Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-15
CAPITOL ISLAND.
Many Coiiagers Enjoying
Fine September Weather.
The Season Just Closed Has
Been Best on Record.
Many improvements Made, This
Year.-0uilook for 1914 Bright.

capitol Island, Me, Sept. fi.-(Spe
| Der brought to close the summer
season at Capitol, which was. by the
| way. the busiest that the island has
ever seen since it became a place Of
| recreation for people of Maine and
elsewhere, it has by no means been
closed UP for the winter, for though
| the crowds which flocked there
| through July and August have gone
home. taking with them a wealth Of
pleasant memories of the good times
which they enjoyed during their Va
cation days. there are still lot Of
people on the island, and many of the
cottages are open.
The people on the island at present
are mostly home folks from along the
kennebee, who come down every fall,
after the summer rush is over, to have
quiet good time, and to get their
fill of CLAIMS and HOLSTERS before the
coming of the winter months. And
they enjoy, also, the beautiful Sep
TENDER weather, which is really some
of the best of the season. for though
the nights are too cool for piazza
sittings and sunset comes a little too
early, the air is the clearest of the
whole year, with but little fog, and
While it perhaps has the tang of au-
tumn it is tempered by the warm sun
to u temperature that is just right for
outdoor life.
An h. Int al ~
same facilities and conveniences that
await the summer visitors. The post
Office is still open, and Postmaster
Charles Wade, when not attending to
his duties in that capacity and as
proprietor of the only store on the is
land, is ready to take out sailing par
ties during the daytime, or so fishing
after hake during the beautiful moon
light nights that just a present pre-
vail. Capt. John Reed and Capt. Bert
knight still have their boats in com
mission, and it is said that no grass
is growing on the bottom of any Of
the boats because of inactivity. capt.
ST. Hamilton still tends out on the
steamers which touch at the island
each day. and he is ably seconded BY
beue MeIISlieiu Ill tiIt iSiduu tIdHS-
portation business, So what more is
needed?
Quite an amount of business has
been done on the island, during the
past season, both in the way of build
ing and in the sale of cottage lots
and there is every reason to believe
that the growth of the island in this
way will be greater another season,
than it has during that which has just
closed Included in the work done in
the way of building is the addition
which was put on to the Casino, the
erection of a handsome bungalow by
+. b. circuit of Winthrop, Mass, just
north of the bungalow of Ansel Gau-
bert of Richmond, on the main path,
and the erection, by Charles Hewitt
of Richmond of a cottage, just north
of the j. A. Proctor cottage.
In addition to these, H. w. ShugS,
Jr, of Boston is just completing eX-
tensive Improvements to his cottage
in the way of putting in a bath with
hot and cold water fittings, and do
ing lot of other work which will re-
suit in added comfort to the place as
summer home. A. w. Stewart OF
Augusta has built an addition to his
cottage, Eagles Nest" and Alvah
Powers of Gardiner, who owns the
Goodwin cottage, at the extreme south
end of the island will begin, the
coming week, the work of repairing
and improving the cottage throughout,
which work will take about a month.
George Shaw of Richmond will also
begin, the coming week, the work af
painting his cottage
1t is also expected that quite an amount
of work will be done, another season, in
the building line Capt, Charles II. Hew-
lit of Richmond well known along the
Kennebec as former tugboat captain.
and in later Years prominently identi-
fled with the ice business, has purchased
the lot next adjoining on the south, that
if the postoffiee, and will probably build,
| in the spring. T. c. Timer of German
town, Pa, has bought two lots over on
| the west shore of the island, out back OF
| the grove, and gentleman named Colby
has bought a lot on the same shore and
back of the property owned by Silas
Hamilton of Gardiner. s II. Thompson,
proprietor of the Richardson House, who
| has just closed the most successful sea.
| son that he has enjoyed since he pur,
| chased the property. finds that he has
not accommodations enough in the house
| as it stands, and While he has not diff
| nitely decided to build it is quite likel!
| that another spring will bring the cree
| ton of an annex in the shape of Y
| room bungalow that will stand on thu
| lot between the present house and thu
Barker cottage, on the south
| Not a small amount of work has alst
been done during the past season on thu
| island highways. The causeway acros.
the beach has been put in first-class con
| dition, and walk through the center o
| the island, from the spring to the boart
| walk leading to the back cove has beef
| built of gravel and the main ayenu
| from the board walk to the south end 0
| the island has also been improved. Othe
| minor improvements have also been mad
| where needed, so that the island high
| ways are now in first-class condition.
| One great Improvement which is nov
in progress, and which will be SQUIRE
| of much enjoyment to the younger PEG
| pie of the summer colony. is the layin.
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