The Portland daily press., 1880-02-17
CRY GOVERNMENT.
Special Meeting OF the City Council.

A special meeting Of the City Council was
held last evening.
ORDERS PASSED.
The report of committee on petition Of G. w.
Baker Tor damages was accepted and an order
passed for the City Treasurer to pay him $50
| An order was passed authorizing our Senators
| and Representatives in the Legislature to Sc
cure passage for an act relieving the CITY from
| supporting Pride's and Stroudwater bridges in
| Deering The report of the committee on un
| improved real estate authorizing the giving of
deeds to B. W. Slower and ]. Ell. Burton were
| accepted and order to Treasurer to give the
| deeds passed. That the subject matter of the
city's interest in the state valuation be refer
| red to the committee on reduction of the city
| DEBT with power to take such action as they
may deem necessary for the protection of the
| city In such revaluation.
REFERRED TO THE NEXT CITY COUNCIL.
Order for committee on fire department to
purchase 1000 feet leading hose; order that
the care Of cemeteries and public grounds be
entrusted to trustees, or commissioners like
Evergreen Cemetery, and also an ordinance
| that these trustees be elected for one, two and
| three years.
ORDERS AND PETITIONS REFERRED.
Order to stop ringing of Cascn street bell, re-
| ferred with power; petition Retiar Drink
| water for lost coupons; petition of 7. McDon-
| ough for damages; patition of j. d. & f. Fes-
sender for permission to put grating in side
| walk in front of building corner Exchange and
| Middle streets.
IN JOINT CONVENTION.
Edward Coolbroth and Marshall X. Will
! liams were elected weighers at Eastern Rail-
road station. and j. II. Alexander special
constable at Long Island.
THE BRIDGTON RAILROAD.
After the two boards had assembled in Joint
% Eorn oll Had HnnC
p. Wescott to address the convention. Mr..
Wescott said the Presumpscot railroad had ap-
piled for charter for railroad
starting from the foot of Lake Sc
bago and extending down to the line
of the Portland & Ogdensburg to some place
near White Rock station. The corporators of
the road and the clerk are the officers of the
Presumpscot Wa er Co., ard their object is to
develop manufactures on the river at the va
rious falls, giving the manufacturers transpor
tations for supplies to and from the Ogdens-
burg road 1t is to be strictly feeder for the
Ogdensburg road and the legitimate uses of
the Charter between the points named. All
the corporators are doing business on the line
OF the Ogdensburg and their interests are iden-
teal. 1t was thought road could be built ON
the canal tow-path very cheaply and Gen.
Mattocks offered very satisfactory arrange
ment with this end in view, and it was thought
as the city owned so much of the Ogdensburg
stock, IL was advisable to call this meeting and
SOV ACI COuStut W IL. 1Ilo rOdu proposed is
six miles long and starts from Standish. There
are three or four locks in the lake in that dis
lance. The railroad will follow the river.
There are six falls on the line, only two of
which have yet been improved. Sever falls in
all, would be contiguous to this line.
Gen. Mattocks said the Legislation which
relates to the Portland & Oxford Canal had
passed. He was interested in neither of the
railroad schemes before the Legislature. All
ne wanted was to enable the Portland & Ok
ford Canal mortgages to sell its towpath. All
the railroads wanted this act in favor of dis
posing OF his canal to pass. 1t is true the city
has nothing to do with this canal sale but it
should instruct its delegation in the Legisla-
ture not to oppose the bill, or this railroad bill
of which Mr.. Wescott had spoken. There are
Two bills before the Legislature, one for a rail-
road from Bridgton to Portland the other
from the foot of the lake to Gambo Falls.
Gen. Anderson said it would be contrary to
the interests of the Portland s. Ogdensburg
Railroad to have any railroad extended this
side OF White Rock station. He suggested
proviso should be inserted in the order. grant
ing the request for the road, and clause in
serted that the charter should not be amended.
he thought with such clause and proviso there
would be no opposition to road from the foot
OF the lake to the Ogdensburg, at or near
White Rock station. He explained how. with
out the proviso the incorporators might after
wards go to the Railroad Commissioners, or
future Legislature and ask extension of their
charter to enable them to run into Portland
parallel with the Ogdensburg, and then with
this insertion in the charter the Legislature
would see the intent of the city was opposed to
granting it. He thought with the road as first
described, from the foot of the lake, its bust
ness would be good for the Ogdensburg and for
the city, and would develop the water power
along the river. He was decidedly opposed to
the other bill before the Legislature praying for
4 road from Portland to Bridgton because that
would be parallel road to the Ogdensburg all
the way. Such road would be in direct COM
petition with his,and might shunt off from Sac
carappa to Boston. He explained the general
railroad law of 1876, and showed the gentle
men interested in the proposed road from
Portland to Brdgton asked permission to
build under this law. 1t was therefore neces-
sary for the city to urge the legislature TO pro-
tect the cityS Interests in a road already built.
The convention voted informally to oppose a
road from Portland to Bridgton, and favor one
from White Rock to the foot of the Lake, and
afterwards passed in their respective boards
the following orders:
Ordered That the Mayor is hereby authorized and
empowered to consent, in behalf of the city, to the
granting of charter to railroad to be constructed
from the foot of Sebago Lake, to some point in the
Portland u Og ensburg Railroad in Gorham-pro-
vded, however, that the jun tion of said railroad
with the rutland g. Ogdeusburg Railroad sha be
within the town of Gorham at or near White Rock
station, and that clause be inserted i'll the charter
OF said railroad to that effect and that it shall not
cross, nor be constructed, south of the Portland
Oguensourg Railroad, nor III any other way beyond
said White Rock junction towards Portland-and to
the passage OF bill by the Legislature to authorize
the Cumberland e. Oxford Canal Corporation to sell
the whole or any part of its real personal proper
ty and other rights to be used for the continuation
and operation of such railroad
ordered, That our Representatives in the Legs-
lature be requested to resist to the best of their
ability the granting of any and all bills authorizing
the building of any railroad from Bridgton Port
land and that the City Solicitor be instructed to
pear be ore the railroad committee and represent
the interests of the city.
BY the passage of these orders the road from
Bridgton to White Rock will have to tap the
Ogdensburg Railroad which will receive the
benefit of its freight and passengers.
An order to change the rules concerning the
powder magazine was referred in the Board of
Aldermen.