The Press., 1892-12-15

NOTICE is hereby given that applica- lV ton will be made to the next General As sembly for a charter pursuant to the following
 To the General Assembly of the State of Con necticut :-The subscribers respectfully petition poration incorporating the 'sRockville, Stanford and Southbridge Iramway Company, with such powers as are usually conferred upon tramWay companfeS, horse railroad companies, and cleo tric railway companies, to build, maintain and operate tramway or line of railway, or both, tfpnugh the towns oi Vernon, Holland, Ellington, Stafford in Holland County. The intended route of said tramway or line Of railway, and the gen. eral location Of the same IS as fOlloWS:
 Beginning at point in the city of Rockville, in said town Of Vernon, near the station called ssWest Street. on the railway known as the Rock, railroad, thence in a general easterly direction to point in the city of Rockville on or near Market street to Main street, and through Main street to point therein east of Bedding & Bros. silk manufactory, or rom sald polnI at or near Market street through such lands or streets to said point east of Bedding Bros. silk manufac- tory as may be best adapted to meet said des- through said town of Vernon to the Holland line, either in the highway leading from said vernon to Holland or through the lands near and on highway, or the lands near and on either side thereof to the village of Square Pond, or crystal Lake, in the town or Ellington, thence T rom d sald Springs in the town Of Stafford, in and through the highway leading from said village to West Stafford and Stafford Springs, or in and through the lands on either side thereof, or in the high way leading over the mountain from said Square Pond to Stafford Springs, if that route be deemed better adapted than the aforesaid line through West Stafford or through the lands on either side Of said highway last mentioned, over the mountain, to point on or near Main street m the borough Of Stafford Springs, thence in and through said Main street, or through the lands on either side thereof, to point on or near said Main street near the beginning or the west enu 1 the general east of north direction, on either side of the stream known as the east branch or the Will1mantic river, to the village Of Furnace Hollow in said town Of Stafford, thence follow ing the general direction Of the highway leading from Furnace Hollow to StanOrdvllle, either In said highway or in and through the lands on either side thereof, to said StaffOrdville in said Stafford, thence in an easterly direction, in the highway leading from Stanordvllle to Unlon, iI or highway east of the lower reservoir, so called, and to point near the highway leading from StaffOrdvflle to Wales, in the state Of Massachu- setts thence in a general northerly direction to northern line Of the town of stafford, in said last mentioned aighway or in ana enrougn tae anos nS best adapted to reach said destination, to a terminus on the line between said Stafford and
 Said tramWay or, railway line will cross the track Of the New York and New England rail- road in the city of Rockville at or near said Mar ket street, and will cross the track Of the New London Northern Railroad Company at point between Stafford Springs aforesaid and the Sta- tiOn on said line known as OrcuCGS.
 Said application and this petition also embody therein such rights, privileges and powers reiat- ing to the building, maintaining and operating turn-outs, switches, side tracks and depots at such points along said proposed line as may be expedient to effectuate the interests ant objects Of said charter and the tramway constructed hereunder
 And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.
 Dated at Stafford, this sth day of December, A. D. 1892.
 Signed, -.