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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-06
Alluring Charms to the
Sportsman.
The Fish of Her Waters and the Game
of Her Woods.

the Portland and Rumford Falls rail
way and that road with the Rangeley
Lakes railroad, now opened to the
western part of the Rangeley Lakes
system. At Leeds junction it
connects with its Pennington branch and
at Pennington with the Sandy River and
the Phillips and Rangeley railroad ter
minating at Rangeley Lakes which has
been for many years the coveted resort
for tourists and sportsmen. The Dead
River region is also reached by this route.
The Maine Central railroad also
makes close connection with the Somer-
set railway at Oakland which penetrates
some of the best fishing and hunting
grounds in central Maine. The waters
of Lake Maranacook and Long ponds in
Kennebec county are touched by the
road, and are among the best for trout,
salmon and bass fishing. Auburn Lake
in Auburn, where the State hatcheries
are situated, is stocked to repletion with
trout and salmon. At Waterville it's con-
nection with the Skowhegan branch takes
the traveller to Skowhegan. the depart
ing point of thousands Of tourists, and
sportsmen. Its main line passing
through Augusta and Waterville, con-
meets at Burnham junction with its
branch for Belfast, close by which is
situated the great waters of Swan lake
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-06

We have been in Portland because
Portland is the starting point of the great
Maine Central system and from heie it
will carry the traveller to almost every
nook and corner of this great State
whether he be on pleasure or on business
bent. It will be well to state at this
point that the home of the Maine Cent
raj trains in Portland as well as those of
the Boston & Maine is the new Union
Station built some few years ago (of
handsome granite dug from the heart of
Maine and New Hampshire hilIs) that
faces the large and beautiful square and
which contains every convenience for the
comfort of the tourist which is known in
these days of perfection in all that per-
tains to the needs of the great travelling
public.
In this station, trains may be taken for
every branch of this great railroad sys-
tenn, which stretches out in every direc-
ton like the weave of spiders web.
One thing will strike the traveller very
forcibly who comes to Maine and that is
the fact, that though he may be veri-
table globe trotter, he will be ready to
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-06
A Peculiar Cat,

Among the most cherished possessions of
Miss Frances Willard is her Aneora cat
Toots Toots once bore the more dignified
name OF Gladstone, but England's Grand
Old Man happened to take a stand on the
prohibition question that did not meet
with Miss Wizards approval, SO she re-
chr1stened the cat. Toots has habits which
must try the temperance reformer, for he
gets intoxicated occasionally, though with
MISS Willard for mistress "rum" is nat
uraliy not the cause of his crime. The
perfume OF English violets makes him as
maudiin as ever fiery liquids did human
pelng, and carnations, too, are as bad as
strong drink in his case.-New York
Journal.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-06

over this line of road. Although its main
line terminates at Caribou, and branches.
at Ashland and Fort Fairfield, it will not
be long before it will reach the Canadian
frontier at Van Buren,. The history Of
this road, built during the country's
financial distress, meeting it's liabilities
from its earnings while extending seventy
three miles of its line is a marvel in rail
road building and earnings. The famous
fishing and hunting grounds lying beyond
Moosehead Lake, Mt. Katahdin, ALA
cash, st. John and Aroostook river
waters, the hundreds Of lakes and
streams hardly yet acquainted with the
hunter and the angler, await to yield
their bounttes in trout and salmon.
There Is not space to mention even
the beautiful resorts along the coast line
of the Maine Central railroad; the forty
five miles OF the Wiscasset and Quebec
railroad which connects with the Maine
Central at Wiscasset and runs through a
charming section of country lying north
from the coast; or to enumerake the at
fractions on the line of the Ora nd Trunk
Trunk railway as it takes its eonrse west
of Portland, through the old and enter
prising towns Of Norway. Paris and
Bethel, which pride themselves on
their fishing resorts and summer abodes
for tourists; or call attention to the great
convenience the building of the WASHING
ton County railroad will be to visitors to
eastern Maine, connecting as it will with
the Bar Harbor branch of the Maine
Central or the one hundred and fifty
miles of Canadian Pacific railway, run
ming across the State from Megantic to
Vanceboro.
The grouse and duck shooting is good
in all parts Of Maine, and the commits
sioners have planted colony of the
the 'black game and caperoalzie'' of Swe-
den, which will be augmented from year
to year till this noble game will be a
feature of our sporting requirements.
Have no fear that the hundreds of
thousands of tourists Who come into
Maine annually will deplete the waters
or forests of their fish and game. They are
too plenty and the opportunities too ex-
tensive; the policy OF the State in re-
stocking its waters and protecting It's
game is too well defined and managed to
permit any but an increase of the same.
The opening catches of trout and salmon,
this spring are more Ia member and
larger In Size than ever before. There
are six million Of acres OF wild lands.''
which can never be anything bat forests.
The output of trout and salmon from
State and private hatcheries is six million
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-06
systems now penetrating the extensi

