The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-31
A STRETCH
OF HUDSON TRACK
Consolidated and Concord, May
nard & Hudson Company Come
to an Agreement - Extension
Asked in Shrewsbury

The directors of the Worcester Con-
a special meeting yesterday afternoon
and voted to lease to the Concord, May
nard & Hudson Street Railway Com
pany for a period of 10 years about 1900
feet of the Consolidated track in Hud
son, extending from Wood Square to
the Hudson depot This stretch of
track is on the Clinton e. Hudson
branch of the Consolidated system, and
he new company is anxious to get it in
order that it may get to the depot in
Hudson
The new company already has a To-
cation to Wood Square in the town, but
the state railroad commissioners OBJ
iect to having two separate companies
operate cars over a single track on ac-
count Of the danger, and the two COM
panies have reached an agreement
whereby the Concord Maynard & Hud-
son Company shall have exclusive right
to run cars over the strip that was
leased yesterday. In the future the
cars of the Consolidated company will
run only to Wood Square, instead of
continuing a quarter of mile to the
depot. One of the conditions of the
transfer passengers without extra
cost to the passengers inside the lines
of Hudson.
The directors also voted to petition
the selectmen of Shrewsbury for a
further extension of the Consolidated
tracks in Quinsigamond Avenue on the
Shrewsbury side of the Lake. The com
pany was given a hearing a short time
ago on its petition for a franchise in the
q IN Mt
main road to Shrewsbury 1t was
thought when the original petition was
filed that this stretch of track would
carry the passengers beyond the houses
most remote from the main road, but
actual measurement shows the stretch
asked for goes only as far as the Ia
tassit Canoe Club house. The people
below are very anxious to get the
street car accommodations, and the
company is willing to give them In
order to straighten out the. difficulty,
the company will file another petition
for a further extension. After this
hearing. the company will have until
next spring to get material for the con-
struction Of the new line, if the select
men grant the franchise and in view
of the unanimous request of the resi-
dents. it Is very likely the petition will
be considered favorably.
General Manager Richard T. Latin
received in his mail late yesterday af-
ternoon a petition from residents on
Salisbury Street, asking that the COM
pany make a change in it's present sys-
tenn of running cars there by going
back to the old schedule of having the
Tatnuck cars run out Salisbury Street
instead of the haywood Street cars,
the latter line having been joined with
the Salisbury Street line last week. The
residents claim the new schedule does
not give them so good service, and
they want better service and think
they can get it If the old system is re-
turned to. The petition is directed to
the president and directors of the COM
)any. so Manager Latin cannot act un
til after 1t has been passed on by them.
The meeting of the directors had adj
journed yesterday when the petition
was received. so the matter will have
TO go over until the next meeting.