The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-02-26
RAPID TRANSIT.

WHAT SOME OF OUR ALDERMEN sEEM TO KNOW
ABOUT IT.
The special committee on Rapid Transit OF tho
Board OF Aldermen did not report yesterday. as
as was announced IL would DO. Those members
OF the committee who were spoken to yesterday
afternoon seemed To be strangely unfamiliar with
the matters that pertain to rapid transit One OF
them, Alderman Co.e, appeared to think that
report was ready for submission, but
would no. be presented because Alderman
Purroy, the Chairman OF the committee,
was absent from the city. Yet Alderman Cole,
who IL was inferred, intended to subscribe to the
report which ne supposed to be IN existence, aid
not know what the document would suggest or
commend to the Board OF Aldermen in relation To
rapid transit. Alderman Shandley did not know
that there had been intention on the part Of
the committee to make report, and Thought that
the nnal meeting Of the committee was ap.
that the committee mad been agreed upon the
subject matter OF report before senator More's
family remembered. had destroyed the barmOnv
OF the ideas OF the memoirs OF tue com nttee. He
had, az the time was agreed, been determined
to report in favor OF the city building rapid
to confer such bcneht upon the people. In brief,
Alderman Shandley's ideas Of rapid transit and OF
Der. appeared to be in q strange jumole. Alder
man Billings thought that the Rapid Transit Com
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ana that as Chairman Purroy was not in the city.
the committee would not make report to
one ne ABOVE named
that Alderman PurrOy knew all about tho
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means By which the possibility OF travelling speed
nv in the metropolis can os procured or Its citi-
in Albany yesterday. IL may be tnAt he and his
colleagues have really agreed upon this matter tor
their report aud tnat the latter did not wish to
publish his and their opinions his absence;
that they, therefore, feigned different degrees OF
CONFUSION ami ignorance. One must either as
sumo this or lose ali respect for the int ligence
OF some OF our city oficias Aldermen Coie.
snandley and Billings, then successfully sinu-
lated the last degree OF ignorance with regard to
the Intentions OF the committee OF when they
1t Is perhaps needless to say that no one, leav
ing aside the members OF the committee, knows
what course the committee intends 10 commend
to the Board OF Aldermen. There was rumOr to
the effect mat the committee win suggest that
private corporations be permitted to build rapid
railways In the city, and that each company should
be required TO give Dond for $3.50, 900 a. guar
antee against IT'S failure to 90 the work is mad
that the COMMITTEES viii declare Senator MOTIFS
bill to be the real legislative means to achieve
rapid transit in the metropolis. Besides these
ruinors II was said that the coming report Will
SIMPLY declare that the municipal corporation is
the proper body to construct and operate rapid
railway. and will leave the Board OF Adorned TO
devise legislative means hereby the city authori-
ties can ne authorized TO assume sucn duties.
winch or these reports contains the element OF
truth viii PROBABLY not be determined until the
Eaplu ITanSit small make It's report 10
the Board VI Aldermen which " Will DO, probably,
next rnufsda
The movement Tor the collection OF a 'deferred
CaptcaV fund still continues to progress but now
far 1t has gone already cannot he learned because
no reports have yet been made 20 Mr.. Roosevelt or
to Mr.. Drake By the holders OF subscription lists
OF the amounts pledged upon them. 1t was hoped
that such reports could be procured during TINS
held on saturday. 1t was intended, n the meet.
Ing was held on Saturday, to organize at that
veneu, however, ana tne projected meeting Will n0t
be held Tor more than week. In the meantime
the work OF soliciting subscriptions Will De con-
tlnued persistently BY the way, the suggestion
thrown out Dy the HERALD That the workers for
rapid transit should enlist the poor as well as the
rIch In tneir cause is likely to be adopted when
the wara clubs are organized alter the central
organization OF subscribers their membership
VIII comprise not only the subscribers OF small
sums to the ''uelerred capitai' iund, but those
men who have only their good Will TO give toward
bringing rapid transit into lie.