The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-12-14
NEW TROLLEY LINE ASSURED
TO EXTEND FROM CENTERVILLE TO
 MOUNT CARMEL

Meeting of Residents of Hamden Yester-
 day FaVors Plan of Street Raiiwny-Line
 win be Built in Spring at Cost of ESQ.,
 900.
 The selectmen of Hamden called a meeting of the residents of the town yesterday afternoon to consider the pe- tition of the New Haven and East Fla ven River Street Railway company for permission to build q line of street rail-
 way from the terminus of the New Ha- ven Street Railway companys road at
 Centervllle to 0 point near the New
 York, New Haven and Hartford rail
 road station at Mount Carmel. The
 meeting was held in the town hall at
 Centerville and was we'll attended by
 the dwellers at Mount Carmel and a
 fair sprinllling of Centerville people.
 President Corey and Secretary G. A. w.
 Dodge were there in behalf of the com
 pany.
 First Selectman John Davis called the
 meeting to order and read the petition
 SA NAAS 1NASSS ANdAiNaJ SOiiipeAASb SA~'iNAAAS
 permission to lay it's tracks from Gen.
 terville to Mount Carmel. The petition
 stated in substance that the road was
 to be built so as to connect with the present tracks of the New Haven Street
 Railway company at it's terminus just
 beyond the town hall, thence by the
 old Cheshire turnpike to point near
 the station of the New York New Ha-
 
 Mount Carmel. The road Is to be built
 as a trolley line and Is to follow the present actual grade of the highway.
 Secretary Dodge was called upon to
 explain the plans of the electric com
 pany to the voters. He said that the
 plan proposed followed the new layout.
 The matter of building the road had
 been urged upon the company several
 times and had been considered on .sev-
 eral occasions by the board of directors of the road and had been turned down a. good many times. Of course the com pany looked upon the matter from a purely monetary standpoint. The com- pany would be willing to build road up to the top of Mount Carmel if 1t could be made paying investment At a recent meeting of the board, how ever, new scheme had been presented to 1t and the board had decided to con struct the road in the early spring If the plan was approved. .. The conditions on which the road are to be built are that Mount Carmel shall have car service once in forty-elght minutes and the same service shall be
 given to Centerville, whereas the latter
 place has now car service every thirty six minutes. The car fare from Mount Carmel to Centerville is to be five cents. If these plans are agreed to the road can be constructed and In operation early in the summer The layout had been so made as not to interfere with the sidewalks and trees, The plan pro- posed did not preclude the roads being extended further should 1t be found ad- visable.
 MT. Willis Miller of the axle factory said that he had been visited by sev- eral parties, who said that they would erect station if the road was extended to a point little north of the railroad station instead of stopping this side. Secretary Dodge said that would be a proposition certainly worth considering. Iii answer to question, Mir. Dodge said that the matter of giving commit tation rates on the new road had not been fully passed upon yet but thought there would be no doubt but that com- | mutation tickets would be sold to school | children in the same manner as the Street Railway had done.
 Dr. Joselin said he had been much interested in the building of the road and had gone around in the community feeling it's pulse to see how it felt The sentiment of the community was unan- ! imously in favor of the building of the road and moved that the proposed lay | out be adopted. Selectman Davis said | the doctors motion was out of order, as the selectmen had full power to authorize the construction of the road and had called the meeting only to get | the sentiment of the community. The | motion was withdrawn and the meeting 1 soon after adjourned no one having ex- | pressed himself publicly against the 1 plan.
 1 First Selectman Davis was seen at l the close of the meeting and said that | the se1ectmen would not act upon the petition for two or three days, as there were few minor details to be arranged before they authorized the construction | of the road. He said, however, that l there was no doubt but that the select | men would authorize the construction | of the road.
 l Secretary Dodge was also seen and | said that the road was not to be con- 1 structed by the New Haven Street Rail- ! way company, as many supposed, but 1 by the New Haven and East Haven River Street Railway company, which | is distinct from the former, although 1 MT. Corey Is president and himself sec
 retary of both companies and many of | the stockholders are the same in the l two companies. Work will be com
 menced on the road early in the spring | He roughly estimated the cost of con- 1 structing the road at $30,O00, the money for which has yet to be raised. The road will be built under authority of a l charter granted to the company by the last legislature. It will be about two
 and a quarter miles in length and oper-
 ated by power leased of the New Haven
 Street Railway company.
 Probably the Consolidated road will
 raise no objection to the parallellng of