Identifier: collectionofpape01cran (find matches)
Title: Collection of papers prepared and read before the Worcester Society of Antiquity
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925 Worcester Society of Antiquity
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Publisher: Worcester, Mass. : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ity in the UnitedStates where so much capital was invested in stagelines as Boston. Within a year or two the number ofcoaches in use on these lines had been doubled. What achange had been wrought since Captain Pease began hisventure. Now there was fear the work might be overdone; numer-ous petty opposition lines had been set in motion andit was feared the cutting of prices would result in seriousinjury to the business. This same year, 1826, an associa-tion was formed by the proprietors of the various stage-lines, for the purpose of adopting rules to correct certainabuses. The association was called the New EnglandStage Association, Hiram Plummer, Esq., of Haverhill,was President, Calvin Bullard, of Boston, Secretary. Theypublished the following notice: Inasmuch as the runningof stages has become an important business, requiringvast sums of money and employing a large number ofpersons, certain rules have been adopted prohibiting theemploying of a driver who had been discharged for mis-
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73 conduct or intemperance, or for the use of profanity orabusive language. In December, 1826, there were in Boston seventy arrivalsand departures daily, and it was thought there were morethan that number in Albany, N. Y. In Troy, N. Y., therewere one hundred arrivals and departures each week overthe various lines centering there. Four different lines ofstages were plying between Troy and Boston: the 1st,via Brattleboro, Vt.; the 2d, via Williamstown and Green-field; 3d, via Cheshire and Petersham; the 4th, via Pittsfield,Northampton and Worcester. Enough has been said, nodoubt, to thoroughly convince you that Captain Peasewas not left to enjoy in peace his well-earned laurels ininstituting a system of stage-lines for transportation oftravelers and the United States mail, clearly demonstratingthat it was no visionary scheme to end in financial disaster,as he was told it would by the persons he asked to joinhim in his initial undertaking in 1783. It had in 1826,grown into an industry o

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