The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-06-18
iensure Travel.

The season for sdalRer travel is now upon
us and many hcuseholds alll5Rer the country
are agitatiDg the subject. The dadsliSiteErs y want
to go somewhere, and their mothers are often
quite as anxious to go as their daughters,
while some fathers hang back and think of
their purses and the expenses of such journey
ings. But the women generally come off vic
torious, and then the question arises where
they shall 90, and what routes they shall take
and what cities and towns they shall visit
during the hot and dusty months 1t often
takes several weeks to settle these preliminary
questions and prepare for the enterprise. The
daughters may wish to visit one place and the
mothers another, while the fathers are often
desirops of taking the least expensive routes, a
matter that seldom troubles the female mind.
The New York Tribune has characteristic
article on the Woes of watering places, and
many bf the troubles attending them are graph
cally described. 1t says these watering places,
are q mirage. Afar off they look brilliant and
enticing, being phantoms of pleasure, hospital
ity and delight, but on closer examination
these brilliant visions lose their charms, and il
it were not fashionable to travel, these pill
grims would wish they were at home in their
own large airy, well furnished rooms where
they could keep cool and out of the way OF
dust and confusion. But many households
have an impression that if they are not fash
ionable they are not any thing. Mistaken
souls that dream of blssl Well, let them
dream on, and let them travel on. We have
no objections. If tourists are disposed to sub
ject themselves to great Inconvenience for the
sake of being fashionable we have no fault to
find with them. They pay their money and
take their choice. But there is sound judg-
ment to be exercised in the choice of places 10
be visited, if comfort, during the hot weather,
forms any part of the motives that start men
and women ON their excursions We have
had some experience in these matters. 1t has
been said that there are two voices in nature
one from the mountains, and the other from the
sea, and both are for liberty. There are two
breezes, too, one from the mountains, the 9TH
er from the sea, and both are liie-giving and
Free Now, tourist, take your choice. If you
like sea breezes and beautiful land and water
you have ever dreamed of such things, you will
find here your dreams more than realized.
We have been among "the thousand islands
in the noble st. Lawrence. They are beauti-
full, and the scenery is very fine. But what is
the ST. Lawrence with these islands when
compared with the swelling ocean, rolling into
sCasco Bay" and washing the shores of the
hundreds of green islands that stud Portland
harbori Como and see them. A stroll among
the islands or sail in the harbor will invigor-
ate the system and set the blood coursing joy
ously through your veins. Our city, too, is
cooler than the country, and our botels afford
ample accommodations. Since the great fire
many grand buildings have been erected, and
strangers visiting our city speak highly of the
Improvements made since that calamity fell
upon our people. We have no disposition to
boast or exaggerate, but we do say that Port
land ranks high among the watering places on
the Atlantic coast. And we'll it may. No bet
| ter harbor is found upon the coast, and no
harbor is more beautifully studded with is
| lands than Caseo Bay. Our neighbors over
| the border understand this and many Canadi-
ans visit our islands during the warm months
| No people love the sea and Its breezes more
than our Canadian friends.
Our friends out West will find it very pleas
| ant and re sreshing to spend few days in this
vicinity, and we hope ere long to give them q
more direct passage to our city by rail than we
have now. As it is, they can find their way
here on the Grand Trunk or by other railways
without trouble or Inconvenience. Let them
| come and enjoy the treasures Of the ocean.
| Our fish market was never better supplied,
and the CLANS are waiting to be baked on our
island shores. And If any one wishes to try
his hand at deep-sea fishing he can here
fnd all things in order. iH