The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-17
ON WITH
THE TROLLEY
Hanover Township Grants
Franchise and Work VIII
Start Immediately
CARS RUNNING IN ONE MONTH

With the granting of the franchise
to the Morris County Traction COM
pany for the continuation OF its line on
Speedwell avenue by the Hanover
township committee work will start
Immediately and President Alleman
tod members of the committee that
they might take ride in a month
over the new line. The meeting OF
the committee at Whippany was at
tended only by the committeeman and
the trolley company's representatives.
no one appearing before it with any
objections or suggestions. The ordiE-
ance was adopted substantially as pub
lished.
Under its provisions the trolley COM
pany may construct and maintain
double track electric road from the
Morris township line to the J G. Vail
property on Speedwell avenue, the
franchise to run for forty years. Sew
pound "T rails are to be used but if
found unsatisfactory by the township
committee the traction company is to
take them up and replace them by
rail selected by the committee.
The road bed, including the space
between the rails and for distance Of
twelve inches beyond them, is to be
kept in good shape by the trolley COM
pany and is to be filed with cracked
stone. The township committee is to
have the supervision OF the changing
of the contour or cross sections of any.
road that should be necessary by the
construction of the trolley road.
The poles are to be of wood and are
to be kept painted by the company,
being repainted when the township
committee may request. The poles
are to be as few in number as possible
for the safe support of the wires and
are to be at least eighteen feet above
the ground as are to be all the wires.
i Snow removed from the tracks is to
be evenly distributed along the road
and not piled in heaps. When the
\ trolley company opens the road the
proper safeguards are to be provided
during the construct or reconstruction
of the railway.
The franchise provides that the cars
are to be run at intervals of once every
, hour between the hours of six in
the morning and eleven at night
and are to be lighted with elec-
tricity and properly heated during
the cold weather. The use of tenders,
gongs and whistles are Of course pro-
vided for
The tracks are to be so laid as not to
interfere with the flow of surface wa
ter. The township committee has the
right under the franchise to make any
! proper regulations regarding the speed
at which the cars may run.
Under the terms of the franchise
children under six years of age when
accompanied by parent or guardian are
are to be carried free.
The company is to pay annually on
January 1st to the committee five per
cent. OF its gross earnings in the town
ship. 1T was first proposed to incor-
porate in the franchise that at least
two hundred dollars of this amount
was to be expended by the committee
for lighting Speedwell avenue in the
township, but it was thought best to
pass a separate ordinance for that pl r
pose.
The company has six months in
which to commence work under the
franchise and one year in which to fin
ish at least one track.
The board of freeholders meet to-
morrow to consider the company's ap-
plication for the same thoroughfare.