The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-03-13

COUNTY TRACTION COMPANY,
A CORPORATION INCORPORATE
ED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE
STATE OF NEW JERSEY, TO
CONSTRUCT, OPERATE AND
MAINTAIN A STREET RAILWAY
UPON SPEEDWELL AVENUE IN
THE TOWN OF MORRISTOWN,
IN THE COUNTY OF MORRIS
AND STATE OF NEW JERSEY
TO BE OPERATED BY ELECTRO
CITY, BY MEANS OF OVERHEAD
WIRES, OR OTHERWISE, AND
LOCATING THE SAME, AND
SPECIFYING THE CONDITIONS
UNDER WHICH SAID COMPANY
is AUTHORIZED TO BUILD,
OPERATE AND MAINTAIN SAID
STREET RAILWAY:
WHEREAS, The Morris County
Traction Company, a corporation or
ganized under the provisions of IAN
act to authorize the formation of trac-
ton companies for the constructor
and operation of street railways or
railroads operated as street railways,
and to regulate the same" approved
March Fourteenth Eighteen hundred
and ninety-three, and the supplements
thereto and amendments thereof, and
being entitled to all and singular
rights, privileges and franchises of
such duly organized corporation and
has hereinafter granted; and
WHEREAS, application has been
made to the Mayor and Board of Al
dermen of the Town of Morristown in
the County Of Morris and State of
New Jersey, by the Morris County
Traction Company to construct, main
tain and operate a street railway; to
use electricity supplied by means Of
overhead wires or otherwise, and
electric motors as the propelling pow
er Of its cars along Speedwel Ave
nue. in the aforesaid Town;
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR
AND BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF
THE TOWN OF MORRISTOW1,
IN THE COUNTY OF MORRIS,
AND STATE OF NEW JERSEY:
SECTION THAT the Morris Coun-
ty Traction Company be and is here
by granted the right and privilege to
construct, operate and maintain sur
face street railway of the standard
gauge of four feet eight and one-half
inches, with all necessary poles and
wires; the tracks of said road to be
located on Speedwell Avenue in the
following manner viz:
The centre line of said track. BE-
GINNING at point in the middle of
Speedwell Avenue, where the centre
line of said Avenue, is intersected by
the prolongation of the Northerly
side line of Park Place, the centre
line of said track extending along the
centre line of said Avenue "a North
SIX degrees and forty-five minutes
West three hundred and eighty-five
feet and 95-100 of foot; thence (2)
still along the centre of said Avenue
North six degrees and twenty min
utes West five hundred and seventy
feet and 90-10O feet; thence (3) still
along the centre Of said Avenue North
twenty-seven degrees and thirty-five
minutes East one hundred and sixty
five feet and $4,000 feet; thence (4)
still along the centre line of said Ave
nue. North fourteen degrees and forty
minutes East one hundred and thirty
three feet and 29-100 feet; thence CD
North five degrees and fifty-five min
utes West one hundred and thirty
two feet and 5-100 feet; thence CO.
still along the centre line of said
Avenue North eight degrees and
twenty minutes West two hundred
and eighty feet and 72-100 feet;
thence CD still along the centre line
of said Avenue North seven degrees
West three hundred and twenty-nine
feet and ITO feet; thence (8) North
four degrees and twenty-one minutes
West one hundred and thirty-three
feet and 25-100 feet; said last men
ton point being one hundred and sew
enteen feet measured in a Northerly
direction from point where the cen
tire line of Sussex Avenue intersects
the centre line of Speedwell avenue.
said point being the end of the single
track, and at which point the double
track begins, and connects with said
single track, one of the two tracks
extends on a course or North West
four degrees and twenty-one minutes
sixty feet and six inches to point
in said Avenue where the centre line
of said track will be four feet ten and
one quarter inches measured at right
angles Westerly from the centre line
of said avenue; the other of said
tracks extends on course of North
East four degrees and forty-eight min
utes sixty feet and six inches to a
point in said Avenue, which pont is
four feet, ten and one quarter inches
measured Easterly at right angles
from the centre line of said Avenue,
from which point both OF said tracks
extends along said Avenue and paral-
lei to the centre line thereof and four
feet ten and one quarter inches there
from, which tracks are on either side
of said centre line and which centre
line is described as follows:
BEGINNING at point in said
Avenue. which point is midway be-
tween the endings on the two sixty
feet and six-inch courses, heretofore
given, and sixty feet from the ending
of the eighth course, thence running
"a North thirty-seven degrees East
one hundred and forty-fonr feet and
4O-100 feet: thence (2) North eight
| degrees and fourteen minutes East