New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-03-18
RAILROAD INTERESTS.
RAPID TRANSIT HARMONY.
THE COMMISSIONERS DO NOT wRANGLt-IHE STAND !
ARD OIL COMPANY NOT INTERESTED.

THE co,t,ussroxrps no NOT WRANGIE-THE STAND
ARD OIL COMPANY NOT INTERESTED.
AT the meeting of the Rapid Transit Commits
sioners Yesterday, MIR. stewart offered an amendment 10
the resolution OF President Smith changing the amouh 10
he maid ~ the city by the company constructing the new
railroads from per cent of tho gross receipts TO per
cent of the profits President Smith preferred the resou
tion "a originally offered After discussion wa'
laid
The published statements that the Commission was
not harmonious that the Standard on Company was
nj the bottom Of the plan to build cable railroads. had at
tracted the attention Of the Commissioners TRIBUNE
reporter by inquiries among them obtained the following
expressions of opinion:
Commissioner stewart We have disagreed as 10 the
votes and 10 the law There mas Dceh no
the routes The Lexington Avenue route was adopted by
the votes of the president, myself, MT lNtlInpIo hu
Ta l were ~, do2rd V maoiify vote and to all the
routes the proviso added that, If the Board Is not
built know nothing abOut the Standard Oh COMPANY
As aware it had nothing 10 40 Win the "coH
President smith OF course have not been unani-
our votes in every instance 30 Jar as LIZ Eh4T
organization OF a company 10 construct caOe raodS
NC CommsSiancr Byid DO not known whether the
STANDARD OIL compaFy has pa, RSa comynissoncrs
II has had nothing to do with mine.
No corporation rs slc, can he a member OF the new
copanv We have not been unanimous in our votes, but
Nr Tilrinor-I know nothing about the Standard Oil
Company The meetings ~ The Commissioners nave always
been agreeable though thci acuon has not always pce
CORNERSTONE Eare-Thcrc not particle Of truth IN
the statement that there has been want OF ~
the meetings OF the Commission, If 10y that y meant
Quarreling the part OF the 20 In''', - -
know nothing Of the Standard OIL COMPANY II ,mek
have any thing to do with the acton ot the haPu '''
Commissioners have not heard ON. IT.. .4.o,.,
Charles p. shaw. counsel to the Board-lhr Hl!'cA55
upon us have been inspired 10y the morse IalloH I u
elevated railroad interests combined me lne Oh , nc
Commission will br extended 90 TO Albany inns AFTER
noon 10 make the closing argument before tne oehdW
Committee. With that my dulles VIII enIi un othing
simply the counsel OF the Commission, ana nave hutns
20 do with IL except regards it, law business mas
than 100000 to carry The proc thu9 M ~
Guiding the fees Of special counsel VINO were cdcu W
make il certain that no mistake made in regard 10
the legality OF all the acts OF the Commission lc 9
been 81 900 spent for advertising alone Ex-senator
Tom CrRmer leaves my office to-day. gave MN P'cc
here transact his business, but he maze hiduuvhh
upon which based attacks upon the COMMISSIONS
After the Zinc OF the Commission mas DteT eH t,'
changes will be made in some of the routes 4he i"cuS
sccOnd-St route will be changed to wentyaAl-St anu
the Thlrtecnth-st route will I've changed 40 as 10 run
through West sixteenth ana seventeenth SIS wv VI
anv OCCASION have al del 10 COmus'Io or elntl ana
have always frlt that Mr. Smith was ably,
faithfully and most diligently giving bis time
to the duties OF the Commission ana thOush the .U
i,soners have not been a-rcd on some minor matters
they have been mainly harmonious lherc mas brtI qcs
ton about the policy Of laying on me cIoss-I2W Io'
on account the statutory PROHIBITION a-ah-t ,l"
ing Broadway aud lttaa'e. Dg'o% riIy hn
and Fourtll-1ve above Forty sec'nuSl, "uU
serious qua stion exists in the minds OF lh N1nns
sioners about these cr0,s1"h I'm - lIOll9'iH I
ure shalt lcgaZo tho crossing or me pohn'i aHt't-
and avenues Respecting the "reat lines Whch con-t-
tue The framework ana the nam arteries o. lht
te commissioners have been IN substantial accord
tbc r azure grants the privilege OF crossing me p'o-
hibcd street, aud avenue, the punc may rue on ihrih
without atG Ouai fare. TO secure tl- result Is tNc %
icct of the hin iu Albany Ih't ml8 Oppressed W .l' nor
railroads and elevated raiIoadsin combination al Al
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