New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-27
.P.S. c. AWARDS CONTRACT
Boston Company Gets Section .
of Broadway-L Line.
ITS BID WAS S2,4l9,127
LAWYER Uses Newspapers Name
TO Get Waivers-Presldent
Mitchell Satisfied.

CARRYING out its programme Of con-
structing the portions OF the trlooroDsi
ro,,,a tina, will Al into the proposition oil
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit COMPANY ,He
Public Service Commission yesterday
awarded the contract for building secuoH
Of the Broadway-Lexinston avenue Inc
--,is section extends north from 14th
street and irving Place 20 Lexington
avenue and 26th street and could not pos
siblv be used under tho proposition or the
rrterboroush Rapid Transit Company. The
award was made 70 the Metropolitan con-
tracing Company OF Boston, which mas
done much Of the subway work IN that CITY
Its bid was S2I9,12G20.
The commission sent the award 10 the
Board Of Estimate with the request 1or
approval and the issuance OF corporate
s,ock 10 meet the requirements Of the work
As the matter IS not on the calendar II
cannot no passed Al the meeting Of the
hoard to-day. Mayor Gavnor Borough
president dresser and Borough President
Miller being opposed But Controller Prem
dergast Will suggest that a special meet
Ing Of the board he held early next week
70 approve the contract and appropriate the
necessary money.
Tho Public Service Commission will 60
ahead and make the awards on the bids
already fin hand as fast as possible.
Per-eseutatfves Of the marlborough com
psnv continue 10 haunt the Offices Of the
commission. porting over the documents
violating % the Lexington avenue line, max
ing copies Of many Of them.
An incident showing the great interest
taken IN this work by outsiders occurred
a. the Offices Of the commission Yesterday.
IN the morning n Young man. saying he
-aprasentad The Philadelphia Inquirer.
came in and asked Travis II. Whitney. sec
-e+s-v NJ the commission, for permission
n COPY the waivers made by the Bradley
Contracting Company in signing their four
contracts for the lexington avenue line
These waivers were considered necessary.
because the commission viii decrease the
size of the bore in the plans and speci-
Hcadons
Lawyers Much Interested.
The documents are entirely technical and
Nj whitney did not see why z Phiadel-
rhfa newspaper was so Interested in them.
He told the Young man he would have 20
y
turned IN The afternoon and sent in the
card Of HAYS. Hershfeld & Wolf attor-
news. ar No Us Broadwy. He then told
N~ Whitney that his name was Charles
A Levev. that his firm represented The
Inquirer" and insisted upon seeing the
documents
Asked why he had mentioned only The
inquirer" in the morning. ne replied that
NJ WOLF had told him he would get what
he wanted more easily - the commission
understood n was for newspaper Mr.
Whitney told him that. # the lawyers
would make a written application 70 look
a. the documents and would state why
they wanted 70 see them, they could get
what they wanted Two hours later The
young man returned with q letter from
Ralph Wolf simply saving that they I'M
ders-ood SUCH waivers We're in existence
and they wished 70 inspect them. The
young man was told 70 go back and en-
BhsSize the point that the courts had de-
cd sd 10 was necessary 70 state some rea-
son Tor looking at public documents, and
the commission would insist upon such
reason IN This case.
Word came from Philadelphia last night
that The Inquirer" had no interest in. the
waivers in connection with the subway
contracts.
Nr Wolf has been interested in several
previous proceedings that have held Up the
Lexington avenue line. The first was
hearing on a change in the route. The
case OF the commission was all IN on July
g. 1908 but Mr.. Wolf kept II going until
October To- He also prolonged hearings on
the question OF double decking certain parts
OF the une-so much so that the commits
sion in its report 20 the courts called at
tention 10 the fact that IT had been de-
laved by these proceedings.
A good story was being told Yesterday as
% how Mayor Gaynor came near going
contrary 10 his announced policy of hold
Ing UP all the proposed new routes under
the plans of the BrooSyu Rapid Transit
COMPANY.
Gsynor Signed, Then Scratched.
The question OF laying out the proposed
new Batrery-East River-Atlantic avenue
route was placed in the hands Of the tran
81 committee Of the Board Of Estimate.