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September 21, 1914
Daily Kennebec Journal
Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine
What is this article about?
Due to the European war, wealthy vacationers will shift from Europe to Maine resorts in 1915, boosting bookings at a Winter Harbor hotel and prompting preparations for more visitors.
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Maine Instead of Europe.
A down-easter in town one evening told the scribe of a hotel in Winter Harbor, which closed two weeks earlier than usual this fall and during the summer has had half the time almost as many servants as patrons, but which is now booked every room next summer and the bungalows run in connection with the hotel are also leased for the season of 1915. The reason is that the thousands of wealthy people who have been in the habit of passing their summers in Europe will come to Maine instead next year.-Bath Independent.
Maybe some of the Maine folks have heard the suggestion of former President Eliot of Harvard, that many millions of vacation money that annually goes to Europe, will next year go to American resorts.
Maine is likely to get her share.
She should push those good roads along and prepare not only to "accommodate" but to please a few thousand additional visitors in 1915.
Even should the war be ended whole countries will have been impoverished and saddened, and some of
A down-easter in town one evening told the scribe of a hotel in Winter Harbor, which closed two weeks earlier than usual this fall and during the summer has had half the time almost as many servants as patrons, but which is now booked every room next summer and the bungalows run in connection with the hotel are also leased for the season of 1915. The reason is that the thousands of wealthy people who have been in the habit of passing their summers in Europe will come to Maine instead next year.-Bath Independent.
Maybe some of the Maine folks have heard the suggestion of former President Eliot of Harvard, that many millions of vacation money that annually goes to Europe, will next year go to American resorts.
Maine is likely to get her share.
She should push those good roads along and prepare not only to "accommodate" but to please a few thousand additional visitors in 1915.
Even should the war be ended whole countries will have been impoverished and saddened, and some of
What sub-type of article is it?
Curiosity
Historical Event
What themes does it cover?
Fortune Reversal
Triumph
What keywords are associated?
Maine Tourism
Europe War
Hotel Bookings
Vacation Shift
What entities or persons were involved?
Eliot
Where did it happen?
Winter Harbor, Maine
Story Details
Key Persons
Eliot
Location
Winter Harbor, Maine
Event Date
1915
Story Details
A hotel in Winter Harbor, Maine, closed early this fall but is fully booked for next summer due to wealthy Europeans vacationing in Maine instead of Europe because of the war. Former President Eliot of Harvard suggested vacation money will go to American resorts, and Maine should prepare with good roads for additional visitors.