Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1919-02-07

vermont.
ORDER OF NOTICE
WHEREAS the Rutland Railroad Company, by
George L. Jarvis, its Vice President and General
Manager. has filed with the Public Service Com
mission of the State of Vermont. a petition
which is in words and figures as follows:
TO THE PURLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF
THE STATE OF VERMONT.
Now comes the Rutland Railroad Company by
George Il. Jarvis, its Vice President and General
Manager. and respectfully represents that it's
station at Beldens. Vermont, was made a nom
agency station on November list, 1917. and that
the patrons of your petitioner living in that vi
cinty were fully informed of your petitioner s
intention to take such action either by personal
notice. or notice published in the "Middlebury
Register. a local paper at Middlebury, Vermont;
that the mill of the Vermont Marble Company
formerly located at said Bedens was destroyed by
fire in May 1916; that said mill was the source
from which practically all traffic handled by your
petitioner at said station came; that considera-
BILE number of men were employed in said mill
and resided in the immediate vicinity OF said sta
ton; that said Vermont Marble Company has not
rebuilt said mill, and the men employed therein
and their families have moved away and the
dwelling houses occupied by them have been
closed or removed; that there is now necessity
for the main tenance of a station at said Beldens;
that there is a station at New Haven junction,
So miles north Of said Beldens and another at
Middlebury, "a miles south Of said Beldens that
the very small amount If business thar would now
naturally 60 to said Beldens now be handled
at either New Haven Junction or Middlebury
with little, if any. inconvenience to your petit
toner's patrons; that it would cost your petit
toner about $500 per year to maintain an agent
Mt said station and the amount of business done
by your petitioner at said station would in no
sense warrant such expenditure; that it is eX
tremely difficult to secure station help and the
conservation of men and money which it is your
petitioners duty to exercise demands that said
station be abandoned.
Your petitioner further represents that the
complaint filed with your Honorable Board on
account of the making of said station a nom
agency station is unwarranted and without
foundation
WHEREFORE your petitioner prays that your
Honorable Commission appoint date for hear
ing and that an order may be made permitting
you petitioner to abandon said station and provid-
ing such other relief as your petitioner should
have.
Dated at the City of Rutland. Vermont. this
18th day of May. 1918.
Rutland Railroad Company.
By George T. Jarvis.
Vice President and General Manager"
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN that the Public Serv-
ice Commission will hold public hearing upon
said petition at the Addison House in the Village
of Middlebury in the Town of Mddlebury and
County of Addison on the 18th day eff February.
A d. 1919. at 100 in the afternoon and,
IT IS ORDERED that the petitioners shall cause
this Order Of Notice to be published in the Mid
debury Rcgi- ter, a newspaper published at Mid
dlebury in said County. for three weeks success
sively the last publica ion to be at least ten (O)
days before the said 18th day of February. 1919
and that the etitioner shall. five days prior to
the 18th day OF February. 1919. file with this
Commission copies of the newspaper in which
this Order of Notice shall have been published.
Dated this goth day of January. 1919.
Walter A. Dutton. Public Service
VIM. K. Warner. 7 Commission
Eli II. Porter, of Vermont.
Office Of Clerk
Filed January 20. 1919.
Attest:
Neil d. ClawsOn,
Clerk 4t3