New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-09
Foes Of Dual Transit System
Will Ask Public Service
Board for a Hearing
On Contracts.
MCCALL STUDIES PLANS
Wilcox Takes Leave of Former
Associates on Commission,
Who Denounce Failure To
Let Him Sign Agreements
After Years of Work.

onponents OF the dual transit system.
having succeeded in preventing the
.;cning Of the operating contracts by
william r. Wilcox by tying the hands
=, the commission by injunction. are
nreparing to reopen the entire contro-
rsrsv if that be possible. Clarence ].
sbearn. counsel for William Randolph
Hearst. John J. Hopper and other enc
mics of the dual system, said yesterday
that he would apply 10 Judge Mccall.
the new chairman of the commission,
Cor new hearing on the contracts.
Mr. shearn will see Chairman Mccall
:, the offices of the commission to-
morrow. He will give as the basis for
his request the fact that there iaVe
hsen more than three hundred changes
On the contracts since the last hearings
,,ere held. That was an argument that
he made before the Appellate Division
On Friday. There are only nineteen
changes Of any importance, and, as II
ras pointed out to him by some of the
Justices Of the court at that time, ~
nubIic body can go on having hearings
forever. II is safe to say, however,
that no effort will be spared TO pTSt-
mono action on the dual system until
tho agreements finally fall apart be-
cause Of delay.
Chairman Mccall did not go 10 the
ohces Of the commission yesterday.
He spent some time in the morning at
his old chambers in the Emigrant Say
;nrs Bank Building. In the afternoon
he went to his home and devoted ham
Golf 10 going over the subway contracts.
81 will need at least ten days or Two
weeks to form an opinion" he said.
He does not intend TO devote much
time TO other matters before the CON-
mission until he has the contracts
thoroughly digested.
Wilcox Says Farewell.
The former associates Of Mr.. WILCOX
IN the commission presented TO MN
Yesterday the gavel that he has used
in the deliberations Of that body. y
yo,d hand suitably inscribed is TO be
put upon it,
The leavetaking Of the former char
man of his old associates was impress
sjye. There were many eyes that hsu
o. susnicious moisture about them.
Commissioner Cram never goes TO rs
Office on Saturdays and had taken ieaVe
Of Mr.. Wilcox on Friday. the olher
commissioners were present. hoWeNe''
as were the department heads.
AIR Wilcox spent most OF the morn
ing packing up the things III MS oia
Office. including a collection OF pictures
and three silver spades with Whlch ne
had turned the first earth of various
sections Of the subway system
In connection with silver spades some
one noticed that the spade given 70
MI Wilcox by Mr.. Hearsts New Aorh
American" when he turned the frst
earth at the beginning OF the Lexington
avenue subway, in July, 1911, was miss
ing. A story was spread around that II
had been taken back by the giver
few weeks later for the purpose Of haV-
ing it suitably engraved, and that 1t
had never been returned. Chairman
Wilcox refused to discuss the disap-
pearance Of the spade.
Commissioner Williams. who, al
though a Democrat. is fair enough to
give great credit to Mr.. Wilcox for
what he has done in subway matters.