The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-18
THE Big FAIR.
It Will Make a Stir Even in Maine.
MANY PEOPLE WILL GO TO AND
FRO THIS SUMMER.

Elaborate Plans Which the Maine Central
Are Making for Handling Traffic-AH
Big Resorts to be Covered by Express
Trains-AH About the Service to the
Fair.
The Worlds Fair is going to put lot
of life into Maine this summer, remote as
we are from the centre of sensation,
Although Chicago has the fair, Maine
will undoubtedly have many of the people
who, tired with sight seeing lin the hot
and dusty city, will seek rest on the sea-
coast and in the mountains of New Eng
lind.
The preparations whichthe Maine Cen
trail is making will give some idea of
what those best informed on such mat
ters, are preparing for the coming sum-
mer. The people who will come to
Maine from the Fair and the Maine peo-
pie who will attend the Exposition, must
largely increase the volume of travel.
Of this travel Portland will be the CEN
tire and distributing point. The Union
Station will be more bustling than ever,
and from it will go forth more trains
than ever before.
I'VE shall have the finest train service
ever seen in Maine," said an official to
the PRESS yesterday SIT will begin
earlier, and be faster, more complete and
more comprehensive than lever before"
The regular summer train service will
begin June 18th this year. Last year it
began June 2Sth. This is more than two
weeks earlier. This summersservice will
present many new land advantageous
features. 1t is by the Mountain Division
that the Worlds traffic will be handled,
and on this division the most radical
changes will be made, express trains be-
ing run for the first time.
The 845 a. M, train over the Mountain
Division will be the Worlds Fair special,
and it will carry Wagner cars direct from
Portland to Chicago. twill run by the
way of Niagara Falls, running over the
Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg divis-
ion of the New York Central, and proceed
| ing westward from Syracuse on the main
| line of that system.
At evening there will be two trains
| out of Portland instead of one, as for
merly. One, leaving at 6 p. m, will be a
| local train to Bartletts. The other, leav-
ing at s. Is p. M, will run express to
i Oh al
\ meet with the Worlds Fair train of the
Canadian Pacific. This train will leave
Portland with Canadian Pacific sleeper.
On certain days of the week Canadian
Pacific sleepers will leave other Maine
cities, like Bangor, Waterville, Show
hogan, etc., and come to Portland where
they will be taken onto the SIS express.
| Thus many of the larger Maine places
may take the Worlds Fair sleepers right
| at their doors.
| From the mountains into Portland
there will also be some desirable changes.
! The Montreal express, which arrives at
Portland at 7.55 p. M, will run express
from North Conway. There will also be
| an afternoon local train from North Con-
way into Portland, arriving here at 5 p.
M, in time for passengers to connect
with trains for the Feast.
| So much for the Mountain Division,
where the Worlds Fair travel will be
concentrated.
/ AS for the travel into Maine from Bos-
ton, and western points through Boston,
| the summer arrangement will show
notable changes and improvements. On
| May LIST, that is, before the summer time
table shall 60 into effect, the early Bar
| Harbor travel will be taken care of by ex-
tending the night Pullman service of
through sleepers to Bar Harbor.
When the summer arrangement comes
on the Provincial express will leave Bos-
ton at a. M, and run through to Bar
Harbor, st. Andrews and St. John by
way of Poland Springs. From Boston to
Portland the train will make regular
three hour time, arriving at Portland at
II a. M, and continuing eastward at H.
10. Another advantage of this train, be-
sue It's conHecIlon at Iolauu opiiHSs,
will be connection for Green vile
Moosehead Lake and Kineo. This is
something new, and will enable the trav-
eller who leaves Boston in the morning
to eat supper under the cliff of Kineo.
The regular morning trains will leave
Boston at $50 and 9.15 a. M, respective
ly, running through as usual. But the
9.15 train will have through parlor cars
to Rockland, enabling passengers going
to Bar Harbor via the steamer Frank
Jones to arrive at a seasonable hour in
the afternoon, go aboard the steamer as
they would a hotel, and remain there
until the steamer sails the next morning.
/ The regular NIGHT Pullman will leave