The Portland daily press., 1900-05-22
BELIEVES IN PORTLAND.
some Things which May Operate to
Bald Up This Pert.

Mr.. T.. f. Clements who Is now in
Portland believes In the future of this
port. He is not actiated by sentiment
when he says that Portland has great
future in store for it, but he grounds his
belief on his observation and experience.
He was in touch with the great plan of
Austin Corbin TO make Montauk Point
ut the eastern end of Long island the ter
minal for the Atlantic business
which is now going to New York. This
was the plan which Mr.. Corbin first ad-
vanced and figured out. He was laughed
at and told that the trans Atlantic bust
ness would always be carried on through
the port of New York but recently the
great scheme of Mr.. Corbin to build up
this great port ut this end of Long Island
was brought back to mind when 1t was
announced that the Pennsylvania Rail
road who does its business quietly and
without the blowing of trumpets or the
use of advertising band wagons had OBJ
tanned control of the Long Island rail
road, was contemplating the erection OF
big piers at Montauk Point, the building
of tunnels TO connect Long Island with
and within a few years would have
shortened the trip from New York to
England by just eleven hours by land
ing the steamships at Montauk instead
of at New York.
Mr.. Clements was in touch with this
scheme and has another of his own
which concerns Portland and which in
time, he believes will beput into operation.
1.-The American people" said Mr.. Glenn
ents, want plate glass. They want to
travel in the most luxurious way, in
the quickest possible time and are willing
to pay for 1t. There is no money in cater
ing for the great volume of travel. The
poor mans time is not as much an object
to him as it is to the man of affairs and
the wealthy. The poor man looks at the
dollar and goes where there Is reasonable
comfort at "a low rate. The rich man
goes where the dollars expended bring
rapid transit and luxurious surroundings
ON the railroad train and on the steam
ship.
"what am to tell you now is by no
means an idle dream. 1t is a project
which is bound 20 be worked out and
which will in time be adopted just as
Mr. Corbin's Montauk Point scheme has
been.
Mr.. Clements took a map of this sec
tion of the continent and exhibited to
his nearer. 1t included that section of
the country east of the Mississippi, the
Maritime Provinces, the Western ocean,
Ireland, England the continent of Europe.
From the city of New York and Chi
cago on this map were drawn red lines
along the existing railroad lines to Port
land From Portland was drawn blue
line to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Along
the south coast of Nova Scotia running
northward was another red line to Sid
ney. Then there was another blue [line to
Newfoundland, another red line across
Newfoundland to St. John and from
there another blue line across the Attain
tic ocean to Valencia, Ireland. From
Valencia across Ireland to Dublin was
another red line.
..These red lines are railroads and the
blue lines are steamship routes. The
quickest trip across the Atlantic is now
made from New York in a little over six
days. said Mr. Clements. Il am not
figuring altogether on speed in this con
temphted route but it enters into this
plan not little. At New York man
bound for Europe can take palatial