Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-11-09
70 THE. HONORABLE BOARD OF
RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS.

Respectfully represents the Augusta.
~, ssad Gardiner Railroad Com
f sWs of M,1 of fhrvate and Special
authorized to. consHuct, maintain and use
and Farmingd Ana. n the c;tY a OF ,sarl
diner from the hori line OF said city.
tnshse @ @sd aad Main Street ot
point IN Depot Square as the Municipal
officers of said Gardiner might designate.
which BECAME the terminus under 4s said
ehaTer That ,ha by authority Of the Legis
the said Augusta Hallowell and .tSardiner
Railroad Company were long Since, sold
TO and are now owned by said Augusta,
Wnthror and Gardiner Railway:
thirty-six. OF the Public Laws of 1905 any
street railroad corporation ilr this Sexte
may be authorized 20 extend construct
and through cities and towns .othe4 sjSla
and in addition to those named in is
charter on articles Of association and to
other points or places within the cities or
ton to the Board of Railroad Commits
SS!oners and by compliance with AMI sub
j"ct to the provisions of section seven of
Chapter tifty-tnree OF the Revised Stat
uteS.
Your petitioners desire to extend CON
struct maintain and operate Il road from
the present railrCad in Depot Square to.a
terminus on Steamboat Street in said
Gardiner. said new terminus being anoth-
~ point or place within the city of Gar
diner " here your petitioners railroad is
low built and located ara this petition
is filed as above pernittsd by law and as
required for that purpose.
The place in which such extension is to
be constructed. maintained and opera ted
is the City OF Gardiner. The length OF
such extension is nine hundred and
seventy three $3.50 feet. The capital
Ct. oh.
the records Of your office. is mere than
sufficient to cover such additional mile
age.
of said extension are follows:
Beginning on the centre line of the
present road about nintty-three (93D feet
northerly Of its southern terminus, thence
by curve to tn right with 4 radius of
enc hundred and sixty uGW feet dis
tancc of siXty-SeN en- (GO feet to station
plus e.: thence by tangent south TWEEN
40 feet, thence by curve to the left
with Il radius of eighty 500 feet dis
lance of ciShty-Ola tSD feet to station
plus - thence by a tangent south thirty
two tI2l degrees east 4 distance of nine
tv-two 1927 feet to station = plus 90.
thence by curve to the left with
distance of seventy-eisht and ffty-five
hundredths (1S.5D feet to station 3 plus
2S.55. thence ty a tangent south siXty-two
t6o, degrees east a distance of twenty
the trestle of the Maine Central Railroad
Company. thence by curve to the right
with !. radius of sixty t6oe feet a distance
Of hfty-six and fifty-five hnndredths
(56.5J) feet to station Elus 12.1. thence by
a tangent south eight 81 degrees east i
distance of sixty 6D feet to station
Phf ra ahen'e of o HG nf
and SiXty-five t2S6O feet a distance of two
hundred CO0) feet to station 6 plus ~.
thence by a tangent south twelve 02) de-
ORC mi ac a Distance
of sixty (6C) feet TO station plus 32.1.
thence by Il curve to the left with Il
radius of two hundred C20W feet a dis
lance of fifty-1Ve and eighty-hve hun
dredths (55S5) feet to station plls S1.3j.
thence by tangent south twenty eight
f2O degrees thirty 600 minutes east
n3W feet to station plus 1856. thence by
Il curve to the left with Il radius of one
hundred 600 feet a distance Of about
fOrty-fiye GO feet to the land of Eastern
The foregoing description contains the
courses and distances or the centre line
line is located in Depot Square. so called
in said Gardiner, then crosses land sup
posed to belong tC Augustus Bailey. the
heirs Of Joshua Gray. the H2llngswnrth
and " hitnev COMPANY. Joseph &. Atkins
and Antonio McCausland. and in addition
crosses the location of the Maine Central
Railroad Comrany where here, it now main in
Steamboat Street in kaid Gardiner
The fcllowin:: are the boundaries: In
said public highways. five 80 feet on each
side of said centre Ene; from the south
line of Depot Square to the west line Of
land owned or occupied by the Maine
Central Railroad Company. ten 0O feet
on each side of said centre line: from
said west line Of land 80 owned or oc-
cupied by the Maine Central Railroad
Company to the east line Of land so
owned or occupied by the Maine Central
Railroad Company, 4 crossing right ff-
teen 90 feet on each side Of said centre
line rs define ated upon SAIL map and as
NAV be necessary for the maintenance
OF such piers and other works as this
Honorable Poarl may order for the pur-
pose of public safety under the statutes
width of SAID location from said last de-
scribed point. that is, the east line of land