The Portland daily press., 1896-06-11
Jew ADVERTISEMENTS
10 the Honorable Board of Railroad
Commissioners Of the State Of
n aine.


pany, a corporation organized under the
general laws of the State of Maine, and
having its location and place of business in
Portland, in the County OF Cumberland, IN
said State, hereby petitions your Honorable
Board for approval of the location, courses,
distances and boundaries of the electric
street railway which it proposes to build
within the city of Westbrook and the town
follows:
Beginning at Station Zero (O) which is
shown on the accompanying plan as near
the centre of Main street in said Westbrook
and opposite the centre of Saco street and
at the end of and midway between the ex-
listing rails of the Portland Railroad Com
pany. Thence N. "a deg. 0S min. w on a line
that is a continuation of the course of said
rails 134 feet in said Main street to station
marked 434; thence n. AZ deg AZ min W in
said Main street ITO 4 feet to station marked
Ri Al at the beginning of the old road so
called leading from said Main street to the
village of Gorham; thence N q deg. 55 min.
W by said old road 5i.7 feet to station
marked 2 93.1 /; thence 10 deg SO min W by
said old road 2S3.7 feet to station marked
5+768; thence N 10 deg 40 min w by said old
road 1882 feet to station marked 7Hso;
thence N % deg 81 min by said old road
1886 feet to station marked IL +78,6; thence
N % deg As min W by said old road 294.5 feet
to station marked 14+731; thence N deg
% min by said old road 1921 feet to station
marked 1St25S; thence N 10 deg Is min W by
said old road 1910 feet to station marked
2O+09.s; thence 43 deg 40 min W by said old
road 194.9 feet to station marked 22404.7;
thence 70 deg 56 min W by said old road
1914 feet to station marked % SO. l; thence
N 80 deg 81 min by said old road 216.8 feet
to station marked 25 1913; thence N 60 deg 10
min by said old road 249.1 feet to station
marked 2S+25; thence N 81 deg ~ min " by
+25.4; thence n Sc deg 03 min W by said old
road 1880 feet to station marked 3647S.4;
thence SO deg 50 min W by said old road
511 feet to station marked 41+S9.S, which
station is on the division line between West
brook and Gorham; thence continuing the
same course of 36 deg 80 min by said old
road in the town of Gorham 244 feet to sta
ton marked 1870; thence A deg 30 min
W by said old road $3.50 feet to station
marked 54t25; thence n 4S deg 05 min W by
56+45; thence 81 deg 81 min W by said old
road COG feet to station marked 81 FOL; thence
N So deg Sc min W by said old road 231 feet
to station 10 marked 64ts2; thence y a deg
marked 80; thence N 46 deg Sc min W by said
old road 1892. feet to station marked 99492;
thence 81 deg 30 min W by said old road
$40 feet to station marked 1O6 +67; thence N
IS deg 81 min w by said old road 800 feet TO
station marked 1l6+66: thence S 80 deg IT
min by said old road 3060 feet to station
marked l47--t-26; thence S "a deg OF min W by
s;rid old road 1881 feet to station marked
s15S 19.1 /; thence S 79deg % min W by said old
road 5000 feet to station marked 163+S0;
thence S sc deg 0S min W by said old road
461.5 feet to station marked 1863 t41.5; thence
S s. deg 43 min W by said old road 711.3 feet
to station marked 175+52.S: thence 50 deg
~ min W by SAID Olu ROAD looI.2 IeeU TO StdtlOn
marked 1850 O4; thence S 81 deg 20 min W by
said old road 461.4 feet to station mark ed
1913 1854 thence S 81 deg 80 min by said old
road 56s6 feet to station marked 2e9t 81
village of Gorham being known as Main
street), thence 70 deg "A min W in Main
street ls6 feet to station marked 21ot "a
feet to station marked 216+T2.6;
Being a point in Gorham Village in the
easterly line of School street produced
10 ,tf1c
line of said Main street. The above location
is further particulariZed by additional de-
scription as follows to wit: All the changes
of direction Indicated by the above courses
shall be Joined by standard curves peculiar
to the angle between said courses.
The turnouts that your petitioners ask for
are between the following stations, to VT
From station so to station 50
From station CT so to station 67+50
From station 104 to station 1903
From station 142 to station 147
From station 1874 to station 1888
Fom station 2094 "a to station 216
The widthsof location that your petitioner
asks for is AZ right and left of the above
Indicated centre line of proposed railroad
and AZ right and left OF the centre line of
turnout tracks.
Your petitioner accompanies this petition
with map of the proposed route on an
appropriate scale with the written approval
as to the proposed route and location as to
streets, roads and ways, of the municipal
officers of the City of Westbrook and Town
of Gorham in which said railroad is to be
co instructed. and with report and estimate
prepared by skillful engineer, to w.t. +: G.
Jordan. Your petitioner further says that
public convenience requires the construction
of the street railroad herein prayed Tor.
The said petitioner further asks
that your Honorable Board will
give a hearing hereon at time and place
to be designated by said Railroad Commits
sioners after said Commissioners have
ordered such notice as they shall deem
meet.
Dated this 2Sth day of May A. D. 1896.
PORTLAND EXTENSION RAILROAD co.
BY VIM r. Wood, President.
Attest: (sd] E. c. HARRINGTON, Clerk.
On the foregoing petition: Ordered:
That the petitioner cause to be published
true copy of said petition, and this order
OF notice thereon three days successfully in
the PORTLAND DAILY PRESS, a newspaper
published at Portland in the county OF Cum
befland, the first publication to be at least
seven days before Monday the tWenty-sec-
ond day of June, A. D. 1896 on which day
the Board of Railroad Comm lss1oners Will
be in session at Ridlon Hall in Gorham at
two O'clock in the afternoon for the pur-
poses Indicated in said petition. Sald pc
tluoner shall send copies OF the foregoing
petltion and order to the municipal oncefs
OF the towns of Gorham and WestprooK, De-
lore the day of the hearing.
(Sd) j. B. PEAKS CHAIRMAN.
OF Maine
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