New-York tribune., 1899-07-13
GARDINER ON A WARPATH.
THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY SAYS ELE-
vATED TURNsTILEs MUST GO.
he OBJECTS TO BEING MADE A DETECTIVE.
HE sAYs-RAILRoAD OFFICIALS
ARE NOT WORRIED.

AXE MOI WORRIED.
Tammany Hall still keeps UP its fight against
the Manhattan Elevated Railway. II started with
l2-inch rife shot from Richard Croker in the
shape Of a declaration in favor OF underground
rapid transit. The Park Board then exploded a
bomb under the Battery loop by ordering II out
OF Battery Park. Then came the Health Board.
with a rapd-fre broadside Of afidavits that the
structure rottng and rattling 10 pieces and
ought to be practically rebuilt. In spite OF all.
the old tranway on stills continued TO do bust
ness in IT'S usual exasperating way. In seeming
despair Of ever quickening the management by
the use OF heavy artillery. Tammany has now re-
sorted 10 a lighter weapon and has poured charge
Of singing irritating Bird shot into the leviathan
from a small smoothbore.
Asa Bird Gardiner. the District Attorney. has de-
clared that the turnstiles on the elevated road
20.
II appears that this outburst OF official zeal is
due 10 the fact that the District Attorney. who is
a man OF restless energy. has several times missed
a train on account OF the delay caused by crowd
Of passengers fling by one through the tedious
turnstile instead Of being able 10 rush for the
train by twos or threes fast they could drop
their tickets into the box His pent up ind gnation
found a peculiar vent on a recent occasion. when.
casting aside his official dignity for the moment.
he leaped the stile with the agility OF school,
boy. II happened this way:
Mr. Gardiner and Assistant District Attorney
nights ago. boarding a train at the Franklin
st station Of the elevated Mr.. Gardiner paid 10
cents fare and then eaped the turnste. The
ticket seller pleaded with Mr. Osborne 10 go
through the stile twice 10 register both him
self and Mr. Gardiner but the latter said that tho
company had no right TO put turnstes on its sta
tions. He declared that II wholly Illegal, and
that turnstiies would have go. He asserted that
the company had no right TO accept the pay Of
five cents from a passenger and then make him
act a detective for the company. He vowed that
the company had no right 70 put a single pound
weight in any ones way and he quoted 70 the
astonished ticket seller from Section 675 OF the
Penal Code as follows:
interfere with any person IN any pubic place
with the passenger OF any railroad or any otner
public conveyance. although such act or conquer
may not amount assault or battery, snaH pe
deemed guilty OF msdemeanor Then ne BOARD
ed train malestically and disappeared .
Yesterday Mr.. Gardiner said that he had NOT ye'
had a reply 10 a letter Nc had sent 70 the Man
haitian Railroad officials ordering them 70 remove
the stiles from the Railroad commissioners. 10
whom he had also written. asking II they nad
given TO tho Manhattan permission TO use the
turnstfIes The District Attorney added that sven
they had IL would make no difference ana ma
he would proceed against the company II !. diu
not remove them. 1.
The officials of the Manhattan Railway Company
declined 10 make any statement yesterday con con-
cernng the District Attorneys letter. Evidently
they do not attach much Importance 70 II wee
President and General Superintendent sKu sem
out word that he had nothing 70 say. ana mares
A Gardiner the roads counsel. was equally non
Communicative Other officials professed 70 see ~
the letter another Tanmany attack on the road
as well as a bid for the applause ana the support
OF the La Dor party.