The Portland daily press., 1877-04-10
MIR. Becke,,,. New DIRECTORY.


MIR. S. B. Beckett's new directory will be ready
for delivery on Monday next. He has published
directory of the city since 1916, and this is by
lar the fullest and most complete of any pre-
vious ones. The number of names recorded in
directory form is much larger than in the last
number, and it contains about fourteen more
pages of names
| The valuation Of the city for 1876 was-real
estate, SIS, 70S $780, personal estate $11 951 1855;
making total of $30,66O,355. The number of
polls assessed was S,456. The sums assessed in
the city were-for State, $110, 475.35; county,
S4O,744.O5; and city, $646, 657.47; making a
total of $791, 876.87. The income of the
city property is put at 1900. which, added
to the amount raised by taxation, gives
1855, 1866 as the available resources of the
| city. The city pays nearly one-seventh Of the
State tax, and about fve-eighths of the county
tax. The total Indebtedness. including all re-.
sponsibilites, is $3,96S,906. The city proper
| contains but 1866 acres of land, and the popu-
lation is put at 35,03l. The mean average for
the weather last year was 463, and the rain fall
amounted to 1874 inches. The warmest day
was July 1S, when the thermometer indicated
W degrees above zero. The coolest was Febru-
airy "a, when it was z degrees below.
There are 80 places of public worship, aud
20 schools. The number OF scholars between
the ages of and 81 is put at 1864, being an
increase of 633 over the previous year. The
amount raised for the support of schools last
year was $S4925.
The usual list of railroad and steamboat lines
centering here, and the governments of the city
nndS fafA 1<~sy k1,AA
of Deering and Cape Elizabeth; also list of
business corporations, musical, literary and
charitable societies, &C., &c.
In addition to the above, and as special
feature of the Directory, there is list of all
the streets in the city whose names have been
changed within the past century or have been
discontinued, with locations of the same.
Also the names contained in the Directory
issued in 1916. The list of the old streets is as
follows: Adams, Ann, Back, Bank, Battle,
Beaver, Bridge Club Lane, Clay Cove, Essex,
Fiddle, Fish, Funeral lane; Heath, Jefferson,
King, High King, Lime Alley, Love lane,
Maine, Meeting House lane, Moose Alley,
Muujoy, Oak Hill, Old County road, Olive
street. Peach, Queen, Salem, Sandy Point,
School, Smith, Summer, Town Landing, Tur.
key lane, Themes, Virgin, Waite. Wharf,
Willow, Windmill
When the first directory was issued the popu-
lation of Portland was about 5000. OF the
men then in business here but 40 are living
and only thirteen still continue in business.
Our venerable citizen, Oliver Gerrisb then
advertised himself as "Watchmaker, No. 6
Exchange street, John B. Hudson, John
X. Hooper, John Mussey, James B. Moore,
Henry IS. Pearson, Stillman Roberts, Arthur
M. Small, George w. Smith, Henry r. Stick
ney, w. W. Thomas Royal Williams and
Reuben York still continue in active life.
Theophilus Barberick, Stephen o. Danielson
and Holt Ingraham are living ia adjoining
towns and are often seen on the streets. Charles
Farley lives in Boston; Henry Ilsley in Chel-
sea; VIM. freeman in Cherryfeld; Enoch
Paine in Massachusetts, Seth Paine in Bangor;
Trstram G. Prince in Cape Elizabeth; Albert
Titcomb in Bangor; and John M. Whitehouse
at Cumberland Mills.
The others still remaining are: Edward W.
Baker, Lemuel Bryant. William Cammet;,
Eben M. Cory, Nathaniel Crockett, Richard
Crockett, Nathan Cummings, Sewall Drink |
water, Joshua Dunn, Benjamin Ilsley, Peter
W. Morrill,, Daniel Mussey, Henry Quincy,
James Raclyft, Simeon T. Rice, Chas. Rogers,
Abel Sampson, James Simington, William
Small, Josiah Smith, Henry Stephenson,
James Todd, Edward Tuttle, Elijah Trow- |
BRIDGE Nathaniel Warner
The following is list of the stages which |
raDsto and from the city in 1922 with the |
arrival and departure of the mails:
Western mail leaves Portland from Water
houses stage office every day at 4 a. M,
arrives at 8 p. m.
Eastern mail leaves Portland from Water
houses every day at a. NJ, arrives at 6 D. 10.
mmodation-(West) leaves Portland
from Warehouses; every day at a. m.
Arrives same evening at p. m. |
Portland & Lancaster leaves Warehouses;
Wednesdays at .. M, and arrives Monday at
6p. m. |
Waterford mail leaves Warehouses Friday
at a. NJ, arrives Wednesdays at 6 p. m.
Portland and Alfred leaves Patterns Hotel /
Monday, Wednesday and Friday at s a. m. /
Arrives Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at |
5 m.
Paris mail leaves Warehouses; Wednesdays |
at a. M, arrives Monday at p. m.
Portland and Monmouth mail leaves Mon
days and Thursdays at p. m. Arrives Tues
days and Fridays at p. ~.
The new directory shows 10Y Smiths, so |
Browns, and A Joneses