New-York tribune., 1919-10-01
Brooklyn May Pay
Is Scents a Ride.
Traction Men Sav
None of Franchises of CITY
Railroad Company Calls
for Scent Fare; Increase
Is Not to Come at Once

Is Not to Come at Once
Patrons Of the twcnty-six Brooklyn
surface lines which will be returned to
the Brooklyn City Railroad Company
for Independent operation will not be
compelled to pay the increased fare
schedules for several days, it was
learned yesterday.
Officials Of the Brooklyn City COM
pany met yesterday with representa-
tives of Receiver Lindley NJ Garrison
of the B. r. T. and took up the prob
lem Of untangling the complicated
traction cut-up-puzzle formed by the
various companies and their separate
franchises.
Colonel Timothy S. Williams, presi-
dent Of the B. r. T., and Frederick P.
Royce, general manager; Secretary
Zcrah Watson and H. Hobart Porter,
general manager Of the Brooklyn City
company, began what they described d
as a continuous session until the for
NAL order is signed by Federal Judge
Mayer.
After the financial settlements have
been made between the two companies
it is probable that hearings before
the Public Service Commission called
to adjust the fare schedule will pro-
long the time before the extra fares
will begin.
The earliest time when increased
fares will start is OH or after October
3, as Judge Mayer has called hear
ing on the subject for October s. I'm
till then, it was pointed out, the Brook
, II ,rrt,
operate the lines
Colonel Williams said of the trac-
ton situation: at must be remem-
bered that the individual lines of the
Brooklyn City company have fran
chiscs which give them the right tc
charge varying fares, most Of them ir
excess of five cents.'
The fares permitted by the ole
franchises, according to Colonel Will
lamS are
Flatbush Avenue, from Park Row to
Bergen Beach, Is cents.
Fulton Street, Park Row to ia
maica Avenue, cents.
Gates Avenue, Park Row to Fresh
Pond Road, 10 cents.
Myrtle Avenue, Park Row to Cooper
Street, 10 cents.
Nostrand Avenue, Delaney Street
to Avenue U, 10 cents.
Tompkins Avenue, Delaney Street
to Malbone Street, 10 cents.
Flushing Avenue, Park Row to
Maspeth Depot, 10 cents.
Lorimer Street, Greenpoint Ferry
to Malbone Street, 10 cents.
Third Avenue, Borough Hall to
SiSty-seventh Street, 10 cents.
Thirty-ninth Street ferry to Fort
Hamilton, Is cents.
! Union Avenue ferry to Fresh Pond
| Road. 10 cents.
forces its right to demand on the line.
Of the Brooklyn, Queens County anc
Suburban Company the fares permitted
on these lines, according to the ole
franchises, Colonel Williams said, would
be:
Broadway, Delaney Street to Cres-
cent Street to Jamaica Avenue, 10
| cents.
Metropolitan Avenue. Delaney
Street to Jamaice Avenue, 10 cents.
ReidUtica avenues, Delaney Street
to Avenue S, Is cents.
Frank Lyman, president of the
Brooklyn City company, said they woult
operate the lines in the interest Of the
people.
we have the right to charge more thar
cents we shall do So" he added.
"We have heard lot recently from
City Hall about the sacredness of con
tractual obligations" Colonel Williams
said, "that a company was compelled
to accept a scent fare because it hat
contracted to do so. A bargain is 1
bargain, whether it benefits the cit,
should carry out its contracts as mad
in these old franchises"
David Hirshtield, Commissioner o
Accounts, compared the B. R. T. AM
It's subsidiary lines yesterday to
financial octopus. He said the B. R. I
had hit upon a plan for forcing Vi
fares by falling into the hands of
friendly receiver.
Commissioner Hirshfield said: "N
sooner had Receiver Garrison been ap
pointed than no made APPLICATION t.
Public Service Commissioner Nixon 70
increased fares, ignoring the city ad
ministration. Commissioner Nixon len
friendly ear to the receiver, but tn
: Supreme Court, through Justice Finch
decided that the Public Service Com
missioner had no legal authority t
override solemn contract.
Every body thought the tentaces o
the financial octopus had been severed
but the hidden tentacles came to til
surface, and application was made t
: Judge Mayer to return twenty-siX sur
face car lines to the Brooklyn Git
} Railroad Company, which applicatio
was granted by Judge Mayer yester
day.
s.I am satisfied that this whole hocus
pocus is staged in the hope that tn
threatened double carfares will caus
the people in Brooklyn to demand tina
the Mayor and the city administratio
permit the Brooklyn Rapid Transi
Company to charge an increased far
so that the Rockefeller Morgan mag
. mates be still more enriched. The pee
pie Of Brooklyn arc not easily fooled
and this strategical move is bound
be n failure"
: Manhattan Bridge
Line to Discontinue