New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-03-20
/ ZIG STREET RAILWAT SCHEME
TIE FLYNN SYNDICATE SAID TO HAVE coN-
TRACTED FOR 100 MILES OF ELEClfHC
ROAD IN BROOKLYN.

4 echane for building a new electric railway ~
Brooklvn has been brought 10 the attention Vi O'P'
taiiss in this city lately. and there were repoi,
f.. circulation yest5rlly that contracts TOT 'ne WI"
had b4en made William A. BOland, or Bos'o"'
Mass. was mentioned as the authority for one re-
,or, v,hich said that he had signed a contract 10
huild and eoulp 100 niles Of the railway. IL was
said also that the road was expected TO COST w.
oooo and that every dollar Of that sum hah oee'
RAISED The railway Is 10 be constructor Wy Wv
Nassau Electric Railroad Company. OF whicn T. H.
FLYNN Of Brooklyn is the president According
TO reports telegraphed from Boston yesterday con-
tracts had been made through Mr. Boland with the
Johnson Rail Company. Of Johnstown, Penh'' 10
build the road in Brooklyn and turn 1t over 10 the
Nassau Electric Railroad Company when completed
Motors for the cars would be supplied by the Tnom-
son-fIouston Company and the Westinghouse hiec-
,-ic Cornpany r. r. Wilson. the banker. or NO S5
V-,lls, v-os said 10 have agreed 70 furnish large
mar, o, the capital for the new railway company
IN the CITY Of Churches Mr.. Boand 1t was stated
was Interested in the Bay Ridge Park Improve
ment Company
Mr.. Wilson went 10 Washington yesterday after
noon At his office II was said that whhe 'he
hulIdInp OF an electric railway In Brooklyn had
heer brought TO his attention. the project had not
hoo, cousummated and nothing definite could be
said on the subject. The streets ana avenues !"
Drooklvn through which the lines or the rail"ay
wore 10 be run not known at the otlce IL WAS
saL hut IL was supposed that the railway "ou''
ex,.rd in the direction OF Bay Ridge Mr. Boland'
- ros:,n was not known ut all in the transac-
tIons in which Mr. Wilson had become Interested
:, ,,as said bur no contracts had been signed
7 NJ Edwards who for n number OF years
tho manager OF Mr. Wilson'S railroad properties III
the South and lately came to this city said las'
nght that the railway deal for the new elrcir;t e
road in BROOKLYN had not been conplet"n, am ca
would not be aise TO speak OF the plans IN iuNd,cee
H.. would not speak of the plans except 10 hnln,e @
l.,sl1 y.f4
tn",nlotad In some Of the reports In circulation
Yesterday Mr. Edwards was mentioned as the P'oo
able manager of the railway ,,. mag or
The Nassau Electric railroad COMPANY wa s,,Ii =
c,nizad last year with S6oc0eO captA Oy It :! a.
cate at the head Of which is p. H. Flynn' anu ~
ritns are Interested. 1t formed ~ the % %siiile
mon who had previously incorporateu the nhtss
county Electric Railroad Company Inc cap..d&i cap & ~
the latter was not large enough 10 eilaoe IL 70 -
80 snriir. franchises 10 the same streets that tle
prook.vn cry COMPANY had APPLIED tor me rTure
Of the Kings County Company IS throusn " X.Sx ix
Utrecht and FlatbuSh To East NeWoi b uin ~ as
Canarsle. When Application was mtne 10 .' ctv
efrne,s the brooklyn CITY Company apphei loT
some Of the same streets. and then the Nassau oOt
i it,, COMPANY offered S2j00r0 for The franchises
AFTER considerable discussion ana tne urd"nIs uP
Of bills for taxing the rallr0ai hv rho ,,n,
basis Of receipts. II was finally agree 10y te C, &
,,arias tn nav 50 600 a mile for the franchises ana
m increment was reached by the companies divid va
ine the streets between them. But SUITS are sU
The routes held by the Nassau company are from
Rroadwav at the East River. through Broaawa!,
(nnarse and another In Broadway Marcy-a'e' anu
R"chester-ave to Manhattan Beach -o -. ,,
- a,ber streets but the rights are under litiga-
,fn II il expected that the route outside the city
from the Thirty ninth-St ferry VIII De ,e ] III - 1a'
under the contract now said to have peeh "'aae'