The Portland daily press., 1900-07-14
They Have No Guide Posi- on Saeo
Road.
Chief Consul Small Of T..
A. w. Back Of Action.
State Law ON This Subject Is To
BE Enforced.

The Saco road is well known to Port
land people generally, and especially to
Portland cyclists. Where the overhead
bridge Of tho Boston & Maine railroad
crosses this road there is another high
way called the Rigby road, which joins
the Saco road at that poi Mt. At che fork
of these roads there should be a guide
post with lettering thereon, informing
the traveller as to the way he should go
Cyclists have long noticed the absence Of
this guide post and have made complaint
thereof.
Yesterday more definite and important
action was taken, when Chief Consul
Clarence w. Small, of the L. A. W.,
through his attorney, Charles A. True,
ESQ, of this city, brought suit against
Mayor E. c. Reynolds, of South Port
land, and the seven aldermen of the city
individually, to recover from them gener-
ally the legal penalty of five dollars for
each months neglect to establish proper
guide post at the fork of the above-men-
toned roads. 1t is alleged by the writ
as follows
''That the said defendants, on the thir-
tenth day of March, A, ID. 1890, were,
and still are, the municipal officers of the
said City OF South Portland, and were on
said thirteenth day of March, A. D. 1900
and still are, obliged by law to erect and
maintain at all crossings of highways in
said city, and where one public highway
enters another in said city, substantial
guide posts not less than eight feet high,
and fasten to the upper end of each Of
said guide posts a board, on which shall
be plainly printed, in black letters on a
white ground the name OF the next town
on the route, and Of such other place as
the municipal officers may direct, with
/ the number of miles thereto, and a figure
/ of a hand with the fOrefinger poi nting
thereto And the plaintiff further AYERS
that on the thirteenth day of April, A. d.
1900, and continuously from the said
thirteenth day of April to and including
the thirteenth day Of July, A. d. 1900
and While the said defendants were the
legally chosen, qualified and acting
municipal officers OF said City Of South
Portland, the said defendants, to wit, the
said municipal officers, have unreasOna-
bly, neglected to cause a guide post to be
erected in said City of South Portland,
as provided by law at a place in said
city where one public highway enters an
other, to wit, at place situated few
hundred feet in a SOuthWeSterly direction
from Cash's Corner SO called, in sal
city, on the old Portland and SacO road
tbO 20 DOlnU UWO uu4QE6U I66O al Il9nO all
giles from the center OF the Boston 20
Maine railroad Western Division, on the
eastsrly side of said railroad, where the
public highway known as the Rigby
Road, which said public highway runs
from said last mentioned place to the
town line Of the town Of Scarborough in
said County OF Cumberland, enters an
other public highway in said City of
South Portland, to wit, the public high
way which runs from the town line of
the City of Portland through said City of
South Portland to the town line of the
town of Scarborough, in said county,
and known as the Portland and Saeo
road.
Whereby and by force of the statute
in such case made and provided an ac-
tiOn has accrued to the plaintiff to recover
Of said defendants, to wit, of said munici
pal officers, the penalty given by law for
the unreasonable neglect of said defend
ants, to wit, of said municipal officers,
to erect and maintain a guide post at
the place where the above mentioned pub
lie highway known as the Rigby Road
enters the above mentioned public high
way known as the Portland and Saco
Road, that is to say, the sum of five dol
lars for the unreasonable neglect OF said
defendants, to wit, of said municipal
/ officers, for each month neglect by said
defendants, to wit, by said municipal
/ officers, from the said thirteenth day of
April, A. D. 1900, to and including said
thirteenth day of July, A. ID. 1900, to
wit, the sum of fifteen dollars: and the
plaintiff brings this suit to recover said
penalty"
Chief Consul Small says that the NUM-
cipal officers of South Portland have
slnned agains the light Under date of
March 20, 1899, he sent to them circu-
lar letter calling their attention to the
law Of the State on the subject of guide