Show h A CANOE PARADE harming lellml Illtrn liy I Kumnirl Mllor at nor llarlmr Turning from fool and Ita environs to Ihe far northeasterly end of our Atlantic At-lantic coastline we rind on the rooky adore of Mount Desert new and elaborate elab-orate exampln of the rural feotlval writs Ira llurton Harrlaon lxmg year ngo before Ihat rare and charmIng charm-Ing Isla had been formally adopted IA lie chosen resort of summer Ill grim from all arts of the continent athletic ath-letic contents foot race and clone race among the ratsamaquoddy Indiana In-diana were known to liar Harbor Ily the descendant of those Indian mao aroused the Interest In canoeing shown by visitor of recent time which resulted re-sulted In the formation of the Canoe Club now numbering hundreds of members The first public parade of the club wai arranged In honor of nn expected visit from Matthew Arnold who In discussing bla anticipated expedition ex-pedition lo tho Iden i of the Sea had expressed n 1 hope that he might there find somo spectacle possessing tho true local color which he had failed to discover dis-cover elsewhere In America Marshaled Mar-shaled In line with bows towards Ibo south upon a fortunately glassy stretch of Krenohmana Iliy near tho westerly point of liar Island gathered a number num-ber of flowerwreathed canoe to perform per-form a scries of maneuvers 11 dexterous dex-terous In execution 01 Ingenlout In the planning Tho canoe parade repealed hue following year was followed In another an-other season by an Illuminated tale To I this midsummer nIghts dream Nature lent herself In all irraclousncss The sun had act upon n sea of opal AI the I moon rose and tho tide flooded the bar people living nlong the shore on each aide of tbo IMcn road sit In their > cr andaa lo wait for tho coming of tbo holts In an atmosphere aa toft and cnrcMlng as that of n Juno night In Venice from the ttarllngplaco at I Ihe chief landing of the tillage out of I darkness streaked with columns of light from Iho electric area above the town and from the lamps of n flotllU of ynchti nnd other bolts nt anchor In the harbor camo silently stealing n lone train of mytlcrloiia black craft tossing Icasht of Drcbilbblot Into the air or wreathed from atcm to stern with multicolored interns Their destination des-tination ttas a dwelling situated upon the shore at tome dlttanco up the bay where the performers In then m > stories stor-ies of tho expedition wcro expected ill tlmVoly I to congregate nt aupper For oc T J nn hour the mcandcrlnga of tho fire laden bouts cio delight to many watchers upon tho shore At last nn atvcrlng Iho signal of dancemusic from lImo lionie tho cortege fell annln Into line nnd proceeded to disembark upon n floating nlmrt lighted by Ilengal fire and strung with colored lanterns The boils deserted by their crews were Ihen strung together by boatmen nml lowed 1 back 10 tho starting point tho revelers electing to return by tho high WA |