Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-07-25
AUGUSTA INFIELD W0bBLY and.
bar HARB0R COPS WIN, T04
RESUME OF WEEKEND TRIP
RESUME OF TRIP
Especial to Kennebec JournaD

Especial to Kennebec JournaD
On the road with Houser's team,
July eff one who had fostered
love for the national game for quar-
ter of a century and more, and for
the past II years had not missed a
nights work. is unexpectedly invited
to accompany a real ball team on
weekend trip. and the big boss
wouldn't the combination make that
one deliriously happy? 1t did.
We hit the road Friday forenoon
with the Queen City as our objective.
Three cars left the ~" at varying
hours and the distance was covered
in legitimate time-at least the motor
cops we passed thought so as they all
gave US CHEEKY smile and hand
wave The moving spirit OF the
party Hon. Blaine :. Nlles had
thought ahead and the genial Bonl-
face at the Bangor House had reserv-
ed special accommodations. Shaking
the dust of travel off we lunched and
after a Whit or two by those who In
dulged the players changed into their
fighting toys and we were off again,
this time to Old Town whore we met
and decisively defeated the strong
p G. +. team. The story of that
game has already been told. Back
to the Queen City again to willingly
consign ourselves to the kindly care
of Boniface Harry j. Chapman
and later to pair off and lamp
the sights of the Metropolis OF
the East Then to bed for n good
nights rest to be awakened in the A.
NJ. to pass upon and do justice to an
other gastronomic treat that by this
time had taken on the nature of
continued story of good things to eat
and with that meticulous service that
is characteristic of the Bangor House.
Scheduled to meet the Bar Harbor
team in the Z. NJ, there was the
whole forenoon TO kill and the party
split up to while away the hours in
pilgrimages to various points of in
terest about and near the city on the
Penobscot.
Again distending our middles at
noon and, we'll fortified. we motored
to the mecca of the Nations Million
aires-beautifu Bar Harbor.
The famous resort was reached
several hours before the game, Civ
ing ample opportunity to visit the
various points of interest of which
there are many to those who have
never before visited the place.
The frowning sentinels. FLYING
Squadron. 15O0 feet} Cadillac G10C
feet). Pematic 600 feet), Champaign
1O6O feet). Sargent q 400 feeb. ring
the resort in beautiful grandeur, the
nearness to their sheerness making
one dizzy in contemplation. Through
the courtesy of Howard Vayo. L. S.
Ranger. the party was shown over
Lafayette National Park. tract OF
some 10,J00 acres. Thrsts We're
quenched at the famous bubbling
springs that surely rival Poland in
purity and palatability. The tenn
perature of this particular H2o is 4.
degrees. The party registered at the
Map house, a building used eXclu-
sively to display huge map of the
original Acadia embracing Maine
New Brunswick and a part Of New
Hampshire. This grant of land was
given to French nobleman Seur
De Monts by Henry of Navarro in
1910. The map is in detail and COW
ers the entire east wall of the
building.
spin along the shore drive was
next in order and here was afforded
n. grand view of the ocean, the beach
and the picturesque huge rocks that
strew the shore in endless continu
ity. Here was pointed out the high
est point Of land on the Atlantic
Coast and from where, on a shelving
ledge, Annette kellerman. the ia
nous movie mermaid leaped into the
Atlantic to the click Of the camera.
Then we motored on through Bar
IIarbor's tortuous but beautiful bou-
levards. Nestled beside the many
and devious winnings are the sum
mer homes of multi millionaires an6
Of others of lesser dough
The "Y' building was hoadquar.
tors for the party and the usual ffnt
courtesy of this organization was OK
tended to tho visitors. The edge o.
the evening brought departure fo'
the queen City and later from there
lack to Augusta