New-York tribune., 1879-05-26
RlPID TRANSIT QUESTIONS.
RELATIONS or ELEVATED LINES.

RELATIONS OF ELEVATED LINES.
HOW THE MANHATTAN COMPANY WILL MANAGE TIE
RoADs-REvIvING THE METROPOLITAN TRANSIT
COMPANY.
Great satisfaction with the settlement OF the
questions Mt issue shown by officers ana directors %
tho elevated railroad companies The elae of the roads
to the Manhattan Company is claimed by them 10 be
the natural and most enable solution OF the difficult
ties which times threatened to long and bitter
contest between the companies. the single management
of the two roads viii result it ia asserted. in enlarged
facilities for travel The service the TbTdaye. aud
tie Nntbaye lines will he improved greatly, and the
sixth-avc line Sunday trains will be run On the com
pletiou of Niuthayc line auigit trains VIII lie run
probably The West Side lines. Transfer tickets viii
be iSsued q, all functions.
The Manhattan Company viii begin the operation Of
the roads on June 8 the first anniversary Of the opening
OF the Metropolitan Road. The Manhattan Company viii
the complete management OF all the lines and VIII
MAINTAIN the structures and equipment Ii viii com
piete the OF the parts hinder contract
according TO the plans previously adopted. That com
pauy VIII act the capacity Of agent Of the leased
roads The division OF its share OF the Manhattan Conn
pany'5 stock has been arranged by the Gcw-lork
Company. The stock may be divided among its own
stockholders or it may be held by the company Itself FOR
the benefit OF It's stockholders.
bill introduced by senator EcclCsinc and passed by
both houses OF the Legislature designed to revive the
charter OF toe Metropolitan Transit COMPANY ana eX
tending the time in which the line may De completed
has caused discussion This company, iEcorpor-
ated in 1872 was authorized to have capital OF 30,
100000 and to build double-rack railway for carry
ing passengers or freight. by steam power, under
through and above the SOIL beneath ana over certain
streets and avenues specified and through private prop
erty between certain terminal points named. The char
ter lays ont the route from point ~ Broadway opposite
Bowling Green. through private property Morris and
ChuFch-Ss; through ChuTchst 20 Canl thence through
private properly up 10 point seyony-hye feet west on
Sixtlr0Ye West WashlngtOn-plGce; thence through
private properly to the west OF seNentaAc and ~ 10
FITty-eightb-st thence 10 Broadway, and along that
street To SxEetG-st; thence through private properly 70
the side OF NniaVc., ana Up 10 Cuo-AunuciaLa-
saveuty-fifth-st.; and thence TO Harlem River.
The right build several branches Was also granted,
the tcruin of wnich naned Tut The routes were
determiued by commission. Tho commissioners,
IL il said report which has never been recorded,
and nobody except those III the secret TO know
where the branches were laid out. Thcr Is difference
of opiptoB among lawyers to whether the charter
il now IN force or not but it sold nOt long 20
new set ot men, among whom is Erastus Corning They
went Ia Albany and obtained the passage or The Eccle-
sine b which intended 70 obtain recognition OF
the line, and contained provision that the maps and
plans should br filed II il maintained by some lawyers
that II the charter had expired, anything IN the Di
could not revive IT, lt Is also said that an amcndmCut
was inserted by Senate Committee providing that
nothing in the bin should be construed 10 revive any
rights or grants which had expired, ard that its passage
should not net recognition OF the continued cOrpO
rate existence Of the company.