The Portland daily press., 1871-08-08

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NEW ADVERTISEMENT COLUMN.
Boy Wanted. .Chas Gusts s. Cs
To Let. :. House.
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Nerth Yarmouth Academy.
BSchool Tor Girls =. Miss L G Belcher.
State of Maine. To the Electors.
Horse for Sale.
City Affairs.
The regular monthly meeting of the Boar,
of Mayor and Aldermen and special meetin,
of the Common Council were held last evening
10 the Council, the President being absent
Charles Holden was elected President pro ten,
IN BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN
Ezra N. Perry and George H. Davis wer
drawn as grand Jurors for the September tern
OF the Superior Court; and Amos King, ANA
riah Frost, Emery G. Chase, John, Marshal
Brown, L. q. Wade, John M. Fluent, Isaa
Knight, John B. Thorndiks and Charles I
Young as traverse jurors for the same term o
the same Court.
A communication was received from tn,
Portland Gas Light Co., proposing to sell t.
the city the reservoir on Spruce street neal
Spring. 1t was referred to the Committee or
Fire Department.
An invitation from the Directors of the Port.
land & Ogdensburg Railroad Co. TO the City
Government to visit Conway Centre to-day
(Iu6Suay) anu WlCneSS the test OF a new iron
bridge, was accepted. Dee.
Anthony s. Hatch was appointed special DO
liceman without pay, 10 be stationed at the
Portland Co.'s Works. Edw. n Bates was
appointed special policeman without pay and
undertaken
The report of the Trustees of the Widows
Wood Society, enclosing the names of the
benefciaries OF the Clapp Fund, was received
and ordered on file.
The order providing for rodman for the
iui1 nayo , frnpa he D. 4
non.concurred in. The Aldermen voted to ad :
here. The Council subsequently receded and
concurred with the Aldermen
A communication was received from iona
Morgan, suggesting that with the aid of the
city he could furnish steam fire engines at
$1,000 each, was referred to the Committee on
Fire Department. ..... .IT
communication was received from the
City Auditor, announcing that the aprropria.
ton for the contingent fund is exhausted that
the amount of expenditures ordered charged
to said fund now amounts to about S17 900, and
asking for an additional appropriation of $40.
OO0, which would leave but a small amount fer
future use, was received and referred.
The report of the Committee on LAYING out
new Streets, that portion of the Marginal
Way, extending across the land of w. & A.
Curtis should be discontinued, was accepted
but the order discontinuing the street was land
on the table. 80 -i.. .,. 7
A communication from the Board of Asses
sors, transmitting the names on persons in
Portland qualified to vote at the September
election was received.
Leave to Withdraw was granted on petition
of A. g. Babcock for remuneration for dam
ages by change OF the grade of Portland street;
same on petition of Reuben Waite for same by
reason OF q change in grade of Fore street;
same on petition of Osborne Fernald for COM
pensation for damages on account OF change of
grade OF Portland street; same on petition of
Joshua 5. Clark for same on account of change
OF grade Of Eastern Promenade; same on petit
ions OF >. ID. sDrummond for . sewer on
Green street; of S. w. Larrabee for same on
Deering street; and OF Jere Dow for same on
Grove street. -+..--
Petition of Melville Hovey, for license to
keep an intelligence office, was referred with
power.
Both branches then went into .
JOINT CONVENTION
for the purpose of listening to representatives
OF the Portland & Rochester Railroad Com
pany urging the construc ton of the marginal
way from the depot at the foot of Chestnut
street to the Grand Tru nix rail east of Tukey's
Bridge, and for the election of subordinate city
officers, ~ sraF
Hon. John Lynch, President of the Portland
q Rochester Railroad Company addressed the
convention in favor OF the previous measure.
He said the corporation he represented desired
access to the waters of the front harbOr in or
der to receive and deliver the goods to and
from the interior transported over that road.
