Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-27
HO! FOR WEBSTER.
Capital Stock for the Company
ME- All Subscribed.
Franchise to Be Petitloned for as Soon as
Temporary Organization
is Effected.

Ho! for Webster. The Worcester and
Webster Electruc Street Railway Com
pany as an assured fact, and as soon as
the snow is off and the frost out of the
the ground the work of construction
will begin if the necessary franchises
are obtained
The articles of incorporation of the
Worcester and Webster Street Railway
Company will be published in the Spy's
advertising columns tomorrow. The law
relative to the incorporation of street
railway companies requires the publica-
ton of these articles for three success
size weeks, once each week, and as soon
as the law has been complied with in
this respect, the selectmen in Webster,
Oxford and Auburn will be asked to
gf#e the company the franchise neces-
sary for the location of the road
The. 4apital stock of the company has
been subscribed. It is $2OO,O0 and OF
this amount a large New York banking
honseshas taken $150,00O Harold Parker
OF Lancaster, who has been the promo
tegFof the railway, has taken $20,500 of
the stock and single shares and small
blocks of shares have been taken by
people along the route of the proposed
railway Everything is accomplished
b4t the locations in. the towns along the
route and no trouble is anticipated on
this score ,
The subscribers to the stock of the
company are: H. Hobart Potter, Jr., of
New York city, $50 shares; E. N. San
derson Of New York city, 750 shares;
Harold Parker of Lancaster, 205 shares;
Charles S. Clark of Brookline, 200
shares; William C. Cuntz of Boston, 20
shares; F. E. Huntress of Someryille,
20 shares; Edwin Bartlett Of Oxford, 10
shares; Frederick Thayer Of oxford, 10
shares; Edwin ~ Bartlett of oxford, 5
shares; Allen L. Taft of Oxford, 5
shares; L., f, Kilby Of oxford, 5 shares;
HI V. Chaffee of oxford, 5 shares; A.
M Chaffee of Oxford, shares; Joseph
A. :. Fitzpatrick of Boston, shares; A. S.
Wolfe, E. H. Newton, Joseph P. Eaton,
S. P. Perry, all of Auburn, and A. L.
makes total of 1000 shares
The directors of the temporary or
ganization are Edwin Bartlett of Ok
ford, a, L. Joslin of Oxford, H. V.
Chaffee of Oxford, A. S. Wolfe of
Auburn. s. p, Perry of Auburn, Charles
S. Clark of Brookline and Harold Parker
of Lancaster. 1t will be noticed that the
directors include several gentlemen Who
have been said to be connected with an
anti-Parker movement for the construc-
ton of the street railway and which
was said in a morning paper little
while ago, to "hold the key to the situa-
tion" through the purchase of the Bat
tey farm, near the oxford and Auburn
town lines. The purchase of this farm
was by a Worcester real estate man
who is said to be the protector Of the
alleged anti-Parller movement.
The incorporators of the new railway
anticipate no trouble in securing their
locations The question of grade cross
ing over the New England road, near
Oxford and Auburn town line, is the
only serious problem for the solution of
the projectors of the railway. 1t is
probable that this will be solved before
the first steps of construction are taken.
1t is safe enough to say that there will
be no fight of any great consequence be-
tween the company organized through
Mr.. Parker and the men of Oxford and
Auburn and the so-called anti-Parker
company.
The projectors of. the former company
had received assurances of friendly con-
sideration last summer, when they had
nearly effected a temporary organiza-
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friendly feeling exists toward this
scheme today, and that there will be
little or no opposition to their petitions
for location The new road will come
into Worcester via Southbridge street.
and arrangements will probably be
made with the Consolidated Street Rail
way Company for the use of its tracks
to City Hall on similar terms as obtain
between the Consolidated and the
nd
Company, If these arrangements
should fail, the passengers from the
new road would be transferred to the
Consolidated cars at Stearns square and
come into Worcester by the city road.
tThe road contemplated by the Parker
movement is to begin at the terminus
oftsthe Consolidated Street Railway at
Stearns square, South Worcester. 1t
will follow along the side Of Pakachoag
hill, through a road that the selectmen
of Auburn propose to have built for the
new railway. and will cross the New
England Railroad at Auburn station.
There is some doubt as to the route
through Auburn town, for the people
are divided between town centre route
by the post office and town hail. and a
route through West Auburn, along the
Southbridge road. The route, after the
Auburn difficulty is settled, will be
through the villages of oxford and into
Webster centre Excepting the section
Of the road that goes through the cen
tire Of Auburn, If the town hall route is
decided upon, there are no hard grades,
and the engineering problems in the
construction are comparatively simple
1t is held that the new road can be bet
ter built than any other road in the
county of a similar length and for less
money. The managers of the scheme
are going to insist upon thorough con-
struction, and say that when the rail
way is completed, there will be compar-
ativelY little expense in keeping Ii in