decision of the New York supreme
court, written by former Judge Alton B.
Parker, came into possession OF over
&, 0O0, 600, he is an earnest advocate of the
simple life in which Mrs. Herzog heartily
co-operates.
Isle au Haul, signifying "island Of
height, is rich in Indian lore. On the
summit of Champiain mountain, which
lies 600 feet sheer out of the ocean, is
Crystal lake, one of the hitherto unre-
ported phenomena of Maine. Big Thun-
der, the grand old man of the Penobscot
tribe of Indians, first made known to the
natives that Crystal lake, although 600
feet beyond the sea level, was influenced
by the ocean and rose and fell with the
tides. Tests have been made proving the
truth of his assertion, and the scientifically
inclined tourists have acknowledged the
peculiar phenomenon which they explain
by the theory that there is direct sub
terranean connection with Crystal lake
and the Atlantic, and that in the early
ages the lake was the apex of a volcano.
In summer Isle au Haut is delightful
spot, rather out of the travelled tourist
itinerary, with two mails daily. When
winter frosts and gales come the mail ar
rives by eat-boat about twice week.
Last winter it was six weeks between
mails. and the fair island was as far distant
from the mainland as Labrador isle, but
when the early summers sun came, she
Law as smiling in the sea as ever.