New-York tribune., 1922-10-28
Transit Board
Subway Relief
PIansOu1t Soon
McAneny Makes Announce
saaent lin Criticism of the
ssDisgracefril Behavior"
of the Mayor i'm Public
Universal Scent Fare
Boards Chairman Predicts
Proposals VIII Go For
ward With Little Wait

Shairsnan George a. McAneny of the
Transit Commission in sweeping at
tack last night on Mayor Hylan, whose
recent behavior Mr.. McAneny says is
1an increasing disgrace" announced
that within q month or two the COM
mission will make public It's plans for
further subway relief and for the res
toration of the universal 5-cent fare.
lie makes the prediction that those
plans will sc forward with little in
tcrruption.
"The outstanding thing at the mo-
aents" says Mr. MeAneny. SIS that q
ssn bearing the high title of Mayor
4 the City of New York speaking
Saily in public places and through the
sswspapers, is capable of grossly and
Systematically deceiviag the people
shose affairs he has in trust.
THAT tho commissions statement of
facts, provoked by the Mayor, has not
been fattering to him Is not the COM
missions fault" says the chairman.
Mayor Belittles Exposure
Mayor Hylan, following his daily
custom. issued an attack on the Transit
Commission. with especial reference to
Clarence J. Shearn, counsel to the
commission, who, the Mayor says, "is
drawing between 5000 and $500 day
out Of the city treasury" The Mayor
mildly defends Police Inspector Henry,
whose wife obtained bus permit from
Commissioner Whalen TO operate on
the Eighty-sixth Strees Iine. the most
profitable of all the routes. The Mayor
also glosses over the exposure of the
easy money insurance business of the
firm of Sinnott e. Canty, which has the
inside track in writing bus insurance.
James Paul Sinnott, head of the firm,
is brother Of John P. S:nnott, the SON.
in-law and secretary of the Mayor. or
the disclosures concerning John A. Nc
Carthy, the "discoverer' of Hylan, his
campaign treasurer, and the owner of
feet of the Hylan Whalen busses,
the Mayor says:
''The people appreciate the busses
and they are not particularly inter
ested in who owns them temporarily
so long rs they get adequate service
on a 5-cent fare" The Mayor repeats
his familiar charge tnat the traction
ring" is aiming to put over their IDEAL"
for unloading S3b0,o0U,000 to $600,0o0,-
900 worth of junk on the city.
In mis- formal statement Mr.. Nc
Aneny says:
"The commission has shown that the
so-called plans for new subways put
forward by the Mayor were impossible
ia every sense. that the lines he has
been promising to every community
could be passed upon and built only by
his SUCCESSORS in Office; that to recap
ture,' for purposes of municipal oper-
alton, detached parts of the dual sub
way system would alone cost $1S5,000,-
600, to be paid from the city treasury
In cash to the interborough and B. r.
T., enough to exhaust every dollar of
the city's available borrowing capacity
tor fer years hence, and to block the
building of a single line of new track;
and that the breaking up of the pres
ent lines. for which the Mayor has
been clamoring, would result in the
establishment Of multitude of new
double fares throughout the length of
the town. 1t has been shown that the
Mayors statements about buying
Junk lines with city funds are abso-
luteiy untrus; that it is not proposed
to use dollar of city funds for the
purchase of Any lines, junk or other
wist, and that when the commissions
actual plan becomes effective-as | do
not doubt for minute it will~-the
CITY not. only will take on no new
transit debt as a charge against bor
rowing capacity, but will be relieYed
oi the charge that it now carries.
No Response Except Abuse
THE Mayor has been given official
ngures showing that fifteen-vear
building scheme such as he has nut ON
paper would cost 81, 100, 900 900 instead
OF the s6o0,ooo,o0o Of his estimates.
that such scheme would be impossi.
pie, and that even if it were possible
the decision as to most of the routes