Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-03-08

tuotS desperate. becomes more tyrauui-
| cal. ana adopts measures which are
frightening those who vet abhor his
colors. On the 18th his little armed
cruiser Huacho seized the English ship
Neatemous Star. living outside the bar
at San Lorenzo. and it Is thought ii
Will lead to serious trouble.
EARLY OBJECTIONS TO RAILROADS.
In the selections from the diary and
"reminiscences of the late Josiah QUINCY.
recently published in a volume entitled
Figures of the Past" there is chap
ter called Some Railroad Incidents"
Dir. Quincy was one Of the first and
most prominent citizens Of Boston en-
gagged in carving out railroads from
that place. We take from this chapter
the following:
Perhaps the most singular phenome-
non in the history of each railroad was
the bitter opposition they encountered
from leading men whose convenience
and pecuniary interests they were di-
rectly to promote. The believer in rail-
roads was not only to do the work and
pay the bills for his short sighted neigh
bor, but.as Shakespeare happily phrases
49, tAAAtSO dA0 DUO IoI 1odfc VI III uttu
good Can furnish proof of this in
credible statement? Yes. 1 have it be-
fore me at this moment, and 1t is worth
giving with some detail.
The old town of Dorchester. which
some years ago was annexed to Boston,
has within its ancient limits nine rail-
road stations. aud at those most fire.
quented about 30 trains stop dailv.. The
rnal h<. MA
passes over route which l caused to
be surveyed at nv own expense, with
the view of providing cheap transports-
ton from the towns of Dorchester and
Quincy and others to the south of them.
l need not say that the land made &C
cessible by this railroad has become
population of the old town of DOrches.
ter cluster about the stations. If any
tyrant could tear up those tracks and
prevent them from being ralaid, his &C.
ton would paraivZe PHOSPHORUS COM
muuity, and might we'll be called a ca
lamity by those most careful in weighing
their words. Now, can the reader be-
lieve that the very words | have itai-
icized we're chosen SO late as 1912 by the
inhabitants OF the town of Dorchester,
express their sense of the injury that
would result to them and their posses
sions by laying railroad track through
any portion of their territory? No,
there can be no mistake about it. Here
is the report of their meeting, authentic
in contemporaneous type, and duly at
tested by Mr.. Thomas j. Tai
man, town clerk. A leading bus
mess man was chosen Modera-
tor, and committee of six prominent
citizens were appointed to oppose the
passage of a railroad through the town.
The resolutions wers worth reporting
with fullness. The first declares il to
be the opinion of the inhabitants of the
town of Dorchester that a railroad upon
either OF the lines designated by those
asking for charter Twill be Of incal-
culable evil to the town generally, in
addition to the immense sacrifice Of
private property which will also be in
volved. A great portion of the road
will lead through thickly settled and
populous parts of the town, crossing
and running contiguous to public high
ways. and thereby making a permanent
objection to the free intercourse of our
citizens, and creating great and endur-
ing hazard to all travel upon the COM
mon roads," The second resolution de-
clares that if, in spite of the protest Of
the inhabitants Of Dorchester, their
town must he blighted by a railroad,
sit shall be located upon the marshes
and over CREEKS" and by thus avoiding
all human habitations and business re-
sorts, "a less sacrifice will be made of
private property and much less injury
inflicted upon the town and public gen.
orally" The concluding resolution ia
one of those jewels (rather more than
five words long, that must suffer by any
curtailment:
"Rcsoired, That our representatives
be instructed to use their utmost en-
deavors to prevent, If possible, so great
calamity 10 o,ls. toton as must be the loca-
ton Of any railroad through IL, and il
that cannot be prevented, TO diminish
this calamity as fan as possible by confin.
ing the location to the route herein des-
ignated."
The italics are, of course, mine. They
ares quite irresistible. But when "ca-
lamities" threaten, the good man does
not do his whole duty by protesting in
town meeting. There is the powerful
agency of the press, through which
oppressors may be rebuked and their
horrible projects brought to nsught.
Let me quote few extracts from
newspaper article. It was written by a
citizen of Dorchester and appeared
shortly after the meeting. The writer
has been speaking of existing facilities
for water transportation. which he
thinks should content certain inhabit-
ants of the town of Quincy who are pc
titioning for railroad.
"What better or more durable CON-
municative can be had than the Nepon-
set river or the wide Atlantic by
using these our thriving village will be
destroyed, our enterprising mechanics
ruined, our beautiful gardens AID
farms made des0late, and oar public or
private interests most SERIOUSLY affected.
LOOK at the rapid growth of Neponset
village, through which this contem-
plated road is to run (the citizens Of
which are AZ enterprising and active a.
can be found. many of whom have in
vested their all either in trade, ueehan-
ical manufactures or real estate), and
all are to be sacrificed under car ten
thousand times worse than the car of
Juggerhaut Look at the interests for
instance, of the public house in this
place, kept By most estimable gentle
man who has ever"
But have no heart to copy further.
In the wreck of an entire community
We can spare NO tears for
the wces Of q single tavern keeper.
The ruins of that once prosperous viii
LACE of Neponset are even TO this day
visited by reflective tourists. think /
mentioned that the Old Colony Com
pany has q way of stopping some fifty
trains there in order to accommodate
moraiists, who take . melancholy salts
faction in musinR among them.
The Rev. DR.. Howard Crosby crisply
saws: THE man who uses his pulpit to
gain applause and provoke mirth 10
merely q Snowman, and unworthy OF his
position"
Pies date back 10 the time OF the Ro-
mans, and same originally from Pjcardy.
some of the original pies, remarks an
exchange, are still on sale At railroad
restaurants.