The sun., 1918-08-17
HYLAN OFFERS CURE
FOR CITY SUBWAYS
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the b. r. T. Is that they are paying to
the subsidiary companies under their
control 10 to 81 per cent and possibly
more on their holdings Another cause
Is the large salaries paid to the officers
OF the company. in some instances as
high las a 100000 per year.
ITO earn the salary Of an officer re-
ceiving 100000 per year, two million
passengers must receive transportation.
II these large salaries and the 10 to 81
per cent guaranteed return on the hold
inss Of the subsidiary companies were
curtailed. the marlborough and the B.
r. T. could then give the people better
transit service.
III It were then found that this could
not be done on a cent fare an
application could be made for an in
creased rate OF fare. The additional
revenue which would be derived from
such increase could be put into equip
ment to give better service. In addi-
ton TO this a fund could be accumulated
which could be used by the city to
purchase these lines.
THE people object to paying extra
fare SO that the salary of hundred
thousand dollar officials and a 81 per
cent. dividend can be paid to those
transit corporations.
"In Boston and in Chicago the stock
holders and the people are cooperating.
In Boston trustees have been appointed
by the Governor to operate the Boston
Elevated Railway properties. which in
clude, its surface lines.
"A similar plan has been consummated
in Chicago and the people there have
voice in the management and opera
! ton of their transit lines.
The Public Service Commission
could render no better service to the
people of this city than to familiarize
themselves with the arrangements made
by the people Of Chicago and Boston
and the stockholders OF the transit
lines in these cities, in order to de-
termine II a similar arrangement could
not be made by the people of New
York and the stockholders of the tran
sit lines in this city.
These stockholders must be salts
fed with a reduced financial return on
their holdings so that the people may
be given the transit service for which
they have paid and are entitled to.
These railway properties could be taken
over by the city as the accruing profits
would permit. This would eventually
result in the rapid transit lines becom-
ing the property Of the city and ending
the intolerable service that is rendered
by the transit companies.
Very truly yours,
JOHN Il. HYLAN, Mayor
From Commissioner Hubbell. chair
man OF the Public Service Commission,
came a suggestion yesterday to those
New York Central and New Haven COM
muters who use the subway from Forty
second street down town. He thinks that
they ought to leave their trains at 125th
street. walk to Lexington avenue and
take the subway there.
There are some ways said Mr..
Hubbell. 'in which the public can con-
tribute to promoting their own comfort
and convenience IL n study Is made Of
prevailing conditions. For instance.
commuters on the New York Central and
the New Haven roads by alighting at
the l25th street staten and crossing
over to the subway station at 125th
street on the Lexington avenue line can
be more certain of securing seats, as
we'll as of diminishing the crowd at the
Grand Central station.
1.-The distance from the 125th Street
station of the railroad to that of the
subway is very little If any longer than
the distance from the point OF alighting
at the Grand Central Railroad station
to the point where the subway train is
boarded.
THE commission is keenly alive to the
difficulties of the situation, and is en-
gagged in making a searching eNamina-
ton OF every feature that can in any
way contribute to the betterment of the