New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-07
AFFAIRS in BROOKLYN.
ABIG GRAB FOR EXTENSIONS.
TROLLEY COMPANIES ASK FOR NEARLY
200 MILES OF STREETS.
DETERMINED AND CONCERTED EFFORT TO
CRUSH THE NASSAU SYSTEM AND BEAT

CRUSH THE NASSAU SYSTEM AND BEAT
p H. FLYNN AT HIS OWN GAME.
The attempts Of the Brooklyn trolley COM
panies to grab street franchises have grown 10
such proportions that II the companies were 10
get what they asked for the greater part OF 'he
best thoroughfares in Brooklyn woalo De co'e'eo
by the tracks of the corporations probably
there is more bluff" than anything else in the
later endeavors Of these corporations Inc
latest is the action Of the Brooklyn Heights and
Rrooklvn CITY Railroad companies and the
Rrooklyn CITY and Newtown Company when
Yesterday filed with the Secretary OF state IN
Albany applications for extensions to their sys-
TENS covering nearly two hundred miles Oh
track
This may mean war between the companies
named and the Flynn companies. Prooapiy II
does At least 1T means an arming for the con-
test In this connection The Tribune saio re-
Gently:
Ever since ANNOUNCED that c the anew b bofn
Of the Flynn railway syndicate hao app srtydve
franchises giving privileges on ao9% hservers have
imagined that perhaps Patrick ID FYnh anu aiad III"
s b fTeHdS In w otSe WSrd that the
pany with its extraordinary applications, was
ff from the .0 Broolyn Heights COMPANY to whose
tracks those pr9jeeted Nond ,b6nsht also that if
al
the Bkyn Heights peop ynn s 10 nsHe S
age or othsr u.s., e banrnncy and gobbe
it up" However this may BE- the Sph1inT oatbS 80
lenee Of number OF railroad omceIs o'a 'o''iHs
TO Kill the theory.
To all OF which President Rossiter. OF the
Brooklyn Heights system replied that he did not
believe Mr.. Flynn had any such plan
Nevertheless II is certain that the officers OF
the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company nave
been disturbed If not alarmed, by MI Flynns
success in grabbing franchises building trolley
roads and operating them with profit The la'-
est and most auda cious action by the president OF
the Nassau Railroad Company. VINO incorporate
the East River and Atlantic ocean Rallroad
Company and then asked the city for the right
10 build and operate sixty miles OF aocl.'o i
track through some Of the best and most I'm,
portant streets Of Brooklyn. was too serious ana
too much fol the competing lines 10 stand
So the officers of tbs Brooklyn Heights ana the
Brooklyn City roads have foregathered ana CON
suited with President Partridge, or the Brooklyn
City and Newtown ine-the Dekalb-ave. line
and result have resolved 10 Out-i1t! III
Herod: see the Flynn syndicate and go 1t
few miles better" and open hostilites with tner
competitors. -..u.. -.
State Yesterday and intended to be filed with ths
clerk Of Kings County are especially slghlncant
when il is remembered that the whole Brooklyn
Heights system. covering as 1t does the city ana
county has now only 200 miles Of track, lnclud-
ing switching and sidngs They include prac-
fically all of the streets recently applied for by
Company two weeks ago, and these make about
sixty Of the 200 miles applied for. And the other
14O miles include practically every desirable street
in the city al present unoccupied by trolley lines
The companies which made the applications
will petition the Board of Aldermen for fran
chises at next Mondays meeting.
The Brooklyn City Roads extension plan is 10
cover thirty-fve separate routes. as follows:
Intersection OF the Queens County line at New;
town Creek at Manhattan-ave and Monr9e-st. and
Hamburg-ave, North Second,st and Marcy,aye.
and Frankn-st. and along Classon-ave. TO Park
ave; Classon-ave and Paciflc.st and Malbope-st:
Fourteenth-st. and the old boundary line between
New-Ctreeht and Gravesend; paciilc ana NeVihs
Hoyta SITS and Bridge and Concord SITS; Central
boendaqy ines: Bridge and Concord SITS and Mas
and Washington SITS Elizabeth and Dwight r SITS
pect AYES to Greenwood Cemetery at Twenty-third-
fourthst. and Fifth-ave Avenue G and East Four
teenth-st 10 Flatbush-ave.; Dwight and Elizabeth
Then to Nostrand-ave, Box-st and Manhattan
ave to Commercia-st., Flushing-ave. and Onder-
donk-ave. TO the city boundary line on Onderdonk-
ave; Church-aye and East Fourth-st; to Avenue
Nevins and Fulton SITS to Lvineston-s; Bridge and
Eighth-st. to South Ninth-st; Wythe-ave and
South Eighth-st: 10 Kent-ave:; Ewen-st. and John
wood-ave to Wyckof- ave; Partition and Richards
to HTeSn wytSeaTe and South G hye
70 Kent-ave.; South SiXth-st and Kent-ave to
The certificate of extension of the Brooklyn
Heights Railroad Company shows that the thirty
outlined above for the Brooklyn City Road The
certificate of extension Of the Brooklyn City and
teen proposed new routes are the the first
sixteen routes of the Brooklyn City Road referred
10
Colonel Williams. secretary Of the Brooklyn
Heights Company. not communicative on
this subject when he by a reporter
yesterday. saying only that the streets applied
for were the same as those asked for by the rival
corporation. with some additional ones.
Colonel John n. Partridge president OF the
Brooklyn City and Newtown Railroad Company.
said that The application had no significance ex-
cepting that his company and the allied cor
poratons wished to extend their lines
Since the city is giving away streets" he
said. we thought we might as we'll get some Of
them"
What streets are included in your appca-
ton" Colonel Pai fridge was asked.
81 cannot say now he replied There are
a good many. l think there few streets left
IN the city which are not applied for"
The Colonel said he thought the same streets
companies. but that was bound 10 occur where
50 many thoroughfa es were needed.
The methods used to oppose Mr.. Flynn
under the presidency of Daniel +. Lewis Mr..
Fiynns original application was fought with
great bitterness. The result Of that fight was a
compromise, which gave TO Mr.. Flynn all he
wanted and to the Brooklyn City Railroad Com
pany many valuable extensions. few Of which.
however. have as yet been made useful. Results
Of this compromise were the Adamson suit now
pending in the Court of Appeals and several
nails in the political coffin of David A. Boody
Mr. Flynn is stronger than he was in 1928:
the Brooklyn Heights road is not as strong as it
was then and President Rossiter has as yet given
no lndlcatons OF being so keen. so active and so
determined fighter as Mr.. Lewis proved HIM
self when occupying that position
Mr.. Flynns Kings County electric road yes
terday made application for a few miles Of
streets. which would give 1t some excellent con-
nections between his Rockaway-ave and Rogers
ave. lines.
AN UNSUCCESSFUL STRIKE OF TRUCKMEN
strike occurred yesterday among the twenty
truckmen employed by the Fruin b arnbrick Consru,
ton Company. C.ay-st. and Newtown Creek be-
Of the refusal OF the company 10 discharge