The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-12-23
MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Celebration of Prof. Packard's Eighty
Fourth Birthday.

The winter meeting of the Maine Historical
ing at the society's room in City Building.
To-day will be the anniversary of Prof Pack
ards birthday, and the date of the meeting
was fixed to celebrate this occasion. We re-
publish the programme of exercises as follows
AFTERNOON.
= Report OF the librarian and cabinet keeper. Mr..
Talk on the shell heaps of Maine, Prof. r. W.
Putnam of Cambridge.
Language outline In the dictionary Of Father Rale,
j, Rev.M G. OBIten of Bang +.
Paper on the Chute family IF Marblehead and
Windham with presentation of family relics Hon.
William Goold of Windham.
Paper on our poet governor, comprising MEM
DIR, with extracts from his poems. Edward II. Ell
well, Esq, of Deering
EVENING.
Meeting called to order by the president, Hon. j.
W Bradbury.
Remarks by the president,
Poem, Hail to the MENTOR by James P. Bax-
ter.
Remarks by Hon. ]. l. Chamberlain.
Reply bS Rev A. S. Packard.
Remarks by Hon. q. Talbot and others.
Songs by tie First Parish Choir.
Reading extracts of letters from absent friends.
Original ode, to the tune of Aud Lang Syne sung
by the choir and audience.
The afternoon session will begin at 80
o'clock, and the evening at 7.30. The mem
bers of the Society of Natural History are in
vted to attend the meeting to listen to the re
marks by Prof. Putnam on the shell heaps of
Maine
The Grand Trunks Gut Off.
A Detroit special says: From the time of
the amalgamation of the Grand Trunk with
the Great Western every move of those roads
and of the Vanderbilt lines above mentioned
has been cat-like and gave evidence of pow
or behind that was on the lookout for an adj
versary whom they expected to soon grapple
in a strife for the mastery of the situation. The
great aim of the Canadian Company now is to
secure an outlet from Detroit to Chicago that
will place them in close competition with the
Michigan Central for the passenger business
The through freight they can easily handle by
means of the Chicago and Grand Trunk, via
Port Huron if between Chicago and the East,
or via that line and the Detroit, Grand Haven
and Milwaukee if the business be between
Chicago and Detroit. This latter line is "a
miles longer than by the Michigan Central,
which distance is sufficient to stop any great
competition in the passenger business. Now
the Grand Trunks scheme is unfolded as fol
lows, with the information coming from Cen
eral Manager S. R. Galloway of the Chicago
and Grand Trunk: The Grand Trunk has
line out of Chicago which touches Battle
Creek; from Battle Greek they will build to
Stockbridge, station on the Grand Trunk
extension now building from South Lyon to
jackson; this latter road will be used from
Stockbridge to South Lyon, fro m which place
a rlur mill i,a nd ~
line will be within one or two miles of the
length of the Michigan Central, and will re-
quire the construction of only about 70 miles
of road. The line. it is thought, will be in
running order by next summer. The
Grand Trunk will then be we'll supplied with
outlets from Chicago East-one being via the
Chicago, Grand Trunk and Port Huron; an
other via the Chicago, Grand Trunk, Durand
and Detroit and the third as outlined above