New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-17
RIPS LAST GASP TO-DAY.
MAYORS VETO EXPECTED.
BrOnr to S5ceep Dozen on the City
Hall This afternoon.

Hall This afternoon.
It IS understood by those close to Mayor
Mcclellan and Corporation Counsel Delany that
the New-York. westchester and Boston Rail
ways application for permit TO cross about
slxty-eght streets and avenues IN The Bronx
will be disapproved by the Mayor The Tam
many men IN the Board OF Aldermen passed this
resolution under decidedly suspicious circum-
stances. and the recurring stories Of bribery in
connection with the grant have caused the
friends of the Mayor a great deal OF chagrin.
Not only viii the Mayor disapprove the reso-
luton but he will write d memorandum strongly
condemning the action Of the board IN giving
away the easement OF city streets without COM
pensation. This is the guess that some OF the
Mayors friends made last night
Corporation Counsel DeIany spent the greater
part Of the day looking up the history OF the
New-YorI westchester and Boston company.
Late yesterday afternoon he had conference
with the Mayor. who said aTterward:
All that I say tonight Is that there will
be hearing on the resolution ct , O'Clock to-
morrow I'm the Council Chamber. I have re-
ceived many letters from people who are going
to be there. Doubtless all phases Of the subject
will be Discussed
THE CONTROLLER AGAINST IT.
Controller Grout declared himself fatty
against the New-York Westminster and Boston
franchise in its present shape.
"IS she resolution permitting the westchester
and Boston company TO use sixty-Odd streets
without paying the city for them becomes an
ordinance fl viii he a step backward in the his
tory II franchise granting IN this city" said
the Controller. II don't believe the resolution is
a valid one. 7 think there should have been in
Corporated IN IL a provision sending IL 10 the
Board OF Estimate and Apportionment. to fix
the terms before It went 20 the aldermen. There
is before the Rapid Transit Commission an ap-
pIcati,n from the Now-York Connecting Rail-
way Company. owned by the Pennsylvania COM
pany. for permission TO cross streets in Brook
lyn and Queens between sixty-ffth-st.. Bay
Ridge and Wards Island. I'm the East River. We
have told the company that il is asking for
franchise and that "a il is 20 be an essential
and valuable part OF it's system il will have 20
pay the citv no matter whethe- the company
owns n private right Of way or not The New
York Central has applied for n permit to cross
certain streets In Eleventh-ave. The companys
counsel saws that the company does not ask
for a franchise. because it has charter that
gives # the privileges IT asks for, but we have
told il that its charter is Of little use without
our permit and. that being the case. II viii
have to pay for crossing city streets"
James p. Hayes. president OF the Mount Yer
non Common Council was asked yesterday
whom he meant when, in a published statement,
he told Of a New-York alderman who had de-
c1arsi to him on December a that before the
Port Chester company could get its permit
through the board the company would have TO
step up to the captains office and settle" Mr..
Haves is in business I'm the Grand Central Pal
ace. at Lexington-ave. and Forty-third-st.-
what is the use Of my jumping into print at
this time" said Mr.. Hayes 1t is true that I
had a conversation Of the nature referred 20.
hut If was between just two Of US One mans
word e as good rs another's. II I should go
ahead and say who it was that told me that
the alderman would come out and deny it fatty.
II Mayor Mcclellan wants any Information I've
got. will tell him cheerfully-"
LITTLE TIM DENIES DOODLE" STORY.
When Alderman Timothy p Sullivan was
a slcd II he had heard Of any such conversation
between a New-York alderman and Mr.. Hayes
he said
There's nothing in IT, You hear all sorts OF
doodle stories whenever a franchise passes or
is under discussion. Men go around talking
loosely. without meaning what they say
A man who was present the day that Mr.
Hayea had his talk with the New-YOrk alder
man had this to say about the incident:
.'Nir Hayes asked TO be introduced to a PROM
irent Tammany man. who was credited with
blocking the Port Chester roads application 7
introduced them. and OF the first things
that the Tammany man wanted to know was
about the compensation exacted by the Mount
Vernon Common Council Of the Port Chester
company before the Common Council passed the
-a~r,t+ Mr.. Hayes told him that on account OF
tba benefits expected from the operation OF the
,oad the Common Council was glad TO grant the
,,srrott without compensation. The Tammany
rrSon said with considerable emphasis that the
N-sv- york alderman would not grant any such
hermit without compensation. I understood him
70 mean that the company would have to asree
10 nav the city for the use Of its streets and
not that the company would have 70 use
doodle
William Cranitch. the Broadway broker. who.
"a stated in The Tribune yesterday negotiated
WITH 7 Tredwell Richards for the purchase by
NTr Cranitch Of the New-YOrk. Westchester
and Boston Company's franchise at a ridicu-
IOI1sIv low figure said yesterday that he had
written Mayor Low letter telling about the
transaction.
A yagrant Doodle story in connection with the
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