New-York tribune., 1922-11-02

unity OF the lines, and that there il
no possibility of tae city obtaining
money to carry IL ent. because New
York's borrowing pey " "a already
pledged UP to its constitutional limit.
Shows Plain Eject ON Brooklyn
$50 far as the people OF Brooklyn
are concerned, referring only to major
matters Ii will cut off the Sea Beach
line and the Brighton Beach iine,"
he said. ut will cut off the elevated
system from the subway. Ii will com
pei ali of the people of Brooklyn wto
now transfer at Canal Street in Man
haitian. either north Or south, 20 pay
an extra fare. II will separate The
present Tnterborough system into two
parts: the West Side subway, which
the Mayor proposes to operate, and the
East Side subway, to be retained by
the Interborough, and it will destroy
the free transfer ct Forty y-second
street, which now is used by over
100000 people daily.
"There is some desperate purpose in
view when such measures are seri-
ousIy proposed, and that purpose
plainly is not to give the people OF this
town service, but to destroy the service
that they are now getting, to break UP
the existing system into parts, in or
der that the city administration and
Tammany Hall may be able 80 estab-
iish political control over some Of the
broken parts. | am not surprised that
although the plsa was proposed with
a great show of bravery on September
6. plainly Tor political effect, after
waiting for four years, once the light
is shed on it the Mayer is now propos-
ing to postpone discussion OF his plan
y
essary to discuss it after election. Its
first purpose was purely political, and
after election it will go the way OF
other political bunk, because the peo-
pie OF this town are too Intelligent to
stand for any s,fch proposition. That
Is the proposition which candidate
Smith is committed to, for which he
proposes to destroy the work Of the
Transit Commission"
Transit Plan Ready Soor
Contrasting this Hylan plan with
the Transit Commissions program, the
Governor said OF the latter in con-
clusion:
"The full definite plan will be in
shape to submit TO the city and the
companies within the next few weeks
or months. Instead Of using up what
borrowing power the city now has, the
plan proposes TO acquire titls. with cut
using any barrowing power; instead Of
leaving the city bereft Of any means
whatever tegsinaugurate new subway
construction, the plan will at once re-
lieve s300,ooo,ooo of borrowing powe
for the construction OF new subways
now frozen in the subway bonds. AM
the plan contemplates that urcn this
unifieatson OF the existing lines they
shall be operated for a single fare, a
scent fare, in place of the present 1e
and Is and sometimes 90 cent fares.
But the commission does not stop
there. II it stopped there you might
we'll despair, because the growth OF
population in this city, the daily in
crease in the number of those who
ride on the transit lines, is such that
unless speedy action to provide addi-
tional transit facilities is taken moth
ing short of disaster stares the people
Of this town in the face. The Mayors
plan, first, postpones any action at all
for new construction until 1926. It
then postpones it indefinitely, because
it uses up ali of the available borrowing
power of the city. The Transit Com
missions plan is to proceed forthwith
with the construction Of new sub
"