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Show Started Express Service by Carryin: Packages M. Some expressmen in Boston have observed the 105th anniversary of express service by paying a visit to Mount Auburn cemetery, Cambridge, Cam-bridge, Mass., where the impressive William F. Harnden memorial still stands on Central avenue. This monument was erected by the express companies of the country coun-try in 1866 as a tribute to the enterprise en-terprise of Harnden, the "original expressman," who started the express ex-press service in March, 1839, -by car- rying packages in a carpetbag and traveling by rail and steamer between be-tween New York and Boston. Frail of body but determined, Karnden, only 26 years old, organized organ-ized the first express company and saw its traffic, scope of operations and competitors grow to formidable proportions, by the time of his death in his 36th year. History indicates that Harnden succeeded in extending his service abroad and eventually brought in over 100,000 immigrants tothiscoun-try, tothiscoun-try, to provide labor so greatly needed need-ed during the era of railroad con-struction con-struction in the 'fifties and 'sixties Today, express service maintains 23,000 offices and employs 57.000 people. peo-ple. In 1941, over 172 million shipments ship-ments were handled. Some 15,000 motor trucks are used for the collection and delivery of shipmenU. All told, the express service serv-ice operates on a total mileage of 282.456. |
