New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-19
TRANSFER SYSTEM MAY
START ON SEPT. Is
This Is 8 and 10 Cent Plan Pro-
posed by Lawyers Of Roads
to the P. S. c.
FURTHER HEARING TUESDAY
F. w. Whitridge Evolved Il and
z" Plan, but Metropolitan May
Offer 6 Gent Universal Tickets
p. S. G. Non Committal.

Before Commissioners McCarroll. Malt
bic and Eustis. OF the Public Service Com
mission. the legal representatives Of the
Metropolitan the Third Avenue and tn.
Second Avenue railroad receivers said yes
terday that by September IL they expected
to he ready 70 GO ahead with the cent and
10 cent transfer system previously proposed
by them TO the commission.
Without committing the commission In
any way to an approval Of the cent ar d
10 cent scheme. the hearing WAS finally
adjourned to next Tuesday afternoon.
when testimony will he put into he record
by each Of the companies with regard to
cost Of operation and statistics on the cost
Of transferring passengers from one line to
another.
The scheme offered by the railroad com
paries was described as the j. and n
transfer system. The l. transfer viii he
issued TO n passenger who wants to trans
fer only once: that Is. TO Use two different
lines. the !. transfer containing that num-
her of lines The l. transfer will be the y
cent ticket. Tho transfer, containing
three lines. will be the Decent ticket. ana
II will give the passenger the RICH. to use
Commission to Decide Later.
For the commission Mr.. McCarroll eI-
plaIned to the lawyers that they could go
ahead with the L and Il system on their
own responsibility and that at later
date the commission would decide upon
the point of the amount charged-the 8
and 10 cent transfer charges.
~ n
complies with the commissions transfer
order OF July II, which directed the com
panies simply to "aRreo upon through
routes and Joint rates" without specify
ing the fares to be charged.
II developed during the hearing. however,
that the l. and z system, with Its and ~
cent rates. was originated by Frederick W.
Whitridge. receiver OF the Third Avenue
road. and that the metropolitan repre-
sentatives did not think such high rates
essential The commission did not find tho
and 10 cent rates suggested by the COM
panies on August ii satisfactory.
Commissioner McCarroll said that as the
suggested rates were not satisfactory the
commission was prepared 10 hear any evil
dence which might be offered by the COM
panies in justification Of the rate.
William ID. Guthrie. counsel for the com
rnit,ee Of bondholders which Is trying 10
effect a reorganization Of the Third Avenue
rosd. said that II the commission felt that
wey he would ask for an adjournment until
September.
Wants CALCULATIONS in Record
Conditions on the different lines varied
40 much. he said. that the problem was "A
complicated one, and he wanted - have
the calculations OF the accountants in the
record. Commissioner Msitbie suggested
that the companies must have had some
OF their calculations in hand when they
agreed upon the J. and and 10 cent
system.
Joseph =. Cotton. Jr.. counsel for hrcelV-
~rs Joline and Robinson, OF the Me'ropon-
tan. ana Brainard Tolles. counsel for fe-
ceiver George ". Lnch, OF the second
Avenue road, said they would be prepared
10 submit their data at an early chte. MI
Cotton said tho METROPOLITAN didnt Zee!
bound 10 produce evidence To msuty inc
and 10 cent charges originally proposed
nv the Third Avenue road. ana. thoubh ne
did not specifically state H. II was under
stood that his figures probably would DC
hssea on the scheme Of a universal trans
fer for cents
Walter ]. salonon. representing the f1fth
Avenue and the Forty-second Street asso-
Citations. entered a formal protest against
the I. and s and 10 cent transfer sSs
tenn. saving that the scheme mad peeh
failure on the Fifty-ninth Street line. "here
4, had been tried for several months. I've
was supported in his protest by samuei d
Rloomingdale. of Bloomingdale Brothers
representing the Fifty-ninth Street Asso-
ria,ion