The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-28
GIVEN UNTILJUNE1
FOR JITNEY BUS BIDS
Competing Companies May
Submit Notifications Of
Proposed Franchise.
TERMS CAUSE PROTEST

President McAneny Of the Board Of
Aldermen announced yesterday that bids
for the motor bus franchise should he
submitted ny June I. and that with
tho bids should como notifications
by the competing companies. He set
This date after a hearing before the
franchise committee Of the Board OF
Estimate and Apportionment. at which
the present form of the franchise was
characterized as illogical, unscicntific
and impossible.
Your honors are laying an egg" said
Col W. II. Page. counsel for tho Firth
Avenue Coach Company. after asserting
that I'VE cent bus line couldn't sur
v,ve. I'VE would like TO know what's
going 10 come out Of H."
you never can tell about eggs until
YOU try Them" replied Mr.. McAneny. who
presided after the Mayors departure.
Mr.. Page limited that me Fifth Avenue
Coach Company might form subsidiary
company to submit a bid for the pro-
posed franchise. Counsel for the Peoples
Five Cent Rus Corporation. Alfred j.
Tsl,ey. wanted to know II any special
consideration would be given to MS
company because of Its Ave cent rare.
Mr.. McAneny replied that II would
count In the reckoning. He added that
they would probably determine which
was the best bid before ad3ournfng for
the summer.
Rcfcr, the setting # the date for bills
however, many persons appeared before
the committee. Several. including Mrs.
&c. A. Bryan. who represented the
, Women's Municipal League. protested
against the proposed route in West Emo
avenue from forth street to Eighty-sixtn
street because II would add TO the COM
mercialism OF that street. which. she
said. IL distasteful 20 its residents
". X. Wilcox of the New York Motor
BUS Company called the clause in tho
franchise which compels the BUS COM
pany to remove snow and ice from the
streets In which 1t operates illogical
and unscientfic.
Mr. Page said the contract proposed
a license instead OF a franchise and ne
didn't believe an amount suff1cient 70
carry II out could be raised.
Mr.. TalleS said no business corpora
ton could possibly operate under the
contract proposed. unless IL were made
w of philanthropIsts.
You are giving us riRht wnicn
! would never invite capital he said
Your board can forfeit the franchise
| at the end of fifteen years. The con-
| tract is absolutely impossible, and there
| will he no additional transit facilities
| In New York as long as such terms are
| laid down. We are ready TO do business
with the city Of New York. but you
must give us a chance to survive"
| When Mr.. Tailey asked II the present
| form Of tho franchise was the only
basis the city offered for bids Mr. Nc
! Aneny added the instructions tnat the
companies should submit modifcat'ons
! with their bids.
Your differences OF opinion can be
| reflected in your BIDS" he iold them.
! 1T has been pointed out that the city
| Is entitled to an immediate solution OF
, the problem
! one Of the routes proposed by the
! fran cb!se committee begins AZ 1874
, street. II runs down 81. Nicholas ave-
I nue. into Broadway. ON into West End
avenue as far as Eighty street
, east on Eighty-siXth street TO Amstcr-
dam avenue, south on that avenue "a
Sevcnty-seCond street. then south on
Broadway TO Forty second street, from
! which point II passes down Seventh
avene to Fourteenth street. There
were several at tho hearing yesterday
vAo wanted this route changed IN places
10 run past their hotel or railroad "
something else.