The evening world., 1894-10-05
A MERRY FERRY war.
Rumor Says that CAROLS Baokers
Have Grown Timid.
4 nd that Lawyer Boardman's Claim
Is the Cause Of 1t.
c.rrolI Declares He VIII Execute
tho Lease In Due Time.

The intense rivalry, to put 1t mildly.
\ r,bicb exists between the Staten Island
panid Transit Company and Howard
carroll, has greatly interested the 10000
residents of Staten Island, who journey
dailv to New York to do business.
This army of twenty thousand has sue
ceeded in interesting at least five times
"a many New Workers in the subject.
which has been discussed with more or
less animation since Mr.. Carroll bid in
\, the ferry franchise.
y AS a 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 transact
tion.
A rumor which has found some Gre
,.1ence and is of considerable interest, is
Pro the effect that the Staten Island
Tapid Transit Company has felt conf
1T Of a monopoly of the ferry fran
be all along and did not mean to be
BID into competitive bidding with
ward Carroll or any one else.
b incident in confirmation of this
Ior is the sale of Communication tick
by the Company for the month OF
bber, after the Company had lost
legal right to run boats, as the fran
pc had become the property of Mr..
,Eroll.
tit 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
l. Railroad had the right to land its pas
sengers in New York. under the General
Railroad act
Mr.. Carroll Corporation Counsel Clark
n 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, it Is
said, was enough to scare off capital
Pmptroller Fitch asked Mr.. Board
and General Supt. Cannon yester-
not to act hastily. He intimated
Mr.. Carroll would execute the lease
II Monday, and that IL he failed to do
head. "
In view, Of the fact that the stock of
. tne RAPID transit company Is not on
the market, although there are those
2 who say It can be purchased for fifteen
cents on the dollar, and that 1t pays lit
tie or no dividend It. would appear dim,
~ opposition line. However, the whole
Nfair is Ibeyance until next Monday,
When yard Carroll was asked what
he knew put the above rumor he said:
TT Is Al. Nonsense. We have deposited
~, 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 the
lease, we have fifteen days in which to
2 execute 1t, and no one ever heard Of any
ferry changing hands within thirty days.
THE Ra2id Transit Company is de-
of the sale. We simply are taking the
time permitted by the terms of the sale
and do not propose to be hurried. We
are not lawyers, but steamboat men, and
4 have to employ lawyers 1t Is these
+ lawyers we are now waiting upon"