The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-10-05
A MERRY FERRY WAR.
Rumor Says that CAROLS Backers
Have Grown Timid.
And that Lawyer Boardman's Claim
Is the Cause Of Il.
Carroll Declares He VIII Execute
the Lease In Due Time.

The intense rivalry. to put 1t mildly,
which exists between the Staten Island
Rapid Transit Company and Howard
Carroll, has greatly interested the 10000
residents of Staten Island who journey
daily to New York to do business.
This army of twenty thousand has sue
ceeded in interesting at least five times
as many New Workers in the subject.
which has been discussed with more or
less animation since MIR. Carroll bid in
the ferry franchise.
AS result of such discussion there
have cropped to the surface all sorts
of rumors concerning the good faith
of one or both parties to the transac-
ton.
A rumor which has found some Gre
dence and is of considerable interest. is
to the effect that the Staten Island
Rapid Transit Company has felt conf
dent of monopoly of the ferry fran
chise all along and did not mean to be
lured into competitive bidding with
Howard Carroll or any one else.
An incident in confirmation Of this
rumor Is the sale of Communication tick
cts by the Company for the month OF
its legal right to run boats, as the fran
chise had become the property of Mr..
Carroll.
1t is now said that Mr.. Carroll had a
number of wealthy men partly pledged
to join him in the ferry scheme and that
they were about to bind themselves by
paying in the necessary money to make
a pool for the operation of the ferry
and the building of a competing railroad
on Staten Island, If necessary.
These men, 1t is asserted, were scared
off by the announcement of Lawyer
Boardman, that the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad had the right to land its pas.
sengers IN New York, under the Genera
Railroad act.
Mr.. Carroll, Corporation Counsel Clark
and Comptroller Fitch deny that the b
and o. has this right but all concede
that there is something in the claim
which requires looking into. That, II Is
said, was enough to scare OFF capital
lists.
Comptroller Fitch asked Mr.. Board
day not to act hastily. He intimated
that Mr. Carroll would execute the lease
next Monday, and that II he failed to dc
so mas.ers would then be brought to 6
head.
In view of the fact that the stock Of
the Rapid Transit Company is not OF
the market, although there are thos,
who say 1t can be purchased for fifteer
: cents on the dollar, and that II pays lit
tie or no dividend, It would appear diff
cult to interest capital in the building o
,, an opposition line. However the Who'll,
affair is in allegiance until next Monday
!, at least.
When Howard Carroll was asked wha
he knew about the above rumor he said
Ia n hat faf
81, 900 as a forfeit, and have spent thou
sands of dollars in addition thereto
which no sane man would think of ex
pending. By the express terms of tn
lease, we have fifteen days in which L
execute II, and no one ever heard of an.
ferry changing hands within thirty days
1.-The Rapid Transit Company Is de
, manding $4,000, according to the terms
, of the sale. We simply are taking tn
: time permitted by the terms OF the sal
and do not propose to be hurried. W.
are not lawyers, but steamboat men, AM
g have to employ lawyers. 1t is thes
lawyers we are now waiting upon"