New-York tribune., 1910-12-20
OFFER TO OPERATE LOOP
B. R. T. and Manhattan Three
Cent Line Submit Plans.
FORMER WILL PAY RENTAL
Latter Proposes to Share Profits
Equally with City After
Interest Is Paid.

A new offer to operate the Centre street
loop was made to the Public Service Com
mission yesterday by the Brooklyn RAPID
Transit Company. The company proposes
! to run certain lines across the Williams
burg Bridge and through the loop. elevated
trains to run on the two westerly SUBWAY
tracks and trolleys on the two easterly
tracks
| While it is proposed that the trains go as
far as the Brooklyn Bridge. the plan is to
| stop the trolleys at Canal street. Provision
| is also made for a possible connection OF
| the loop with the BROOKLYN Bridge, il
| feasible plan is devised in the future.
The company proposes that the city shall
provide and furnish the loop complete for
use with stations, signals and all other
! appliances necessary for operation by the
| concern with its present equipment On its
part the company will provide a power sub
station, with feeders ard connections be-
| tween il and the main generating station
and between it and the subway proper.
The city must make the connection De
! tween the Williamsburg Bridge and the
loop required for the operation over the
bridge and through the subway of the
maximum number of cars and trains de-
manded by the service. The city must also
! provide four terminal tracks, with plat
| forms, at Chambers street, for the ex-
elusive use of the Brooklyn Union Elevated
Railroad Company. Terminal facilities
must be provided at Canal street for the
trelleys.
! The railroad proposes that the contracts
for operation and maintenance of the loop
! shall run for twenty years, with the privi-
ilege Of renewal for a similar period. It is
also proposed that the rights of the COM
he bri6opS he made r0-tPrmlrOS
with its subway rights. The company offers
/ to nay for its rights in the loop $1,000 the
| first year, this amount increasing annually
to $4,000 in the tenth year.
After the tenth year the company pro-
poses TO pay S2T5,G30 year. In case the
city fails to strengthen the Williamsburg
Bridge SO that it can carry ten-car trains
before the beginning of the sixth year. the
rertal amounts will be reduced by $4,000 a
wear II the city will connect the subway
with the Brooklyn Bridge, SO that elevated
trains can be run from one to the other,
the company is willing to pay $4,000 the
first year and s35o,O00 the tenth year. After
the tenth year the company would pay
s315, ,0o0
The Manhattan Three Cent Line, organ
lied some time ago for the operation OF
7 electric cars from the Flatbush avenue sta
!
lvn. across the Manhattan Bridge and ther
to the North River by way of Canal street
made a new proposition yesterday to the
Public Service Company, embracing the use
of the Centre street subway loop connecting
the three East River bridges
The company proposes to take lease OF
the subway loop and of such tracks and
facilities on the three bridges as will per
NIT the operation of the following lines:
From the Brooklyn plaza of the Williams
burg Bridge, by way Of that bridge, th
subway loop and the Brooklyn Bridge tt
the Brooklyn plaza of the latter bridge
From the Brooklyn plaza of the Williams
burg Bridge, by way of that structure, tn
subway loop and Manhattan Bridge and th
Flatbush avenue extension to the Flatbusf
avenue station of the Long Island Railroad
| From the Brooklyn plaza of the Brooklyn
Bridge by way of that structure, the sub
way loop and the Manhattan Bridge to tn
Fiatbush avenue station.
The company offers a three-cent fare owe
any of these routes. with transfer privilege
to any other and expresses its willingness
to enter into an agreement with other com
panies operating subway surface line
in Manhattan or Brooklyn for free ex
change of transfers upon an equal division
of scent fare.
It is proposed that whatever profits there
may be after the payment OF the hXed
! charges, one of which shall he per cen
upon the companys cash Investment, shall
be divided equally between the city and the
company The company has apparently
abandoned its plan to run line through
Canal street because of Its inability t.
make arrangements with the companle!
owning the franchises in that street.
AS there are four tracks in the Centr'
street loop. the use of two of them by th'
Manhattan Three Cent Line would not pre-
tE,r ftfa-a tIlD
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company or by az
operator of The proposed Lafayette Broad
linz