The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-29
NEW ELECTRIC RAILROAD
THE MANUFACTURERS STREET RAILWAY NEARLY COlLPLETED.

Grading All Finished and Tracks Partly
 Laid--To be Used for Freight Traffic
 only-Railroad Freight Cars to be
 Hauled Over It by m Electric Loco-
 motive-Route of the New Road.
 Work on the new Manufacturers Street Railway, now being built in Fair Haven, is being rapidly pushed, and it is thought taht the road will be in complete running order early in the fall. The new road begins at Cedar Hill Junction and continuing along by the old Shore Line tracks for some distance crosses Mill river on a trestle just above the old Tin bridge. Before reaching the bridge a connection IS made with the Shore Line tracks and after crossing the trestle the new road will be graded down to the level or James street. That portion of the new road by which connection is made with the Shore Line track Is being built, and
  solidated road.
 After passing over the trestle the new road crosses the flats to James street, then turns southward through the Old Colony Distillery property and the property of the G. F. Warner com pany. It then crosses Grand avenue just east of the Fair Haven and Vest vile power house, and continues south through the Blatchley property and properties owned by the New Haven Rolling Mill company, pr. Phillips, H. H. & F. w. Benedict, the New Haven Gas Light company, Pierce N. Welch and Henry F. English.
 After reaching Chapel street the new line will turn east on Chapel to James street, then south to River street. It will then continue down River street to the Quinnipiac brewery on Quinni- piac river, where 1t will terminate. By this outline of the route of the new road it will be seen that very little of the track will be laid on the streets, but that 1t crosses mostly private property, the only street along which it runs for any distance being River street. The road will be about one and one-half miles in length and will be for freight traffic only. The company has in its charter the privilege of car- rying passengers if given permission to do so by the court of common coun- cil, but there is at present no inten- tion of taking any passenger traffic. The road like the other electric roads of the city will be of standard gauge, and over 1t the freight cars as switched off from the Consolidated tracks will be hauled. The motive power will be fur nished by an electric locomotive of the same type as those used by the Bal timore and Ohio railroad and by the Consolidated road at Nantasket Beach, but will not be of such large size. The grading for the new road has now all been finished and it is expected that by tonight the tracks will be laid down as far as Grand avenue The fol- lowing streets will be crossed by the new road between James street and the river: Wolcott street, Exchange street, Grand avenue and Chapel street.
 Any freight which comes by the car- load into New Haven for Fair Haven people may be sent over the new road aIter It IS competed, but no local or any freight for small quantities of goods will be run.
 The companies which will be chiefly benefited by the road will be the G. F. Warner Manufacturing company, Old Colony Distillery company's warehouse, the New Haven Rolling Mill company, the Bigelow company, the H. c. Shep- ard Carriage company, the National Pipe Bending company, Beecher & Peck, Lavigne & Scott Manufacturing company, Woodwards coal yard, and the Quinnipiac Brewing company. The front along Mill river is now the 1 only available water front in New Ha- ven, and it is thought by the members 1 of of the Manufacturers Street Rail- way company that the new road, by bringing this district into direct rail- road communication, will enhance the value of property there for factory sites and also encourage the building of manufacturing plants there
 | The officers of the company building | the road are: George S. Barnum, pres ident; N. w. Kendall, vice president; Colonel $. J. Fox, treasurer and Frank l T RiO6lOu