systems now penetrating the extensive
domain of the State. All travel first
concentrates at Portland, where the
Maine Central system makes close con-
nection with trains from New York and
Boston. The Mountain division of this
road on its way to Fyreburg and the
White Mountain region, touches Sebago
Lake sixteen miles from Portland where
salmon fishing is excellent. This lake is
thirteen miles in length, two to six in
width, and connected by the 'Songo"
with Long pond at whose upper section
the towns of Bridgton and Harrison at
Iord summer homes for large numbers OF
tourists: The Bridgton and Saco River
haliroad connect this section with the
alne Central. The Maine Central sys-
TEN OF railroad over it's Lewiston line
connects at Poland Spring junction with
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-06

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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-06
The Maine Central System and What IL
Has Done for the Pine Tree State.
The Key to the Joys and Delights of the
Great Summer State.

While Maine is visited yearly by thou
sands upon thousands of pleasure seek
ers, there are still in this great country
of ours millions of people who have
never been within its fascinating bounds.
The mad rush of great many Ameri-
cans to get away from their native coun-
try and see the charms of foreign lands,
it is grateful.to say is passing away, and
is every year becoming supplanted with a
more sensible and rational desire to see
and know the glories of their own native
country, the most beautiful and most
glorious, the grandest heritage ever given
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-06
THE HOME OF THE "sPEcKLED BEAUTY"

"There she stands enthroned upon her
evergreen and everlasting hills crowned
with ten thousand square miles of pri-
meval woods that yet are virgin to the
touch of man, her vestal robe laced with
her silver streams, her zone engirdled
with her chains of crystal lakes, that
shine like molten jewels meath her sum-
mer skies; her skirts embroidered with
the feecy lace of foam old ocean loves to
bring and weave about her feet; claiming
the homage of our admiration due her
by RIGHT Of eminent domain, and which
the meretricious charms of England,
France, Italy and Switzerland, too long
have purchased from their younger,
fresher. loyelier rival"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-06

acknowledge that in all his travels he has
never met with a better train service OF a
more courteous and gentlemanly class of
officials than he will find connected with
this great vacation line. The name of
the Maine Central R. R. has come to be
synonymous with safety in transportation
by rail. and notwithstanding the fact that
it handles annually millions of tourists,
it is ali done with quiet and safety, SO
complete Is the system of train dispatch
ing and care which has ever been the
policy of the management of the road to
maintain.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-06

ing day glisten upon the snow-white
sails of hundreds Of white winged mes
sengers of commerce and pleasure dot
ting its surface, and then when the
shades of evening begin to fall, stand
on the beautiful Western Promenade at
the other end Of the city. watch old Sol
as he sinks behind the snow-clad crest Of
Mt. Washington, kissing in farewell the
forty miles Of beautiful and varying
landscape which intervenes, and drink in
the ever changing color, light and shade
of the fading day, inhale the sweet aroma
that comes with the glorious after-glow,
you would then be ready to agree with
our friend the Englishman and perhaps
to exclaim that even he had not told half
the story.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-06


been its most powerful developing
agent, the Maine Central R. r. system.
The relations of this splendid railroad
system to the development of Maine, are
co-existent with the progress and increase
of its farming interests, the tremendous
increase of its immense logging and lum-
bering industry, its industrial and manu-
featuring growth, and last but by no
popularity of this large tract of land
which has been aptly termed "the front
door-yard of our country and which is
becoming more and more as each sue
ceeding summer season marks another
milestone in the lives of the great mass
of people who seek respite from the busy
cares and myriad worries of business
life,in the great cities, in few weeks stay
on the shores of some silvery lake on
some green-clad hill which dots the sur
face of Maine, or inhale the energizing
for hundreds of miles, kisses the snow
white beaches or dashes against the rock
bound shores of this great State.
The State of Maine! What an
eloquent theme for the pen of the author
OF the brush of the painter No one
could hope to do it justice in an article
of this kind, and although Maine has
been annually visited by the great mast
ers of their professions, the pen of the
writer has not yet half told the story nor
have the brushes of thousands of paint
ers begun to portray the beauty spots
which are as numerous within its con
fines, as are the stars which glisten upon
the sky above it.
A State rich in historic lore, in the
record of bravery and patient endurance
of its early settlers; as famed for the pro-
duction of great men as for her stately
pines, apd blest by an honest and noble
people who, however far from her shores
they may wander, or in whatever walk of
life they may be found, are always proud
to lift mp their heads and say, 81 came
from Maine.''
An eloquent son of Maine pays her a
touching tribute when he says of her,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-06

