Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-19
STATE HOUSE.
Railroad Commissioners
Render Two Decisions.
Special Orders Issued From
Office Of Adjutant General.
Governor Cobb Continues Visit 10 Capitol
UnhI FridaJ Afternoon.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Next Meeting Of Governor and Council
Thursday, May "a, at 10 A. M.

Thursday, May "a, at 10 A. M.
Announcement was made Friday at
the Office Of the Board Of Railroad
Commissioners that decisions had been
rendered upon the following petitions:
On the petition for the approval of
location of the SchOodic Stream
Railway, from Millinocket to Midway,
notice having been given as ordered
the board met at the time and place
mentioned in said order and gave a
hearing to all parties interested.
Messrs. Appleton & Chaplin appeared
for the petitioners and Chas F. Wood
ward appeared for the Great Northern
Paper Co. Chas. p. Weber and John
Cassidy, land owners, appeared
personally.
The only objection to the granting of
this charter appears to be the objection
to its location. The question of loca-
ton will be considered later. The only
question here is whether public con-
venience requires the building of a
railroad from MipinOcket to Midway.
IL is alleged, and we are satisfied
that the Great Northern Paper Co.
designs the building of a new and large
pulp and paper mill at Midway, when
ever they can be assured Of proper
railway facilities. The railroad will
not be built unless the pulp mill is
built. nor the pulp mill unless the rail-
road is built. The two must so
together. In this way and in this way
only can Northern Maine be developed.
We regard it as our duty to assist in
every reasonable way the development
Of the state of Maine. and we cannot
refuse a proposition SO apparently use
fuI in this direction as the present one.
We therefore find that public con-
venience requires the construction of
the proposed road, and that all pro-
visionC Of Sections / and of Chapter
81 of the Revised Statutes have been
complied with. and we hereby endorse
upon said articles a certificate of such
facts, and the approval of the board
in writing.
Dated at Augusta this 4th day of
May, A. d. 1906.
On the petition asking the approval
of location of the extension of the
Portland & Brunswick Street Railway
in yarmouth. to connect with the
Portland Railroad, notice having been
given as ordered. the board met at the
time and place mentioned in said order
and gave a hearing to all parties in
tereStcd
n. NJ. Heath appeared for the petit
tiCn"' and Enoch Foster appeared for
T.. l.. shaw. Messrs. Bird Il Rrahl"y
appeared for George w Hammond. $.
ID. Warren. NJ. E. Mason and Fiske
Warren. The sclectmen of Yarmouth
appeared personally and w. Fl. Denni-
son appeared for J. b. Dennison
This is petition by the Portland &,
Brunswick Street Railway to the Board
of Railroad Commissioners, asking
permission to extend, add to. construct.
maintain and operate its railway from
the point in it's present line in Var
mouth on Spring street. to place on
Main street near the Grand Trunk
railway station.
An objection is interposcd that the
proposed line is neither an extension
nor an addition. within the meaning of
the statute. We think. however, that
tho potitioning company has ample
authority to construct. maintain and
operate the proposed line by virtue Of
Chapter 56. Public Laws of 1905.
The chief difficulty which we find
confronting us is Section II, Chapter
80. r. $. which provides that No
location outside of the limits of any
street. road or way shall he approved
by said (Railroad) Commissioners un-
less it appears to be impracticabIe to
locate said railroad within the limits
of the streets roads or ways
We find no difficulty or impractical
bility In locating a railroad within the
limits of the streets. roads or ways
from an engineers standpoint of con-
struction. We regard it as very
practicable and feasible to locate with
in the streets between the termini of
the proposed line. but Section u of
Chapter SO prohibits the construction
of an electric road under the general
law, within any streets where any
other electric railway has a location.
Consequently we cannot authorize the
construction of a line by the Portland
& Brunswick Street Railway Co. in
Main street in Yarmouth. where the
Portland & Yarmouth Electric Railway
Co. already has Location
1t is therefore impra cticable because
impossible for the petitioning company
to construct line from any portion of
its location in the streets of Yarmouth
to the point named in its petition near
the station of the Grand Trunk Rail-
way. If this fact will authorize us to
decide under Section IL that it is i'm
practicable to locate this railway with
in the limits of said Main street, and
if we are authorized to put this con-
struction upon Section II. then we must
50 find because the Portland & Var
mouth Electric Railway Co. has road
already constructed along Main street
in Yarmouth village.
This brings uS to the question cf