Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-12-01
DO NOT LIKE CHANGE
Alteration OF Street Railroad Stlrs
Prospect Hill People
petltion Presented to Manager E. M. Ad-
dis Last Night-South Main street eH-
tension Well Under Way.


Residents of Prospect hill north OF
Washington street are much disappoiht-
ed because Of the changes which are be
ing made in the line of the street RAN
ro9d and their feelings found expression
in a petition which was presented last
night to F.. NJ, Adds, general manager
of the Brattleboro office of the Twin
state Gas a. Electric Co. Several months
ago in view of the prospective ueNeiop
ment of the southern part OF the town ny
reason of the Fort Dummer NILS COTTON
factory and other mills that are hkeiS
70 no huilt the board of trade decided 10
make an effort to have the street rah-
road extended along South Main st,eeet
and after a conference with MI A -,
and President |. l.. Meloon or the l"l"
state company it was decided to make
~ ox,tansion II the town would estab-
Iish a permanent grade, which the town
aid Mr.. Meloon's PLAN Mr.. Adds says;
was to cut out the track on Oelit,ai
street entirely, as it would De lihposslp'
TO run to the end of that street anu
back to Pine as spur track anu "ia ~
ain the present half-hour schedule re
decided to run straight out flhe sts
70 south Main, thence to the proposeu
southern terminal Mr., Adds kept close
watch of the traffic on Cehtrai SUI
and was convinced that IL Wouiu pe oe'
ter to run up Central street as "a 80
Main. and he took up the matter PEI pei
sonallv with Mr. Meloon. who approved
tho man against his own judgment
The cars made their last trips to the
end of Central street Tuesday as on lIie
afternoon of that day Crosby 4 Farkei'
contractors, began tearing up 'ne
tral street line north of washington
street They have moved the track TO
ne west side of Central street for
short distance south of washington anu
| later all of the track on Central street
| will be moved to the west slde' ms
| was done in order to make the ~
| into Washington street. The ties anu
| raiIs have been laid through Washlns-
| ton street to South Main street ana as
| for south as Pine street. They expect
| 10 have the extension completed IN apou.
| two weeks The selectmen nave uecloeu
! to lay a board walk from the soutnern
| terminal to the White River Chalr
company's factory. xo
6+ted nv the service on Central street
naturally did not like the idea OF nav
| ing the northern end or the |entia al
| street line cut out and petition was
| circulated in objection to the chahse'
This petition, signed by ABOUT Nv ~ vas as
| residents in the territory involved, was
presented to Mr. Adds last night. IL
| exnrasses the belief that line on
washington street, passing the scnooi-
house will be a menace to pubic saie
Nv and asks that the rails be relaid as
far north as Thomas or Pearl street aho
| extended thence to South Main. lheS
saw although this is not in the petition
mai they can walk nearly down town al
easily as they can walk to washington
street to board the cars, and some o
them intimate that they VIII DO THIS
the present plan is carried out
In a statement to The Phoenix I'M
morning Mr. Adds says that 1t woul'
ha imnossible to run farther north thai
Washington street and adhere to TN
present half hour schedule ana that
would be impracticable to change Tn
schedule to 45-minute time or W-minut
time because the longer time would no
| he satisfactory and the shorter tim
would not be profitable. He says II
90 late in the season that the compan
| cannot undertake to change It's pan
| This wear. that the change is not nee
essarily permanent and that II futur
conditions warrant other changes ma
be made. He points out that whateVe
track Is laid on Central street VIII .
naralleled on South Main street in prat
ticaIly the same territory with few aC
ditional residences to draw from. NJ
Adds saws the purpose OF the compan
is to give the best service to the grea
est number. Until the new plan hf
haen fried out 1t cannot be state
whether the cars will meet on the con
mon or on the Main street bridge.