New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-10
|NTERBORO MAKES NEW
OFFER; LAST, It SAYS
Ready to Spend S99,524, ooo lor
Construction and Equipment
of New SubWayS.
SERVICE FOR WILLIAMSBURG
Would Take philadelphia Law
yers" to Unravel Proffer, Says
Williams, of the B. r. T,
Hjnting at Gold Brick.

The Interborough Rapid Transit Com
papy submitted its amended proposal or
new subways 10 the city authorities yes
terday. with the word that it was its last
move. With these concessions" says
the proposal eve can offer nothing
more. because we have nothing left TO
give"
In brief. the proposal is that the Inter
borough will put in S61559,500 toward
tho construction Of the proposed lines If
the CITY will put in S6s .22o.5oO, and the
Irterborough will put in an additional
S31 q65 O0O for equipment.
The offer contemplates a two track
s,bvav starting from the greensboro
Bridge. running under 18th street to
Seventh avenue. thence 10 Times Square.
down Broadway 20 Union Square. and
sr~o.s under 14th street to a tunnel un-
der the East River. which will connect
g, With North 7th street. Brooklyn, Met
ro3olitan avenue, Bushwick avenue to
suvvesart and Lafayette avenues. That
would make a New provision for Will
iamsburg
The Manhattan portion Of this clause
NJ the Interborough : offer was advanced
without anv suggestion from the city au-
thorities. and. in fact, speaking gener-
sUv Of the entire offer. a subway author
itv said last night that 1t wasn't so
much a meeting Of the city's demands
Is an apparent attempt 10 meet the
r,~o~nE11
Chairman Wilcox of the Public Ser
vice Commission. after a short examina-
ton Of the Interborough s offer. said that
he would ike 10 make il clear that the
CITY conferrees had not requested the In
terborough officials to build a line in
Broadway.
The new lines proposed by the Inter
borough Yesterday. after a review of IT'S
offer Of December =. 1910 are outlined as
follows.
al tuo-t~ack subway commencing al
gfaverte avenue and Stuyvesant avenue
III BROOKLYN. then under StuyVesant ave
rue private property Bushwlck avenue,
fll1nei under the East River and 18th street
Manhattan 10 Broadway, thence QndeI
1 Mon Square and Broadway 10 II!IieS ~
SQUARE. thence up seventh avenue 10 o'l"
street and easterly on 59th street 10 con-
rection with the greensboro Bridge, omit
ting the two easteriy blocks on Lafsyetts
avenue heretofore proposed as no longer
uecessa 0-.
tbj fwo-track elevated line In queens,
commencing al the plaza Of the greensboro
bridge az Crescent street, thence VIA ulS
bridge plaza. Jackson avenue 70 LeDeVolse
avenue thence noTtherly over peneNoiee
gVanue TO Ditmars avenue, Astoria, the
northerly one mile Of this structure 10 pe
three tracks -
tcl A tw0-track elevated line in queens
commencing ar the present terminai of tue
Belmont tunnel Van AlSt avenue ana SUI
s-reer rorfhUard under Hunters Point
avenue. thence over the yards Of the Long
Island Railroad northward. curving INTO
Davis street. thence via Davis street Ely
avenue. Williams street such private prop
erty as may be necessary, TO the queens
toro Bridge plaza and thence along the
and via Diagonal street Thomson avenue
and Greenpoint avenue 20 WoOdslde