Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1901-08-07

Scion Chase In Boston Herald
The Maine crop OF summer visitors this
year has come early and in large mum bers.
The east bound trains are heavily loaded
and the personal baggage is big. They
have come to stay through the heated
term. 1t is no wonder that people shake
the dust OF the pavement from their feet,
come down here in crowds and stay
through July and August.
The time will come when the mills OF
New England will take vacation and the
people who live in tenement houses and
work In the factories will come down East
for q season OF rest and recreation during
the hot spell.
There is a good deal of land and pile
of salt water in the state of Maine. The
sea breezes OF the coast reach inland to
the highlands that divide the waters run
Ming south into the Atlantic ocean from
the waters that run north into the st.
Lawrence. The men and women whose
ears are greeted with the thunder Of ma
chinery aud breathe the dust OF super
heated mills need to hear the wild birds
sing, inhale the odor Of Goldfish and sea-
weed and breathe the ozone OF the spruce
hills Of Maine.
There is room in Maine for all corners
and the latchstring hangs out along
shore aud In the hills. There is steam
boat service among the islands all the
wsv aiong the coast from Quoddy Head
to kit'ery. Large summer colonies are
local et on the islands and the mainland
and hey don't feel the hot wave that
p.o-r rates the people of the pent-up cities.
Hotel Accommodations are ample. New
hotels and cottages are built every year,
un, II now there is almost a continuous
summer city along the coast.
II dlroad trains run through the sea
coast cities end take passengers from
Boston after breakfast to Bar Harbor in
season for supper. Fishermen open their
homes to summer visitors and take par
ties out R-fishing. Pullman cars run up
the river valleys into the North woods,
where the spruce log Is king, where there
are guides, hotels and steamboat service
on the lakes.
The state OF Maine is easy OF access. All
points OF interest, its mountains, prmeyal
forests, inland lakes and sea coast can be
reached without fatigue. We are all
ready for company, the store room" is
busted and The door swung wide open.
Sixty years ago we did net know much
about railroads in Maine. 1t was said by
the cranks that the time would come in
the distant future hen there would be a
railroad from Portland to Boston. The
most of the business outside of the State
was by water-the people stayed at home;
only a few travelled who were called away
by business.
We had West India trade that supplied
our people with rum and moIasses in ex-
change for pine boards and shocks. The
business centres were the seaport towns.
The first wheat -four that was brought
into the State came from western New
York by the way of the Erie canal to tide
water and was shipped by schooner from
New York to Portland.
Western New York beyond the valley
of the Mohawk was a wilderness until
the Erie canal was opened. The men
who conceived and built the Erie canal
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uao.on Of summer visitors from the Old
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