Morning journal and courier., 1892-08-03

The Official Report OF the Railroad

The Official Report OF the Railroad
Commissioner on the Subject.
The state board of railroad commission
ers issued yesterday the report of their
finding regarding tbs application of the
Consolidated road for approval of it's loca-
ton of It's West River branch in the towns
of New Haven and Orange. The applica-
ton of the road through Judge Harrison,
its attorney, is set forth at length, the
chief feature of which is in section 1,
speaking of the location of the route de-
sired, which says:
This application of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad COM
pany respectfully represents:
I. That it owns and operates as q part
Of its main line railroad running from
New Haven to the city of New York,
known as the New York division, and
that it desires to construct branch
from a. point on it's said main
line in the limits of the town
feet east of West river; thence running
northerly and westerly to a point on the
New Haven and Derby railroad, in the
town of Orange, about 200 feet west of
West river, together with a branch from
said principal branch, about 1000 feet in
length, running northerly and essterly to
point on the line of said New Haven and
Derby railroad, in the town and city of
New Haven, about 900 feet east of said
West river.
The salient features of the report set
forth as follows:
And on the said 22d day of July we met
at the time and place named in said order,
when it appeared that said order had been
6n1v aarua1 oy,1 onpor1ia1 Nth
sonable notice of said application, and of
the time and place of hearing given to said
petitioner and to the town and city of New
Haven and town of Orange, and said petit
toner appeared to prosecute its said ap-
plication, and said city of New Haven and
town of Orange also appeared and were
fully heard; but said town of New Haven
made default of appearance.
And now having examined said location
and the streets and highways affected there
by, including the boulevard" so-called, in
said city, not named in said application, we
do hereby find the allegations in said ap-
plication true and do hereby give our writ
ten approval of the location Of said "West
River Branch" in said city and towns, as
set forth in said application. And do
further authorize and direct said company
to construct its ssid branch as in said APP
plication set forth, except as to the man
ner of crossing said Washington street, as
to which we direct that said company con-
struct its said branch so as to cross under
said Washington street, and for that pur-
pose we direct said company to raise said
street so as to give a clear head room of
not less than 1873 feet above its rails, as
the grade thereof is now fixed and shown
on the map on file in the Office, marked
"West River Branch of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad"
and for the purpose of constructing said
branch under said street We order said
company to carry said street over said
branch by an iron bridge so feet wide in
the clear, not less than "a feet long, with
head room above tho rails as above, rest
ing on stone abutments, with floor of
wood or concrete, and with approaches
graded one foot in the 100 on the east and
four feet in the 100 on the west.
And we further direct said company to
construct its said branch so as to cross
under said boulevard" all details Of con-
struction in the crossings of said "Boule-
ward" to be as shall be agreed upon be-
tween said company and the board of pub
lie works of said city, or on their failure
to agree as we may hereafter deteter-
mine, and lin accordance with the agree
ment of parties as made known to us on
said 22d day of july said work of con-
structlon to be done and performed at the
crossings of said Boulevard" whenever
the railroad commissioners, upon the sp-
plication of said city, shall have issued
their order directing said boulevard" to
be constructed 80 as to pass over the main
line of said New York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad and over said NewHayen
and Derby railroad.
GEORGE NJ. WOODRUFF,
WILLIAM o. SEYMOUR,
Railroad Commissioners.
The foregoing is true copy of the origi-
nal finding and order of the railroad COM
missioners.
Attest: GEORGE T. UTLEY,
Clerk Railroad Commissioners,