The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-10-01

The recommendation OF the com
of the school committee for an addltlO
$1,000, went through both boards witho
Something of surprise was sprung
in the shape of a petition of the Wor-
cester and Blackstone valley street
Railway Co.. for locations III STREETS e.S
which were refused a few months ago.
The petition of the directors, upon
which a hearing was set for Monday
evening. Oct. 2S, asks that the COM
nanv be allowed to locate tracks be-
ginning at the present terminus Of its
tracks in Worcester, thence along
Grafton Street, through Union Ave
nue., Mendon street and Grafton Street
to Union Square to connect with tracks
of the Worcester Consolidated street
Il Railway Company, ~
The hearing on the several petitions
Of the Consolidated took UP most OF
the session. General Manager Richard
! T. Latin appeared for the company
and set forth what is wanted under
| 10 separate heads.
| The first proposition is for an addi-
tional track in Salisbury street from
Grove Street to Tuckerman Street TO
provide better facilities for handling
the traffic on the Salisbury and Boyn-
ton Street lines.
The petition for a location in Bloom
ingdale Road from Grafton Street to
Plantation Street was fastened by the
petition addressed to the Consolidated
by w. M. Spaulding of the Grafton &
Knight Mfg. Co. and 10 others.
The petition for location In Bel
mont Street provides for a single track
from Lincoln Square through Belmont
Street to a point near the Isolation
Hospital. The company has been asked
to build the line by $50 citizens whose
names adorn a petition submitted for
consideration Of the board.
Proposition number four is for an
other track in Grafton Street from
Grafton Square to the railroad tracks
in Grafton Street.
The fifth request is for a confirma-
ton of the location in Grove Street
from North Street to Chadwick
Square. When the Consolidated re-
located it's tracks at request of the
city the location was not formally
granted.
Sixth, the company wants to lay
tracks in Grafton Street to shops Of
the Bradley Car Company.
Number seven asks for a turnout in
Vernon Street near Ward Street TO
facilitate handling traffic.
Propositions eight and nine are for
turnouts in Hanover Street near Glen
Street and in Thomas Street near Sum
mer Street.
The tenth and last petition is for a
crossover at Madison SQUARE to help
service on the South Worcester and
Webster lines.
Mr.. Latin exhibited plans and blue
prints to show the locations asked in
relation to the various streets. On mo-
ton of alderman D.chtenfels, 1t was
voted to view the locations at the call
of the chair.
w. NJ spaulding Of the Grafton &
Knight Manufacturing Company, spoke
in favor Of granting the Consolidated's
petition in Bloomingdale Road. He said
that his company employed between
500 mad 600 persons, mad to his mind,
If people in the neighborhood were to
derive practical benefit from a street
railway, 1t would have to come from
the Consolidated, as most Of those en-
ployed in the neighborhood would want
to experience the benefit Of the transfer
system to other parts Of the city. He
was strongly prejudiced in favor Of the
Consolidated being granted the location
as against any other company.
Frank B. Hail. counsel for the Peo-
pies Lake Line, appeared in remon-
STRANGE. He explained that his pres
ence was accounted for by the illness
company. After listening to the re-
quests of the Consolidated for locations
in practically every street in the city
unused for street railway traffic, he in
clined TO the belief that his clients
should speak now or never. if they
wanted to get into the city BY a
strange turn of the wheel Of fortune.
the Peoples Lake Line appears as re-
monstrants against granting a location
in Bloomingdale Road. He felt sure
the board would remember that his
clients had petitioned for the location
in question several months before, but
up to this time the Consolidated had
not seen the light which showed the
necessity of a line in Bloomingdale
Road He could not help believing that
If the board had never heard Of the
petition of his clients, it would never
have heard of the Consolidated in that
connection.
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