Show Started e Express Sel vice by Packages es Some In oston h have ve observed the anniversary of off I express servIce by paying a VIS t tto tto to Mount Auburn cemetery Cam Cambridge Cambridge bridge Mass where the ImpressIVe WIlliam F Harnden memorial stIll stands on Central avenue bythe This monument was erected by the express Les of the coon coun country try In 1866 as a tr bute to the en of Harnden the orIginal who started the ex express express press service In March 1839 by car packages m a carpetbag and traveling by rail rall and steamer be between between tween New York and Boston Frail of bOdy but Harnden only 26 years old organ organized zed the first express company and saw Its traffic scope ot of operations and tors grow to formidable pro port ons by the time tunc of hIs death In IDS his year History end ind cates that Harnden succeeded In extel d ng his ce cc abroad and eventually brought n In over Immigrants coup try to provide labor so greatly need needed needed ed during the ea e of raIlroad con construction In the fifties and slit es Today express servIce maintaIns maintain s 23 offices and employs 57 peo pIe In 1941 over million sh p meats ments were handled Some 15 motor trucks are used use d for the collect on and del very of o t shipments All told the express ess service Ice operates on a total mirage age of o f I |