The Portland daily press., 1893-04-20
RAILROAD NOTES.
Special Trains for the "one Day" Enter
tainment-The Rates for the Worlds
Fair-Many Provincials Going Through
Phillips & Rangeley Annual Meeting.


Fair-biany Provincials Going Through
Phillips Rangeley Annual Meeting.
The tame of the Zone Day. entertain
ment has gone abroad far beyond the
limits of this city; and the Maine Central
have arranged special trains to bring
people to what is considered the finest
amateur exhibition ever given in Maine.
For the performance of tomorrow evening
special trains will bring people at low
rates from Augusta and Bath, and the
regular trains from Lewiston. For the
Saturday matinee special trains will be
run from Waterville by both lines. Low
rates will also be given from Rockland
and Pennington with special trains to re-
turn the visitors after the entertainment.
What 1t Will Cost to Visit the Fair.
1t is possible now to begin to make
estimates of what it will cost to visit the
great fair at Chicago. Yesterday the
Maine Central issued their schedule of
rates to Chicago and return, General
Passenger Agent .Boothbay having just
completed the needed arrangements with
the passenger departments of roads fur
Their west. Tickets will be on sale by April
25th for the White Mountain and Cana
dian Pacific route; but the Niagara Falls
route will not be open until May 10th.
Two kinds of tickets will be sold, a sea-
son ticket that will be good to return on
at any time up to November 18th; and a
thirty day ticket. OF course the latter
will be sold cheaper. The cost of return
ticket from Portland to the fair by way of
the White Mountains is fixed at $32 for the
thirty-day limit, and 1913 for the season.
The same rate will apply to Deering,
Westbrook junction, Cumberland and
Yarmouth. For Freeport the rates are
$32.40 and $34; for Bath $3.50 and 1884,.
so; for Rockland, Thomaston, etc., $35 20:
for Waterville $34.50 and $3.50; for Bel
fast $34.5O and $376O; for Bangor $50 20;
for Lewiston 1880; for Pennington
$3.50. 35: for Bar Harbor $40; for Bridgton
Junction $31.30; for Fryeburg 5000.
On the season tickets stop-oyer privileges
are to be allowed in the White Mountains
and in Canada.
1t is whispered that before the season
is over rates may go considerably lower
than this; but at present there is no
definite information upon this point.
Many Provincial People Going Through.
This is the season when great numbers
of people are going through on the Maine
Central from the Maritime Provinces,
especially from Prince Edwards Island,
to Massachusetts, for work for the sum-
mer. They are passing through Portland
at the rate of about 200 day, and it is
estimated that 25 per cent more are 60
ing than in any spring before. Yesterday
noon another special train from the pro-
vinces passed through.
Phillips & Range1ey
The annual meeting of the Phillips &
Rangeley Railroad was held at the offices
of the Maine Central Railroad in this city
yesterday afternoon. 1t resulted in the
choice of the old list of officers, as fol-
lows:
President-Arthur Sewall
Directors-Arthur Sewall. Frank Jones, J. s.
Kicker, Payson Tucker. Geo. M. Goodwin, F.
E. Undertake, w. A. Rich. A. B. Gilman, Cal
vim Putnam.
General Manager-Payson Tucker.
Clerk and TreaSurer-Geo. w. York.
Boston and Maine.
The stockholders of the Eastern Rail-
road of New Hampshire will hold their
annual meeting at Portsmouth, N. H.,
May I'd, at which time they will act upon
the proposed consolidation of the line
with the Boston 6 Maine system.
The basis Of the consolidation proposed
is an exchange of two shares of the stock
of the Eastern Railroad of New Hamp-
shire for one of Boston & Maine. The
capital stock of the former line is now
$3.50, 900 having been largely increased a
year or more ago. The road is now I'M
der lease to the Boston q Maine peonla