The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-10-10
Bridqton and ThereaboutS.

the fall, and although on some &C
oarts that was mistake there was no
,stake in making Bridgton the OBJ
.r,ve point. 1t was not, as announced
lt daily papers, the annual meet
no nor was business meeting held,
, -eported in a Boston daily; and of
IL, .,irty or more who were said to be
a5oglng the hospitality of The Bridg-
ar. only twelve were registered during
.- week. The advance guard of nine who
yrd Monday night Sept. 23d consisted
Nj. and Mrs. W. A. Pidgin of Lewis
a. Nh. and Mrs. John V. Lane of Au-
r..t. MI and Mrs. Henry S. Webster
F. E4rdlner, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A.
1ry of Belfast and c. E. Kendrick
Z uo5yhbay. H. E. Bowditch of Au-
-,-. John Quill" of the Kennebec
4-.el arrived Tuesday afternoon,
ednesday morning c. E. Will
and Miss NJ. \. Soule of Port
made up the round dozen. The
- Qembers billed to appear were
uous only by their absence; and
Lis was regretted the small CON-
. .ssembled were congenial aud had
enjoyable time,
belfast contingent left home on
tonday morning train in a rain
.. which continued all day. There
- pie time at Portland for dinner
+ West End before taking the l.25
rain on the Mountain Division
e Maine Central for Bridgton
-r m At this point We changed
BridgtOn & Saco river railroad,
foot guage road really % IL
of original and peculiar design.
e., @tnty-one miles long, connecting
am, So miles north of Portland,
m lie White Mountain Division of
Maine Central, and runs three pas
--.. trains every week day to the
.G lls at Harrison. The train is
.a. Up Of an engine, combined mail,
asLase and smoking car and passen-
-v4r The latter has a center aisle
seats for one on each side, instead
. tTo as on the standard guage roads.
p, ain completely obscured the view
gu the windows, and for the benefit
-nture tourists we quote from an
."a,.iye booklet issued by the rail
ad mpany as follows: Ion leaving
motion pretty view is afforded
immediate left. This is pictur-
:, Hiram Village, situated at the
, of Mount Cutler, a small noun
.- ng abruptly on its western side,
I'd the Saco River flowing through its
=a1-a-ial and business midst on its
Slnding way to the sea- About
further on the train is following
g- Hancock Brook, whose swift
lash and foam and eddy along
GIT; and soon you skirt pretty
# Barker Pond, on the same side,
--y shortly, on the left, larger
e beautiful sheet of water,
..E Pond, whose calm, slightly
r is set in sandy-white and
atlu gleen frame, the southern
rlt ot whose border is touched by
on rails. This lake is much sought
INNER guests in the vicinity, who,
IS the pleasure of sailing its waters,
herein a plenitude of pickerel, sal
lack bass and white perch, or
-a not in vain the brook trout in its
ing or outgoing brooks. And here,
The train halts some minutes to
the iron horse, you may enjoy a
sag view in the distant northwest
5rlZon of the White Mountains,
IT,. however, wear blue rather
White tinge, and nearer prospect
'e game-suggestive, picnic-hinting
N-Zt you pass through portion of
.'Wn of Denmark, noted as the
Lace and boyhood home of two
'l. Americans-Major- General Ru-
lis gals, Grants West Point class
.a- and intimate friend, and Quarter
."-, General of the Army of the Po-
-7- and Governor Hazen S. Pingree
-'ehigan. Here is a way station,
Tu as Perley's Mills, with a quickly
SIS wing glimpse of a rustic mill, a
t-ng or two and narrow stretch of
I'LL tarming country. A few miles fur
be. liter passing along long and deep
j rough granite Lodges, you emerge
lie forest into typical down-e east
5l.r- OF village, with mills, store, post
and various industrial shops,
Ir4 and schoolhouse, clusters of
"r.Ings, and intersected by wide
Ieau-a pretty rural neighborhood
raI 6 the uneuphonious name of
andy Creek. A brief halt and the
an continues on through a two. mile
Aetcl of meadows, fields and patches
l4rest, crossing several times sinu-
Us "illet Creek, and 10! you now dis
45ark at Bridgton, station which,
'rctitecture and with its aggregation
PEOPLE and teams, is a composite pic
If the rural and the metropolitan.
Wlshed-for goal is reached"
ny this our party saw nothing AL
Oh the hour was not late darkness
aH ct in and the rain was descending