New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-18
MR. WHITNEY,S RALLROAD&.

SPICY TALK ABOUT HIS RELATIONS TO THE CABLE
ROAD AND THE BROADWAY AND FIFTE-AYE.
SCHEMES.
Railroading has become a fine art in this
city and takes st chess player to keep up with
the moves in the horse able-electrc-motor HSht'
There have been highly interesting events In this
line within year So" said yesterday gentleman
who has been in position to the wires pulled ana
they have afforded immense amount OF enjoy
men-especlay in observing how certain interests got
left"
How was thatp
The story is long and complcaedb but 1t reaches
from this city to Washington at least ana IL ncndeSa
Cabinet officer who Vas deposited out in the cold
must go back about twenty months to take up the mar
ratve The New-YOrk Cable Company was lncOrpo-
rated April ~ 1884 Its projectors had lald out an
extended plan for putting IN the streets OF TINS city
system OF railroads free from horses and their CHATTER
ANA other dlsagreeabe things Among the corporators
were Wallace c. Andrews, Thomas +. Ryan. Rowland NJ
Hazard Thomas w. Evans and Joseph j. O'Donohue
These gentlemen and their associates devoted themselves
to cable they ate by cable, drank by cable, ana they
swore by cable to speak. Associated with them was
Lawson y. Fuller who now has the reputation OF being
the father Of cables In this city, AT this mo the Legs
aure was considering the General Street Railway bill
The Cable Company opposed 1t because it would open all
tie Of this city 10 horse rs well ~ cable roads
still the hill reached Governor Cleveland. Mr.. Andrews
labored late with the Governor the night before he
Sgnel tho Dill enIeaYOrnB 10 SHOW MN th ii ~ W
came law It would open up street in Ncw-lork-
including Fifth ate.-to railroads. Nj Cleveland
thought that the cable would. under the act nave an
equal chance with any other corporation, considered
the Till good and necessary one, he SAID ana 80 sIsheu
IT,
THAT was Nay g. lssL The cable people were
armed at pon, hardly was the Ink OF the Governors
Signature dry before they incorporated the Broadway
Railroad Company and the Fth Avenue Railroad Com
pany ANA now take look 1t the list OK the coFpofator''
! Here they are
The SPEAKER turned the report Of the Railroad Com
ul,soucr5 and read these names: George Henry war
| rem, Jane, \. Roosevelt George g. Haven william &
whitney. brlyton Ives, Richard T. Wilson, Joseph j.
O'Do ohue John c. Lewis, Rowland Nlidz1rd. wallace
/ g. Andrews. William Cutting, Thomas f. Ryan IhoT"S
/ W. Evans George T. Baker Christopher {. B-ldwh ana
/ Henry :. koSers.'
! He continued: The corporators were the same in
bo,h COMPANIES You will observe tnat five OF them,
/ Ne,.rs Andrews Ryan. Hazard, Evans and ODon0hHe'
are among the cOrpJ.ators Of the Cable Company. Ihc
director, chosen for both the Broadway ana the tEt'
/ Ayenuo roals Messrs. Warren, I'ooSe-
| volt Haven. whitney, Ios, O'DOnOhuo, Hazard,
! Andrew. and RYAN. Tic directors met on May
! O. NJ the Office OF Mr.. Roosevelt, and ccc'ed the
following officers ior both companies President James
| A. Roosevelt; yice-prrsident wallace {. Andrews;
secretary AMI treasurer. Thomas F. Ryan NE
/ Andrews already tho president and ME- Ryan tHo
treasurer OF the cable corporation Mr Andrews at ouce
announced that a line OF palace ears would be put IN
rtft-Aye from The Harlem River 20 Washington sqUae
| aud In Broadway between Union square aud the
Battery. We thn have 20 oriiaary Jake Sharp cars
-ad he. but the best that can be had Ana he ahe"
| rounlcntly both roads Will be promptly butt We
have got the consent OF the property owners and
we shall undoubtedly get that Of nineteen out Of every
twenty OF thcm.'
