The Portland daily press., 1869-04-03
The City of Portland.

BEcKETT's NEW DIRECTORY
After cropping in the dark for almost three
years in search of the residences and places of
business Of our friends, and for statistical in
formation which was scattered all over the city
In the possession of different people, or in back
Ales of the daily papers, we hail with pleasure
Che long looked for Directory of the veteran
compiler, Mr.. Sylvester B. Beckett. 1t is
true that we had very useful little business
directory published by AtweIl & Company,
but it was only like the oyster before dinner,
Il simply whetted our appetite for more.
From Mr.. Beckett's introduction we aseer-
sain that he has employed the most experienc-
cd help that could be obtained to make the
Book reliable and complete. 1t doubtless con-
tains, he saws, some errors but no efforts have
been spared to prevent them. The great diff
Guilty has been owing to the incomplete and ir-
regular manner in which streets have been
numbered The city government last year
passed an ordinance for the more correct and
complete numbering of the streets, but moth
ing has ever been done to enforce the law.
The new directory is printed by B. Thurston
and Co., upon fine white paper in primmer
type, and bound in substantial manner, by
eral directory correct map of Portland;
business directory; list OF the State and city
officials; employees of the Custom House; OBJ
servatory signals: tides at Portland; latitude
and longitude; list of vessels built and meas
nred in this district since the last directory
was published; commerce of Portland; q list of
all the shipping, registered and enrolled, be-
longing to the district OF Portland and Fal-
mouth, February 1st, 1869; our steam commu-
nicaton with other ports, foreign and domes-
tic; valuation and taxes; tax-lists, alphabet
Cally arranged; railroads; schools; population;
number of dwelling-houses; mortality; fire de-
partment; water-works; list of all the build
sngs destroyed in the great fire of 1866, alpha
betically arranged, with the names of the own
ers of each, and their value; also the offices in
which the property destroyed at that time was
insured and for what ammount; territorial ex-
tent of the city; newspapers; the judiciary;
churches and clergymen; Post Office and
clerks; Internal Revenue Department.; cor
porations for the promotion of business scien-
2ific and literary associations; charitable asso-
stations; Masonic institutions; Odd Fellows;
Temperance organizations; streets, lanes,
courts and wharves
From the Directory we get the following
statistics. There are so Smiths, 81 Browns, 81
Jones, 38 Robinsons, "a McDonalds, 8S Lib
bys, 67 Chases, 40 Clarks, SO Cummings, 20
Davises, 68 Dyers, "a Greens, Sc Halls, 6S
Johnsons, 46 Jordans 36 Kimballs, 30 knights
76 Merrills, A Murphys,5 SO Sawyers, 81 Shaws,
46 Smalls, 46 Stevenses, AZ Thompsons, and 80
Williams.
Within twenty years the business at the
Custom House has increased from 81 900, 600 to
$25 100000 In consequence of this vast in
crease the force of employees has been increas-
ed and systematized, SO that they now num-
ber 81 altogether.
There are nine lines of steamers plying be-
tween this city and London, Liverpool, Glas-
gov, New York, Halifax Eastport and st.
Johns, Boston, Bangor, Machias and Mt. De-
sert, Waldoboro, and one expected to be open
ed the present spring to Annapolis, Nova
Scotia.
There are six lines of railway established
between Portland and Montreal, Boston, Ban
gor, Augusta and Skowhegan, Alfred (on the
Rochester Road) Lewiston and Pennington.
There is still another. the great hope of Port
land-the Portland & Ogdensburg, which has
over one million dollars worth of stock taken
up in our city, and large subscriptions made
by towns through which it will pass, and the
engineers are now endeavoring to locate the
most favorable route when ground will be
broken as once. The Portland and Rutland
is still another projection reaching the West
by another route. There is also a city horse
railroad in operation which is a great con-
venience to the citizens.
The average climate for the past thirty
years, ascertained by Fahrenheit glass, is as
fnllnWS.