The evening world., 1894-10-02
NO FERRY IN SIGHT.
Msssrs. Starln AM Carroll Are
Still Out Of the City.
What Will Staten Island Commuters
Do with October Bsoks7
Stated that the Transit Company Is
Reaping u Harvest.

The fact that Howard Carroll or 2ohn
II. Starin has purchased the franchise
of the ferry from the foot of Whitehall
street to Staten Island. does not seem
to have occasioned as much uneasm eSs
among the residents of the island ,as
does the dllatory manner in which How
ard Carroll goes about executing the
lease, IL he means to execute it at all.
There are not a few people on the
island who profess to believe that here
after thcde will be rival ferries in opera
ton between New York and Staten ISL
and.
There is to-day a practically aban-
doned horse-car line, which for a short
distance goes more nearly through the
centre of the Island than daes the pres
| ent steam railroad line which. for the
greater part of its route, skirts the
shore. 1t Is limited that II Is Mr.. Car
| rolls, or Mr.. Starin's, intention TO con-
| vert this horse-car line into trolley
| road, and extend 1t from one end of the
island to the other, with many radiating
branches.
If this be done, instead of getting a
setback, Staten Island would In all
ShJOS al
| boom.
But whether or not such line will
| be put in operation seems to depend
entirely upon Mr.. Carroll or Mr.. Starin
| offices this morning, and II was even
said that Mr.. Carroll intended to ex-
ecute the lease of the ferry franchise
at noon to-day in the Comptroller
office. Neither of them, however, pu,
| In an appearance.
| General Superintendent Cannon, of the
Staten Island Rapid Transit Company
lit seems to me that Mr.. starin ant
Mr.. Carroll are showing a great dis
regard for the rights and well-being OF
| ecuted we will have to stop running
our boats, as after that moment W,
will have no right to use the ferry
to hep he puSc ogt Of IFS
but we do not mean to do 1t mpcl
longer"
| Comptroller Fitch viewed the situation
ut is true said he. that Mr. Car
roll promised to execute the lease in
day or two. Two days nave elapsed, bu
he has not put in an appearance yet
However he did not say positively tina
he would be here to-day and, therefore
1t may be that he intends to come to
morrow. There is nothing in the situa
ton which should make the citizens un
easy. Mr.. Carroll has deposited $ll 90
in cash, which may be forfeited in tn
event Of his failure to execute tn
lease.
which 1t is compulsory that the leas
should be executed. A reasonable tim
is the stipulation, and 1t will not do 70
the city to be too harsh in this matter
as we do not desire that all ferry cor
munication between Staten Island an
Manhattan Island be cut or
When asked If the Staten Island Rapi
Transit Company would have to pay tn
old rate of per cent of its gross re
ceipts while 1t Is operating without
franchise, the Comptroller said:
THAT is a matter which must be lei
for future settlement.
1t would appear from this that III
Rapid Transit Company is not havin
, such a bad thing of 1t while Mr.. Caro-
is dallying over the signing Of the leas
The probabilities are that 1t Will refus
to pay the per centage to the city.
view of General Supt. Gannon's asse
, ton that the Company Is running II
boats solely for the benefit of the pull
lie. Indeed. there are some State
islanders who profess to believe that tn
boats will run as long as there Is
, good clear profit in 1t for the Rapi
. Transit Company.
doubling Thomases, however, by witt
, drawing the boats next Thursday nigh
! Mean time, the advent of Messrs. Start
and Carroll is impatiently awaited.
. Another phase of the ferry troub
! is disclosed in this letter to "Tf
, Evening World:
Tho Staten Island commuters are somewh
! anxious 20 know what provision The Ferry al
pa irons, who have rurchGsed their October col
mutation book of tickets. While We believe 4
4 Company will do what is right. stu, during III
D | DeriOi Of uncertainty as to the future ferry
rangement, information on the subject throui
| your columns would be OF great Interest TO stat
! Islanders generally. tsigned) A COMMUTER.