The evening world. Newspaper, May 25, 1911, Page 20

20 THE EVENING WORLD, ADVERTISEMENT | ADVERTISEMENT | | The Interborough Offer Completes the City-Owned Subway. The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company Asks the City to Build Subways as Terminals for Its Elevated Railroads. The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company Proposes More Elevated Roads for Brooklyn. The Interborough Builds Subways There. | WHAT THE INTERBOROUGH PLAN DOES FOR BROOKLYN IN TERBOROUGH. ommmme £X/STING SUBWAYS. = == PROPOSED SUBWAYS IMMEDIATE CONSTRUCTION, INTERBOROUGH AND CITY MONEY. oovonsc0 FUTURE EXTENSIONS TO SUBWAY SYSTEM. mmm SUBWAYS UNDER CONSTRUCTION. ALL 70 BE OPERATED BY INTERBOROUGH FOR A SINGLE 5 CENT FARE. THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1911. ADVERTISEMENT . | ADVERTISEMENT J ADVERTISEMENT ! ADVERTISEMENT H ADVERTISEMENT a AD | RRR RRA WP APP SPAS DIDI pA RAR AAR AAD ens +4 3B) Ss EE ENT OFFMAIL BIL oOIOOINONINGG AAD ! ‘ $ <1 1 . ' Ss 3; uy xk % le oe 0 iS : g = r "2a ne 222 BQ Ss’ DEBEVOISE AVE. 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On the other Since that date and on May Ist the Brooklyn Company added __ tion for a single five-cent subway fare in connection with the present | hand, the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company’s plan proposes to to its so-called original lines: i subway, the Bridge Loop, and the Fourth Avenue Subway. The total | perpetuate a two-and three-fare system. 1. The Jerome Avenue extension to Jerome Park Reservoir. construction cost will be $198,798,650, of which the City pays The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company’s proposal is that it will | 2. The Southern Boulevard extension to the Bronx River. $110,320,150 for construction and the Interborough $88,478,500. The | spend less than $21,000,000 for construction in improving its eleva- 3. Lines to Astoria and Corona. : Interborough supplies all of the equipment, which makes a total | ted lines in Brooklyn and placing third tracks thereon if the Greater 4, The Nostrand Avenue extension. contribution by the Interborough of $140,824,500. The City’sexpen- | City of New York will pay about $168,000,000 of the taxpayers’ money 5. The Livonia Avenue extension; and diture under this plan is $58,000,000, less than cailed for by the | for subway construction and connect it with the out-of-date eleva- §. The Fourteenth Street Tunnel to East New York. Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company’s plan. ted lines in Brooklyn, provided further that all the receipts on the But not a word has been said about the additional cost of these he Interkorough’s plan establishes a universal five-cent subway | Subways built by the taxpayers’ money shall be used by the Brooklyn | lines. Every day since they were added the Brooklyn Company has ) fare from Fort Hamilton, Coney Island, Sheepshead Bay, East New | Rapid Transit Company in establishing for all time a dividend on | stuck to its original figure of $73,500,000. More than this, and still York, Ridgewood, Woodside, Corona, Astoria and all parts of the many of the unprofitabie elevated lines in Boooklyn. further showing the deceptiveness of their advertisements, the | Bronx. The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company’s plan establishes a | The Interborough’s plan proposes to extend the present City Brooklyn Company are placing upon their advertising maps in black ¥ ten-cent fare within the Greater City and for a great many of the | Subway so that all the people in Brooklyn, including the outlying | lines the following lines which they have riot even yet agreed to put people in Queens, Manhattan and the Bronx a fifteen-cent Fare to | districts, will be given a five-cent subway fare from one end tothe | in their offer: in eens "Coney Island. The Brooklyn Company claims that it will make a | other ofthe Greater City of New York. If the Interborough’s plan is (a) The Southern Boulevard line extending as far as Pelham } great saving to Brooklyn people by extending its lines into Manhat- | adopted by the City it will save $58,000,000 of the taxpayers’ money | Bay Park. j tan, thus avoiding a double fare. that the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company’s plan calls for, and this (b) The Utica Avenue extension; and r The Interborough Company, by going to Brooklyn for the | $58,000,000, will construct the lines shown on this map to Rich- (c) The Tunnel to Staten Island. people with its numerous lines with a single fare, save more than mond, to Jamaica and to Flushing, and if these lines are construc- And still they seek to lead the public to believe that all the black the Brooklyn Company claims to save, because on the Interborough | ted there would still be $30,000,000 of the taxpayers’ money saved by .| lines will cost the city only $73,500,000. there will be a single fare to reach from every point in Brooklyn to | accepting the Interborough’s plan. Now the facts are that the cost to the city of the lines first every point in Greater New York. The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co. advertises that it will take only | mentioned by them will be $118,000,000. \ If the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company is so interested in re- | $73,500,000 of City money to construct the rapid transit lines which The cost to the city, with their additions of May 1st, will run | °, ducing the expenditures of the fare-payer, why do they insist in | it has been showing in heavy black lines on its advertising maps. | up to $168,000,000. _ ¢#their proposition that for a short ride from Brooklyn to Coney | The misleading character of this talk about cost can be seen read- The grand total cost to the city of their layout as advertised pxetsand the fare must be ten cents? ily by looking at its offer of April 25th, in which it was stated that will run up to $188,500,000, eran’. ; ,