Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-12
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.
Looked Over the Route for the Chesh-
 ire Trolley.

l Looked Over the Route for the Chesh- l ire Trolley.
 The board of public works had an outing Saturday and looked over the ground covered by the application of the Cheshire Street Railway Go for approval of it's plans to lay tracks on East Main street from the present ter imitation of the trolley ill that street to the town boundary. With very few exceptions there is nothing new in the company's plan to the layout of that street which the city has been working on for some time past. The intention was to lay out the street to a uniform width of sixty feet and to abandon the old roadway altogether and run through private property for the sake of getting a straight street.
 The Cheshire Street Railway Go ad- heres to the city's layout until they reach Idylwood, the country residence of MT Wright, where it makes a cut of about ten feet wide into the ter raced work on the west side of the road and also chops off some land on the other side a~little north of the Wright place. Then the line runs to the right of the highway and makes a straight street out of a crooked one from the blacksmith shop to the Mat tatuck Manufa curing Co.'S plant. On the way it lops off three feet from the retaining wall at James Porter's. The line hits the property of the Immacll- late Conception parish at the bend in the street beyond the entrance to Cal vary cemetery and cuts a few feet off the enclosure. Then it shoots across the street and runs through private property two or three hundred feet from the roadway until it reaches a point near Wedges pond. There are two highways here, the upper and lower, and so far it is an open ques- i ton which it will use. The intention is not to take either for few hundred .. feet, but run the tracks through the strip of land lying between the two roads and when the lower highway is reached pass it under a bridge This would mean the closing of the upper road for some distance.
 Mayor Kilduff asked Engineer Hill what was the matter with keeping on the highway from Calvary cemetery to Wedges instead of going through private property, adding that he didn't see that the trolley would be much of public benefit to people living be- tween these points if they had to go through the woods after it. MT Hill said the object was to get a straight line and avoid the sharp turns on the highway between the points men, toned. He also said something about the company's ambition to put itself in a position to make fast time from Waterbury to New Haven and back. The company intends to acquire the land between the two streets at Wedges and win also buy the homestead if they care to sell it. Travellers hope that in case the Wedge house is sold and torn down the well lon the wayside will remain. Cold as the weather was Saturday the party took libation out of it and pro- fnounced it the best they had ever tasted
 The Hon David c. Porter is very much concerned in the layout of the street. It means the cutting down of 7 about twenty-five or thirty trees in the, immediate vicinity of his residence, all of which are in the highway, and the X probable killing of fifteen or twenty others on MT Porter's land. The line comes so near the inside row of trees and the cut will be so deep it is thought that the roots will be jabbed up so badly the trees will die Mr Porter met the board and made an elo- quent appeal on behalf of the timbers which had lent their grateful shade l to him and others for many years There will be no change in the grade at any point which will affect private interests. The six per cent grade at the Farmers home will be cut so as to reduce it to five per cent Low spots on the way will be filled in so that when the work is finished East Main street from Silver street to the bend in the street at Calvary cemetery will be sixty feet wide and about as straight as you can expect to have a. roadway.
 After making thorough investiga- tion of all the proposed changes the board returned to the City hall annex and voted to request City Attorney Kellogg to submit to the board at it's meeting tomorrow night such infor- nation as it desires relative to notices for hearings and any other law which lthe city is bound to respect in dealing with this matter.
 The application of the Connecticut Railway and Lighting Go for approv- al of it's plans for trolley service on Baldwin street and for turnouts and double tracks in other streets will be considered later.