the tracks of the other company without supervision by the management of the company owning the tracks. This is an important street railway connection situated at the foot of a long descending four per cent grade on the Middlesex and Boston street railway. A large number of persons change cars at this place, therefore all reasonable safeguards should be required to protect the traveling public. For the purpose of preventing the recurrence of accidents of this character, I recommend a change in the operating contract made by these companies under date of April 1, 1915, to include the following: Said Boston Elevated Railway Company and Middlesex and Boston Street Railway Company agree that they will employ two experienced men for each car operated (unless of a type approved for one-man operation by the Public Service Commission), who shall at all times be subject and conform to the rules and regulations and the direction of the proper officers of the company over whose tracks the cars are being operated. I further recommend the installation of suitable bumpers at a proper distance from the waiting rooms to protect the same. [P. S. C. 2079-N] Respectfully submitted, GEORGE W. BISHOP, JOINT USE OF TRACKS. Petition of the Nahant and Lynn Street Railway Company relative to the operation of cars over tracks of the Bay State Street Railway Company between Central square in Lynn and Lynn beach. Memorandum. This petition was heard on March 5, 1918. The Nahant and Lynn Street Railway Company claims that the absence of a satisfactory agreement with the Bay State Street Railway Company, covering the operation of cars of the Nahant company over the tracks of the Bay State company in Lynn, between Central square and Lynn beach, seriously discommodes its patrons with respect both to inequalities in fares and delays in service. At the hearing it was arranged that representatives of the two companies should confer, with a view to entering into an agreement mutually satisfactory to parties in interest. Such an agreement has now been presented to the Commission for its consideration. Under its terms, provision is made for a continuous trip between the terminus of the Nahant and Lynn street railway in Nahant and Central square, Lynn, at a reduction in the present rate of fare. The agreement as proposed appears to be in the public interest and will be approved in a separate proceeding (see P. S. C. 2146). Action on the petition under consideration appears to be unnecessary, and it is therefore placed on file. By the Commission, ANDREW A. HIGHLANDS, MAY 29, 1918. [P. S. C. 1913] Secretary. Petition of the Bay State Street Railway Company and the Nahant and Lynn Street Railway Company for approval of agreement for operation of cars over certain tracks in Lynn. After full consideration, It is Ordered, That the Commission hereby certify that the operation of cars by the Nahant and Lynn Street Railway Company over certain tracks of the Bay State Street Railway Company between the boundary line between the city of Lynn and the town of Nahant and the Item building, so called, in said city of Lynn, to the extent and under the rules and regulations provided in an agreement executed between the Receiver of the Bay State Street Railway Company and the Nahant and Lynn Street Railway Company under date of May 3, 1918, a copy of which agreement is on file in this office, is consistent with the public safety. Attest: ANDREW A. HIGHLANDS, MAY 29, 1918. [P. S. C. 2146] Secretary. Petition of the Bay State Street Railway Company and the Swansea and Seekonk Street Railway Company for approval of agreement for use of certain tracks in Somerset and Fall River. It appearing, after notice and hearing, that the terms of an agreement executed by the Bay State Street Railway Company and the Swansea and Seekonk Street Railway Company, dated November 30, 1917, a copy of which agreement is on file with the petition, provide for a use of tracks in the town of Somerset and city of Fall River that is consistent with the public safety, - it is Ordered, That such authority for entering upon and using the tracks of these railways as may be derived from the above-named agreement be hereby approved, upon the understanding that the operation of cars over the tracks subject to such use shall be governed by joint rules and regulations established and published by both companies. Attest: ANDREW A. HIGHLANDS, JANUARY 18, 1918. [P. S. C. 2014] Secretary. Petition of the Boston and Worcester Street Railway Company and the Concord, Maynard and Hudson Street Railway Company for approval of contract relative to the operation of cars in the town of Hudson. It appearing, after notice and hearing and full consideration, that the terms of a contract executed by the Boston and Worcester Street Railway Company and the Concord, Maynard and Hudson Street Railway Company, dated January 1, 1916, providing that the Boston and Worcester Street Railway Company, during the period ending November 12, 1919, shall perform all the transportation over and upon that portion of the railway of the Concord, Maynard and Hudson Street Railway Company in the town of Hudson, lying between the terminus of the tracks of the Boston and Worcester street railway in Washington street and a point in Wood square, a distance of 510 feet, and also over the spur track of the Concord, Maynard and Hudson Street Railway Company in Washington street near South street, covering a distance of about 85 feet, are consistent with the public interests, it is Ordered, That the approval of the Commission be hereby given to the above-named contract, a copy of which is on file in this office. Attest: OCTOBER 8, 1918. ANDREW A. HIGHLANDS, [P. S. C. 1238] Secretary. RAILROAD LOCATIONS. Petition of the Boston and Albany Railroad Company that the Commission prescribe the limits within which certain land in the city of Boston may be taken for railroad purposes. Upon the petition of the Boston and Albany Railroad Company, filed January 29, 1918, under the provisions of section 78 of Part II of chapter 463 of the Acts of 1906, as amended by chapter 157 of the General Acts of 1915, praying that the Public Service Commission prescribe the limits within which it may take certain land for railroad purposes in the city of Boston in the county of Suffolk in the commonwealth of Massachusetts, outside the limits of its route already fixed in said city, for the purpose of making or securing its railroad for depot or station purposes or for one or more new tracks adjacent to other land occupied by it by a track or tracks already in use, due notice of the above petition and of the time and place of hearing thereon has been given to the owners of said land and to other parties interested therein, in the manner prescribed by law and in accordance with the order of notice issued on said petition, and a hearing on said petition has been given on February 27, 1918. All persons appearing at the hearing held as aforesaid having been heard, and the subject matter of said petition having been duly considered, it is now determined and adjudged that the said Boston and Albany Railroad Company requires additional land in Boston for the purpose of making or securing its railroad for depot or station purposes or for one or more new tracks adjacent to other land occupied by it by a track or tracks already in use, and is unable to obtain the same by agreement with the owners, and it is further determined, ordered and decreed that, subject to the rights of the city of Boston to maintain, repair and renew its existing sewer and water pipes located therein, such land may be taken as by law provided within the following limits, to wit: A parcel of land situated in the city of Boston, county of Suffolk and commonwealth of Massachusetts, bounded and described as follows:Beginning at the intersection of the northwesterly line of South street with the northeasterly line of a private way called Harvard street, and |