The Portland daily press., 1897-05-17
MAINE CENTRAL TRAINS.
ha nges Made in the. Schedule of Summer
Service.

The compilation of schedule for the
summer trains over the various lines of
the Maine Central has been in progress at
the company's general offices, and the
printers are now having their inning
with it,
A special hanger, just issued, gives
notice of a few changes in the train
service east of Bangor to go into effect
May %. One of the most important of
these is an earlier starting of the first
train out of Bangor. Passengers into
Bangor from the West on the night train
have been subject to a delay of nearly
two hours there. The east bound train
which now leaves Bangor at z O'Clock in
the morning will, after May 20, leave at
6 O'Clock.
Another change to go into effect ON that
day is a reversing of the run OF the morn
ing train over the Buc8sport branch. The
train will begin the day at the Bangor
end, instead of the Bucksport terminus
of the line, leaving Bangor at 7.20 and
returning leave Bucksport at $40.
A similar change will be made in the
freight service between Bangor and Bar
Harbor, the first train over that branch
leaving Bangor instead of Bar Harbor.
The cutting. out of one or two short
trains between Bangor and Oldtown is
also included in the changes that go into
effect on the 23d of this month.
June Goth is the date on which the sum-
mer service on the main lines will go into
effect. There will be very few changes
from the time tables of last summer.
Owing to the change of route of the
steamer Frank Jones, there will be no
night train from Portland to Rockland.
The Pennington train will go out from
the Union station at 1910, instead of 1
o'clock as in former years, and will arrive
at its destination 20 minutes ahead of it's
old-time schedule. The LIS train will
run express to Lewiston as heretofore,
overtaking the Pennington train at Leeds
junction.
The feature of the new time table that
the travelling public will most appreciate
is the new three-hour train from Boston
to Portland. 1t will leave Boston at s
O'Clock every morning, reach Portland at
II, make only a ten minute stop here and
then speed on, going east by way of Dam
vile junction and Lewiston, and connect
ing at st. John with the night train for
Halifax. 1t will bring down closed
mail to Portland and will carry closed
mails to important stations east of here.
Parties leaving Boston ON this train will
be able to reach on the same day any
railroad town in Maine Even far-off
Caribou, the northern terminus of the
Bangor & Aroostook, can be reached, as
well as Bar Harbor and Moosehead points.
On the White Mountain division the ex-
press which last year arrived here at 6. so,
and the train which left Portland for the
mountains at $780, will not be rum
Trains will leave here at 8.45 and 1.25 for
Montreal and the West, at 5.55 for Bart
lett, and a night express for Montreal at
$40.
d, The train from Montreal now reaching
here at S.25 a. M, will shorten its run
ming time Is minutes between St. Johns
bury and here, reaching Portland at $40.
The next through train will arrive here
f. 80 and at 7.40 will arrive the express
which brings a through sleeper from
Chicago and parlor Car from Montreal.
Judging from the volume of correspon-
dence pouring in at the Maine Central's
headquarters, the prediction of a lively
summer seems well based. The lakes and
ponds throughout the state are just now
j
from other states. The earliest cottagers
have begun to arrive at the watering
places, and they will soon be followed by
the steady influx of summer sojourners
whose coming means so much to Maine.
is the steamer Frank Jones doing well
on the Portland route?" asked a reporter
of Col. Boothby the Maine Central's busy
general passenger agent, after a perusal
of the new summer time tables had been
completed.
Eyes, her passenger earnings have been
better than during last SPRING" he re-
piled, "and of course this is quiet time
of the year for passenger traffic. Her
freight traffic has been a great deal
heavier than when she ran on the Rock
land route. We have not heard a word of
uncomplimentary criticism regarding her
change of route" -
Arrangements have just been completed
for a special train service to transport the
Coburn Cadets of the University of Maine
from Orono TO Bath, May 21. They will
leave Orono at 6.15 a. M, and on their
arrival at Bath will go into camp for
week, returning by special train on the
2Sth. Thursday, the 9th, will be the
gala day of the encampment, and excur-
sions will be run from various parts of
the state The Portland High school bat
TALON will visit the encamped college
boys on that day.
Against Bishop Potter.
New York, May 15.-The Journal and
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