The Portland daily press., 1884-07-15
OLD ORCHARD.
What Press Reporter Discovers ia His
Handles.

OLD ORCHARD, July IA.
The time table arrangement of the B. & M.R.R,
is great convenience to the patrons OF this road
Ten trains are run each way between Old Orchard
and Portland and five each way between Old Orch
ard and Boston, every day except Sundays, when
there are five trains to Portland and six from Port
land, two going through to Boston.
Mrs. B. F. Snow and party of friends, of Har-
rison, Me- have taken rooms for the season at the
Sea View House, on the Camp Ground.
Mrs. Plummer and family, of South Berwick.
have taken a cottage on Circuit avenue for the sum
mer.
For week past the grounds in the lower part a
the Ocean House lawn have been strewn with ~ "
Der, and carpenters have been busy erecSS; tunl-
monstrous framework, with circumference az 4 ~
hundred feet. twenty-five thousand feet az In a We
will be used in the construction of what is cIiosr
"roller cOast~~" u 80 raeed ~ireriar ~ sIou
sGo greatest height being twenty.foar Feet s1S
gradually sloping each side nearly to the ground
On a track upon the platform are two cars eonnlsd
together, each being eleven and one-haIf feet fone
and seating ten persons. The train obtains suffoS
clent momentum going down one slope to carry IL
AROUND, up tbe other slope, to the starting point
There is only other 'coaster'' at the Nortbern
summer resorts, and although this one ia beiny
erected mere AT great expense, it win undoubtedly
prove success. The ride is pronounced safe ar.
citing and exhilarating. coasting party sliding
down hill without any snow, and in the latter part
OF July, IS indeed an extraordinary occurrence INF
this rare event will take place at Old Orchard ahont
the 22d of this month"; "OOu'
Mrs. Blackwell and family of Newton have taken
very pretty cottage on Oakland avenue at the
Camp Ground, for the summer. ~ VIZ
committee of three recently came here from,
Lawrence and made arrangements with the mana
gers OF the Ocean House to serve dinner TO the
members OF the Needham, G. A r. Post Of Law.
renee, July 23d. About four hundred will Sit down
70 ulnner, and the of Musi5 hall is to he gven
them in the afternoon W w sA''"
Mr. Gordon E. Weld Of Boston. is registered at
societv r OsCnar1 I house Mr. Weld is wel-known
MS nIseenth consecutive season at Old Orchard
AZ Tue sea Shore House registered the names
y " m Dooson of Pittsfeld, Me and j. j. Wiggn
Mrs Tobey and family of Mechanics Falls bave
Avenue. VI -"Pi0"O0u
Hon. Francis ". Rice, U. S. Consul at Asninwau
is at the Sea Shore House, '
Tomorrow evening Prof Bulklev. oF Uowara
OhlnveIsity; Washington, d. c. will give reading
AZ uotel flske, consisting of selections from
DlcKens' David CopperfisId. 'Guests Of the other
no 1 are invited. hop will follow the reading
sI Ine IoHoWlng sloops arrived in the Bay this
AFTERNOON Tor the purpose of taking out pleasure
Prtles TINS summer. Carrie, Capt. f.. H. PhilliDs.
Duett, capt Lorenzo Norwood; Little Guy, Capt
wood. -'Oi-
air. Harry NJ. Hobson of Nashua, n. B.. and
treasurer Of the Pennichuck Water Works of that
place. is a guest at the Ocean House.
At the Baw View House SATURDAY. evening the
guests enjoyed their first hop Of the seaso6
A number from the neighboring cottages and
from Saeo and Biddeford were present The floor
MAJ were henry 5. Howe Esq, of Biddeford
and Mr. Geo. E. Grant of Saeo. Among those on
the door were noticed, Mrs. NJ. j. Savage and Miss
Gertrude Savage, Mrs Silas Quincy ana Miss Rnbv
Gurney OF Boston, and Miss Miller eff BALTIMORE
yl heSenG arrivals at Hotel Fiske include r. W
Knight and wife, Mrs. A. Ingraham, Mrs. j. q. 4
of Portland