^, IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) // 1.0 I.I 11.25 Ik Ik |2S |2S 2.0 1.8 U ill 1.6 V] ^ n / '/ Photographic Sciences Corporation 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. 14580 (716) S73-4503 £^ iV \ y ^ o^ WA^ ^^e' "i' Pv 8 8 .-.t;- •tP :- !:^»«.- D t- .. 5=\f^ V53 *-»-" *_- 7r^ o"-./p^\c > 5 o ^ ..-■ ^/ ^•' II !33" f ■, Tvr^ •!? fl? -^ ^ ' X " is -e-3-i ^s I" -J o w g .- f .^r^-w ?r « /' I FROcn THE ALGONQUIN, st. Andrews, n. b. ■ CAN UK SEEN - Seventy-five Miles of Landscape, and Mountain, River, Bay and Island Scenery, Village of St. Andrews . . . . . 150 feet below. Inp't; PniMT - I mile. Navy Tslano r I Hardwood Island — 1 'assani.iq noddy r.ay 4 " IIospiTAi. Island (( a S/z " Deer Island It (t C>/2 " Pendleton's Island ■1 (4 5^ " McMaster's Island (( " . . 6 Big Letetk Passac.e (i i( . 6 Little Letete Passat E t( i. ■ 5 " Chamcook Mountain 3 miles. RoiiiiiNsruN, iMe 3 " Perry, Mk 6 " Point Pleasant, Mk 9 '■ nnd enliro coast of i\Liine bordering on tlie I'.ay and River. Point Midjic — mouth of Maga;4u;idavic River, S " The Ovens — head of Passamac|iiotldy l>ay . S " Cami>oi!ELLO — Hay of Fundy u " The Wolves " " 17 " Grand Manan " " 22 " Outline ok Nova Scotia 75 " Note. — Distances given are by air lines. A New ' OTEL I i Modern and Elegan t Throughout, OQOOOOOOCjOCSOOOOOO AMPLE AND EXTENSIVE GROUNDS SURROUND THE HOTEL, WHILE IN THE IMMEDIATE VICINITY EXCELLENT ROADS, GOOD TROUT and SALMON FISHING, SAFE BOATING AND YACHTING, AND GOOD BATHING ARE OFFERED The largest Summer Resort across the Ijorder. Opens July i, iSSy . . . . lieautifully h^cated on the highest point overlooking St. Andrews, N.B. 00000000000000000 r.^NDHEW^^jf^B '^'''S^, It is intended that the leading characteristics of the house shall be unsurpassed comfort and service, with polite attention. Address, until July ist, FRED. A. JONES, Lessee, HOTEL DUFFE.RIN, ST. JOHN, N. B. For plans of rooms and full description, see pages 39—40, this book. 1? k PREAMBLD, 1; ;• " Ah! What pleasant visions haunt nic as I gaze upon the sea, All its old familiar legends, all my dreams come back to me." With a charm of situation peculiarly its own, offering attractions to summer-visitors in pure air and water, delightful scenery, and hotel accommodations unrivalled, the new-c summer-resort, St. Andrews-by-the-Sea, issues its invitation to ^', the thousands seeking a resting-rctrcat from the toils and cares of business pursuits, the heat and dust of cities, or the etiitui engendered by the too close devotion to home. Here no wasting fever, epidemic, nor malarial disorder saps the system's strength ; but, cooled by the close proximity of Old Ocean, the breath of suminer is as medicine, a balm rejuve- nating the overtaxed nerves, brain, and body, and giving a tone to the whole system from Nature's tonic, — the salt sea-air, — coujiled with the invigorating breath of the ])ine. Probably no point along the coast of Maine and New Brunswick has a more favored location than St. Andrews. The old place has been a sort of " sleeping beauty " of the seaside for generations. It was marked and admired long before it was dreamed of as a possible summer-resort, and always has had a certain patronage of pleasure-seekers, even in times when summer- excursions, trips, or vacations had little or no plan or part in the life of any class. Romance blends with the beautiful in Nature and adds greatly to its charm ; for no sylvan scene attracts the eye but awakes the imagination also, peopling it with the actors in the stirring events of thf past which mark this spot as the extreme oiiti)ost of the early French settle- ment ill Xortli America, dating baciv far into the seveiUuenlh century, when the cross of the fcsuit was first planted on these shores by Saint Andre (or Andie), the rover- end fatlicr, whose name still clings to Point St. Andrew,— the M. Andrews of today. Later, tiie hills and dales surnumdini,' this, the shire-town of Charlotte County, oft echoed the shrill war-whoop ofithe wily savage who, allied