Venice; I have travelled through the
Celestial Empire; have been to those
wonders of 10Th century civilization, the
great cities of the west, and have come
at last to Portland, Maine. If I were
asked from out the great bouquet of
natural loneliness and beauty which I
have seen to pick the fairest flower of the
lot, should choose the city of Port
land.''
Could you come here, stand at sunrise
on old Fort Allen and watch the rays fall
upon the placid waters of the bay until
1t makes them dance in very joy, gaze
upon the scores of beautiful islands
seemingly dropped by nature into the lap
OF the ocean, see the light of the awaken
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-06

where the areas OF many of the farm
are as great as our largest cities.
Ii you are one of the people whose love
OF life by the sea is pre-eminent, the
Maine Central shore lines skirt the
whole coast of Maine and are partial to
no particular locality, but will with I'M
Partially tell You where you may be
thrilled by the roar of the breakers on
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-06

"Well, Samantha did you feel perfectly
to hum whom you were visiting your rela-
ton in the city Of New York;"
Il orter felt that way, Zekel. They
never let mo get out of the house but once
the hull time was there. '-netroit Free
Press.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-06

If you would know Maine-you must
know the Maine Central R. r. 1t will
take you first at Portland, the metropolis
of Maine, that lovely city by the sea, of
which Longfellow loved to sing. where
he spent so much of his life and where
he tells us, in behring's Woods he dis
covered the magic elixir of life and found
what the world has ever sought, "a lost
youth again" The city on the shores of
old Casco Bay, where the sanity Whit
tier loved to come and find among its
bard of peace.
An Englishman who was once in Port
land said, Il have been great traveller;
have journeyed the wide world over; 1
have visited the most beautiful cities of
England; have stood in Germany's fair
est towns; have wandered in Rome and
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-06

of God to man; and in this heritage there
is no choicer. lovelier spot than the State
of Fessenden, of Hamlin, of Blaine, and
of Reed.
SIT is a melancholy fact that there are
Americans who neither know nor appre-
ciate the features, the beauteous scenery,
the history or the life of their own I'M
equalled country. They can babble for
week about what they have seen in Eng
land or Switzerland or Sicily; but can't
tell you anything about their native coun-
try. Youngsters, can't you somehow
find out good deal about the great and
wonderful land you live in %
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-06

Hoover writes the
the history of the
growth and develop
ment of the State
of Maine, must per-
force include the
story of what has
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-06

the headlands or soothed by the gentle
tapping of the waves on the gravelly
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-21
"TAE ORIGINAL MUGWUMP."
Interesting Political Career of George
Fred Williams.

Interesting Political Career of George
Fred Williams.
George Fred Williams, the Demo
cratic nominee for governor OF Massa-
chusetts, is one of the most interesting
characters in New England politics He
has always been an active and ag-
gressive factor in the state campaigns,
and his recent fight for the nomination
is only another chapter in his somewhat
sensational political career.
Mr. Williams was born in Dedham,
July 10, 1852. His father was of Ger
man birth, but was educated and
brought up in New England. He be-
came a sailor and was lost at sea when
young George Fred was but years old.
After leaving Dedham high school Mr..
Williams went to Dartmouth college,
where he was graduated in 1879. Sub
sequently he studied at the Universities
of Heidelberg and Berlin. While uni
versity student he saw something of the
Franco-Prussian war, being at the bat
tie of Metz in the capacity of field
surgeon.
Returning to America, he was adj
mitted to the Massachusetts bar III 1875
and became prominent in his profession.
He is he author of several lawbooks
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-21

American women practically own
London. They set the fashions, they
have five admirers to every English
woman's one, and they have the pick
Of the best men. :"
OF course there was a wave OF lndlg-
nant protest, and now Miss Anterior is
being heartily denounced from one end
of the United Kingdom TO the other. 1t
is just what might be expected OF Miss
Atherton. She was ever disturbing
element in society, but the high place
which she has gained in the world of
letters gives her a standing which she is
in no danger of losing, no matter how
many eccentric theories she may put
forth The American public still re-
member the wordy and highly interest
ing war which was waged between Miss
Atherton and Ella Wheeler Wilcox
some years ago. 1t was over question
of personal beauty, each eminent nov
elist admitting that she herself was the
most beautiful. Miss Anterior finally
gained signal victory by having her
dressmaker interviewed and giving to
the world the exact figures of her bust,
waist and arm measurements. Since
that time Mrs. Wilcox has scornfully
referred to Miss Anterior as "the Ath-
erton.
Miss Anterior claims the bluest kind
of blood, her grandfather having been a
nephew of Benjamin Franklin. She
was born in California and at an early
age developed literary tendencies. At
the age of 10 she wrote play which
had the honor of being produced. She
has written many novels which have
met with wide sale. Perhaps her most
famous story was ''The Doomswoman.
She has been married, but was left a
widow when quite young and resumed
her maiden name.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-21
GEORGE FRED WILLIAMS.

