The Portland daily press., 1869-07-12
Terms $500 per AMMAN, In adrance.

excellent hotels and every desirable requisite
for summer recreation, we feel justified I'm
presenting the case to those desiring near at
hand and yet unsurpassed resort for a brief
rest.
BY this route only do you obtain the sixty
miles Lake sail thirty each way). It is the
glorious feature of the Dover trip. Escaping
from the hot air and dust of the city, what
can be more delightful than such changer
fStand not upon the order of going, but 60 at
oncel"
At Wolfborough and Center Harbor at
noon, on arrival of the steamer Conway, SO
miles, arriving the same evening.
Excursion tickets will be issued as last
year, giving every one chance to visit all the
seaside resorts this side of Boston, North and
West at reduced rates.
The travelling public are under obligations
to Frances Chase Esq, Superintendent of the
P. S. 6 p, railroad and William Merritt ESQ.
Superintendent of the Boston and Maine
road, for these enterprising advantages.
Portland and the East can in one day now
do: Lake Winnipiseogee like their friends
in Boston and vicinity, New Hampshire and
their neighboring localities. lsa
The Boston and Maine route as it Is called.
is unsurpassed in every requisite ior route
to the Lake and mountains under charge of
the experienced and geitlemanly conductors
as the P.S. G p. raiIroad-Pays0HsTu Tucker.
Fowle, Mitchell, Sanborn, Banks and othefs;.
the Boston and Maine-Ansel Tucker, Alb
ner Smith, Weymouth, Fairfield Phillips,
Frazer and others; on the Dover and VIM
neplseogee- A, o. Phillips, French and
others, passengers can rest assured that all
their comforts and needs will be faithfully at
tended to.
]. P. Coombs Rsq, the popular master of
transportation of the ID. &c W. road is also
one to whom the public are indebted-the
right man in the right place.
As Dover occupies prominent position as
waiting place en- route to the Lake, we
would call the attention OF the public to its
attractiveness. A stranger anacquainted with
the place, would judge enormously of it by
the uninyiting aspect Of affairs around the
depot The surroundings of the P. s. & P.
depot there are no criterion of Portland's
beautiful attractions. Neither is "this thus
of Dover. There are few places of greater
picturesqueness and delightful appearance.
The drives about Dover are very fine, espec-
tally that to Dover Point, five and one half
miles, where the Great, Bay outlet and the
Piscataquis and Bellamy rivers meet in one
grand expansive bay.
Dover also abounds In trees and the follow
ing from the Dover Gazette is well merited.
Speaking of sabbath trip to the Point. the
editor says:
The Dover Point House was the scene of
much fashion and innocent gayety. This
lovely spot, far from town, its dust and petty
annoyances, even on the Saba presented
all the appearances OF fashionable watering
| place, and nearly hat oil the town stopped ior
| tea and toast at "John's" generous boald.
| The ride home, the setting sun, shut In by
| the Blue Hills, in the camness Of still SUM-
day eve, with contented and happy farming
| community along the route, satisfied with
| good crops, well filleI barns and tine pros
| pective yield the coming autumn, was delight
| iul"
In ten years from aow, fires being barred
out, we shall be able to lay good claim to be
| called forest City. Dover looked at irrm Q
distance, either from Garrison Hill OF Mount
| Pleasant, (whose classic shades have fallen
before the unrelenting axe, and mournfuIly
| we say it) seems to be embowered in one vast
| group of shade trees.