The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-06-25
Portland and Ogdensburg.
THE ADJOURNED MEETINGS
Immense Enthusiasm at City Hall.

ing precautionary ladies in the number-an
the enthusiasm was very great; at times burs
ing out into hearty cheers, and breaking in upo
the speakers with hearty applause. The inter
est felt will be understood when we say that fe
three hours and forty minutes that great con
pany listened, very few leaving the hall; i
fact when the meeting adjourned, at II Al
there were more people in the hall than whe
the meeting was called to order The Yarmout
Band was present, as on the former occasion
Owing to the lateness of the hour our repol
must be brief.
Hon. Samuel E. Spring, in calling the meet
ing to order, purposely repeated in substanc
his remarks OF Saturday evening, closing wit
advice to the young men, who are just begin
ming life, to start ON the side of energy, enter
prise and hope, and leave conservatism and dis
trust to old age
Collector Washburn followed Mr.. Spring an
was received with strong manifestations of pop
ularity. He said the difference between tn
Ogdensburg and anti-Ogdensburg cause wa
| typihed by the two assemblies on Saturda
night. Passing on he spoke of the virgin cOun
try which the road is to open, the wealth o
| lumber which will come to Portland as tn
nearest and most favorable seaport, and de
clared that within one year after the road il
opened Ottawa will send 10000, 900 million fee
of lumber to this city. He denied the asser
ton of the opponents of the road that the city
aid would increase taxation. 1t would increas,
the taxes only as it made property more valua
BILE, which is a virtual reduction of taxation
because it increases taxable property. Mr.
Washburn continued:--I am charged with hav
| ing promised, at a meeting held in this city Q
| few years ago, that if you would subscribe
| $4,000 we would never call on you for more
did say so; and let me explain why we ask
further aid. 1t was proposed to build the road
| to the State line on the cash subscription, and
that Vermont should grade their part of the
line, and then mortgage be put over the whole
road. 1t was believed the bonds could be sold
at suitable rates, and the result in Vermont has
proved it. Had this been done not dollar
more would have been asked of the city. Why
was it not done? The argus, Mr.. Poor, Mr.
Farmer, and correspondents from Montpelier
made an cutlery that Vermont never would and
never could do its part. They gave census lists,
valuation lists, &c, and roundly asserted that
if this thing was done the Ogdensburg road was
swamped and the Portland stock would be
sunk So much was said and such an outrage
GUS tumult created that the Directors felt that
acting in trust for.the city they ought to hest
tate to carry out the plan proposed by Vermont.
These -Ogdensburg men compelled this
course, and now they taunt its friends with
not having carried out the original plan, and
one which would have prevented call for
another dollar This call. then, is their work.
They made it necessary. You must thank them
for it-and to reproach those who would have
prevented it but for them is unreasonable and
monstrous.
Mr. Washburn referred to the frequent
complaint that some of our roads are not oper-
ated in the interest of Portland and our mer-
chants are sufferers thereby. We desire to
build road that shall be controlled by Port
land. He stated that all the timber land that
had been purchased by the Directors of the L,
& o. road was a third of 1900 acres by one man.
He read an extract from the Chicago Tribune,
declaring that six new trunk lines between Chi
cago and the open sea would be necessary with
in five years if business continues its rapid ln-
crease. This road would give us an opportunity
to increase our shoe trade in the West $4,000
to 81 ,000, 900 annually.
Hon. Julius SERVER repeated some of his for
mer statements in regard to the aid voted by
the Dominion parliament for railroads. Last
winter an act was passed authorizing the con-
struction of the Canada Pacific road from Lake
Nipissing to British Columbia and the Pacific,
distance of 2700 miles, and granted a subsidy
of $3O,O0O,0 600 and $500 900 acres of land
Two companies had been chartered to prose-
cute the work and if necessary a third would he
formed. These embrace the great capitalists
of Canada, and they have given the admins
tration security for the performance of the
work. There is no doubt that the work will be
completed within ten years. Authority has
been granted for road from Lake Nipssing to
Ottawa, with colonial subsidies. Montreal
gives 81, 900, 900, and Sir Hugh Allen has sub
scribed 100000 to the Canada Pacific. The
speaker also referred to the proposed connection
with Ottawa at Washington, and with Mon
treal from Swanton, describing particularly the
favorable condition of their location. He
then spoke of the line from Swanton to Ogdens-
burg, which was made more favOrably located
and could be built at much less cost. He pre-
dicted that it would be built by the time the p
& o. was through to Swanton.
