The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-07-04
the MAINE CENTRAL's PLANS.
To NJ axe Maine, Especially Portland,
Great Summer Resort.
The Forest City Describes by Lyman
n. Nelson.

The summer timetable has gone into effect
on the Maine Central railroad. There never
was time in the history of the Maine Cen
trail, according to railroad men, when the
trains were so heavy upon the summer
change of time as they are at present. 1t
usually requires week or two after the
change for travel to become good. and it was
therefore surprising Monday to see every
train pacged to overfiowhg. If travel holds
up, as it surely will, tie record for passen-
ger business will be broken on the road this
summer. The railroad officials are looking
for this and expect it. This heavy travel is
accounted for in various ways. In the first
place Maine is becoming better known as
summer resort. In the last year the various
resorts have been advertised more than ever
before. Summer houses everywhere are re-
porting an unusually prosperous outlook, all
the rooms in some of the hotels and boarding
houses being already engaged for the season.
The Maine Central has done its part in al
vertising the State, and is now beginning,to
reap a little of the fruit of what they have
sown. The through Wagner palace car
from Chicago, which arrives in this city
every night at sos, via the mountain divis-
ion of the Maine Central, will bring many
people TO the State.
On the train which leaves the Union Sta
tion at S.45 a. m, there is drawing room
car attached, which makes the return Jour-
ney, leaving every day except Sunday. This
is the only daily means of direct travel open
between here and the West The train passes
through the White Mountains, by Lake
Champlain ana by Niagara Falls, and each
OF these famous places are passed during
the day time, thus allowing one to see them
perfectly. The latest advertising enterprise
of the Maine Central is "little brochure.
designed to give a suggestion merely of the
wealth of beauty that, TO our central States
lies just below the horizon; of the lights and
shadows, the clouds and golden sunshine
just over the edge, away down in the old
northeast, the city and surroundings of Port
land, Me-" This pamphlet, of 40 pages, with
which the public is now quite familiar, is
from the pen of Mr.. Lyman III. Nelson, pri-
vate secretary of General Passenger aud
Ticket Agent Boothby. of the Maine Cen
trail. On one cover is little sketch of Dia-
mond Cove, and on the other a sketch of the
OiO5ohe - NUN SbutiOh. uV pdillpultJ Gull
tains illustrations of scenes in Portland.
Cushing's Island, Cape Elizabeth and other
places The approach to the city over the
mountain division of the Maine Central, the
general aspect of the city itself, its beautiful
parks and grand promenades, and its re-
markabe healthfulness, are all admirably
depicted by Mr.. Nelson. The author goes
further. He takes the reader into the de-
lightful aud picturesque surroundings of the
fair Forest City.
The beauty of Casco Bay and the island
gems, Cape Elizabeth and its many places of
interest, Old Orchard Beach, where "the
breakers curl and roar just as they did hun
dreds of years before the first of the double
score OF hotels that now form civilized back
ing for this brown belt of shining sand was
built, ARE portrayed in very readable man.
ner. Then the places reached by longer
jaunts are spoken of. Sebago Lake, that the
Maine Central is at present making very
popular excursion point; the newly discov-
cred but already quite famous Wescustigo
mineral spring at North Yarmouth; the
world-renowned Poland Spring, Rangeley
Lakes, Bar Harbor and Moosehead Lake are
more briefly described. This pamphlet, pre-
sented to the public by the passenger de-
partment of the Maine Central. is good ad-
vertisement for Portland, and will doubtless
result, as it was intended it should, in much
good to the city and citizens. In conclusion
Mr.. Nelson writes:
Though these fleeting years of progress
Send their thousands WeStward-ho,
Yet remain unnumbered treasures
In the regions whence they go.
And these travellers riches seeking
In that level prairie land,
Soon will sigh for hills and boulders,
Isle-set bay and ocean sa d.
And when sultry sun OF summer
Wearies with its torturing flame,
Cooling winds will call them homeward
Old Northeast has still claim.