The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-13
ConveniencesssMinus at West
Dummerston, According
to Residents
APPEAL TO PUBLIC
SERVICE COMMISSION
People Say They Never Consented to
Diminished Accommodations - Pay
Fares on Train and Each Person
Shifts for Himself.

A position signed by 81 residents Of
Dummerston, all of them persons who
have business at the West Dummerston
railroad station, was filed yesterday after
noon with the public service commission
asking that the Central Vermont railroad
be compelled to maintain a station agent
at that station.
The petition states that since the build
ing of the railroad until the first of De
cember, 1914. station agent had been
provided to look after the station, sell
tickets to patrons, look after freight and
| perform the other duties usually per
| formed by station agents.
| Since that date the employment of
station agent has been discontinued and
the station has been practically aban-
doned The petitioners aver that such an
official is necessary for the convenience of
the people of Dummerston.
| A large number of passengers take the
train at West Dummerston station every
day, and the complaint AYERS that they
are now unable to buy tickets at the sta
ton and are obliged to pay fares on the
| train; that a large amount of freight is
/ shipped to and from West Dummerston;
I that the shippers of freight, in order to
ship the same from the West Dummer-
>ton station, are obliged to make out
their own freight bills; that all freight
which is shipped from Brattleboro to
West Dummerston has to be shipped
freight prepaid, because the Central Yer
mont railroad does not maintain a station
agent to look after its business.
The petitioners assert that at the time
of the building of the railroad line from
Brattleboro to South Londonderry there
was an express understanding that sta
ton should be maintained at West Dunn
merston as long as the railroad should be
operated and that the people of the town
have never given their consent to the
, abandonment of the station or to any
substantial diminishing of the accommo
dations furnished as compared TO othel
! stations on the road and that they are in
; formed and believe that the public ser
vice commission has never given permits
) sion which would allow the diminishing o
{ the accommodations
Station Not Even Warm.
The railroad has been appealed to an,
has refused to keep station agent Their
or even keep the station warmed and il
suitable condition for those who ar
compelled to resort to il in order to TAX
, trains, the petitioners declare. The peti
TONERS ask that the public service com
mission compel the road to maintain
regular station, open for the full accom-
: mediation Of patrons and business, and t
iemploy a competent station agent.
The petitioners are DR. p p White
G. Z. Lyons Granite Co, ! p O'Brien
d Joseph Lamonthe, James Clark & Son
). H. G futile. Thomas Clark. w. B. Leon
: ard George s Gage. H r. Greenleai
i John Taft, S s Washer, Selectman W
:. w. Burnett. Guy Taft David J. Bailey
! Thomas White, G. B. Field, G. L. Fits
: Ralph O. Thayer, w w. Burnham. San
uel Clark, B. c. Baldwin, H O. Butter
! field, Y J. Lamonthe, F. w Leonard
} James Phillips, H F. Deyo, NJ r. Hunt
!. ley. X L. Eldridge, Thomas O'Brien, {
e NJ Tubbs, NJ G. Goodell, T. B. Howard
d Lewis Tyler, J. G. Boyington. w I
d Eddy, Adm Fits.