New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-01
WAY CLEAR NOW TO
BEGIN DIGGING SUBWAYS
Contracts To Be Let Wednesday
and Start of Work Is Sure
by September.
lNTERBOROUGH is OUT OF 1T
President Shonts Says Modifica-
tions offered to His Company
Are Not Vital-B. R. T.
Eager to Proceed.

Eager to Proceed.
Developments In the transit situation
yesterday made II certain that the dig
Fing on the new and comprehensive sys-
TEN 81 subways would begin not later
than September I. and possibly by Au-
gust /. This assurance has been at
tanned after negotiations lasting for
period OF nearly six months.
President Shonts indicated yesterday
afternoon after he had been formally
Informed that the Board of Estimate had
unanimously passed the report of the
conference committee and the Public
Service Commission, that the INTERIOR
ough Rapid Transit Company was
through" He said that the modifca
tions offered to his company in the re-
port were not vital and would not cause
withdrawal Of the declination Of his
company.
This fact assured, the course of subway
building Is clear on Wednesday the
Public Service Commission will let con-
tracts for six of the sections of the tri
borough route. taking in Lexington ave-
nue between 2sth and 1O6th streets. bids
for which have been In hand for some
time
On Thursday. July g. the Board Of
Estimate will formally order the prepa-
ration of contracts with the BROOKLYN
Rapid Transit Company for the equip
rnent and operation OF the lines to fiji out
IT'S comprehensive system, including the
lines not formally given 20 the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit Yesterday because Of the
desire 10 give the Interborough one more
chance to take them. as outlined in the
McAneny-W Wilcox report The board
viii AT the same time formally approve
the contracts for the construction Of the
trihorouzh sections that will have been
received from the Public Service Com
mission
Contractors Ready for Work.
Contractors have sixty DAYS in which
10 begin work after the signing of con-
tracts. but IT is believed thar the lowest
bidders on contracts Nos 6 TO II, the
ones 10 be let, will be in a position to be
gin work within thirty days. These bids
are as follows
Section Bidder Bid
80. e-Bradley Contracting com
-. 7-chariss H. P.ckvcrth. 49,. $50 sss %
40. Bradley Contracting Com .eo q. ~
No. a-Rrsdisv contracting com.
SC lo-BTadiey contracting com ,'','s
No ii-Brsdiiey ,;ont-ac,ins CON.
pany observation-disclosures. 7,iS2 1e5 %
This gives the BRADLEY Contracting
Company contracts for s15,s36,445 25, out
o. tots! Of sts,os6. .90s s..
This much done On Thursday. the Pub
~ Service Commission can go ahead
With the letting Of the contracts for the
other sections Of the triborough that At
into the offer of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit. and they can be approved ~
special meeting Of the Board Of Fs-
innate. which will probably take its sum
mer recess after the next meeting.
Having decided that the Interborough
company was out of the present subway
situation. President Shonts yesterday az
,eruoon said that he was free to discuss
The negotiations. He talked with the
rewspaper men for more than an hour
goins into details. There lay on his desk
al the time the following brief commu-
rcstion
Theodore p. shonts Esq. President Inter
borough Rapid Transit company NJ
r,e,r Sir. In behalf Of the conference
committee of the Board Of Estimate am
Apportionment and the a TuDmc - % rand yo,
HHersrjtb "opv OF a report OF the conferrees
submitted yesterday 10 the bOdru OF "a.
mate and Apportionment. the recon- 9hlt ine todv
lions Of which were adopted by that pooS
81 special meeting held this inorhils'
~ fbc P,,bIic Service Commission for the
~ '''''''' WILLIAM II. WIIIrON
-, .-tot cor,n,i,tee Of the Board OF
GEORGE MANEN1,
Chairman
-I,bis letter was identical with the ono
.e,, IN President williams Of the b. Il. T.
Interborough Out OF It,
we are out of it, said President
sbonts "Those notifications allowed
a-a not vital. have just tried to get IN
touch with J. p. Morgan. jr, represent
ing orr bankers and found that ne was
ont of town and would not be back PC
fore wednesday. so We could not pos
sillv consider these notifications before
J,,lv But it does not make any difter-
ence We are through. We cannot be
exrscted to get money TO finance the
proposition IL the e. r. 7. Is permitted
II nsraIIel our lines
In addition to this vital objection 10
fbo nrorosition as outlined by the city
President Shonts indicated three others
hat he considered of Importance. They
vcre the per passenger basis, as opposed
IN the car-mile basis, the terms that
would burden the present subway with
taxation. and the provisions for the d.
Vision of miscellaneous income.
President Shonts said that when his
company began negotiations with the
cjty's conferrees he indicated certain
sum for net profits as margin OF safety
and terms that would provide less than
that could not be considered. But the
conferrees insisted on giving. Broadway
to the Brooklyn Rapid Transit, which
would have Topped off S5,OOO,OO from
tho margin. and then wanted TO lop off
more.
II the city now wanted TO go ahead