New-York tribune., 1886-03-10
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
FOR AND AGAINST CABLE ROADS.

mr. LAU!ERBACH's OPINION AS TO THE VALUE oF
THE FRANCHISE.
The hearing granted by the Mayer to those who
Cish TO give their views on the matter OF granting
o franchise 10 tne caDle railway ""' i0'u0" 'O'
{erday a 4 O'Clock. . IL.
Dr. Ferdinand Seeger opened the proceedings,
saving that he appeared theJe as the chairman OF
the Anti-Monopoiy League. On the previous day
there had appeared before the Mayor person
lex-Senator Boyd who had undertaken 70 SPEAK
FOR the League and commit that organlzallOhto lno
proposed scheme. Ii brought the blush OF shame 10
the cheeks of honest anti-nonopollsts 70 see
seek to further his selfish purposes anu f phe
sonal ACKNOWLEDGMENT by using the name Oh tn9
Anti. MonOpoly League. IL was well known, SAID
Dr Seeger. that while Mr. Boyd was pre'e3dibg 10 10
represeDt anti-rnonOpOly he sat III Room No 40 IN
the Post Office Building paid employe ahd attor-
ney of the cable railway. MI. BOyu dio n0u repre-
sent the League. The speaker concluded by de-
nOuncing the cable road as an infamous mon0pOy.
whose payment to the city of ZIG per cent on lts net
receipts was wholly inadequate compensation
While Mr. Seeger was referring to MI. Boyd the
latter sat only a few feet away He bit bis lips,
but said rot hing IN reply. , - ,
Edward Lauferbach representing the Third
Avenue horse railroad said III behalf of his cOrpo-
ramon that it was willing to paw $lOoO OoO for the
privilege of building cable road in Lexington
ave There was no necessity for it, however as the
Third Avenue road could carry 5O,OOO'oOQ
people year IN perfect comfort ana
as vet it had never had occasion TO carry over over
81, 900 coo passengers IN one year. MI LauteroacH
rldIculel the 2lo per cent clause, and asked Wnau
this would amount TO out of the earnings OIL Il col
many whose chief capital mortgage OF
SI 100 600 600 which it was proposed To saddle on
the cable company as soon as ii acquired the IlghU
of way. The cable road had no patents ioa ine .no
work il proposed To do. because the san frdhcISG4
pateut which 1t intended 10 use. was aIreauy neiu
81 tie Third Avenue Company. Mr. Lanterpp;acn p;na
stated example Of the vane od ildhcsedd ns1d
that the company he represented 1pnts pd,u
SIS, 900 for the use OF only sM ooVNs; ~
In conclusion the speaker 0 deciaped an9 'the the
city would be formed IN twenty-t0nr houIs; IL
granted the privileges sought by the Gable ro9u hoo
Lawson n. Fnller stated that he spoke lot oO,oVV
ciIv lots and said that the transfer tickets would
be ample public compensation for what the . per
cent cause failed to do IL, i,.,
dep ored the fact that fit OF public virtue IKE an
epidemic of scarlet fever was raging and at lts
height, with Its vlruence especialy tIeG Gnn
dav IN taxes would Il at into the citys Golfers
taxes on the $14O0Q,OoO that it would cost IT. TO
buIld TINS road and he wanted 10 know IL 'ndU
was not an alluring balt , o., ,,..,
the hearing closed.
OPENING THE MUSEUMS on SUNDAY.
A PETITION WITH 5000 ES-ADvoCATEs
OF THE REFORM.
Samuel p Pntnam the secretary of the Ameri-
ran euler Union, Will present to-day 10 Geueral
IonIs f. di Cesnoa, as secretary of the Joint Con-
ference Committee of tie American museum OF
Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum OF
Art a petltiOn in favor OF open ng the uuSeu us III
Central Park TO the public on Sunday. Inc petit
tion has more than 5000 signatures IL is
accompanied by an argument IN TS nSo laVGr, T or
sirners are business men who employers of
labor: many of them are public officials ana hOSts
of them are working people VINO would De Tue ~, ui-
rect btueticlaries of the change. Among the sign
ers are Roscoe COnkling, Recorder Smytb, Chlet
JusIIce DAILY, DistrIct.AttorLey MARITIME, C0mms-
S,oner Souire Police Commissioner French, Charles
II Stelnwav Hanes Brothers, Horace waters, y.
& C. Fisher, Sonmer & Co.. the Key, X Hc9er
Newton the Rev. Robert Collyer, and the Rev. MI
RaInstord. Mr.. Putnam says:
Iii is for the benefit of the whole community, and
not for the injury of any; mat wMch Is Dehl1n,
beautiful. instructive, and ennob1ng on SATURDAY
is equally sunday The laws OF nature 90 hOt
chan ce on Sunday ,netGer 90 the laws OF human WEI
fare and urOeresS. The proposition is made that on
weekday evenings and saturday halt-hohdays me
working people can visit the museums, ana tnit
this obvlates the necessity for Sunday opening III
strikes Inc that the working people cannon WISH the
museums with any great satisfaction or rproht Oh
weekday evenings. hey have 10 labor untli %
O'clock then travel many of them two or three miles
to their homes, eat their suppers ana dTess' ana
they cannot reach the museums until , OrJ cloCh'
and tney reach them with jaded bodies ana ininus.
The same objection les AGAINST any large Dencht
TO be derived from visiting the museums on the
Soturday half-bohday The working people are at
their task until ~ or l o'clock. They cannot go
home Dress and reach the museums untll = or .
O'clock The museums close half an hOur before
sunset At the utmost they have only an hour
or two on Saturday for visiting the museums
VIII on Sunday tney can have several nouiS, ana
with them the strength and freshness OF the dAN
The museums are public institutions, supported
ny public funds aud for that reason we make this
demand and Tor the reason that tncy are one OF
fnr greatest iusrumentalItics that can be brought
into play to lessen the number of those who go 10
unIawful places. We ask for opening OF the InStir
tutIOns under your care for the very pull0'e OF
diminishing the custom of those places which are
Open every sunday. thousands OF II EN- thruu@hOui
the city in spite of the law and II Is 10 ava IA" du
publIc yiltue that ask for yOur assistance. Are
v0n not convinced III your own minds, If these
mnsenms are open on Sunday, and twelve or htteeh
thousand visit them, or twenty-five thoiiSaho' vi
one hundred Thousand, as We hope Will somcGaN
come, that thereby you have taken vast number
from the city slumS I!