News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-07-05

ENCE AND REPORT IN FULL.
WHITE RIVER JUNC'N, June %, "a.
In the matter of the petition for a
change in the location of the pas
senger depot at Hyde Park station
on the st. Johnsbury & Lake Cham
plain Railroad.
PETITION.
To the Honorable Railroad Commission
ers Of the State of Vermont The under
signed, citizens # Hyde Park, business men.
doing business with the LamOille Valley, or
st. Johnsbury & Lake Champlain r. r., now
operated by the Boston 4 Lowell railroad
company, considering ourselves aggreved
and the general public greatly incommoded
by the location of the passenger depot, at
this place, and believing that a change in
volving a very slight expense to the company
W ould result in great benefit to this commu
n ty as well as in greater security to the
neral public respectfully request that your
IL Onorable body take steps as soon as con-
veniently may be to examine and report upon
the same; and if in your judgment such
change is required by considerations of public
safety and convenience, to order said depot
to be removed from the south to the north
side of the railroad track.
HYDE PARK, December 81, 1886.
Signed by Edward b. Sawyer and twenty
four Others.
This complaint and petition was
heard at Hyde Park, April ID, 1894,
when there were present Commission
ers Pingree and Dawson, and Clerk
Watson of the Board of Railroad
Commissioners; Col. E. B. Sawyer
and Hon. Waldo Brigham, repre-
senting the petitioners, while there
were many of them present in per-
son; and Col. HI. E. Folsom, sup1rin-
tendent, and E. H. Blossom, assist
ant superintendent, representing the
st. Johnsbury & Lake Champlain
railroad company.
The premises were examined and
testimony was heard. 1t appeared
that before this railroad came under
the management of the Boston &
Maine railroad corporation, (which at
present operates the same, and d.
rectly after the passage of the act
constituting a Board of Railroad
Commissioners, the petitioners in
this case we're moved to action re-
sulting in the drawing up of the
present petition to the board.
The st. Jnhnsbury & Lake Cham
plain Railroad was at the time said
petition was drawn up under the
management of the Boston & Lowell
railroad company.
The subject of the complaint and
petition was presented informally to
the management of the last named
railroad company by the Hon. Car
roll S. Page, and the following COM
munications were received and placed
in the hands of the petitioners, to
witt
BosToN, Jan. 10, 1887.
H. N. TURNER, ESQ G. f. A.-Dear Sir -
Referring to your favor of the 18th enclosing
letter of Carroll S. Page to you, and your re-
ply to me under even date, would say that
there are so many stations needing attention
upon the line of the Vermont division more
than at Hyde Park that it seems to me that
the people there are a little unreasonable in
asking US to make improvements at this
time. We have ordered about steel enough
to be delivered in the spring to complete the
steel-rang of the st. Johnsbury & Lake
Champlain Road. We have thoroughly re-
paired two stations this past season and
have rebuilt two-one very considerably
one is being built at Cambridge Junction at
the present time. We shall be prepared to
take up these matters of improvements in
the different towns just as fast as the income
of the road will warrant, but it will be utterly
impossible for me to take them all in hand
at once. l think the people on the line oil
that road ought to feel that we have given
them better service than ever before; Ger.
tainly safer, and one that is constantly i'm.
proving, and they can have in addition our
promise to spend every cent of money and
more than the road can earn in the next few
years, in impro vements along their line
, taking those places first that need the i'm
provements most, and there are many, as w
r are both aware, that are great deal worse
off than Hyde Park.
-, [ should certainly trust they would moi
feel it necessary to call US before the Railroad
Commissioners when we are making the eff
forts we are for their accommodation. Your
truly, Z. 5. MELLEN, Gen'l Supt.
< BosToN, Jan. %, 1887
c. s. PAGE Hyde Park, Vt.-Dear Sir =
= Referring once more to your letter relative t.
station service at your place, beg to en-
close letter from our general superintendent
which will perhaps better explain the stua
ton than for me to attempt to. | enclose j
d for you to make such use of as you deem
best. Yours respectfully,
r II. N Turner, G. F. A.
HYDE PARK, Jan. 81, 1887.
e ers Il enclose letter from managers B. & L
K. r. / am very glad to note a respectful
I hearing and believe they are not unmindfu
:, or the public demands have always foun
them gentlemen and willing to do what the
thought right. They evidently feel a littl
Z poor, Just now, and want us to wait while
: Don't you think it would be well to let til
matter slumber till some time when they ar
t to be here personally? Yours, c. s. PAGE.
a Acting upon the suggestion con
tanned in this correspondence, the pc
d tition was withheld from the boar,
until some considerable time afte
e this railroad came under the manage
/ ment and control of the Boston
! Maine railroad corporation, and III
g til July 16, 1892, when the same wa
;. filed with the board for it's action
and thereupon being duly referred t,
said corporation on the 18th of sal
s July.
: 1t appeared that the subject mat
= ter of the complaint had not come t,
. the knowledge of the officials of th
e Boston & Maine Railroad until til
same was presented through the az
|. tion Of the board.
J After receipt of the copy of th
9 complaint and petition, the follow
= ing communications were received
to witt
], LYNDoNvILLE, Vt. July 90, 1892.
r ALFRED E. WATSON, Esq., Clerk Board
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