Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-11-08
TO THE HONORABLE BOARD OF
RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS

IttSipcCtlully TtpitSt nus Inc Augusta,
Hallowell and Gardiner Railroad Com
pany that under chapter five hundred and
tWenty-cight OF tn" Private and Special
Laws of Maine for the year 1889 ii was
authorized to construct maintain and use
a street railroad in Augusta. Hallowell
and Farmingdale and in the city of Gar
diner from the north line of said city,
trWiSe called CauSew Street. to such
point in Depot Square as the Municipal
officers of said Gardiner might designate.
That the Municipal Officers long since
designated such point in Depot Square
which became the terminus under said
charter. That by authority of the Legis-
lature all the property and franchises of
the said Augusta. Hallowell and Gardiner
Railroad Company were long since sold
to and are now owned by said Augusta,
Winthrop and Gardiner Railway.
That under the authority of chapter
thrty-sx OF the Public Laws of 1905 any
street railroad corporation in this State
may be authorized 20 extend. construct,
maintain and operate its road to, into
and through cities and towns other than
and in addition to those named in its
charter or articles OF association and to
other points or places, within. the cities or,
towns where built or located, on applca-
ton to the Board of Railroad Commits
sioners and by compliance with and sub
jcct to the provisions of section seven of
Chapter tifty-tnrce of the Revised Stat
uteS.
Your petitioners desire to extend. con-
struct. maintain and operate a road from
terminus on Steamboat Street in said
Gardiner said new terminus being anoth-
or point or place within the city of Gar
diner here your petitioners railroad is
row built and located: ara this petition
is filed as above permitted by law and as
required for that purpose.
The place in which such extension is to
be constructed. maintained and operated
is the City Of Gardiner. The length or
such extension is nine hundred and
seventy three 1913 feet. The capital
.Nf vn.,tt CHI hX-
the records Of your office. is mere than
sufficient to cover such additional mile
age.
The courses. distances and boundaries
of said extension are as follows:
Beginning on the centre line of the
present road about nincty-three (93l feet
northerly of its southern terminus thence
by a curve to thu right with a radius of
enc hundred and sixty Q6o) feet a dis
lance of SiNty-seVen H) feet to station o
plus e.; thence by Il tangent south TWEEN
ty-SiX (2f) degrees west Il distance of ten
40 feet. thence by curve to the lett
with a radius of eighty t~D feet dis
lance of cishty-oae SD feet to station
plus 50: thence by a tangent south thirty
two ('2l degrees east a distance Of nine
tvtwo 1927 feet to station plus %.
thence by a curve to the left with Il
radius OF one hundred and fifty u1n) feet
a distance Of seventy-ciSht and fttE-fvc
hundredthS it1S.oD feet To station plus
2S.5,. thence hy n tangent south siXty-twn
(6o) degrees east Il distance of twenty
seven CO feet to station plus !l.a, under
the trcstle Of the Maine Central Railroad
Company. thence by curve To the right
Of iifty-six and fftN-iiv" hundrcdthS
(a; - feet to station Illus III. thence by
| n tangent south eight ~ degrees east 4
distance of sixty 6m feet t. station 1
plus IL. thence by curve to the left
with n radius of twenty eight hundred
and Sixty-five (a>61) feet Il distance of two
hundred (1N0D feet to station 8 plus -.
| thence by Il tangent south twelve 90 de
| grees thirty c0D minutes east a distance
Of sixty GO feet to station plus 81
radius Of two hundred (2"m feet a dis
| lance of fifty-fiNe and eighty-hve hun
| dredthS (J;l.>J) feet to station plns Sl.b.
| thence hy 4 tangent south twenty eight
(2s) degrees thirty 500 minutes east a
| distance of one hundred ard thirty nine
| $3.50 feet to station plus 26.4'. thence by
"a curve to the left with i iadius of one
hundred 1O0) feet a distance of about
forty-five 80 feet to the land of Eastern
Steamship Company.
The foregoing description contains the
| courses and distances of the centre I'm"
| Of the proposed extension. Said centre
| line is located in Depot Square, so called,
| in said Gardiner. then crosses land sup
heirs of Joshua Gray. the Hollingswnrth
and Whitney Company. Joseph G. Atkins
and Antonio McCausland. and in addition
| crosses the location of the Maine Central
Railroad Company: where it now main
tains n trestlc. at the points indicated up
on the map filed herewith. and is also on
Steamboat street III Sflu
| The following are the boundaries: In
said public highways five 90 feet on each
side of said centre line; from the SOUTH
line of Depot Square to the west line OF
land owned or occupied by the Maine
Central Railroad Company. ten dW feet
on each side of said centre line; from
| said west line of land owned or &c,
| cunied by the Maine Central Railroad
| Company to the east line of land SO
owned or occupied by the Maine Centra
Railroad Company, n crossing right nj
tean U5) feet on each side Of said centre
line as define ated upon said map and as
NAV he necessary for the maintenance
| Of such piers and other works as this
| Honorable BOARD may order for the pur
nose of public safety under the statute;
in such case made and provided: and th'
width of said location from said last de
scribed point that is. the east line Of lan(
owned or occupied by the Maine Contra
Railroad Company where said croSsinf
| right terminated and thence southerly u
the north line of Steamboat Street as &c
; lineated upon said map and as above DC
srrihe,l is to be seven and one-half W.
feet on the east side of said center linz
/ and upon the west side Of said centre lin.
, is to be bounded by the east line or suci
land as is owned or occupied by IN
Maine Central Railroad Company.
'rhat in each and all # the cases WneT
, tho aforesaid proposed location IS ousia
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