Connecticut western news., 1917-05-03
MUST PROVIDE PROTECTION
Public Utilities Commission Order
 Additional Prote ctIon,

As published in The News of March 29 petition ill due form was filed with the public utilities commission asking for hearing before them relative to more adequate protection at the grade crossings in the vicinity.
 Such Tearing was hel d Monday, April before commissioners Higgins and Elwell, both of whom visited the crossings before listening to the argu, ments presented by representative citi- zens.
 The report of the commission as pub lished below, brings to a successful issue an effort started by the Business Mems Association some little time ago.
 It emphasizes the fact that the Busi ness Mems Association is alive to the best interests of the community and in bringing the grade crossing menace to the notice of the proper authorities it has conferred lasting benefit not only on the travelling public but as we'll on the citizens who cross and recross the railroads every day of the year.
 The full text of the report of the com mission is as follows:
  brought out at said hearing and after personal observation of the conditions at the several grade crossings, the Com. mission is of the opinion and finds that public safety requires a modification of certain orders now existing relative to protection of three of these grade cross. ings and the issuance of an order rela tive to the protection of the fourth; namely, the crossing of Railroad street, or Pease crossing. by tracks of the Berkshire Division of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company; and said respondents are hereby severally ordered and directed as follows: ....
 CD The Central New England Rail- way Company shall extend the present hagman protection of Church street crossing so that said crossing shall be so protected between the hours of 7:00 o'clock A M and 12:00 o'clock mid night, daily, Sundays included.
 .(2) Said Central New England Rail. way Company shall extend the present fagman protection of East Main Street, or Borden's Crossing, so that said 2 the hours of o clock A. M. and 12:00 o'clock midnight daily, Sundays in. cluded
 (3) The New York. New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company shall ex- tend the present protection at Main StreeG crossing so that said crossing shall be protected by gates between the hours of zoo o'clock A. M. and 12:0U o'clock midnight, daily. Sundays in. cluded.
 (4) The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company shall establish and maintain hagman protec- tion at Railroad Street, or PeEse cross ing between the hours of TOO o'clock A. M and 12:00 o'clock midnight daily, Sundays included, from May l, to December l, of each year, and shall provide and maintain fagman protec. tion for said crossing between the hours of 7:00 o'clock A. M and TOO o'clock P. M. daily, Sundays included from December l to May 1, of each year.
 The Commission by an Independent ruling will require all cars of the street railway company tU be brought to stop before passing over said Pease crossing.
 This order shall be effective on and after May l, 1917 and any and all pre-. vious orders of the Commission or of the Board of Railroad Commissioners relative to protection at any of said crossings are hereby modified and amend q in accordance with the fore- going order and decree.
 We hereby determine, and direct that notice of the foregoing finding and decree be given to the petitioners and to the respondent companies, by Henry F. Billings, Secertary of this Commits sion, by forwarding by registered mail, true and attested copies hereof, addressed one to the Board of Selectmen of the Town of North Canaan, Canaan, Connecticut, ard one to Arthur B. Clark, Secretary, The New York. New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company and Central New England Railway Company, New Haven. Connecticut, on or before the 27th day of April 1917, and due return make hereon.
 Dated at Hartford, Connecticut, this 18th cay of April A. D. 1917.
 Richard T. Higgins Public
 J H. Hale Utilities
 c. c. Elwell Commission. Hartford County, ss.
 Hartford, April 27, 1917.
 hereby certify that the foregoing is true copy of the original order as on file and record in this office.
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