Mr. Servers speech was followed by three
cheers for Canada.
Mr. Waldo Brigham was introduced as a
rare bird-a Vermont Democrat After re-
hearsing the history of the early origin of
this railroad enterprise, Mr. Brigham said,
Meet us at the river in your own time and
we will be there. We don't ask you to put a
dollar of your money across the river.
Come to the river and we will give you your
choice of routes to the West and not ask for
your money. 1 have heard great deal of SYM
pathy expressed here for the poor widows if
you push this road through. The same argu-
ments were used by the Vermont Central when
we asked for our enabling act, and our oppo-
nents gave us hint that we acted on The
ladies voted and helped us bond our towns tO
raise money; and we have succeeded. We
have put our money into this work-in good faith
in yonr promises We have already expended
$1,000, 900 and $780, 600 or 5000 900 will complete
the work. We have trusted to you, and if you
betray we must find friends elsewhere. We
are determined to find an outlet somewhere.
We prefer Portland, but we shall go-some.
where. We want trunk line. You are &c
miles nearer Ogdensburg than Boston is. Bos-
ton has already secured one route to Ogdens
burg, and stands ready to step in and take this
also if you fail. She has sent her emissaries
out even to Portland. The Grand Trunk also
is electioneering against this project. Let us
take the worst possible view of the situation.
You have already put in S714, 900, and are called
on for 81 100000 more-$2, 900 in all, or
per cent of your valuation. Suppose you never
receive dollar of direct return, you will get il
all back in enlarged business, diminished rates
of freight and the development of the best Sec
ton of the country. You are frightened at
per cent. Our towns voted II per cent of theil
valuation, and increased the amount equivalent
to 20 per cent The moral effect of your failure
tomorrow will be disheartening to our friends
and encouraging Ito our enemies. If you &C
back on US finally, do it tomorrow, SO that we
may know what to depend on.
Ex-Governor Hendee of Vermont said he had
worked for five years in this great enterprise,
through penury, beggary, mud and snow, fol
the purpose of coming to Portland. We have
put SO, 900, 900 into this work Can you not as
well afford to put in $2,G00,000. 1 tell you
gentlemen there's somebody after you besides
Clapp & Co. 1t is the interest of Boston. 1 have
been approached within the past four weeks
and asked why we don't run into the Passump
sic road and let them carry all the lumber and
trade into Boston. We are told that Portland
will refuse to keep her promises of four years
ago. l want you all tomorrow to put your foo
on such statement A change has gone on il
your community In regard to this question. We
have been told that Portland was five to one
against the loan: now it is the reverse. The
question for you to consider is: will you secure
the trade of Vermont? Up in Northern Yer
mont they are looking for a new market, and
that market is Portland. And when you ge
the trade of that country you may be sure OF
great share of that trade, and they all pay
their debts, for they are all of the true Ethan
Allen grit. Almost all of them own stock il
this road. It is their road. Within one yea
after the road is opened we will send 1000 pas
sengers into your city, l see "To Let" il
your store windows. Open this road and we
will put childrens faces in those windows
| Open the gate of the Notch and we will send
| you the greatest excursion party you ever saw
| Will you take the experience of our competent
| engineers or the statements of self-constituted
| commissions. One Jones says Portland ought
| to give more for one customer than for rail
| road. Did the iKennebec road ever bring
! customer to Portland Let Jones refuse tt
| open the way to Vermont and Jones will fine
| rats around his hour-barrels. Now, gentlemen
| L want every one of you to become an Ogdens
| burg committee. When you see an enterprise
with such men behind it as Mr.. Smith and MIR
Brown and Mr.. Anderson, you may believe the,
| have the interests of the city at heart Don
be jealous if they make a dollar, but 60 in ant
| make one yourselves Gen. Anderson said las
| SATURDAY. night that he was under an indict