The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-10-03
NOW FOR A
FERRY WAR.
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also the points from which the boats
leave
-, MIR. Boardman' says that the Rapid
Transit Company Is prepared to carry
did formerly, with the exception OF
those living in st. George
Howard Carroll said 70 an Evening
WOrl1' reporter to-day:
I'm behalf of the people whom l repre-
sent, | mean TO execute the lease for this
ferry franchise within IA reasonable time.
J say reasonable time, because the
lease is a document which requires care
ful consideration. .
AS matter OF fact. / don't know
that any lease has been drawn up yet.
! have not been notified, and ! cannot
execute until | am requested to do 80
by the Comptroller. He will notify me
at the proper time. ami then 1 shall
comply with all the conditions of the
sale. The payment to the Staten Island
Rapid Transit Company of $4,000 is one
OF these conditions, and, of course, that
viii be compiled with.
Now. as to the assertion that the
boats of the Rapid Transit Company
may, stop running tomorrow night, |
would like to say that If they stop /
VIII have boats running on the follow
ing morning. There are to-day not less
than thirty ferry-boats built especially
for the purpose of carrying trucks and
wagons whose owners are dying to rent
them Therefore, outside of the eighty
odd boats MIR. Starin owns. there is no
lack of material in that respect.
The gentlemen who are in this prof.
| ect are all large property-owners on
staten Island. The interests of the isl
land are their interest, and they mean
TO do everything possible to build up
the island We do not propose to go
into this thing as fight and we are
with the Rapid Transit Company If
! the Company gives us proper train ser
vice there will be no trouble, but UNI
less the Company does give good train
| gpTVirn "a fFnllnV hn e.,
operation for the whole length of the
| island.
The talk about an opposition ferry is
idle. There can be no opposition ferry
The franchise which we have purchased
Is an exclusive right. That has been
demonstrated by Mr.. Starin after a Legal
| fight of ten years.
Indeed. l may say that the whole
| legal history of ferry franchises Is con.
tanned in the case of Starin VS.. thu
Mayor of New York Then 1t was de
other that which they had already sold
In this case the city Is our landlord. ant
has no more right to give the Staten Isl
and Rapid Transit Company a franchls,
| than 1t has to make the same lease witt
them that 1t Will with us.
| THE fact that the Company continues
| to sell Communication tickets Is no con
Germ of mine. There certainly has beer
kind between us and the Ferry Com
pany. our relations are exactly tn,
same as they were ten years ago. wher
the Rapid Transit Company robbed us
OF this very franchise. We have com,
into our own again. and the people o
Staten Island, as well as of New York
may feel certain that the service vii
not deterioratc. but will be improved
shall call upon the Comptroller to
day, and shall talk with him about thu
lease, but ! shall not visit him with tn
intention of executing It,"
General Supt. Cannon said to-day:
THE Staten Island Rapid Transit Com
pany will continue its present serviC
until the lease with Howard Carroll ha
been executed. That much | am fire
J to state. AS to the commuters who ar
complaining about tickets purchased 70
the month of October, | will say tina
anyone who thinks he has made a ba
bargain can get his money back"