The Portland daily press., 1898-09-23
RAILROAD AND STEAMBOAT MEN.
The Regular Session of New England Cen
eral Passenger Agents Association.


At the Falmouth hotel yesterday morn
ing in the handsome State of Maine room
the New England Passenger Agents asso-
ciation held its regular business meeting
for the private discussion of matters of
interest to the association. Those present
were W. E. Davis, general passenger
agent of the Grand Trunk; G. e. E.
Usher, general passenger agent of the
Canadian Pacific; Col. f. E. Boothby,
general passenger agent of the Maine
Central railroad and Mt Desert and
Machias steamer; e. A. Waldron, general
passenger agent of the International
Steamship company; George i. Connor,
passenger traffic manager of athe New
York, New Haven and Hartford; Edward
A. Taft, president Of the Boston and New
York Despatch Express company; A. 5.
Hanson, general passenger agent OF the
Boston and Albany; A. @. Kendall, gen.
eral passenger agent, New York, New
Haven and Hartford, Eastern division;
N. E. Weeks, chairman New England
Passenger association; o. Fl. Taylor,
general passenger agent Fall River line;
Calvin Austin, general superintendent
BostonSand Bangor Steamboat company; ;
@. j. Wiggin, rate clerk, representing
d. J. Flanders, general passenger agent
Boston and Maine; J. f. Liscomb, gen.
eral agent Portland Steamship company
and general passenger agent Maine
Steamship company; 4. Q. Bradford,
traffic manager Portland and Rumford
Falls railroad; J. W. Peters, superin-
tendent Portland and Rochester.
After the meeting the gentlemen had
lunch at the Falmouth and were all en-
phatic in their appreciation OF the way In
which they were entertained by Mr..
Nunns, the proprietor of the Falmouth.
One of the objects in view. by Col. Booth
by in inviting the association here, was
toshow them the possibilities OF this fne
hotel as we'll as to call their special atten-
tion to the beauties of Portland and its
attractions for summer tourists.
In order to give the visitors sight at
all quarters of the city the invitation OF
the Portland Railroad company was ac.
cepted. Manager Newman had the elegant
car Bramhall in front of the Falmouth
when lunch was finished and the party
were taken expeditiously and smoothly
about the city. Riverton and Fort Allen
park were visited and then the car was
run to the head of franklin wharf.
Here the new. steamer Horatio Hall was
inspected and General Passenger Agent
Liscomb entertained the visitors. General
Manager Cooling invited the party to take
a sail down the harbor in one Of his fine
steamers, but they were forced to decline
on account oflack of time.
The party left Portland at six O'Clock
| p. m., we'll pleased with what the had
seen and the way they had been enter
tained. Our people owe many thanks to
Col. Boothby for bringing these people
here to see the possibilities of Portland,
| for they are all influential in directing
the course of travel over their lines at all
| seasons Of the year.
| Among the topics discussed yesterday
| were the special fare applications as per-
tanning to the National Currency conyen-
tion in Omaha, the National Baptist con.
| yention in Kansas City, the Brotherhood
of St. Andrew at Baltimore and the
Trans Mississippi exposition, the first two
| taking place in September and the last
| two in October.
] Among other October events that were
discussed for special fares were the Demo-
cratic state convention in Worcester,
Mass; the biennial committee of Odd
Fellows in st. Louis; the Church of
Christ scientists in Boston; the Knights
Templar tr1ennial conclave at Pittsburg;
thesf Christian Church convention in
Chattanooga, Tenn. the N. E. conference
| of the Universalist church in Boston, and
the Delta Upsilon fraternity in Philadel-
phia.
| Other subjects dilated upon were in re-
gard to the return of troops mustered out
of service, five cent fares within Boston
city limits, anti-scalping bureau in
Washington, D. c., obtaining transporter
tion fraudulently and customs connected
with ticket expiring at midnight.