New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-24
COMMUTERS ATTACK If.
HEARING ON y. H. ROAD.
Counsel for Company offers to
.ShOzc Suburban Earnings.

ShO1C Suburban EGrHtngS.
Before the state Railroad Com.nission-George
nv Dunn frank Il. Baker and Joseph n. Dickey-
yesterday many protests We're made by commit
tee eT commuters who are up in arms against the
snethods employed by President Melen of the New
York. esew-Eaven and Hartford Railroad, who has
withdrawn a number % suburban trains.
The first complaint called was that OF the New
Rochelle conrnu,ers They represented by
John Oscar Ball. chairman OF committee con-
sisting Of Thomas G. Hall Edward Lyman Bell
and John Oscar Ball The railroad company was
represented at the hearing by z. c Buckland.
counsel. and o. NJ Shepard. general superintendent
Said Nj. Ball
We are al al a loss 20 know why the officials Of
the New-HsNen road have given this kim OF
,4s bIsl ems is S c9r, wes and we al hsd 10
get a supply OF them Ia be able 10 keep up with
Ire time schedule
1ee7 2 falling of of six thousand passengers since
July This he said made necessary the taking of
OF some trains.
Mr. Ball replied:
,,on o has Ihat you Just said true We
know as 3 fact that instead OF decreasing me
passenger service mas increased materially
ssad A ". Cole. of New-Rochelle. representing
srIy myself
trains between Boston and New-York? You will
:d tnSi re sIsgd 81 Gonnecticut not one train
stops after crossing The New-York state line
GOOD enough FOR the inhs hitants beyond
r! esff a. 70 tg dffn % when
e-rang1ng Boston express schedules
M NOT eoea d 59as sund dS TR RG" Is direct
slap 81 persons who do not 9f ammo, sSeeJ me
decentralization We want il 10 sell hfty-four
sfy people are AFRAID to 60 cut oc New-York
ssty on account Of the transportation service.
Louis \. cuvilIier. Of Greenwich. Conn, COM
sls,psd against the railroad FOR allowing passen-
gers 70 ride in the baggage car
Thomas c. Hall. If the N"w-Rochelle committee
Eeelsred:
President 1Iellen IS PLAYING leapfrog with rs up
at New Rochelle If the, railroad keeps up This
Mhat We YAM ar a ,5 70 in6nns stations
,rethods on the New-Haven road. Ne want and
rsv'o S to Nr aIellens advent and until then
rs viii have 10 put Up with all kinds of hardshiPs-
Mr. Ball. OF the committee again addressed the
commission He told it that he had 10 pay five
sznts 70 cross the Nis-aye. bridge 10 the Man
haitian elevated road terminal 81 cumberland
sxenty-n.ntl-st and Third-sve. Nj auckland, at
forrey for The railroad. replied that the tracks on
ths bridge from One-3undred-a thirty eighth
II and Willis-ave. 10 One-hundred- and twenty
.-inth-st and ThiFd-sve were owned by the Subur-
ban Rapid Transit Company. and that according
20 the contract between The New-IaVen and The
Suburban Rapid Transit Company the former
eeived absolutely nothing Mr. Cole. of New-Ro-
Esgen road had any pecuniary interest whatever
fn the transit road. The attorney took exception
q this remark. which withdrawn by Mr.
Cole. The commissioners said they would look
into these charges.
Mr. Buckland addressed the commissioners in dc
Fence Of the roads recent policy. OvercFowding
he said, hardly could be avoided. One fault of
.vercroWding was the reserve scat hog" who
wanted keep the whole himself and made
himself so obnoxious that passengers would rather
r1,,,
sympathy with the commuters protest against the
practice OF passengers riding in baggage cars. II
there was any way 10 keep them out Of the baggage
the company would be the first put II
into effect. lie said
The average paid on Communication tickets is
about siX-tenths Of a mile, and It is on
this income that most of The earnings OF the road
sfepend
lie authorized To say, he declared. that the
Eew-Haven would install an electric road be
tween Port Chester and the New-York City Hall.
tie added:
Plans have been drawn mp for the Installing OF
this line and after the necessary legislation has
been accomplished, which viii be early in the fall
work viii immediately be begun on this and OF
Il the people along The line viii agree TO pay "A
little higher rate. and thus help this road build
Mp & good business, VIII be only willing 10
The Neg-Haven is perfectly willing 10 carry this
suburban trafic without \ dollar Of profit The
road is willing and anxious 70 provide many
srains as can be made 90 pay actual operating
pensss. To this end: in order that it may be
Necessary for the public accept the cpmpauy's
unsupported word 10 tho revenue and o
fhe company from this traffic. road Is ready
place all its ngures before any expert railroad man
selected by the commission. IN any other i'm
partial manner. 10 give him every facility and as
sistance in arriving at absolutely correct figures
az % the cost of this traffic and its returns the
present time, and on the basis Of his report run
exactly as many trains this traffic will nav for
without returning q dollar of profit the company
The company VIII rely upon the possibility of a
greatly increased amount OF travel the next
Few years for its possible profits from this portion
~ It's traffic.
The commission probably will give q decision it
y is said, within twenty days
81 The hearing in regard to the elimination Of the
dangerous crossing at Van Cortlandt Park. on the
Rutnam division Of the Central was held in the
stternoon An engineer of the railroad submitted
pans OF the new bridge which the company con-
a'5hhLates putting over this crossing. The tracks
N-l ee raised fiye feet and the roadway depressed
81 - nsFS q prloge running the couverging
sDSoha3A me cost viii be S3i.oG0 BY the una nj
Iols consent Of the commissioners the arbitration
- re IalIoao company Tor permission to con-
frruct the bridge granted.