New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-27
CIRCUIT WANTS N. Y. C. TUNNEL
AT HEARING CONTROLLER SHOWS THAT
RAILROADS. TRACKS HAVE COST
CITY 81. IT'S. 264

The New-York Central and Hudson River Rail
roads application for permission 10 go ahead with
extensive terminal improvements in Park-ave. en-
gagged the attention of the Board of Estimate again
yesterday. Controller Grout thinks the necessary
improvement could be effected by building tunnel
/ or depressed route under the existing tracks.
The assoCa tons represented at yesterdays hear
ing were the Murray Hill Association the Middle
Park Avenue Association and the East Side Cit-
zens' Improvement Association. dozen or more
individuals were represented by counsel Ira d
Place and ". c. Brown appeared for the railroad
Controller circuit read a short statement of the
expenditures made by the city Of New-Nork as
result of the lowering and raising of the tracks of
the New-York and Harlem Railroad along Fourth
and Park ayes. The total was $5,77s,26i %.
IF the city had not benefited by those expend-
lures MIR. Places reply, the Controller
knows the expenditures could not have been author
lied
William Stainkamp. representing St Peters
Lutheran Church, at Forty-siXth-st and Lexng-
tou-ave. protested against the action of the local
Board of Improvement. which approved the scheme
of the railway company.
Mr.. Place said that St. Peters Church property
for sale at 800 900, and that after public an
nouncement made that the New-York Central
was buying the property along the route of its pro-
posed Improvement, the price raised 10 S2O0,oVo
Mayor Low announced that he had received let
tiers protesting against the company's scheme and
favorng the proposition for a depressed system OF
tracks and yard facilities from many persons He
stock. c.. +. Chandler Charles D. Dickey. Ben
iamin F. Roman, Samuel Sloan, jr,, General James
NJ Varnum. Otto Stegman. Arson W. Hard
Charles G. Peters Henry Elias Brewing Com
pany. Bell Brothers. Mortimer G. Addoms. y. W.
Heymar. John l.. Wayland. Frank r. Lawrence,
4. p. Bgelow. W. b. Parsons. James NJ Duane
and Fred Kassng.
DR.. Alexander MADDEN said that If the Board of
Estimate granted the application of the road an
Indignant public will arise and demand that the
city revoke the charter of the railroad company
and compel It to establish its terminal outside the
city limits
Mayor Low asked Mr.. Place II the railroad com
pany had anything 10 say. but the latter asserted
that the railroad still considering ways ana
The Mayor said the opposition had right 10
assume that the railroad company was antagoniStic
10 the rights Of the property owners. The com
pany. he declared. had received every suggestion
I'm the most friendly manner. and had apparently
recognized that the question at issue not what
was best for the railroad. hut what was best for
the city I'm whose prosperity the railroad must
share
Mr.. Place said he appreciated the liberal utter
anCcs OF the Mayor and he assured him and all the
citizens OF NcW-YoTk that the Nen-Nork Central
doing its best 10 solve the difficult problem pre-
Seuted. He added that he would Ike to have q
date set for another hearing, when his company
might he prepared with replies 10 the suggestions
offered The hearing was adjourned 10 December 4