The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1913-08-14

II Is this stream, rising md N q.
with the weather condilions wlc
'eeds the summer resorts ana has -,
tbied New England's fiuOas b Is
alter 10 the finest trade aud l,l5,d, the
independent OF local truck fsrna II
las also greatly Increased the nnlnbel
4 Bostons commission houses
The speed with which this streAn
lows northward IS equaled by Il
elerlty with which II is handled Ia e.,
south Boston yard, the great d,stnD
Iting reservoir into which II p1ui
It's tons OF produce, There are sevcl
yards and thirteen freight houses mnk
my up the Boston terminal, aud In an,
,ut Of II run 500 cars DAY. of which
This perishable freight FERNS only a
Dart-
AS soon as one OF the fast express
freight trains reaches the yard ia th,
early hours Of the morning the car,
ire marked showing what yard the
are intended for, this depending up.
the firms TO which they are consignc
Then the switch engines get bus,
II takes an average OF twenty minute
10 mark the ears. They have so ~
luced the time of switching or elias.
iicatlon, as II IN called that IN ihirt
minutes every car In forty car trail
will have been put In its proper yarn
ind place, On an average It Is jas
me hour from the time the big Pacii
locomotive lands It's train Of fun II
the terminal that the cars are read
10 have their seals broken That il
when it Is ready TO be sold by Ia,
marketmcn, though the sales do MOI
'egin TIL the bell rings at q a. m
There are few other cities wher,
this kind of freight Is landed so cl is,
TO the market Ten minutes is all thl
is required In Boston to transfer II to
the market from the car. In this
terminal. where Abs freight ears cGn
he kept at one time, there Is sufficient
SPACE provided 50 that teams can back
up to 200 OF these cars
About 95 per cont VI the produce
brought into this yard every day re
mains there or is shipped out by ey
press. The ears destined for Portland
and for northern New England begin
moving out by noon again, but from
Boston n radius of at least twenty -fye
miles is covered direct. Portland vii
get its berries In time for breakfast the
next morning.
About 10 per cent Of New England IL
affected by this fast freight service
perfected by the railroad men. Til.
sea has had to yield this traffic to the
line Of steel which ties the north to the
south Today the New Engander
even though he lives In Maine. is a.
certain Of fresh Strawberries for his
table In the spring as he Is Of his own
garden truck In the summer
When the great Hell Gate bridge and
Connecting Railroad Joining the New
Haven system with the Pennsylya
mia is completed in New York city
this schedule may be shortened even
more This great engineering feat, un
iertaken by the two roads. will obviate
he long water transfer around Man
lattan Island. II Is only three miles |
icross New York bay from Greenyile,
where the Pennsylyania's trains roll |
n from the south, to Bay Ridge. where
he cars will again take the rails
,onnd for Boston, and the dangerous
md delaying tides of He'll Gate will
bus be avoided. While II will not
mean the saving Of another market
lay, II will mean that mae trains can
re handled and may result some day In
making Portland's market day the
anne as Boston's.
The railroad Is the great harvester.
I gathers the grain IN one corner OF
ur country and distributes It IN an.
tber than man may he fed with the
taft OF life: but. more than tlSt, II
ees that his table Is supplied with the
God things Of the ground though hs
yp amid the spOws