The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-03-30

resolution provides that the pavement shall be
kent In good repair between the tracks md two
feet outside ~ them on the roadway; thW snow
shall be removed within thirty-sX hours oi itS
fall. and that the street RhHll le swept nni
cleaned duly. under hrnVy penalties l"r en'h
failure that rach car shH contain s"nts divided
bv guards for fourteen passengers, ana thut
no more shall I've admitted wlyn these srnts nro
all occupird TINT cnrs shall he run day and
might. This WIS referred to the Committee on
Al the Meeting Of March g. Alderman Morrls
submitted a letter. signed Ivy the capitalists
named in the previous resolution In which
they offer. ns nm additional condition. TO- rcrnve
broadway from Fourteenth street to Bowling
Green.
At the next meeting Of tho Board, on March
II. communication from John b. Ieskin wns
laid before thc Board suggesting thM the pr9;
BE- by and through the intervention Of the city
Government, and that W the city VIII not do this
"a nSs thT" donn then % r NJ sEn pHT "reS T1S
was alleged at the timc. humorousy. one
million dollars for the grant md fran"his", TO
grant. Ifhis should not be- looked upon favor
nbly by the Board then Mr.. lIaskin nsks that
the grant he made for and in behalf ot the gcn-
tlemrn hereinafter named. They have. Mr..
Haskin insists in his communication:
Prior aud better claims than bankers and others Of
franchise who have Tor wears drawn iauer amounts In
eni Of 6cp~.i,c- and Euro bondaolicr. Than any
o. tn%e Who's nance are rss, - O. W Nv w, S
| legislative favor assumed to be within your gnL
ihcy were a,iSched aud win wlci hoy sceou.ly
aud iudu u-frinu~N acted ana worked contributed fr
.@ , we We ,,,u'n ~ w tnf my"nW ~ you, m'a, ,nt
other equal nuubcr o. GENT mru aud or nnz ton ~
! W,.bnr'on Had c, ierone Ruck. jane. CRiof. rh,t
datr Inni.iu.on. Robert Caihcrw, ,ci y nes rhesn
Gcor5c " h,lcan li'ry x "a, eh Az ,nsm 1ep'
/ ihoiua. Mcclellan. Abel croek, John nassin Jr..
Wand rt,i Alien Al Ackcri Id ). crcamer, John j
Blair, aud their associates
At the same meeting. March II. Alderman
! Roberts submitted a solution providing that
| 20 franchise for railroad in Broadway would
! be approved 10y the Board unless the grant PRO.
videl for continuous line from Whitehall
street 10 Central Park, ut n rate OF hre not 20
sA,1eu ssAA M nv" frns' Y1a tna' sn'h lrnnDniS, ps
| Alderman SHucr. at th" same meeting. intro
| duced resolution authorizing the Broadway
| and Seventh Avenue l.ailroad Company tn eN-
| tend It's tracks thrnugh broadway from Four
teen,h street to whitehall; also allowing the
| Blocker street linz. or rather the Twenty-ihird
| street line to which the Blocker street line is
| lrased tn run it, cars from Blocker street on
the proposed broadway and seventh avenue
| extension to Whitehall street and back. and
| also giving the same privilege 70 the Harlem,
or. as it is better known. the Fourth avenue
In addition to this project. another was intro
| ducrl 10y Alderman llaughton. 1t grants the
| tanville and ST. Nirholas avenue Railway Com
pany These projects diner very greatly in
/ the revenue offered the city John B. liaskin.
and an unknown capitalist vouched for by the
| Herald, each ofer 70 give on" million dollars
| is willing to assume the conditions that the
| " Belmont company" so-caled promised IN their.
| communication TO undertake II will be seen'
that the offer Of the unknown capitalist seems
| TO be the most advantageous. while that OF the
| newly formed Forty-sccond street. Manhattan
| VILE and ~. Nicholas avenue Company-three
| per cent OF the gross receipts-is the least so.
