The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-03-21

10 our local bOdFQS, anu 20 GulS 0bdbe
Board of Trade is much of the credit
steadily and persistently directed public
attention to our advantages, encourage
ed home manufactures, home patron
age, and home employment for our
young people, and the investment OF
more money at home and less abroad.
The fattering success of this policy,
evidenced in SO many ways, should be
sufficient incentive for continued unre-
| Knitting work and sentiment of loyalty
towards our State and her people, and
for the upbuilding of their every inter-
est, by this central organization, and by
every local board within her borders.
Respectfully,
M. N. RICH, Secc'y.
Treasurer GIN. Weymouth of Bidde-
ford, next made his report, which
showed 1924 on hand.
The papers were next in order. Hon.
Herbert M. Heath of Augusta, was to
have presented paper on the Water
Powers of Maine; but being unable to
be present sent letter of regret. So his
subject was passed for the next on the
programme:
Mr.. f. e. Boothby's Paper.
General Passenger Agent F. e. Boothby
delivered most interesting address on the
promotion of the summer resort interests
of Maine. After speaking of the great
natural beauties and advantages of the
State, Mr.. Boothby went on to note the
progress in twenty five years
Looking back say twenty-five years,
take it right here in Portland, the Port
land & Ogdensburg railroad had not
been opened through to the White Noun
tains and beyond AT that time, ven
ture 20 say, there were not one, two or
three summer residences on the Cape
and it is within my recollection that on
Great and Little Diamond or on Cush-
ings Island there were not over one on
each, while over ON. the Cape the shore is
lined with cottages, and on the diamond
Islands and others in the bay there are
now hundreds of these summer homes.
And as for Portland, / never could see
why its streets were not lined with
PaIatia1 Cottages of Summer Residents
from all over the country, the same as
at Newport the scenery of Newport not
comparing with that of Portland.
Twenty-Five years ago, or about that,
| Old Orchard, to be sure, had its beach,
but few from abroad knew of it,, and it
was an orchard indeed. And within the
time that the Ottawa House has been
built, as we'll as the magnificent hotels
| at Poland Springs, and Kineo. Popham
| Beach, Boothbay and Squirrel Island.
| developed wonderfully. Rangeley and
Moosehead have been brought from com.
| parative obscurity, utterly unheard OF
| to people of the outside world, to be as
we'll known as any similar fishing and
sporting grounds in the country.
| We have all heard of the comparison
of Casco Bay to the Bay of Naples.
Standing on the shores of one of the
| Switzerland lakes friend of mine says
| in speaking of his admiration to trav-
| cling acquaintance, the other quietly
| said, "Why, it does not begin to COM
pare with our own Moosehead." Twenty
| five years ago Bar Harbor was hardly
more than fishing hamlet, while now
it is a city of cottages. 1t was only a
day or two ago that saw an item that
! since 18S5it had expended on the repair of
it's streets and roads the sum of $103,-
735. "a, aud that in building of new roads
| and sewers it had expended S1S5, liz Is
more This would seem to indicate that
something had been going on. And now
we have NorGhport, Islesboro, Deer Isle,
| Hancock, Sorrento, Gouldsborc and
| luuQTcuS VI JULIET UldCcS IlOoIdlly uA-
| known then.
Twenty-Five years ago
| Short Trains at Long Intervals
were running over our road beds in
Maine, and Pullman cars merely
known. The night train between Bos
ton and Bangor, which is near the Maine
artery of the State as far as railroad
service is concerned, with its weight Of
! express and mails as we'll as travel. and
which to now dispense with would raise
| the greatest disturbance imaginable
had not been put on, and Flying Yankees
| were merely dream. The annual re-
| port of the Maine Central railroad for
| 1S6S shows the entire number of passen-
GERS carried was SO, $50 To be sure this
| was perhaps previous to consolidation
| but taking the entire system of roads
now comprising the Maine Central rail
road. which were then in existence. the
| total mum Der oil passengers carried fol
| tine wear 1868 would not exceed 100000
while the annual report of the Maine
Central shows that in 1889 2,317, 68s
passengers carried, or five times thu
lumber Looking at the time tables
we find Bangor in 1868 having one pass
enger train each way per day and one, o.
l
summer schedules for last season show
US
Twenty Passengers Trains.
entering and leaving Bangor, while i
REQ uires ten freight trains each way, be
sides extras nearly every day to NOV
the freight.s And besides the capacit.
of freight cars has in the last few year
doubled, and, the increased power of 10
comotiyes enables double the number o
cars to be handled per train.
WaterviIle had the same number o
trains, lie. one on each road. passen
ger and freight per day each way. Otter
on the lower road so called freight train
were run only every other day, that i
up one day and back the next. Las
summer six passenger trains arrived
from Portland per day via the lowe
route, five via the upper, six arrived
from Bangor and two from Skowhegan