The evening world., 1911-06-17

THE PRIZE BIG
TRANSIT BATTLE
Realty Owners of All Sections
Organize in Final Struggle
For Population.
OLD CENTRES TO LOSE.
Manhattan, Bronx and Outer
Suburbs Fear McAneny
Plan of Compromise.
OLD CENTRES TO LOSE.

= wldo nat pudding campaign to supply
the demand for homes that would result
from the tapping Of the rich Broadway
business section BY . subway direct
from Brooklyn.
Real estate interests in all parts Of
tho Greater City realized suddenly this
week that they must begin q desperate
hsht for their transit rights because the
time IL near when the subway future
must be settled. Taxpayers ~orsaniza-
tons entered tho contest and appointed
committees to carry on their work.
Manhattan and tho Bronx are striving
to keep their fiat house population. To
lose It would reduce incomes n wipe
cut equities. Brooklyn. Queens and
Richmond arc pressing hard for new
transit facilities which would spread tho
people over cheap outside home sites.
Property owners In general are taking
the subway fight away from the old
traction combinations. They are hold
ing mass meetings and preparing dem
constructions. They resent the refusal OF
the Board Of Estimate to rive them all
IA public hearing next Woo esday when
the McAneny report " to come up for
discussion.
Manhattan and Bronx organizations
and private owners ave arranged for
a mass meeting an Cooper Union next
week They intend to voice through
prominent speakers the facts which they
had prepared for presentation to the
Board Of Estimate on Wednesday.
MARkET LEADERS SEE NEW
LONG DELAYS.
Market leaders IN all sections declared
yesterday that the rapid transit situa-
.tan had kaAr r4rl.rAI ,,.r.
:han ever by the plans proposed to the
Board OF Estimate. They believe that
many new problems have been created
and that long delays must attend ne
so.iations for further agreements.
Practically all parts OF the Greater
/. cry have been seeking a rapid transit
system thai would give connection win
every other part for a single five-cent
fare. Under the McAneny plans. the
Bronx and Manhattan north OF Fifty
ninth ST. eet have no connection with
Brooklyn or the Coney Island district
for q single fare. while Brooklyn Is to
be connected by the broadway subway
with the main business districts in which
are employed tho majority of wage
earners whose homes are In Harlem and
the Bronx.
This has alarmed owners of Man.
haitian and Bronx Hat houses. Nearly
10000 Of them are members OF the
various local organizations of the
United Real Estate owners Associa ton.
They have formed the Manhattan n
bronx Protective Committee to unite
the various bodies OF outside taxpayers
in the two b%oroughs.
With them in the fl&tt to hold Man
haitian and Bronx population are the
Allied Real Estate Interests, Real ESTATE
Board OF Brokers, & OF Tax
paysra Taxpayers Alliance Of the
Bronx. representing over thirty local
organizations in that borough. The
committee II acting for local aasocia-
tions In both boroughs.
Many taxpayer associations Of Queens.
Brooklyn and Richmond oppose the
McAneny plan because II does not offer
n fve-cent faro 20 all parts OF the city
and because II threatens to involve
huge extra expense. thus calling for
heavier taxes and assessments. In
brooklyn and Queens sections which
would DO available for Nat builders
however. owners arc active In support Of
tho proposed invasion of Manhattan'f
chief business centres.
ST. BIG GAINS FOR QUEENS
AND 70OkLYN.
Queens Is battling practically alone
for its share OF the new subways. it,
claims being contested by Brooklyn and
10 U o' ~
the Bronx. Mass meetings to demand
adsauate transit are being held In vari-
ous parts of the Long Island boroughs
Hut Queens expects to get many dwell
ing seekers whom the nat builders vii
drive out Of Brooklyn.
All former building records IN Queen:
were broken during the week. total per
mits issued for new work calling for ar
outlay OF $l,O7l 1896. Builders filed PLAN
for 246 new structures, @ Of which con
sisted Of two-story brick dwellings fo'
the Ridgewood section. to cost $2So,OOo
Most OF the other permits were for dwell
ings TO cost from 5000 to $4,000 each.
Brooklyn likewise scored n heavy In
crease OF projects to discount the prob
able inflow Of fiat jewellers. Large oper
ators in the outlying parts of that Dor
ough. such as william f. Harmon. pre-
dicted confidently that the result OF thu
subway negotiations would start a grea
boom in Brooklyn land values. with
subway from Brooklyn through the bes
part Of M%anhattan's Broadway. the
said, the long looked for equalization o
values would be brought about Will
audiences and land available for ma
builders would be worth as much az J
has been in Harlem and the Bronx q
equal transit time from Manhattan bust
ness centres.
s.AAl Err HOME SEEKERS at
BEYOND CIT, LIMITS.
Investors and spectators who ar
afraid OF higher taxes as a result o
short sighted financing of the PROPOSED
subway continue 10 flock outside OF tn
city limits. Their buying and uild
ing made new high records In aimos
ali of the outlying suburbs during th'
week.
. outside sites are practically indspsn
TENT of the subway situation In tn
! greater city. because most Of HON ar
served by trunk line railroads whicl
are improving their facilities contin
ualjy. With the best parts Of Brooklyn
and Queens overrun by hat-builders
ANAL home seekers are expected TO An
{, y0hals ehlsS aslA hsyeoA the city Limit