New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-10


rany asked to take the entire Broadway
Lexington avenue subway. or, the CITY
might have to shoulder the burden Cf
building the line itself, and then find
another operator. There are about S'S'-
100000 worth Of dock bonds that may
be exempted from the debt limit. viii,
would give the city some 100000, tD IN
all To devote to rapid transit purposes.
The marlborough in its offer promised
to furnish 81 $4,000 for building ana
equipping subways. and some S5".V"''-
coo for third-tracking and extending the
elevated lines.
The first letter giving information that
the Interborough proposition might fail
through was sent by President ShoniS
t. Borough President McAneny on
SATURDAY. He stated that the PROPOSE
ton had been made with the under
standing that il would be agreeable To
majority OF the members of tho Public
Service Commission and Of the Board of
Estimate. and would he promptly APP
proved by both bodies. He went on to
say that he had been informed by tho
bankers in writing that because of
changed conditions" they would be called
upon to cancel their agreement unless
they heard "in the next few days that
the proposition had been fayorably
acted upon by the city authorities.
shonts's Letter TO Mayor.
On Monday President Shonts wrote to
Mayor Gaynor. inclosng a copy of the
letter to President McAneny. and
adding:
In 4 conversation With Mr.. Morgan to-
DAY he told me that the situation down
town was so unsatisfactory that no might
he compelled to withdraw in any event
However. if the Board Of Estimate and
Apportionmept should vote favorahly on
Thursday of this week. the 9Th inst. on
the Inter boroughs proposition, he would
undertake Ia finance the deal, although
lie SAYS hc may have to ask for more lib
crai terms told him that it would he
Impossible for Ms TO enter into the deal
if the terms for money were any more
Cnerous than those already agreed upon
I want YOU Mayor of the city and.
eX Oibcio. chairman of the Board of ESl-
mate and Apportionlnent, to know the
seriousness Of the situation in case your
board does not act favOrably upon our
proposition at next Thursdays meeting.
ON Tuesday the Mayor sent copy OF the
letter to each member of the Board of Es-
innate with the following comment;
It is Of SUCH grave character that de-
sire at once to inform all members OF the
Board of Estimate of il. Nine weeks nave
elapsed since the offer Of the intcrborouSh
company was put before our board ny the
Public Service Commission, l khoW Of no
the matter carefully of every source from
which / could get information " we had
passed "A resolution that we approved Oh
tho proposition generally ana re!urheu
I4YI1 SGfXs
have a contract of details yum out, that
contract would now be ready. or nearly
ready. for our approval. And the same lS
true Of the case of the Brooklyn hapiu
Transit Company. There are details when
have to be worked out in the contract
President McAneny at once got in
touch with the Mayor and suggested the
special meeting Of the board to-day. At
that time the Mayor will probably have
introduced some resolution approving OF
the proposition generally. From what ne
said last night President McAneny VIII
undoubtedly oppose any such action as
premature. Just what sort OF hne-up
there may be is hard to predict.
MAY Lie With Mr.. Steers.
Without doubt President Mitchell OF
the Board of Aldermen. who has always
been against the extension OF the Inter
borough system. will support President
McAneny. and the latter may also have
the support of Borough Presidents Miller
and Cromwell his colleagues on the con-
ference committee. This would make
seven votes. Controller Prcndergast Will
rroba bly, be for immediate action, and
Commissioner OLeary, the acting Bor-
OUCH President of Queens. is likely TO
side with the Mayor, making seven
votes. The two votes Of Borough Presi-
dent Steers Of Brooklyn will probably
be decisive.
President McAneny itemizcd the mat
tiers that remain in allegiance as follows;
lNTERBOROUGH
determination Of the tunnel route
through which the Seventh avenue lihe -
10 nc carried under the East RIVER 10
second Determination of the route
through which the StcinWay tunnel !ino
viii he carried to 4 point OF connection
with the northern Queens lines at queens
coro Bridge plaza.
BROOKLYN RAPID TRANSIT.
rirst-Detcrmindtion Of the tunsel route
tbrou~b vhici, the Broadway line will pro-
coed under the East River TO BROOKLYN
Seconl-DeterminatiOn of the method OF
connecting the Manhattan Brldee me az az
canal street with the main norm ana
south line OF the BROOKLYN system DIT
ThiTd-Thc rfJecting of an arrangement
with tho Lorg Island Railroad COMPANY
Cor a ,ut.off under the FlatbLsh avenue
. station connecting the Brighton bedch HH'
with Manhattan Bridge. -. .,r
Fourt OF the route ioI
the extension ~ the Eastern Dlsrlc5 nud
from BushwiCk station to RidGeWoon an"
East New York. . - ,to
eIeyated extensions Ia South BroobINnm
,ho Culver line and the west Emo OF NJ"
Utrecht avenue line $500.
Sixth-AUthorzatlCn Of the pro '2seu ~"
roIitos 10 Jamaica. one TO proceed on nc
,or,b ciin If the Long Island kallroau
Sron, the present terminus OF tn. hlnSS
Fountv Elevated and the other on the SCUM
aide of the road to Lenerts avenue. 40
Seventh-- Determination OF me Iputs ~
/ ~o,nf elevated line from Nilhamsbuie
,,aya 10 a point Of connection win TIE
fJ@bton Reach line and authorization oi
this route 10 Long Island C!ty
InferentialIy criticising the Pubic
Service Commission, President McAhehy
cid that the only routes received from
,bnm since the 1ntcrborough proposition
aoe forwarded were the whitehall
Montague street tunnel route and the
Beaver Clark street tunnel route the
FORMER designed for the lnterborough
end the latter for the Brooklyn RAPID
Transit Company. He called attention
,o The fact that neither company was
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