with the French, from St. Andrews as a rally'ng-point, issued forth upon those cruel raids which char II teri/ed the struggle between the Roses of iMigland and the Lilies of France for the possession of the Western Con- tiiuiit. Today, the visitor of one summer roams afield where ages agone the painted sasage worshipped beneath the cross and siiit up his miiiitored pra\ci to tiie (Ireat Spirit; or, embarking, ])lows the jilacid waters of the beautiful bay once doiiei! wiih hark canoes, and gathers inspiration with health in the pursuit of pleasure amid scenes, the theatre of events which have added pages to the historv of three centuries. y*- : A' ^^WWWW:;y }W^^ -V*- . CIIAP'ir.R I. Where is St. Andrews? Eastward, following the coast of Maine, — that rugged line of rocky headlands and d(.r|) indLMiiations so famous as culminating the whole grandeur of the Atlantic coast, — the rocky fringe continues, r.ntil a lovely archipelago separates fho south-eastern corner of the State of Maino and the I'niled States from the I'.nglisli Province of New lirunswick. Its Indian "'1^/'M' name, Passaiuaqttodily, reminds one that '■ Our name is on your waters, you cannot wash It out." He who enters l'assama(|uoddy liay from the ocean, through one of the three; narrow, tortuous channels, passes from the open sea where the mighty waves advance and recede, break, roar, and foam against the rugged barriers of rock in the vain attempt to gain an entrance with him, into a smooth, placid bay, studded with islands of breezy stnmnits, and with rocky, pictures(|ue shores, here and there indented with gravelly coves, where the dark-green waters break in gentle ripples on their shelving beaches, or gently BRurrsWi(i^ ^-'^m^. sway the loiij^ nOiVWeeds clinn!n>^ tenaciously to the crcvlcos .t' the rocks on the mure al)rii|)t .sliorc, as the ^leat tidus ebb and How. The sea l)illowy is passed and tlie steamer speeds nieiiily over tlie sea placid, crossing thu twelve miles which intervene to tlie farther shore, and, with an insight into the beauties of the spot which shall develop with each hour of sojourn, reaches St. Andrews, with its welcome, lint for the tr.ivclkr who inters St. .Andrews by rail is reserved that great transfcjrniatioii scene, when from a country landscajie of held and forest he emerges at once into full view of the sea, which bursts upon the eye like a revelation. Three miles out, the train passes the largest Chamcook lake, so near that one can almost see the gamey salmon in its transparent waters waiting to challenge his skill; and the air is tempered to refreshing coolness by the bree/es from olf its bosom. This shall be a favorite resort of yours, O visitor. Whether disciple of rod and fly or not, you cannot resist the attractions of a three-mile drive, over roads which are jierfection, to this secluded spot, this lake of the woods, nestling ;it the t'eet uf its brothers, the Chamcook Mountains, which from lime immemorial have thus stood guard over the sleeping lake. While one is making a mental note of this, the train bears 1 "iii on past cove and inlet, with glimjjses of the sea beyond, and finally conies to a halt at the convenient little depot, where carri.-'ues wait to bear the visitor to his hotel. We have found St. Andrews! It is, then, situated upon a narrow jjeninsula projecting far into I'assamaquoddy Hay from the Xew-lirunswick sliore. A short distance off the wharves at St. Andrews runs that imaginary line which forms the international boundary between the United States and the liritish 1 rovince of New Brunswick. St. .Andrews may be reached by direct railroad lines from Montreal, St. John, and Hoston, and by the steamers of the International Line from Boston, Portland, and St. John, offering a choice of routes which will be discussed later and at length. CHAPTEK II. ^ Its Beauties and Peculiarities. »S(f'))Sfe^ " The iiilinitL- l)li!.s (if Niitiire I feci ill. Ty vein, The li^;lit u.i lliu life of Slimmer Hlossom in he:irt and lirain." Who can :i(ki|iiatcly clcscrihL' the