The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-01-12
One SUBWAY, SAYS The MAYOR
AND THE iNTERBOROt GH'S
PLAN rs THE best WAY or.
GaynOr Answers Mitchell AMI Pren'lcrgas'
Says That the city Is Bound to
Own the Completed Line Talk OF
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Mayor Gaynor will submit TO the Board
of Estimate to-day n report explaining
his views of the transit situation The
Mayor does not describe it as a minority
report. but explains in his communica-
ton that it il meant to be taken as reply
to the report submitted last week to the
Board OF Estimate by Comptroller Prem
dcrgast and President Mitchell who. with
Mayor Gaynor. form the transit COM
mitiee Of the board
| Messrs. Mitchell and Prendergas' at
last week. + meeting OF the board pre-
sented report which insisted on the
building 10y the city Of an independent
subway. This is the report that the
Mayor will lay before the Board Of Esti-
. mate:
desire to call attention to some other
things 10 the report lof Mitchell and Prem
dergastl which are founded. 1t seems to me.
on an erroneous conception OF the law and
the facts and which give a false color to
the report throughout
First They say they oppose the propo-
sition OF the lntcrborough company that
the city build certain extensions of the
present subway Il uuotcl because the man
date of the people as expressed IN the cleo
ton of the members of this board was
against monopoly and in favor Of city built
aud city controlled subwavs This refers
To the political platforms in the last city
election These platforms did favor city
built and city controlled subways in Ian
I guage more or less definite. The dratters
OF them seemed to have been under The de-
Iusion that some other kind oi -ubways
could he b'iilt under the sections of the
! statute which apply to the building OF the
| city subways But that Is not SO. The
statute is bevond dispute The said sec
tons provide only for the building of city
I subwavs 10y the city through the public
Service Commission. There is no other
way TO huild them, Though platform max
| ers did not know this we should not be
1 astrav in respect OF it. The present ofIer
/ of the lnterborough Is not that II be per-
mitted TO build subways but that the city
| build subwaya. and to exc out the scant
credit aud funds of the city It offers to pay
| to the city in the course OF construction all
| capital necessary in eScass of sj3.OOO. 900
| To be contributed by the city all told. The
! city builds the subways and owns them
| from the start. There is no other way.
II is too bad TO see a contrary notion. and
| that We purpose To follow IL. put in the
minds of the peopie who do not examine
the matter for themselves. aud unconsiously,
II may be. depend wholly for their inspirt-
ton or information upon vicious sources
The false notion. long abroad and indus
triOusly disseminated that private capt, al
or private capitalist who was often named
built the present subway in Manhattan and
The Bronx has not vet been wholly driven
out %! mems minds IL took "a few of III
several years to dissipate it TO some extent.
Not dollar "a nj "a ia on nil nj i,t, 4,
the conslruc ion of the said subway. The
city pnt every dollar into II Nor did u
loan the capital to build il. as is sometimes
loosely said ON the contrary it built the
subway and owned IL from the moment
OF completion and leased IL for operation
II loaned no money or credit to any one
70 build II. The mistake was made OF giv-
ing too long a lease OF II when built. That
We are now striving to rectifv bv having
the seventy-rve years term and renewal
sealed down TO forty nine wears or less. =
! regret 10 have to recur to thngS 80
fundamental. but do IL only that no one
shall be misled IL ! can prevent it, Of
course my said associates do not mean to
inislead and none OF us will be misled.
But what about others? All | say is that my
said associates have not made this matter
clear and that their report as a -hole tends
, to make people believe that the oiter of
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