The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-11-07

Boston and Portland.
The Boston Commercial BaEEetin,-one OF
the best papers on our exchange list, notwith-
standing it is afflicted somewhat with local
pride-what SAKE styles SBosten pride, pa
pride which seems TO think that, born In Bos-
ton one needs no second birth, very
pleasantly of our city, in which the people of
the sshub" are beginning to discover good
deal Of merit. Says the Bulletin: -,
.sg Portland is an enterprising city. Her lead
ING men and CAPITALISTS are alive to all and ev-
cry question that affects her commercial wei
fare. In this particular her example is well
worth following byssome other places Of larger
capital and population. Just now the bust
ness men of that city are taking measures to
put steamboat on the route between Port
land and Machias. Andgwe hope the thing
will bedone, and that the merchants viii not
wait for the country round about to wake up
and come to Portland, but 90 half Way to meet
them with inducements that have Influence
There IS no wonder that Portland is grow
ing and prosperous city. She could De
nothing else" with her fine natural advan-
tages, followed up with mercantile and bust
ness activity. The last few years the Iner-
chants of Portland seem to have given more
attention to this fact, and spacious ware
houses, ample docks, branching railways, man
ufacturing enterprises, the efforts forsn new
steamboat lines and such enterprises as the
new scheme for building second Lowell on
the Presumpscot just at the back dooFiof the
city, all attest the fact OF her rapid and solid
growth. sspfssql
All this is kind, and we accept it in the
spirit in which it was conceived and is ex-
pressed. But the Bulletin seems troubled
with the course pursued by the Press, touch
ing the Portland and Rochester Railroad, by
which new route is not only to beslopened
to Boston, but shorter route is to be .secsr-
red between Maine and New York and far
Their South. We copy two more paragraphs
The editor of the Pressseem to be afflicted
by malignant type of Bostonphobia lately if
we are to judge by his articles upon the i'm
provement of railroad and steamboat facilities
in his city. None of these can, it would seem,
be carried out, unless in some way this poor
village be avoided or subdued, and hardly can
be spoken of without serving as an occasion to
give Boston sound editorial drubbing.
1t may be that some over-zealous and Off
cious persons, hailing from this METROPOLIS
undertook to say harsh and uncharitable
things of Portland, while the location of the
Atlantic terminus Of the Grand Trunk Rail-
road Twas pending; if so, they did a foolish
thing on their own personal responsibility
But such was not the general tone of the mer-
camille community here, who we trust are
far above such petty jealousy; but if our Port
land friends have any such old scores laid up
against us, we would suggest that they have
belabored and belittled Boston about enough
to cancel it, while the freedom with which
Massachusetts capital has been solicited and
bestowed on enterprises in Maine which win
benefit Portland, proves that our business
men are certainly making no desperate efforts
to despoll that city OF its trade, as some pee-
pie there seem to intimate.% n
We trust that the Epoor village which
stands at the. head of Massachusettss Bay, and
which may be reached in going to New York
by making a very inconvenient elbow win
compose ITSELF, and remember that it has
wealth and honor, pride and aristocracy,
Harvard University. and the tbig orginY to fall
back upon, so that its guarantee against being
cut Off ignored and cleft out in the cold" is
fully assured. The people of Portland and of
Maine hold no grudge against Boston can
cherish no ilI-will against their mother COM
monwealth. She is q glorious old State, and
Boston is full of and surrounded by glorious
memories. She has her "Cradle of Liberty"
and her next neighbor ION the north holds
Bunker Hill with its tombstone of tyranny,
and she and all that surrounds her are filed
with and inspired by the spirit Of Liberty
The old Bay State furnished the first blood
shed in the Revolution, and the first blood shed
in the struggle to put down rebellion; for
~. n.
true, men hold her in everlasting remem-
brance.
So much we eheerfully say for Boston, but
when it comes to the question Of trade and
commerce, like our own city the "Hub" IS
slightly provincial, has not quite attained to
full metropolitan proportions, and for this
reason our merchants feel disposed to go to
the greater markets for purposes Of trade, and
use all diligence in securing the shortest and
most expeditions methods by which to reach
those markets. 80
We hope our contemporary ofthe' Bulletin
will not oppose US in awork so laudable as
this. Wethinlx it is one of the conditions
onwhich the permanent prosperity and growth
of our city depend. gs1fBN II EsAEsha
What the Bulletin says above about "ofi-
cious persons" hailing from that city, saying
'harsh and uncharitable things Of Portland" is
just and proper, butthel GOODNESS with which
it speaks of the tendency of "the location OF
the Atlantic terminus of the Grand Trunk
Railroad is indeed refreshing. IIce.ceuld not
make it more so. "A stranger might suppose
from the language used, that, by the repeal of
an act ofonr legislature prohibiting the laying
of third rail between this city and the State
line at Kittery, the Atlantic terminus of the
Grand Trunk Railroad had been transferred
from this city to Bostonl .Yerdancy was new
er more verdant.
The Grand Trunk Railroad ends at tide
vater. IN this city, and there the terminus 4vil
and must reaadiH.sa The corporation control
ing this road, have shown no disposition to
change it; Mould motif 1t could. Nor would it
be changed by a third rail to Boston. The
road west offliis city would stili be the p s. &
P. road, leased to the Eastern, and Boston &
Maine, and SO far as the Grand Trunk should
send any freight over that line to Boston, it
would be simply tributary to that, and not
the G. T.extehded. More than this you may
lay down third rail and even then freight for
Boston will go from here by steamers, and pay
good living feights, though carried at rates
that would necessarily impova;ish railroad
between the two cities. Still more the tb;rd
rail Diu mever be loid; it IS utterly i'm i'm
practicable; totally inconsistent with safety.
and further STILL if it could be laid 1t soold not
iJure this city, though Boston may think IT
would; and we can afford to smile at the edelu-
sion which is cherished there by those simple
souls who think, by third rail, to draw Port
land from her rocky foundations and make her
only suburb of their @"poor village"
When the third rail question was being can
vassed we did not oppose the repeal Of the law