The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-01-13
The New Trolley Line.
A New Company Fully Financed
Cars to be Running Within a
Year and a Half.


safe to say that, Notwithstanding all past
drawbacks, hindrances and delays, an
electric railway will be in operation be-
tween Seelyville and Hawley, passing
through Honesdale, East Honesdale,
Indian Orchard and White Mills, by the
lst of June, of next year, at the latest.
At the regular meeting of the town
council on Thursday evening last, Geo.
L. Mckay, an authorized representative
of the Lackawaxen Valley Railroad Co.,
a corporation organized to succeed the
Honesdale and Hawley Railway COM
pany, and now possessing all its rights,
title, interest, equity, franchises, char
ters, rights of way, and all other prop
erty, real and personal, appeared, and
after stating that the enterprise had been
fully financed, asked that such amend
ments should be adopted to the ordin-
ance passed in February, 1905, as to ex-
tension of time for the commencement
and completion of the work, and some
other details, as were made necessary by
the change of ownership and conditions.
The council took until the next evening
to consider the proposition, and on Fri
day night adopted an entirely new or
dinance, as preferable to amending the
old one, all changes being acceptable
to the various parties interested. The
ordinance was approved by the burgess
on Saturday, and will be in full force
and effect after the necessary publica-
ton, which, as will be seen by reference
to another column, is now in progress.
The new ordinance gives the Lacka-
waxen Valley Railroad company the
right, under certain restrictions, to build
and operate single track electric rail-
way through designated borough streets,
for the conveying of passengers, baggage,
express, freight and mail for period of
seventy-five years. The gauge is to be
the standard four feet, eight and one
half inches, and the streets to be paved
between and for two feet each side OF
the rails, with the same kind of material
and in the same manner as is used by
the borough. The trolley poles to be
sufficiently high to allow space of SIX
teen feet between the wires and rails.
Speed in the borough streets never to
exceed eight miles an hour fare with
in the corporation limits never to be
more than five cents cars not to OBJ
struct crossings right of way of fire de-
partment always to be recognized in the
event of fire the borough to be indemni-
fled and held harmless in all actions at
law which may arise in the construction,
maintenance and operation of the rail
way. The new company is required to
begin the exercise of its privileges with
in six months and have the railway in
operation within eighteen months, and
this without tearing up more than two
blocks at any one time. The Borough
agrees to impose no tax on cars, poles
or other apparatus ofthe company for a
period of ten years.
These are the main provisions of the
ordinance as effecting the ordinary resi-
dent or taxpayer. Such of our readers
as desire to make themselves familiar
with all of the privileges granted and
obligations imposed by the franchise
will find everything set forth in full il
the official advertisement.