Daily Kennebec journal., 1918-08-12
Editors Letter Box
Keeping Money Out Of Ma

him Of another lake where l tHoushI
there was exceptionally good black
bass fishing. On the strength OF ME
recommendations and because he ana
q number of Boston Globe men had
mp. on Lake Cobbosseecontee, l
went to that lake every year with
the exception of one. In that time
have been a summer resident at tn7
lake with my family and friends VINO
come there to visit me. Our camp
has from four to twelve people all the
time from the first Of June until Oc-
tober.
During these 10 years I have been
tn 4. direct means of bringlng-as 1ar
AS 1 can recall this moment-not less
than Is people to the lake who have
become summer residents and rented
cottages or boarded at the hotels and
boarding houses around the lake.
Is it not the purpose Of the resi-
dents Of Augusta, Winthrop ana
Maine in general to have as much
money distributed in Maine as pos
sible and ought it not be the duty
of the residents of Maine TO show
scme consideration and know the
persecution Of the people who spend
their money in Maine? l am con-
siderable property owner in Maine.
have spend a great deal Of money IN
Winthrop and Augusta il. all these
years and what do you suppose my
feelings were when the other day.
just in front Of my cottage, the as
sistant game warden, Mr.. Richard j..
I'pton said Let me see your license
and that of the other man with you"
(who happened to be my chauffeur
and looks after my boats). ! told
him we were fishing right in front OF
my cottage and it would not take US
five minutes to so and get the license.
WEereupon, four times in succession
he proceeded to tell me You ought to
ave your licenses with you. | can
arrest you. You have no business to
I was and he said II know very well
who you are and how long you have
been on the lake" l said Il will go
over and get the licenses or | will
tow you over" Whereupon he pro-
ceeded again lecturing to me as
though I were a small child and rep
rimanding me and telling me what
his official authority and power was
and telling me he could arrest me
for not carrying my license when on
the lake.
A few days later this same warden,
Upton, comes out to the lake and ar
rests my chauffeur. causing him and
my family great inconvenience. He
got him in Augusta and fined him
$40 for being on the lake without a
license and threatened him if he was
ever caught taking my family out in
the motor boat he would arrest him
again and he threatened me three
times and said that if either of us
we're found on the lake he would
rot gi me five minutes time to get
my license.
This is the most high handed and
outrageous thing in my judgment
imagina BILE and ! do not believe for
a minute that the taxpayers and the
citizens of Maine. to whom Mr.. Up
ton is responsible for his position
would tolerate any such persecution.
l belive that the better class Of
citizens who ! have met in Augusta
all OF whom | have had considerable
business dealings with, including.
Mr.. Gould, of the Augusta Trust Co,
Percy Hill, Publisher. Charles Kins-
man, William Bither and Mr.. Web
Der Of Webber & Hewett, and that
type Of men, would believe in the
persecution of a nonresident who
comes to Maine and gives the mer-
chants of Winthrop and Augusta his
good money.
The game warden also threatened
re that if he ever caught the young
man, who is regularly in my employ,
taking me around the lake in the
power boat or fishing that he would
arrest him and fine him $40 be-
Cause he was acting as guide.
This young man is not a guide.
If the summer residents Of Maine
are going to be prosecuted this way
it is time we all get together and do
something against it.
Another thing-While | am writing
this-Which / think ought to interest
the readers Of your valuable paper,
t. which ! am a subscriber and ad-
vertiser is the fact that a non-resi-
dent Of the lake is charged four or
five times as much for anything as
anyone else is. For example: Two
years ago we used all the ice in the
ice house and had to pay 75c a cake
for it when l found out that the 9TH
e" residents were buying the same
quantity Of ice for 15c a cake.
l have been most instrumental in
three different families in New York
taking cottages on the lake. This
year two of them did not come back
to the lake and when 1 asked them
their reason one of them said II
lad the rent raised on me 100cs and
have decided to 60 to another place"
The other man told me that because
he was charged exorbitant prices for
everything not at all in accordance
with what other residents around
we're charged, that he decided to go
scme other place where he would be
treated more decently.
OF course l have spent many
thousands dollars in Augusta,
Winthrop and Lake Cobbosseecontee
and instead of being treated with
consideration by the game warden,
Nr. Upton, have been treated in an
exceedingly high handed. ultra of
ficious manner and the spirit and in
tent of the law has not been carried
out and it is high time the people