The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-06-28
RIGHT 70 CONDEMN LAND.
Is Nov Vested In the \. L. n. L. al
ROad---It Need Not Wait
FOR THE DEEDS TO Be SIGNED.
The Act Making the New Haven Road
Rhode Island Corporation Revived
All the Powers Ever Granted 10 tho
n. r.. p. q D. end the Old Colony.

Tho excuse for delay in the termin al
facilities Is now said TO be the opposition
Of the New York and New England road.
Wait until We get everything we want
and then wen go to work. says the Con-
soIidsted. As n matter Of fact the New
Haven road and President Clark. not
only has practically all he has asked for,
but II he hasn't the last general assembly
gave him and his road the right to do
practically anything he pleas ID to carry
out the terminal facilities planned.
That's the new light in which matters
atand today. Those rights include the
power To condemn any land whatever for
terr,inal frcilities, the land OF the New
York and New England. and OF any other
corporation or individual whatsoever. It's
. small act that was passed on MAY 20
last by the general ASSEMBLE, but It's
"An act to constitute the New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroad cor
poration in this state.
Section or that act reads: ''Said cor
poration shall have the powers
Given the Old Colopv railroad company
and the New York, Providence and Bos.
ton Railroad company oy M an &C. eas,tiea
Of . railroad passenger station in the city
Of Providence"
What were the powers then granted
The powers then granted included tn Q
power to condemn any land OF any pri-
vate partv or corporation OF any land OF
the New York and New England road.
That was necessary for the construction
Of the terminal station or its approaches.
All these powers are revised and con-
ferred upon the New York, New Haven
4 Hartford by the act passed at the last
January session of the general assembly.
OF course the railrord corporation viii
reply that il requires time to condemn
land by legal process. aud no Que doubts
that fad. But IL has already required
three years and three months for the rail-
road to come to its present position OF
inactivity and during that three years
and three months since March 20. 1890,
when the act was first passed, not a
stroke of work has been done on the pas
senger station by the New York, New
Haven q Hartford. or Its predecessors.
But read the next section and see what
excuse there Is for DELAY. Sec ion 4.
s'Said corporation shall proceed without
delay with the construction OF n passen-
ger station in the city Of Provl-
dence as authorized by said act"
There isn't any quibbling about the
meaning Of such words AS these. The
New Haven road ''powers" to condemn
land and construct a station. Ssctio
four says the New York and New Haven
sshall" (t doesn't say may. Shall is the
word used) ..proceed- without -aeiayn
''under said said act"
These powers were conferred one month
ego Monday. Has ANYTHING been done ?
The railroad company has every right
that IL can ask. II the New York and
New England trustees do not fulfill their
agreement and sign the deed the New
York New Haven aud Hartford has iull
power TO condemn all the land In ques
tion.
what more does 1t wanti
IL the terminal station Is commenced
today two years will elapse before the
land will be needed on which TO build
the approaches. Why all this delay and
why does great corporation with 500.
100000 capital and idle aud cry like a
silly child for something It can have
merely by reaching out Its hand TO take