Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-09-07
STATE HOUSE.
Railroad Commissioners Re-
port on Overhead Bridges.
And Graft Certificate of Operation Of
Sanford & Cape Porpoise Railway.
Questions From Civic Federation sip
Cleaned From the Various Departments.

The railroad commissioners held their
regular meeting. Wednesday. There
We're no hearings assigned but the com
| missioners rendered a decision on the pc
titiOn of the Sanford & Cape Porpoise
Railway for crossing the Boston &
Maine Railroad at Kennebunk and West
Kennebunk by overhead bridges They
| also issued the certificate of operation to
the above railway The decision was as
follows:
To the Honorable Board of Railroad
Commissioners of the State of Maine:
The Sanford and Cape Porpoise Rail
way Company. corporation organized
under the general laws of the State of
Maine. and having its location and place
of business in Sanford. in the county Of
York. and State aforesaid; hereby peti.
tons Your honorable board for the appro =
val of the ways and means of crossing
Western divisions of the Boston and
Maine Railroad. in the town of Kenne
bunk, in said county. as follows:
AT konnebunk. over the Western divis
Ion. the bridge is to be supported by four
10 inch 20 pound | beams 50 feet and &
inches long to be set in stone masonry
abutments. There is to be four inch
plank on | beams and another course of
plank TO cover to top of rails with a
small place cut out Tor the tianges of
car wheels. The outer ends of the plank
Dtlhe supported by queen truss six feet
high and 81 feet long.
The distance between the abutments is
80 feet and inches.
At West kennebunk. the bridge is to be
supported by four Is inch 60 pound
beams 26 feet long to be set on stone ma
sonry, and planked the same as at the
Western division. with a lighter | beam
to carry the ends of the plank flooring.
with a fence similar to the one there now
and four feet northeast of present fence.
The distance between abutments is y
Sanford, Me. May 18th, 1889
SANFORD 4 CAPE PoRPOISE RAIL.
WAY COMPANY.
BY FRED ]. ALLEN.
Its Attorney.
On the foregoing petition; ordered:
That the petitioner cause to be pub,
this order. of notice thereon. three days
successfully in the Biddeford Daily
journal, a newspaper published at Bid
deford. in the county of York, the first
publication in said paper 10 be at least
five DAYS before the seventh day of June
ON which day the board Of railroad com
missioners will be in session at their Of
flee in Augusta at ten o'clock in the fore.
noon for the purposes indicated in said
petition. Said petitioner shall send copies
of the foregoing petition and order to the
Boston ana Maine Railroad Company or
its general manager. at Boston. nve days
before SAID hearing.
j. b. PEAKS. Chairman
For the Board of Railroad commissioners
Dated this 2od day Of May A. D. 1899
Clerk
STATE OF MAINE.
In Board Of Railroad Commissioners.
Upon the fore going petition. notice hav-
ing been given as ordered. the board met
at the time and place stated in said or
der, and gave hearing TO all parties in
ter@Sted.
Mr. Fred j. Allen appeared for the pc
titiOner
Mr.. Seth NJ Carter appeared for the
Boston and Maine Railroad Company.
This is petition for crossing the BOs-
ton and Maine Railroad over its track of
the western division at kcnnebunk by an
overhead bridge: and over its eastern di-
vision at West kennebunk by another
overhead bridge.
We hereby approve both crossings with
the following specifications to be adhered
to:
At Kennebunk the bridge is to be built
substantially as specified in said petitiOn
and to be built to the satisfaction and
acceptance OF the railroad commissioners.
At West kennebunk the bridge is to be
ton, except that the bridge is to be
raised 50 as To give eight inches more
head room above the track of the Boston
and Maine Railroad. The roadway on
said bridge is also to be widened eight
feet. and in addition thereto there shall
b. a sidewalk five feet wide.
The Sanford and Cape Porpoise Rail
way Company are to assume the entire
cost az said bridges. except the cost OF
grading the approaches to conform to the
raised structure; and the Boston and
Maine Railroad Company Is to pay the
said Sanford ANA Cape Porpoise Railway
the sum Of one hundred and forty five
dollars. estimated cost of the new bridge
.at West krnn-buuk duplicating the old.
The future maintenance uf said bridges
H. tp be- assumed BY the Boston and
Maine Railroad. ana the Sanford ana
cape Pnrpnisc Railroad shall pay 10 the
Boston ANA Maine Railroad hfty per cent
VI the cost u all repairs hereafter to be
made upon them hy said Boston ana
Maine Railroad COMPANY
Dated nt Augusta. this second day Of
August. A. -. lSsa.
JOSEPH ~ PEAKS
BENZ 4. CHADBOCRNE.
FREDERIC DANFORTH
Railroad Commissioners 81 Maine.
The certificate % operation follows:
STATE or MAINE
Railroad Commissioners Certificate.
In Board 81 Railroad Commissioners.
Nc IN. undersigned. board Of railroad
commissioners. having made careful in
specttun Of the Sanford and Cape Por-
puis+ Railway. a new railway extending
from a point opposite the Sanford hotel
In the town OF sanford. through SANFORD,
Alfred. Lyman aud kennebunk 20 the
bridge over the Western division Of the
Boston am Maine Railroad in said town
Of kcnnebunk. a distance of fourteen and
two thirds miles: also branch IN the
village Of West kenncbunk. extending
| from said main line 10 the passenger sta
| lion on the Eastern division OF said l3os-
| ton and Maine Railroad at said West
| kennebunk. distance of one tenth of
one mile. hereby certify that We have
| found the same so constructed as TO be
| safe for the passage of cars thereon.
| Dated at Augusta. this 18th day OF Au
gust. A. u. 1893
JOSEPH Il. PEAKS,
| BENZ. +. CHADBOtRNE,
FREDERIC DANFORTH,
| Railroad Commissioners of Maine.
| The commissioners also rendered the
following decision regarding the petition
for a change in location of the same rail-
|