. Portland [Me.] its representative business men and its points of interest. two objects are neces-sarv in making a comparison,and it is not until we comparePortland with other cities, thatwe appreciate her has a valuation ,808, while the combined valuation of Pangor. Lewiston, .Augusta, Biddeford and Path, the fivewealthiest cities of Maine barring the metropolis, amounts to $36,993,117, or about a million dollarsless than that of Portland alone. These comparisons are made in no boastful spirit: the people of Portland rejoice too heartily andshare too largely in
. Portland [Me.] its representative business men and its points of interest. two objects are neces-sarv in making a comparison,and it is not until we comparePortland with other cities, thatwe appreciate her has a valuation ,808, while the combined valuation of Pangor. Lewiston, .Augusta, Biddeford and Path, the fivewealthiest cities of Maine barring the metropolis, amounts to $36,993,117, or about a million dollarsless than that of Portland alone. These comparisons are made in no boastful spirit: the people of Portland rejoice too heartily andshare too largely in the prosperity of their neighbors to seek to belittle it in any way. directly or indirectly,and we feel confident that the residents of Maine are too proud of their representative city, and have tooperfect an appreciation of its attitude towards other cities in the State, to resent this demonstration of itsgreat comparative wealth,—a demonstration which is made for the benefit only of the residents of otherStates, among whom this book will have its largest I PORTLAND AND JTS POINTS OF INTEREST. 47 Since iSSo, Portland has made steady and pionoiuiced progress in all tlie elements going to make \\\->a solidly prosperous commercial, manufacturing, and truly metropolitan city. Her population has increasedone-sixth ; her valuation has increased one-fourth ; her wharfage facilities have been improved ; her dis-tributing facilities have been extended and perfected, and her merchants and manufacturers have extendedtheir operations and made their influence felt at many distant points, by demonstrating their ability toprovide goods of standard merit at rates that meet all honorable competition. So much for the past and present. As for the future, that is beyond human knowledge ; and as■ no man knows what a day may bring forth, so no man should assume to say what the Portland of therapidly approaching twentieth century shall be, but this much is
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