The evening world. Newspaper, May 14, 1919, Page 5

scRURCU ERE O ITY +2 Ree At ten com miheny ol Declares B. R. T. Violates Obligations, CITY’S CONTRACT CLEAR Holding Up Construction of Culver Line Link Sure to Be Futile. ea te District Attorney Lewis of Kings County pointed out to-day in a state- ment to The Evening World, a road through which the public of Brooklyn find Manhattan may procéed to de- termine whether the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, by subterfuge and Bridal Veils draped to order * Point Applique Limerick Lace Reat Lace Scarss 45.00 to 150.00 110.00 a Limerick Lace, 41.50 to 150.00 evasion, i8 to be permitted te charge Carrick-ma-Cross 75.00 to 100.00 ee ee Reat Laces “The continuation of exacting : ten cent fare by the Brooklyn Rap! adh aeat Lace 4.95 to 65.00 aint A sata pe hes tye view of the contract existing between wee the city of New York and the rail- Venice 450 to 40.00 road company is most lawless. . tanto aa ba ia33 “the attitude of this rallroad to- Lacé : ward the Brooklyn public is again R fsce Necew: indicated by its disregard of law and EAR der, its failure to provide safe and Stas Poue 45.00 to 65.00 proper vehicles for tranapertation and Tiiehaae am ed By the exaction of a higher fare than Wak lose 9.50 to 25.00 is provided by the plain and unam- one ce 7.50 to 35.00 biguous language of the contract. merick Lace 15.00 to 19.50 “In view of their failure to pull the rma-Cross 11.50 to, 15.75 wool over the eyes of the legislators and secure laws permitting an tn- creased fare they now seek to ac- complish ‘ thelr object by lawless means. 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An Inquiry Into the terms of the con- tract of the B. T. R. with the city as to the operation of the Culver Line extension to Coney Island should serve as an impetus to determination Public memory will go back to the fight The Evening World made for a five-cent fare to Coney Island. At Transit Company between New York | the suggestion of this newspaper then and Brooklyn and Coney Island m|Assemblyman (now Supreme Court Counsel to the Public Service Com- jine and the West End line, from the 5th needs A particularly attractive assortment of patterns and colors, made in the McCreery Juslice) Robert F, Wagner introduced |-calesion at the’ time this letter was a bl in the Legistature providing for ro was George 8, Coleman, who ue five-cont fare. succeeded by Judge / Isiand at Whitman, which is counsel to the| tract, ground that the Public Service Com-|fiirhorough Street Itatlwa: y Gem “Artl mission, which he had just created. | pany and the Consolidated Gas Com .y ‘The Public Service Commission, cre- to compel the B. people a b-cent fare to Coney Island “Dear Sir: Referring again to your|to the three citizens who were ar. | Line and i for refuting to pay an extra fare, Questing @ definition of a certain pur- This is « test Mr, Harri contend that so far aa the West End order ts harap ong Lape and vigorous | «Until the time when trains may be| io ‘The evening World to-day: | line Is concerned the fare on that line Prosecution by me will follow’ operated for continuous trips wholly} hat LS ‘officiais| to Coney Island should have been & line Is fully completed and in opera-| In cargin( Manhattan, to the points at or near| tAken for some ti Coney Island, at which the construc: | tract between the City of New York, | Coney Isl as provided in Article VIL." mn, and New York Municipal Rall- | Building “I desire to inform you that counsel | }yg? g OrPoration, known as Contrmot | @rticle hat the all be entitled to| partly over a line owned by the city, of the right of the B, T, R: to charge|Avenue Subway, including the New cater feb 4 A pelts 4 & ten cent fare on a line over which | Utrecht and Culver Lines, is reads |road and ¢ . Whouy:over 8 ine owned by the ety, |_ This will a five cent fare was provided. Pin ageres Avanos © aad x Le like the West nd line, To illustrate: ind the operating company is en- cu dy Youre oy WALKER” | Wholly over connected portions of t / Avenue ON THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Phenomenal Offering MEN’S SHIRTS This sale, coming as