New-York tribune., 1908-11-12
P.S.C. STANDS BY ORDER
,59TH. STREET TRANSFERS.
Net" Receiuers Begin Test an
Court of Poscer to Enforce Demand.

The Public Service Commission by a vote o. !
10 reafTI-ned yesterday its order 10 me receivers
Tor tbe METROPOLITAN Street Railway Company anu
7he Central Park North & East River Railroad
,,,rs,,,- the 5eta street crosstown line 10 estao-
lis, transfer agreement on a scent joint rate
Commissioner Bsssett. Democrat. OF broohi! H.
Nocd against reaffirminE the order of OCTOBER So
ON this question will come the first fest in the
-. = 10 ,.on,r,,fssion>s mower TO enforce its
orders for on motion counsel for the receivers
of The Metropolitan Street Railway Company Jus
lice Tr,lax in the Supreme Court later IN DAY
issued = writ of certhorari calling on the Public
sSav,-ice Commission 10 over 10 the court the
record of the testimony taken in the transfer case
William y DykInau. counsel for the "sth
street line that appeal OF some sort "ouiu
be taken f,y his company from the commission or
dor ,,,t that k had been settled whether 1t
would take the form Of an application 1or VIII
~ oertiorari TO review the order
Two courses are open 10 as, said he. "Apphca-
ton for q writ Of certorari is one Action 10 nave
the commissions order aside-afirmaIiVe acnoh
similar to that by the Consolidated Gas COM
nanv against the Gas Commission in the So-cent
gas case-is the other.
The reafirnaed order provides that the companies
.bru fry the transfer scheme for four months from
>lo,srnh.r % and the4 they shall signify by Satur-
z ,,l,er or not they will comply with the order
i makes The same division of the scent rare as
the original order-S.75 cents to the Metropolitan
line and / 3 cents 10 the crosstown line
The formal document did not take up the ne"
r,,esdsz- ignoring completely Mr.. Dykman's pleas
that the last crust he not snatched from the
starving company, and John G. Miburn Wltuclslns
shout the creation of favored class under the
transfer order
,-so- .he order transfers would be issued be-
,peen the 18th street crosstown line and the Met
ronolifar l4te in First. Second, Lexington Maoi-
son Fourth Sixth. Seventh. Eighth, Columbus ana
,-inth avenues The esta blishment Of the new re
eeivership over the Second avenue hne thoush'
would take that out of the list
The commissions order provides that transfers
shall be issued from any point on the 5sth street
line on she payment Of q cash fare OF . cents 10
.r7z intersecting Metroooian line TO be good eather
c-tb rr south as far as 1lsth 54th street
The Metropolitan is ordered 10 issue transfers and
the seth street line accept them 10 either Ierrll
ms of its Hne-First or Tenth avenue Pro
vision Is made 1or g e-transfer the Metropoh-
=. lines for continuous trip in the same olreC-
,fon between SIth and 1I6th streets The compa-
ries are to make payments TO each other monthly
aad give bonds 10 each other
George. w ESnch receiver OF the Second Avenue
Railroad Company. VIII take possession OF Its
properties at midnight tomorrow At that time
transfers between that lire and the Metropolitan
lines will be discontinued, except that the second
avenue viii transfer al Second avenue ana %Sn
street =est with the 34th street branch of the I'D
street line. and at Second avenue and S4th street
east with the 3zth branch of the 2Sd street
line The Metropolitan will transfer at Second
avenue and sd street with the Second avenue line
south. and at 54th street north.
The Public Service Commission has under way
now hearings on a proposed order for a transfer
agreement between the Third avenue system for
which Frederick ". whitridge Is receiver, and the
5eta street c-osstown line. similar TO the order to
that lire and the Metropolitan
] Edward Simmons president of the Chamber
Of Commerce appointed yesterday E. H. Outer
bridge Paul N. Warburg. H. G Smith c H kel-
sev md Marcellus H Dodge a special committee
to Investigate the conditions surrounding the ques-
zion Of construction of more rapid transit lines.