1t il generally believed at the city Hall that
the resolution offered by President Mott repre-
sented the capitalists Of the Harlem Railrond.
or. as II Is called. Vanderbilt proposition. The
| resolution which grants the franchise TO the
Tweniy-third street. Bleecker. broadway and
| Seventh avenue was caused 10 be Introduced by
Jacob Isharp and Cross Town" Cary the
| mi of xrh mi a VII
| and tho latter the Fourteenth street road.
The Belmont proposition II believed to repre;,
| who eau more easily obtain the consent OF the
! property owners than any OF the other proposed
| ORGANIZATIONS. 1t il alleged that polticnns are
Interested ia the Forty-second Street Manhai-
| tanville and ST. Nicholas Aycuu" Cuwpanys
| resolution. and that eN- -Commisstoner Van Mort
isone OF the responsible mrn VINO arr urtlhs y.
The Committee on Railroads Las already
given the representatives ot the different or
ing. This took plae last Thursday 'urnoon.
Nrhhrn Of the Central TAXPAYER Association;
Besides ohletng to the proposals. on %" ground
That such railway must lnrNlhuly rum bi"ad-
way he said that there were serious legal OBJ
stacles claiming that no power on TIE subject Is
vested in the Common Council. tie Thought
that Rny grant or franchise gwen by th" Com
mon Council would not he valid. Counsellor
| John II. Strahan. who r"prr~ 'nt"d thr BROAD
wny ma Seventh Avenue Raiiway. said that he
WAS not present tu advise the A drrmen regard
iug their powers. tut hc did think u would be
nSroiiy ndmitfed that a franchise would be
worthless wlat'yer else might also be required
TO make It good, unless sanctioned by the Com
Mr.. Sima,.n L. Church thought that the Forty
Second street company had the right to lay "a
track in Broad@ay without the consent oi the
In tho opinion Of many OF tho best lawyers the
Common Councils consent IS worthless nniess
an act is also passed 10y the General Asse mbly,
and this Is 20 whether the proposal ls SIMPLY T.
extend existing tracks or to lay those oi u new
organizatio9. Even when sneh eohsent H. 2n, on
passed by the Common Council. either the con-
sent OF the owners OF property equal In value To
ous-hulf the entire value OF IN" lrlp"Fty
must be- Obtnin"d. or else mission
appointed by th9 courts must pass unon
Whitney is not prepared To eNpress any
opinion without further eNamination; law
troer's Office who have look d carefully into
general act of the Assembly must be procured
;hat Consent Of the Board of Aldermen must
then be obtained and that finally either the con,
sent OF property owners 70 one-hhli Tue Nuun "l
property or the ilndlng OF a comInisslol must b'
had heiOr" any organ iHation can operate sur
face rniirDad on Broadway. II any attempt Is
made before these cpud'tions are eompNcdMlth
b. called upon and viii interfere.
Alderman Morris ~ the meeting of tho Board
held March 20 IN view oi thls lrghl ph'etoh
offered ID resolution that she Legislature be re-
qucsted 70 pass general law. hs to SCI a' 7, 81
any doubt that may exist or question ma, may
arise ns 10 the legality % authorizing the laying
or extending of any railroad tra' Ks, ana alsS
making II ngnduiory that the franchises shu
be sold ~ public auction. The law now provides
that no law shall authorize.
The construction operation of street railroad cN
condition thht the consent u N" uw utfs o
uehau i valuc vi the property bounded on and t,,
consent also NJ thr local authorities havnc the cuntru
OF that poruon Of street or hishwaN upon Which 49,
proro~ed construct or operaL such railroad lie hr-
o tanned the consent Of suCh properly owner
cannot be- obtained, the General Term o tue Sup-, u'
Court IN the district IN which ts proposed T. be con
nlIllcation. appoint ulr,c rouWl-
sionrr- shah dtrrnu. after hearing OF al par
u,s inere.ted. wheIe, su,h rnrold ousnt t. tc ,on
sructcd W operated Ani thoT dcternua connrm
hy Court may BE- taken in lea q the consent VI '
property owners,
POINDEXTER'S TRIlL ron MURDER
The Jury Disagree aud are DIseharUed-How