The evening world., 1911-04-19
B.R. !. SUBWAY BID
mere GRAB get
INTO Manhattan?
Wiling 10 Give fnterborough
Y. All Else If It Can Have i.
Broadway.
E.AE OFFER NJ MADE.
Officials Refuse to Put Entire
=, Proposition on Paper, but
Talk Goes On.
REAE; OFFER NOT MADE.

stsut q. % Tar - On - e-sosreaHnsd It
consists oa1efy q o~suvsruUtsonA ana
hes been rsducea 20 black and white
only In part.
To begin WITH. ire D. \. +. wou,d b
dtAte content 20 ht ths ~lntsrborcugh
Rapid Transit Comcany poke ,ts nose
- far az II l!lsed into any Of the Ave
b~oroughs Of the greater city. provided
the CITY Of Now York built fop the b.
r. 7. the requested subway in Manhat-
tan-up Broadway from the Battery to
Seventh avenue to Fifty ninth street.
and then east TO the Q~ussnsboro Bridge.
This Broadway proposition would cost
the city $50. 1000. 900 to build. the B. n.
supplying funds only for its equipment
and operation.
Two Kinda Of iranohIses.
OF course. the B. r. +. expects 10 get
the Centre street %loop-this upon a
forty-ysar bsss-and the Fourth avenue
elevated Ines except the Centre stree,
loop tho B. r. T. 10 willing to operate
upon a ten-year 'ndeterninate franchise.
Only this much OF the 3. r. T. propo-
AL 10 in definite writing. There IL also
IN writing q rough draft, expressing Q
Willingness to operate the Trioorough II
necessary in order to get !ts original
requests. also a consent 10 operate such
extensions to the Triborough % the
company ana The city would agree to
- falling into the gsnsrl proposition.
The Triborough which figures in the
negotations with the b. \ T. Is not
that fsOftsa , q iall o,. ~. 81. la. 81.
extensions to Coney Island and For:
Hamilton and extensions running away
up into tho Bronx. All OF the exten.
sione are eliminated. The Triborough
stem. or Broadway-Lexington route IN
Manhattan. known IN the NEGOTIATIONS
ss the East SIDE Line" ~ all that the
b. Il. 7. has guaranteed Il viii operate.
This route ends at Mott avenue IN the
Bronx. But the Il. z. T. insists tina
the city not only build this east side
limo but that II build the Broadway line
az VOL. the tube being yhe same as far
north as Ninth street.
Extensions not agreed upon, tha.
might BIO regarded by the company as
Improbable and unwiss, the city under
the terms OF tho extension clause now
Al W@AsAib "Ouiu hNfo ~ EtBhb 70
hui,d. and compel the company 70 equip
ana operate; but II that right 10 exer-
cissd by the city IT shall be sxsrcisod
upon TIC terms that insure the SOM
rnny against financial less.
Pelham Bay. staten Is'and ana re-
mote sections OF the Bronx and Queens
are mere visions OF an indefinite future.
Not Impressed With Bronx.
I"s' .. presen; tho city authorities
az ura,nr the y, r. r. 70 extend wnn
shat! 5c considered - the operating
stem ot the T~rlhorouga. To this end
Cci. Tim-,ny &. Williams. the new and
sagreaslve president o. 80 Il. r. r,
on fonda rode over t-e proposed
Bronx extensions as f7r a. Pelham
BAY, and Ms associates declare tha. he
was not particularly Impressed with
IN etrrrltory from an operating tand-
point upon n tcH-ycar basis,
In short. tie +. Il. =, has mndo m
oEcr 70 equip and operate city owned
subways and elevated l,ros. us'ng It's
money for tina, rurpoac only. All OF
the cash needed 20 d!g tho Broadway
Inc in Manhattan. and to stom Of
tao T%r.5orouch as well AZ to extern
slons. must be furnished by the city.
For this reason there arc many crit
ios Of the proposal who declare that IL
10 q cold BLUM made In order to force
the Snterborough TO share It's Manhat-
tan territory with the B.. Il. r. as FAR
north as Tifty-nirth street.
Yer tae same reason That $50 inter-
borougi talks subwaYF when 70 really
has its eve focused upon the tiird
- .s,nEfAr " lHa 81 -
roads. so the n. n. r. NAV We taking
Triborough and extensions into tho
w!lds OF the greater city, when 4, has
but one object IN mipd--a subway
along the main artery OF Manhattan
through which 70 deliver It's million
and a half odd Brooklyn patrons to
their WORK IN tho more commercial
borough.
Won't Show TheIr Cards.
Urged ~ explain WHY IFS cards we're
not p,accd upon tHo table 20 that tho
public could see them, az IN the cnse ot
the Iutcrborough. officials ot the y, Il,
r. said to-day that ~ put IN a detailed
propos,tion would be folly until the
wishes az the city authorities have been
ascertainod as 10 what particular out
lying districts must first ne supplied
with transportation facilities. Handling
the problem In negotiation, It was sx-
planned was n iar better way than 10
slap the whole plan across without re-
gard 10 the treatment II may rscetVe
from the city authorities
shoald the Il. r, II. get the Fourth
avenue subway IN Brooklyn and he abla
10 operate # IN connection with a proper
d]i.igibut!on FOR a single hve-cent fare
MS far north az Flfty-ninth street, Man
haitian, or the larger problem" as the
ognratlon Of the Triboroueh is termed.
"A Miro and ten story apartment-!iousr
deyelopnent Will be started as far out
az Forty-tnird street, prooniSi, Tiis
win mean the creation OF a new nat
house district overlooking New fori;
Bay. and within fifteen minutes ride o!
The business section OF Manhattan. Bc-
yond Forty-tnird street, tho South
Brooklyn district Is mostly restricted,
Brooklyn now Is q detached house in
iAs transportation scheme o. the greater
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