New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-10
MADOO TO MERCHANTS.
Blames .Sil-fk ACenue Dealers for
Delay IN Repairing Pavement.

The Public Service Commission received the re-
pig yesterday Of President William @. McAdoo Of
the HadseR Manhattan Railroad Company 70
me complaints OF the Retail Drygoods Association
about delay in the resurfscing Of Sixth avenue
after the building Of the tunnel tubes Mr. Nc
Ad5o saws the blame rests not so much on his COM
PAW Is On others which have torn up that thor
oughfare snsv. Re crrcises some Of the mer-
chants who begged him TO delay work when it
would have inconvenieneed them In his letter
NJ. McAdoo SAYS:
We have made careful investigation Of condi-
eF=IElIlls Wlilln reason has been done and IS now
being done by the contractors to restore Sixth ave
I've 70 its normal condition al the earliest possible
--l1Hieht ana t-aI, 50 soon as the Metropolitan
street Railroad, the subway. electric and other
companies have completed the work which they
are DONG ana me street has permanently settled.
TIE asphalt pavement win Re restored It would
oe nanIfestly Gnu-ise do this until the various
companies now engaged in relaying tracks. con
duIs and pipes and for xhorn We are in no wise
i7sponsioe and over whom we exercise no
oontTol, have finished their work.
! '. Davies, chief engineer OF the company.
Showed that G7eenhut & Co and the Siegel-Cooper
CoFnpany. among the signers Of the complaint, had
requested delay II the restoration Of the street in
front Of their stores ul-I after June l. so
interfere with the Easter trade This was done.
VI June B. ! Greerhut requested q further de-
ss which the company reluctantly granted These
oelays, says M Davies. prevented completion Of
NE Work on the block between 18th and 18th streets
unr recently and necessitated keeping open the
"crk On the blocks north and south OF the Green
hut store
Leslie Sutherland receiver for the Youkers Rail-
NaF Company, informed the commission yesterday
maj ne would put in siding al 242d street and
nleaaSsy soon where he could keep cars standing
e10 when would improve switching facilities and
s1ief That the service south 10 Kingsbridge would
= es good as that from Van Cortlandt Park north
- fonkerS. This in reply 10 a complaint Of
elEy :" Heller. OF No. 122 Nassau street MI.
sutherland explained that the extension Of the sub
way 70 Van Cortlandt Park virtually cut of his
Oao business between Kingsb-fdge and 342d street
So conditions need readjustment It was init
-17l that q l5-cent fare 10 Yonkers is likely to
e inle elect by October / F. n. Whitrdge, re-
ever Tor the Union Railway Company has told
e 1onkers company that on that date ne would
~I71l payment q 21z cents for each passenger
i>l''Per1ed from Kingsbridge TO Yonkers. where
I4s cars CT TIE Tonkers company run over the
,fscks Of the Union Railway Company. The Yon-
- eoinEaHy has not agreed TO that, and the re-
80, pFeoaoly VIII be q 4ve-cenf fare in the subway
van cortlandt Park. a 1ve-cent fare 10 the
-i1ii Railway Company from there 70 the Yon-
s me and a third fve-cent fare inside Yonkers-
-isleourt Bun president OF the Village Improve
-e-- Association Of New Dorp, has written 70 the
-l-ss'on relative 10 the curling Of the soft coal
NUISANCE on the Staten Island Railway:
so oelleve that the prompt manner in which this
eor-1a--t was brought 10 the notice Of the railway
ha-1tsas 81 your board has conferred substantial
-, - UPON the residents OF Staten Island and I
be- a q express my appreciation for the
Il "hieh The complaint was handled
=. 9islaFy Whitney said yesterday that during
,s I'Onlh Of August z5.723 gas meters had been
- - o. which 1851 were new meters 20.SN were
- q meters and "a were complaint meters.
- VI me complaint meters tested. Sc, or Is per
- we're absolutely hat & rer
=, we're last and that 90 or . per cent were
> Nlal OF tie fast meters tested on complaint
- = per cent, were more than 2 per cent fast.
r. u me SLOW meters tested on complaint 90. or
-, - cent were more than per cent slow, and
g.. . meters. OF 81 per cent. were between per
~ last and per cent slow
no-.. secretary also reported that during the
I'A CT August % electric meters had been tested
- complaint OF which number l. or Is per cent
-, over per cent fast; ,. or Z per cent we're
r.. per cent slow, and is. or Y per cent were
H Per cent fast and per cent SLOW