The Portland daily press., 1900-12-24
They Held a ROusing Rally Satur-
day Afternoon
And Heard Some Highly
Interesting Speeches.
What Farmer Mclaughlin Says
About Railroad Commissioners.

Scarboro wants an electric road and
wants 1t bad. This was demonstrated
On Saturday when a public meeting OF
the citizens of that town was hell In
the Town House and action was taken to
work in harmony and with energy be-
fore the coming session of the legislature
in favor Of the petition of the Portland
railroad for charter to construct road
from the end of the Cape Elizabeth rail.
road system to Saoo.
This meeting was attended by abou
one hundred and fifty citizens Of Soar bo-
ro. Manager E. A. Newman and Mr..
Ammi whitney and Dr. Wheeler, dirso-
tors Of the Portland railroad, and Hon.
A. f. Moulton of Portland were among
others who attended this meeting. The
gathering was called to order by M. K.
Moulton Of Soarboro and Richard N.
Libby was chosen chairman and W. II.
Mclaughlin secretary MIR. Libby in as
suming the chair said that the purpose of
the meeting was TO gs5 public express
sion Of opinion in regard to the electric
road. lie said that John Nj. Kaler. the
representative-elect to the legislature
from Scarboro, wished to lind out what
the citizsns OF Scarboro wanted him TO
DO. There are two petitions pending be-
fore the legislature for q charter to con-
strzcs this electric road through Scar
poro One OF these is from the Portland
railroad and the other from John w.
Deering and others unknown OF Port
10 shak
er he should give his support to the
Portland Railroads pstition or I'd that
of job NV. Lesring and others.
MIR. Libby then called upon Hon. A.
f. MouIton to address the meeting. MIR.
Moulton said that this was not his first
appearance in the Scarboro town house.
He ha1 seen some good times there and
some which were not as good but al
though no was not now resident OF
Scarboro his appreciation for the good
old town had not grown less because he
did not reside in 1t. nir. MouIton then
went on to refer TO the fact that although
the rest of the country surrounding the
city of Portland has felt the impetus
arising from electric roads, Scarboro has
had none OF 1t and from Its lack of easy
and cheap communication with the city
it Is going backward while other towns
about Portland are progressing.
He then spoke of the development of
Dssring, Westbrook and South Portian
and Cape Elizabeth. Or the progress
which, Is being made In Yarmouth and
Falmouth because OF the road there and
or the anxiety which the peoDle OF Cor
ham feel to hava means or cheap com.
munication with Portland. Mr. Moul-
ton said that the train arrangements on
the Boston and Maine are not satisfac.
tory to SOarboro people, even II the road
passed through the most populnus or CEN
tral portion of the town, which 1t DOES
not. Now the only way to gst into Port
land, unless the only two trains a day
are taken from Scarboro, Is to hitch up
a horse and drive thsrs. This shows ths
necessity for an electric road. Mr.. Moul-
ton then went on to say that people get
an idea from what they sac from the
windows of the steam cars that Scarboro
is composed entirely OF flats and marshes.
AS matter of fact the only part OF the
town which is seen from the oar windows
is that fiat and low portion lying alon g
side the railroad tracks. Scarboro is
about six miles wide and ten miles long
and contains a strong 80 square miles
and Of this territory only one square mile
is of fiat and marshy land.
''What would be the effect on this town
II an eletric road were built heref' asked
Mr.. Moulton. mo bett er answer could
be given to his question than to lcok
about us from this slightly position on
Oak Hill. From here we can see over
miles of beautiful country, with the
ocean plainly In view on one side and
the snowy caps OF the White Mountains
on the other. About here are some Of
the most beautiful rides and walks in the
county and with an electric road 1t
would not be long before the summer Wis.,
itors would be attracted here and tbis
hill would be covered with summer cot
tages. Is this summer population wor tn
anything to the farmers OF Scarborof
Don't Won make something by the sale
of your produce near at home at Scarboro
Beaoh, OLD Orchard and these other sum
mer resorts about You?
"Then there is another thing which
win answer my question OF what the
effect Of this road would be. This school
house where the town maintains high
school is not vary accessible In the winter
seaeon to come Of the people OF this town
and their children cannot come here.
Where there are few OF your children
today who can attend this school a great
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