The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1902-12-26
Buckhannon and Clarksburg Elec-
trio Railroad Company Makes
Application for One of the
City Council, and an Or
deris Entered.
Poute Of proposed Line Through the City Do.
scribed and Provisions for Laying the
Track and Operating the System
Set Forth in Ordnance.
Set Forth in Ordnance.


The Buckhannon s ClarksburE
Electric Railroad Company applied
for a franchise at the city council Fri
day night and asked that the follow
lug ordinance be passed
Be it ordained by the Council of the
CITY of Clarnburg, State Of West
virginia, that the privilege is hereby
granted to the Buckhannon and
clarksburg Electric Railroad Com
pany, a corporation organized under
the laws Of West Virginia, and its
assigns, for the period of fifty years,
to construct and operate street rail-
way, with the necessary side tracks
and turn outs, for transfer by cars,
drawn or propelled by horses, electric
fly, cable or motor power, Of passen-
gers, over and upon the following
streets in said city viz:
Beginning at point on Third
Street, at point opposite the Traders
Hotel: thence down Third Street to
Mechanic Street; thence down Me-
chsnic Street tits intersection with
water Street; thence with said Water
Street to the corporation line. But
nothing in this grant contained shall
authorize said Company to construct
their railway upon or across any
bridge in said city, or 10 any way in
terfere with any bridge in sad city
without having iBt obtained permits
sion from the County Court Of Harrt-
son County TO do SO, nor to authorize
said Company to cross any existing
railway tracks or roads. without hav-
ingfirs obtained the consent from the
corporation operating said. railway to
cross its tracks or roads, with the
right and privilege to extend and lay
such tracks to, from across and over,
said streets and such others as shall be
deemed necessary by said Company to
accommodate the public and meet the
demands Of travel IN and through said
city, but subject TO the following con-
dltlons and restrictions:
The said Company shall transfer
passengers at fare not TO exceed five
cents from one end of their line to the
other within the corporate lines of the
CITY Of ClarksburE; the said Company
shall lay their tracks alta grade with
said streets and shall cause, the streets
over and along which they may lay
their tracks to be placed in as good
condition and repair after said tracks
are laid as they we're before, and said
Company shall be responsible for all
damages that may legally accrue to
anyperson, or for any injury other
wise done or suffered while laying
their tracks or in constructing their
said railway, or in operating it after
its completion; and said Company
shall keep the surface of all streets
occupied by its tracks, side tracks or
turnouts in good condition and repair;
and shall, when the City paves said
tfeets, pave and keep well paved be-
tween their rails and tracks, side
tracks and turnouts, and for a space
Of 1sinches outside their rails, tracks,
side tracks and turnoutS so occupied
byit. And the said Company shall
not control nor occupy any portion Of:
said streets other than included in its
tracks: and it shall lay its;tracks, side
cracks. turnouts and switches in such
manner as to not obstruct, impede or
interfere with travel, or the use Of
SAID streets by the pnblic outside its
racks; said Company shall keep said
streets in such condition as to not i'm
pair or interfere with the free and
proper use thereon by the public or in
any manner necessarily obstruct
travel thereon; said Company shall
not by means Of snow plows or other
wise so deposit snow outside of It's
tracks as to interfere with the right
Of abuttinR owners Of property to free
access to, and egress from, their prop,
erty, d ~ the right of the general
public Is she use of said street or
streets; and said Company shall SO
construct its tracks as not to cause