The evening world., 1889-10-17
ANOTHER MOVE.
That Lamont Whitney Street-Car Syndi-
cate Scheme Growing Fast
Significance of the Broadway's Appli-
cation for Cables.
Fourth Important Step Towards
GridirOning New York.
1t Follows Hard Upon Col. Dams
Purchases of the Broadwny's
Franchise and the Twenty
third Street Road.

Still another move towards the accomplish
ment of that great scheme for an all compre-
hensive railway system in New York, in which
Col. Dan Lamont and the -Elkins
syndicate are interested.
Shrewd men, who have good memories and q
faculty for keeping the run of things, point to
the attempt to get cable cars on Broadway as
such.
The syndicate, which is seeking to obtain con-
troll of substantially all the street railways i'll
New York, to run them on n grand transfer"
system, like that in vogue in Philadelphia, is
said to have in its eye also. the substitution OF
the cable fer horses as q motive power. and they
point to these remarkable condolences
In 1884, when Broadway was put. mp at auc-
ton by the doodle combine OF the Board OF
Aldermen, there was but one other. serious
the ~retition of the broadway Surface Railroad
Company, of which Jake Sharp was the moving
spirit.
Railway Company. OF which William G. Whit
ney, afterwards Secretary of the Navy in Presi-
dent Cleveland's CRbiret, was the President.
This Cable Compa y asked not only for Broad
way but for q number of other streets. They
PropGsed 10 Sr.dlrGn the Gliy, and wanted 9
streets, for which they would pay the, city
81. 600, 600 and the statutory yearly rental Of 3
per celt. for hve years, and . per cent. on their
gross earnings thereafter.
Jake Sharp beat them. and for a time they
Now. out Of politics again, Mr.. Whitney comes
to New York. 20 does Col. Dan Lamont, the
Presidential private secretary.
Next Col. Lamont appears as the new Secre-
tary Of q big Guarantee and Trust Company, in
which, MIR. Whitney and, several others of the
old cable road people figure. prominently. and
the objects OF which are not clearly stated by the
And next Col. Lamont becomes President OF
the Avenue G line OF street 4 AWAY, then figures
~ the quiet purchaser Of the franchise and
as the acting party in a negotiation by which
Jacob Sharp's darling enterprise. the Twenty
third Street C9oss'own line, IL leased, for 900
permitted to disclose
AT the auction sale where Col. Lamont bid in
Whi'nev, Peter L. Widener. Steve Elkius, Elihu
Root. Selmes. the Son-in-l4w Of sharp, and a
plhia street railway, syndicate, which ~ almost
identical with the old New York Cable Railway
G }ffsaP an b were Toi prei SnG G Gg' I Ios 9%e Of ia then on
$40, 900 had 10 connection. .
Col, Lamont and Elhu loot, who is counsel
for the broadway and Seventh Avenue line,
seemed perfectly satisfied.
behalf of his Company and asks that they be rer-
i2!ited to lay a = cf nohl N Broadway from south
tive arguments for the scheme.
He sayS that taking off the car horses would
make sr93hHa az much more clear would would re,
street cars now make; would be an improve
ment from q sanitary standpoint, and would en-
able the Company to run long, commoli oEs
cars at a higher rate nf speed and comfort TO
The passengers, while the increased earnings Of
the road wouid increase the city's ircOme from
the road to fully 5000, 600 per annum.
Mr.. Root also offers to repair the eighteen feet
of BrOa lway which the franchise. covers, and
makes. other El!ttering promises,
The knowing oues say II told you SO, and
insist that this is but another move in the
scheme TO- gridironing Manhattan Island with
cable railways by the very mon who failed N
board of Aldermen of 1884, because, fOrsooth.
their offer of 81, 900, 900 was to the city rather
than to tho industrious combine for revenue
only within that Board.
More than Il year ago it was rumored in re-
liable quarters that Mes>rs. Whitney, Cleve.
land, Lamont Il Co. had n darling scheme
whereby they were to obtain control OF the
New York and Northern Railway. from One
Hundred and Fiity-ffth. street over to Ire.
mont, aud that they would connect it with the
New England road, near the Mnssachusett
and Boston. and now this story is revived in
connection with the elaborate plan for cabling
all the principal streets of the city.