it does at a time of the year when the need of replenishing one’s Shirt sup- ply becomes most apparent, offers an opportunity to purchase a generous supply for present and future Considerably Below Regular Prices “‘McCreery’’ [ladras & Percale Shirts Excellent Quality 6 for $8.75 model; soft or starch cuffs; sizes 13/4 to 18, Sleeve lengths 34 to 36. NO C. O. D.’S — NO APPROVALS — NO RETURNS. (Men’s' Furnishings—Main Floor) Munfoipal Building tn the of Manhattan, not to Coney island, lives at No. 114 Hicks Street, Brook-| but to the points at or near Coney the reduction of gas to 80 cents per! pleted to Avenue X and is in opora- THE OPINION OF P. 8. COMMIS: | thousand feet tion to that point, The construction GION'S COUNCIL IN 1916, bi ne Cirure tn the tight. Just | neyond "Avenue X "haa bees fuss , pended. ' ated by the then Governor, Charles = | 10 Ive uP, to ite contract to ive the |Plgints Article LX, Agen the fens tion te Hughes, wrote the following letter,|is Maxwell 8, Harris, a lawyer, with Crercne. cont Dare 10 Seer -_ ted April 10, 1916, to John H. Ewald No, 291 Broadway, Man | Mruction of the railroad shall be sus: Secretary of the Kensington and] i\itin tee atk ‘as provided in Article Vil. Parkville Improvement League: sociation and will which ts at Avenue X on the Culver \ nde it je clear dommunteation of March 27, 1916, re-| ested at Coney Island Monday night | Polnt pas, been suspended, It oe Slane 5-cent fare to Coney Island should go tion of that part of Article 62 of Con-| MAN MAKING THE FIGHT NOW | Into effect. tract 4, beginning with the following SURE OF HIS GROUND. “I have always contended and still over connected portions of* the rail- . that the 6-cent conte 7 the a Werther etttn ing bot! Cur u fare to Coney Isiand is not yet due|#d put in operation at point ane eee eee we the Bread. {24 will not be die until the Culver | which was more than two years ago, way-Fourth Avénue Line) from the/ tion to Coney Isiand, This is the po- | the operating company has done so in Municipal Building, in the Borough of | #\tion which I py, they have| Clear violation of the contract, Their position, “While the company has had the however, is not borne out by the con-|right to charge & 10-cent fare to tion of the railroad shall. be suspended thyough the Public Service Commis-|might be made from the Municipal al » 4, to trips made wholly over a line has advised the commission that tbis| “Article LXIT. of the contract, |owned by the company or partly over provision means that until the Fourth | which fixes the rate of fare, providles|@ line owned by the company and ne, whieh Is own company, shouldered to charge @ 10-cent fare tojonly until the time when trains ¥ | to ‘Gonéy Toland a lo-eeat fare may ¥ be be vperated for continuous trips| charged. If a tp Is made on a Bea suit, a sort of each train, running partly over thi tad allroad, including. both, the Culver! Rroadway-Fourth avenue subway, a cousin” to No, 923, th city-owned line, and partly over the ter James McCreary & Co. wever, which the construction of the West find ‘oe oe a Che Dill was passed, “but Gov Waseone who now associated wi in the raliroad shall be suspended, as which is owned Siarles B, Hughes vetoed it on the|the law firm of ex-Gov. Chartes gad in Article VIL, of the com- a aw fare m:; tra “It is abont arg t VII fixes these points at be a judicial Avenue Y on the West End line and question, an should have regulatory power over|pany. These corporations are tryiM®| at Avenue X on the Culver line, every Vomttimate Ay has fare ‘ stes on street oar lines In New |to force upon the people of Manhat-| | “The Weet End line haa bom tally -0e e fare & completed, not only to Avenue Y, but York City, Gov. Hughes was subne- | incr, ip the price of gas. Ebe | to Coney island, and has been in op- quently & Justice of the United States ‘blic will recall that it was The! eration to that point for some time,! Supreme Court, vening World which brought about/and the Culver Line has been com- since construction at that &@ 10-cent fare on that line until continuous trips the points referred to in that right relates only 34th Street WELLE 7 EMI WEDNESDAY & THURS