Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-16
TO ASK rHEEEcrsLArUnE.

TO ASK THE ELEG1SIxATuhE. No Doubt About Being Able to Get
 Round the City i'm Double quick
 Time.
 From present indications the incoming legislature will have it's hands full in talk ing care of the numerous petitions from the existing and visionary horse railroads | and electric or other power railroads that | arc on the docket. It is hardly supposable | that all will meet with flattering success, and 1t ia probable, as should be the case, that the roads already in existance will be granted the privilege of extending their systems and adopting such power as is most desirable in preference to the grant ing of unlimited charters to new com pAnies.
 The legislature is to be petitioned to grant charter to a company, said to be partly outside capitalists and partly New Haven men, to construct an electric rail way system, with the right to use either electricity, cable or other improved motive power, not steam. The routes proposed bring the Union and Derby depots into @ ss way wsa af sne 1sntss Street. af tae out George street and Derby ave- nue to Yale field and St. Law renee cemetery; then to Westville and re- turn to the city by Blake street, runs out to the Winchester Arms company, and to Fair Haven, through Edwards street, touch at Cedar Hill depot, and then through Lombard and Ford streets to the Quinnipiae bridge and back to Sargent's factory, over Chapel street bridge.
 tf,sy oSy h,,f o1, extend through George to Temple streets, through Columbus avenue to Congress, through Dewitt, Rosette, Wilson and Lam berton streets, Howard avenue and South Water street, Sea street and Hallock ave- aue to and around the new park.
 About every street in the city which hasn't any railroad. is included in the charter asked for
 The State street horse railroad company, the West Haven company and the Fair Haven and Westville company all have petitions to come before the legislature. The State street road will ask for power to extend it's line from State street up James to Lombard, to Ferry, to Middletown ave- nue, back to State; also from State up James to Lombard, to Clinton avenue, to Middletown avenue, to State street., The same company will ask for power to ex- tend it's road from State street out Humphrey street, to Orange street, thence to East Rock park and to connect from Orange street with it's Whitney avenue line, through one of the upper cross streets The West Haven road will also ask for power with reference to carrying out it's plan for an electric railway.
 The Fair Haven and Westville Horse railroad company will petition the general assembly for such an alteration of it's charter as will permit the company to use electric, steam, cable or other motive power in the operation of it's road; to in- crease it's capital stock; to double track it's lines from State street to the steamboat wharf; from Chapel street to Union depot; and it's West Chapel street line; to lay a single or double track from the corner of Fountain street and Central avenue, through Fountain street. by way of any of l the connecting streets to the proposed terminus of said company's road on Main l street, near the West Rock Paper mill; ! also through Ferry street, from Grand | avenue to State street and from Ferry l street through Lombard street to the Cedar Hill depot
 Bridgeport is threatened with an cpl demic of street railways. The Bridgeport
 Standard last night says:
 | IT the next general aSSemDly SnOufQ grant al
 the charters applied for to construct street rail ways through this city, and each company should | build over the entire route secured, there would not be sufficient space remaining on many of oul l principal streets to permit bicycle to pass. To
 day notice is printed in our advertising columns | that another syndicate of Bridgeport gentlemen l will apply for charter s'for the purpose of con l structing street railway, to be operated by any
 proper motive power other than steam," to rur l through nearly every street in the city not GOV | cred by the new owners of the Bridgeport line.
 And still another petition has been drawn III l by the Bridgeport Horse Railroad company, il | which that corporation asks permission to con l struct a line through every portion of the city l with the exception of the depot platform. Tn,
 old line seeks to cover nearly all the land left un
 covered in the eastern, western and northern
 parts of the city, and even chases the East Ent
 railway company as far as Stratford.
 Interesting Amphion Society Re . | hearsals.
 T A new feature of the Amphion societ.
 rehearsals this season has been the intro
 duction of solos by individual members O
 the society. This entertainment immedi
 ately follows the regular rehearsal and ii
 greatly enjoyed by the members.
 Last evening the following soloists tool
 part: Miss Elsie Beeman, Miss Amy Hub
 bard, Miss Kate Lewis, Miss Della Brigg
 Mir W. A. Washburn