This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...natural course of events other lines besides the Cunard were established; and if the on treadling spirit of Boston had travelled as rapidly overland to the west as it had always moved by sea, there would probably be nothing but progress to record of Boston as a port. Writing of the time when the first ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...natural course of events other lines besides the Cunard were established; and if the on treadling spirit of Boston had travelled as rapidly overland to the west as it had always moved by sea, there would probably be nothing but progress to record of Boston as a port. Writing of the time when the first Cunarders came, Mr. Hill reminds us "that the trains starting from Boston then reached their limits respectively at Newburyport, Exeter, Nashua, Springfield, Stonington, and New Bedford." It was not long before the western railroad frontier was pushed from Springfield to Albany and the Hudson. But here, unhappily, it stopped, and for nearly thirty years, so far as through lines were concerned, it svent no farther. During this period quarrels between the two lines that traversed Massachusetts, and the deadening influence of state aid where private enterprise should have been at work, had the most untoward results. Far to the west the development of the Michigan Central and the Chicago, Burlington, and Cjuincy railroads, largely through Boston capital and energy, spoke for what might have been done nearer home. Meanwhile the western railroad connections with New York were wisely and rapidly improved. To quote from Mr. Charles Francis Adams: "While the great corporations which served other cities were absorbing into themselves the thoroughfares in the valley of the Mississippi, the Legislature of the State of Massachusetts kept its eyes steadily fixed on the Hoosac Mountain." To this, with other causes, was due the decline of Boston shipping. The important commerce with Calcutta reached its climax in the years between 1856 and 1859, and thereafter gradually fell away, to.the advantage of New York. So it was with other branches of...
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