The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-06-22
TO Be A PRODlGlOUS SUMMER RESORT.
Indication of an Immense Travel
to Maine This Season.
Tho state to Receive $50, 900, 900
Annually from Summer Tourists.
Maine Capitalists Should Invest
Their Money at Home.

Persons In position to know, or who pre-
tend at least they can form some estimate of
1t, say that the travel to Maine this year will
be larger than ever before. There is reason
to believe that this prophecy is true one.
The railroad facilities for reaching this city
and all parts of Maine will be better than
ever before. The State has been advertised
as SUMMER resort far more extensively
than ever before BY the railroads and by the
press. Still there remains much to be told.
The countrYlas yet knows very little Of the
attractions that exist here. Our charming
lakes, mountains, streams and sea coast do
not begin 20 be appreciated. Still the eyes
of thousands of tourists are looking our
way. The railroads are aware of this fact
and they are taking steps not only to accom-
modate those who have already determined
to come to Maine. but to urge others to visit
the beautiful Pine Tree State. Nothing is
trner than the words spoken by Rev. Grin
dale Reynolds Of Boston, in his sermon be-
fore the Maine Unitarian Conference con-
vened at the First Parish church in this city
last week. In the course of his able sermon,
he said maine is doomed, it cannot help
it, to be prodigious summer resort for pe0-
Pile all over this land" Every night begin
ming the last of this month train will leave
Chicago for this city via the Michigan Cen
trail TO Niagara Falls, thence to Rome,
Watertown & Ogdensburg. and so on down
through the White Mountains over the Maine
Central This splendid line that will do
so much for Portland and the rest of Maine
is advertised on the Niagara Falls, White
Mountain. Portland and Bar Harbor lines
The Rome, Waterfowl g. Ogdensburg rail-
road is out with splendid advertising card
in the form of an illustrated map which
contains scenes at the White Noun
tains, Old Orchard, Portland, Kennebunk-
port. Mt. Desert and other places. These
maps have been largely circulated. As has
before been stated the Chicago and Grand
Trunk is extensively advertising Portland in
the West This road will run solid yest-
buled trains from Chicago to this city, the
first train arriving here week from to-
day. Instead of receiving says the
Industrial Journal, from S1o,0Oo0OO to Sl2-
100000 yearly in benefits as we now do, with
well directed effort we can soon be receiving
$50.00o,000 or more. Such popular resorts
as Poland Spring. Kino and others are now
entirely inadequate to meet the demands
vestibule train leaving Chicago for Portland
in. a week there will probably be three or
more, and who win provide the extra accom-
mediation needed? The Wells Bay district,
Casco Bay district, Kennebec district,
fenobscot Bay section, the Mount Desert
section and others must look well to their
laurels and endeavor to get clear vision of
the probabilities of the future
~ The wise men who are supposed to make
up our boards of trade may we'll sit in coun-
ell and devise ways and measures to build
up the summer resort interests in their vicn-
ity. We have yet mine of undeyeloped
wealth for Maine in our pure water and min
eral springs, the immense stretch of our sea
coast and In all the wonderful combinations
of mountains, hills. valleys, lakes, ponds,
rivers and streams in the interior. This
latent wealth is composed of the inyigorat-
ing and health-giying qualities of our atmos-
phere, the life giving qualities of our spring
water, the excellent quality of our food pro-
ducts taken both from the land and water,
our picturesque scenery and in all the COM
bined conditions with nothing left out to
make life happy here In the summer time
We send money to Fort Payne, Ala, Den
nison, Texas, Sioux Falls, OAK, and else
where but we can draw ten fold back again
by making known to the South and West whai
chances we have here to invest in summer
resort property and the brilliant prospects
we have to grow as a summer resort state
In our combined resources and advantages
we are ahead of any state In the country and
In fair field of effort we should be Dirigo Ii
fact. BY the recent opening of the new
Canadian Pacific we shall draw tourist,
from Great Britain and capitalists also who
viii take hand In our business enterprises
on the line of the road. Having the greatest
| trunk line In the world now running across
| our State, Down East, which Is considered
| synonymous with tout of the world" has
| practical point of view