The Press., 1903-05-21
Trolley Notes.

Recent developments In trolley legisia- tion and equipment show that a combina- tion of considerable magnitude Is working out it's destiny, under the dominating con- trol of the Saltonstall- Eldridge- Anthony syndicate of Boston, which now controls the Hartford < Springfield Street Railway Company, the East Windsor Street Rail- way Company and the Somers & Enfield Electric Railway Company. The Rock vile, Broad Brook & East Windsor Street Railway Company, which was chartered by the General Assembly in, 1901 and which perfected it's organization last week, will be equipped and operated by the Hartford & Springfield company. It will run from the terminus of the Hartford, Manchester < Rockville Tlamway's line in Rockville through Vernon, Ellington and Broad Brook, west to point about three miles above East Windsor Hill, where a connection will be made with the Hartford and Springfield line.
 The Stafford Springs Street Railway Company. which has charter to build a trolley line. from Rockville to the Mas sachusetts state line in Stafford, is not financed by the Saltonstall syndicate. It's office is to be. in Hartford and it is to Ibe built by the James F. Shaw combination of Boston, the financial party which Is to build the proposed electric road from Hartford through Middletown to New Haven. The work of construction of this road has been delayed for some time, ow- ing to trouble in securing an adjustment of some desired local rights. The Shaw syndicate is the one which has just built the road from Worcester to Boston.
 The Crystal Lake Railway Company, which obtained charter from the Gen. eral Assembly last week, is authorized to build trolley road from the tracks of the Somers < Enfield Electric Railway Com pany in Somers to Crystal Lake in the town of Ellington, where a connection will be made with the line of the Stafford Springs Street Railway Company. It will be connecting line between the Shaw and the saltonstall roads, but does not belong to either syndicate
 , Indications are that these trolley com binations in various sections of Hartford and Holland counties are to form the basis of a strong combination of which the Hartford and Springfield, owned, operst d and controlled by the SaltonstalI syndi- cate, will be the central figure Large and valuable charter rights have been secured, with rights of merger, purchase, lease and consolidation, and there is a strong probability that the several roads will ultimately be run under one manage ment, combined It Is apparently the natural development of tbe situation. = Hartford Cossrasst.
 As Rockville had received no word from the Stafford Springs Street Railway com pany regarding the franchise granted it March 13, by the common council. and the sixty days in which 1t was allowed to accept the same having expired, the belief was general that the company would have to renew it's application for right to lay its tracks in this city. It is now learned, however, that the company took an ap- peal to the railroad commissioners, so that the matter is held in abeyance. No date has been set for hearing before the commissioners. Judge Perkins, counsel for the company, says that the appeal was taken in order to allow the Boston parties, mot fully understanding some of the clauses in the franchise, more time to look thoroughly into the matter. He says he expects to ask. that conference be shortly to discuss certain DOT. tions of the franchise, which were not clear to them. Rock0ills joyrss0l