The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1912-04-09
new HITCH FOR
TRACK ELEVATION
LackaWanna Changes Plans for
Proposed New Street.

work has arisen With the arrival OF
the tentative agreements from the
Lackawanna railroad. At the meet
ing of the board of aldermen Monday
night the agreements were formally
received and laid over for definite
action until another special meeting
to be held on April 18th.
The negotiations conducted by the
towns railroad commission resulted
in the Lackawanna agreeing to lay
out a new street parallel with its
freight tracks and running from Nor
ris street to the Morristown & Erie
station and then deciding it over to
the town as public thoroughfare.
But the agreement as received by
the aldermen provides that the rail
road company shall lay out and main
tain street between the two men,
toned points as driveway and sta
ton approach as means of ingress
and egress for passengers in carriages
and on foot to and from the station
grounds on the easterly side of the
railroad,
a.The Lackawanna, so the agree
ment reads, ''shall grant to the Nor
ristown & Erie company the right to
use the station grounds as sta
tion grounds for the Morristown &
Erie Railroad company and the right
of use hereby granted is limited to
the use of said station grounds for
passengers only of the Morristown q
Erie Railroad company In going to
and from the station" This clause
would effectually shut out the Nc
Evan company from transporting its
freight or express matter to Morris
street and will also affect the G. w.
Ennis Co., which owns property used
for storing lumber in the proximity
of the Morristown & Erie station and
which has rights of way on Sawmiii
lane, that the Lackawanna demands
be decided over to it by the Norris
town & Erie.
The agreements provide for the
transfers of land as arranged by the
town railroad commission except in
this one particular. The bridges to
81 sss,s ss,ss II II yssyn Carrying the tracks over
Morr,s street. Ford avenue and the
proposed new streets are to De- OF
girder steel set upon concrete founda-
tions-
The Ford avenue bridge is to have
a clearance of thirteen and one-half
feet and the Morris street bridge
twelve and one-half feet. When nee
essary the railroad company may
place columns on the curb lines of
the streets for the support OF the
bridges
Permission is granted to the railroad
company to temporarily close and OBJ
struct both Morris street and Ford
avenue but both are not to be closed
at the same time. Additional tenn
p0rary tracks are also provided for
The railroad is also given the right
to temporarily maintain its telegraph
lines along convenient streets until
the track elevation work is completed.
Ford avenue is to be depressed
eight feet at the railroad crossing and
Morris street four feet six inches
Elm street and Blatchley place are to
be depressed to conform with the ney
grade of Morris street.
Tbr 4oW,, SC tn law orrf apd cOD-
struct a new street along the railroad
retaining wall from Morris street
north $50 feet to connect with "a drive
way to the rear of the westbound
shelter house. The railroad company
(. is to deed over to the town what land
is needed for the street that it owns,
the town paying for the rest
A new station is to be built north OF
Morris street with a shelter house on
the easterly side of the tracks, con-
nected with a subway twelve feet in
width. Shelter house is to be forty
feet long and twelve feet wide.
The railroad pays the cost of all its
own construction work including the
payment for the necessary lands. The
town must acquire the lands nee
essary for the new streets outside
of what is owned by the railroad and
shall do all the work of grading and
paving and drainage and provide for
the relocation of all sewer, gas, water
and other mains. The town is to pay
all damages arising from the laying
out. vacation or alteration of grades
of the streets and of any litigation in
connection herewith. The railroad
agrees to pay half the cost of a storm
water drain for the Morris street de-
preston.
AS the railroad may be able to use
for its construction of its embank-
ment part of the material excavated
for the depression of Ford avenue
and Morris street, it will pay the
town twenty-five cents per cubic yard
for all such material delivered upon
the embankment
The work of track elevation is to
begin within ninety days after the
execution and delivery OF the agree
ment and shall be pressed forward