New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-14
TIE SYNDICATE PRAISES ITSELF
METROPOLITAN TRACTION PEOPLE AND TfiEIi:
FRIENDS TELL WHAT \ BLESSING TO THE
CITY THE EXTENSION or THEIR LINES
To KrNGsnRIDGE WOULD he.


FRIENDS TELL WHAT \ BLESSING TO THE
CITY THE EXTENSION or THEIR LINES
TO KrNGsGRIDGE WOULD he.
The Common Council Chamber in the city Hall
was well nlI,d Yesterday with citizens interested
I, tho opnlIcaf ton OF the Met op)litan Tract on
Syndicate for permission extend It's lines
through Manhattan and 50. Nicholas ayes. -
Kingsbridge. This IS practically the same rou''
over which the Third Avenue Gable Company
wants 10 lay It's tracks John ID. Crimmns mar
shalel hos. Of property owners ani other people
TO convince the Aldermens Committee on Ran
roads who heard the case. that tn" people on IN"
route preferred his company to the Thrd-av"
company. II was throughout a one-S'dei anar'
and the Third-ave people made no effort yesterday
70 uphold their side cont@ntIng Themselves with u
protest and asking that the hearing ~ over until
October 3 when arguments and cviIenc" b snow
why their application and not that Of the Grim
minis syndicate should be granted would be pre-
sented The protest was presented by William II.
Page who represented Edward Lauterbach, coun-
sci for the Third-ave. road He asked FOR the con
tinuation spoken OF. and said that Mr. Lauter-
bach would appear at the time propoS'H anu '"'
forth the pros and cons.
Henry \. Robinson outlined me p-ogrann' OF
the Metropolitan Crimmins syndicate. saying that
the company's motive power would be the under
ground electric system; really ne unlrrgFoI IN
travelling public Of carrying passengers all over
The civ f-r one fare as propjscl by tn Metro
poli;an company. superior 70 the inducements
Offered by the Thirl-lVe company to transport Us
patrons over It's lines from the New fork losi-
Mr. Robinson contcnde1 that the frequent chlrsc
that the proposition % the syndicate was not mar
in COOL faith unfOuu1el. \ honi woulf De
given t. insure the carrying ont ~ the prom.se
James Mc(reery. ,he drygoOds merchant. "hl u
a large owner Of property az InwODl. eul1glz"l the
Rroadway cable road AMI said that frequent tp-
f. Europe s1tisfie! him thai Il was superior i'
any similar road on the other sld" ~ the vac
lie spoke aeains; The Thrd-ave. company appl'-
cation. ga, 81, ~,
ertv-owners' Association made an appeal FOR m"
NJ fropoitan syndicate and opp sed the mir
ave application. IL. said that 10" latter company
could not get tn" prOpcrty-o"n"rs consents nm
would have 10 &, 20 the courts. which would canf
unnecessary delays IN furnishing the upper West
Side with needed transit g.,
Frederick T. Forster called attention To the III
ference between the Broadway ana Th.r'l-av".
cars insisting that i furnished evidence o. ne
superiority 81 the Metropolitan over the Ihirh-
Hugh y camp Simon sterne. the Rev. Faith y
and gAty-s rvsnth-s' and Kingsbrilge II al; |. y
Fuller BERNARD 10th the unnpn manuihc bt..'
Eob.r, ! Hoglei. George =. ". McNay, Charles
McKae r. A. Thayer. Major X. j. 'ream"r. Istac
| NJ Dyckman AMI \. J. Thayer wer" among Inc
n,hers who spoke on the side ~ the M"iropOl tan
t'rinmnS making muliiudinlus trlps "'.h
and forth the Chamber, shaking hthis WI,
his SUPPORTERS and urging them - arise ana al
dress he committee IN his interest
Le4nler X. bingham asked q b. heard = inc
other adj. but Chairman Morgan requested him
:, walt until Tuesday. October .. AT . m. when
The argument ~ SIR. Lauterbnch and the r"pr'scn-
OF tn" Thiri-av". road ~ TO De- SuhHli'"i.