The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-02
ALL HOT FOR CITY SUBWAYS
SINGLE TAN GLIB HEARS FROM
SHEAN, COLER AND BAkRR.
Won an Fool No-Pass Baker Its Hard
to silence Shcan-COler Can See a Fur
ther Horizon ~ Debt Than Meiz-Jus-
tice Ford Fears Bosses VIII DO Hughes.


TO silence Shean -COler Can See a Fur
ther Horizon ~ Debt Than NetZ-.Jus-
tice Ford Fears Bosses VIII DO Hugbes.
The Manhattan Single Tax Club got in
some early ticks in the way Of advice for
the Public Utilities Commission by having
mass meeting at Cooper Union last night.
Ii was pretty warm and only half a crowd
followed the band in. Chairman Frederic
Cyrus Leubuscher had just finished read
ing some resolutions approving an immc-
late start by the city m the seven sub
ways approved by the Board of Estimate
ast December when n swarthy stra niger
pushed some platform chairs aside and
wanted to know why il was. sir. that the
Broadway subway in Brooklyn wasn't
among the seven.
Bird Coler, shifting on his chair. admitted
in an aside that he knew this man. Charles
NJ. Shean of the Broadway Board of Trade.
he said.
well. if Mr.. Sbean wants to nave a mass
meeting of his own he can hire a hall " said
Chairman Leubuscher.
II can do it just as well as you. and have
just the same power that you have!"
shouted Mr.. Shean, turning around TO find
Mr.. Coler y~anking at his corr tails. sit
down? Sit down? No. no. Z want fair
play"
Sect down. you gump, yelled a Single
Taxer from the floor.
Il know" said the chairman. They've
hired this man to break up the meeting"
but Mr.. Shean flung his hands skyward
and cried: "Oh. no., no, you can't, you
daren't say that about me. Why, I'm
known"
Sir. sit down." pounded out an old man
at the back Of the stage. rising and iabbing
two fingers in Mr.. Shean's direction. Mr..
Shean sat down, threatening 10 make il
warm for Coler il something wasn't said
about the Broadway subway when il came
the Brooklyn Borough Presidents turn 10
crate.
Coler spoke mostly about Herman Metz,
merely telling his friend Shean that Satur-
days edition Of Coler's Bulletin, now
dwindled to a weekly. would have every
thing he wanted to know. Mr.. Shean left
the hall, but popped in again when Coler
had finished and said he had just one ques-
ton for Bird S. Before he could put il a
policeman grabbed him from behind and
that was all, except some speaking by ex-
Congressman No-Pass Baker and others.
Comptroller Metz didn't get TO the meet
ing. He had thought he would. the chair
hkAAA V1aAt pah Nv NA'A WIN - wv ~ AA&
he was for city built subways, but didn't
see how the city could afford to build them.
The singletaxers did not like Mr. Metz's
letter At all. The chairman said Mr.. Metz
had now Topped three times and it was
refreshing To turn to a man like Mr.. Coler.
Mr.. Coler was in his best form. Il
haven't any quarrel with Mr.. Metz. he said,
because when | quarrel | take somebody
nv size. It's Mr.. Metz that has the quarrel
with me. | hope the newspapers will saw
| rave the highest regard for Mr.. Metz.
He is doing the best he knows how"
Az for the city's raising money. there
wouldn't be any trouble about il, Mr.. Coler
thought, if property was only assessed
az something like its real value An honest
assessment all along the line would bring
a billion and a half more value. But alas,
from the Mayor down, all hands except the
Brooklyn Borough President were squab.
bling over picayune things when they ought
to he booming the city.
EX-Congressman Baker had the time of
his life saying whitening things about the
new Commissioners. -Oh, it's a fine COM
mission " he said. -and oh, what a fine chair
man. A man who admits that he Joined
the Union League Club just that he might
associate with the r-r-r-r-rich-and mind
you, married a r-r-r-r-rich mans daugf ter"
II was quite clear to Mr.. Baker that the
people were hound TO he chained-uh and
s-s-s-s-stsck'ed Just as they were before
But he knew one man in New York who
wasni a dupe-one man.
Supreme Court Justice Ford said some
nice things about Gov. Hughes, who had
done very well. he thought. in the matter
OF swatting the bosses who had elected
him, but he was afraid that the Governor
would have to strike his flag before he got
through.
Henry George. Jr,. was one Of the other
speakers.