The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-07-23
CHESHIRE TROLLEY LINE.
Hearing in This City on August 1.-The
New Route.

| hearing IN InlS City on August line
| New Route.
Waterbury, July 22.-Allan w. Paige
the well known trolley magnate, as
counsel for the Cheshire Street Railway
company, has petitioned Judge eager
of the superior court, for permission to
operate a trolley line between Water
bury and Cheshire. Judge eager has
set the hearing down for August 1 at
II o'clock in the New Haven superior
court room. AS the proposed trolley
line parallels in a general way the
Northampton division of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford rail-
road and the Middletown, Meriden and
Waterbury railroad the court will have
to find that public necessity and con-
venience require the building of the
road before work can be started.
The franchise of the Cheshire Street
Railway company is now owned by the
Connecticut Railway and Lighting
company, which concern purchased the
charter shortly after it was granted by
the last general assembly. The officers
of the Connecticut Railway and Light
ing company, it is said, except some OPP
position from the steam road, and will
have plenty of counsel present to fight
the issue. Copies of the petition issued
by the trolley company We're served up
on the officers of the railroad and the
selectmen of Waterbury, Prospect,
Hamden and Cheshire Saturday night.
A well known Meriden man said Sat
urday night that if the court found for
the company work on the trolley would
be commenced at very early date.
The company in it's petition outlines
the following route; Commencing at the
terminus of the Fair Haven and West
Vile Railway company at Mt. Carmel,
in the town of Hamden, thence along
the Cheshire turnpike to the dividing
line between the towns of Cheshire and
Hamden, thence continuing along said
Cheshire turnpike and Main street
Cheshire, to Maple avenue, in Cheshire.
thence along said Maple avenue to
part nearly opposite the Waverly inn
in Cheshire Center; also commencing at
the intersection of Maple avenue and
West Main street on the main highway
leading to West Cheshire, thence along
said West Main street, or along private
was northerly of said West Main street,
to the Franklin A. Wallace estate,
over the tracks of the North
ampton division of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford railroad, thence
along through main highway leading to
the West Cheshire stetion of the Mid
1letown, Meriden and Waterbury rail-
road, passing under the tracks of said
thence along the Plank road,
So called, or on private way adjacent
o said highway in the towns eff Chesh-
re and Prospect, crossing twice under
he tracks of the Middletown road, to
he bridge on the Plank road over the
said Middletown road easterly of Sum-
nit station, thence along private way,
lortherly of said railroad, In the towns
If Cheshire and Waterbury, to the
bridge on the Plank road, over said
abroad, about quarter of a mile west
rly of the dividing line between the
owns of Waterbury and Cheshire;
hence along the said Plank road, or
m private way adjacent to said high !
way, to Wedges, corner so-called; !
hence along the Meriden and Water |
Jury road, and East Main street to the I
erminus of the Connecticut Railway |
nd Lighting companys tracks at the I
orner of Silver street.