New-York tribune., 1908-04-23
BIG BILL AGAINST B. R. 7.
CITY UANTS S18 ,22O %.
Commissioner Says Road O5ces It
for Street Pairing.

! Within the last nine years upward 81 100000
worth OF street paving work has been done by
the city instead Of by the BROOKLYN Rapid
Transit Company. according 70 statement
made yesterday by Commissioner Desmond
Dunno OF the Public Works Department. Brook
lyn. He also said the city had spent 10000
which the Coney Island & BROOKLYN Railroad
should have expended
on Tuesday Ar. Dunno sent to.tae Brooklyn
Rapid Transit Company bill for $500 80
and ~ the Conev Island & Brooklyn Railroad
q bill for S3.421 SIS These bills. he says, rep
resent work which the companies s}louIdared off
on the city in 1905 and 1907 He says they
have not been collected because commissioners
Of public works have not tried to get the money
from the companies
L while preparing recently for the let
! ting Of the contract for the repaying Of Fulton
street above the subway that the alleged pre-
vailing conditions We're discovered. The law
requires that the Brooklyn Rapid Transit must
pave between the tracks in Fulton street and
for three feet on each side OF the tracks. The
cftv takes care of the rest on the other streets
where there are tracks the with to he paved
by the -,-npan,es outside tn, tracks is two
feet NJ Dunno said he discovered that the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit and the Conev Island
& Brooklyn Company had been negIecting to
pave outside their tracks.
Brooklyn
says that the company had reached an agree
ment'' with the public works officials whereby
the company was no longer forced to pave out
side the tracks. He declined TO recognize the
'agreerrlent.' on the ground that the officials
had no right to make it in the first place. Then
he ordered that a bill in detail he sent to the
companies
George W. Ttlson. chief engineer Of the BU-
reau Of Highways, Manhattan. who the
chief engineer Of the Department of Public
Works under Commmisstoner William c. Red
field. said yesterday.
"We had an understanding. but not an agree
rrent We. like our predecessors in Office. found
that II was next 10 impossible to make the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company pave Two feet
outside its tracks. The company would not CO.
operate with us when We were paving. and
found that il took more money TO 90 10 law than
it did 70 pave right up to the tracks ourselves.
Besides after We had paved from the sidewalks
within two or three feet Of the tracks We could
not wait q couple Of years TO go TO law with the
company before filing in the breaches in the
pavements. That would not have been pracu-
cal The result was that we simply determined
that II was cheaper in the end and much better
for the people who wished to the streets 70
nave from the sidewalks 10 the tracks without
waiting 10 tight the company in each instance
Commissioner Dunno has been fnconvenienced
in repairing the streets by the failure OF the
Board OF Aldermen 10 set aside the regular al
Iowance Of 100000 for the repair Of pave
rnents this year The appropriation is usually
made in February, and Brooklyn gets Sl,2JO00o
of 1t. He expects great difficulty in keeping the
streets in condition this year
When President Winter OF the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company was asked yesterday about the
bill sent by the city to his company. he said: I
do not think the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com
pany owes the city cent I know nothing or
the specifications OF the franchise in regard to
Fulton street but I think that we have carried
ort fpIIv our obligation I have not seen this
hin b,,t don't think ii can be correct"