Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-10-24
The rransportatIon Committee.


The Senate transportation Committee
gave hearing on Friday last, in New York,
to delegation from Portland. Before
hearing them Senator Window said
| wish to say, gentlemen, that the entire
committee very greatly regret that they
were unable TO visit Portland, Boston and
Burlington. They fully intended to have
| done 50, but owing to the iHfpossibility OF
| keeping a quorum of the committee to-
/ gether until the meeting of Congress, and
| the fact that We find it indispensable to
/ visit the South before making our report,
we were reluctantly compelled to deny our
selves the pleasure and benefits of visiting
those cities.
Mr.. Anderson, President Of the Board of
Trade Of Portland, Me, then called the at
tention of the committee to the geographic
cal position of Portland, as compared with
other cities. lie said
We are a day nearer Europe than New
York or Boston. We are within 22O miles
Of Burlington, and, whenever the Caughna-
waga Canal i built, steamers laden with
the capacity of the lakes will land their
cargoe> a; SwantOn or Burlington From
those two points roads are now building.
which will take them and put them along
side vessels of thirty-three feet depth.
We have harbor there that is deep enough
Tor any steamer. The harbor is
never frozen there Is no detention nor
has there ever been by ice in the harbor.
We are simply three miles from the ocean.
and the ice has no chance to form there,
simply to skim over. We had three or four
lines OF steamer seeking our harbOr in the
winter that cannot 20 to Montreal. In
Portland We have no expenses as to that
harbUr because the access IS 50 perfectly
plain. There are abundant facilities there
for warehousng and elcyating. Steamers
brought Si5 ,00O 900 worth of imports from
Europe last year.
We have about twenty trains day com
ing into Portland from Montreal BY the
Grand Trunk road. The distance from
Portland to Montreal is 300 miles.
The cost per mile per ton is less than one
half by water.
Mr.. Bussey, president of a line of stea-
mers, said
The State of Maine is greatly interested |
in this question of transportation. 1t is a |
numbering and a smp-building State. and /
one object of the presentation of the argu- |
ment of Mr.. Anderson is in that direction. /
Ii has not been essential to have compul- |
NpiN floldHt luf toTtllnu l1arDOr. The ]
State of Maine wants this cheap transporta-
ton for the consumption of food in her |
State, and also for the facilitation OF bust
ness done with the British provinces. We |
have very ample facilities for doing a large
business.
The committee will be in Cincinnati on
the eth inst. They will then 90 to St.
Louis. They will then adjourn until No
vember 10, when they will go South to New
Orleans, La, and other cities.
New ENGLAND farmers CLUE. AT
meeting Of the New England Farmers
Club, held in Boston Col. Daniel Needham,
President, in the chair, the following named
gentlemen were elected officers for the en-
suing year:
President Col. Daniel Needham, Groton.
Mass.
Secretary-Daniel Round, Esq, Norfolk,
Treasurer-lIammond Reed, Lexington.
Mass
lrgstees-B. NJ. Haight ,Skowhegan. Ne;
Fred k: Atwood. Winterport, Me. Matt.
Head, Hooksett, n. H.. Chester Pike, Cor
nlsh, \. H.: Henry BoyDton, Woodstock,
Vt; o. 5. Bliss, Georgia. Vt; j. 7. Everett
Princeton, Mass. S.B Phinney .Barnstable.
Mass; 6. F. Wilson. E Providence, R. l.; A.
d. Chadsey. Wexford, r. l.. E. ii. Hyde,
Stafford, Ct. Benz. Sumner, Woodstock,
CT.
Associate Executive Boald-Aiaine-H. NJ.
Boardman of Augusta; New Hampshire-
John b. Clarke of Manchester, James o.
Adams OF Concord Vermont-Henry Clark
OF Rutland, /. II. Hoskins of St. Johnsbury.
C.-Horace Hubbard of Springfield Massa- |
chusetts-G. Noyes. r. p Eaton. L. Wetherill |
OF Boston, Ii. NJ. Burt of Springfield; Rhode |
lsland-JOseph 5. Putnam of Providence
Connecticut-T. 5. Gold of Cornwall.
Six loaded canal boats sank in the HID |
son river, off Stony Point, Monday morning