News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-09-10

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1t is this stream, rising and falling
with the weather conditions, which
! feeds the summer resorts and has en-
abled New England's famous hotels to
cater to the finest trade and made them
Independent of local truck farms II
has also greatly increased the number
Of Bostons commission houses.
The speed with which this stream
flows nOrthward is equaled by the
celebrity with which it is handled in the
South Boston yard, the great dist,ib,
uting reservoir into which it pours
its tons of produce. There are seven
yards and thirteen freight houses max.
ing up the Boston terminal, and in and
out of it run 1,S00 cars a 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.
1t takes an average of twenty minutes
to mark the cars. They have so re-
duced the time of switching or classi-
ication, as it is called that in thirty
minutes every car in a 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 it's 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
begin till the bell rings at 6 a. M
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 4,135 freight cars can
be kept at one time, there is sufficien.
space provided so that teams can back
up to 2,100 of these cars.
About 90 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 begin
moving out by noon again, but from
Boston radius of at least twenty-five
miles is covered direct. Portland will
get it's 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 the
line of steel which ties the north to the
south. Today the New Englander,
even though he lives in Maine, is as
certain of fresh strawberries for his
table in the spring as he is of his own
garden truck in the summer
When the great He'll Gate bridge and
Connecting Railroad joining the New
mia is completed in New York city
this schedule may be shortened even
more. This great engineering feat. un.
dertaken by the two roads, will obviate
the long water transfer around Man.
haitian Island. 1t is only three miles
where the Pennsylvania trains rol,
in from the south, to Bay Ridge, where
the cars will again take the rails
bound for Boston, and the dangerous
and delaying tides of He'll Gate will
thus be avoided. While it will not
mean the saving of another market
Jay, IT will mean that more trains can
be handled and may result some day in
Portland's market day the
same as BOstOn'S.
The railroad is the great harvester
{ gathers the grain in one corner Of
'ur country and distributes it in an
'ther than man may be fed with the
'Jnit of life; but, more than that II
'ees that his table is supplied with the
Food things of the ground though he
I've amid the SHOWS