The New York herald., 1922-06-22
MANENY CALLS FOR
HYLAN TRANSIT PLAN
TO END 5 Year TALK
Challenges City Hall to Pro-
duce Something Besides
Obstruction.
'SOON,' MAYOR ASSERTS
Leads Board of Estimate in
New Rejection Of 18th
Street Contract.
AssA1Ls JUNK PURCHASE
Commission Chairman Finds
Him 1915, 100000 in Err
ror on Figures.

tentative plan Of the commission was
presented In September last, that it
would be ready, for them along about
then. He has had. for that matter,
something over Ave years in which
10 produce something; but up to the
present moment. as far as the COM
mission has been able to learn. he has
produced nothing.
The intolerable conditions the people
Of the city have suffered have continued
with little or no abatement until the
power OF the commission was employed
to bring relief. At every stage Of its
effort to secure Improvement. either Inn
mediate or permanent. the Mayor has
offered nothing but obstruction. Need
less to say. the appearance of anything
like an actual plan Of his. with the pos
sibility Of helpful suggestions In II. the
commission would welcome. That would,
at least, indicate change Of policy"
A s21B.ooo. 900 Diaer-nce.
In reply to Mayor 14ylan's charge that
the Governor and the commission are
trying to put over Job on the city
regardless Of its wishes" by acquiring
with city money at q. cost Of about half
a million dollars privately owned
system Of surface and elevated lines
which Is obsolete and approaching to
the Junk stage, Chairman McAneuy said |:
''The Mayors comment in the main is
a misstatement Of facts that have been
many times corrected 1t Is not pro-
posed to take over a system chiefly OF
surface and elevated lines to be acquired
with city money at a cost of about half
a billion dollars The valuations placed
hy the commissions appraisers upon the
surface lines of all the boroughs is
something like s135. 900. and the
valua tions placed upon the elevated lines.
including the extensive third tracking
and improvements and the various ex-
tension lines built as recently as five
cr six years ago. is s15o.000.000. Tho
Mayors major figure. therefore. is
about s215. 100000 out of the way.
'1t Is proposed, moreover, that tho
lines to be taken for unified operation
shail not be paid for with city money.
OF which there appears to be very little
In sight. but that they should be paid for
through the issue to the present owners
OF a new series Of bonds. to be retired
from the earnings Of the roads them
selves, and to be accepted by the owners
IN return for the surrender by them of
the vastly greater bond and stock issues
upon which interest Is now required to
be paid. The city. under the commits
SONS plan, would get the ownership Of
the roads and require their operation
upon a cost basis without paying out
single cent
- Retaining Five Cent Fare.
Mayor Hylan commented Upon Gov.
Miller's assertion, made Tuesday night
IN Queens. that the commissions pro-
posed system Of transportation was
planned to be operated for a single
fare" Mr.. Hyian suggested that "he
(Gov. Miller) significantly failed to
state what the single fare would be.
because OF his consciousness that this
barometer scheme. in,bedded ir the State
Transit Commission plan, inevitably
means a single fare In excess OF five
cents. probably seven or eight cents and
netting the present operators in the