New-York tribune., 1919-08-01
At Only Fourteen Points
in Manhattan Will Green
Car Conductors Issue Per-
mits for Extended Ride
Mayor Promises to Fight
Issues Statement Saying
Case Will Be Carried to
the U. S. Supreme Court

The recent order of Public Service
Commissioner Nixon permitting the
New York Railways Company and the
B. 4. T. to charge cents for transfers
1t most of their transfer points be-
somes operative at S o'clock this morn
ing.
Only at fourteen points in Manhat-
an will transfers be issued free. Two
,ents will be exacted at each of the
other ninety-nine stations. In Brook
yn only small fraction of the hun
areds OF transfer points remains free
Mayor Hylan issued statement last
hight declaring that if the Public Ser
ice Commission should decide against
he city in the rehearing next Monday
m the 2-cent transfer orders, the mat
er would be to aAen to the United States
upreme Court. if necessary.
Legal experts pointed out that it
ould be more than year before the
Sc could reach the final court of ap-
al and that in the meantime the or
ers of Commissioner Nixon would
rase to be operative, as they provide
nat the charge of cents for transfers
hall end July 81, 1920, unless the or
'crs are extended.
To the Last Ditch
we will fight this matter to the last
Itch and carry the case to the highest
curt of appeal in the land if pos
ible," said Mayor Hylan. "We will not
.irop the matter if the hearing before
commissioner Nixon is against us. 1t
* disgrace and an outrage for these
to be permitted to increase
heir fares in this indirect fashion, and
we will exhaust every means at our
command in the interest of the tray
elling public before submitting to the
outrage on our rights.
There is a remedy right at hand
by which this additional burden on
the people could be &verted That is
municipal ownership and operation of
the lines. But the traction companies
DO not want to surrender a good thing
and ere eager to hold on as long as
possible and extort exorbitant rentals
and dividends from the people.
They are trying to make it so hu-
and degrading for decent peo-
pie to ride on their lines that the peo-
peole in disgust and despair will
eventually grant them anything they
ask to secure better service. They are
trying to capitalize every square inch
of space in their cars and every strap
by crowding people into their cars in
such numbers that many times you
cannot get strap to hang on to, and
sometimes even find it difficult to get
a square inch of floor space to put your
foot Tho IN u,b; ;cI,
crate their lines with insufficient cars
and unreasonable delays between trains
has become intolerable. The manner
in which they crowd young girls in
among rowdies is immoral, indecent
and unhealthy.
Hope to Disgust People
disgust the people so they will demand
that service be bettered. Then they
will say that the service cannot be
bettered at the present fare. The pub
lies answer then, they hope, will be
20 give them anything they want if it
will result in improved service. The
public, however. | believe. sees through
their scheming and will not be tricked
out of its right to fve-cent fare in
that way.
"The companies now are bold enough
to ask the Court of Appeals to stultify
itself. Having decided against the
power of the Public Service Commits
sion to increase fares IN the Quimby
case, the court is now asked to grant
a 1eargument of the case so that it
traction magnates are apparently
hopeful the court will give heed to
their pleas, because of the decision in
their favor in the Buffalo case"
The fourteen free transfer points in
Manhattan not affected by the order
are.
Canal Street and West roadway,
Spring Street and West broadway,
West Fourth Street and Sixth Avenue,
Eighth Street and Sixth Avenue, Fifty
third Street and Ninth Avenue, 1O6th
Street and Amsterdam Avenue, 109th
Street and Columbus Avenue, 116th
Street and Lexington Avenue, Eighty
fifth Street and Madison Avenue,
Fourth Avenue and Fourteenth Street,
Fourth Avenue and Twenty-third
Street, Broadway and Twenty-th third
Street and Broadway and Thirty-fourth
Street.
These four corners were agreed upon
as free transfer points in the fran
chises granted by the city to the street
car lines.
Where Two Cents Must Be Paid
Two cents will be charged at these
ninety-nine intersections of the green
car lines in Manhattah:
Broadway and Park Row, Washing
ton and Chambers streets, Broadway
and Chambers Street; Centre ard
Chambers streets, Duane ard Washing
ton streets. Duane and Greenwich
streets, West Broadway and Duane
Street; Broadway and Duane Street;
Duane and Centre streets, Desbrosses
and Washington streets, Desbrosses
Canal streets, Narck and Canal streets,
Varick and Watts streets, Broome
Street and West Broadway, Grand and
Centre streets, Grand Street and the
Bowery, Spring Street and Broadway
Spring Street and the Bowery, Delan-
cey Street and the Bowery. Essex and
Delaney streets. Clinton and Delaney
streets, Greenwich and Charlton
streets, Hudson and Charlton streets,
Narick and Charlton streets
West Broadway and Prince Street
Broadway and Prince Street, Bowery
and Prince Street, Essex and Stanton
Greenwich and Houston streets, Hud-
son and Houston streets, Varick and
Houston streets, West Broadway and
Houston Street, Broadway and Houston
Street, Bowery and Houston Street
Avenue A and Third Street, Avenue B
and Third Street, Astor Place and
Broadway. Washington and Christopher
streets, Washington and West Tenth
streets, Greenwich and Christopher
streets, Greenwich and West Tenth
streets, Christopher and Hudson