Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-08-31
CITY AND COUNTY.


The stockholders and the city government,
and few invited guests, are to tide over the
road this morning, and partake Of collation.,
to be provided by the hospitality of our fellow
citizens of New Worcester in the beautiful
grove OF the Messrs. Goes, which has been
cleared and arranged for the occasion, and
will be fitted MIL, IL ---,-.----- ----1
creation, and devoted hereafter to picnics,
Sunday school excursions, and rural enter
tainments, for which its great natural beauty
and its access by this new mode of travel,
render it peculiarly desirable.
On Tuesday the cars will commence their
regular trips on the routes from Lincoln
square to Webster square, and on Lincoln,
Main and Front streets. The Pleasant street
branch will be completed within a few weeks.
The fare for a single ride will be five cents,
and transfer checks, for continuance of the
same ride on either Of the connecting branch
es, will be furnished by the conductors with
out additional charge. Tickets good for TWEEN
ty rides, for one dollar, are provided for the
convenience of those having frequent occa-
sion to use them. Children under twelve
years of age, three cents, when seats occu-
pied by them are not otherwise required. And
tickets for school children, good for thirty
three rides, for one dollar, may be procured
from the superintendent. The cars will run
from six o'clock A. M. to eleven o'clock P. NJ,
making forty -seven trips to Webster square,
thirty-one to the Western railroad station, and
thirty two to West street, daily.
The charter of the Worcester horse railroad
company was procured in 1861, and the cor
poration was organized about year since.
The president is James B. Blake, ESQ.,, to
whose energy and enterprise our city is chief
ly indebted for this great public improve
ment. The directors are Messrs. James B.
Blake, Albert Curtis, George w. Richard
son, Henry Chaplin, William Cross and Ed
ward Earle. The treasurer and clerk is
Charles ?. Whiting. The capital stock, as
fixed by the charter is one hundred thou
sand dollars, of which the stockholders have
voted to issue sixty-three thousand dollars,
and to leave in the hands of the directors
one hundred and twenty shares, to be issued
at their discretion. The road, including the
branches, is about four miles in length. 1t
is single track, paved, running through
the middle of the streets, except where the
public convenience required some deviation
from the general plan, and is provided with
the necessary turn-outs and spurs.
Its construction was undertaken, by con-
tract, by Messrs. c. j. Anthony of this city
and j. l.. Brown of New York, and it was in
tended that it should have been completed last
fall; but, unforeseen obstacles preventing, the
work was postponed until spring The ground
was first broken on the 9th of May last, since
Mr.. Brown, the construction has progressed
as rapidly as could have been expected, with
out accident or serious inconvenience to the
public. The car house and stables on Market
street, which cost, including the land, $4,000,
is building 100 feet long and so wide. The
car house is 40 by 80 feet; the drive way 80
by so; and the two apartments for stalls each
oo by 90 feet. There are accommodations for
sixty horses. The cars, nine in number, were
0ulit ny our townsman, Osgood Bradley, and
Vi course require no commentator from us.
lheir neat and tasteful appearance, as they
have been seen for week mast on tbo;r triol
trlps' mas been apparent to every one. The
entire cost OF the road, rolling stock. and
equipments, will not be far from $50, 900.
The company has been singularly fortunate