The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-08-02
NOTES,
CRANSTON.

There have been, up to the present
time, objections from two property owners
on Aliens avenue filed with the clerk Of
the Supreme Court.
These persons are dissatisfied with the
damages allowed them and are appealing
for jury trial.
III Council votes the Improvement, the
work will commence regardless of these
pending objections.
The question arising now Is, will Coun-
ell vote the improvement under present
conditions.
The city of Providence has la,ely
curbed, guttered, macadamized and had
the street car track laid on Maryland
avenue up to the town line.
= Maryland avenue is a 50-foot street
Aliens avenue Is to be continuation Of
Maryland avenue.
Now will Cranston continue this street
as an 60-foot street as has been voted, OF
will the town follow the example of the
city and make Aliens avenue a 60-foot
street?
IL the latter course is pursued, all the
preparatory work thus far done will be
counted null and void. A new commits
sion will be appointed or the old one re-
appointed, and all the work of apportion-
ing damages and costs must be done
again.
The idea of the 50-foot street Is daily
meeting the hearty approval OF prominent
citizens, and it has been authoritatiyely
asserted that the Council will allow the
limit of time, in which they must vote
the improvement to pass by unheeded.
The advocates of the 50-foot street,
aruge that the 50-foot street is good
enough for Providence and should do for
Cranston. They say II will look odd to
have the city part of this street 80 feet
and the Cranston portion so feet. But
the strongest argument advanced Is that
einea ha fraf 40 Of no oftu and fha
electric car system can be carried on in
a 50-ftoo street, why may Cranston not dc
with the same, and save the purchasing
of the additional 80 feet by the assessed
property owners and the town as a whole.
Superintendent Potter has been quoted
as saying that as soon as Aliens avenue
is ready and permission granted the
electric cars will run the full length oi
the avenue.
DEMAND A JURY TRIAL
One of the two objections filed with
the clerk of the Supreme Court in the
damages allowed on Aliens avenue Ii
that OF Peter RELY and wife.
Mrs. O'Reily owns pear the city line
four lots that will be used in the laying
out OF Aliens avenue.
The industrious people have a very
comfortable house, barn and a culti-
waited garden, the products OF which, with
chickens, aid Mr.. and Mrs. O'Reily in
gaining livelihood. To these aged
people this coy place is the finest spot on
earth. 1t represents to them many a
hard days work and years of self-denial.
The assessors take this as unimproved
property and allow Mrs. O'Reily s1301. rs
for her four lots.
The owners find that moving their house
to an adjoining lot that needs filling in,
the digging of a cellar, building Of wall,
putting in water, repairing of house and
other necessary expenses Will cost them
about 5000, leaving balance OF about s4(
for their four lots.
Mr.. and Mrs. O'Reily want the town to
pay for the moving as well as pay for the
lots.
Mr.. Egbert Shepherd and Miss Loretta
V. Sherman were married in the Baptis,
Church, Auburn, yesterday afternoon at
O'Clock.
Mr.. Joseph Catlow and Miss Mamie
Taft acted as best man and bridesmaid,
respectively.
After the ceremony, the newly married
couple, with their friends, drove to the
brides home where feast awaited them.