Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-05-29
The New Road to Gardiner.

10 me EddoF Of the journal.
1t seems 10 be only fair that the many citizens
who oppose the forced building at the present
time OF the balance of the Augusta section of the
proposed road through Ilallowell and Farming
dale TO GArdiner,-and who oppose it honestly
and d,in:ere tcdly your LEGAL editor favors it,
should be allowed to be heard at least once in
your columns.
So far as the through route to Gardiner is con-
cernod, the extending of scwal street TO Halo
well would be a shameful waste of money, until
Ilailowell will itself consent to bridge Vaughan
Brock in compliance with the original plan of the
petitioners The laying out of that short link wSs
successfully resisted by Hallowell in 1873, which
| rendered the other new sections, whether built
not, wholly useless through route. If the
| Hallowell section was built to-day, 1t would be
entirely useless
| Tie road rdicA ,gas petitioned for in 1873, has
aerer been ioid out,-nor even substantially laid
out,-fol the Vaughan Brook section was as much
part of the original petition and was as neces-
sary for public convenience and the symmetry of
| the route, as aLy section between Augusta aud
| Gardner. Indeed, this section considered
by the Augusta portion of the petitioners, at
least of vial importance and its absence through
the influence OF Eaowell citizens, ruins the
whole project When Hallowell will consent to
supply this link, think Augusta will finish its
part of the route cheerfaly and promptly Until
Ilallowell shall do this, nobody going to Gardine
would use the new Augusta extension.
| The article in the Daily journal of the 22d
was well-wrtten and calculated to sire the pub
lie heart but very singularly for the Journal it
appeared to give partial statement, or omitted
to give important facts in their proper connection.
Your llailoweli correspondent and the editor of
the Gardner Journal also, in the exercise Of
their perugauve of prescribing the duties of mu-
inequalities and peoples, express surprise at the
reluc lance Of Augusta to bnd costly piece of
| road, which il completed, would make no such
road to Gardiner as was pettioned for or as is i'm
Piled by the writer's for the benefit of their argu-
ment.
| Now all these writers do Augusta wrong by
their re presen atoms. What they say is hall true
or the truth padded. They declare that the road
to GARDNER was an Augusta project. that Far
mingdae and uallowell have done their part, and
that Augusta declines to do its part. In reply to
the incorrect statements that it particularly an
Angus ia project and that "Ha low ell has done its
part" l will simply say, that citizens of Augusta
to the number forty, did, in 1873, join with cit
liens of Ilalowell, to the number Of sGy one, and
Farminslalc to tile number of fifteen, in petition
ing the County Commissioners for road viz;
l Beg inning at Western Avenue, Augusta;
2 Thence to Second street, Iiallowell;
3 Thence (along Second street-an old public
way) TO the Lhchfeld road;
Thence 10 Loudsn Hill;
Thence to Norh street, Gardner.
The Comissioners in due time laid out all thai
which was pettioned for save the 4th section, viz.
from the south end of Second street over Vaughan
Brook to Louder Hill. Now why was not thi:
section, SO necessary and vital to the whole route
laid out by the Commissioner Simply beedus
HalloacsH citizens rtsisted it,; 10 cross the brool
would necsssiiate bridge, and this would cos