. The Maine central. A journal of travel . ave Chicago every day running through to Portland viaNiagara Falls and the famous CrawfordNotch of the White Mountains. The war will keep at home thousands oftravellers who would otherwise cross theAtlantic to spend their summer and theirgood American dollars in Europe. Whatwill be Europes loss will be our gain to theextent of a good many million dollars. Andin spite of the war the Atlantic coast resortswill get their share of the extra summerbusiness. Already the summer tourist isgetting the ridiculous notion that Spanishgunboats will w
. The Maine central. A journal of travel . ave Chicago every day running through to Portland viaNiagara Falls and the famous CrawfordNotch of the White Mountains. The war will keep at home thousands oftravellers who would otherwise cross theAtlantic to spend their summer and theirgood American dollars in Europe. Whatwill be Europes loss will be our gain to theextent of a good many million dollars. Andin spite of the war the Atlantic coast resortswill get their share of the extra summerbusiness. Already the summer tourist isgetting the ridiculous notion that Spanishgunboats will waste powder and shot onseashore cottages, out of his head. On theJersey and Long Island coast preparationsare going on for the busiest season in theirhistory and the news comes that the demandfor seaside accommodations is as great, ifnot greater than ever before. Our Mainesummer resort people need not feel despond-ent at this stage. The chances are goodthat they, too, will get their full share ofbusiness before the season is well By Harry W. Lunt. It is almost 130 years since the first permanent settlement by while men was made onthe banks of the Penobscot. It was in 1769 that Jacob Buswell, the first white settler cameto this city and built for himself a log cabin on the present site of the St. Johns Caholicchurch. In the early days the present site of the Queen City of the East was occupied byTarratines, which was the leading Indian tribe in this section of the country in that 1605 the French came here and eight years later the Jesuits thought of planting a missionhere but landed at Mt. Desert instead. The noble Penobscot in its early days bore the name of Norombega, and this name isstill retained by a large hall situated in the middle of Kenduskeag stream. What Faneuilhall is to Boston, Norombega hall has been to Bangor during the past 50 years. Untilrecently it has been occupied by the Central Market, but its present owners are nowremodelling it into a big
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