Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-10-21
DEPOT LOCATION
NOW APPROVED
BY COMMISSION
Description Of Exact Location as
Made by the Engineers and
. Formal Granting of Petition
LAST LEGAL STEP IN
LOCATING ON CANAL ST.

The Public Utilities Commission, as
was expected, has given its approval
of the location of the new L, A. &
w. freight depot. The decision, issued
over date of Oct. 30, reads as follows:
The Lewiston, Augusta & Waterville
Street Railway Co., under date Of Oct.
2, 1915, presented to this commission
petition. asking permission to con-
struct and maintain .an. addition or
extension of its branch track now To-
Gated and used upon Water street In
the city of Augusta.
Upon said petition notice was given
Of a public hearing at the Offices of
tine commission In Augusta, upon Oct
10, 1915. at 10 O'Clock in the forenoon.
nj which TING and placeia. hearing
was held, and notice proved to have
been given as ordered.
Andrews & Nelson appeared for the
petitioner, and no. person appeared in
opposition. - g. ss''' az --' 60
/ AS a matter Of recent history the
petitioner has for some months appre-
ciated the necessity Of securing place
for a warehouse or freight shed to
take care Of its increasing freight
business. Several locations were select
ed. but the extension OF a branch track
to- any of these locations met with ep-
position upon the part of citizens Of
Augusta, until finally the present To-
cation was selected, and the extension
of a track to the site of this proposed
warehouse meets with no objection so
far as the commission or counsel for
1.-The petitioner are informed.
This petition is brought under Sec
ton of Chapter So, Revised Stat
utes, which definitely provides the
manner in which a street railway may
receive approval Of its location. The
same SECTION provides that any extern
! sion Of, addition to or variation from
! the location Of any street railroad may
! be made. in acceptance with, and sub
4 ject ito the same provisions applying
/ to an original approval of location
! Among other necessary things is. the
written approval Of the proposed route
and location as to streets, roads ano
ways by the municipal officers.
The petitioner presents, as a part OF
/ it's case, the written approval of thu
!
Sept. IA, 1915. The petitioner also sets
1 forth in it's petition the courses. dis
tances and boundaries of the proposed
/ extension or addition, and accompanies
the same with map of the proposed
route on an appropriate scale. The
description of the location of said ex-
tension or addition, as shown in SAFE
petition and the map accompanying
! the same, is as follows:
j The center line Of said location be;
gins at the center of the main track
/ of the Lewiston, Augusta & Water
vile Street Railway at a point marked
''O'' at a point about 165 feet from
the present terminus of said track
near the office Of the Edwards Manu-
/ featuring Co. aforesaid thence by {
curve to the left with a radius Of Az
feet. 207 feet to a point marked plu:
o.; thence north degrees 0 minutes
east 249 feet to a point marked plus
/ Sc, said distance being along. the east
erly side of Northern Avenue and dis
tant approximately feet therefrom
thence by a curve to the west with {
radius of 100 feet "A feet to station
! Plus 80 to a point 6 feet south OF thu
! north line Of Canal street, thence 27t
feet to>a point marked station S. sait
! distance being on the northerly sidt
of said Canal street and approximately
/ 6 feet therefrOm. --esz -,-
4 The above described line is the cen
ter line of said location. which sait
! loca ton is four feet on either sidt
thereof. -.- -.,--
/ Now. after full hearing and mat UT.
consideration, we determine that pub
I lie convenience requires the censtruc.
ton offs the addition or extension las
above described, and designate this de-
cision land order as a certificate q
such determination in writing re-
CURED by said Section Z. Chapter SO
and direct the clerk Of this commits
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