Lake Umbagog, Maine
1895
Aug.30
  A perfect day with wonderfully clear air and brilliant
lights on the mountains & woods.
  Mr. Sherman & Jim Bernier arrived soon after breakfast
and we had a long talk. There have been several interesting
changes here since last year. Elliott Rich has left Lakeside and
Frank Chandler who used to keep the Brown Farm has taken
his place. Coe, the lumber king, has bought all the farms
in Cambridge except Lakeside and it is believed that he
has sold the entire township with this exception to the
lumber men who have been cutting off "Success" and who,
it is rumored, will extend their lumber railroad to
Sargent's Cove before next season and bring ruin and
devastation to the shores of this Lake.
[margin]Mr. Sherman
Frank Chandler
succeeds Elliott
Rich as landlord
at Lakeside
Coe, the
"lumber king"
buys all
the farms in
Cambridge except
Lakeside[/margin]
  There has been another epidemic among the Umbagog pickerel.
When the ice broke up last spring they were found dead
and dying all around the Lake and in places the shores
were thickly strewn with them. Mr Sherman believes that all
except a few of the smallest ones perished in the course of a
few weeks. As a rule they bore no evident marks injury
or disease but he examined one or two which had red
blotches on the head just above the gills. When dying they
darted about and thrust their heads out of water as if in great
pain. Only two are known to have been caught in the
Lake this summer but they are said to be coming in
now from the Magalloway River where the epidemic did 
not extend. There was nothing unusual in the appearance
of the water of the Lake this year but nearly all the boys
who bathed in it were affected by a red rash (in no
case did this attack anyone who did not bathe) and the lumbermen
found that the water made slight cuts & scratches fester badly.
[margin]Pickerel
decimated by
a second
epidemic[/margin]