which are accepted authorities Not I'M
til 1884 did he take any very active part
in politics, but in that year he attracted
attention by leaving the Republican
party, because of his opposition to Blaine,
and supporting Cleveland. This gave
him the title of 1.-The original Mug
wump." In 1889 he was elected TO the
state legislature, and the following
year he defeated John W. Chandler for
congress. In 1892 Mr.. Williams was an
unsuccessful candidate for congress, and
in 1895 he was the Democratic nominee
for governor, but was defeated.
Mr.. Williams is a vigorous cam
paigner and is regarded as very tai
ented platform orator Personally he Is
a man of fine appearance and always
dresses with extremely good taste.
The gold Democrats of the Palmer and
Buckner faction in Massachusetts have
nominated 3. o. Prince of Boston for
governor.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-21
THE ELECTRIC FARM.
PRoMle~ TO BE FEATURE OF THE
FUTURE.

With Dynamo Run by windmill the
Farmer Can Have Electric Lights and
Electric PlOws, Electric Churns and
Electric Almost Everything Else.
If the electric farm is not to be a fea-
ture of the near future, it is not the
fault of the inventors. They have al
ready done good share of their part
of the work Now, it only remains for
the farmer 10 do his.
You may look long time In almost
any part OF the country before you will
find a farmer who is making much use
of electricity In his work. He has heard
about electric plOws, but when he wants
10 break up the cornfield he bitches up
his mules or his horses and does 1t In
the good old way without the interven-
ton of dynamos or wires. But glance
at the recent inventions sent to the ma
tional patent office Will show that hun-
dreds of ingenious appliances Of more
or less practicable nature have been de-
signed for the special use of the farmer
in utilizing electricity in mis- daily toll
There are electric churns, eleCs'ic spad
ing machines, electric tree fellcrs, electric
sheep shearers, electric forcing frames,
electric irrigators, and there Is doubtless
under process of construction somewhere
in the country an electric bootjack. The
great multitude of these electrical de-
vices have never been put into practical
operation, but still there are few cases
In which electricity is used in farming
Several electric plows have been sue
cessfully operated in Europe.
In one of the western states electricity
is operating 10 blade gangplow which
cuts "a furrow feet wide. The blades
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-21
WOMEN ABROAD.

Gertrude Atherton Jstirs Up Her English
Cousins by InvidiOus Companions.
A nice kettle of fish has Gertrude
Atherton stirred up in dear old Lun-
non. She has boldly asserted III an
English paper that American women
and girls were crowding the English
women out of the matrimonial market.
''At the present moment, she says,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-21
sFie. For ShameI"

The word ''fie," or its equlvalenS In
sound, exists in all languages anu ]"
every one is expressive Of disgust.
Tombstone epitaph., 1896-06-28
REPUBLICAN
The National Plaif.m in Sym
 opsis at St lr.uis.

The following is an accurate aud valuable .ynop-is of the EsI ubl;csn National Platform as adopted at S,, Lpuis
 I. Tariff, not only ,o furni-h ade- luate revenue for the pscessary ex- en.es of the government, bu: to pro- teci American labor from deeredation to the wage level of other lands.
 ,. Reciprocal agreements for open markets and discriminating duties D favor oi the Ame Tiean merchant ma rine.
 2. Maintenance oi the existing gold standard ani opposition to free coinage of silver except by interna- tional agreement with the lradiag ccm nercial tiOn- ni the world.
 1. Pensions and preferences for veterans of the Union army.
 j. A firm, vigorous anI diguiied foreign policy "and sll our interests in the western hemisphere carefully watched and guarded"
 6. The Hawaiian islands to be con- trolled by the United States the Nicar- acuan Canal to be built, naval sta ton in ihe West Indies.
 '. Protection to American citizens and property in Turkey.
 $ R.asserii of the Monroe doe Urine. Eventual withdrawal or Euro pean pJwers from this hemisphere and union of all Engl!sh-speasing peoples on thi. contiuezi.
 9. The United States actively to u-- influence to restore peace and give independence to Cuba.
 10 Enlargement of the navy, de- iense Of harbors and seaccssis.
 H. Escu.ion of illiierate and inn moral immigrants.
 F. R pg.oyal oi the c yil service law.
 l3. \ Tree ba,lo! and an honest count.
 H. Condemnation oi lyDc.,ing.
 lj. Approval nf nation T arbitration.
 I6. Approval of free home7teal law.
 r.. Admission oi the remaining territories, r. presentation Tor Alaska abolition o! carpet-bag federal officers.
 Is. Sympathy wi:h 0. itima,e efforts .o lessen in emperance.
 Iy. An inconclI=Ive but sympa- thelIc reference IC " .h- rights anal in teTests of wonIaB