New-York tribune., 1906-12-09
FOR BETTER TRANSIT.
TO STUDY CONDITIONS.
President Parsons Selects Men to
Investigate SnbscayS.

Representatfye Herbert Parsons, president OF tHe
Republican County Committee, before returning 20
vvaeb,,r.on vss,erdsv announced the appointment
of the committees committee on plans Ior the oee-
terrnent of transit facilities In this CITY A"o
chairman Of the committee Is RoperS HehS zen
tice. a lawyer. of No. 81 Broadway afo soiIe Ok
his associates are McDougau Hawkes.. former DOCK
ComnIssioner. Senator Elsberg and James L. Welis,
of The Bronx. The committee Is authoriZed 70
examine into and report upon present coiiHltIo
of transit the means under way for the increase
OF and betterng of transit facilities ana any p'
and legislation that are necessary .
There IS a representative from every Assembly,
district In the county, many of them lawyers anu
real estate men, and chosen by Mr. Parsons Win
the idea OF getting valuable inrormatoh hhu sus
gestions for transit betterment-
Senator Elsberg will have chance to help WORK
out some Of the features of the transit problem
which he advocated during the passage OF ths
law which bears his name. The lnterborough peo-
pie say that the Esberg bill is monumental alb
surdity thar IL tends to fasten the hold OF the
Ryan-Be combination on the transit faeili-
ties OF this city. and that no moro suoways Will be
built until short franchise feature OF the
law has been repealed. Senator Elsberg doubtless
will object to a repeal of the law until IL has had
a reasonable test. The committee Of thirty-ive is
follows
R. Kelly Prentice chairman Mcpons% ly2Mke iilss
hayyn Myrpbx Seuer George H. naHes King
F. H. Within Charles G. Bothnsr H. T Z; Bye; Ee a.. 5
Doug Doc Ias M%thswson Jacob Franz David Robson
Joseph T. Hackett, William Is, Wait, IT.. treqerich
L. Marshall, Conrad Alheidt William ham,
Charles Hibson, Warren q. Crane, Abraham Lln,
ber, John Goode, S. Cornell Tarler townsend
sheim, Jacob II. Corn Ralph Folks, William HauPt
Allan A. Irvine Henry c. Botly. William G Ruie
and James l. Wells
The committee will have to get to work at once
make itself felt the plans for the new subways
are we'll under way. Any change that the COM
mittae might desire to have made will run against
the carefully laid plans of the engineers of the
Rapid Transit Commission.
The prestige OF the county committee Is back or
the committee, and that means that what the COM
mittee wants win be supported in the Legislature
Because of this fact the appointment of the COM
mittee is of than routine Importance.
Bids for the new subways VIII be called Tor b.
fore the end of January The calling for bids VIII
be watched with unusual interest. The Belmont in
terests will bid for what they want and nothing
else. The chances that Mr.. Belmont and his
friends will bid for the so-called Seventh and
Eighth avenue route and the Lexington avenue
route, as these two to be the heavy traffic
carriers. The Seventh and Eighth avenue sub
way will cost about s25 600 900 and the Lexng ton
about $50 100000 to build and perhaps half
much more to equip. These two lines Will not
satisfy the demand. The East Siders want rev
subway up Third avenue Second avenue and the
Brooklyn people want another line there So that,
ported TO want, the situation win have been only
half met. II there no responsible bidders for
the other routes the Elsberg law either will have
to be changed the city viii have to enter upon
the experiment Of building and. perhaps. operating
It's subways