Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-16
Keep IL Before the People.
THE SOUTH RoYALroN ROAD CASE.

I uoNVeu M aTtlcie IN the argus dH
fdtTtot of July 81 with the above It'll
signed Justice" As there are man
omissions and misstatements in said articl
and as have from the beginning had
public and personal interest in the roa
ana personally know the facts of the Who'll
case, | will give the road proceedings fror
IT'S inception To its final overthrow BY III
court ut Woodstock.
In the first place, the main street, abou
thirteen rods from where the Chelsea nm,
hoyaiton roads cross. leading TO tn
depot, has been deemed to narrow {,
accommodate the business Of the public
so much so that it was not thought best [,
nave sidewalks for foot travel, AMI ladir
doing their shopping on this street hav,
been obliged to pick their way through
the mud and around teams rs best the,
could. The public have long since seei
and known this, but how to remedy tn,
evil had not occurred to them, for tn,
stores on each side of the street htr
been erecled in the early history of III,
vlllage.and the most of them having stooc
from twenty five to hirty years, it was no
Thought advisable, if legal. to require tn,
present owners of those large stores t,
remove them, at the cost of thou .an,ls o
dollars, some not owning back land TO Sc
lnen on. But the fire of February 5, 1878
swept the stores from the southerly side o
the street and left nothing standing on tina,
sihe oil The road, within the distance abov,
stated, but IA small movable marble shol
anu Il little daguerrean saloon formerly
on wheels. Then was the golden momenI
us The public thought, to widen the narrow
street Tor 1t was supposed that the build
lngs burnt had been partially in the high
way.
Am happy to record that the law firm
(whon | suppose Justice represents,
of Z. M. Lamb & g p. Tarbel, like +,
star shining through the clouds in tn,
DARKNESS OF night, took the initiative ana
drew up II petition to the srleclmen to
have the street widened, and the selectmep
very properly, in response, procured Mr.
Lew III tzrn 10 m Ike II survey of the road
10 ascertain Its boundary and with IL view
OF widening the street. so that the block,
In contemplation of erection would b,
req 'lred TO be erected without the Limits
of the highway.
March 7, 1878, Mr.. Levi IIazan mad,
the survey and the above law firm took a.
active part assisting. The result wa, am
10 tne surprise OF perhaps all, that instead
Oh the burnt stores having been within tho
iiinlts OF the highway, they had stood
about Tour feet soulherly and without TIN
limits, and that the northery line of th,
road ran through Wilmot's new block
STORE ana tenement ut the corner com
menclng on the Sharon road, next Geo.
Watermans milinery aud tenement build
ing fold building), next w. Ii. Martins
new store and harness shop, then VIM
smiths hardware store and tin shop (olu
oullding), next NJ. j. Sargent's druy stor,
>old bull Iing), and last but not least, In,
arSe store occupied by .. Belknap. beino
lie second building erected in the villag,
'ome thirty years ago. The di>tanc,
he norlherly line of the road would run
Trough the Wilmot block was found t.
% about four feet and increased unit
run through the Belknap store some ten
" fifteen feet.
Mr.. Aaron N. King and Mr.. Levi,
both of Tunbridge, and myself
William j, TarbelD were the owners OF
he three blocks of stores burnt; all of II,
we're present and deeply interested in th,
nrvty While the survey was in progress.
md before it was known where The line,
II The road Were, it occurred to me that
new road could be laid on the southerl,
ide OF our contemplated blocks ana
etween them and then Private park
commencing on the Sharon road, running |
.ralIel with the old street and through |
the Woodland hotel road about Thirteen
obs, being us near and as direct to tin !
ept. Taking part of the great flow o |
faVel from the old street it would no |
MY completely obviate any necessity |
WIDENING the old street, accommodating, |
he public travel equally as we'll, bu |
you'd greatly enhance the value of on |
torres by giving us direc; access from tin |
epot to the back ends of them. where GU. |
eaVy freight could he unloaded.
suggested the above to Mr.. Dickerman and re. |
arked that it would enhance the value of his prom
rty $780, lie Immediately fell in with the sugges |
on and replied that it would increase the value |
is property that amount 1t would not do to tail |
at (reierring to the 5000 as he should go in 70,
images. asked him to help get up petition an,
. agreed to help. We Immediately went into Mr. |
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