The Dorchester Beacon, October 26, 1907
Dorchester Express Co.
Well-known Transporters of merchandise, 778 Dudley Street
The business of the Dorchester Express Company, at No. 778 Dudley Street, Dorchester, the well-known transporters of merchandise throughout this region, was established a quarter of a century ago by the firm of Welch & Wilson. The concern was incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts in 1900, with V. R. Wilson as general manager. The company’s stable is at No. 312 Norfolk Avenue and has a capacity of 35 head of horses. A force of 30 men is employed and 15 teams are in daily use, thus showing, in a measure, the volume of business transacted by the corporation in the ordinary course. The company does a general expressing business and also represents the Adams Express Company and the New York and Boston Express Company. It makes three deliveries between the city and Dorchester every day, leaving the Faneuil Hall Market for Dorchester at 8 a.m. noon and 5 p.m., each day. Its main city offices are at No. 36 Merchgants’ row, while it maintains branches at Nos. 95-105 Arch Street, Nos. 65, 71 and 130 Kingston Street, Nos. 32-34 Court Square, No. 89 Broad Street and No. 15 Devonshire Street, for the convenience of its patrons in the business district. It makes a specialty of transporting merchandise of every character but does a general business in expressing. This company is one of the best managed and best equipped of any similar concern hereabouts, making its collections and deliveries promptly and accurately, without loss of time and without the numerous errors usually common among expressmen. Its patrons have long been able to rely upon the reliability of its service, and it never proves itself unworthy of the public confidence reposed in it. Its employees are skilled handlers of freight and take the best of care of packages containing fragile goods which are entrusted to them to deliver. The horses which draw the strong, well-made wagons of the concern are well fed and well groomed to such an extent as to attract favorable comment on the part of those who see them passing to and fro in the streets. The prices charged for the service varies, naturally, according to the distance to be traversed, but are always reasonable and satisfactory to those interested. The employees of the concern are polite and considerate in an unusual degree and do all in their power to please their customers.
Mr. Wilson, the general manager of the company, was born in Nova Scotia, Canada, and has made his home in Dorchester for many years. He is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He is a veteran in the express business, having been engaged in it for a quarter of a century.