Bangor: its points of interest and its representative business men . town and various small ones, and, although candorcompels the statement that some of the latter call to mind the small boys definition,—A hotel isa place you has to go to when you aint got no home — it is, nevertheless, a fact that even among 16 BANGOR AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST. the smaller houses there are hotels which will not suffer by comparison with any in the countrymaking no greater pretensions. Bangor contains some first-class restaurants, too, besides privateboarding-houses of all grades, from excellent to appalling.
Bangor: its points of interest and its representative business men . town and various small ones, and, although candorcompels the statement that some of the latter call to mind the small boys definition,—A hotel isa place you has to go to when you aint got no home — it is, nevertheless, a fact that even among 16 BANGOR AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST. the smaller houses there are hotels which will not suffer by comparison with any in the countrymaking no greater pretensions. Bangor contains some first-class restaurants, too, besides privateboarding-houses of all grades, from excellent to appalling. In short, the visitor can live expen-sively or very cheaply, and the accommodations are such that it is his own fault if he doesnt getfull value for every cent he spends. A city that was named by its first settled minister in honor of his favorite hymn tune certainlyought to offer suitable opportunities for divine worship, and Bangor fulfills its obligations in thisrespect, there being some eighteen churches in the city representing the Advent, Baptist, Free. The Y. M. C. A. Building. Baptist, Catholic, Christian, Congregational, Episcopal, Methodist, Unitarian and Universalist de-nominations. Religious services are maintained also by the Bangor Young Mens Christian Asso-ciation, which was organized January 1, 1881, incorporated February 27, 1882, and has done suchgood work as to gain the hearty cooperation of the entire public, irrespective of religious beliefs,and has thus been enabled to celebrate the tenth year following its organization by the completionof a large, handsome and substantial brick building, very complete in its appointments, devotedentirely to the uses of the association, and unequalled by any structure in the state utilized for kin-dred purposes. It was designed by a young Bangor architect, whose plans were submitted in com-petition with those of prominent architects of Boston, New York and other cities, and as the planswere unmarked by the names of th
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