New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-22
THE OLD FIGHT ABOUT FIFTH-AVE
RUMoRS THAT PRoPERTY-HOLDERS ARE CON
sENTING b A CABLE ROAD.

RUMORS THAT PROPERTY -uOLDEkS AXE CON-
sENTISG b A CABLE ROAD
The old Fifth Avenue Railroad Company is again
trying TO get control of Ffthave for the purpose OF
LAYING lis tracks on that th0rOughfafp Several times
since the company was organized, which was in 1888,
the projectors have been beaten IN similar attempts by
combination Of property owners who soldly opposed
the scheme.
IN 1857 the company had made so much progress
that the laying Of the rails was confidently looked Tor
Bn suddenly the Association for the Preservation OF
Fifth Avenne as Thoroughfare was formed, and the
company was prevented from making any further
progress.
Now J. s. Purdy who owns the Garden Hotel. at
Madison ave and Twenty seventh st. that the con
sent Of a majority Of the property owners has been
Oltaned. In fact, he went further. and said that
almost all The people along that horoughfae had con
sented to the proposed road lie did not explain ex
acy what his connection With the Fifth Avenue Rail-
road Company was, ht coutented himself with remark
ing that ne had made snug n money out Of the
plan so far and that when the started running he
would get another large for MS services IN getting
signatures.
According TO him. William Waldorf Astlr he'd with
drawn HIS opposition to the proposed road, and his
father John Jacob Ator had done the before he
died, However, Mr.. Purly ACKNOWLEDGED that neither
had consented 10 IT as ypt They mad only withdrawn
their opposition. The representatives and managers OF
the AstOrs could not be last night.
william rcrTian. Of 40. West Seventeenthst., Who
manages the GOclet estates, was active in getting sig
natures from propcrty-owners protesting against the
running Of the road when the association formed
in 1887 The Goelots were then strongly opposed to
TO- and Mr.. Berrian said he knew of no reason why
they should have chenged their opinion now He
himself thought such road altogether undesirable and
unneces sary for the convenience Of the public lie
did not care to say much about II until he had heard
from the Goelets who now out of town, but II they
had decided to favor tho building Of the road, they
would no doubt have advised him before this time.
At the Offices of the Fifth Avenue Transportation
Company, no Importance was attached 10 the latest
movement Of the railroad company IT was said there
that there vas no necessity for cable road In Fifth
AVE. and that the statements made by Mr.. P1rdy were
simply revival OF last years attempts to lead the
public to believe that the property holders were willing
T. aecede to the t0mpany's demand They attached no
Importance 10 the matter, and said that II would be
found that the property were decidedly opposed
IN any encroachments on the avenue. Ii was posi-
lively declared that the Vanderbits were also opposed
The proposed road II TO be doublc-tack line, be-
ginning at Fourteenth ST., and running through fllh-
ave 20 Forty-seventh-st The tracks would be nat
IRON rails Ythh narrow gT0Oyed centre mpkng them
level with the roadbed the propulsion to be by means
Il cable.