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n. =. Beard Approves MANY or Huaphattan's
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R~lans-Ohiscta 60 the hteuieVard Line
Secretary Lewis i. Delafield Of tho Rapid
Transit Railroad Commission made public yes.
terday the text Of tho letter which President
Alexander f. Orr sent on Tuesday to George J.
Gould, President OF the Manhattan Railway
Company. Mr.. orrs letter In general merely
rccites the long minute which was adopted by
the board on Monday IN reference to the propo-
sitions for improvements and extensions to tho
elevated roads suggested in Mr.. Gould's letter
Of Jan. 20. In parts, however, no is a little moro
explicit.
Mr.. Gould, IL will DO recalled, said that the
Manhattan Railway Company might submit for
approval propositions TO build n connecting line
from Battery place, running up the westerly side
OF the city TO Horatio and Gansovoort streets
and there connecting with the Sixth and Ninth
avenue lines. Such q line would enable the ole.
waited roads to make close connections with all
the downtown ferries across tho Hudson. Mr..
the west side lines through Roade and Duane or
Canal street and Centre street to the City Hall
station of the Third avenue line; an extension
Fifty.third street to Tenth avenue and thence
up Tenth avenue, the Boulevard and Eleventh
sssa aid 70 , rSIn Ssor Inc 1fr from ~ Tpemont station.
through Fordham to Bedford. Park.
Mr.. Orr says the board understands that tho
west side extension from Battery place to Ho-
ratio or Gansevoort street would run up West
street, and that tho board believes. that this
would be a valuable Improvement of the cross
that the board has no legal power TO grant q per
init to an elevated road to cross Broadway be.
low Thirty.third street and that therefore y !
the other Commissioners would like TO see such
OF the proposed extension to Fort George he
speaks. as did tho minute, in a way showing that
the commission has no idea Of approving It
upon the ground, first, that 1t would not DO
sd,esgnate unless 1t ran h as far far north Ssta cs as KINGS g;
the Boulevard by an elevated structure would
create a damage to property. which might out
weigh tho benefits to be obtained; ..x
"The board will not, therefore, he says, .eT-
press even an informal opinion concerning this
route until It shall have had q further
opportunity to consider, such arguments as
But the members of the board Incline to
the opinion that equally favorable results
could be obtained SO far aS the tr ira
ic's injury to tho public interests and the prop:
erty rights Of individuals, by the adoption of
some route FnS tS Sshe So, than viii fh' T 9nf sSigse eoesid sy
any proposition which may be made by your
company looking to the adoption Of some al
The proposed extension to Fordham, Mr.. Orr
says, the board regards in a most favorable
light. The addition Of third tracks. and In
some cases Of fourth tracks upon the present
Gould, Mr.. Orr says, is desirable, and In some
cases imperatively needed. Mr.. Orr desires the
company to make applications separately tor
desires, and assures Mr.. Gould that the hapid
Transit Railroad Commission Is willing to grant
such applications as 1t considers reasonable,
utes. Mr.. Gould was at Trenton, N. J., yes;
terday attending to his duties as a United
States Grand Juror, and there was no meeting hsS, 9G
framing the application to be made to the
Rapid Transit railroad Board.