Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-06-23
rRounLEAT MORRIS COVE.

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rba Tracks OF the New Electric Road
in Front of the W. 8. Beecher and
I,.w.Beecher Cottages Torn up Last
Evening-Work Done Qufetly-The
Constables Awake The Police
Called Upon In Vain.
About o'clock last evening word was
received by Sergeant Mcbride at the police
headquarters that the track of the new
electric railroad at Morris Cove was being
torn up. The information came by tele-
phone and was coupled with a request that
the sergeant send wagon load of police
men to the cove to stop the proceedings.
Sergeant Mcbride replied that the cove was
not within the jurisdiction of the New Ha- |
ven police.
About Z O'Clock double truck in which
were eight men stopped in front of the cot
tage of w. S. Beecher. The men without
a word set to work and began taking up
the track and filing in the roadbed. The
men seemed to have no boss but went at
the work without word, and In . very
short while had nearly ak hundred feet of
the track taken up and laid aside. The
poles were also taken up. W. s. Beecher
and L. W. Beecher watched the work, but
gave no orders of any kind.
The work was done so quietly that not
until it was well under way was public at
tention aroused. Although no one seemed
to know the men who were at work 1t is
said that Frank E. Bunnell was in charge.
A naphtha launch coasted along the
shore and the parties in it seemed very
much interested in the proceedings. One
of the men in the launch closely resembled
Mr.. Thompson, but no one could positively
| say who it was.
The track was taken up only in front of
the property of the Messrs. L. w. and
W. s. Beecher, whose cottages are next to
each other.
Superintendent Thompson of the cleo
trio road drove down to the scene about
half past nine and looked over the ground
He determined not to be conquered and his
next move will be watched with
interest. It is mi-ofisially reported
that Superintendent Thompson will take
energetic steps to have the track relaid
and 1t was thought probable that before
daylight or a little later to-day a gang of
men will be at work replacing the ties,
tracks and poles. 1t is claimed that the
injunction restraining the company from
| laying the tracks in front of this property
has been sufficiently served. This, how
| ever, is disputed on the ground that one
of the injunction papers must be served
upon either Mr.. Thompson or Hon. J. M.
Townsend personally.
| The principal directors to the present
layout Of the road are the Beecher brothers,
Mr. G. G. Kimberly and the Pequot club
They own most of the land where the
railroad passes in front. Nearly all the
! other residents at the cove are in sym
pathy with the railroad company.
The conatables of the annex are at last
awake to the fact that they could have
made goodly sum of money in the shape
OF fees by arresting the men who worked
Sunday when Engineer Thompson made
his great coup -de-main. Nearly all who
| worked were Italians and it is considered
almost impossible to get the names of the
men without the assistance of the time
keeper. One of the constables is quietl,
/ trying to get hold of the time book ant
thus make haul. The time keeper, how
ever, will not allow the book out OF hi
keeping. Tho constable is on still hun
and will not rest until he has made tn
arrests in some way or other.
WHAT THE DIRECTORS SAY.
u The cottagers and others opposed to tn
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road in front of their respective cottage
, and buildings own a large part of the from
street at the cove where the railroad run
, in front. The highway runs in the rear o
the other cottages, the road taking benz
and going to the rear.
The objections of the cottagers and 9th
ers, who demonstrate, are that the roa,
| will mar the quiet and repose of the local
s ity, so desirable in a summer retreat of tn
kind, and be unsightly, marring also tn
I view of the harbor end sound. The pole
g would be unsightly objects in themselves
Q They say there was no necessity for havin
j. the railroad put where it is; that it Nigh
10 just as we'll have been put in the rear c
all the cottages and saved all the trouble
4 it would have been direct and straigt
* roadway then, after leaving the cross-roa
a next above the cove. There was n
r ! swampy or bad ground to pass over. Th
IT compliments further hold that by maxim
:, the little detour above and going in tn
l. rear of all the cottages the encumberin
al the narrow roadway where it bends an
B. 6escends to enter the cove would hav
70 where it is, this narrow roadway is partia
1t ly choked up, and mauy accidents are lik
al ly to occur to pleasure teams by the horst
o. becoming frightened by the electric car
This fine driveway, Townsend avenue,
thereby also half spoiled, they claim,
this point-a point where accidents are
Of | likely to occur, the road being down hi
~ | and too narrow now. The Pequot cit
2 also had unanimously expressed themselv
H. as much preferring to have the railroad ,
in the rear instead of in front of the OH
house.
WHAT SUPERINTENDENT THOMPSON SAY
Il Tn ;v,k 1uit
y Construction Thompson of the New Hav,
n and Morris Cove Electric Railroad col
ag pany at an early hour this morning,
u reference to the troubles at Morris Gov
10 Mr.. Thompson said:
a The position of the railroad company
ut this: We are fully aware of our rights
N this matter and of the extent to which M
Beecher has made himself criminally Ii
BILE. He, as we'll as all others, will
held to strict accountability for all dar
rt ages done us. Mr.. Beecher Is a rich ms
and seeks to secure to himself what b
vn longs to the public. He wishes to ha
or the beauties of Morris Cove reserved
ng himself and his friends who own hors
as and carriages. As for the rest of US,
It, the words of Vanderbilt, ''the public
ct. id"
to Mr.. Beecher's encroachment on tho pu
To lie road, taking to himself in his law
~ thirty of the fifty feet of the public hig
80; way, was the direct cause of the action
oil | thc hoord of sa1ao+man T1a.5u .;L
We will move slowly but surely in t
matter of the protection of our rights, b
E. these we will surely have and Mr.. Beech
,- and his oonfederates may as we'll unde
stand it first as last.
al | The Fire at Mrs. Mitchell,s Residen
Yesterday.
!" Smoke was discovered yesterday no.
" issuing from the attic windows of Il
~ residence of Mrs. Charles L. Mitchell
WI Trumbull street by passing letter carrie