New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-10
KINGSBRIDGE EXTENSION AGAIN

ALDERMEN TO CONSIDER THE QUESTION OF
GRANTING ANOTHER FRANCHISE TO-DAY.
The Railroad Committee Of the Board OF Alder
men will meet to-day to consider the question OF
granting to the Third Avenue Railroad Company
another franchise for the Kingsbrdge extension IN
place Of the franchise which the Court OF Appeals
has declared to be void. In February the company
made another application for franchise, covering
practically the same route to Kngsbridge' from
the west end Of the e-hundred-and-twenty-
ffth-st line and there is also an application py
another company controlled by the Third avenue
Railroad Company for the same route. Inc Com-
missioner of Public Works, after a conference with
Mayor Strong decided yesterday that he would not
give orders to have the trench which the railroad
company has been digging along the Kingsbridge
Road filed up until It was known how the Board
of Aldermen might act on the pending apphca-
lions
Edward Lauterbach who is director In the
Third Avenue Railroad Company, yesterday re-
ferred newspaper men who made Inquiries ABOUT
the plans of the company to William H. Page, jr.,
of his law firm who has been acting as the counsel
for the railroad company Mr.. Page yesterday
made the following statement to Tribune re-
porter:
peas is to place the Third Avenue Railroad Com
pany and all the other parties in interest exactly
where they were two years ago before the reso,,
iutons by which the Common Council attempted
to sell the Kingsbrdge extension and which 9aye
Of Appeals in.imated very strongly that the appll-
made swo to ws Se sale
void was made. could still be considered as pending
%oTd SEEM s% should the Board Of Aldermen
to grant this application the franchise for these
asSn the for two
ever being sold separately instead OF at one sale
of the Third f Venue now pending for road
ering practically the same route as that embraced
| declared void After the Appellate Division OF
the Supreme Court in February declared void the
franchise, which has now been r., declared void also
p Ss y"s and S0a the street
troiled by the Third Avenue Company and is a val
West side line a PS Ier to h the r BSad of A
by the franchise declard void
s,res pass new resolutions granting the applica-
| tlon Of the Third Avenue Railroad Company, elm
mating from IT, however any eonSon i1r the pay S
Third Avenue road Is that 1t can appear at the
s ns e sS can bid again or
franchise to build roads over these same routes
pany is in such form that. should the Common
Council see fit to grant the application the fran;
| sold at auction within six weeks. and thus work
could go xSeS.r h hs e rS cray Avenue Railroad Com
| pany would make as favorable an offer for this
ala Ses1S STf m eam asa % maRs
more favorable offers than the Metropolitan Street
Railway Company or any tbe o secson "a bc
of Appeals is release the Third Avenue Railroad
Company from its obligation to pay 3sla per cent OF
| the earnings Of the extension This ssh per cent
| of earnings Of the extension meant In reality that
| the Third Avenue Railroad Company would have
10 pay about 1871 per cent OF the gross earnings OF
it's entire system. or about 100000. year to the
| city. -,
| II was for the reason that this bid favor
able 10 the city that the Corporation Counsel urged
the Court Appeals to uphold the validity of the
franchise, saying that IL was one and one-half times
| az much money as the city of New-York was now
! deriving by way of percentages and license fees
| from all the railroads Of the city put together.