The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-23
HAMDEN TOWN MEETING.
DISCUSSES THE EYE cENT-FARE fMATTER

And the Talked of Claim for COmpen-
 sation os Adjacent Land Owners for Road widening-Mr.Punder Gives
 Views of the Trolley Company.
 
 There was another lively town meet ing in Hamden last evening at the town hall in reference to the application of the. Consolidated Railway company for the;right to double track the trolley line in whitneyvilie. First selectmans Pot ter presided. There was a good turn out of citizens. Lawyer Clark of Whit neville spoke several times during the evening on different points. He opened
 the discussion by citing various cases of other cities where the cities impos- ed conditions in return for permitting railroad companies to lay additional
 tracks. , |. q
 The next speaker was Dr. Jocelyn of
 Mt. Carmel. who said that the New
 Haven papers were extolling the beau ties of Mt. Carmel and that many new summer cottages were being erected or
 were in contemplation, all of which he said indicated that the trolley company | would gain by charging only a five cent fare to the city limits.
 Mir. Woodruff, of the Woodruff man
 ufaetory, next spoke and said that he
 had thirty-ffve men who rode back and forth, to New Haven daily. All they asked was ten cent fare to Savin Rock and a five cent fare to any part of New Haven. .. .. Mir. Clark spoke again and was fol- | lowed with remarks by Lawyer Webb Oil the subject of the trolley company paying also for highway widening or
 paying damages to adjacent owners of property.
 | General Manager John K. Punder- ford for the trolley company said re- | garding the laying of tracks in the i highway that plans were on file in the 1 Highway commissioners office before the trolley company had asked to be | allowed to lay another track, showing I that the town itself contemplated wid- I ening the highway. These plans were
 on file before the trolley company had thought seriously of doing any double | tracking. The town had already filed T it's papers showing it's, intention to
 widen the road. Now the trolley com I pany wants to give still better service
 and the towns idea is to try to have the trolley company pay any damages that might occur by widening the road I way instead of the towns doing it. ,l As for the five cent fare asked for by N the Mt. Carmelites MT. Punderford said
 that for one thing it would be inlpossi- I bie for the conductors to discriminate < in giving transfers between the people : who got on the cars at Mt Carmel and
 the other passengers who got the ! shorter ride. In other words, the Mt. ! Carmel people would get a thirteen fnile ride for five cents.
 MT. Webb in his remarks advised the } sIselectinen to go slow and not act until !, Isthe subject in all it's bearings legally
 and otherwise had been fully consider Ted, M
 ! Mr. Clark said that the sentiment oi 1.-the people seemed to be that the troll ley company should in return for per mission to lay double tracks reimburse |, any who should be at loss in cofse- : quence of damages iii the roadway and that the trolley company had no doubt in view iii the double tracking it's in Ecreased travel to result soon from the Etrolley connections with waterbury via ! Milldale.
 The matter was left to the selectmen to consider. a