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Title: Fall River, Massachusetts, a publication of personal points pertaining to a city of opportunity
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Fall River trade and industry association. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Fall River (Mass.)
Publisher: (Fall river) Fall River trade and industry association
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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KING PIIITJPS ANCIENT RKGAT- THRONE * property of the Winsor Line, that continues the freight trafficbetween Fall River, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Va., andWashington, D. C, with usually (not less than) three sailings aweek. Beside these steamboat lines enumerated The Joy SteamboatCompany of Providence, was started, in competition with theFamous Fall River Line, for local and New York traffic, withwharf and offices at the foot of Central Street. The EnterpriseTransportation Company was also organized by Worcester Cityinterests, in 1905, as another rival line of the Famous Fall RiverLine, for New^ York freight and passenger service, with wharfsand offices at the foot of Turner Street. But these two companieshave since been absorbed by the New England Transportation Company. Beside these we have steamboat connection with Boston, NewBrunswick, and Canadian ports, northward of us. and by other 43
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NORTH WATUPPA LAKE lines, with Richmond, Savannah, New Orleans, Cuba, Panama,Porto Rico, South America, Europe, Asia, and other parts ofthe world. And yet with much available space for warehouses,wharves, and docks, obtainable and cheap (when compared withprices for similar locations in other commercial cities of the At-lantic coast) Fall Rivers adaptation for these enterprises seemshardly yet realized. The United States Government stands committed to closer com-mercial and political relations with Mexico, Central American andSouth American countries. This is the meaning of the Monroedoctrine, and was the dream and ambition of James G. Blaine.There is no port on the Atlantic sea board whence a line of tradeand shipping to and with those Southern and South Americancountries, can be so safely, cheaply, and expediously establishedas from Fall River. There is no sufficient reason whv subsidized 44 American vessels are not already carrying the great volume ofAmerican exports, that foreign

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