New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-04-29
DEFENDS B. R. 7. OFFER
Williams Says 1t Is the Best Ever
Made to Any City.
YIELDS IN TEN-YEAR CLAUSE
Thinks the Penalty of Termina-
ton Is Not Fair to the Oper-
ating Company

Colonel Timothy Williams. president
OF the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
IN a statement made last night argued
that the offer Of his company for the ex-
tension Of rapid transit lines was much
more advantageous than that Of the IN
terborough Company lie laid great stress
on the fact that II the city entered INTO
contract with the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
f. would have an operator for Whatever
lines the municipality might wish TO con
struct i'm the future. President Williams
does not attempt TO say what extensions
shall bo built hrst. being willing TO leave
that 20 the city
A. is understood. however. that he mas
assured the clty's representatives that ms
company could reach the pennsylvania
Station h. means of q traffic agreement
with the Hudson & Manhattan Company
and would be willing that the city shouio
30 ahead with the Bronx extensions
the authorities felt that they ought 10 De
constructed at once. said he.
onr plan offers the opportunity OF
realizing within FIVE years and Within
reasonable limits Of available city capltah
3 unihed city transportation system com
JriSins about one hundred aud thirty -elsIt
iriles OF routes, reaching every borouSil
with throuch ears and a single fare, eNcep'
in one instance where conditions AT" az
tIuCt and unusual No dupncauon OF SuCu
8 system OF the equivalent OF II could DC
lroduCed an any other way Wlthln az ieaS
generation. J say without hesitsl non anu
without fear Of successful CONTRADICTION
1nat ours IS the best and most comprehen-
sivc offer ever made by any railroad cor
lolation to any city in the world
Accepts Ten-Yesr Franchise.
President Williams said that his company
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franchises would he fair, hut it had Yielded
'the point. His statement on that point
resds:
The company takes he risk. after de
scuiDC md contracting for such a compre-
icnsive transit plan as has been proposed
L. IL. Of beiue throw out after ten years.
We do not think this Is fair for me
,cnalty Of termination is not alone failure
H. give good service. but termination may
come at the mere vhiW Of public ofncerS
them representing the city. II may come
20 satisfy selfish interests possibly then
g. control Of city government. Sui the
city's committee has insisted FIRMLY upon
TINS condition and We have yielded TO IL
against our judgment
In regard 70 the amount Of money that
the BROOKLYN RAND Transit proposes 10 put
M President Williams said:
The Manor is quoted as saving that none
Of the companvs money goes 10 the bulo-
nay. n II prefers. call upon us under our
proposal to furnish at least two-thlrds OF
fne cost of the construction or the Broad-
vav Seventh avenue and 18th street SUD
vavs north Of 9th street. Moreover. every
extension which agree TO bulld WIN
.our own money is practically city line Tor
she city can take II over after ten wears
upon paving the cost. and this IS fNacti'
what II would do I'm tho case OF any sun
ways built nv private capital. In reality.
therefore we are contributing great
tusnv millions Of dollars toward the con
struction of city lines
offers 14o Miles Against IS,
But what If we do not contribute
dollar We are offering instead united
civ system OF 40 miles of routes, AGAINST
an InterborouGh system including pres. Mt
constructed mileage. Of seventy-nve miles
~ which only fifty miles are proposed. ana
nine of these would require an additional
investment by the city Of 100000. We
are offering 70 the city an opportunity 70
lake over after ten Nears-not q uIoken'
disconnected set OF routes OF apout loIll
one miles inca pable of operation except
bv the expenditure Of additional mllliohS
for connActions-bu a comprehensive, CON
sistent consecutive transportation system
Of uinetv-three miles. ready for immediate
operation
President Williams ended by saying that
his company. having advanced PROPOSE
ZION as good as or better than that of
snv other company in an open and frank
vav not in the spirit Of the trader. but
with an eve open 10 the proper solution
Of difficult problem. should receive an
absolutely SQUARE deal both from the city