The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-12-11

ton of one of them having been surrounded
by beton and six new courses of masonry add
ed to top, both of them having been opened
and thoroughly grouted.
The following bridges have received entirely
new floor systems: Poole's iron, Danville iron,
kenduskeag, Bog Brook, Bog Brook pile No.
l, No. z, No. 3, Hot Brook, Tomah and Lam
bert Lake.
In addition to above, extensive repairs have
been made on many other bridges.
There are IS bridges on the road. OF these all
but SIX have been rebuilt since 1870, and the
gor
The total length of bridges on the road is %
iron bridges with total OF 1852 feet and 81
wooden bridges with total of 1928 feet.
a NUMBER OF new building have been erect
ed as follows: at Woodford's baggage room /;
Brunswick, brick pump house; Watervile,
coai sheo ana wood shed; Augusta, cotton
house; Bangor, engine house. coal she'd black
smith shop, Pullman carpet shed and hand car
n Douse: Bangor, exchange St., baggage room /;
0iamon, water station; Enfield, freight house
Lincoln, baggage room; Mattawamkeag, iron
shed and baggage room; Danforth, baggage
room; Tomah, water station; Vanceboro, tele-
graph office, addition to station and hotel bull
ding, addition to engine house. blacksmith
shop, coal shed and wood shed; Leeds Junct-
ion, baggage room.
AT Bangor. an addition has been built to the
passenger station at foot of Railroad street,
and the Exchange street station building has
received extensive repairs. At Mattawam-
keag the passenger station bas been moved
across the main line and thoroughly repaired
At Vanceboro the old passenger station has
been moved across the tracks aud re-fitted for
freight house. At Bath the company's
wharf has been extended, and some $500
cubic yards material removed by dredging.
thus increasing the facilities for receiving and
discharglng coal and OF her water freights New
TURNTABLES have been built at Lewiston Ban
gor, Bucksport and Vanceboro.
The rolling stock of the road consists of "a
locomotive engines, So of which are equipped
with train brakes; Sc passenger cars 65 of
which are equipped with Miller platforms and
buffers, and ~ with air brakes; 36 baggage,
mail and express cars, "a of which are equip
PED with Miller platforms and 81 with air
brakes; o53 freight cars, including box hav
and cattle cars; 1,0S5 platform freight cars; "A
conductors saloon, workmen's and tool cars,
~ snow Dlows, Is fange scrapers, 161 box
freight cars, 90 platform freight cars, the three
latter leased.
20 tne equipment of the road: 3 locomotives
from Portland Company's works, Q passenger
cars from company's shops, 6 passenger cars
from Wason Car Works, chair cars from
Pullman Car Works, express cars COM
olnation cars ana freight saloons from the
company's shops, 400 platform freight cars
from the Portland Company and Buffalo Car
Works, platform freight cars from the COM
pany,s works, 100 box freight cars from w Jason
Car Works and 10 box freight cars from Port
land CompaDys works
Tho Eastern Lease
The Boston Traveller of yesterday says some
OF the largest stockholders of the Eastern Rail-
road were in session yesterday. 1t is stated that
Hon. Frank Jones, who has hitherto strenu-
ously opposed the lease to the Boston and
Maine, will accept a position as. director on
the new board, which it is understood will be
largely in favor of the lease. General Law
renee and Colonel French, OF the board of di.
rectors. will make a strong fight against the
proposed lease, and the latter will it is nnder-
stood, take the matter to the Massachusetts,
Legislature where strong effort will be made
to secure repeal of the act passed several
years since granting power of consolidation in
| this State