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In the McAneny Proposals Cram 0(1 
poses His Colleagues on a Poln| 
It isn't certain by any means that 
report of the conference committeei 
of the Public Service Commission and' 
the Board of Estimate will be adopted 
at the meeting of the board on Wednes 
day. Mayor Gaynor wants the triboroughj 
route and Comptroller Prendergast andj 
President Mitchel of the Board of Alder 
men are said to be opposed to many of thi 
recommendations made in the report 
of the committees. It was learned furthei 
yesterday that unless the report of 
committees is modified in a great man; 
of its clauses Mr. Prendergast and Mr 
Mitchel will vote against it, and as eaclj 
of them has three votes their votes wi 
the three which the Mayor has wouli 
be sufficient to defeat the report. 
Although Mayor Gaynor continued 
yesterday his policy of silence it wi 
stated by men who are supposed 
be in his confidence that he was aver 
to pandering further to either the Inter- 
borough or the Brooklyn Rapid Transr 
companies and was inclined to take 
attitude that unless the companies weri 
[, | prepared at the open meeting of the Boari, 
of Estimate to say whether or noj; ike? 
“ ' would accept or reject the (Wtropos- 
he would be disposed to dismiss the tpO 
companies from further cons&ideratico< 
and to urge the building of the trib*jroufc\t' 
route. \ 
A consideration which' is said to tke 
inducing Mayor Gaynor and two of thd 
members to favor the triborough Scheme 
is that this road could be built by the city 
for about two-thirds of the sum which 
the city would have it put up for the 
construction of the lines which have been 
j planned for the Brooklyn and Interbor¬ 
ough companies. 
Although the open meeting of the Board 
of Estimate next Wednesday is not to be 
a public hearing applications have already 
been made to the board by the theatre 
men, hotel men and retail dry goods men 
for an opportunity to have a say on the 
McAneny report. 
J. Sergeant Cram, the new member of 
the Public Service Commission, is known) 
to favor the triborough plan, and in thisj 
attitude that he has taken there wai 
interest attaching to a call which Senate: 
Tim S llivan made yesterday on Chair, 
man Willcox of the commission. Big Tim] 
said after he left the chairman’s room that] 
he had merely dropped in to get a line on! 
the subway situation. He said that he 
thought that the situation would be 
“ironed out” in a couple of weeks but when 
he was asked in what way the ironing 
would be done he would only reply that 
neither he nor any one else would know 
until the couple of weeks were up. Big 
Tim is closely allied with the heads of the 
Bradley Contracting Company which was 
the lowest bidder for several of the sec¬ 
tions for the construction of the 1 tri¬ 
borough route and should the city decide 
to construct this line the bids of the 
Bradley company would undoubtedly be 
accepted. 
J. Sergeant Cram had a disagreement 
yesterday with, his fellow commissioners, 
when a vote was taken as to whether or 
not the commission should carry tp the 
Court of Appeals the question of the juris¬ 
diction of the commission in objecting to 
the plan proposed by the bondholders of 
the Third Avenue Railroad Company for 
the reorganization of that line. Chairman 
Willcox introduced a resolution providing 
that the issue should be taken to the Court 
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of Appeals. The resolution was voted! 
for by all the members of the commission 1 
except Mr. Cram, who in voting against 
the appeal said: 
I cannot, after having carefully read the 
opinions of Mr. Justioe Clark and of Mr. 
Justice Ingraham, vote to appeal, a$ I.enter- 
tain no doubt of the result of the appeal 
I think the Court of Appeals has already 
passed upon the difference between the 
original organization of a railroad com¬ 
pany and its reorganization. In the first 
instance there is no doubt of the jurisdic¬ 
tion of this board, but I think in the second 
the law relating to reorganizations of corpo¬ 
rations controls. 
I am satisfied that it has not been super¬ 
seded by the public servioe act and con¬ 
sequently I think a great hardship would 
icted upon the . junior 
