Morning journal and courier., 1883-05-12
The Hartford and Harlem.

Another Hearing Before the Railroad
 Commissioners - Interested Parties in
 the Different Companies Present.
 The Railroad Commissioners held another hearing in the bar library yesterday, Messrs. Woodruff, Bacon and Hayward being pres ent. It was continuation of the hearing regarding the Hartford and Harlem railroads and the question at issue was whether the company was legally organized. For the Hartford and Harlem road appeared s. E. Baldwin and W. K. Townsend of this oity; for the Consolidated road ex x-Governor Hub bard and H. c. Robinson of Hartford, and Lynde Harrison of this city; for the SO. called OImstead Parallel road, A. P. Hyde of Hartford; for New Haven property owners interested in the layout of the road in this city, C. & Hamilton; the city of New Haven, Corporation Counsel Driscoll. On behalf of New Britain, Judge Chamberlain and William H. Hart were present to watch tho proceedings, Judge Cham pointed to look after the interests of the city and town of New Britain in this special matter After the beginning of the hearing Mir Baldwin called Judge Chamberlain to sit with him, Mr. Townsend not being able to be present all through the hearing. For
 
 wrangled over one point, whether the call for the meeting being unsigned, was legal. Mir Baldwin said that it was; all the others said it was not The commissioners in ten minutes consultation came to the conclusion that there had been technical compliance with the law in the notice, although they had expected to see notice in different form.
 This question being decided MT Hubbard submitted the question as to the legal organ ization of the Hartford and Harlem railroad.
 discussion between the lawyers as to the disputed point followed, in which Mr. Hub bard, Judge Chamberlain, MT. Hyde, MT. Hamilton and s. E. Baldwin took part Af- ter all the attorneys had had their say the commissioners consulted briefly and then de- cided as follows:
 Commissioner Hayward said the commis- sioners had thrust upon them by the Legis- Iature the question of the legality of the or ganization of the Hartford and Harlem rail road and they proposed to carefully hear the question. With reference to the order of notice, reputable gentlemen were present who said they had not received due notice of to days meeting The commission CTS thought full notice should be given to all interested There would be no delay no injury to the petitioners in giving prop CT notice; the commissioners thought there should be an adjournment that such notice should be given The hearing was accord ingly adjourned until Tuesday, May p, at p. m, at the same place-the bar library when the only question to como up will be the legality of the formation of the new company. As that question also refers to the one of changing the New Britain layout, it also went over.
 The commissioners then took up the ad iourned hearing in the matter of the layout of the Hartford and Harlem road through Milford and Orange. Engineer Bryson tes- tifed concerning surveys he had made, and introduced map of the layout. T. B. Doo- little appeared for Mir. Fellowes, who owns property in Orange through which the road is laid out. MT. Hyde, on behalf of his road, opposed any approval of the layout of the Hartford and Harlem through the two towns for thegreason that the line encroached upon that of his company which was first made and which should therefore be first considered. The commissioners promised not to approve until they had given MT. Hyde hearing.