The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-04-14
Summer Trains

All arrangements Tor abe summer
train service Of the N ,iqe Central were
completed Friday, THIS service il well
nigh perfect and again marks ihe entei =
prise OF this great road. Il h. ben fhr
aim OF Vice President and General Man
aver Evans and General Passenger Agent
Boothby To have the service this year
the best In the history Of the road. That
their efforts will be heartily appreciated
need hardly be predicted.
The most important feature Of this
service will be that with the exception
Of that over the Mountain division. the
service will be placed 10 effect on jun
6. 1904, a week earlier than ever before,
this being done TO accommodate the peo-
pie who live In all parts OF the United
States but have cottages along the e0ast
and In the interior Of Maine, and who d. =
sire to visit their summer homes earlier
each season.
There will be for this summer service
| three express trsius each dsy between
Boston and Bar Harbor with psrlor and
sleeping service, leaving Boston at ) 90
4 j.
p. M, and leaving Portland II 0j e. ID,
LOO noon and IL 55 night. The train
which has usually left Boston at 900 a.
H., Portland at 1910 noon for Bar Hai-
| Dor will leave Boston at 8. 90 a. ~, Port
land II 20 and will be made throufh
train TO Rockland, a new train leaving
Boston at 1000 a. M, arriving Portland
II. 40 noon, leaving Portland 90 .. m.
i mn no Ror
irving Bangor 4.45 p. m, Bar Harbor
7.40. p N.
| There will be two trains for the prov.
iLces, leaving Boston s.00a. No.. 100 D. 10.
and Portland ll.05 4. 10. and 1870 D. m
| The through parlor and sleeping car
service for Moosehead Lake will leave
Boston at 500 a. N. and 9.45 D. M
Portland II o. a. N. and 1855 night as
heretofore, The 100 a. N. train out Of
| Portland. which takes the through
sleeping cars leaving New York at p.
M, daily except Sundays, running via
Worcester, Nashua Rochester, thus a.
/ voiding transfer across Boston and which
has proved so popular the last two years
| will be continued. This New York-Bar
Harbor train will this year have steam.
er connection direct to Seal Harbor
! WI vi 1LdSl dDu OUuIu west Hal
Dor, something never before attempted
The Rumford Falls will be divorced
from the train which has usually left al
Il 90 noon, as there will be two trains,
one leaving at | 10 p. M, running ex-
press to Lewiston and connecting for
I Pennington and Skowhegan, and another
train leaving Portland at 80 p. NJ
which will do local work between Por,-
| lu n nd i \ u
ford Jet. With the Portland & Rumford
Falls Ry. for Rumford Falls and Oquo..
soc.
This express service between Port.
land and Lewiston will also put trave
into the Rangely Lakes, Pennington
Belgrade Lakes and Skowhegsn and In.
termediate points at least thirty minute:
earlier than In the past.
Returning express train service will bt
performed between Lewiston and Port
land, the regular train from Skowhegsn
and Pennington running express beeweer
Lewiston and Portland and arriving II 45
am. and another train which will do 1t.
cal work between Lewiston and Port
land and get the connection from Oquos.
soc and Rumford Falls arriving Portland
! 10 20 noon,
Inc regular AFTERNOON train Will rul
express between Lewiston and Portland
with connection from Pennington anc
Skowhegan, arriving Portland OF 3 20 p
m ; another train doing local business
between Lewiston and Portland, getting
the connection from Oquossoc and Rum
ford Falls will arrive in Portland at 5 A;
P. ~.
The usual Saturday night and Mon
day morning train service will be in eff
feet between Boston and Lewiston
Maranacook, Belgrade, Oakland and
Skowhegan. Leave Boston LIS p. M.
Portland 5,15 p. m. Saturday, arrive
Skowhegan 90 p. m. leave Skowhegsn
800 a. IN. Monday, arrive Portland S 81
a. M, Boston l2.45 noon.
The summer service will go into eff .ct
in the mountain division, June 9th