The Portland daily press., 1896-03-11
CAPE ELECTRIC ROAD.
The Company Had Filed Acceptance Of
the Location.

the Location.
Could the City Government Reconsider I'm
der the COMMUNICATIVE the Road
and Alderman Thompson Saw.
At the meeting of the City Government
held Monday evening, it will he remem-
bered that the order passed by the las t
years board of aldermen granting a loca-
ton, down Elm St, to the Rochester rail-
road station, to the Cape Electric road,
was. on motion of Alderman Thomp-
son, reconsidered and on motion of Alder
man Kehoe laid upon the table, Alder
man Thompson saying that he desired
| this step taken, not because he was op-
| posed to the road, or to their running
their track down Elm street, but that he
wished the matter to be fully Investigated
by the board of public works and re-
port made by that body to the aldermen.
Yesterday it was ascertained that the
Cape Electric road, on Monday morning
at ten minutes before ten o'clock-the
hour set for the Inauguration Of the new
city government-f1led with the city
ing held on Saturday last, accepting the
location granted by the order passed by
the last board of aldermen, and also their
acceptance of the location, as follows:
Voted-That the Portland & Cape Eliz-
a6eth Railroad company assent to and
accept, and it does hereby In writing assent
to and accept, the permission, additional
location in the city of Portland and
board Of Mayor and aldermen of the city
of Portland, in and by the order passed
by said board, on March 2nd, 1896, and to
| the conditions in said order contained:
said additional location, SO granted, ex-
! tending from the southerly line of Con-
gress street at the end of its present loca-
| ton in Monument square; thence contin-
street across said Congress street, to the
northerly line Of said Congress street, to
the head Of Elm street. and crossing the
tracks of the Portland Railroad company;
themes on and through said Elm street
to the intersection of said Elm street
with Oxford street ION and through said Ok
ford street to the intersection with Preble
street; thence on and through said Preble
street to a point on said street distant
twenty feet from the southerly side of the
present southerly track of the Portland
& Rochester railroad and the president of
this corporation is hereby instructed to
execute, in behalf Of the company, and to
file with the proper officers of the city of
| Portland, its assent and acceptance in
writing, to and Of said permission, ad-
ditlonal location, and rights, and the
conditions contained in said order, passed
as aforesaid.
hereby certify that the foregoing is a
true copy of the vote passed by the di-
rectors of the Portland & Cape Elizabeth
Railroad company on March Z 1896.
Attest: H. r. MACLEOD,
| Clerk.
This was the acceptance:
| To the Honorable the Board of Mayor
and Aldermen of the City of Portland:
| The Portland & Cape Elizabeth Rail
way company assents and accepts, and it
| does hereby, in writing, assent to and ac-
| cept the emission, additional location
in the city of Portland, and rights
granted said company by the board of
mayor and aldermen of the city of Port
land, in and by the order passed by said
| board on March I'd, 1896, and to the con-
ditions in the said order contained; said
additional location, SO granted, extending
| from the southerly line of Congress street
| at the end of it's present location in Mon
| ument square, thence continuing from
said southerly line of Congress street
across said Congress street to the norther-
ly line of said Congress street, to the
head of Elm street, and crossing the
tracks of the Portland Railroad company
thence on and through said Elm street
| to the intersection of said Elm street
with Oxford street, on and through said
| Oxford street to its intersection with
Preble street; thence on and through
said Preble street to point on said street
| let MT tyUo ho nyrth or ri
side OF the present southerly track Of the
Portland q Rochester railroad.
| Dated at Portland, Maine this 7th day
of March, A. D. 1895.
Portland & Cape Elizabeth Railway
company, by
j. S. WINsLow,
it's president, hereunto duly authorized.
Nathan & Henry B. Cleaves and Steph-
en- G. Perry, its solicitors.
The vote and acceptance bear the en-
dorsement:
City of Portland, Me.
Received March g. 1896, at H. 80 M.
a. M, and recorded.
Attest: EDWIN L. DYER,
City Clerk.
The representative of the road said to
the PRESS yesterday that the vote and
acceptance were fled as stated above.
The location would have been accepted
Immediately after the passage of the Or
der but President Winslow was in Wash
ington and did not return until last Sat.
urday. The work Of building the road
will 90 right on. 1t must go ON. The
plans have been made. and material pur-
chased and ordered. All tia legal re-
quirements have been complied with by
the road. He thought it strange that if
Alderman Thompson was not opposed
to the road that he should not, when he
presented the order for reconsideration,
have also read the vote and acceptance of
location.
Alderman Thompson said to the PRESS
that as he was chairman, and presiding
| officer of the board of aldermen he gave
some of the papers he should naturally
have presented to Alderman leighton to
present. His mind was full of the recon-
sideration Of the order. When he called
Alderman Pagan to the chair and pro-
ceeded to ask for the reconsideration. he