The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-23

l order, when it appeared and we do i find that said order, when it appeared and we do find that said order had l been duly served and complied with 1 and that such notice as we deemed reasonable had been given to the pe- ! titioner and to the City of Bridgeport | and said petitioner appeared to pTos- ecute it's petition and said City also | appeared and the matter was adjourn | ed from time to time until May IT, l 1911, when we again met and said petitioned and said city appeared and were fully and finally heard, and said city submitted the following: Request made by the City of Bridgeport that if the plan submitted by The Bridgeport and Danbury Elec- | tric Railway company for the loca- | tion of its tracks on Main street in the City of Bridgeport from the terminus of the tracks of The Connec- ticut company to the Trumbull line, be approved by the railroad commis- sioners, that the said plan shall be ap- proved with the following modi1ca- | tions therein and upon the following conditions:"
 l. That the tracks of said com- pany from the terminus of the tracks of The Connecticut company to the Trumbull line, shall be so located that the center of the dummy track to be now or hereafter laid shall be the center line of the street" 2. That the said the Bridgeport and Danbury Electric Railway Com pany shall widen said Main street, from the terminus of the tracks of the Connecticut company to the Trumbull line, to the full width of said street as laid out by said city, and that said company, the Bridge port and Danbury Electric Railway company, shall bring said Main street, hof id nnfnfQ n a grade hd given by the city engineer of said city and that said company shall make said street, between said points, suit able and convenient for public travel for its entire width."
 3. That all of said work shall be completed and the tracks of said conn pany on said street, between said points, shall be laid and said com pany shall have its street railway be- tween said points in said Main street in operation on or before July l, 1912"
 Said request is denied, excepting so far as certain portions may be in- cluded in the following order of this board.
 Permission Granted
 And now onN consideration, we do deem it equitable and do order and direct that the Bridgeport and Dan bury Electric Railway Company may lay single line of railway with suit able switches and turnouts on North Main street in the City of Bridgeport from the Trumbull town line to a connection with the railway of the on said North Main street. We do further order and direct that the grade of said railway line shall be in accordance with the grade estab- lished by the municipal authorities of the City of Bridgeport at a regular of pifv council Man day May IS, 1911, and in accordance with plans submitted to this board a. a hearing held at this office on We'd nesday, May IT, 1911, and to be filed in this office.
 We further order and direct that laid five feet easterly of and parallel with the center of legally adopted and monumented center line of said North Main street except at angle points where the radius of the center line of said track shall not exceed 300 feet, the object being to allow ten foot centers, so called, for the purpose of double tracking If neces- sary in the future.
 We order and direct that said com pany shall lay macadam pavement, accepta ble to said City of Bridgeport, on either side of said single track for a distance of not less than eight feet in width.
 Richard T. Higgins, E. J. Doolittle, T. B. Ford, Railroad Commissioners.
 The foregoing is true copy of the original petition, order of notice for hearing and of the finding of the Railroad Commissioners.
 Attest:
 HENRY F. BILLINGS,
 Clerk of Railroad Commissioners. To Honorable Mayor and Common
 Council of the City of Bridgeport:
 The Bridgeport and Danbury Elec- tric Railway company, a corporation chartered by the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut for the purpose of operating a street railway, before proceeding to construct any part of such railway within the City of Bridgeport, has caused plan to be made showing the highway or highways within said city in and through which it proposes to lay it's tracks, the location or the same as to grade and the center line Of sad highways, the location of It's poles and other permanent fixtures Tn said highways, and such changes as are proposed to be made in said high ways.
 Said plan, entitled, Map of the Proposed Location of The Bridgeport and Danbury Electric Railway. Bridgeport, Connecticut, scale 40 feet to an inch, 1911" and consisting of seven blue prints numbered 1-- .2-7, 3-7, l-7, 5-7, 6-7, and - respective ly, and marked "A William Sperry. Chief Engineer" is presented to you herewith by said company, and said company prays yoGr ho1ordbIs body, after public notice and hearing there on, to accept and adopt said plan in- cluding such orders as may be proper and necessary as to the placing and locating of the tracks, wires. conduc- tors. fixtures and ether permanent structures of said railway in the nigh ways of said City of BrIdgero-t all according to the avs III such easo made ana provided.
 Dated at Bridgeport t@is 1Is& e<S of January, 15i1. THE BRIDGEPORT AND DAN
 BURY ELECTRIC RAILWAY co. Bv Marsh, Stoddard and Day,
 Its Attorneys.
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