The Portland daily press., 1867-10-16
railway Communic.,iou with Boston.


Shall Portland increase her mail and bust
ness facilities in the direction of Boston anu
b. the West? We are informed that the o'o.A
evening train to and from Boston WIN NC wan
drawn at the close of the present month"; anu
that the fall and winter arrangements WIN
&C. give us the old trains to Boston, leaving at 10
minutes before a. M. ana nan past p. m.
With a return to these arrangements, the bust
. ness men of this city, in their mail and travel
ing facilities, will not be any better accommo-
dated than in former years. This arrangement
was made when the Portland Saco g. Ports
mouth Railroad was first opened to Ports
mouth. Does Portland require any better
facilities then she did at that time, some thirty
years ago? There is no place within rad-
dlus OF hundred miles of Boston, SO important
as Portland, but that has more than two trains
running to the Hub" Portsmouth, half way
between Boston and Portland, has four trains
daily Nashua. on the Lowell road, has four
trains daily. Worcester on the Boston and
Worcester road, has eight trains daily, and
four of them are New York and Albany cx-
press trains Dover, on the Boston and Maine,
has four trains daily, and we might enumerate
others. but the above are sufficient for our pur-
pose. n'1hi' ''t 'i,'.l'li't
Let us now see what advantages the two
daily trains from this city offer to our mer-
chants and business men, A passenger by the
morning train, leaving quarter before nine,
finds himself in Boston, if the train is on time,
at the depot fifteen minutes before 2. At .
O'Clock the banks close in Boston This gives
him no time to do any bank business, and but
very little time to attend to any business be-
fore the short days of winter bring night sud
denly upon binl. The business part of the day
is spent on the road between Portland and
Boston. How is it with our mail facilities? A
letter sent by the train quarter before reach
es Boston and is distributed at 8 p. M, half an
hour after the train has left for Portland.
What is the result of this? Answers written
on receipt of Portland letters at p. M, are
. detained in the Boston Office and on the road
between Boston and Portland taoenty-one and
ahaJ hours. And this between two CONNER
cial cities, only five hours apart, railroad time.
j, Is there remedy for this? There is, and one
that can be easily applied, Let the Portland
Saco & Portsmouth Railroad put on morning
train LEAVING Portland at a. na, to connect 10Th
the train from Portsmouth, at 8 a. M, arriving
in Boston at half past IL. This arrangement
will enable our merchants to have q little time
to do what business they may want to do il
a business hours in Boston, and leave in the af
ternoon train for New York and the West, ant
at the Same time give merchants in Boston
time to answer their Eastern correspondents
by the half past train, which arrives in Port
land at half past Z. We should thus make q
saving on our Boston communications of II
hours, and have ample time to answer by
morning mail, Unnecessary. aui1gt, o. -.l
The stockholders and directors of the Port
land, Saco & Portsmouth railroad will NEE
Friday at an adjourned meeting at Kittery
and We hope our merchants will make dem
onstration at that time in favor of this train
ir We understand that tho Eastern Railroad
company is very DESTROYS that this train should
re be run, and an expression on the part OF oul
merchants will strengthen the movement. q,