New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-15

lyn Rapid Transit Company is contem'
plating withdrawing its offer. either no"
or in the future. but figures will be pre-
sented TO the city's conferrees In an al
tempt to show that. exclusive Of a hVe'
cent fare to Coney Island. the city nae
exacted much more stringent financia
terms from the Brooklyn Rapid Transi'
Company than from the Interborough
They will point out that they nave
agreed to pool all their earnings on the
rapid transit lines in the future. limiting
themselves to a return Of only pei
cent on the present elevated lines.
AS for the marlborough financia
terms, the Brooklyn Rapid Transit COM
pany says the city has agreed to terms
that would practically guarantee the
marlborough a 9 per cent net return OF
the present subway. no matter no"
poorly any outlying extension might 90
The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com
pany is not at all pleased either VIII"
the suggestion that 1t build a connec-
ton between the Brighton Beach line
and the Fourth avenue subway with It's
own money. 1t says that the city migh'
recapture the Fourth avenue subway
at the end of ten years, leaving IL
with a Brighton Beach connection oil
no use whatever
II the 1nterborough should yield 10
the terms set down by the McAnehy-
Wilcox report its concession that the
4. r. T. should go uB Broadway would
be the hardest to grant. Not only would
such q line deprive the Interborough OF
the greater share of the traffic on It's
present Brooklyn extension, not only
traffic up and down Broadway, but IT
also would be- as the Interborough looks
at 1t. a menace to the present subway
It is figured that with a subway un
Broadway to 18th street the constant
cry would be to extend it on up Eighth
avenue or Central Park West, which
would make 1t competitor Of the pres
cnt West Side subway.
Real Estate Mems Views.
The United Real Estate owners AS
ISOLATION, which says 1t represents ten
thousand property owners announced
yesterday that at the public hearing 1t
would oppose the construction OF any
subway in Broadway unless II should
he carried into The Bronx. 1t argues
that a Broadway subway from Brooklyn
TO 18th street only would cause a num-
Der Of persons living above 59th street
to move to Brooklyn.
Controller Prendergast, President
Mitchell Of the Board of Aldermen, and
Borough President McAneny had talk
about the terms of the McAneny-Will-
cox report yesterday afternoon.
Chairman Wilcox of the Public Ser
vice Commission gave out the following
statement:
The recommendation contained I'm the
Joint report of the committee of the Board
OF Estimate and Apportonment and the
Public Service Commission are clear and
definite, and. II accepted by the former
body, the delay in subway building can be
considered at an end.
on December ~ last the commission for.
warded TO the Board of Estimate and Ap.
portionment the proposition of the Inter
borough company dated December 3, and
In its letter of transmittal stated that II
certain features not then satisfactory could
be properly adjusted the plan would he
acceptable TO the commission, and at the
same time the Board of Estimate was
asked whether the proposition as generally
outlined was satisfactory to it,
In that communication the commission
set forth that the contracts for the con.
struction of the major portion Of the tri.
borough system were then awaiting award
and that if the marlborough proposal was
open TO serious objection the contracts fcl
the triborough could he Immediately
awarded
Estimate and Apportionment appointed a
committee to confer with the commission
upon the proposition trasmitted and upor
any other proposals which might be sub
mitted.
For the last four or five months confer.
ences have been going on between the com.
nitteo then appointed and this comm Ssion
and the report submitted Yesterday con-
tains the conclusions and recommendations
OF the conferrees upon the whole subject
so that II Is unnecessary to elaborate upon
them at this time. If these conclusion:
meet with the approval of the Board OF
Estimate ana AppOrUOnment II Will then he
possible 10 como TO a definite understand
ing with the companies along the line Of
the recommendations Of the conferrees
unless these recommendations prove 10 he
rracceptable to the companies. and in thai
event contracts for the building Of The tri
borough route can AT once be awarded.
The Board of Estimate and Apportion.
mont has entire control over the appropri.
atoms Of city money. and as no plan has
been before the conferrees for consider.
alton which does not call for citv OK.
ronditre II Is manifest that no progress
can he made until II is known what course
Will he favored hy that body.
Six of the directors appeared at the
marlborough Offices yesterday morning
for the regular Wednesday meeting. ant
wrestled for short time with the Nc.
Aneny-Willcox report. It was announce
when the meeting adjourned that there
was nothing to say Those present
the meeting were Andrew Friedman
Edwin Hawley. Alfred Skitt Gardiner NJ
Lane. Horace Fisher and Presiden
Shonts.
Until We have fully dlgested this re
port" Mr.. Shonts said by proxy, "nothins
will be said" 1t vas picked UP else
where. however. that IN trying TO per.
suade the marlborough to give I'D Z
seventy hve-year franchise i'm exchans.
for one lasting less than two-thirds o.
that time the city was treating then
with greater severity than II melted on
&c the b r. r.