The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-04-09
THIS SUMMER IN MAINE RESORTS.
itWllI Be Gay and Lively for Many
People Are Coming.
TWO New Routes to the RangeIeys-
Camden To Be Favored.
what tho Maine Central Has Been
Doing For Bar Harbor.

The railroad men, who are the people bes
aDie 10 Judge OF the subject. are expecting
an unusually active season at the Maine
summer resorts. "The Maine Central will
nave this season." said prominent railroad
ofiicialto PRESS reporter the other day,
AT least six superb jewels in her diadem.
They are, the White Mountains, Poland
Springs, Bar Harbor. Moosehead Lake, the
Rangeley region and Camden, which will re-
celve unusual attention this season from
both the Maine Central and the closely
related Knox & Lincoln management" This
Is really the first season that the Maine Cen.
tral has been in position to begin the sys-
tematie development Of Camden. Moosehead
Lake, and the Rangeleys The new railroad
Just completed from Phillips to Rangeley Is
not under Maine Central control; but Il Is so
managed that practically continuous train
service can be arranged In connection with
| the latter road. On the Moosehead route 1t
may not be possible to arrange for tho -sGE-
ming Of through cars from Portland via Dex-
ter and Dover on to the Lake on account of
the attitude Of the Bangor & Piscataquis;
but the Maine Central can get its passengers
to Dover. whence 1t is very short journey
w thO A4ahCs no AOA Ndmuoug tuc HtW
management OF the Knox & Lincoln fiuds It.
self in position to cooperate with the
Maine Central in the development Of Cam
den as the old corporation was not able to
do.
All winter the Maine Central has had an
agent travelling through the South and West
doing nothing but advertise the beauties Of
the Maine and New Hampshire summer
resorts. He Is now at Hot Springs,
Arkansas. In no season before have
Maine resorts been advertised so
generally as this winter In anticipation Of
the travel Of the coming summer.
Bar Harbor and the other resorts in Maine
have undoubtedly come In for the larger
part OF this advertising. The White Noun
tains have become so we'll known that there
Is little need Of bringing them especially TO
the attention Of any people In the country.
Bar Harbor Is pretty well known, also; but
1t has nevertheless been receiving a large
amount Of advertising this winter. Un-
doubtedly this summer will be very sue
eessful season there. Mr.. Degrasse Fox, the
keeper Of the Malvern Hotel and the leading
real estate agent at Bar Harbor, said the
other day that he had rented more cottages
for the coming summer than he had ever be-
fore rented so early In the season. A
great many people from Philadelphia will
be among the residents Of the place this
summer The managers Of the West End
Hotel have decided to open their fine estab
llshment on the ed of June, and the other
large hotels will follow suit Immediately.
The Maine Central will offer two ways Of
reaching Bar HarbOr from Boston and the
West this summer, one the all-rail line by
Bangor, the other by the steamer City Of
Richmond. 1t is not quite decided yet
whether passengers by the City OF Rich
mond will be forwarded to ROckland by the
Knox and Lincoln, and thence by the
steamer, or whether the steamer will start
from Portland The all-rall line will have
the usual fine train service. The provincial
express. which will leave Boston at 8 a. m.
this year as 1t did last, will land its passen-
gers at Bar Harbor at $50 O'Clock in the
afternoon.
Moosehead Lake is receiving almost as
much attention at the hands Of the railroad
as is Bar Harbor. Although so many tour
lists have not visited Klneo as have gone to
Bar Harbor, Moosehead is yet an unsur-
passed resort, and with the new short line
by the way Of Dexter ready to carry passen-
gers directly and without any more tedious
delays, 1t will undoubtedly be thronged this
season with more tourists than can be ac-
commodated.
The Rangeley region has hitherto been a
lttlQ diA1aulk ~ "A h.a ~
by a more select body of tourists than any
other Maine resort. For many years Boston
people have been going up there to fish and
hunt; and there have always been a certain
number Of other tourists besides thelhunters
and fishermen. But the railroads have not
made the way so plain as 1t has been to the
White Mountains and Bar HarbOr. But
this year some Of the Rangeley exclusiveness
Is likely to experience a rude shock. The
Maine Central railroad this summer Is going
to be able to take the passenger who starts
from Boston at O'Clock in the morning and
land him at Rangeley by O'Clock In the eve
ming. 1t will be possible to leave Portland
at S.45 a. m. and arrive at Rangeley at 330p.
m. by an all-rail ride.
There is also to be another way of reach
ing the Rangeleys not quite so short and
easy but undoubtedly more interesting and
pleasing to lovers Of delightful scenery. This
route will be opened by the Maine Central
for the first time this year. For scenery
will be unsurpassed by any other stretch Of
road in New England. 1t will be by the
Mountain Division over the White Noun
tains to the Connecticut river and up the
Connecticut on the recently completed ex-
tension to the Upper Coos road, as far as
COlebrook. in the extreme northern part OF
New Hampshire. Here 1t will be necessary
to leave the cars and take a stage which will
go twenty miles, through the famous Dix
field Notch to Enrol Dam, at the western ex-
tremity of the Rangeley chain of lakes. The
Dixfeld Notch Is one Of the most famous
places in the whole White Mountain region.
Poland Springs will have the same train
service that was given last season. and will
without doubt have more people than can be
taken care Of even In its spacious hotel. This
resort has an old, established reputation
which the enterprise Of the RIckers never
allows to grow less.
As has been noticed already the prospects
for Camden are very bright. Hitherto the
attractions Of Camden have had to rely upon
local enterprise for their advertisement.
Now for the first time they are to have the
advantage Of the cooperation OF powerful
railroad interest. This will mean very
much for a place so favored by nature
as this really remarkable town.
Rev. Mr., FrotnInghan's VIII.
GlBesIdes the 5000 bequeathed the Portland
Pnblic ihrarv Raw Mr. ErothIn0hapo ,,o1,o.