The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-03-21

trains per DAY, Wnlie thirteen regular
freight trains entered and left. This
follows of course all over the road. 1t
certainly looks as though something
had already been accomplished, and what
has brought all of this about? My an.
swer is that people from without our
State have gradually been finding Out
it's advantages, largely through the
efforts of the Maine Central railroad.
On Friday last | read in the Portland
PRESS that in Maine in 1860. the cotton
mills represented 281, 056 spindles, While
in 1890 they had increased to 1855, 1862. Does
any one suppose this could have been
possible without the help of the trans
portation interests? and how not TO de-
velop Maine it seems to me is the effort
made at times to hamper it's railway
system by unjust legislation. Every once
in a while in the hopes of additional
rates or increase of popularity some per-
son will endeavor to saddle an additional
burden On it's railways already heavily
taxed, and others will put forth abuse
for fancied wrongs and | have often
listened to this in the deliberations of
this board when / knew for fact that
the
Grass Would Be Growing in the Streets
of the towns in which the distinguished
gentlemen lived il it were not for the
fact of the very existence of the railways
they were abusing.
Some few mistakes to my mind have
been made by Maine people. For in
stance, in the length of today every
building of historic nature in our state
ought to have been carefully preserved, as
is Fort Halifax at Winslow The greatest
mistake of all being the demolishlng OF
such a grand relic as Montpelier,
rr.. Ho~., NJ rIo,,,ostox, IF Gaperal Knox
officer, friend and companion of Washing
ton, building much handsomer than
Mt. Vernon and which if standing today
would attract visitors from all sections;
it is hoped that such vandalism may not
be followed. Quebec once started to
tear down its walls, but pubic senGl-
ment compelled their rebuilding. Lately
T. have learned of an effort to preserve
the old fort on Pemaquid said to be the
strongest and mosJ expensive ever Quilt
by the English on American soil, and
this. like all similar enterprises, should
succeed. :, :,
Our old Indian names should by all
means be perpetuated, and down here in
Maine instead of giving our hotels names
like Victoria, Brunswick. Marlborough,
Windsor, Wellington, or even after the
French like Vendome, Rlchel1eu, &C,
let them have the grand old names like
Moron bega, Tarratlne, Cushnoc, saga
dahoc and Katahdin.
| would have, as one of the chief at
fractions of Maine, it's tidiness, and
Our Village Improvement Societies
do not come amiss in this respect; and
our park system, so grandly inaugurated
in Portland, enlarged. We can recall
the fact that when our principal railroad
line began to fx.up it's stations, adorn
them with paint and surround them
with lawns and flowers, now that tne
community soon caught the Infection, SO
that riding through our state in now
perfect pleasure in this respect which
will be increased ten fold when we get
our good roads in which Prof. Hamlin
and so many of us are interested.
Mr.. Boothby in concluding his paper.
urged the necessity of cooperation in
advertise ng Maine to the world without,
as Florida and other states have been
advertised. Individual jealousies should
be forgotten; and all. hotel proprjetors,
railroad men, members of the boards of
trade, business men of all classes, should
work together for the good of the state.
..sfMr. Boothby's paper. which was re-
ceived with much favor, was followed
by an address by DR.. G M. Twitchell.
DIR. G. M. Twitchell's Remarks
DR. G. M. Twitchell, Secretary of the
Maine State Agricultural Society spoke
of the relation agricultural societies
bear to the industrial interests of the
State. After speaking of the interdepen-
| dence of all classes of producers, Dr.,
Twitchell said: Maine is State with
an infinite variety of resources Let us
| keep that fact to the front, and also that
the posi- bilities in any direction cannot
to-day be imagined. Especially is this
| true with our agricultural interests.
| The hem of the garment of production
has hardly been touched, and the future
| OF Maine farms will tell wonderful
story of increase. Already throughout
New England there are unmistakable
evidences that the tide has turned, and
| the burdens laid by those who have I'M
wisely advertised the decadence OF ag-
| riculture through the sad mistake OF
| talking about abandoned farms, are De-
| ing removed.
DIT is in the extension of all our resour-
ces that the wealth of the Pine Tree
State is to be established. Don't for a
moment let the thought find Judgment
| that Maine has not unlimited opportuni-
| lines. Wanting, perhaps, in some direc-
tions. Nature has been all the more
| lavish in her gifts here, SO that IN the
crops and products adapted to our soil
| and climatic conditions, more of yield
and value per acre are possible than in
| any other section OF country. Direct
| contact with farm life all over the State,
extending over the past ten years, fully
iustifies the claims here made. While
| towns and villages, shops and mills
| have been springing up, swelling the
mum Der of inha bitants in rthese centres
and drawing somewhat from the out
living sections, it is true that the
Output of the Farms has Multiplied.
many times and is susceptible of an
| increase not now to be imagined. In
the products of the dairy and orchard,
the potatoes and surely the sweet corn,
Maine can easily be placed at the head
of all New England States, and become
rival to New York and the great dairy
sections of Wisconsin and Iowa.
"The cheap lands along our fruit belt,
billy, rocky and of no value for crop
| ping, can by the planting and cultiva-
| ton of trees be made more valuable than