Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-03
Price Four Cents.

present railroad bed will legally revert to the town should the road be moved, and no reso- lution for or against can hinder it. The rail-
 road company are not allowed ''to walk of
 with $15, 900 of interest bearing notes," or
 with one cent of the peoples money until the railroad is removed from our highways. and relocated to the satisfaction of the Selectmen: and not one farthing will have to be paid for roadbed or gravel more than that already ap- propriated. It was considered safer to leave
 the matter in the hands of the Selectmen.
 who have the interests of the whole town to
 look after, than in those of a special commit
 tee, who might have private axes to grind At
 the expense of the public.
 The financial damage Mount Carmel, a
 small part of the town, will sustain by the re-
 moval of the railroad is matter of various
 opinion but it cannot be at the very most
 enough to counterbalance the benefit received
 by the rest of the town, and the other towns around that are interested. For as is well
 known, the close proximity of the railroad to
 the carriage road is great annoyance and in
 convenience, as well as positive danger to the
 lives of people and animals obliged to pass near
 it. The access to the depot, we are led to be-
 lieve, will be but little if any more inconven-
 tent than at present, and the disadvantages
 incurred in the removal of bulk freight will
 not be serious and affect only 8 few individu-
 als. No one is prohibited by the resolutions
 from using his influence to further his private
 AuG0ACStb3 pIONlOoO Lu9 LTACK D0 removed to
 safe distance from our streets.
 Finally. There is no difference of opinion as
 to the necessity of having the railroad moved 1t being the more urgent now from the fact that parties out of town are moving for a new carriage road, whereby they may reach New Haven in safety from all towns north of us, being entitled to this by law, the repairing and keeping in order of which will fall upon the town of Hamden, and the constant and ever recurring expenses will far exceed the interest on $15, 900. -
 We now call upon our citizens to sustain the resolutions and avail themselves of this cheap and easy way of getting rid of public nuisance we have been fighting against for years with little hope of success. We at last have it in our power to free ourselves and our children from this source of danger and an noyance. Let us not throw away the opportu- nifty for doing lasting good by neglecting this chance for the case must soon be decided one way or the other. We do not believe our citizens will repudiate their obligations so re- gently taken. We invite the citizens of Ham, den to careful scrutiny of the resolutions They can judge for themselves if they are | not well adapted to further the best interests of the public. They are as follows
 ! "Whereas, the dangerous proximity of cer- ! tain of the principal highways of this town to the tracks of the New Haven and Northamp- ton Company is frequently the result of se- ! rious accidents and renders travel thereon at tendant with great hazard and peril; be it ! therefore resolved, that the town of Hamden hereby appropriate fifteen thousand dollars for the improvement of said highways, to wit, I the old Cheshire road" and the Cheshire turnpike" so called. And the Selectmen are hereby authorized and directed to expend not more than fourteen thousand dollars to secure the removal of the tracks of the New Haven and Northampton Company from their present location adjacent to said highways, from point in the vicinity of the Methodist Episco- pal church on Hamden Plains to point near the house of Lorenzo Peck at Mount Carmel: provided, however, that said removal shall be effected on or before the first day of October, 1880, and that said railroad company shall re-
 locate their tracks at such 8 safe distance
 from said highways as not to endanger public
 travel, and as shall be acceptable to the Select men.
 And to carry this resolution into effect the
 Selectmen are hereby authorized and empow-
 cred to borrow the sum of fifteen thousand
 dollars upon the credit of the town, upon the
 most favorable terms and conditions possible,
 and that one of said conditions shall be that
 notes shall be so drawn as that not more than
 one thousand dollars shall fall due ln each
 year." O. F.