The sun., 1893-05-27
| MR.. BUSHE FACES ABOUT,
AND <NNoUrCFs THAT HKFoKT0HTH
HE WILL WALK FORWARD,

AND <NNoUrCFs THAT HKroET0HTH
HE WILL WALK FORWARD,
"
win rour or the Co-ussssouers Prersre<
to Make a Contract with thc Manhette.-
Mr.. st.rsu Put. Forth . Plsr Tor New
Routes-Piain Words IRON Cf6scn.
The judgment and tho knowledge that Mr..
Bushe OF the Rapid Transit Commission has
been gathering daily for months from THE
SUN made them selves felt yesterday. and he
acknowledged that the Manhattan Railroad
Company was best equipped to give the city
rapid transit. and said that he was ready to
vote with Mr. steinway. Mr. Inman. and Mr.
Spencer In favor Of granting necessary exten-
sion to that company for q reasonable COM
pensation. But Mr.. Starin. with the same op-
portunitles for education. remained set In his
way.
The Commission met at Mr.. steinway's
house. Before Mr.. Bushe relieved his mind he
read two letters from Mr.. George Gould. The
first was the informal refusal Of the Manhat-
tan Company to accept the Commissions
proposition. The second was formal declins-
tion as follows:
DEAR siRi Further referring to your comm unication
OF the 18th nst addressed to the Manhattan Railway
Company. In which You state that the Commission
does not assent to the propositions contained in this
companys letter of May have to say that the mat
ter was submitted to the Board Of Directors Of the Man.
haitian Railway Company at meeting held this day.
and that after full con sderation. unanimously
resolved that tho company could not accept the con.
cusons OF the Commission expressed your letter Of
May H. and that the propositions Of this company in
its letter OF May having boen rejected, the
hereby withdrawn. Very truly yours
GEoRGr J. GOULD President
When Mr.. Bushe had read this letter he said:
Mr.. President. in dealing with this Manhat-
tan question have considered 1t my duty and
the duty OF this Board to obtain for the city the
greatest facilities OF rapid transit and the
highest compensation that could be obtained.
We have all struggled in that direction. 1t
now seems that the composition which We had
hoped for cannot be obtained. It also seems
that the question OF facilities is paramount to
that Of compensation in the minds OF a large
citizens think that con cession should be made
to the Manhattan. wish now to state in few
Eords in thrf the tbse
It will furnish the needed faci tiles. am ready
to vote with you. gentlemen. to grant the con-
tssS tssss1n 1nt to tnG at the compensation
Mr.. starin rubbed his chin .whiskers When
and thought. Finally he handed a ty pei written
speech to Mr.. Bushe. with q request that he
read it. 1t was. in part. as follows:
The average cost of operating street surface railroads
in New YORK Ia per OF gross receipta
S.{ fsF
for me nrst ye years and thereafter hye ner cent
Manhattan Company about nifty per cent Of gross
~ '%s
Rsa
@ead Savs paid The st1 sasI.'sa 5ssa.s2 ssx.s
S. hp that es should pay less
Quarter q Zen. ic5 each saSfis$ ~
.'h;S ssns Tor sssn carried;
ot Sn ac
carried. Yet nearly ffty per cent more
% on the roads than
When Mr. Bushe Ind finished reading Mr..
starin said that nc had a determined term on the
Of hs ihS Ma sS Should R1o he
al! profits over seven per cent.
Mr. Spencer was not present. and Mr. Bushe |
wanted to adjourn until he could attend Mr.: |
offer this new PLAN" he said.
Beginnips at South and Whitehaii e up TetS White e
Rali TO @ GW2Wling Wt Green, to battery place. to
enue: to Forty sec ond street to Tenth avenue.
to lG5th street thencs diyerGinG to The left
D Re Tth Sn I
street and Hamilton place. From 18th street
street BY tunnel. From 142d street and Hnu,-
ilton place. through Hamilton place to Tenth
to Broadway. and thence to the city limits.
Tho east side line begins at the snme point
and runs ur South to Roosevelt. to Baxter. to
Marion to its terminus. thehce over private
property to Lafayette place. to Astor place. to
Bowery. to Fourth avenue. to Park avenue, by
tunnel under Park avenue to Forty-lrst street.
to Vanderbilt place. to Forty-lfth street. to
Lexington avenue. to Harlem River. to River
avenue. TO Girard avenue. to Arcularius place.
and thence. parallel TO Jerome avenue. to
poi mt mt or near Jerome Park.
The two routes cont em plat Q four Grade cross. |
lngs OF the present elevated.
Mr.. Starin was about to talk aome more |
when n man. one Of five evidently laboring
men, who had some way found their way into
he house. stepped forward. He said he was
William p Carsey. and that he represented a
vest side organization. Then he sailed into
he Commission hammer and tongs for the
poor policy 1t had shown in dealing with Man
haitian. The citizens had waited dozen
,ears. and whom they were on the eve OF get
Ing rapid transit II was snatched from them
He demanded what influence had led to this
i've don't hold any stock Of the company.
Ind We don't eGpect to. but We pay our fare
,very day. and wo have been hanging to straps
or a dozen, years. We spend O. whole month
Ind disgraceful that things are as they are.
md we want to know why they are so."
I'VE have heard q very forcibls expression
lnd finished.
This Commission has been doing what II
ould to bring about this blissful state Of az
airs" said Mr.. Stelnway. and then another Of
ne strangers spoke up. third man. an iron |
yorker. told the Com mmission a great deal in
m nd ftnr hA haA ~