Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-07
Board Of Railroad Com.
Approves Petitions.
Recommendations by Col. J. B.
0'Nei|| in Annual Report.
H. N. Wheeler Resigns from Ed.
ucationaI Department Force.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Next Meeting Of Governor and Council
Tuesday, Jan. rs, at 10 A. M.

Announcement was made at the Of
flee of the Board of Railroad Commits
sioners Thursday that decisions had
been rendered by the board on several
petitions as follows:
On the petition of the Bangor &
Aroostook Railroad Co, asking the ap-
prevail by the board of change Of To-
cation of the company's line of rail-
road known as the st. Francis Extern
sion, in St. John plantation, Aroostook
County. a hearing on which was held
ar Bangor on Dec. 30, 1909, the commits
sione-s decree that change may be
made as asked for, and also that such
change is necessary and expedient and
that public convenience requires the
same.
On the petition of the municipal Of
ticerS Of the town of Washburn, in
Aroostook county, asking the approval
by the commissioners of a highway
crossing of the Bangor & Aroostook
Railroad track in the said town, and
also asking them to determine wheth-
or or not the aforesaid way shall be
permitted to cross the said track at
grade OF not, the manner and condi-
ton of crossing the same, and how the
expense of building so much of said
way as is within the limits of said rail-
road shall be borne. a hearing on
which petition was held at Bangor on
Dec. %, 1909, the commissioners decree
that said way shall be permitted to
cross the Bangor & ArOOstook Rail-
road track at grade thereWith that
the railroad company shall construct
and maintain said crossing within its
location and shall cause the same to be
properly plankcd; that the approach to
said crossing shall not be sleeper than
five per cent, and that suitable pro-
vision shall be made for surface drain
age.
on the petition of the directors of the
MattaWamkeag and Northern Railway
CO., asking the board to revive the
corporate existence and powers OF the
company in accordance with the sta
tutcs in such case made and provided,
hearing on which was held at Ban
gor on Dec. 29, 1909, the commissioners
order and decree that the corporate eX-
istence and powers of the company be
revived, said revival to be for three
years from May 10, 1909.
on the petition of J. M. McNulty of
Bangor, asking for the right to cross
the Canadian Pacific Railway at a To-
cation laid out and satisfactory to the
engineer OF said railroad. for the pur-
pose Of landing logs from the town of
IIoWerbank into Sebec lake, 4 hearing
on which was held at Bangor on Dec.
-, 1909, permission was given the pc
titiOner for a crossing with teams and
what is known as a log hauler, Oper-
;lted by steam, from the present time
until the first day of April. a. D. 1910.
for the purpose of hauling logs across
said railway track The commission
crS also decree that the railroad COM
panv shall furnish a tlagman who
shall be on duty at said crossing at all
times during the day, and that the pc
titioncr shall pay the railroad company
for the services of the fagman; that
the haGman shall he under the direc
ton of the railroad company. which
company shall be responsible for him
and that he shall perform his duty;
that the crossing shall be tagged at
all times when trains are about to
cross it.