The Press., 1913-08-13

It is this stream rising and fallinR with the weather conditions, which feeds the summer resorts md has en' abled New England's famous hotels to cater to the finest trade and made them independent of local truck fnrins. It has also greatly increased the number of Boston's commission houses. ...
 The speed with which this stream flows northWard Is equalcd by the celerity with which 1t is handled i'll the South Boston yard, the great dlstrib- uting reservoir into which 1t pOurs its tons of produce. There are seven yards and thirteen freight houses mak- ing up the Boston terminal, and in and out of 1t run 1 300 cars day, of which this perishable freight forms only a part. r..
 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. It takes an average of twenty minutes to mark the cars. They have so re duced the time of switching or classi fcation, as it is called that in thirty minutes every car i'll a forty car train will have been put in it's proper yard and place. On an average 1t 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 1t is ready to be sold by the marketmen. though the sales do not begin till the bell rings at 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 ill Boston to transfer it to the market from the oar. In this terminal, where 4,135 freight cars can be kept at one time, there is sufficient space provided so that teams can back up to 2,1O0 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 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 75 per cent of New England ia 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 aa 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 Pennsylva. 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 hattan Island. It is only three miles across New York bay from Greenville, where the Pennsylvania's trains roll 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 Hell Gate will thus be avoided. While it will not mean the saving of another market day, it will mean that more trains can be handled and may result some day in making Portland's market day the same as Boston's.
 The railroad is the great harvester. It gathers the grain in one corner of our country and distributes it in an- other than man may be fed with the staff of life; but, more than that, it sees that his table is supplied with the good things of the ground though he nv0 amid the SnOw9