New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-03-11
INTERESTS OF RAILWAYS.

EFFECT OF REDUCING RAPID TRANSIT FAREs-YIEWs
OF SUPERINTENDENT wINsLow-REPoRT or THE
UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY.
Superintendent Winslow, Of the Manhattan
Elevated Railway Company, expresses the be-
lief that the proposed compulsory reduction OF
fares on the elevated road, would be unjust
to the companies and would, In many
ways, prove injuious to the public.
The Union Pacific Railway Company yester-
day reelected It's Board of Directors and made
public the report of the Union Pacific Railroad
Company for the past year.
A PROTEST AGAINST FTVE-CENT FARES.
WHAT THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE ELEVATED
ROADS sAYs-coNslDERAuoN FOR THE SURFACE
LINEs
In the coarse Of general talk about the affairs of
the elevated roads Superintendent Winsow said 10
a TRIBUNE representative Monday that he thought
that the whole question OF lines above the Harlem
River as well as in Brooklyn and other cios, hung
upon the action of the Legislature the bill now
pending reducing The fares to 3 cents.
NO one will put capital IN roads, be said.
IF tho Legislature may at any time arbitrarily cut
down the fares. The Brooklyn road am told. viii
cost $l,OOO,OOO mile. 1t will never pay at
cents fare. As to the Westminster extension pro-
fare bill IS passed. We cannot afford to carry
passenger from Harlem to the Battery for the rates
charged, and must make MP for the loss on that por
ton Of our business by the profits the way
travel
Suppose" said the reporter. that the Five
cent hi. does not pass Shall YOU then 20 on with
the proposed extensions north OF Harlem River =
Certainly not until we have completed sys-
tenn upon the island and see how 1t works. We
must finish the Second Avenue Line and the Thirty
fourth Street Branch. aud We must provide ou-
selves with terminal facilities for storing orr cars.
At present We have permanent provisions for
housing cleaning and repairing our ears when they
are not iu use Such provisions are as much part
Of me equipment If % railroad as Its tracks. 7 cse
terminal facilities vail cost AS for land and build
iuU- great deal of money, which must be added 10
the cos, of tracks, engIes and 50 form before the
whole cost Ot the roads can be trutliuHy stated.
peoulc who demand lower fares persist in regarding
fhr elevated roads completed and wei-cei abisLed
enterprises. VITA receipts ana expenses fully ascer-
famed. hey fail To consider thai great deal 81
money must still Ir spent upon them and that tho
cost oi keeping ~ repair the iron bridges winch
sustain their tracks D. stu an unsettled problem.
" Ia estimating the probable results OF TIE pro-
posed reduction of fare. do you count upon very
heavy increase of travclW
So. wc do not. The great bulk OF the travel
gOp- down town mornings. The midday travel Is OF
n cl.-. juat could not Doe much increased by lower
fares. We NOW ret an average If ~ cents tor
'NLri 'filhs 1T 'l''I IT. 'il TITO sumo
amount oi money 200 . cents per nas euger We must
carry 30 per cent ipoie people. Where wo now carry
100000 $40 would hay- % carry 100000 90 cam
or pt,,,nj revenue dp mot tbiGA tae trayel wcud
br increased iu Oh proportion
Bul would you n"t draw most Of TIE local
tra' away from CD. .'le car HI, s. aud nus "'a
lafgeiV Io Y"nr present I'''IiP p"9'uo,' t,ri
suppose "r rh'u'i' f"'u o'"'l" ~ i"' ivy,
assuming fuc lo.e of qn.ailoner DO You thluk DO
roulI n. $3.50 auN.u'a2e to nle public To compel the
street compauc- o run their cars 40 long inter-
l.-ul abandon t.tir tracks ult0gSfherT pd not
On. p..o..uo.d tl. surface roads for their conyeu-
iruC' DOL. well a7 o." ft''i "a Io"ca ana WOMB 10
Doe good policy O., break down tge 4of'e-clr mes ana
gisr u. % monopoly oi Tire whole business =
' Them a would sly itIf TIRE interests OF Inc