The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-16
NEW MOTOR BUSES
ON 81 MILE ROUTES
Officials Recommend Fran
chise to Start 100 Cars
Within Eight Months.
SOME FIVE CENT FARES

After three years Of study the fran
chise committee OF the Board Of Esti-
mate, composed Of Mayor Mitchell. Alder
manic President McAneny and President
Mathewson OF The Bronx. recommended
yesterday that a franchise be granted to
the New York Notorious Company 70
operate double deck. side entrance cars
over thirty-one miles of Manhattan streets.
from Union Square on the south to
Fort George on the north. The company
offers a ten cent fare for main lines.
n Ave cent fare for crosstown and other
short lines. including everything north
of 125th street. and transfers which will
keep the cost of n continuous trip within
the ten cent limit.
The committee recommended rejection
Of the application OF the Fifth Avenue
Coach Company, which operates the only
buses now running in Manhattan. for
a franchise for new lines and extensions
totalling. according to the committees
figures, twenty-one miles. 1t also re-
jected offers from Grindley q Drummer.
other competitors, the Manhattan Motor
Bus Company and the Peoples Five Cent
Line. controlled by George w. Lott.
dropped out several months ago.
X. W. Meade. president OF the Fifth
Avenue Coach Company, which Is con-
trolled by the PETERBOROUGH company.
charged last night that the
had Ignored "the pnblic demand for a
unifed bus system" and asserted that the
n,hIic would have IN nav On cent. for
tyv, c,mnanv .eryice which his connanv
,Uorad FOR ton oon,. iIa called for
protests at two public hearings which
the Board Of Estimate must hold.
saO.OOO D-noeitcd.
The New York Notorious Company
mas deposited with the city a certified
check Tor $4,000 to guarantee perform
ance II II gets the lranchise. us presl-
dent Is howard Conklin OK l wall street
otner directors are Stahiey NJ. Sohkiih
ana ffafold Is. weaver the company >
consulting engineer. Inc company
agrees 10 nave loo buses running WITHIN
eiEht months.
Two mann north anu south routes are
lald out IN the proposed contract. start
lhs AZ Union square q west Side route
would extend 10 fort Seorse oy way Oh
seventh avenue BROADWAY. amsterdam
avenue, E.ishty-siNth street. west End
avenue, broadway ana 81 Nichoias ave-
nue.. Aue Last cue iou'e "ouiu eA'ehu
from mon square " .>lne's-siNth
street throush IRVING place. Lexington
avenue. iweh'!-tniru street, Mauiso'
avenue ihlrt!-h'hth anu ror''e'h s'ree's
FROM nun street mere "ou,u % d
haitian ayenu Morningside Park East.
Convent avenue and Broadway.
The fare on these lines would be 10
cents. The s cent lines include three
crossing Central Park on the transverse
roads. others through Thirty-frst,
%Thirty-third. Thirty-ninth, Fortieth,
F'orty-sixth and Forty-seventh streets.
and two lines from Union Square to the
PENNSYLVANIA Station. From each Of the
5 cent lines a person could transfer 10
a 10 cent line by paying another nickel.
The Fifth Avenue company IN one oi
its two proposals offered To share ne,
profits equally with the city. but. tn,
3 committee points out refused TO give the
city adequate control over operation
and expenditures. The New York Motor,
bus Company gives such control.
Both companies offered TO pay the city
5 per cent. OF the gross receipts. Tn.
Fifth Avenue company offered t25. c0'
and the Notorious company 10000 ~
nrst payment. According to the com
mites report the Fifth Avenue com'
pany offered the city a guarantee o
from s35. O00 to SOS. 600 IA year. 3r :
total of $4,000 for the term of IN,
contract, which is fifteen years. viii
ten years renewal privilege.
Provision for New Lines.
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