Morning journal and courier., 1892-06-21
DOWN AT THE COVE.

Public Sentiment at the Cove He. | garding she Electric Railroads Lo-
 cation-views of Many of the Cove
 Residents and Cottage Owners.
 Hundreds of people drove down the cove way yesterday interested to see the rails of the Morris Cove electric road and what had been done over Sunday in build ing the road at the cove. Superintendent Thompson had @ force of men busy at | work on the main road just at the en- l trance to the cove, preparing to lay the | rails, and few more were at work on the cross street leading from Fort Hale park to Townsend avenue. The laying of the tracks is now nearly completed to the cove. The great majority of the property owners and cove residents in general are gratifed at the building of the road along the main highway, only very few indeed opposing 1t. Superintendent Asahel Thompson, who has charge of Fort Woos- ter and Fort Hale parks, said yesterday that the sentiment of the cove public was overwhelmingly. in favor | of having the road on the main as it were, the back way, through the lots and the swamps. He thought now that
 the tracks were laid there would be no fur l ther outcry on the subject. He said those
 who complained have been given abun- dant opportunity by President Townsend l to arrange to have the road go back of the
 cove, and it was their own fault that they
 didn't have it there. Plenty of time was
 given to fix it in, as MT. Townsend was
 most willing to oblige his neighbors in the
 matter. He offered to meet committee | &I. lot l but they did not appoint committee, and
 SO the time slipped by, and after the
 contract was signed to build the road in
 front on the main street, it was then, of
 course, too late.
 Ex-Postmaster Samuel o. Thompson of
 the cove said that the whole population
 and all the cottage owners and occupants
 but three, perhaps four, are glad to have
 the road where 1t is now. He mentioned
 over the names of about everybody in the
 cove who had all expressed themselves to
 James Gallagher, Mir. Belcher, proprietor
 of the store; George E. Thompson, Dr. D.
 A. Jones, the dentist; John 0. Bradley, the
 banker and real estate dealer; his son,
 Cashier Bradley at H. c. Warren's bank
 ing house; George Ives; his son, MT. Ives,
 formerly with the late MT. Goodyear in
 the axle manufacturing business, this
 city; Mr. Dickerman, father of Florist
 Dickerman of this city, who has farm
 the furniture dealer of this city, MT. Nal lory, who is building very fine yacht al
 the cove, and many others, all approved decidedly of the roads location.
 II Superintendent Thompson, who has charge of the building of the electric road , , said that all was quiet on the Potomac that opposition to the laying of the rails
 where laid Sunday was apparently all over l and that the railroad company were tc handsomely turf the sides of the track, st that it would be no detraction from tht ornamental appearance of the lawn ir |, front of the Pequot house. The street ii ample in width in front of the Pequot , house, and the main lawn is across tn, , street close to the beach, the railroad } touching the lawns edge. If the op ponents to the plan had met Presiden Townsend's most equitable offer, and ap pointed committee, as he invited them t, , across lots in the rear of the cove, it woult have been done. But nothing wa , done on the subject. There wa , ,, ample time to fix the matte before signing the contract, but nothing 3 at all was done on the subject, and afte ? the contract was signed it was of cours 3 too late. As it was, almost everybody wa |
 Said prominent cove resident: Her f was city with 100, 900 people in this case 3 Must an important public means of trans , portation that is beneftting everybody , property at the cove be switched arount this way and that to please few persons Land had gone up greatly in value sine
 the rails were laid and property which wa
 offered formerly in recent days before tn 9 rails were laid at $25 an acre was nov f bringing $5 front foot. All the propert I in the cove had advanced in value materi
 ally since laying the rails.
 aI Mr. Forbes at the Forbes house was or posed to the railroad route, not so muc
 on account of his hotel, but because
 passed near his home residence some dis tance nearer the city.
 AN INJUNCTION GOT OUT
 Against the Morris Cove Road-Su
 perintendent Thompson is Dodstn ' 1t and Hopes to Have the Roa l. Completed Before it Can be Served h E. c. Beecher, secretary of the Diamon
 Trust company, ,got out an injunction fror
 Judge Studley last night against James M l. Townsend, president of the Morris Gov IS electric road, restraining him from build ing the road in front of the Pequot clu
 house and several of the cottages at tn d cove. Deputy Sheriff Pond has the i1 y junction, but President Townsend is i New York and Superintendent Thompso
 is hiding in neighboring village. Befo1
 the injunction can be served the plan is t
 lay the 600 feet of road yet remaining to '9 e laid down to the fork where the branch i the old lighthouse and South End wi y start. A full force of men will begin {
 sunrise this morning.
 Dov>,