Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-17
At M00SEHEAO.
kineo Summer Season Is
Now in Full Swing.
Rare Combination Of Woodland
And City Comforts.
Social Life Centers About the
Yacht Club House.

at this popular resort and all the pro-
boating, canoeing. golf, tennis, horse
hack riding, rifle and -pigen shoot
ing-are being enjoyed to the full by
the large number of summer guests
quartered here.
The average citizen of Maine, who
has never been to KineO for a stay, has
little adequate idea of what vast
summer playground these Maine
woods in this section are for people
from other states. Here is luxurious
hotel in the heart of the woods. where
one can enjoy all the comforts of civil
ization which are provided, but start
ing in the morning, by a brief canoe
trip it is possible in single day to go
where one can see moose drinking from
the streams and deer grazing along the
shore, and return in time to eat a din
ner that could scarcely be had outside
of a large city. And this is not the
exceptional experience but the rule,
and every day camping, canoeing and
fishing parties come in relating the
sight of big game.
Modern life is here brought into
close proximity to rough woods life,
and because both can be enjoyed ap-
proximately together the summer visi-
tors return to Kineo year after year
This happy combination is due to a
large degree to the ability and pains
taking care of one man, not yet out of
his thirties. Charles A. Judkins, whom
the old guests here Familiarity dub
"Jud," and by which name he is known
to his friends throughout the State of
Maine-although Governor Fernald has
placed him on his official staff and
graced him with the title of Lieuten-
ant-Colonel. Mr.. Judkins is easily the
commanding figure in this Moosehead
country, and in addition to being the
manager of the largest inland hotel in
America, he has the responsibility of
all the affairs of the Kineo Company,
and they own most of the lake shore,
and nearly all the islands in the big
lake. He is postmaster. politician,
hale feliow-well- with his guests,
equally at home with the city million
aire who spends the season here, or
the bushranging guide from the forest
all in ALL remarkable man, as every
body agrees who knows him. The life
his enterprise and all the varied in
terests hereabout of which he is the
head and center, he carries easily
gracefully and successfully. The conf
plants of the petuant, wealthy guests
he attends to with smile, never los
| ing his poise, and never letting detail
escape him. Manager Judkins is popu-
lar deservedly so.
The social life at Kineo this summer
| is rapidly centering in the splendid new
club house of the Moosehead Lake
Yacht Club, just completed and OPEN
| ed. Dinners are given there nightly
| by the summer visitors to groups of
| their friends. The house is handsome
| ly furnished and equipped. Among
the members of the Yacht club in this
State are, w. M. Shaw, Hugh Z. Shaw,
| Henry M. Shaw, of Greenville; Albert
H. shaw, Bath: M. B. Cleaves, Horace
A. Cate, F. C. Payson, Morris Mcnon-
aid, Portland; DR.. Thomas Upham Coe,
Percy r. Todd, Fred A. Gilbert, Ban
for; c. A. Judkins. Kineo: Roy i.
Marston, S. w. Philbrick, Skowhegan;
w. J. Lanigan, Watervlle. The club
now numbers nearly seventy members.
mostly from New York, Boston and
Philadelphia.
Baseball is a most popular sport
with the summer guests, and as in for
mer years Kineo will have a fast,
strong team. This will be made up
almost wholly of college men, four
coming from the University of Maine.
two from Dartmouth and the rest from
minor schools. The box men are Philip
Ryan, leading pitcher for the Univer-
sity of Maine, and Louis Ekstrom who
was Dartmouth's star pitcher. The
season opens next week when the local
team will do battle with a nine from
South birmingham Mass. Following,
games are arranged with OronO, Ban
gor and many of the best teams in the
State The Kineo players give their
services, the summer guests provide a
fund for visiting teams.
Lieut.. Wallace G. Phloon of Auburn
and five classmates, just graduated
from West Point Military Academy
have recently enjoyed a ten days out
ing at Kineo, canoeing and camping
around the North Branch, and partak
ing of the delights peculiar to this place.
In the party were Chester F. Mills,
son of Gen. Mills of the U. S. Army
Department of Atlanta Ca, Edwin r.
Van Dusen, Clarence f. Partridge, F..
F. Harding, S. c. Godfrey. After their
visit Col. Judkins was proudly show
ing handsome silver cigarette case, a
gift of the young military men, and the
letter accompanying the case stated
that it was ga small token of appre
citation for the many courtesies extend
ed to us during our recent visit at
Kineo." Lieut. Philoon was prominent
in athletics while at Bowdoin, and
captain of last years football team at
West Point.
Each day camping parties put out
from this point equipped with guides.
canoes and supplies to try the famous
waters Of the Penobscot and Allegash.
The cottages are all opened here,
Camps are opening all along the shore
and about the nearby waterways, the
large hotel is filling rapidly and this
promises to be fine season at Kireo.
Most of the guests are from out of
the state. Among those from Maine
points registered at the Mt. Kineo
house are DR.. and Mrs. Thomas Up
ham Coe, Bangor: Miss Mary Fiske,
1 H.