Nearly everybody in This city. who has not served
upon Jury, knows that the Fl!th Avenue Railroad mas
not been built al the Broadway Hil7o'd Company Ia,
IL % Flts f.rDl lag 4gr
surface Railroad Company did It. Ana thereby hangs
tale Il Il an interesting AMI illustrates how the
hest-lni plans o. NICE aud men gang at ag.ee' You
obscr,e the OF Mr. whitney among the corporators
and directors OF the Broadway and FIN ave- proI"ct'i
Well as soon as the cOcgorat0rs Of the Caole Company
had ned their certificate OF Incorporation. In April
they began to look cautiously about Their plan even
item Included railroads Ffth ave. and Ia Broadway
prolect; siiG they to themselves. said they. We
must have mau whose name stands hlsh;
T%0 Ia. the rest died away in whispers; it
ouulel like the durtts.' Then they ppnuercI oUd'
Nina Al the monitor Of rnion the others nodded eagerly
aud their r0uu'enanoe' straight took on 20 Ii,hH'
iaSn,n,r expression pre- lDo Il" no Was ""''"''
IAN Rt there was one particularly strong point offered in
hi, favor Those who urged his name made ne assertion
Io pal C,,l ron1rol t. Bo,rl Of Aldermen and
that he WIS apowertul In the courts ami IN the ooIpo
ration Couuses orcc 80 the cable people as one man
exclaimed: whitney IL man lie wa, duy lei H.
p,'rn,l Co,uplur were formed and Mr. whitney be-
clne a director m each and the great am. 800 ,,
Mr. Fuller delighted ana ne at ouce pcs'n
wnrkin, Ike beaver thug consents, up ana
! down broadway. Few mems coat -tnS ever male
u,clipr t!mo than dll Mr. Fulers as rs hooOed
In aud ont o OadwIY entrances lie had splrn-
| "a success Almost brtOre he could say Jack
Tobiuson he hud got 30 per cent OF the property
owners in Bua tway to ,tve their con ent 10 caole
road. Mr. F1lcr vas never more eolutul III .H ~
man IN is cNpostiou of the cable as contrast 10 me
hnrse lie offered the property OWnors shares IN the
pfrrnrI,s III, arguments we're clear aul cphNlhclhB
and ~ h. success dtwuuS on n~ EFFORTS NJ pre-
1rurJ himself In triumph before dnWn Ms hrc no pre-
scented m-er in triumph before the directors OF lo
Broadway Railroad Company lie "a" victory nelo.c !
him dcopt" the need OF getting the franchise f'om the
M whitney hsd been duly informed Of Nr. Fnllers
sucr.... ne was deig,ed with It, Nj WALLER AMI Hls
associates proceeded 20 push matters Ity soon I0uhu
that matters wouldn't ~ pushed Ihere wa, son GHlhS
Urpnr somewhere in the machinery. NJ" RULER began ]
n, Innk nbnut lie discovered. that Mr.. whitney /
had zone quietly To work aud bad bOughi up /
,,,lnr NJ stock. And FOR some reason Mr. whitney
did not appear 10 he tn - hurry 40 MT cane IneIv
nppcars to he pretty good cause for th Tor the next
thiu, heard uf han the cable people discovered that
their mariner and director WIS claiming TO nave
,naiory OF the Broadway Railroad Cnmpanys stock !
which carried the consents Of the properly owners IN
I,rn, Ivav and that he claimed this a. his Individual
property and denied that the cable people had anything
In do with IL Next whitney was found III the company
~ philade phia srhemers, among whom were blu |
Ken bIe OF addition division and silence fame. and W. |
l. TIns and Weidner, OF Philadelphia nc toricy: And
what was the schemtl Simply 10 gobOe VT, |
everything there was IN New YORK roals eNlsthE anu
roads in contemplation, by corporation With capital
WIe mis- was going on. ;hc Broadway Surface Rail
ro,d was laid IN Broadway and Nj. Whitney and his as
socinr- n trying euchrc the canc people ana 10 rue
two horses al the same timo got badly LETT
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