New-York tribune., 1922-05-16
Estmiate Board Let's l4th
Street Contract at Less
Than Rejected Bid.
But Interest Piles I'm
Construction Is
Halted 9 Months
Delay by Administration
Costly to Taxpayers in
Fight on Transit Body

New bids for key contracts, the com.
fetion Of which will permit the omen.
kng OF the Livonia Avenue elevated line
Ind Fourteenth Strect-Eastern District
subway. were opened yesterday by the
Board Of Estimate and Apportionment
The rev bids arc lower by S3.9O4 .o6
han those which the board turned
back 10 the Transit Commission last
august as too high
| In saving less than $4,000, however.
Ehe city has lost not only the use Of
Ehe almost completed subway for nine
months, but also the interest for that
Eerlod on the money invested, amount
tre % approximately sac 900
The bids which the Board of F.sti-
E,ste and Apportionment sent back to
khe Transit commission last August
aggregated SS3, ,793.43. Those which
kere opened yesterday aggregated
BE $50 Transit Commission engi-
heers eXpoct that the Livonia Avenue
eyteHsion and the Fourteenth Street
1suhway now will go forward rapidly
Eo completion.
The bids received yesterday are for
fo1struction of a signal tower and com
IPressor room for the Livonia Avenue
elevated line and for tie plates, spikes,
lsrlice bars, bolts and nuts required
Fer the completion of the Fourteenth
Street subway.
| New bids were received also for a
Esr inspection shed in the 1SOth Stree ct
Eards of the 1nterborough Rapid Tran
r. company in the Bronx. The low
IS hld, that Of tho Rosenthal Engi-
EeeI}nc Construction Company. was
E2eS Geo. which is lower by s2a, ,4O1 than
khe bid submitted last year. Besides
fae cost Of readvertising the contract
End other incidental expenses to be
Eedncted from this apparent saving,
FoVeTer, il Is thought likely that the
Enterhorough may recover damages for
injuries suffered by materials left ex-
posed 20 he weather through the de-
lhe Eoaenthal company's bid on the
.iS'si II Ass$s1 -cssssero ~ar shed for
fne livonia Avente inc also was the
loHeat received and is s245.52 less
l han last years bid for the Job
Slaughter ". Huff, president of the
hird Avenue Railroad Company, and
Robert {. Lee. receivers for the Stein
+ ay lines of the New York and Queens
{ ountT Railway Company. were held
n $500 bail each for Special Sessions
fv Magistrate Miller in Long Island
ity Court yesterday afternoon. They
&c charged with having violated Sec
on % of the Public Service Commits
cn law in not waiting thirty days
fer filing notice of new fares before
Itting them into effect.
On the stand Mr. Huff said that he
fould continue to run the Steinway
|iae-, charge a fve-cent far and refuse
+ give q transfer. He testified that
(he com pany is paying the New York
I'D Queens Company for power. He
Bald that he was at one time vice
PRESIDENT OF the F. r. T. and was
fauiliar with the filing of schedules.
bhe receivers we're given until to-day
b. 6le bail bonds.
Transit Attache Is Complainant
The complainant was Edward l..
the Transit Commission, who charged
enat the receivers issued notice of a
ew schedule Of fares Oh the Stein
ay lines, which until the receiver rship
b erc part Of the New York and Queens
Eounty system. This, in effect, ere
b ID 1O-cent fare for passengers
Transforming from the New York and
Feee0s cars TO the Steinway lines TO
b. 10 the Fifty-ninth Street Plaza In
Eanhattau.
Alfred T. Dawson and William E.
Stewart appeared for the receivers.
PC street Attorney Dana Wallace. of
|Quoens, represented the complainant.
Corporation Counsel O'Brien, Secre-
talr Jan1es &. Walker and George o.
IReddineton. representing the Transit
yoa mission, also were in court. Mr..
" a}i.er told about the filing Of the new
tS' Is on May ), and Mr. Hutchinson
i'estifed With reference TO the exactlon
Iot an additional fare when he tried to
Eran=fer from the New York and
QuecHs line to get to Corona.
Attorneys for the receivers moved
1ta dismiss the case. asserting that no
Solatior Of the transit law had been
estahiiBhed and that there had been
Continued pace thres)