The Portland daily press., 1871-11-16
A Clean Of light.

~ Wv <So"of " tue FTeSS.
Had your able correspondent of Tuesday
~. T. G." been disposed to read his book be-
lore he reviewed it, he would have found pub
llsaed in one of the columns of the PRESS a
timetable, the careful study of which would
have brought to him not only "the CLEAN of
light and hope from the Maine Central Rail-
road, which be SO ardenty DESIRES but would
also have shown to him that Portland is not
"required to submit to" the evil which he 80
emphatieally sets forth, and that its citizens
are not 'dapied connection witch the country
around it until one O'Clock in the afternoon"
The facilities for getting out Of Portland (if that
is desirable) and of returning during the same
day are as follows:
The Maine Cantral by its train which leaves
Portland at 6 a. M, will take passengers to
Lewiston, Brunswick, Bath or Richmond,
giving them from three to four hours, accord
ing to the distance travelled, in these thriving
towns for their business, and bring them back
here at 2 50 p. or it will take them still fur
Their on to Gardiner Or Augusta, where they
may spend more than half day and return to
their homes by the Gas train. By the train
which leaves here at / p M, you can visit
Waterville, Kendalfs Mills, Sksvhegan or
even Newport, 125 miles distant-have several
hours for business and return to Portland in
the Pullman train at midnight. This last con-
! venience has come to US during the past year,
and with the morning train affords all the facil-
| tiles for going East and Of returning upon the
same day, that reasonable man can ask.
1t more concerns US here to inquire whether
the road gives suitable opportunity for getting
into Portland. The time table answers that
the people at Augusta, Bath or Lewiston and
at nearer stations, can reach here before nine
| o'clock in the morning, devote as much OF the
| day as they desire to business or to pleasure,
| and return at p. or Is pm, or with the
| more remote inhabitants of Skowhegan and
Bangor, they may arrive here at 8 p. M, or
at p M, and return in the midnight Pail.
| man train.
| The people OF Bangor contemplate with great
satisfaction the novel sight of three passenger
trains leaving their station for Portland each
day, instead of the solitary one with which they
were favored in 1870. And when before was
such economy OF time possible to the Portland
| merchant whose business calls him to Bangor,
leaving now his home at midnight in palace
cars, reaching Bangor for going even to Malta
wamkeag if he please) in the morning and re-
turning to his own bed by or - O'Clock, p m.
| OF the same day. This exploit can be accom-
| plished only by express trains. Ths demand
that an accommodation train shall run out and
back 15o miles in the same day and give time
for business at the end Of the route is a simple
sum in arithmetic with an absurd answer. Nc
accommodation trains can be run more expe
ditiously than those operating between here
and Boston, and they make only about the av.
erage time for such trains-twenty miles al
hour. How shall we ind Is hours to run tn.
800 miles with accommodation trains and d.
our business, for such trains will pay only t
run in the day time.
Justice seems to demand thus much notice
OF your correspondents severe structures upol
a road which has largely increased facilities fol
travel within this State during the past year
and has gone so far as to set on foot the not I'm
common inquiry-"Will the amount of trave
supper; all these trans?' @.