The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-03-10
Has Right to Take c. V.
Property.
PROVISIONS SUFFICIENT
TO COVER THIS MATTER
This Makes B. & v. Charter Available
for Boston g. Maine TO Use in Com
ing Up This Side of River-Location
of New Road Filed With Selectmen.

/ The important development made public
! this week in regard TO the railroad stua.
tion is the organization Of the Brattleboro
& Vernon Railroad company. The Brattle-
boro board OF trade in 1905 secured and
paid for a charter for the Brattleboro X
+ Vernon Railroad company to operate a
single or double-track electric railroad
from Battleboro to Vernon and the
Massachusetts line and with branches as
might be desired, with a right to take
property owned by any other railroad cor
poration not in actual use for railroad pur-
poses and with the right to cross other
railroads. 1t was very liberal charter
and was procured by the board of trade
Tor the purpose OF helping the industrial
development OF Brattlcboro and Vernon.
The provisions in it in regard to taking
other railroad property were put in with
express reference to, the Central Vermont
property as this could have application TO
no other road
This makes the Brattleboro Il Vernon
Railroad company charter usable for the
construction Of line for the Boston x
Maine from South Vernon to Brattleboro.
1t gives much more power than could be
had under the general law The local rail
road committee has caused the corpora
tion to be organized, and the necessary
amount has been subscribed and paid in
in cash for the purposes of organization
and to start operations All legal steps
have been taken to perfect IT. The organl
zation consists of George i. Durham,
president; l.. f. Holden, yice-president;
c. o. Robbins, treasurer NJ J. Moran,
auditor, and Clarke c. Fits, clerk These
five men are the directors. A location has
been filed for line and branches as follows
/. A main line commencing on Main
street in Brattleboro at the corner of Main
and Flat streets; thence by curve to
reach line of survey made by the Bos-
ton & Maine engineers for tunnel route
under the Vernon street hill; thence along
the Boston & Maine survey for tunnel
route. by way of tunnel and westerly
of Vernon street, possibly taking little
of Vernon street, running in front of the |
White River Chair companys factory, |
then practically paralleling the Central
Vermont to point below Broad Brook.
Thence overhead, crossing the Central Yer
mont and thence south-easterly to South |
Vernon along the original Boston & Maine
survey.
2. A branch from the corner of Main |
and Flat streets along Flat and Frost |
streets
3. A branch from where the road
crosses Milestone Brook northerly to |
connect with the Vermont Valley road.
4. A branch from where the road eros
ses Bridge street easterly along Bridge
street to the Connecticut river.
The committee does not make public
what else is being done, but the citizens
Of Brattleboro may be assured that this
organization of the Brattleboro 4 Vernon
Railroad company is a part of the plan
which is being pursued and that the Brat
tleboro & Vernon Railroad company or
,anzation will be used solely for the pro-
lection of the interests of Brattleboro and
Vernon Just how, the committee does
not wish publicly to state.