New-York tribune., 1903-06-27
NJ. S. R. GIVES UP FIGHT.
MORE TRANSFER POINTS.
Decides to Establish Forty Addi
tiOnaL Stations at intersections.

Officials of the Interurban Street Railway
Company announced yesterday that arrange
ments were being rapidly completed to establish
between forty and fifty new transfer stations on
the street surface lines in Manhattan Borough.
They said that these additional points of trans
fer would permit the free exchange of passen-
gers between the metropolitan and the Third
Avenue systems and would include every fmpor-
tant point of intersection. The company's repre-
sentatives said that when these changes were
made there would remain of all the transfer
points concerning which there had been recent
public controversy only two or three TO Wnlch
the system might not be extended. These, they
explained were points like Broadway, at Twen-
ty-third-st., where great and obvious danger OF
accidents would be incurred by the attempt TO
transfer.
The company's officials asserted that al
though according to the decision of the Appel
late Division of the Supreme Court, they were
under no compulsion of law to allow transfers
from the Metropolitan lines to those of the
Third Avenue these would be freely conceded in
accordance with that general policy under Whlch
the company had begun and developed the
transfer system 1t had not been done sooner
because of the contract existing between the
Third Avenue company and the Manhattan Eie-
waited This contract was made before the Ihlrd
Avenue was leased to the Metropolitan, and un
back and forth between the Third-ave. surface
lines and the elevated at various elevated sta
tfons for an eight cent fare and each company
was bound to make transfer arrangement
with any other company.
AN EMBARRASSING CONTRACT.
Interurban officials said yesterday that their
hesitation about establishing a transfer sys-
TEN between the Metropolitan lines and Third
Avenue lines was at time due to unwilling
ness to have the transfer business thus in
creased but solely to the existence of this en-
! barrassing contract inherited from the Third
Avenue MANAGEMENT. They pointed out that
thev were issuing already five hundred thousand
transfer tickets a day. and that there were as
many as four hundred transfer stations along
their lines, and that the system was one which
was not without its benefits to the company as
well as to the public, although it made the aver
age fare paid by passengers somewhat less than
three cents
So strong and general had become the public
demand for the transfer privilege that the COM
pany had decided to extend the system to all
Third Avenue lines, Notwithstanding the terms
of the Third Avenue contract. 1t was asserted.
The principal new stations will be along the
Third ave line and the One hundred -and-twen-
ffth-st. crosstown line. Transfer tickets will be
given on the Third-ave. line at the junction of
hundred and twenty-ffth-st and in Am
sterdam-ave, east or west on the crosstoWn cars
and south on all Broadway cars; at One-hun-
dred- and -twenty-fiftf1- st and Eighth-ave going
south. at One-hundred- and -twenty-f1ftl- st and
Lenox-ave, going south; at ne-hundred-and-
twenty ffth-st. and Lexington ave, going
south: at -hundred-and-sixtee and
Third ave going east west; at One-hundred-
and-tenth-st and Third-ave.. going east or
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east or west; at Fifty-ninth-st. and Third-ave..
going east or west or south on SiXth-ave. cars;
in Forty-second- st. east on all cars and west
on the Forty -second-st. crosstown cars at
Twenty-t -third-st., going east or west; at Four
teenth-st. going east or west; at Houston-st..
going west and at Stanton-st., going east; at
DeIancey-st., going east or west; at Canal-st,
going east or west. and at Duane-st. going east
or west Transfers will also be allowed at One
hundred a nd-sixty- -second-st., going north on
Kingsbridge cars; the One-hundred-and
twenty -fifth-st. crosstown line transfer tickets
will be given at First-ave. going south; a Sec
ond-ave going north south; at Third-aVe-,
going north or south; at Lexington-ave.. going
north or south; at Madison-ave, going north
at Lenox-ave, going north or south; at Eighth
ave going north or south; Amsterdam-ave.,
going north or south. and at Broadway, going
south all cars
TO GO INTO EFFECT BY AUGUST 1.
The new arrangement will go into effect as
soon as the tickets be printed and put out,
and at the latest by August l.
julius Henry Cohen, chairman of the commit
Tee of counsel of the West Side Committee of
One Hundred said regarding the company's
nouncement:
Well We certainly congratulate the people on
+he victory they have won. 1t is a great one, and
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largely owing to the Committee of One Hundred
II is evident that the Metropolitan has decided 70
issue that statement in order to forestall an ad-
verse decision in the mandamus suit now before
the Appellate Division. The committee mas an
aIo been confident that the Appellate DIVISION
would reverse the decision of Justice OGormaE
and grant the nandamus. :,
So far as the contract between the Manhattan ana
The Third Avenue systems is concerned. no law
yer who had considered the question put any STOCK
IN that the generous attitude or the
Observation-Disclosures has TO smile! You know
they refused to submit the question to the Appel
iatc Division for a decision on legal points on an
agreed statement Of fact. And they fought the
nsfer cases in court pretty hard Inc committee
Of one Hundred had 10 fight four separate biils IN
he LEGISLATURE last session. each or Whlcn was
Intended 10 repeal transfer law under Wnlch
they have been compelled to grant these transfers
Its inst this wav: They thought they could night II
M and now that they find they can l. and the $o