New-York tribune., 1921-02-09
Asks
Court Aid for
B. IL. T. Lines
Nassau Receiver Forced
to Default OH His Car
Lease Warrants 10 the
A mount of 5000, ,647
35 Per Cent Wage Raise
u. S. Judge Mayer Fixes
February IA for Hear
ing ON Relief Sought

Lindley M. Garrison, receiver for the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit lines, made a
report yesterday as to the affairs of
the various companies to Federal Judge
Mayer and asked instructions Of the
court. A hearing on the relief asked
for in the report will be held on Feb
ruary Ia, Judge Garrison was in
formed. The receiver points out:
'It seems too clear to require elab-
crate statement that the transporta-
tion problem in Brooklyn should be
treated as whole and that 1t is i'm
possible to deal satisfactorily with 1t
piecemcal. Whatever Is, done in one
direction inevitably affects not only
the particular situation in hand, but
to greater or lesser extent the whole
situation.
''While under existing conditions
there is no centralized authority ca
pahle Of treating the situation in its
entirety, and while, of course, it is not
suggested that this court, under exist
ing conditions, can speak as adequately
with the questions presented to it as it
could if there We're such a centralized
authority capable of dealing with the
situation as whole, it is nevertheless
important, in the opinion of the re-
ceivcr, for the court TO consider the
necessities of the situation as whole
with a view to meeting it as fully as
existing laws permit.
"The Nassau company receiver has
suspended in whole or in part the fol-
LOWING lines: Ocean Avenue Gin part);
Rogers Avenue, Church Avenue, Sew
onth Avenue, Park Avenue, Thirty
ninth Street, Coney Island Gn part), +,
Hicks Street.
THE suburban receiver has suspend
Cd in whele, or in part, operation of
the Metropo itaan Avenue line (in
part), Wyckoff Avenue and the Ralp
Avenue shuttle.
"The Coney Island receiver, in con-
junction with the Nassau receiver and
the Brooklyn City Railroad Company,
has ceased operating the experimental
Park S.ope line.
"The following additional Zines ara
failing at the present time 70 earn
son Avenue, Ralph -Rockaway. Eighth
Avenue, Vanderbilt Avenue, West End
Avenue, Eighty-sixth Street, Ocean
Avenue, Broadway. Jamaica Avenue,
Reid Avenue, BroadwayFerrv shuttle.
metropolitan Avenue, Utica Avenue.
Franklin Avenue, Smith Street.
Having, under order of the Public
Service Commission and the Supreme
Court, purchased seventy-three safety
cars, and having paid on account there
on $170,703.14, the Nassau receiver, for
lack of funds, has had to default on
his car lease warrants, issued for the
remaining installments of the purchase
price, which amount to $299.64T IS and
he is in danger Of having tho cars
*aken away from him, losing beth the
cars and the money.
"There has b~,.. 35 per cent in
crease in wages since the appointment
If the receiver, adding approximate ly
400 900 to the cost OF operating Dur
ing receivership. In addition to wages
the cost Of operating was increased by
tho advance in the price of coal from So
a ton to 50 a ton and substantial ad-
vances in other materials and sup
plies"
The application points out that the
property of each individual company in
receivership and the income therefrom
must be separately administered for
he benefit of each company's particular
creditors, so that neither the funds
nor the property of any one receiver
ship can be used for the benefit Of any
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