New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-05-19
Miller Invites
Hylan to Tell
Transit Plans
4.sures Him Board Has No
Pride Of Opinion or Au-
,hority, and Will Give
Them Due Consideration
Asks About Queens Fare
saw. l4th St. Subway Delay
Costs City More for In
,erest Than Work Would

o.-.rror Miller informed the Queens
c,.,her of Commerce, at its spring
,,,.heon yesterday at the Hotel Com
..aor,. that the transit problems CON
...,,,ns New York City would be
..,v.d only when the pressure of en-
r.bt.ned public opinion becomes strong
enough to compel their solution.
4. said that the delay in the compile
.,., Of the Fourteenth Street subway,
,..;.h Was due to the Hylan admins
,..,;o,. had cost the city to date "many
.;n., in interest what it would cost to
complete that work
Invites Hylan to Tell Plan
II. Governor said he hoped that
Mayor Hylan would come forward to
II, Transit Commission with his her.
aided subway plan. asserting that he
"a, confident that it would be consid-
.red fairly and impartially. as the com
mission had no pride of opinion or au-
thcrship.
This transit problem has been OBJ
,cured by political discussions for the
last four years" said the Governor.
give fare has been the shibboleth,
and wonder if the people of Queens
are acquainted with a fve-cent fare i?
They know nothing about a fve-cent
fare, except as you compute the num-
Der Of times that you have to pay five
cents. and that number will continue
to increase so long as destructive and
obstructive tactics are permitted to
prevail. Substitute construction for OBJ
struction and you can again get back
gradually to the thing which will then
become a reality instead of being, as
now, myth with which to delude the
unthinking people of this town"
The Governor said he was not at
tempting to solve the transit problem,
that that was for the City of New York
to solve, through the city administra-
non and the Transit Commission, and
added: an its solution the Governor
Of the state is not undertaking to in
terfere."
He said that a unified system and a
continuous ride for single fare were
imperative in the solution, and that
this, naturally, would lead to complete
municipal ownership.
Must Develop Borough
at is vitality necessary" continue
the Governor, chat your borough shall
be developed; it is vitality necessary
in every aspect, not merely industrial
sure the comfort and the happiness
and the health and the welfare of the
millions of people around this great
eenter-it is vitality necessary that
these wide spaces in Queens and Rich
nord shall be developed. And so the
two problems of transit and the other
woblem of the development of your
nrminal and port facilities are, in my
Judgment. the problems most vitality
Mecting the health and the happiness
and the welfare and the future of these
Millions Of people. y
~ want to say that any one who
would dare to play politics with such
necessities and with the needs of
these millions Of people is assuming
gave responsibility.
dkow, there have been a great many
Mistaken notions put afoat with refer
once to what was done in the creation
M the Transit Commission, and an
sttempt has been made to create the
Impression that 1t was something new
that it was endowed with new powers
that in some fashion the powers OF
the city had been invaded
r ~ undertake to say that this com
mission is not now exercising single
power, and is not endowed with sin
gle power not possessed by it's prede-
eessor, going back to the original Rap
i'd Transit Commission created, as you
know, more than 25 years ago.
Would Prevent Obstruction
1T is true that so far as possible we
undertook to clothe the commission
With power to prevent obstruction
Now, you cannot do that by legisla-
tion. however, except in part, and you
have recently had evidences of the fact
that the Board of Estimate is still in
the full possession of its powers to OBJ
struct, and that those powers are being
exercised, although am happy to say
and have no doubt you have observed
that that obstruction, while it may re-
tard, can not indefinitely postpone the
development and working out of this
great problem.
"of course, it is perfectly obvious
that there are three things to be accom-