New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-11-04
PUBLIC NOTICES.
CITY or NEW YORK
BOARD or ESTIMATE AND AESOH~
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IUONMENl.
Public notice Is hereby given that AZ
meeting OF The Board OF Estimate ana Ap-
portionment- held October 23rd, 1SOo, the
following petition was resolved
To she Honorable the Board CT EstlIlAlo
and ApporIlonment OF me CITY OF Ne"
York. -
The petition Of the METRQPoLIT An
STREET hAiLNAX COMPANY rssPeS'-
FULLY shows
First: Your petitioner Is a street surface
railroad corpora ton organized Inter -. &c
laws OF the state or New DIX oy tle hii INNS
OF Articles OF Consolidation with olIieE
street surface railroad corporations IN me
ONCE O TIE secretary O 1aS es oH u
the I2th day OF November 1880.
Second. since the date d It's consohVa-
ton IL has been the owner ana IeSsee % q
lRrge number OF street surface rallroads II
the Borough OF Manhattan. city OF New
y ork, including. among others. the eIectA4o
railroad on Broadway from South Ferty %
45th Street and also the electric fsllIoao Gu ca
Canal Street running from the corner S . o.
Broadway and Canal street TO Cent.e
street and along Centre street and FaEA
I,hird. Your netitfoner is also the lessee
OF the Blocker Street and Fulton feIFy
Railroad Company, which company oM.Is a
franchise on Canal Street from W.
10 the Bowsry, upon which, as your petl-
toner Is informed and believes, the SA14
Blocker Street and Fulton Ferry Raiiroaa
Company operated street surface railroad
TOR more than twenty years
Fourth: Your petitioner proposes 10 con-
struct double electric track on Cahal
and TO operate such track IN connection
with the tracks on the Manhattan BTlose,
so as 70 form q continuous line OF route
from the Brooklyn plaza over the MAMMA ma
tan Bridge and its approaches and across
Canal Street. connecting with your per- pei
toners lines On Centre Street Broao"ay'
West Broadway and Hudson Street
Fifth: Your petitioner proposes 10 operate
said route by the underground system OF
electricity, similar In all respects 10 tA4L
in use on the other lines Of your petitioner
road.
Sixth: For the purpose Of constructing
and operating the branch or extension 20
lis read over the Manhattan Bridge, your
petitioner desires TO obtain from your hon
CRADLE Board and hereby applies for us con-
sent 10 and the grant % a franchlse or
right for the construction, maintenance ana
operation Of a double track electric exten-
sion branch G. It's existing railroad Tor
public use in the conveyance or persons anu
property for compensation over the Mammal
tan Bridge and its approao hes from the IN
terSeCtiCn Of Canal Street and the BoWeFy
Wherefore S13e Your petitioner prays that
notice Of this application and Of the time
and place when and where the same VIII be
first considered be given as required by
law. and that the grant Of a franchise or
right be made in accordance with the pro
visions Of the Greater New York charter
Dated. New York. October 20. 1903.
METROPOLITAN STREET RA1L"AH
By CHARLES E. WARREN,
President
State Of New York. City and County OF
New York. SIS:
CHARLES E. WARREN, being duly
sworn. says that he is Vice-President Of the
Metropolitan Street Railway Company. the
petitioner herein: that he has read the fore
going petition and knows the contents
thereof. and that the statements contained
therein are true TO the knowledge OF de-
ponent, except as to those matters which are
therein stated on information and BELIEF.
and as to such matters he believes It 10 be
true
CHARLES E. WARREN.
Sworn to before me this 10th day Of 90
tober, 1908
ERNEST ". BRADBURY. Notary Public
No I2T, New York County.
/ (Notarial Seal)
And tho following resolutions were there
upon adopted:
Whereas. The foregoing petition from the
/ Metropolitan Street Railway Company.
| dated October 20. 1908. was presented 70
! the Board OF Estimate and Apportionneut
I at a meeting held October q, 1905
Resolved, That in pursuance OF law this
/ Roard sets Friday. the thirteenth day OF
/ November 1905, at 1850 clock in the
! Borough Of Manhattan, as the time and
place when and where such petition shall
I be first considered. and a public hearing be
had thereon, at which citizens shall be en-
/ titled 10 appear and be heard; and be ii
( Resolved. That the Secretary is directed
/ to cause such petition and these resolu-
tons 10 be published for at least fourteen
/ 90 days in two daily newspapers in The
! City Of New York, to be designated by the
Mayor, and for az least ten 90 days II
/ the CITY Record INN ediately prior tc
/ such dase OF pubIio hearing. The expense
/ of such publication to be borne by The petit
JOSEPH HAAG,
New York. October %. 1868