beauties of St. Andrews, when with tlie eye un.iiclcd one c.in see iioin his liotul- veranda the encircling line of seventy- five miles of sea-coast, witli the sail- dotted hay for a foreground, ami the o])|)osite shore, so far from being llat _ and ninnotonous, rises into a saccession of swelling dome-liUe hills wliic h Innk in the twilight liUe dim distance-shrouded nioscjues ? In the centre of such scenes as thcoc, as it were upon a platform sur- rounded by onr; of those famous paint- ings, who can describe iitiv the wondrous beauty of this t.rand cyci.ouama ok CioD? In the attempt to picture St. Andrews with the pen, it were better to divide it into two |)arts and illustrate what Nature and what man have each done for this charming spot. Imagine, then, a town of some seventeen hundred inhabitants, quiet, tree-embowered, peaceful, nestling to the water's edge upon a narrow peninsula surrounded upon three sides by a broad expanse of dancing sea, gently rising from the shore '^^^^^^^^k;^ - '^>-: i: 3-r ANDREWS i1.B. » « ^ M S^^ r^ n P^RU! fJsSri(i^ until, at a distance of two tliousand feet from high-water mark, an altitutlc of one hundred and fifty feet is attained; yet so evenly graded is die slope, terraced there by the hand of Nature, that one perceives it not until, turning at the summit, the eye is charmed by the view seaward over the sleeping town. Turning to each point of the c()mi)as!;, the visitor sees an encircling line of coast, encompassing a broad expanse of sea, while beyond the narrow- neck of land which connects St. Andrews with the mainland rise the Chamcook Mountains, forming an amphitheatre within whose walls rest the fairest in this the very home of forest-fringed lakes. This is the outlook from Fort Hill. It is here that man has ])laced his hostelry ; " myne comfort in niync inn " means much amid such surroundings. Occupying the higliust point of land within the town, vet so far removed from it that whatever stir of conniierce or trade vet remains to the sleepy burgh is hushed, the hotel site of the new Algonquin is ]> rticularly grand. l'"ive hundred feet away stands old Fort Tippcrary, famous wlien St. .\ndrews was a strongly garrisoned border-town, and today retaining a part of its ancient glory in the obs(jlete guns still mounted behind the earth-works, and in the ofticers' (juarters and barracks, fast falling to decay. Late vears have seen the earth-works bristling with arms and have heard the roll of the drums of Uritish regulars upon but two occasions, — the firs' "the Trent affair," and again during the famous "Fenian Raid" of 1866. Then ships of war anchored in the l)ay, and transports lantled company after company, until a full regiment of Royal Grenadiers occupied the walls of the ancient fortress and brought relief to the anxious oitizens of the town. leaving the nuignificcnt natural scenery afforded to the eye from Fort Hill for a stroll al)out the (piict streets, one meets the picturcsc(ue at every turn, — in the old-fashioned quaint houses, with a display of flowers in the windows of the poorest, evidence of the natural cultivation ot the people; and in the broken-down wharves which line the water-front of the town, % to V once teeming with the life of commerce. Never was a town more profusely blessed with flowers than St. Andrews, and, curiously enough, Nature has ordered that spring and summer blossoms combine at once to please; thus the species which are passed to the denizen of an American city bloom again for him upon his arriving at .St. An- drews. Everywhere, rose and hawthorn hedges meet the eye and charm the senses, while the humblest cottage presents its mass of brilliant-colored flowers. St. Andrews was at o;ie time famous for its shipping. It is within the memory of the older inhabitants that a fli-et of twenty square-rigged vessels waiting in St. Andrews Bay their turn to receive or discharge cargo at the crowded wharves was no uncommon sight, while phenomenal stories are told of man's ability to walk from the lower end of the town to Joe's Point u/'oii the dt\/cs of Tissr/s, stepping from one to the other. True it is that St. Andrews once commanded the West-India and coasting trade of the whole province, and true, alas, that there remains today nothing of this far- reaching C(jmmerce save here and there a vessel, long condemned, falling with the unused w-harf at which it lies into dilapidation, in its decay most picturesque ; while about the ancient timbers the flashing, dancing waters of the bay leap and cling, as if in endeavor to awaken them from their lethargy and again revive the old-time prosperity, .