Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-12

under the foreSter'S saw as the result OF
the putting into effect by the municipal
officers of Augusta. acting under orders
of a law passed at the last session Of the
Legislature, the purpose of which is the
making safe of grade crossings. The own
ers Of the property on which there is
work to be done will be promptly notified
and at some time not earlier than II days
nor later than a days after the giving Of
notice the provisions of the law will be
carried into effect.
The public utilities commissioners have
designated in their instructions to the
municipal officers the crossings at which
bushes and trees must be cut and trim
med to provide clear view to travel
lers approaching the crossings. The work
is to be confined to areas included by
lines drawn from points 300 feet down the
railroad rights of way from the crossing
to points 80 feet from the crossing on
the highway. The following crossings
were named by Tho commissioners as
those requiring attention: Morang's
crossing, Blair road, Grove street and
Western avenue, Child street, Capitol
street, Scott street. Green street, Bridge
street Chapel street, Whitten's crossing,
Cony and Stone streets, Middle street,
Cross street East Chestnut street. Cedar
street, Eastern avenue, Belfast avenue
and Locke street.
The expense of the work will eventually
he shared equally by the city and the
State. In cases where the owners of
property claim damages they may pre-
sent their claims to the Public Utilities
Commission for assessment by that body.
A portion of the orders received by the
municipal officers is as follows:
ITO the Municipal officers of Augusta:
You are hereby ordered and directed to
cut bushes, trim the limbs Of trees, re-
move fences, sign boards and encroach-
ments which are on any part of the pri-
vate land as described below at any or
either of the crossings hereafter mention
ed to the extent and in the manner here
matter prescribed
You are forthwith
"I) To give notice to all interested
persons Chat is, each land owner upon
whose property you are to do any act)
by delivering personally to each who Is a
resident of your town or an adjoining
town, a copy of this notice or by sending
by registered mail to each land owner
who resides in any other place than your
town or adjoining town, copy Of this
notice, thus giving to each such owner
an opportunity to be present during such
time as you are at work on his premises
"C) Not sooner than II days and not
later than 20 days after you have deliv-
cred or mailed the above notice you are
ordered to perform the acts hereinafter
indicated SO that traveller approach
ing any or either OF said crossings may
have the fair view thereof mentioned
in Section Q Chapter AS, Public Laws of
Maine for the year 1917 Copy Of which
IS contained in this order). The limits in
which you are to perform your acts on
private land are within a space formed
by a quadrangle found by measuring
from point $50 feet from the center be-
tween the rails on the crossing to a point
300 feet down the rails Of the railroad
right Of way between said rails: thence
to point on the highway $50 feet from
said center and on the opposite side of
said crossing; thence to a point 200 feet
from said center up said railroad right Of