The directors had found that considerable bus
mess was coming over the P. & r. which de-
manded connection with tide water and the
shipping. Most OF the business was in heavy
goods. The Maine Central road, which had re-
cetved from the city all the facilities which
they asked without any cost, proposed to charge
300 per car for communication over their line
while they demurred to a much less charge
imposed upon themselves by the Portland,
Saco & Portsmouth road. The P. & r. must
then look to the Grand Trunk road tor the
needed facilities, which had offered the accom-.
mediation at 80 per car. He stated that the
Portland and Rochester road had put their PAS
senger and freight tariff at price to compete
with Boston, and they had already made ar
range ments to do the transportation of the
large manufacturing establishments in East
Rochester, Springvale, &C., to Boston and
facilities could be obtained from the city AL.
ready the traders of that inland region had
turned to Portland for their supplies The
Portland and Rochester road had the choice
OF two routes to connect with the Grand
Trunk; to run over the proposed marginal way
or turn of at MorrilPs Corner and build an
additional track around the Cove. The latter
would necosstate the building of their ma
chine shops in Westbrook, when it was desira-
Bile Tor themselves and the city that they should
be located on the city side. Other roads al
ready projected would require the same facili-
ties, tor the s0utherly front of The city is so
crowded that there is no room. He referred
to The great interest felt in Boston in similar
of 100 feet land damages to the amount of
nearly million dollars had already been paid.
We ask no expenditure of money for our ex
elusive benefit, he remarked. The expense of
construction, according to the estimate OF the
City Engineer, will be but $47, 000-over a way
already laid ont, with no land damages to pay;
and the presence of a railroad running along
the northern border of the city would call for
wharves and building lots that would increase
the taxable property of the city there hundreds
of Thousands of dollars. The road can never
be built SO cheaply as now, and 1t would fur
nish employment to hundreds of laborers now
here. Speaking of the Western connections of
the Portland and Rochester road he said that
the directors OF the Worcester and Nashua
road had offered to lease the Nashua and Roch-
ester road when built land thus give a contn-
uous line from Portland to New York at per
cent interest; and the policy of the city 10 re-
direct bearing upon the result Concerning
the demand for cheap land along our railroad
tracks, Nj Lynch stated that parties had made
arrangements for the tIansportion of rough
lumber from the Ottawa region via Montreal
to Portland, to be manufactured here, on ac-
count of the duty imposed upon planed lum-
Der. An enterprise like that of marginal
way would draw increased attention to Port
land. We have the facilities for making great
step forward toward raising Portland from her
present depressed condition, and if we fail now
our railroad enterprises and prosperity will be
backened for years.
MT. D6anc, director IN the same ROAD, urg-
ed policy that would increase manufactures.
Manufacture and railroads are now the only
means left to US for prosperity. He referred to
the liberality heretofore shown towards manu-
featuring enterprises. Some of these had in
creased our valuation hundreds of thousands of
dollars. The Portland & Rochester Railroad ia
q Portland institution. Its stock is owned
here, and it had already given hundreds of
thousands of dollars of patronage to Portland
mechanics; and all things being equal, the
preferred to have their work done at home to
going abroad. He continued his remarks by
explaining the proposed western and southern
connections of the road, and the advanced con-
dltlOn OF the connecting links, as a further ar.
gument In support of the proposition that
Portland must prepare to supply the demand
for largely increased railroad accom- modations.
Capt. j. b. COyle endorsed all that had been
said by the previous speakers, and said that all
the steamboat lines in Portland favored the
measure advanced, as a means of growth to
Portland and an extension of the Water COM
muuications to the East and South.
Charles Clark, j. G. Sterling and j. D. De-
celle were chosen City Constables.
j. ii. Parsons, s. M. Smart and Thomas A.
HOlyoke were elected surveyors of Lumber.
The Convention then dissolved.
IN BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN.
Aid. King offered an ordinance to encourage
manufacturers, which provides that persons IN
vesting not less than $4,000 in manufacturing
shall be exempt from taxation for ten years
from the date of beginning manufacturing, ex-
cepting the taxes on real estate. The order
was read twice and passed to be eugrOssed, and
sent down. The Council non-concurred.
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