Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-03-04
4 NEW IDEA.
BltetllC Read from Sk6Vhegap
TO Madison Bridge.
Thought fha! lh. Ro.d Can bs Easily
Built and Run ..
Interviews With Prominent Sk0whegan.
ties on the Subject.
Special to the KrssEHEo JOURNAL.

t1R-NAAl W tLc hEFnEhEC JoI l..
| SkowHzeAs, March 3.--A new idea, .
bran new thought. Can it be donet Whals
Why, build Al electric railroad from Sko~.
hesan to Madison Bridge.
That's the scheme now, and there are
| many who think it would pay. To Ascer-
tain jast what is in the wind tina, We do DO,
see flying, the JoURsAL called on X. W.
Haines. the genial proprietor Of Hotel c.
burn. whoit is generally understood is the
protector Of tbe scheme.
In reply to questions propounded by the
JoURsAL Mr.. II.ipes said
Yes, | am for the road now Ard all the
time. | ihihk 1t Is jass ~hst we need to
build up the town. We want to give the
up river people chance to come down here
.nd ace us.
1 use the same argument in favor Of
this pr sct that tie iIcoTporators Of the
Link gt' TO support thslr road, but
thiDk an electric road to Madison Bridge
will be CT more benz Il 10 SkoNhegan than
would the Link.
What we want is 10 have hourly commui
Icstlon Of tween ihis place and the up river
towL5. buiid an electric road, run cars
every hour with low fares and the good re.
So rs to Ssowhegsn will surprise you.
Then If you and or our wives want to
visit Madison We could do 80 cheaply and
the merchant, l.oorer and housewife Of
Madison could p.y uss visit sfie, tea.
We have the market and the people up
river ~sn' 10 pstronize us but they can
no, now without losing an entire day.
IL would be ihe same IS now with the
LiGk in operation, the best we could do
would De with but two trsins day with no
evening seryi 3e while what We want is q
conveyance every hour.
This is the s1Ire town and there is much !
complaint from lawyers, clients and wit |
nesses on the means of getting here. The |
ls~yers Of Madison and North Arson could |
return 70 ;heir homes every night.
True the hote woull lose Ii tie Of
this kind Of patronage, but it would more
than be made up b. the extras that would |
coma to US from i.rge number Of visitors |
10 town each day.
/, is Dins miles TO Madison Bridge by the |
carriage road, but on direct line II is but
eight miles and | rather think it is less |
The damages cannot be one-half what they |
will be for the Link, the grades are esy
snd there would be much less expense on
culveris ard rosdbed
There is the W&ferville and Fairfield |
horse railroad. it has paid and it has steam
rosd competition. The same can be said |
f the electric road from Augusta 10 Gsr-
a liner with twice the competition that the
Wsttr rviIle and fairfield road works against.
The Augusta Gardiner road is six miles
long and the bills are hsrder 10 climb than
any from here to Msd'on.
IL will cost over sleo 900 to build the
Link and it locks Low as though it will not
ne built ANYWAY, and you can readily see
how much cheaper the tosd TO Madison may
ne balit with no cuts. lighter culverts and
very little grading.
have talked this matter over with A
F. Gersld of Fsiifeld, gentleman that
knows az much STOUT this business as any
msn in Maine today, and he thinks the road
ought tu 60 and pay.
siil take stock in the road and know
"Ho. about hsp.ling freight. Mr..
Haiues:'
why, il merchant should come here
f,' m Madison and purchase a horse, csr-
tisQe, hogshesd Of molssses CT a case of
y ooiens, it ia as easy to run q freight car
ov elt clriCity a. 10 run passenger car
t 40 or three times day, charging a verv
ll~ rate, jast enough TO cover the ex
pe"te
The JOURNAL called upon smother gentle
msn. well kno~ IN here and who has capital.
tu! who for the best OF reasons does not
care to have his name used al this stage Of
the case and he said 4
"Is is Just the thing Here is = chance
for sorne of the ~ n ,kprs that have been
crying, why dom. you do something to
build up the town, to- take hold Of worthy
objec. and chow their pu b ic spiritedness.
The town has voted to raise SIS 900 to
aid any corp1rstion to build the Link.
Let that moI ey be used in the construc
ton Of Al electric railroad from here to
Msdison. snd We will attain grander re-
suits and greater benefits to the town in
one year than would come through the
Link in one hundred"
Would you take stock in the road 2
Certainly, as much as l csu conven-
ientiy afford to take and not interfere with
my regular business"
In conversation with others it would
seem IS though the scheme hss good hold
now, and With little push the road may be
buIf.
Soma think that the town will be asked
to transfer the sppropristiln OF $4,000 to
aid in building the Link to the fund for the
construction of the electric.
OF course this can only be done by the
towns rscinding the vote by which the ap-
preparation was made and voting anew on
the question of sssistiog in building the
electric. The scheme meets with much
favor among our citizens