The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-12-16
The new TROLLEY Line
WHICH IS PROJECTED FROM
HARTFORD TO NEW HAVEN.

Interview with S. Harrison Wagner,
the New Haven Member of the Board
Of Directors of the New Lino-The Ten
Per Cent. of the $500 Per Mile Paid
imam AIR lime II QUITE Of Thirty UIIes.
Lawyer S. Harrison Wagner, the New
Haven member of the board of directors
of the projected new trolley line to con-
meet Hartford and New Haven, was in
terviewed yesterday by Courier re-
porter on the subject: Yes said Mr..
Wagner, the company for that object
has been formed and the 10 per cent of
the $1,000 per mile required by the law
has been paid in. The road will be
built under the general railroad law Of
the state. It will be an air line road
as nearly so as possible. We estimate
that the length of the road from New
Haven to Hartford will be thirty miles
so you see it will be pretty near an air
line. The road will be all new except
ing a few miles. It will be a fast line,
as there will be no grade crossings to
hinder speed. The road will go under
CA OfSL a1poG ClboSI1bSSy do TIC SGtSC
may be. We will acquire the right of
way as far as possible by amicable
means. When we cannot we shall ap-
ply to the courts and have land needed
for right OK way condemned. We will
erect probably two power houses, one
in Hartford and one in Middletown. We
may find it necessary, and an economy
to use an immense voltage by means of
which power can be transmitted long
distances. The wire for this purpose
will be a ane wire and independent Of
the regular trolley wire, except where it
is tapped at various points to feed the
trolley wire. We will come from Mid
dletoWn to Durham and thence to Mon
roWese, where we will connect with the
Fair Haven and Westville trolley line.
We have broached the subject to the
Fair Haven road and have no doubt an
amicable arrangement can be made for
connection and transfer. We think the
new line will be a great public accom-
modation and that it is bound to be
great success.
From another source it is learned that
the Hartford and Middletown company,
which is a constituent factor in the new
project, will build eleven miles of track
from the end of the Hartford Street
Railway company's line on Franklin
avenue to a connection with the Middle
town electric road, at North Main
street, in that city. The tracks of the
Middletown company will be used to
the south part of that city and thence
new road nineteen miles will be built,
via Durham and North Branford, and
into Northford, connecting, at Monto-
wese in the south part of that town,
with the existing line into New Haven.
Conflicting Petitions.
Apparently in conflict with the Hart
ford and Middletown plans is petition
of the Rev. D. r. Lowell, Attorney Ar
| thur B. Calef, w. w. Wilcox, Francis
Atwater. and other Middletown and
Meriden residents, who ask for a char
ter to build from Middletown westward
to Middlefeld and Meriden; southwark
to Durham and Guilford; also northerly
to Cromwell, Rocky Hill and the Weth-
crsfield town line; also to Berlin.
The Middletown Street Railway COM
pany will ask the general assembly for
leave to extend it's tracks to Berlin,
Durham and Cromwell.
The Middletown and Meriden Trac-
ton company also has a charter and
asks additional rights for building be-
tween those cities.