The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-01-17
PORTLAND s. oeDRNsBuRa.
Annual Meeting. Reports and Election
of Offlcers.

Jose, Portland Weston f. Milliken, Portland !:
Joseph S. Kicker Portland; Joel Eastman
Conway; James z. Baxter, Portland; Roswell
M. Richardson, Portland; William W. Thomas
Jr., Portland; Samuel Waterheuse, Portland
Francis Fessenden, Portland.
AT subsequent meeting Of the directors,
the following officers were elected:
President-Samuel j. Anderson.
Clerk-Charles III. Foye.
experimentation Hamilton.
Chief Enginecr-John f. Anderson.
The annual report of the directors was read
as follows:
To the Stockholders of the Portland and
Ogdensburg Railroad Company:
The directors respectfully submit the follow
ing report of the financial condition of the
company at the close of the fiscal year ending
Sept. 80, 1882, with an exhibit of the amount
of traffic; also statement Of the improve
ments made upon the line of the road up to
the present time.
IMPROVEMENTS.
For number of years past the company has
been beholden to the courtesy Of the Eastern
Railroad company for Office accommodation
for the superintendent, and general passenger
agent and their assistants; while the other
officials of the company have had rooms far
communication between the several officers
difficult, to the detriment of the interests of
the company. Your directors therefore pur-
chased the lot on the corner of Commercial and
Bracket streets, being about eighty feet
square, and have erected thereon a substantial
brick building, with first rate accommodations
for all the officers of the company, with abund-
ant fire. proof safe room for the preservation
of the valuable papers, plans and other like
property of the company. The building is
nearly completed and will be ready for occu-
pancy within few days.
The yard room within the city limits, being
too small for the accommodation of the in
creased business, the directors determined to
fill the fats adjoining the company's upland on
West Commercial street. Having purchased
the lot adjoining on the east and extending
from the road bed location of the company to
the channel of Fore river, with frontage of
one hundred and thirty feet on said channel,
thereby giving this company continuous
frontage of more than six hundred feet ON the
nayigable waters in Portland harbor. they
commenced making the fill and have put in
$4,000 yards of earth thus adding two acres of
valuable land to the yard.
The land which the company used for en-
CINE house. car houses, shops, etc., has always
been rented; and it was thought advisable
before erecting more permanent structures
than those now in use, to acquire title in fee
to land sufficient for the future wants of the
company. The lot known as Thompson
point was selected as combining more advan-
tages than sny other attainable-not the least
of which is its location upon the channel of
Fore river by which coal and other materials
can be landed at the shops of the company.
1t contains eleven acres of upland and large
area of flats. 1t was purchased in June last
and already six acres have been graded and
made ready for tracks and buildings,-in do
ing which $4,000 yards of earth were moved
and one segment of the new engine house,
built of brick and comprising four stalls and
work room, has been erected and is now ready
for occupancy.
The grading of these grounds and the filing
at the Portland yard aud other places on the
line, necessitated the moving so large an
amount of earth that it was thought most
economical to buy a steam excavator. This
excavator has in five and one-third months,
shoveled IS, 900 yards-mostly clay--at cost
of little rising four cents per yard; the whole
expense of running the shovel, including en-
gineer, craneman, fireman, Waterman, six men
in pit, fuel, oil and repairs, being five hun
bred dollars per month. By the end of the
year from the date of purchase at which time
final payment is to be made for the machine,
it will have saved to the company its full cost
of $500.
The company's grounds at and near Sebago
Lake station have been cleared and partially
graded, the buildings improved, and restau-
rant added for the better accommodation of
picnic and excursion parties.
The platforms at nearly all the stations,
have been largely renewed and heightened
and the old water pipes have been changed for
better ones. Some three hundred feet of the
trestle approach to Gambo bridge has been
replaced by solid earth embankment and the
earth embankment and the main bridge
strengthened by additional piles and timber.
By agreement with the county commission
ers and the selcctmen of Windham, the here
tofore somewhat blind highway crossing at
Black brook has been greatly improved and
the culver heightened, the danger to public
travel being thus reduced to the least practi-
cable in grade crossings.
At North Conway, in the preparation for an
entire replacement of the trestle and pile
bridge across Artist brook valley, there have
been constructed, in most substantial man
ner, a stone abutment at the highway cross
ing, and an arch for the stream the latter, a
massive structure, twenty five feet span,
twenty feet high inside dimensions. and, in
GLIDING wings, one hundred and thirty feet
long, contains, with foundation, about four
teen hundred cubic yards of masonry, laid in
cement at cost of less than $1,000. The
steam-shovel and construction train will soon
be at work forming the heavy embankment
required here, from neighboring sand ridge,
to which temporary track has been laid.
During the present winter, this almost worn
out bridge, six hundred feet long and from
twenty to forty five feet high, will be replaced
by solid and imperishable structure of stone
and earth, with short girder of twenty five
feet, over the highway. The earth fill will
require $4,000 yards-of which 1000 yards
have been put in this season.
The trestle across the western channel of
the east branch of Saco river, before partially
loaded, has been completely filed with stone
and surfaced with gravel, by which another
perishable structure has been superseded.
The pile bridge over the Johns river, in
Dalton, has been strengthened and partially
renewed by additional piles and timber.
The iron bridges have all been reprinted.
The slopes and bitches of the road, along
the mountain side, have been materially i'm
proved and the great embankment, beside
Dismal Pool near Crawford Notch, has been
made nearly ready for the change of track SO
that the improved alignment, contemplated at
this point, may be made next spring. 5000
yards of earth have been put here this season.
1t will take about 5000 yards more to COM
plete it.
At the Mount Pleasant House station the
slopes have been neatly taken off to cores
pond with the work done by the hotel pro-
prietors, which with the commodious plat
form presents marked improvement there.
Coal-pens have been built at Portland and
Bartlett.
On the whole there mas been effected the
past season generally improved condition in
track, road bed bridges, buildings and plat
forms.
The station house at the Intervale has been
enlarged and improved and dwelling house
built near Fabyan's for the use of the en-
ployes.
There have been laid in the track eight hun
dred tons of steel rails and $4,000 cross-ties
Two miles of sidings have been added.
EQUIPMENT.
Six locomotives have been changed at the
company's shops from wood to coal burners,
| whereby it is expected that considerable
saving in the fuel account will be effected
| The Miller platform and buffer have been put
| on to our passenger cars. Seven of the loco
motives and fourteen cars have been equipped
| with Eames' train brake.
The equipment Of the road now consists Of