The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-09-13
ELECTRICS GO TO THE FAIR'
GROUND.
by Way of south Canal Surec'-ie,
Cent Fares for Year or IWo-""'
EuIlcr's Position i'm the Mnttef.

by Way of south Canal street,. re-,
Cent Fares for n Year or Two-G"V.
FuIlcr's Position i'm the Matter
The negotiations noted last week for
the extension of the electric railway
resulted in IA decision to do it in sea
son for this years fair, but with such
conditions and requirements of extra
expense that the fare to the grounds is
to be made 10 cents ON those days from
any point on the line, though on the
regular route the regular o-cent rare
only is to be charged, and it is hoped
after two years that the o-cent OASIS
can be made uniform and invarlable;,
The selectmen, very properly, required
the company to bear half the expense
of grading the Hall Fuller hill, and the
Valley Fair directors required 1T to
make "A $50 foot fill at the turn and the
gulley in the road to the grounds IRON
South Canal street, the route adopted,
and for which legal permission of the
bailifls and selectmen has been given
as regards the highway and of the
Valley Fair Association as regards
their way. The line therefore will run
out from the Pine street corner to
within 30 feet of the gate, but will be
south of the roadway at the point
where the filling is made
This decision was reached at Il meet
ing of the Electric Railway directors
Saturday evening, and a contract was
closed with NJ j. McGawley, the sub
contractor, built the former line, in
the villngc, to lay the tracks. The
rails were also purchased the same
night under an option the company
had secured, and a contract concluded
for the ties. Everything is on the
ground except the wire which is
bought and will reach here next week.
The contract required the line TO be
completed a week from Saturday night
and everything now points to fulfill
ment of the requirement.
Monday morning a force Of men com
menced on the 'filf' and Tuesday
noon 40 men and seven teams began
grading on the Hall Fuller hill, which
work was about half done last night
\ cut of five feet is made at the top
of the hill and thence graded down all
the way to Pine street, There are now
about 30 men at work on the line and
the number will be increased to 60 in
ii day or two. The fifth car Just
bought is to be equipped with another
motor also to be here before the fair.
The grading of the hill is certainly a
good thing over which satisfaction is
expressed, and it is an improvement
which Gov. Fuller has long urged, but
he insists that the road also ought to
be widened and Strengthened in ac-
cordance with the order of the court
commissioner in the Guilford road
case in 1861 1t is now nine feet mar
rover at Fuller's entrance than this
order required and at that point in
time of busy traffic it is in a congested !
and very injurious to our
Guilford people. There is a petition |
now out TO enforce the courts order.
Gov. Fuller strongly opposed the cx-
tension until this could all be done. |
He requests us to say for him gener.
ally that his position is not one of OPP
position to the trolley rs such, but to
the engineering features of this partic-
llar case, because the best route has
lot been chosen and the road has not
oeen put in as road of this kind
ought to be: that the regulations for
operation are inadequate. the running
ate being 10 miles an hour on Canal
street, 20 on Main street and 30 on
Western Avenue; that it is dangerous
md rapidly driving traffic from the
street and that the time has come
when the authorities ought to fix
init of speed.