The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-02
DID NOT GRANT PETITIONS.


 Were Not in a Recommending Mood
 Leave to Withdraw and Motions to
 Table tho Rule.
 President Parmelee and Treasurer Candee of the Fair Haven and West vile railroad were before the commit tee on railroads and bridges last eve- ming supporting the proposed resolution providing that the company be author ized to run it's cars out Chapel street to the corner of Chapel and Norton streets every six minutes and to the city line every twelve minutes between 7:12 in the morning and in the evening The proposition was opposed by Attor- ney c. s. Hamilton, Solomon Mead, Linus Mead, Councilman Clark, J. F. Henchy and James Clark. The speak CTS claimed that such an arrangement would greatly inconvenience the resi- dents of that vicinity
 Derby avenues. The resolution would save the running of one car, and in support of it's recommendations the ot- ficials of the company represented that beyond the corner of Chapel and Nor ton streets the traffic did not warrant the running of cars oftener than on . twelve minute schedule. Secretary Candee presented the figures for sixty nine days between January 23 and April ?, showing that between the cor ner of Norton and Chapel streets and the Yale field the company carried in both directions 12806 passengers. Dur ing that time 157 trips were made over the road a day, which averaged lS6
 people for a car, or trifie over one person for a round trip. At five cents head 1S6 people paid the company $9 30 as the earning of each car. It
 costs the company $10.50 day to run each car, so that they are run at loss of $1.20 for each day
 The petitioners were given leave to withdraw.
 The tracks of the New Haven Street
 Railway company near Bishops gate on State street have for some time been a thorn in the flesh of certain persons residing in that neighborhood. They were before the committee on railroads and bridges last evening in support of resolution which proposed the re-
 moval of the tracks to the center of the street there being but nine feet on one
 side from the track to the curb. Ex-Alderman McGinty, John Cole l man, P. F. Delaney, M. Doherty and August Reisinger favored the passage of this resolution. They said in the past three years ten new houses had | been built in the vicinity, costing from l $3, ,500 to $4,O00, and that otherwise com- fortable homes were being made al- most uninhabitable by dust from the cars, which might be remedied. There was an abundance of room upon the | west side of the track and they thought that the tracks should be moved President Corey and Superintendent | Dodge appeared for the road. They | said that the track complained of oc- cupied the same layout as did the old horse road, and that the new track was | in accordance with the layout granted i by the court of common council. There, | would be necessity for renewal of | the tracks in few years and then the 1 company would place their tracks
 where the council directed The reso- | lution was tabled
 The resolution providing for the sub- stitution of a single stroke gong for
 the use of cars on the Fair Haven and l Westville road instead of the double
 gong now in use was tabled, and will
 be acted upon after the members of | the committee have observed the use of the two gongs. They will make a l trip over the road in a car at one end of which will be attached a gong ot | either kind.