New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-31
|Hylarl Tries to
WI AXE Ss1l,ways
4 Campaign Issue
Office Holders Given Word
to Boost Mayors Transit
Scheme TO Limit; Hearst
Expected TO Enter. Fight
fireC.ommissionFirstAin,
Ii IL Obsiruct Proposal, 1t
Must Give Way TO Local
Body, Hubert Asserts

Organized political propaganda in
aid of Mayor Hylan's subway plan,
with the idea of forcing it to the front
as an issue in the state campaign, was
started yesterday by Acting Mayor
Murray Hubert, in the absence of Mr..
Hylan, who is still at Saratoga.
The uylan Office holders received
word yesterday that City Hall wanted
the Mayors subway and bus idea
boosted to the limit.
Acting Mayor Hubert was the first
to respond and ISSUED statement in
harmony with the Mayors attacks on
the Transit Commission praising the
Mayors subway plan and threatening
to make political issue of it if the
Mayor were obstructed.
If the Transit Commission attempts
to obstruct the comprehensive plan of
the administration for new subway
construction" said the Acting Mayor
in his statement, "it will be the duty
of the people this fall to elect state
officials who will pledge themselves to
abolish the State Transit Commission
and tnrn over its functions to the local
auth oriticsthe Board of Estimate
and Apportionment."
No Finances, Claim
This is what Mayor Hylan is all
legged to have said over the telephone
from Saratoga, although at City Hall
Yesterday it was suggested that John
4, Delaney, formerly Transit Con-
structlon Commissioner. was the real
author of the Mayors subway plan
and the statement that followed it.
1t is understood that William ]. Con-
ners, the manager of the Hearst-for-
Governor campaign, will soon issue a
statement sponsored by Mr.. Hearst
himself, promising the people OF this
city that if Mr.. Hearst be elected Gov
ernor, the Transit Commission will be
abolished and it's functions lodged with
the BOARD of Estimate.
When Mr.. Hulbert's statement was
brought to the attention of George
McAneny, chairman of the Transit
Commission, he said:
THE thing chiefly to be criticized in
the Mayors plan, aside from the fact
that it would tear to pieces what is left
of the common cent fare system, is
tiisG tiiS WY SiI uSiItitL llitdilEc riUi
build the lines he promises. To deceive
the hopes of the people who are ap-
pealing for more transit with promises
of this sort, made, as it now appears,
for purely political reasons, is indie
fe..siblep
Hylan Drafts Pamphlet
As to Acting Mayor Tulhert's state
ment assaiIing Mr.. McAneny, the
chairman said: 81 fail to get any head
or tail out of Mr.. Hulbert's statement.
My criticism of the Mayors scheme
related to the scheme itself, financially
and as an operating proposition. IT
is impossible in both respects. The
matter OF laying out routes for lines
to be built within the next fifteen
years is another question. Any one
can make map, and make it as broad
and big as the paper will allow. As /
have said, SO far as the principal lines
and the localities to be served are
concerned, the Mayors particular rout-
ing plan copies plans that the transit
engineers have had before them for
years"
From Saratoga Mayor Hylan yester-
day directed his staff to prepare at
once for general distribution a pam
phlet containing description of ali
the routes laid down in his $500. 200, 900
plan, their order of construction, to-
gether with map of all the routes, so