New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-10
|NTERBORO'S NEW OFFER
Continued from nrN psEe.


four-track subway on the lower West
Side of Manhattan, four-track subway
or the upper East Side, with a two and
three track extension to Pelham Bay
Park. the extension OF the elevated lines
IN on one side OF The Bronx to Wood
lawn Cemetery and on the other side to
within four blocks Of the Mount Vernon
line. Brooklyn subways through Lafay-
cite avenue to Broadway and through
Eastern Parkway to Buffalo avenue.
with a new tunnel under the East River
in the vicinity of Liberty street.
Colonel Timothy S. Williams. president
of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company.
whose recent offer seems to have acted
as a challenge to the marlborough. said
last night thar he did not care to discuss
the InteTborough's amended proposal un-
iii he could examine II carefully.
Could Use philadelphia Lawyers"
Indeed, it would seem 10 require the
assistance Of several Philadelphia law
yers' to determine exactly what II
means he said, IL quote. however one
paragraph IN which the Interborough
offer reads: RI the public authorities
prefer an offer on the basis OF the terms
recently proposed 10 the city by the
marlborough company. upon those terms,
will undertake TO build any road in any
Of the Ave boroushs that the public au-
thorities may designate. including one or
more through lines to Coney Island and
Staten Island and operate them all in
connection with its present subway sys-
tenn
The meaning Of this Is not AT all
clear. II. however. the marlborough
company proposes In lieu Of the financial
basis suggested in It's offer Of December
=. 1910. which is renewed in the offer
made public to-day. Ia pool the receipts
from its entire system. present and ey-
tended. as tho Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Company has offered 70 do with its sys-
tenn. il would seem to me that this fact
should he set forth rather more clearly.
If on the other hand. the paragraph re-
ferred to means that the marlborough
would adopt with respect TO It's proposed
and present extensions the basis sug-
gested by the Brooklyn company for sucn
future extensions as II might undertake
To operate at the direction OF the city.
and without its own acquiescence. then
the apparent generosity Of the INTERIOR
ough fades away II | were to make
any further comment on that sec
ton Of the Interborough offer. | should
say that its language was OF the IN
definite character that is so often en-
ploved to conceal corporate gold brick
The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com
pany's offer dated April %, contained
several of the features embodied In the
amended offer Of the Interborough, nota-
bly, the Broadway (Manhattan) line, from
I'm the neighborhood Of Union Square
north. with a line east under 14th street
TO a new tunnel connecting with the
LAFAYETTE avenue brooklyn line. and
officials OF both the Public Service Com
mission and the Board OF Estimate were
particular TO say yesterday that in none
of the conferences between themselves
and the marlborough officials had the
city's agents advanced any suggestions
that the company should include any
offers for Broadway.
Although no one wanted to be quoted
to that extent. the inference was plain
that that portion OF the Interborough's
offer was viewed solely in the light of
blockade game" to shut off the Brook
lyn Rapid Transit's proposal along those
lines.
What 3. r. T. offered
Apart from the Broadway-14th street
and new tunnel construction offered by
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit, that COM
PAWS proposal included the triborough
route from Chambers street north 10
Mott and River avenues. 151th street and
Third avenue and l3Sth street; the Bat
terry TO 5ath street, via Church street.
Broadway and Seventh avenue, and on
5eth street from Seventh avenue 10 the
Bridge: the Centre street
subway, with extensions through Nassau
and BROAD streets: tunnel under the East
River from lower New York TO F1athush
avenue or Fourth avenue via Pineapple
street; the Fourth avenue subway from
Manhattan Bridge to i3d street Brook
lvn: Flatbush avenue subway from
Fourth avenue to the junction with the
Brighton Reach Railroad at Malone
street: Eastern Parkway subway to Buff
falo avenue, and elevated extensions
from Greensboro Bridge through Long
Island CITY to the Williamsburg Bridge,
Of the Myrtle avenue line to Lutheran
Cemetery. Of the Kings County line TO
Jamaica. Of the Third avenue to Fort
Hamilton. and extensions from the tor
minus Of the Fourth avenue subway
through South Brooklyn.
Under the head Of extensions" the
braced the River and Jerome avenue
aud The Southern Boulevard and West
cbester avenue lines. in The Bronx: the
tunnel 10 ST George. Staten Island. the
Nostrand avenue. Livonia avenue Utica
avenue and Eastern District lines CON
meeting with the proposed 14th street,
Manhattan. tunnel in Brooklyn and the
Astoria and Woods idc- Corona lines, in
Queens.
The special transit committee Of the
BOARD of Estimate is expected 10 file
i,s report To the board at the meeting
next week and II was said last night
after the Interborough's amended offer
became public that tho new proposal
would not lac likely to delay matters
beyond that time.
As 10 whether definite action by the