New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-14
TO SEE LOW ON TUNNEL.
Broad5oay Professors Choose Com
mittee-BeImont Criticised.

The committee of fifty which was appointed
last week to carry on the agitation against the
construction of a tunnel in Broadway between
Fourteenth and Forty-second SITS. by means OF an
omen cut held it's first meeting yesterday after
noon at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Al Hayman' who
had presided at the previous meetings Of those
interested in the matter. called tho meeting TO
order and although there no formal organiza-
tion Mr. Hayman continued TO act as CHAIRMAN
with Alexander Shaw as secretary.
In opening the meeting, Mr.. Hayman made
brief address in which he criticised Mr.. Belmont
and his associates He said that the subway
people had leased the elevated roads guaranteeing
dividends Of per cent and that they showed
a spirit which would indicate that they thought
themselves independent of public sentiment. Mr..
Hayman said that he and his firm paid taxes on
property worth $1,000 000, and in the district az
fected, from Fourteenth-st. to Forty-second-st''
there was property worth hundreds of millions lie
referred to statement coming from the rapid
transit people that if they could not open Broad
way they would take Seventh-ave.. or else not
build the addition to the system at all Mr..
Hayman thought that this indicated an arrogant
spirit and he asked:
rs there no engineer in the city who can sug-
gest some way Of contracting this tunnel without
tearing up the street all along the line
He also said that if he owned property In sew
enth-ave, he would fight the scheme for an open
ditch energetcally as he was lighting such a
method in Broadway He expressed the opinion
that there was no occasion for the committee 10
engage counsel, to raise funds, except some
trivial that had already been pledged for
canvassers and clerical expenses.
On motion of Marc klav, of Klaw Erlan9er. a
committee of eighteen was appointed with author
ity to increase its number, TO wait Mayor Low
and present to him the petition, or protest which
adopted the meeting last week. This COM
mittee made up follows: w. r. H. Martin,
of Rogers, Peet & Co; Edward Hatch, jr.. of Lord
& Taylor George Taylor of Aitken, Son d Co;
John S. Huyer John B. Martin, John r. CasweH'
Theodore 3. Starr, Heinrich Conried. Charles 7.
t3eddos of smith GRAY & Co; J. Slater. L. w.
of the Bank of the Metropolis; r r. Moore, presl-
dent of the ew-A1nsterdam National Bank; george
field Of the Continental; Mr. Todd for the Hotel
Marlborough; !. Scott Browning and Marc IS law.
The name of the nrn or Altken son q % vas
added to the protest at the meeting, on the aSsuI
by the chairman that the protestants ala not
oppose rapid transit ia Broadway, but merely the
open cut method OF construction rms NAG peeh
made plain at previous meetings. but MI. Iaylor.
the representative of the firm had not been present
then Mr. Hayman said he thought that this firm
cornn1esd tha LIST of merchants and business men
in the section all of whom had signed Nearly al
of the property owners have signed also ana Nari-
though out of town, had telegraphed that they
would return at any time, if they could be OF any
Mr. KIaw n moving the resolution fer the ap-
pointrent of the committee to see the Mayor re-
ferred to published interview with Mr.; Starin re-
garding the subway catastrophe IN PARIS IN inns
interview Mr. Starin was quoted as saying that
the great loss of life would not have occurred if
the tunnel had been the surface. Mr. klaw
asked how that could be true in view of the fact
that most OF the victims appeared to have lost
their lives through aSphyXlatlon electric shock or
tage it would have been to these people if they had
died nearer the surface
chair No time fixed for the subcommittee to
call on the Mayor.