The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-27
NINTH AVENUE LINE
TRANSFERS CUT OFF
Judge Mayer Signs Order to
Return Road to Former
Owners October 1.
DOUBLE FARES FOR MANY
Interborough Applies to End
Feeder 8 Cent System i'm
Upper Part of City.

Transfers on the Eighth and Ninth
avenue surface lines will pass into his
tory and the latter line will be returned
to its owners on October ! under the
provisions Of formal orders entered in
the United States District Court yester-
day by Judge julius NJ. Mayer
| Not only will the hundreds of thou
sands of patrons of these lines lose the
transfer privilege. but also. according to
Michel Kirkland. counsel for the owners
OF the Ninth avenue system. they may
have to ride in box cars dug up from
the graveyard"
On this point Mr.. Kirkland and Bron-
son winthrop. counsel for Receiver job
e. Hedges disputed yesterday in the
| court room, the former contendng that
the receiver proposed to hand over only
! Anticipated cars, the latter protesting
that, though elderly, the cars would run
safely and securely and had been in
disuse simply because of the curtail-
ments OF service.
1t was all settled, however, by Judge
| Mayer, who ordered that legal rows
| over the intrinsic worth and age OF the
| cars be left to another time, and that
the receiver deliver forty cars Of 1917
type and UP to sixty box cars Of by
gone day to the owners company.
Transfer Abolition Ruled out.
Judge Mayer cut short the city's
formal objection to abolition of transfers
] by a declaration that arguments on the
fact that the Public Service Commission
had recommended cent transfer
charge could be deferred. Anyway this
| was not a matter before the court, he
ruled.
On the Eighth avenue line the follow
ing transfer points are abolished:
One Hundred and Forty street
and eighth avenue for 145th street cross
town; 116th street and Eighth avenue
for 116th street crosstown 116th street
and Eighth avenue for Broadway Colum-
Ibus-Lenox Eighty-sixth street and Cen
trail Park West for Eighty-sixth street
crosstown ; Flfty-ninth street and Colum-
bus Circle for retransfer from Fifty
ninth street to Madison or Lexington
avenues; Fifty-third street and Eighth
avenue for Sixth avenue. Broadway.Co-
lumbus. Broadway-Amsterdam avenue
lThirty-fourth street and Eighth avenue
for Thirty-fourth street crosstown
Twenty-third street and Eighth avenue
for Twenty-third street crosstown Four.
teenth street and Eighth avenue for
Fourteenth street crosstown: West Tenth
and Hudson streets for Eighth street
lcrosstown and Seventh avenue, Brook
Ign; Christopher and Hudson streets for
Eighth street crosstown and Seventh
avenue. Brooklyn: Canal street ana
West Broadway for Canal street cross
town: Canal street and West Broadway
for Sixth avenue line.
| West Side Transfers Gone.
On the Ninth avenue line the transfer
privileges abrogated are:
| Fifty-ninth street and Columbus ave-
nue., retransfer from Fifty-ninth street
TO Madison or Lexington avenue Fifty
third street and Ninth avenue to Sixth
avenue Broadway. Columbus Broadway
Amsterdam avenue Thirty-fourth street
and Ninth avenue to Thirty-fourth street
crosstown; Twenty-third street and
Ninth avenue to Twenty-third street
crosstown; Fourteenth street and Ninth
avenue to Fourteenth street crosstown
Washington and Christopher streets to
Eighth street crosstown and Seventh
avenue; Greenwich and West Tenth
streets to Eighth street crosstown and
Seventh avenue.
In accordance with the changes be-
ginning October / the Broadway-Am
sterdam and Broadway Columbus ave-
nue. cars will go to Fifty-ninth street
and Seventh avenue. while the Sixth
avenue-Amsterdam avenue cars will run
TO Fifty-ninth street and Sixth avenue
This will eliminate transfer points be-
tween the Broadway-Amsterdam avenue
line and the Broadway branch cars OF
the Third avenue system at Seventy-sec.
ond street and Broadway.
Ths elimination of transfer points will
~. a OfaA tTntI o ri hAt he it,
avenue-Amsterdam avenue cars and the
Third avenue system. In addition the
transfer point at 106th street and Am.
| sterdam avenue between the 10th street
crosstown and the Amsterdam avenue
cars will be abolished
In both the cases of the Eighth and
Ninth avenue lines the present accom-.
mediation of retransferring a second and
; third time will disappear Hitherto pay.
ment of a seven cent fare entitled q
passenger to an initial transfer and a
second or third one in sequence provided
he continued to travel in one direction.
Seek TO Revoke Feeder Transfers
Further elimination of the transfer
would result under new tariffs which the
feeder surface lines connecting with the
} subways and elevated in The Bronx and
: Interboroughs company, filed yesterday
! with the Public Service Commission
Transfer points between the feeder anC
trunk lines would be affected by thes,
proposed new rates. Changes TO con
form to those OF the feeder lines wer,
also filed by the marlborough.
At present for eight cents a passenger
on the feeder lines receives both his rid,
on the feeder line and a transfer to tn,
trunk lines. It is proposed to do ava,
with the transfers entirely so that tn,
nat five cent charge will remain OIL
both the feeder and the trunk lines
: Since the present interchange of trans
fers Is voluntary agreement between
the lines, Its revocation Is not a matt cl
of law or franchise.
. II the application is approved the thre,
cent transfers will be eliminated at IL,
following points:
: Fordham road and Third avenue, be
tween the Third avenue elevated and tn,
4 Bronx and Van Cortlandt Park line o
the Third avenue system: Boston roaC
and 1S0th street, and Boston road an,
l77th street, transfers between thu
I crosstown lines and the Bronx and Val
h Cortlandt Park line of the Third avenue
system and the West Farms branch o
4 the subway; at Third avenue and 1901
street, transfers between the Third ave
4 nue. IL" and the cro3stown line; at 81
4 Nicholas avenue and 1S1st street, whicl
Is a heavy transfer point, transfers be
I tween the Broadway subway and tn
\ University avenue, Ogden avenue an,
0 the crosstown lines OF the Third avenu
5 system: at Broadway and 238th street
0 transfers hAtWaan the RroadWav suh