Putnam patriot., 1926-08-06

you will be swinging through the streets of old Portsmouth. certainly one of the most charming of the older cities of the Continent.
 Fine Old Portsmouth
 Don't hurry on into Maine when you reach Portsmouth, for there IS much to sec Here is the excellent Rockingham Hotel guarded by iron lions and providing pleasant shelter for the night. You leave the car and wander through streets of old brick houses and beautiful white frame structures. all of them recalling the prosperity that was of Portsmouth lnI the days when the sea-captain and the shipper and the whaler were the captains of finance in the old New England days. In a side street, you will be shown the house where Thomas Bailey Aldrieh spent his childhood and the scene of his gentle classic, "The Story of Bad Boy" You may or may not doubt why an author of such eonstricted abilities should de- serve a monument of such importance but that does not matter in the face of the fact that as 1t stands today, ANN AthtlAu AAbAat A0 sAAA AfAAA tANA tt+ narily interesting and authentic re- storation of an American home in the eighteen thirties and forties.
 Then there is the seaultuily hai= anced Bullfinch library to be seen and the Langdon House with its fam ous front door and splendid encireling fence. Then wander down about the water front and out over the utiltar- ian but hideous Memorial Bridge and suddenly. as you reach the other side you are down east" and in the State of Maine
 Arrived Down East"
 Down east" may lead you in many directions. It may take you along the rugged eoastline to Boothbay liar bor and Mount Desert. Or it may take you into the heart of the lakes where the fishing is still good enough to excite the enthusiast. Again fl may take you high up into the woods where the virgin forest still touches the lines that separates Maine from Province of Quebec. But wherever you go it will show you many com fortable villages of white houses shad. ed by handsome trees Ii will reveal cities that you may have heard of but hardly realized their size and theiI activities.
 Our first route, took us out of Ports mouth through York with it's beach and it's cottages now at their gayest and best then through Orunquit. be- loved of artists the country over and on through busy Saco to Portland with it's hills and wide streets and big brick houses and lovely harbor where the four -masted schooner is still a fact.
 And here in Portland. if you would 20 still further down east. you will find a state Bureau of Information re. plete with routes and data and. best of all, helpful courtesy to the motor ing traveller. Maine know the value of the passing tourist and welcomes him.
 Then out of Portland we swing byI a wide boulevard and are of 10 Au- gusta, travelling through Yarmouth and Falmouth over roads that riseI and fall gently beneath huge trees now with the water on the right and now passing through 8 straight street of the whitest of houses set amid roses and blossoms of rampant gar den. At Brunswick the road to the Lakes-for Belgrade and Rangeiey are our destination-leads of 70 Au- gusta and after bit of travel yon see over the meadows the erowning tower of the State Capitol and lew