Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-18


ers of Maine:
Respectfully represents the WATER
WILLIE and OAKLAND STREET RAIL
WAY that its tracks have been legally To-
Gated along and upon Western Avenue i'll
! The City of WateTVillc. and that said
location crosses the bridge across the
MesSalonskcc Stream near the pumping
station: that your petitioner and the City
of WatcrviIc entered into an agreement
of date of April IS, A. ID. 1903, whereby
your petitioner at its own expense re
moved the wooden bridge formerly across
the McSS;'lOnSkee Stream at said point,
ana constructed and placed in its stead Il
steel bridge in accordance with certain
plans then in the possession of the Water
vile City Council, with stone ahutmcntS
OF sufficient width to give a roadway of
tWonlN-ciSht feet, under Il stipulation in
Sald contract that the bridge should be of
Such character as to meet the approval
OF your Honorable Board. said contract
further providing that said bridge should
be constructed with railway and city
thofonSh!arCS or roadWayS, the clear
span to be tifty-thrcc feet the rails across
sad bridge to DE common T. rails with
piankS notchrd and showed up close to
the rails and laid on the south side of
s;tid bridge, with further stipulation
therein that said city should pay one half
, OF the expense Of building said bridge,
said half, however, not to exceed in any
event the sum of Twelve Hundred and
thai said bridge after its completion
should be maintained Jointly by your pc
ntiuncr and said city.
Your petitioner. therefore, respectfully
pfayS mat after due notice and hearing
your Honorable Board will determine
whether said bridge as built under said
contract is how safe for the uses Ito
which it is t" lie put. and whether it
meets the approval OF Your Honorable
Board and that You will further deter
mine, If 1t does not meet the approval of !
your honorable Board, what repairs, RED
heWalS or strengthening of parts or u
Of Sitf5kl1
bridge, arc required to-sanakc the SAND
sale Tor the uses to WHICH ii is to lie putt
and That You shall further determine who
, snail bear the expense of such fapafiss3s..,
renewals, or Strcnst heniAg of such DritigcS
or apportlon such eXpeBaSe between your
pctltlohcr and the city oT9NVateryilIe, as
me case may be, in such manner is may
be deemed by your Board as just and fiir,s
ana that you will make Your Syeport thcre-y,
OF as provided by law. but Your peiitioner
having aged to construct ,sacn nridge to !,
De OF such character as shall meet the
approval of your honorable Board here
ny alleges and offers to consent to d de-
cree that such additional work IL any is y
ordered by your Honorable Board shall {.
ne paid Tor by your petitioner as by its .
contract provided, so that partaf such
additional expense, if any shall fill upon
Stid city. Your petitioner further respect
luly requests that it's agreement with the
city of Watervllc, as aforesaid providing
that the future maintenance of said
bridge shall be borne jointly by your pc
titi'ittI ana ny Stld CITY may ne by you
legally confirmed and made n matter of
record by the decree of your Honorable
Board.
Your petitioner further prays that due
notice OF said hearing may be ordered up
on the city of WatervIlc
Dated at WaterVjlle this ninth day of
SepteInber. a. -. 1903.
WAIERNtI,I.E AND OAKLAND
STREET RAILWAY,
by, HEATH, ANDREWS & BUTTON.
Its Attorneys
On the foregoing Petition
ORDERED: That the petitioner cause
70 DC published Il true copy of said petit
ion ana thlS order of notice thereon,
three days successfully in the Daily Ken
Hepec Journal, a newspaper published ut
augusta IN the County of kennebec, the
iirst publication in said paper to be ut
ieaSt FIVE days before WEDNESDAY,
me SEVENTH day of OCTOBER, A. ID.
l3o5, on which day the Board of Railroad
commissioners VIII be in session at their
once In AUGUSTA at ten O'Clock in the
forenoon for the purposes indicated i'm said
petition. Said petitioner shall send copies
u inc foregoing petition and order to the
municipal Officers of the City of Water
vile, five days at least before the date
VI said hearing.
J. b. PEAKS, Chairman,
for the Board of Railroad Commission
ers of Maine
1903.
true copy
Attest Attest: f. c. HARRINGTON, Clerk.