New-York tribune., 1907-08-13
CENTRAL ARRAIGNED.
LOCAL LINES DENOUNCED.
Bronr League Sends Petition tt
Public SerUice Com mission.

The Civic League OF The Bronx sent to the Public
Service Commission yesterday a petition III
which Il arraignS with great bitterness the man
agement and operation IF the New York Cent:aiS s
local lines. According to of the commissioners
this communication was the most bitter attack on
a public service corporation yet received by the
commission.
On motion of Commissioner Eustis. of The Br"I;X.
the board voted TO have a hearing on the COM
plants tomorrow afternoon in the Council Cham
City Hall.
The petition of the league was signed by its
president William NJ Miles, and Its secretary. John
Davis Every conceivable charge that could be
thought OF to be embodied in this conllnui1i-
cation said of the commissioners ana n
they are substantiated the New York Central ihus
certainly have many serious charges 10 answer
.'Au the Centrals roads" wrote MI Niles. nave nave
received valuable franchises from New ! ork SllF'
and each and all OF them are operated IN an III
competent Illogical and unsatisfactory n-a1lhei'
and wholly for the benefit Of rheic chief stockhou
ers and with utter disregard for and indifference
20 the welfare Of the community through wh:ch
theS pass and the accommodation Of The pubuc
The New York Central has gained coIltTcI Noi
competing road the New York & Putnam, by
methods that have been generally denounced IN the
most scathing terms ny the highest court IN the
state. and since the acquisition OF said ROAD mas
handled IL TO the great detriment or the PupilC'
charging exorbitant fares, running trains but sci
dom and making no provision for future tranlc
handling
CALLS CENTRAL's SERVICE INADEQUATE
The petition goes complain OF the service
over the Centrars own line, holding that 1t is IN
adequate and saying that the fares II charges
are unequal unfair and so high as TO be oppres-
sive'
Mr. Niles then turns TO the cost Of paying prop
erty damages caused by the grade changes irci,
dental 10 the building of the Harlem failroor ,
bridge He said the city had given the Ne" ho,h =,
Central millions OF dollars and that the road III
return did nothing for the city except 10 oppfesS
the travelling public in every way 49,
The complaint goes into the schedules OF .hs
Central's local trains and says that the running
time of local trains gradually Increased ana tne
service to local patrons Of the road mas 80 1onaI
become worse because of the iTfTequehCy oI 90
stons The conditions have become SO inloier
able" says Mr.. Niles, that 1t IS irlpossiole '''a
they should longer be put up with, ..;oo Gam
In closing the petition the Puonc service I'm
mission is asked to see that the Central and the
New York & Harlem and the New YORK anu 80, ~.
nam roads increase the number OF Trains S,iu @ @ @
local trains stop at all local stations ana oecfeaSe
their rates of fare. II asks: p,,,.r
THAT the New York Central Huoson nv. 49,
Railroad Company be required TO proceeo
ali sneed to complete fits terminal at s1o strssl,
and that In the time and until sao 'ei -
be completed II should be required foruI"'e 80 -
nIate a loon SO that the local trains may oe run
continuously and that the railroad may De ~
to handle fits local traffic more % oc
,xv,tbout the intolerable delays which are no" oC
osiones largely by the necessity for storing cars
az fts .2d street terminal. and having the iooa
.ra,,s c-oss the tracks of the other trainc-
..rrhat the railroad company be required 70 enps
,,aa+ant engineer who under directions from 1Lie e
commission shall suggest plans ior pro - 60,
she local traffic Of the road ano ii+ihe -. -
nendations which upon approval by the coii,iiie
SION the railroad shall be forthwith feaoiieu ~
carry into effect x-.,. f,o,,,a,v n
,a-. ~ the Brooklyn Rapid Transit system Ii.1
hearing on its request for permission aso ~ tacks
tracks Livingston street. s.;on in Fulton
are designed TO relieve the css. ae tb. com
e+raet 7 s. williams. vice-presideht ., DS S nne
nanv made the formal argument ,oi q, -, .,a roads
aa-paared In opposition he ufged Oiat - -. %
"Pi t,;l+ the result would be an iIIlfieoia'e 80,
,ies m the congestion in Fulton street. n 90 COO
Jams said the cost would De po - od onested the
.FR
nission of the commission to issue; N me sn,,bie
Lat NJ the tracks 10 be laio-oiie i'i'' -
.racks-,s estimated at slbS.on ,,oca
This cost SO much below tflas q. Iil0 .arr
-, a the marlborough -Metropontah sss.e,-i
zrhen announced, immediately at.,ac' % an,s, coun-
80 ~ the commissioners MI lVils' .or,Io,
livi , o. % ,ha commission. will have MS atte.to '
1,S ,oday to some OF the hnanciai so tra,lsa oad
of the system one Secolla =. his notice 1t is
.s ll -bat when this line was merged VIII ance "a.
ono,tan there was a mys'eliouo =. ip,,ss,,gate
~ 20 an G,o'' Mr WINS will De asHeo 10 i 80
OF sZ'f'' "a and out where that money went
.carsTANT COUNSEL NAMED
- ,,,,,,,ar counsel for the COMMISSION ap
"a -, "a 1ya,rv n whitman as an assistant couiioe
Mr. whitman was born IN ala1 a.ns ,hen 70 Columbia
80 pbflips Exeter Academy. anu ..SA a., rsss He
70 10 - a. where he was graduated ia t'0S' xyh
I IN the firm OF Butler, Stiiian q ne 70
bard and In 1898 became a ihe,la rnemhar of
p. pa Whi,man g. Ewing. he IL a n,
Ewing " saoniation and the University CLUB
'iie e1,s.oner Do Maltbie returned from Chcas' .h
and was pfc'ene a.
ydTning meeting the commission a. tstcage
had found his study of gas cona.taoi'S IN
..au ,.rI,ct,ve as well interesting -,
nro,ssioner McCarroll. in the temporary az
-on s Chairman Wilcox. will preside at ' 'liv
bearing on the Brooklyn hapio A
,rcuirv In City Hall wednesday ,.. 90 sor,e
~ WINS made personal Investigation W SUN So,,,e
Of the lines of BROOKLYN Rapid Irahslr nrr the
- % YESTERDAY. He will continue 20 go oNSn -, 80
paiy 1,as in special train provided by Presl-
6ant Winter of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Si,,
s,h cT,Ief Engineer Menden, VIII accoiipaIy Ill ~
WIN ~ III tected Yesterday the elevated and sur
sana rn,,,es TO Coney Island and the west Enc
c, I.aIe and Luna Park terminals. lie begai his
-r,, shortly after II o'clock