New-York tribune., 1901-06-23
NEW YORK. FERRIES.
TIiIRTY-FIVE LINES OPERATED UNDER
LEASES FROM THE CITY - THE
GROWTH OF THE TRAFFIC
FROM COLONIAL TIMES
FROM COLONIAL TIMES.

persons endangered call attention to the
great traffic between Manhattan and places on
tho surrounding shores. In order to supply ade-
Guate facilities for the accommodation of the
public, thirty-fve ferries are maintained and
operated by corporations under leases from the
city.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is the
lessee Of the ferries from Cortlandt Desbrosses
and Twenty-third SITS to Jersey City The Cort- |
landt-st ferry has a lease from May l. 1898 to
May |, l!oS, at an annual rental Of $11 900; the
Desbrosses- ferry pays $500 year on a |
lease which will expire April l. 1902 The |
Twenty -third-st. ferry has a lease from Janu- |
airy l. 1896, to January l, 1906 at $4,000 a |
year for the wharf property, and per cent of |
the gross receipts Of the New-York side The |
Pennsylvania company operated also until re- |
Gently ferry from a point south of West Thir- |
teenth-st. to Jersey City, at a rental of S25Ol |
q year The lease expired on May l. 1901 and |
the ferry then abandoned
The Liberty-st ferry, leased by the Central |
Railroad of New-Jersey, brings the city an an |
pual rental of $1,000 The lease Will expire |
December n. 1902. The Barclay-st. ferry is |
operated by the Hoboken Ferry Company under |
a lease from March /, 1895 to March l. 1909 at |
annual rental Of $50 10i -. The Erie Rail- |
road is the lessee of the Chambers-st. ferry. |
This lease Will expire May l. 1902, and 10y its
receipts at the ferry gates. but this amount
must not be less than $500. The Jay-st ferry |
t. Weehawken is leased by the New-York Cen |
tral and Hudson River Railroad at $500 a !
year The lease Will expire on April i, 1902. |
The Hoboken Ferry Company also leases the !
Christophers st. and the West Fourteenth-st fer |
rcs The former brings the city 1900 and the /
latter SS5Si annually. The Erie Railroad Com
pany pays the city 1lSi091 a year rent for |
a lease which made from December II. |
1891. to December 81. 1902. At West Forty |
secOnd-st. there is a ferry to Weehawken which /
is operated 10y the NewYork Central and Hud- |
River Railroad under a lease from May |. /
1891, TO May l, 1902. at annual rental OF /
$1,000. The Riverside ana Fort Lee Ferry
Company is the lessee OF the West One hundred I
and -thrtieth-st. ferry to Fort Lee. 1t pays
5000 a year and has a lease until June l. 1905 /
These North River ferry privileges nettcd tho .
city for the year ending December 81 l>!'. /.
$1i5.011 O6.
THE LINE TO STATEN ISLAND.
The ferry from Whltehan-st To- staten Island
J. operated by the New-York Harbor and staten /
Jsland Ferry Company. although the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company now Is the real .
lessee The lease expires in june 1901 This .
company pays the city $21 800 year fur wharf
property and ~ per cent Of the gross receipts .
The lease StipulateS that this sum shall not bc /
less than S.,2JUo The revenue To the city last /
year from this $li D. -, The Union |
Ferry Company holds leases five ferry lines. |
These run from Whitehal-st to Hamilton ave.
Brooklyn, from Whtehall-st. to Atantic-ave |
brooklyn. from Wau-st. to Montague-st. Brook |
lyn, from Fulton-st. to Futon-st., Brooklyn, |
and from Catharine-st. to Washington-s |
Brooklyn. The revenue to the city from these
five lines which all pay ~ per cent OF their
gross receipts as rental. $J9.G2i % last
year.
The Long Island Railroad Company is the les
zee of three ferries running respectively from |
pne-st., James Slip and East Thirty fourth st.
10 Long Island City. The Pine-st. ferry pays |
the city . per cent Of its gross receipts. which |
amounted last year to Sj:,1 -; the James Slip |
ferry pays $1,000 year. and the Thirty fourth
St ferry pays annual rental of $1,000
The Brooklyn Ferry Company, of New-Y York
at East Tenth-st two at East Twenty third st
and one at Roosevet-st. For these leases the
company paid, according to the latest report
$GG0S1 81. The ferry from Pier TO South
South Brooklyn Ferry and Transportation Com
pany a lease which will expire on December |
81 1902. 1t pays . per cent of it's gross re-
Ceipts, not less than $1,000, and 81 for the use
of wharf property. Its last recorded payment
was S10o1, not one cent more than the minimum