Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1919-01-24

In re Petition of the Rutland Railroad
Company to abandon its station at Bedens
Vermont.
ORDER OF NOTICE
WHEREAS the Rutland Railroad Company, by
George 7. Jarvis it's 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 T. Jarvis its Vice President and General
Manager. and respectfully represents that its
station at Beldens Vermont, was made nom
agency station on November LIST. 1917. and that
the patrons of your petitioner living in that vi
cinity were fully Informed of your petitioners
intention TO take such action either by personal
notice. or rotice published in the "Middlebury
Register" local paper at Middlebury. Vermont;
that the mill Of the Vermont Marble Company
formerly Gated at said BeIdens was destroyed by
fire in Nay, 1876 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 no necessity
for the maintenance Of a station at said Bedens:
that there is station at New Haven Junction.
SO miles north of said Beldens and another at
Mddlebury. "a miles south of said Beldens: that
the very small amount Of business that would now
naturally go to said Beldens can now be handled
at either New Haven Junction or Middleb bury
with little. if any. inconvenience to your petit
TONER patrons; that it would cost your petit
toner about $500 per year to maintain an agent
at said station and the amount of business done
by your petitioner at said station would in no
sense warrant such an expenditure; that it is ex-
tremey 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 non
agency station is unwarranted and without
foundation.
WHEREFORE your petitioner prays that your
Honorable Commission appoint date for hear
ing and that 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 7. Jarvis.
Vice President and General Manager"
NOTICE rs 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 Middlebury and
County of Addison on the 18th day eff February.
A. d. 1919, at 100 in the afternoon and
1T is ORDERED that the petitioners snail cause
this Order of Notice to be published in the Mid
debury Register. newspaper published at Mid
dlebury in said County, for three weeks success
sivey. the last publication to be at least ten (l0)
days before the said 18th day of February. 1919.
and that the petitioner 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. r. Warner. Commission
Eli Fl. Porter, ) Of Vermont.
Office of Clerk.
Filed January 20, 1919.
Attest:
Neil d. Clawson.
Clerk 4t3