New-York tribune., 1911-01-18
BROOKLYN HITS MAYOR
Two Mass Meetings App'auo
Prendergast and Mitchell.
WANT CITY OWNED SUBWA'
President of Board of Aldermen
Prefers Municipal Operation
to Interboro Monopoly

When the chairman OF the indepenoc"
subway mass meeting complained III az"
Garden. Brooklyn. last night that ne wa.
suffering from a cold caught In the ca' :
OF the Brooklyn Rapid Transit. an irqo's'
tive man in the audience cried:
why don't you walk?"
Perhaps the Mayor would have been J"o'
as unsparingly attacked even without s".
a good start toward that end, as ~
laughter which followed denoted. TIC M"So'
had no champion at either OF the mas
meetings held I'm Brooklyn last night u
teen hundred men and women cro"ueN
Palm Garden at Myrtle and Hamburg ave-
nues, to cheer Controller Prendergast anu
John Purroy Mitchell. President OF the
Board OF Aldermen Three hundred per-
sons. all the Acme Hall could hold. were
equally enthusiastic. at No. 32s SeFeh'"
avenue.
Mr.. Mitchell and Mr.. Prendergast saln
that Cyrus e. Miller, President or Tue
Borough OF The Bronx. yesterday TOOK
position with them on the subway Situa
tion. Both meetings passed resolutions
demanding independent subways under
control Of the city.
Mr. Prendergast read the Mayors con-
tribution to a magazine published oefore
election, and with mock ceremony request
ed the audience to become quiet
This is gospel" said Mr.. Prendergas'
in a stage whisper, without low music
I'VE used TO think 1t was inspired. Late
Is am beginning 10 think that most OF
the utterances of our Mayor on the sub
Epc Have
the Interborough people stopped schem-
ing? They only have another way oil
carrying out their schemes. They have
new partners. We are either all wrong
and do not know what we are talking
about. or somebody else was oil Vrons
twenty months ago"
III you will let certain subway gentle
men write your contracts. they care not
who writes your songs
Otto Nichols, secretary u the Brooklyn
Central Labor Union, whose recent fame
rests on the epistolary communications be-
tween himself and the Mayor. read all the
things the Mayor had called him and
aroused much sympathy for himself after
explaining fully all the circumstances IN
the case.
Al Ntllt i'dll MI sN'N'AA~' 'if
have hopes for Borough President Miller
OF The Bronx, for he said that Miller, at
that star chamber affair" held yesterday
afternoon. had demanded that the INTERIOR
ough modify its offer and gite up its exist
ing Fourth avenue subway franchise in ex-
change for the Seventh avenue franchise
or he would never vote for IT.
After telling how useless the extensions
vould be to the city. Mr.. Mitchell pointed
ont that with the franchise OF the Fourth
avenue route turned back TO the city the
city could go ahead and build its Madison
avenue or Lexington avenue trunk line 70
The Bronx and 10 Pelham Bay He declared
that he believed municipal operation was
undesirable. but If he had 10 choose be-
tween IL and Interborough monopoly lor
az, years he would take municipal opera
ton.
There Is only one way 70 throttle mon'
onolv ~ this kind" he said, "and that Is
,o reserve for ourselves the night TO take
from the monopoly what it enjoys The
Irterborough's object is 70 get the cream
NJ the business through its extensions IN
order that there will be nothing lett LOT
its competitor.
Controller Prendergast startsd III U! soy
ing Somebody was playing on a direreh'
instrument since election. Before election
he was blowing a brass horn. To-day ne
is blowing on a tin whistle" Every smart
and insinuation directed against the Mayor
was met with laughter and handclapping.
He boldly declared that Chairman VIII
COX or the Public Service Commission mad
told him that President Shonts last spring
was ready to build with the lnterb6rough
money. but that after conference with
hts directors he came to Mayor Gaynor
with = prcyosition that the city pay the
whole cost.
Some one in the audience asked I'D" you
blame them?" The controller repi'eu
quickly:
'To: but blame myself II let them