New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-08-17
STREET RAILWAY SCHEMES.
WILL sHARp's FRANCHISE DE sIoNEp'


suAnp,s LAWYERS URGE FAVORABLE AciioN--lnh
OTHER BROADWAY coMrASihS-cAblh hN''"'
pnh;mson scribner & Bright, the counsel for the
p,noSwsy surface Railroad Company. yesterday
presented to Mayor Edison a briei III , supp"ro
OF the consent given oy lind rne in Rroad.
waw Inv that company. together with an ainuavit oS
Mr. Foshay President of the Broadway aug
Seventh Avenue Railroad Company. setting loIln
,bat his company has entered into an arrangement
with the Broadway Surface Company Tor the con.
tnuous carriage of passengers from the 100! r %a
lawyers argue that 1t is geneiaiiy con mp1
that railroad is needed IN broad Dad
way and that the company bout 1 hJ.
ding for it at public auction: They declare that
their route to Central Park is more direct than
those of rival companies, and that the latter con-
template carrying their roads up Fifth-ayc. Cen
trail Park. They attack the New York Cable ttall-
way Company, declaring that II rs aI,ns
franchise under the Rapid Transit act, lnney
add that a veto can only result i"
delaying an important public lmpI3Vtiu nnrrow 70
maze mn his mind IN regard 10 the Aldermen res0,
lutions The prevailing impression Is ilat nc m,i
send veto message TO the Aldermen at thelI nieGt
inc If he does SO il must lie over under the rules
until the next meeting of the Board, out II Is
thought that the Aldermen VIII ultimately pass 'no
The Officers of the two other railroad COM
panies that seek TO gam posSeSNloaI , 81
broadway
men would not necessarily be hnai as aga list 'He
They say that the city authontieS might give lhelr
consent to the building OF half doIch raiway on
Broadway and that if they should do 50, thc com
Cany that also obtained the consent OF the prop
ertv-Owners OF, in lieu OF thai, iaVoraoIo
action on the part oil G inS 0U rnriJrG snch
action is confirmed by the Court) W"nd
he entitled TO the franchise III the p!es'I,c
Board gives its consent only Ia the CONSTRUCTION Oh
n rnad Inv The Broadway Surface Railroad Com
pany an effort will be made 10y the other companies
10 get the consent OF the new B2au tat o Mi ro@Gs
Office IN January 10 the building OF tner i1auS'
The New-York Cable Railway Company ~ sun en-
gagged in procuring the consent OF properly owners
on various routes and especially Thai ON LeA4slon,
ave- Lafayette Place. Crosby, William ana bIoal
sts. to the Battery. with connections through IL
fervennr propertv. It's officers considering the
advisabilitv of charging this route 80 as to lay te
tracks IN Baxter and William SITS, ana OF lnaNllg
an effort to have those streets Wldcncu so as 20
would be a relief 10 Broadway, and would benefit
property which is not now very valuable Oh those
streets.
THE TENTH AVENUE CABLE ROAD.
Work on the Cable Railway, now III course OF con
structlo on on 1cnI-aVe. between 10Th ST. ana Inc
Harlem river rapidly going on. The hlTd Avenue
Railroad Company, ly which TINS pI3hch io on u
built has paid for three quarters ol the md'C'i'I
required. which is already 90 the ground ana us
Officers promise that 20 time shall be lost In com
plotting II. AT the depot OF me coH'PiYiS
al Sixty-hfth-st. and 1IIrd-avc. a miniature cable
railroad is in successful operation 1t Is constructed
upon the plan adopted for the road on F0h'h-aNe.
confident that it Will be success upon large
scale and contemplate the ultimate cXtcnsion OF
The system from fcuth-aVc. Though Oue-hundIed-
and-tweuty-hfth-st and down Ihird-avc., rcpiac-
ing with the cable the horse power now
in use. Ii is even anticipated tiat the
cable may be carried not only - to
the Post Office. but also connected with the line,
now operated by horse power, from EcSey-St.
through New ChuTch-St. to south Ferry, which the
Third AvenUe Railroad Company has recently puG-
chased. If this Is done there will be a continuous
cable railroad from the Battery TO High BIldge
operated by tins company. Meantime, connexions
cars for the experimental road on lenlI-aye, are
beng built. the cables are nearly ready,
the castings to be placed lepeath the
road-bed are being put in position aud wee
President Hart expresses the belief that every
thing Will be in working order within two months.
Work on the substantial cneine-honse and depot at
Tenth-aye. and One-hundred-and-tw invent " So ycnth.
st. has been retarded 10y the bncklayer0
strike and the Illness of Colonel James }. Mooney,
who has the contract for its construction. But Tor
this and unooked-for difficulties arising from tie
position of the water pipes IN Ienth-ayc the
road would have been completed and open to pub
lie travel on August /.