The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-27
SUBWAY SLOT MACHINES TO GO
OR II. r.. CONFUSION Will, GO
JO THE COURTS ABOCT IT.
Company Directed Also 10 Remove the
cigar stands ami Flower stands
Newspaper Stands TO Remaln-Bel.
mont Letter Makes the Mayor Laugh.

Inc marlborough company must take
out OF the subway stations the cigar and
mower stands and the slot and weigh
ing machines or the Rapid Transit Com
mission Will appeal to the courts TO compel
II to do 50. This was decided on at a meet
ing Of the commission yesterday. George
l.. Rives- counsel TO the commission, pre-
sented a long opinion to the effect that
the rlght OF the company o maintain these
-encumbrances' must rest solely on the
question whether the encumbrances were
necessary for the comfort and convenience
oil the passengers. In the case of an urban
road they were not. and therefore they
should be removed. lie excepted the
newspaper stands newspapers being a
convenience
After hearing the opinion Comptroller
Groul moved that demand be made on
the lnterborough company that it take
ont the machines aud the stands. except
the newspaper stands and that if the demand
was not complied with the commission
take tie case to the courts
President Orr suggested that the COM
mission request" instead of demand
II was finally made direct"
You will find that the company will
N"'''lAN NlAi' ludlt rd4I MI. UT.
IN afraid not. so far as the slot and
weighing machines are concerned, said
Mr.. hives shaking his head obviously.
Counsel TO the company say that the
marlborough has a right to keep the
machines in the stations although agreeing
that there ia no legal ground for tho main
tenance OF the cigar and flower stands"
If such a contest is made. : remarked
Mr., Grout. Il think we would be justified
in raising the wider question "a 10 the right
of the company TO use property leased by
II from the city for any other purpose than
that for which it was leased-the operation
of a railroad"
On the advertising signs the board post
poned action for another weeE after hearing
this letter from MIR Belmont:
-Our counsel ore making Roadway with
Messrs Wand d Cow. II hes been necessary
20 hand over The negotiations TO them. and
they report satisfactory progress, but /
adjustment
Mayor Mcclellan laughed outright when
the letter was read
The committee OF twenty-five BROOKLYN
citizens appointed by Borough President
Littletou to secure some improved means
Of communication in Manhattan between
the bridges wrote urging an elevated route
from the enlarged terminal OF the BROOKLYN
Bridge TO run through Centre. Grand.
Essex and Delaney streets to the VIII
liamsburg Bridge with a spur through
Canal street TO the Manhattan Bridge.
Col. Willis l.. Ogden. chairman OF the com
mittee. wrote that he had been authorized
10 state that the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Company would lease, equip and operate
the road at a rental equiy alent TO AZ per
cent of its cost 10 the city provided that the
cost should not be more than 50 600 900
including damages 10 abutting property
I owners,
Comptroller Grout said that the cost in
Guiding damages would be at least IS 600 CO.,
II was intinated that the commission would
not lay out such a route unless the +. r. Il
would make an unqualified offer. Owners OF
large properties in the dry goods district
urged the commission to pass favorably on
the scheme for constructing a moving plat
form under Thirty-fourth street from the
East River TO the new terminal OF the Penn
sylvania Railroad