Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1925-07-01
GOVERNORS COMING.
Names Plans for Entertaining the
Country's State Executives.

Country's State Executives.
Plans for the entertainment Of the
governors of the nation who will
meet in their seventeenth annual
conference this year at Poland
Spring House, from June 2S to July
4, will take the visiting governors
into every section of the State and
along her entire coast line.
Due to the fact that the navy de-
partment has seen fit to send the
navy dirigible Shenandoah, together
with her parent ship Patoka, to Bar
Harbor during the conference, the
visitors will be accorded the op-
portunity of taking a cruise in her as
observers around the entire border
of the State and over her inland
lakes and mountains.
The visiting governors will also be
able to fly as observers in the new
amphibian planes which the army
will demonstrate during the confer
ence on the lakes at Poland Spring.
Other fast airplanes will come from
New York, and will arrive at Port
land on the morning of June 20. If
any of the governors SO desire, they
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Another unique feature of the en-
tertainment program will be a
| special yacht race to be held on July
at Bar Harbor Arrangements
have been made for each governor
| to take command of a yacht, and a
| special governors cup will be pre-
scented to the winner. This will be
the first governors yacht race on
| record
Through the courtesy of Cyrus H.
Curtis, the visitors will take a cruise
upon his yacht, Lyndonia, as the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Box,
on July 4. The trip will take them
along Mt. Desert, Frenchman's bay
! and Penobscot bay, and thence to
| Camden, where the entertainment
ends.
The plans include one of Names
| old-fas hioned clam bakes upon the
shore on Frenchman' bay. This will
| be given under the auspices of the
Pot and Kettle club. The governors
| will also be served a typical Maine
woods dinner at New Sweden, which
overlooks Names great woods
On July 1, the governors will be
| entertained at luncheon by Gov.
Ralph O. Brewster, in the James G.
Blaine residence, which is now the
governors residence, after which
they will be shown through the State
capitol.
The governors will be taken
through Lafayette national park on
Mt. Desert on July 3, and later will
be entertained at tea by Mrs. Walter
Damrosch, daughter of James G.
| Blaine.
Through the courtesy of the Ban
gor and Aroostook railroad, a special
train, will take the visitors from
! Bangor to Fort Kent, the tip of
Maine, where autos will take the
party to Grand Falls, Cana
da, returning through the Maine
woods to HOulton.
Outside of the State programs of
entertainment for the visitors, the
various towns and cities through
which they will pass have also ar
ranged an appropriate welcome
That this years conference will be
one of the largest attended since its
| organization, is indicated by the
early response from the governors.
Many who will be unable to arrive
with the main party have signified
their intention of motoring in.
The program for the entertain
ment of the governors at Bar Har-
Dor, where they will arrive by special
train from their Aroostook county
trip, at about 9 a. m, Friday, July
3, is as follows:
$50 a. m.-Reception committee
in cars at wharf to meet governors
and conduct them to Malvern
| Hotel
1000 a. m. to LOO p. m.-Golf at
Kebo Valley club and yacht race
| from Bar Harbor Yacht club
100 p. m.-Shore dinner at Pot
and Kettle club.
2.30 p. m.-Drive around the
island down by Somes Sound, visit
| ing Ford and Rockefeller estates at
Seal Harbor Sieur de Monts Spring,
| new Cadillac Mountain road and Mrs.
John Stuart Kennedy's beautiful
home, "Kenarden Lodge
100 p. m.-Dinner at the NAL
vern.
$50 p. m.-Ball at Bar Harbor
Swimming club.
take trip over Maine in L. S. Navy
dirigible Shenandoah" Other mem
bers of party leave from the Bar
Harbor Yacht club in C. H. X. Cur
It's yacht, "Lyndonia
-O-
Reach.