Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-05-06
STATE OF VERMONT
PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
ORDER OF NOTICE
No 697

No 697
WHEREAS, the Warner Sugar Re-
fining Company, a corporation estab-
lished under the laws of the State of
New Jersey and having a place Of
business in New York City, County
and State, licensed under the laws of
the State of Vermont, to do business
in the said State of Vermont, have
filed with the Public Service Com.
mission, a petition which is in words
and figures as follows:
"Your Petitioner has in contem-
plation the constructing and main
tenance of logging railroad situate
in Bloomfield in the County of Essex
in said State of Vermont, beginning
on the Main line of the Grand Trunk
Railway at point two hundred
,200) feet southeastly of the south
easterly end of the Nulhegan Bridge,
so-called, in said Bloomfield; thence
northerly to and across the main ira
yelled highway leading from said
Bloomfield to Wenlock in said Coun-
ty of Essex; that said proposed cross
ing of said highway is to be on the
grades as set forth in detail by a
plan filed herewith as made by w. l.
Richardson, C. E., in January, 1920.
Your Petitioner further says that
said proposed logging railroad will
cross the Main line of the Grand
Trunk by means of two switches.
Home and Distant automatic signals
Will be located respectively six hun
bred (60C} feet and one ~ mile
from the roint Of crossing, and so
constructed that the opening of the
switches to permit the logging trains
TO cross will automatically place the
Home signal on each side Of the cross
ing at ''stop', and the Distant signal
at "cauton". The crossing of the
logging trains over the Main line of
the Grand Trunk will be further
safeguarded by the provision that
such crossing shall not take place if
there is an eastbound Grand Trunk
train on the section of track between
Wenlock and North Stratford. Fur
tier derailing devices will be placed
upon the logging railroad tracks and
SO constructed that they will be in a
derailing position unless they are re-
leased by the Grand Trunk telegraph
operator at the North Stratford Sta
ton. This release only being given
upon information being received
from the dispatcher that there is no
train of the Grand Trunk between
Wenlock and North Stratford ap-
preaching this crossing, or a train
east of North Stratford approaching
this crossing.
Your Petitioner further desires to
cross with said logging railroad the
highway in said Bloomfield, known as
the East Branch Highway. Said
proposed crossing to be as fully set
forth in the plan thereof, fled here
with made by w. l. Richardson, C.
E., in 1920.
WHEREFORE YOUR PETITION
Err PRAYS that permission may be
granted to construct and operate
said railroad across said highway, and
to make the changes in said highway
as appears on the plan herewith sub
mitted.
WARNER SUGAR REFINING
COMPANY
By Bernard Jacobs,
It's Attorney.
Notice is hereby given that the
Public Service Commission will hold
public hearing upon said petition
at the Town Hall, Bloomfield, in the
County of Essex, on the goth day of
May, 1920, at 1000 o'clock in the
forenoon and
1T is ORDERED that the petition
re shall cause this order of Notice to
be published in the Essex County
Herald, newspaper published at Is
land Pond, in the County of Essex,
for two successive weeks, the last
publication to be at least twelve (12)
days before said goth day of May,
1920, and that the petitioner shall
five (5) days before said goth day of
May, 1920, file with the Public Ser
vice Commission copies of the news
paper in which this Order of Notice
shall have been published.
Dated this goth day of April, 1920.
w. A. BUTTON,
VIM. r. WARNER,
ELI H. PORTER,
Public Service Commission.
of Vermont.
OFFICE OF CLERK.
Filed April 81, 1920.
Attest:
NEIL D. CLAWSON, Clerk.
NOTICE
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