The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-04-02
WORK ON DERBY EXTENSION
CONTRACTORS HAZE THE SUB-
 GRADING WELL UNDER VAT.

1 The Hardest Propositions First Tackled 1 Points Regarding the Layout-Ths
 Cuts aud Bridges-Fine Scenery and views-There VIII Hardly bo a Prct-
 tier Trolley Ride in New England. l The work on the Derby extension of
 the Fair Haven and Westville Railroad company has within the past few weeks 1 been pushed energetically forward, and
 at this time work on some of the hard est propositions that the Blakesiees, the contractors for the sub-grading, have confronting them is now well under way When the contra ctors commenced their $60,0 grading job some time ago
 they took the bull by the horns"v in that they tackled the hardest work first This they did by setting good
 forces at work on the heavy cuts and
 the large places that are to be filled in.
 The road promises to be unique in sev-
 eral respects. Probably ill few places
 in this country has a trolley road been
 built over more difficult ground. Pene-
 tldlIiiSo ro IL dbSc lilt IllliS ludL Sluu LLle
 way from here to Derby, it can be read
 fly seen that the building of the line in-
 wolves considerable natural difficulties
 It is the very abolishing of these that
 will add to the beauty of the ride which
 beyond any doubt will not be surpassed
 in New England in country picturesque
 ness.
 The line, after skirting the Yale field and St. Lawrence cemetery to Forest street pushes on over the Derby turn
 pike to the glistenng Maltby lakes,
 which dot the vicinity and at the foot of Long Hill deserts the highway and takes a course through the woods. The view from the top of Long Hill will be one to attract the attention of all lovers of natural scenery. off in the distance in plain view is East Rock with it's white shaft of stone erected in the eighties to the hero dead of the civil war Turning to the west is West | Rock, which has only it's own rugged | beauty to crown it. Nearer and much | lower down are the Maltby lakes, set | in the landscape like diamonds, and in l all directions is the healthful wiIdness | of pure country life.
 In making it's way through the hilly | land between here and Derby the line | will go through several deep cuts, some | of which are through solid rock. It | will go under one bridge and over an other in the Long Hill section but de- 1 spite all the engineering problems pre- sented there will not be one curve that | will actually require guard rails. The improvements to the highway which the construction of the road will afford have been spoken of heretofore and 1t remains necessary only to recall that from the Yale field to Forest street the turnpike is to be macadamized; at the .op of Long Hill it is to be strengthened lnd the grade lowered. which will be Irving that way and that the Tyler City road is to be bridged overhead, to 10 which a cut through solid stone of eighteen feet has already been made A short distance beyond is the Dogman 'oad and here [, fork is now being aken out and the highway traversed ,y an iron trestlt. All this work is low under way and as soon as the trading is done tte railroad company will begin to lay it's tracks in the hope | if having the line open this fall. This york will be begun under the engineer # the road who is to do all the track aying. He will commence at the Yale eld and push the tracks forward The inc will be double tracked and will be n the left of the highway all the way | o Derby It does not cross the main ighway at any point. which is quite ' 1aY | f accidents.