New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-04
WINTER HITS COLER.
Says B. II. T. Is to Spend SS 900, 900
IN Tan 1rOf,eIneHts

f. w. Winter. president OF the Brooklyn RAPID
Transit Company, in an open letter TO Borough
President Coler last night declared that the COM
pany had spent S19,000.000 for the Improvement or
rapid transit and that for the current year had
appropriated ss0OOOoo to carry the work of sov-
ing the transit problem that the whole people OF
Brooklyn will be benefited.
Mr. Winters letter
I received last evening your open letter of the
LIST inst, referring to reported interview In an
evening paper in which ! am quoted as saying IN
tarded by the hold-up of consents ana permits
Without entering in detail upon your review of
of omission and commission. but few of
Offer as partly asounting for the Impression forced
opposition to work of this character. a paIagIaPn
from your authorized public declaraton given , TO
the press under date of February 9Th ult-' whch
happens to be on my desk: H..
while the company continues its present policy
mine is to be one of unrelentirg hostility. shal
try to make it prove its right to every foot OF
track it has IN our streets snail ca of its right
TO extend its power and its system under the cover
of an ali Comprehensive injunction. Every appliI
cation which it shall make for new franchise
shall oppose. Every franchise 1t has acquired but
I am now all the more gratifed to receive the as
surance that mistook your eahns he anu x6ressed
but the contrary. that ii Is your desire 10 TeaC
gagged and earnestly trying to solve with the sole
object Of aiding that work from the SIdIno' its
the public good, not to embarrass or retafo us
II will perhaps be accepted even by you as some
evidence of the sincerity of our purpose TO improve
transit conditions I'm Brooklyn that there mas peen
exneuded TO that end. within the three years laSt
mast upward OF Sl90OO.OJ0 besides a much larger
amount than ever before i'm the same PERIOD tor
maintenance and repairs, and that new Work OF
construction and Improvement, amounting 10 more
than IS 100000 is authorized for the present caeh-
The credit which has enabled this company to
procure this very considerable sum or money mas
rot been built M and sustained by decryhlg the
conditions and institutions of Brooklyn Much mas
been truthfully spoken against transit taeihtleS IA
T2roolvu and much has been said that truth could
Gus exaggeration which has befallen some or us
when discussing this subject is reflected more or
less on every legitimate business interest IN the DOT
rough. while serving also to enhance the nlahCidl
and physical difficulties inherent TO the transit STU
alton. . ,-.. 49,,
Whether or not the Brooklyn Rapid Transit COM
pany will be able steadily to proceed with the work
which IL has undertaken depends on the contln-
uance Of that confidence on the part OF investors
not speculators-which il has succeeded IN Great
ing and the measure of cooperation gwen IL oy
the city government and the Brooklyn pupllc'
which for its own interest this company desires Ell
1ciently to serve. - - ,,- 81
ves on the basis of frank, direct and fair MINDED
consideration of every matter in which the borough
and the transit company are mutually concerned
In this spirit we ought to reach common ground
and Jointly promote the common good. nut neltner
can Ii seems to me, be done 10 much erect
through discussion between us in public print;
You will. therefore. l trust excuse me from
engaging in that method of communication on be-
half OF this company.