Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-12-15

+ Bangor could leave Houlton with a goot
team a. the same time with the train. snd
drive for FIVE hours OF more across the
C u1,,y and oveitake the same rain AZ Dan
forth.
Disad ants ges of Present Freight and
Express Arrangements
All freight exported from or imported into
the counts must be bonded in its passage
through New Brunswick snd passenger.
must submit to the inconvenience of hav
ing their baggage opened and examined Al
the border. Sinee the transfer of the N
B. Railway to the Canadian Pacific Co
new sources of Inconvenience have arisen
aid We are more than ever REMODEL iha
~e are under the control of g-ea
foreign M n,poly. Packages coming &c
Ar1ostoos bY express can be carried by
| the American Express Co. onis as far rs
VancsbJFo. IS the Canadian Pacific re-
fuses to slow that company 10 run over its
road. All incoming express mater fol
Northern aroastoek must be delivered oveI
| to the DJmi ZION Express Co. at Varcaborn
hus nskiag al Extra charge ard often a
delay in lis transportation. At every sta
iiln in the Aroostook valley the Americah
Express Co. has been compelled TO aban-
IN its tfices ana they are now filed by
agents of the Dominica Express The
American Express Co. has been able to
r .taia its office at Houlion by putting on
line of express carriages to run be-
tween Houlton and Danfor;h, con-
Meeting with the Maine Central a,
that place. Net Only has the train
service beep reduced BY the new manage
ment but many arbitrary rules have been
introduced which interfere with the easy
transaction of bu.ioess. Fortunately a
business man having mill or factory with
in a few miles of station could have a car
left on his siding at any lime by applying to
the nearest station agent. Now he is Obliged
10 wait until his application is forwarded to
headquarters and permission returned.
Should Mr.. Parkhurst for instance,
Receive Notice by Wire
to ship carload of starch or potatoes from
his fGc.0rv d few miles below Pfesque
lie on certain day at price
named. lie might be obliged
20 wait number of DAYS for the st.Iioi
agent to obtain permi sion 20 leave him a
car at d in he meantime tn price might
fall Or the order BE- filed from some other
source Aside from all the Sc irksome and
necessary hindrat e 8. ard in addition to
the 1926 miles of xtra travel, ihera il still
another count to BE- considered and in thi.
respect the present sy.tvm is a sanding
meuace 20 The bust ess Of Arao took
county. As at present developed the
j dusr-ies afd inter-s's of the county
demand rnohs'ruc'ed irlasgolttion and
., thing interfering with this. even tenn
porarily, would row b. dnuhly disastrous
This is emuhatically shown BY the effect Of
an occasional snow blockade for a few
days hl il i, net impossible that block
aae NAV At some time be declared which
shall stop h course of business for WEI ks
and it may Re for months. We have 10
fear of war being declered between our
countryand Great Britain for it would
seem that the two gr,a a. English fpssking
nations OF the world arr sufficiently civil
lied to settle all difficulties without appeal.
ing 10 the dread srbArauert of a-ms
SILL it is not impossible that complications
NAV ali.e which would result il tn
r fus.l the Dominion aa.hori les to low
e, ds to PISS thu, u.h New BruusA lex in
bond, in which contingency
Arc. sto1k Would BE WI oily Cut or
from rsllrcal commnnicAii9n With OUTSIDE
msrkets and the II C. upon the business
iatert Of the c)u ty would b, most
damaging 1t may be said rh,t no such
cobtirg ncy as this is at sll probable, but
n, ore can denY that it is possible, and m ~
q ise when ~e-least expect IT, During the
Fl shery ,i'rules the danger seemed alto
aether too immin mt to be comfortable for
tie farmers and business men Of the
C lunty
Fort Kent 20 Tangor on American Soil
I be Alm'eht has blessed Aroos,ook
wi h a sol of unt Kemp led fertility and with
abundsnt resources OF industrial prosperity
but il is BIZ the grace Of Her Majesty
Of England tSat that soil is
a. present cultivated and that the
products Of his sarden county Of Maine
are sold in the miIke!s of our own land. A
word from her, or from hsr ministers, and
the enormous crop of potatoes now ljiug 10
he cellars of Aroostook farmers might
better have roittd in the fields. The i'm
probability OF that word b ing spoken does
not warrant "a in neglecting to tise meas
ures to guard against its possibility. With
all frate!nsl feeling for our good neighbor.
over the border we still hope to see the day
when we can steam from Fort Ken, TO Ban
gor Nth the stars ard Stripes of Columbia
floating over cur heads and band playing
Yankee Doodle for the entire route.