Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1873-03-27

while the contractors assume a very large
part Of all the rest and incur all the risks,
your Committee feel that il partakes too
much OF the spirit of unfairness to haggle
over so small n difference. For il is to be
remembered that the offer not only in
wolves fair anil reasonable price for
doing the work as leash job" but also
the mode of payment, a matter having II
very important bearing on the sum pro-
posed to be paid. The sum to be received
by the contractors being in all $3.50 900. or
less than 5000 per mile. they must all
vance or take the risk of all the balance.
Kind of insurance worth at least a very
liberal premium. Your Committee have
therefore come to the conclusion that the
work can in no way be expected to be ac-
complshed with so little an outlay or at
so cheap a price TO our city as by the prop
osition In question; and the only alterna-
tive is presented whether the city will have
the proposed road at that cost or not?
PRICE SATISFACTORY.
To progressive city like Bangor. with
more than 20. 900 inhabitants. there would
seem to be no doubt that 1.-THE road Is to be
of any benefit whatever, the cost proposed
Is almost enthusiastically small. One
could hardly conceive of benefit to such
city of such character from an ever
enduring enterprise like this As worth SO
little as the sum named. for it Is to be re-
numbered that a railroad Is All improve
ment for all time. showering its benefits
not only upon us now. but upon our chill
drcn and children's children to all genera
tons, and by It's prospective benefits
echoing back a. it were from the future
blessing upon the present.
Is TIE ROAD DESIRABLE?
The question is then reduced to this
whether 1t Is desirable to have the road at
all: The road penetrates what may be
called TO us new country territory FL
ed with cuterprising inhabitants busIly en-
gagged In productive activities, having Il
population of about so, 600 souls aud a
property valuation of over S25 900 900
having great natural advantages for bust
ness, and rich in all the mgr edients which
20 To make railroad profitable anh the
people prosperous. The people favor the
project aud long to join US as customers
and 10 this end make great sacrifices TO
secure their object.
ANTICIPATED BENEFITS or THE ROAD.
The usual wants of such population for
all the needs of life and business with the
prospective increase which a railroad ever
induces, guarantee a large commerce with
outside localities, and this will Inevitably
follow the law which trade ever enacts for
itself. to buy and sell where il can be done
TO the best advantage. The metropolitan
character of our city, its location upon q
large navigaole river, aud upon the rail-
road then intersecung their territory aud
almost 80 miles nearer than Boston, with
the power 10 afford them almost every
thing they wanted al a cheaper price and
far more eNpeditiously than they can he
accommodated elswhere, will assure us
the trade OF that region in very large pro-
portion inst as surely As Our people will ell
able themselves 10 meet their wants and
demands.
BY the recent report of our Board OF
Trade, our city is shown to enjoy a traffic
in merchandise and lumber. including its
shipping income To the annual amount Of
about 81. 200 600. OF Which about 81 600,
OoO i lumber. Very little OF this trade
comes from te rriiory cast Of Us. AT the
same time !! Is kn9Mn that H. Tbs Bur pqR4tetfh;
that We shall ENJOY lis trade in equally
pront able amounts rs of other territory
already tributary to us. The new popula-
tions and activities which the road will
produce may be relied upon a a continual
so nrce OF increase in all the clements OF
prosperity. SO that we may confidently
look forward 10 the early coming OF the
time when we shall all look back upon the
hesitation with which We are now daily
Ing as being alike weak and unaccouutable
FAST EXPERIENCE OF THE CITY.
Your Committee cannot refrain from re-
marking that in reviewing the history of
every enterprise of The Kind with which
our city has ever had 10 do. and to which
the present prosperity and growth OF the
city Is 80 largely indebted, each has been
obliged to pass the same ordeal of opposi-
ton and doubt that now obstructs The
present. With reference TO those we have
ainiy outlived them all so completely
that We are now hardly conscious of their
having ever existed. so far as any re-
main there can be as little doubt that the
near future will abnndantly Justify all the
sacrifices which the city has already made
or hereafter may make in that direction.
TIE DUTY OF ECONOMY
On the score of economy which YOUR
Committee recognize as a duty for every
citizen TO practice in public as well as pri-
waite expenditure, they feel that the enter
prise in question should be adopted
There is that scattereth and yet increaseth
and there is that withholdetl more than
is meet, but it tendeth to poverty" The
husbandman who withholdeth the seed in
poorly rewarded by his barren fields in a,i-
tumD. Ii the merchant would enjoy the
profits OF trade his economy must not re.
strain his purchase of goods even though
IL be Oh credit. Let US as citizens, take
heed that the city In its zeal for economy
does not fall into error thus reproyed by
Divine as well Us human wisdom.
CONCLUSION.
Committee to the unanimous conclusion
that it Is in every view desirable for the city
in its municipal capacity TO subscribe to
| the stock Of the railroad in question as
proposed. provided that thereby the build
ing OF the road can be secured. For the
present they would let the question of a
bridge across the PenobscOt remain for
the future TO settle. The railroad to Buck
sport. with the connections which that
road and this will necessarily induce. will
| more or less involve the action of all four
of the roads then entering the city.-It
would be folly then to precipitate action
on so important point at the present time
At worst. while the road would terminate
at Brewer. We should only be in the condi-
ton OF Albany for many years after the
Boston q Albany road was completed, of
the city Of New York at the present time
and the roads running South
As to the control and direction of the
road. there is no reason why Bangor
should by any chartered right have any ad-
vantage over any of her associated muni-
cpalities. All should share alike accord
ing TO their respective contributions to the
common cause. Justice and honesty can
ask no more. Her 1900 shares will ever
have their due weight in the counsels Of
the company.
The Committee therefore unanimously
report the following resolution As the result
of their deliberations -
ResolUed, That the best interests of our
city dictate subscription In its name, to
the stock of the Shore Line Railroad to
the amount of s150.0O0. If thereby the
building and equipment of the road can be
secured from the East bank of the Penoh-
scot river at Bangor to East Aachias
village, the subscription to be made on
terms of equality with other stock sub
scribers:
And that therefore such q subscription
be recommended to the citizens of Bangor
for their adoption.
ALBERT w. PAINE, GEORGE SrETsoN.
s. p. STRICKLAND, j. G. CLARK.