The Portland daily press., 1889-04-11
CURRENT COMMENT.
PENoBscoT AND KENNEBEc WILL BE TIL

PENoBSCoT AND KENNEBEC WILL BE THERE
lBoston Transcript
The two great rivers of Maine now being
open to navigation, business Is booming in
the Pine Tree State The office-seekers from
the headwaters will now be able to float and
paddle part way to Washington.
cHUCKLE-HEADED LEGISLATION.
lDexter Gazette.l
OF all chuckle-headed pieces of legislation
commend to US the tramp law" passed by
the last legislature.
THE OKLAHOMA BUST.
Dexter GazetteJ
We know of several in this section who
have left to try their luck in the new Okla
homa boom. When the West wiggles that
index finger the East responds nightly.
However boys, remember the words of the
poet:
Thrice blest ishe who strikes the boom at fust
But curst is he who sees the boomlet bust.
ALL RIGHT ON THE KENNEBEc.
[Kennebec Journal.l
The friends of law and order are rejoiced
to learn that the game of .'hide and seek"
between officials and liquor dealers in this
section of the State is completely at an end,
and that the constitution under the laws are
no longer to be trampled and foot with i'm
punity. The county attorney. the jures and
the courts stand between the criminals and
the homes of the people.
THE PROGRESSIVE CITY OF PORTLAND.
Fairfield Journal
We do not know of New England city
with such bright prospects as the city of
Portland For ten years. counting the period
from 1868 to 1878, the writer was a resident
OF that city and deader or more lifeless
community It would be hard to find in New
England. The cause of that condition of
things was not hard to find. The city had
just begun TO recover from the effects of a
terrible confagration, which ruined hundreds
OF we'll to do business men and laid waste
acres OF the most populous parts of the city.
Men of means who had survived the general
wreck had used all their surplus in rebuilding
the city and were obliged to wait for the
returns from their investments, before they
could go further. The returns came in slow
~ in 1880, faster in 1892, and have increased
in volume and force ever since. This newly
acquired surplus has not been allowed to ac-
cumulate but has been promptly invested as
II materialized: AS a result we see in
Portland of to-day one of the finest, progress
sive, growing cities Of the land. The growth
and Improvement is seen on every hand and
in every department
New and more costly stores are going up
on every hand and while the commercial
interests are reached out over more territory,
manufacturing must have nearly tripled
during the past ten years. New and broader
streets are being laid out only to be quickly
dotted on either side with handsome resi-
cences. A broader and more catholic spirit
seems to have been breathed into the souls
Of the citizens. This is seen in various ways
and its results cannot fail to be most whole
some
An old saying is shat the Gods help those
who help themselves" and this seems to be
true In Portland's case, for while she is
striving at her utmost, word comes from the
West that the Grand Trunk is to run Pull
man train from Chicago to Portland direct
for the purpose of advertising the "Forest
City" This comes just as her enterprising
citizens are devising means for inaugurating
monster Industrial Exhibition. Portland
has not got the State Capital but she has got
some very enterprising citizens who are
determined to make the most of their natural
and acquired advantages. Portland is sure
to have veritable boom in the near future.