The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-03-12

PORTLAND FROM AN IMPARTIAL STAND
PorHT.-Under the bead of"Portland Rival
of Boston," the Springfield Republican says:
While Boston lam eutso n the one hand with
half lncredulous surprise that the Cunara
steamers should ii I'd her commerce too unre-
muneratVe TO justify their visits, and desert
her for New York. on the other hand pre-
sage of promised rivalry from Portland presses
into increasing prominence. Portland's mag
nificent harbor, sheltered from ocean storms
by numerous Islands, spacious, accessible even
IN the coolest winters, aud with suff1 Gle /
depth OF water for We sells of the largest class
presents, to say the least, quite as natural an
outlet for the cereals, the petroleum. or the
manufactures of the West, as Boston does.
ana contrasting the enterprise aud decision
ri the two cities, the odds are certainly in favor
VI the yVu ger coLnpetfGUr. Bostoa l. tra ,tin,
the whoe matter OF in erior RAILROAD co,nran-
only project OF additional ives fern colnmunca
ton now entertained there is the iudef nite
prosecution oil the Hoosac tunnel, and that 10
pc mt which will in no way improve on {
present advLnta res. Portland on the con.
trary, has for years eyinced energy and deter
mln 1tlon IN creating connections and incraas-
Ing facilities, all bearing upon the question of
centralizing in that city streams of western
commerce, ana strengthening its shipping
alliance with the old Worll. The great Ii re OF
1855, for little time, and but a little ma
po9ed active measures, and the ew div has
grown out OF the Old, stronger ana better than
before. The Grand Trunk railway to the
West, via Montreal, is too cilcuitous to drain
th9 produce of the praries, and the prominent
m9n OF Portland are now entertaining two
teaSiDte routes FOR reach the West, either or
potn OF which VIII eventuaie in making that
city grand terminus for western ronIes.
Ihas9 p ans eoatempll d rect rail I'd ex-
tension IRON Portland to Ogdensbnrc. and
from portland TO Rutland, the last named Le-
ing the latest in order. At o ID n ,bu o TN.
great lakes are reached with Their unriya,led
facilities; and from Rutland the raii routes
westward are reasonably direct, and this o lie
is the most sure of immediate completion.
1heSe are nor however, antagDnistic lines. AT
late splrred meeting Of Vermont and Maine
railroadists in Portland, ex-Gov j ohm q. Page
oil Rutland and Gen. Washburne presented
the salient points of both roa is in strong light
and both were ably advocated as having to q
certain extent, common interest The roal
from Portland across New Hampshire to White
River junction on the Connecticut. and thence
by Woodstock 10 Rut and, will shorten the
transit in western freight which now reaches
Portland by way of Boston, ITO mites, the rect
distance between Rattan and Port AMI being
but few miles farther han that bet seen r. t
land and Boston. At Rutland the Rense a r
ana saratoga railroad is eager for an outlet aud
through that road, by the way of Schenectady.
IS Inc most convenient channel between the
vest ana the manufacturing interests of the
E1sl, as wen as the grain shipping business be-
tween Portland and Europe, at present exist
ing. at present; for the lessons Of MIR Gran >
Lectures before the Legislature remind us that
there are holder and wider schemes than these
Tor Boston, Viii the staid and solid DIGNITY
OF Boston awake, or will her capitalists and
nIe,cninls ret siugsIshiy content to see a
younger rival steal from them tho prestige of
genuine Yankee enterprise? It cannot he con-
cealed That whatever Portland gains in west
ern business, Boston loses.