New-York tribune., 1875-11-03
THE MANHATTAN RAILWAY COMPANY

PLANS or THE AUTHORlZED BUILDERS OF TUE ROADS
COMMENTS UPON TIE ACTION oF MEMBER
OF TIIE RAPID TRANSIT ASSOCIATION.
AS previously published in The TRIBUNE,
the stock OF the Rapid Transit Company. organized
last week "a the Manhattan Railway Company" was
taken Ivy the leading stockholders OF the Gilbert aad the
New York Elevated Railway Companies. The object Of
the new Company Is to insure the compile
ton OF an elevated road as quickly as pos
sble on the East Side, between the Battery
aud the Harlem River, providing serious opposition
should be n,.do against the construction of such rOad
by the Gilbert and New-York Companies Mr. Navarro.
who is IA prominent stockhOlder in the Gilbert Company.
stated on Saturday that the New-YOrk Company Is
obliged To obtain the consent OF the property owners
along the line before can build the road and this may III
voye Il in troublesome litigation. The Gilbert Company
has already secured the rights OF way, and can proceed
with the work as as tho weather will permit next
Spring He thought there doubt that u rapid
transit ruad would be In operation the East Side IN
1876 Tho part of the proposed line, 1t Is stated
covered only 10y tho Gilbert charter prior to the or
ganzMiOn Of the new Company.
II is proposed hold meeting Of the directors OF the
New-YOIk Company in few days TO decide upon def
rite plans for the construction OF their portion Of the
road. One OF the officers of the Company
stated Saturday that 1t was the intention 10
cAirnd their road 10 South Ferry, aud from
sNty-drst to Ninety-socondss. over Ninthaye. this
Fan majority OF tue meinnecs OF the Executive Com
ntcc of tho Company favor, hc said, Of building
the road the plan that adopted above Forty
second st., winch - similar la tbat already
culs ru,ted down town, except that the cluster bc
used instead Of the single columns, and compound
beam with boiler iron web instead oT open truss Tie
new rOad however, VIII bo much stronger thDn the spcc
iculiDns Of the Commissioners require, while 10 VIII
lulh with tho spirit OF thcse spe ihcatiOns in every par
tieular In tue Spring the NeB-YUrk Company will be-
kin tho construct Vu of the road on the East side.
70 the Editor or The Tribune.
SIR: In your report Of the meeting in the
Raiai Transit Commission Oh Friday non,ng as at
the Corn Exchange Bank You roicr to Mn h. MorrI as
being present ana ia some way representing the Rapid
Transit Association Tue Association Is voluntary
Udy organized not for the purpose OF deciding upon
routes places, but simply fOr the flrtHermg 0f tue
enterprise important ~ the prosperity Of tho city.
When the route Un the East Side, which tic Com
MISSION In their ws,Om mad determined upon
IA the best. was mado known, Mr. Morrill, de
velopod antaSOnism % II. Because he had Leisure
and possessed Kind OF activity then thought necco-
sary DIT. Morrill, had made Chairman of FIX
ecuiive Committee but IL Ia incorrect u put him for
representing the AssocItion Indeed, the bu5i
tnis Association Do considered endcd for
il is apparent that lero VIII be roads built
both the East West Sides f the upiud and tenn
pri Of the pubic understood by the writer viii br
well all disposed Ia sohIeyo interference to stand
aside. A MEMTEg THE RAPID TRANSIT ASSOCIATION.
Aet0- York, Oct. 80, 1870