The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-03-29

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and seizure. Continued to Saturday. March sOth,
defendant recognizing in $500 for appearance.
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Brief Jottings.
To-day is Good Friday.
There is to be bachelor ball at the Falmouth
Hotel after Easter
Rev. s. II. McColster formerly Principal of
Westbrook Seminary, has accepted the Presi-
dency of Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio, and
will enter upon his duties on the first of June.
Eight Swedes arrived by the Carlotta from
Halifax yesterday, and proceeded to join the
colony at New Sweden.
The Portland Mechanic Blues will give So
ciable at Armory Hall this evening.
Two hundred people visited Hills picture of
Crawford Notch yesterday Every one who
looks upon the picture expresses great delight,
and many visit Hale's in the evening preferring
to see the painting under the influence of gas
light.
Signs of spring-a horse railroad force pick
ing up the streets and the ladies picking their
way over the cutters.
The annual Easter service of the children of
st. Stephens Sunday Schools, with carols, EN-
blems and addresses, will be held in the church
on Sunday afternoon at o'clock.
Villa and Miners comic opera and comedy
company will commence brief season of le
sitimate comedy and burlesque, at Music Hall,
on Wednesday evening, April 4th.
All lovers of genuine wit and fun will be glad
to learn that ''the original and only Mrs. Jar
ley has consented to exhibit her wax figures,
with some additions, for the benefit of st.
Luke's Cathedral on Wednesday evening next
at City Hail. in connection with the panto-
mime of Blue Beard. There will be Fair ON
Thursday evening with some attractions not
yet fully developed
The Aged Brotherhood of Portland have re-
Gently published in pamphlet form a revised
list of their members, numbering 205 names
averaging III years; the eldest 100 years, the
youngest 65-with the time and place of BIRTH
also list of deaths since their organization.
Manufactures i'm Portland.
The systematic efforts of the citizens of Port
land, through the Board of Manufactures, to
increase the manufacturing enterprises of the
city and develope our advantages for the in
crease of wealth and population through me-
chanical industry bid fair to be crowned with
success. 1t is true that the labors of the Board
have not been attended with any degree of ex-
ternal show or boasting, yet the progress al
ready made is very encouraging, and we hope
that before long the result of their labors will
take a tangible and satisfactory form. We are
apparently, and yet not really slow people.
1t may be said, to the honor of the merchants
and business men of Portland that when once
in motion they move strong and accomplish
much. Time is spent in deliberations but when
tbat for tbaxy cd
and effectively. Only unusual events rouse them
TO enthusiasm. The great fire was one of these;
the destruction of Chicago was another; and
our city won fair name for its enterprise and
its expression of practical sympathy in both of
these; and with the history of some of our
greatest business efforts fresh in mind we have
additional proof of the truth of this assertion.
The hardest thing that we have had to con-
tend with in our efforts to inaugurate a more
extended system of manufactures is the fact
that Portland has not had reputation as a
manufacturing city. Commerce has been the
principal calling of the inhabitants, and the
transition from one industry to another is radi
cally sharp, and is attended with some hesita-
ton and doubt. Men do not like to be pioneers
in untried fields; and if the capitalists and
manufacturers of other States hesitate to plant
their capital here, it is because they have not
informed themselves fully of our capabilities
and our resources. Manufactures like almost
every other branch of business is aggregative,
and flourish best when compaeted.
But the manufacturing interests of Portland
have kept ahead of sthe increase of her popula-
ton for the post twelve years. Mr.. Wells, the
late Secretary of the Board of Manufactures, in
recent circular, put the value of the manu-
features of the city at 100000 annually. He
is under rather than above a true exhibit We
have sufficient statistics in our possession to
warrant this statement. The census of 1860,
when our population was 26, 342 put the total
manufactured articles in Cumberland county at
S6,721, 612. We can show an increase, in this
city alone, Of fifty per cent. over these figures
for the year 1870. Let US take few items from
the last returns. Ward z, which is not cele-
brated for manufacturing, returned in 1870,
manufactures to the value of $970,00O. The
carriage interest of the whole county in 1860
was reckoned at less than $4,000; in 1870 this
branch of industry in the city alone produced
over 100000
The tin ware business in the city is $64, 900
against $24, 1000 in the county in 1860; cigars
S4s,000 against nothing in 1860; book binding
has grown from about $4,000 to almost $40, 900;
the boot and shoe business has an aggregate of
100000; almost $65,000 worth of britannia
and plated ware is made annually by Portland
capital doubling the product of the county in
1860; the brass founding and plumbing has in
creased from $12, 900 to 500, 900; blacksmithing
stands relatively about SEC, 900 against $1,000; the
productions of sugar have increased 100 per cent.
in value; while our machine shops have doubled
their force and produce nearly million dollars
worth of manufactured articles-engines boil
ers &c.-or double the amount produced in the
county in 1860 Perhaps no better indication
of the increase of the business of locality can
be found than that presented by the returns of
the printers In 1860 the census returns of the
whole county (there was scarcely anything out
side of the city, showed that $4,000 capital
was invested, employing SO hands and produc-
ing $104, 1S7.
The returns of 1870 show $157 900 invested,
employing 1863 hands and producing $2l2,320 of
finished work. We have taken our figures at
random, but could go ON through almost all
branches of manufactr res with the same result.
We argue therefore that Portland is good To-
cation for the investment of capital if it is de-
sirable to invest where ground is not only we'll
broken, but thriving establishments are in exis-
tence The mechanic or manufacturer who
embarks in business here will find brother me-
chanics in almost every branch, whose services
will be valuable, perhaps indispensable to him.
We know that it is often said that Portland
does not manufacture; and so we collate these
facts to help remove the erroneous impression,
and to show that not only are manufactures es-
tablished here but they show degree of activ-
-ity fully equal to the general business of the
country.
The FREE STREET FAIR.-The Fair at the
vestry of this church last evening was success
in every sense of the word. The spacious room
was filled to its utmost capacity, and the even
ing was very pleasantly spent in social enjoy
ment and conversation. The tables were boun-
tifully laden with all the substantials and deli
cacies of the season, and the ladies in charge
were literally patronized. During the evening
George +. Emery, esq, read the report of the
committee on the purchase of the new organ,