Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1868-06-10
PORTLAND AND oGDENsBuKG X. q.

The result of the vote of the City
Portland granting aid to the P. &
= R. R. was received in this place in sc
son for last weeks paper. Since tn
the Portland papers have como to hal
giving the details Of meetings previo
and subsequent to this vote, which we
lieve of sufficient interest to the people
this section to warrant US 10 extrsctir
from. 1t seems that the friends of Il
enterprise held large meeting in Gil
ball the evening previous to the day
voting, and the opponents held meetiu
the same evening in Deering hall. Of til
meeting at City hall the Press says;
The floor and galleries Of the largee
hall in Portland were fully occupied, an
"a dense throng stood ia aad around al
the doorways.
Gen. Samuel j Anderson was called t.
the chair. and Messrs N A. Foster ant
E. B, Houghton were appointed secreta
ries. On taking the chair, Gen. Ander
son made a brilliant address, urging thu
necessity of opening new field for Port
laud enterprise in order that our city ma
t Ike the commercial rank to which he,
position entities her. He was followed
by Mr.. e. ?. Kimball in behalf Of the
mechanics of Portland Mr.. Thomas
Parker in behalf of the laborers of Port
land Hon Geo. W. Woodmsn for the
business men; Hon John B Brown for
the owners of real estate; Hon S Z
Spring for the bankers and capitalists !;
Nathan Webb. Esq, for the professional
meu; Hon Israel Wash bburne' Jr, in
behalf of the projectors of the enter
prise; aud John Neal, Esq of the old
guard which carried through the earlier
and relatively greater undertaking. the
Atlantic and st. Lawrence railroad which
found Portland a fishing village and has
mnde it a city Letters were also read
from VIM. l. Putnam, Esq, who had in
ten led to be present but VS. unexpected
ly called away, and from Messrs Geo.
W. Hendee and Horace Fairbanks Of
Vermont
The meeting adjourned at |! oclo k |
with enthusiastic cheers for the 0gdens
burg read and laundering AYE" III re
sponse to the question, will you vote
to morrow to take stock in it?' The en-
husiasm during the entire evening was
up to summer heat, but reached its height
| little after 8 o'clock when the following
elegram from Deering Hall by the un-
lerg, ound line Was read by the chairman
"Deering Hall-John Mussey presdes.
sweat has made five or ten minutes
peech. The attorney of the Boston
Woodmau, has Just commenced
liz argument Not over one hundred in
n about the hall. No other persons ex
ept the president, secretary and the
peaker on the pla form
Gen. Anderson said in reply to the as.
ertion which had been made, that the
with Ogdensburg 8 not profit
BILE to Boston, that he had been told by
railroad man that Que third Of all the
relght that comes into Boston comes over
be Vermont Central. of which Ogdens.
urg is the principal feeder while Chas
raucis Adams, Jr., is authority for the
a'ement that fifteen steamers between
S9enSburg and Chicago are not enough
do the business on the Lakes fifteen
ore are wanted now, aud the number
ust be increased to sixteen before long
In reply to the insiupations of Mcssrs
DOR and Noodman that the alleged offers
build the road have never been received
the corporators, Gen. Anderson said
has heard Mr.. Lindsey, the best en-
neeF IN Vermont, in the gate of the
otch itself. alter a survey of the route,
y that the road could be built for +
20 DOC a mile. and hal been present at
e Revere House when the formal offe, =.
rs made by the same man, backed by
pit lists in Vermont and New York
take the contract for the whole line at {
70 600 mile cash. 1t was within his .
rsonal knowledge too that another res
nsible party had offered to take the y
ntract for 1871 200 mile. half cash and \
Ut In the compauy's bonds. For the n
nth of these statements Geh Anderson |
edged his word as man of honor r
+. Spring subsequently, endorsed this c
edge !
MIR. Parker exploded the foolish notion 4.
at the burden of taxation upon small =
operty holders is going to be unendur i
lie by very few figures, liza laborer q
ms house put down on the assessors
oks at $1,000; two and half PEI .
1T OF the valuation will be S25, ana !;
annual interest on this sum is r
so. Will not every laboror gain more h
IN dollar and half year by open :,
a road which will bring his butter r