The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-03
AT LAST.
Cost of Removing
Snow From Streets
To Be Divided.
RAILWAYS PAY 40 PER CENT.
and Consolidated viii
Enter An Agreement
On That Basis.
RAILWAYS PAY 40 PER CENT.

Mayor Dodge has completed an ar
rangement whereby the Consolidated
Street Railway company will bear 40
per cent of the cost occasioned by re-
moval of snow from the streets of Wor-
cester where tracks of the Consolidated
are laid.
No formal agreement has been signed,
but the matter was settled yesterday
afternoon after a conference between
Mayor Dodge and Superintendent John
N. Akarman of the Consolidated. No
final agreement has been effected with
the suburban roads, although officials
of these lines are understood as being
agreeable to similar terms as those i'm
posed on the Consolidated
The snow bills for last year, which
have been source of contention be-
tween the city and officials of the rail-
way will be settled on the same basis,
which means that the Consolidated will
pay about $4,000 into the city treasury
as its share of removing snow last
winter.
According to the estimate of the city
engineer the Consolidated tracks occu-
Ply 22.75 per cent of the streets in which
they are laid. The first proposition
submitted by officials of the road was
to pay 25 per cent of the expense oc-
Cured but the city would not listen
to this. The mayor claimed that in
many instances it would not be neces-
sary to cart snow off the streets if it
were not for the plows and sweepers of
the railway, which throw up the snow
on either side in passing through. The
railway officials claimed that as all
snow from the sidewalk is thrown into
the streets this matter should be taken
into consideration, but the mayor
thought this matter about evened up
the additional work occasioned by
plows and swepers of the railway.
Another feature in the agreement is
that the city Will take care of a certain
territory and the railway company
another, in order that there may no
conflict The city engineer will go to
work at once on an estimate of the
territory embraced in the various
| streets where car tracks are laid, with
the idea in view of laying out the ter
| ritory on the basis of 40 and 60 per
| cent for each.
Under this arrangement the city and
the street railway company will each
| care for proportionate share of the
| streets in the city, and employees of
| each department will care for their
| sections alone, except in case employees
| or the railway company fail to keep
| streets in proper condition. when the
| city will step in and correct matters.
| The mayor and other city officials in
terested breathed a sigh of relief when
the matter was finally settled. The
matter of who should settle for cartine
snow has been commended since the
blizzard Of last winter, but now the
matter is settled and the billiards. may
come along any time.
One city official stated last night that
in his opinion the most potent factor in
bringing the company to an agreement
was fear that the city might secure an
injunction restraining it from using its
snow plows or sweepers. But this is all
passed. The mayor feels perfectly
satisfied with the arrangement, as dc
members of the city government, who
consider the arrangement satisfactory
and fair to all concerned