\lthough its clangor and confusion have gone forever, the old town is still interesting, its quiet and restfulness, together with the embelli-diment which Nature and man have given it, constituting its principal charm for summer-visitors. The very streets of the town, laid out in the year 1784 by Deputy John Jones, surveyor for th^ ("rown, and builded by the sturdy loyal forefathers of St. Andrews.'are a novelty, formed as they are by avenues of It ■9-^ ^BruAswiCi^ a uniform length and sixty to eighty feet wide, crossing at right angles and dividing the town into sixty blocks each three hundred and twenty feet square. TiiK DiuvKS. — Leading from St. Andrews as continuations of the broad avenues of the town, are roads which are perfection as far as road-building goes. Forcst-Iinrd and shaded, these wide highways reach many charming spots by sea and inland lake, where the luncheon- basket maybe unpacked and its contents eaten with an avidity bom of the invigorating air. Or, if the lover of horse- flesh desires u, speed, every opportunity is afforded by the magnificent livery of St. Andrews, where turnouts of every dcscriinion may be had at phenomenally low rates. The roads about St. Andrews partake of the peculiar geological formatinn of the town, — a red sand- — — — — 1 1 1 i-t 1 stone, — which can be seen crojiping (lilt here and there, and through which the ro.iils are graded, reminding one greatly of the famous "pikes" of the Middle States; while upon these rocky highways the horses' feet strike and resound, a merry acconi|)aiiiment to the wheels. Xo mud, no dust. The water from the severest rainfall re- mains not to aimoy or dispel the pleasures of the drive, but percolates through tiie porous road-bed until, in an incredibly short time, the lightest slipper is not dampened by pressure to the ground. Nor does the sun of summer form a ilust, to rise in blinding clouds from under the wheels. Black silks may be worn upon the drive and not rendcreil unsightly objects by a thin coating of earth ; no are gloves and faces soiled. <^^::^-}. <§)T AndrewS'.'N.B LooK'NO South. tt f The favorite drives are to Chamcook ^[ountain and Lr.ke; the Shore Road, bordcrini; the river; the liar Road to Mowatt's Grove; and, at low water, across the liar to Minister's Island. To visit the sumnut of Chamcook, the horses are left at the base and the ascent accomplished on foot, with a taste of Alpine excite- ment, although the climb is a perfectly safe one. For more than half way from base to sununit, the raouniain is bare of vegetation, save a scanty covering of moss, which ;Lt the summit is itself wanting. In altitude, Chamcook Moun- tain claims one thousand feet above the sea; and as. tide-water washes its very base, the view from its one thousand feet may be far grander than if multiplied five times over, a hundred miles inland. Its companions are crowned with fir-trees, but the summit of Chamcook is bare. Upon its readily yielding surface of the prevailing red sandstone f..rm- ation are carved the names of visitors to this mountain-top in the early years of American independence and the con- sccpient coming of the Loyalists to inhabit the quiet town below. Not singly, but thickly covering the whole summit arc thnse carvings. What tales they tell to the imaginative mind! Were they brothers, friends, or lovers? \Vho can tell! Facing seaward, the view is over the bay, and the islands which form its farther border,