Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-13
2o-FON BOAT
FOUND so FEET
ABOVE THE SEA

OF course when a twenty foot sail
beat weighing about two tons is
found in the wee small hours of the
morning over sixty feet above sea
level. and half mile from where 1t
was moored, it cannot reasonably be
laid to tide or wind.
But such a sight has just been seen
a. Bailey Island, Casco Bay. When
the inhabitants of the popular resort
awoke bright and early. on Sept. 2s.
az they always do on the island. they
beheld on the highest point, beside
the T p-Top cottage, a 90 foot boat
with sails all set, and for all the
world looking like making a tack, Just
how the craft got TO the Tip-Top has
just become known.
1t certainly threw a scare into some
people stopping there. and 1t is said
that several signed the pledge at once
One person in particular arising about
that next morning and looking out
the window that faces Tip-top cottage
is said to have gasped and nearly faint
&c when he saw the boat with all sails
set outlined against the sky. Having
been out late the night previous. he
did not dare ask his wife if she too
could see the strange sight and there
fore for several hours suffered in his
mind until wife looked out of the
window, threw up her hands and faint
go. Hubble then breathed a sigh Of
relief and went out to investigate
The boat was one that Summer
tourist had hired at Orrs Island,
and it Is said that this young man
with several others of the same age
had earlier in the evening endcavored
men, who were in an auto from seren-
aiding the various houses on the island.
When the auto party attempted to
reach the hotel where this young man
vas a guest, they suddenly found that
the road ahead had been filed with big
stones and boulders and glass. Ropes
also had been tied across the roadway.
quick stop was made and the entire
party gave chase to young men who
had been lying in the tall grass await
ing the car in real wild and wolly hold
ur fashion.
Although none Of the "highwaymen"
"SAS NnPIuA CT, tiiC duto PAL ~ leCoS
nized them and after serenading the
hotel with extra good measure they
retreated to a secluded spot and there
the boat plot was Matched
The boat was brought to the shore.
and as it was low tide. it had to be
drawn across a long stretch of rocky
fats to the grass ground. Then, ac-
cording to the most reliable infor-
nation. the auto (some say two autos,
both f1vvers by the way) We're hitched
to the bow of the boat and the craft
dragged on an even keel up the long
winding road to the highest point of
the island where it was found the
next morning apparently as much at
home as If in its native element
1t took the owner OF the boat and
six or seven friends the entire morn
Ing Tuesday to place it back in Mack
eral Cove, and all during the process
the atmosphere in that vicinity took on
"a decidedly blush tinge. Suitable re-
venge will doubtless be exacted. Some
spoke Of stealing the automobiles
wheels and hiding them while others
thought that while the boat had been
taken from the water and left high and
dry, they ought to steal the auto some
night and drive it into the middle Of the
bay. leaving it there for the owners to
extricate.