New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-15
WANT SUBWAY REPLIES
BEFORE MONTH IS OUT
Board of Estimate Members IN
No Mood to Delay Striking
Final Balance.
SECRET MEETING SATURDAY
Transit Companies Now Have
Hope That Severe Terms Will
Be Modified After Pub
lie Hearing.

Be Modified After Pub
lie Hearing.
| Officials of the Interborough Rapid
| Transit Company, the Brooklyn Rapid
| Transit Company and members of the
Board Of Estimate and Apportonment
spent most of the day yesterday studying
The more carefully It was studied the
more advantageous the terms proposed
seemed to be for the city.
AS a matter of fact, although the off,
Gals Of the transit companies said they
we're not willing to comment for pub
lication on the report, there was good
reason to understand that they were
viewing with dismay some of the pro-
visions that are suggested therein.
So far as could be learned yesterday
| member of the Board of Estimate and
Apportionment to delay the striking OF
final balance, to see just where the re-
rCrt leaves the city so far as the extern
sion of rapid transit lines are concerned.
The plan is to take up at the melting
OF the Board Of Estimate and Apportion-
ment next week the question of putting
the proposition squarely up to the com
panies II is probable that they will be
asked to make their formal reply within
a week, so that on June % the board
should be in position to know whether
or not it must 60 ahead with the tribor-
ough contracts.
Until the ultimatum as to terms is act
ually put before the companies by the
Board Estimate and Apportionment, 1t
is not believed they will make any ex-
tended comment on the report. Each
company doubtless hopes that some Of
The more stringent terms will be modi-
| fed before the ultimatum Is issued TO
them. To that end each will doubtless
have its friends lined up at the public
hearing To be held on Wednesday morn
| ing.
Important Meeting on Saturday.
| OF probably more Importance, so far as
determining the final action of the board
on the report is concerned. will be the
secret meeting Of the committee of the
whole on Saturday morning. At that
time each member of the board will be
| in a position TO discuss the report criti-
cally, members of the board not on the
conference committee will be in a posi-
bers Of the conference committee will de-
fend their work
II shall say nothing on the subject Of
! the subway report until the Board of
Estimate takes up the McAneny- Wilcox
report said Controller Prendergast
yesterday. AT the meeting on Satur-
day we shall begin an examination Of the
report. and that examination will be
thorough. There are some questions that
wish to ask President McAneny. ] do
not anticipate any delay in finding out
what we are to DO finally"
President Mitchell Of the Board Of
Aldermen spoke along the same lines. 1t
is understood that both he and the Con-
troller do not think much Of the clauses
providing for the swapping of fran
chises so that q straight north and south
line may be recaptured from the Inter
borough at the end Of ten years They
are inclined to the opinion that the pro-
vision for the exchange Of franchises is
Of no avail. and assert that If that is
true It ought to be found out now. before
! the city has gone ahead and built the
extensions. only to find that It has a
pig in a poke" The Controller and the
president Of the Board Of Aldermen. it is
asserted. are of the opinion that the en-
change provision should be SO changed
as to bind the Interborough TO an at
tempted swap Of franchises at the time
the new contracts are entered into
Awaiting BrookIyn's Opinion.
Borough President steers Of Brooklyn
said yesterday he did not want to give
his opinion Of the report until he had
heard what the people OF Brooklyn had
to say.
II shall. Of course. be guided by their
views in casting my vote in the Board Of
Estimate and Apportionment," he de-
clared.
A. Barton Hepburn president of the
Chamber OF Commerce said that the re-
port was splendid so far as the city was
concerned. but It was 2 question as to
whether the railroad companies could
afford 10 meet the stringent terms sug-
gested
| EX-Mayor Seth Low chairman Of the
citizens committee that Mayor Gaynor
appointed some time ago to help him
solve the transit problem. has called a
meeting Of the committee for the Cham
Der Of Commerce az . .. M. on Tuesday.
| Speaking Of the transit report, Com
missioner McCarrol said yesterday: IF
the companies have been honest from the
beginning. II they ever meant business.
they Will accept the fair ard equitable
terms proposed by the city. There is
now offered TO them what in my judg-
ment. ia the best sort Of an opportunity
10 aid the city in solving the transit
problem one Of the best things about
the report is that II does not leave the
city at The mercy OF either company or
any company.
AS for the demand that the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit Company should give n
| fve-cent fare to Coney Island. a i've
cent ride to that resort is q logical thing
and must come some day. 1t occurs to
me that the time when it should be given,
anyway. would not be far beyond the
time when IL would he granted under the