The New York herald., 1921-09-22
JOHNSON MAPS OUT
HYLAN TRANSIT War.
California Senator Here to
Canvass Plans for Court
Action, Is Belief.
CONFERS WITH 0'BRIEN
Political Plot Seen Against
Commission. With It's
ec,osszs755Iiuctive Aims.
MAYOR HITS OWN IDEAS
Will Be Lined Up With Trac-
ton Interests, Which Fight
Squeezing Of Water.
CONFERS WITH 0'BRIEN
MAYOR HITS OWN IDEAS

Despite the fact that forecasts of
the Transit Commissions plan for the
solution of the city's transportation
difficulties indicate the provision of
remedy for virtually every transit all
ment of which the Hylan administra-
yesterday that Senator Hiram w
Johnson, chosen last spring to lead the
Hylan fight against the commission
was called to New York this week for
conference with John p. OBrien.
Corporation Counsel, upon plans 10
continue the fight.
Already, at Mayor Hylan's behest
Mr.. O'Brien and Senator Johnson have
carried the validity of the act creating
the Transit Commission to the courts
and lost at every turn. Persons ia
miliar with the court fight and the law
under which the commission was es-
tablished were at a loss to see where
Messrs. O'Brien and Johnson hope to
win by renewing the court fight.
In political circles, however, 1t was
stated that the reasons are obviously to
continue Mayor Hylan in the political
role of saving the people" from the
corporate interests''-that. having taken
his stand against the Transit Commits
sion and branded It as ninstr-,:nent
for aiding ana abetting in the robbery
of widows and orphans, the Mayor can
not resign his show of opposition. lest
he appear TO concede defeat and error
OF Judgment in his premises Concisely.
Mayor Hylan cannot support the plans
of commission named by a Republican
Legislature, It was said. even though
that commission seems about to accom-
plish that for which the Mayor has
Crusaded three years.
HyIan to Get Traction Help.
Reports concerning the Transit Com
missions plan, 1t was stated. indicate
also that Mayor Hylan will not be alone
in his fight. Extremely strenuous op-
position. il is expected. will develop from
The transit companies, particularly
against the commissions plan to squeeze
the water ont OF their securities and the
resultant restriction of the fare to 1--WE
cents.
Therefore It was stated yesterday
when the prospective fight against the
Transit Commission gets under way
Mayor Hylan will find himself doing
battle under the following circumstances.
which are understood to be giving him
and his political managers serious con-
cern:
Mayor Hylan viii be fighting
shoulder TO shoulder with the transit
companies which for three years he has
attacked.
Mayor Hylan win be fighting plan
70 preserve a five cent fare upon such
"A basis that n years to come 1t may
drop even as low as four cents.
Mayor Hylar viii be fighting a pro-
posal to squeeze water out of transit
stocks. which his own investigation
showed amounted TO hundreds of millions
of dollars.
Mayor Hylan VIII be fighting a plan
20 give the city a return upon its
s241 900, 900 OF subway investments and
increase the debt margin by that much
for more subways and more schools.
Mayor Hylan will be fighting a plan
60 restore the thousands OF free transfer
points eliminated under his transit policy.
Mayor Hylan will be fighting his own
pet scheme of establishing bus lines
where surface car lines have outlived
their usefulness. with the additional adj
vantage, IT is expected, of transfers to
rapid transit lines
Mayor Hylan will be fighting the first
serious effort at solution OF the transit
congestion. service extension and finan-
cial problems that has been undertaken
since he first intimated that things are
not what they ought to be.