Preface. More than two years have elapsed since the last DIRECTORY OF BANGOR was published, and the many changes in business and residence of the citizens makes a new edition very much needed; in fact the recent renumbering of the buildings on many principal streets, renders the edition of 1873-4 of very little use at the present time. We have endeavored to present a trustworthy record of the inhabitants, business firms, public officers, institutions and societies of Bangor and Brewer, and we trust we have succeeded in so doing, to the satisfaction of our patrons and the public generally.

Opening: There is a fine old saying, that you cannot tell by a single wave the tide is ebbing or flowing; but if you look steadily at the land you will soon determine whether it is being submerged or is enlarging its area. So that we may judge of the consequence and the promise of the Pine Tree State tonight I am to ask you to look over its domain, larger than all the rest of New England, its twenty millions of acres, and its three hundred miles of seacoast, comprising beach, marsh, and headland, storm-beaten or "kissed by the sunshine of the mist."