New-York tribune., 1922-04-26

acterized it's treatment of the Four
teenth Street subway for the last five
years.
The commission assumes that the
long hold-up of construction work is
nearing an end and that the Governor $
injunction has been needed. 1t seems
extremely unlikely that the Board of
Estimate wilt take either the risk
or the responsibility for delaying the
contracts the commission ia now re-
submitting TO them or those that Will
be submitted within the next few
weeks"
Although the Board of Estimate de
cided to send back the contracts to
the Transit Commission for readver-
tising they did not reach the COM
mission Yesterday The Board Of Esti-
mate has had possession of the con-
tracts continuously for more than ten
months.
Chairman McAneny said that both
the Comptroller and the Mayor are
mistaken in their contention that the
city is not losing 1000 day because
Of failure to finish the construction
Of the Fourteenth Street subway. He
said that up TO the time that the road
goes into operation the interest charges
are added so the cost Of construction.
After InP TChN JS III ti'i iht''' '''N 80
terest is charged against revenues
There is loss TO the city already on
account of this delay Of about 100000,
and the delay involved in sending back
tho contracts for readvcrtising VIII
add S12O.0O0 more to the loss.
Tho commission engineers said yes
terdav that to make the link between
Meserolc Street and East New York
q subway instead Of an elevated, as
called for in the plan. would increase
the cost about $5,o00,000 and defer
the completion for two years.
Edward i. Mccall, former Supreme
Court Justice, and former chairman OF
tho Public Service Commission, was
appointed yesterday by the Transit
Commission as member Of the COM
rnittee Of three TO determine reim-
burscment to subway contractors who
continued work at a loss during the
19lX strike on the subways Judge
Mccall was named to fin the vacancy
caused by the refusal of Corporation
Counsel O'Brien to serve. The other
two members arc Attorney General
Newton and +. J.. Crawford, subway
contractor.
Governor Miller signed the Lusk bill
which permitted the contractors to take
their claims into court. The Board
ol CSkIlldN' pI olHI Stu Nlit NolIli avn
to make good their losses if they would
continue the construction work despite
the refusal of tn, members Of the un-
ions to work at the pre-War scale.
As condition to passage of the bill
and approval by the Governor the CON
tractors signed a stipulation that they
would not sue in excess Of amounts to
be fixed by such a committee as that to
which Judge Mccall has been appoint
ed. In the stipulation it was set forth
that the committee should consist Of
the Attorney General OF the State, the
Corporation Counsel and Mr. Gram
ford
Some of the damage" claims filed
with the Comptroller which now will
be adjudicatcd by the committee Of
three are:
Booth & Finn. Ltd. (six clains) s1.461,sq1
Crawford Company ................ l.iG0.576
\. i. Guidone & Son............. 1889
T. II Reynolds Construction Co. 2ls, 29t
Degnon Contracting Co. Gour
claimsl ......,, ;......;,.... 12s6,s2o
proven,ent co. ............... q75.s52
bradley Contracting Co.........- $50, 9,9l4
William 6 Cooper, Inc. C......... l6292O
Cabot & Rollins. ..... 3s43,SSS
Construction
Corporation Observation-Disclosures. l03s. Isl
L. X. Smith Contracting Co.,. 223 s62
Iitchiield Construction Co......, 7O7.235
In all, the claims aggregate sl5,0o0,-
600 1t is expected they will be scaled
down to about 35 per cent of their
face value.