Morning journal and courier., 1890-01-07

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There n another complication between the
Consolidated and Housatonic railroads. It
seems that the Consolidated road has to run
over the Housatonio property to get through
Bridgeport. There IL piece of land few
blocks below the passenger station that II
bounded east and west by Water street and
the harbor, aud extends from the elevator
on the north, distance Of from 200 to 800
yards, to South avenue on Che south. Every
inch of this land il Housatonic property. Al
far a. can be learned no one disputes that;
It was not even Questioned by the Consoli-
dated road IN its request for the temporary
injunction. Through this piece of land, on
which IL situated the round house and .
number Of the side tracks Of the Housatonic
road. and which constitutes the Bridgeport
terminal OF this road, the two main tracks
Of the Consolidated road run.
The Consolidated road pays an annual
rental for the use of these tracks. The
amount paid has been $500, and several
years ago the Housatonic company demaned
. much higher rate, which claim has never
been complied with, consequently Vice Pres
dent and General Manager w. II. Stevenson
Of the Housatonic undertook last night to
get possession of the siding and east bound
track Of the Consolidated that lay upon the
Tho strike was to have been made about
midnight Sunday night, and force Of men
with tools and materials were on hand to do
the Job. President CLARK, learning of the
scheme, came down and swore out an in
junction, which was Issued by Judge Hall of
the Superior court and served on the Housa-
tonic railroad officials, restraining them from
interfering with the tracks of the Consolidat-
cd road on the ground that the latter had
laid and established system Of tracks and
signals with the consent Of the Housatonic
company, which, If disturbed, would greatly
endanger the safety Of public travel.
To hold the tracks and prevent the Housa.
tonic company from disturbing them until
the injunction was obtained, the Consolidat-
Cd road stopped long and heavy freight
train on the disputed ground, which they
for the Housatonic, took steps to have the
injunction dissolved on the ground that the
property and right of way In dispute be-
longs to the Housatonic railroad company
and that the Consolidated road have no in
terest Whatever. The arguments In the mat
ter OF dissolving the injunction will be heard
before Judge Holt at 10 O'Clock Friday morn
ing.
A Consolidated road official Aaid yesterday
that the rumor reached the company that
the tracks were to be pulled up by Housa-
tonic officials. As there were twelve passen-
ger and fourteen freight trains to pass that
point Sunday night, 1t was manifestiy i'm
proper to allow any disturbance of the
tracks, although the Housatonic people had
provided electric lights to help them do
their work, and the protection of the court
was invoked until any change that may ulti-
mately be decided upon can be made with
safety to the public and without delay to
the mails of the United States.
THE WASHINGTON EXPRESS
Superintendent Shepard of the Console
dated road has returned courteous reply to
the petition of e. Livingston Wells, Howard
w. Wakeman and other Southport residents
for late accommodation train from Bridge
port. Mr.. Shepard writes: "While We
should be very glad to accommodate the
people at the stations between Bridgeport
and South Norwalk, we do not think we
can, consistent with our duties, incur the
expense of running the train a. requested.
We hope to soon restore the Warrington
express train about on It's old time, when
the train now leaving New Haven at 1850
will be discontinued, and arrangements
made to stop the Washington express ct Fair
hsld, Southport and Westport for the accom-.
mediation Of theater parties"