Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1913-08-06

1t is this stream, rising and falling
with the weather conditions, which
feeds the summer resorts and has en-
cater to the finest trade and made them
Independent Of local truck farms. 1t
has also greatly increased the number
OF Boeton's commission houses.
The speed with which this stream
flows northward Is equaled by the
celebrity with which 1t is handled In the
South Boston yard, the great distrib-
uting reservoir into which 1t pours
its tons Of produce. There are seven
yards and thirteen freight houses max
ing up the Boston terminal, and in and
out Of 1t run / 800 cars q day, Of which
this perishable freight forms only a
part
As soon as one Of the fast express
freight trains reaches the yard In the
early hours of the morning the cars
are marked showing what yard they
are intended for, this depending upon
the firms to which they are consigned
Then the switch engines get busy.
to mark the cars. They have so re-
duced the time of switching or classi-
fcation, as 1t is called, that In thirty
minutes every car In forty car train
will have been put in its proper yard
and place. On an average it Is just
one hour from the time the big Pacific
locomotive lands its train of fruit In
the terminal that the cars are ready
to have their seals broken. That is
when it is ready to be sold by the
marketmen. though the sales do not
sbegin till the bell rings at a. N.
There are few other cities where
this kind Of freight is landed so close
to the market Ten minutes is all that
is required in Boston to transfer it to
the market from the car. In this
terminal, where Abs freight cars can
be kept at one time, there is sufficient
space provided so that teams can back
up to 2,100 OF these cars.
About 95 per cent of the produce
brought into this yard every day re
mains there or is shipped out by ex
press. The cars destined for Portland
and for northern New England begi1
moving out by noon again, but from
Boston a radius of at least twenty-five
get its berries in time for breakfast the
next morning.
About rs per cent Of New England Is
affected by this fast freight service
perfected by the railroad men. The
sea has had to yield this traffic to thu
south Today the New Englander
even though he lives in Maine, is a!
certain Of fresh Strawberries for hi,
table in the spring as he is Of his Owl
garden truck in the summer.
When the great Hell Gate bridge ant
| Connecting Railroad joining the New
Haven system with the Pennsylva
mia is completed in Eew York city
this schedule may be shortened ever
more. This great engineering feat, un
dertaken by the two roads will obviat,
the long water transfer around Man
across New York bay from Greenville
where the Pennsylvania trains rol
In from the south. to Bay Ridge, wher'
the cars will again take the raili
bound for Boston, and the dangerous
and delaying tides Of Hell Gate will
thus be avoided. While It will no
mean the saving Of another marke
day, It will mean that more trains cal
be handled and may result some day II
making Portland's market day the
same as Boston's.
The railroad is the great harvester
Il gathers the grain IN one corner o
our country and distributes 1t in an
other than man may be fed with th'
stan OF life; but. more than that, /
sees that his table is supplied with thu
good things Of the ground though h,