The Board met pursuant to adjournment. Present, Commissioners Cole and Baker. Hearings. Adjourned hearing in the matter of the complaint of the Taxpayers' Alliance of the Borough of the Bronx against the Manhattan Railway Company. W. W. Niles, Jr., and A. C. Hottenroth for complainants; Ezra A. Tuttle for the company. After hearing evidence and arguments, the hearing was closed. It was decided that the Board should consider matters to be submitted to it by the company tending to show that the company is making progress in connection with the extension of its line northward from One Hundred and Seventy-seventh street and Tremont avenue; if then, the Board desires the co-operation of a committee of the complainants' counsel, it shall so signify to the railroad company and endeavor to secure the admission of such committee to examine the same matters as to the progress being made. The Board adjourned. NEW YORK, DECEMBER 15, 1899. The Board met pursuant to adjournment, Present, Commissioners Cole and Baker. Hearings. Application of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company for approval of the Board of an increase of its capital stock from $100,000,000 to $115,000,000, laid before the Board for the first time to-day. Samuel E. Williamson and Ira A. Place appeared for the applicant. Application granted. Orders. Application of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Com. pany for approval of an increase of its capital stock from $100,000,000 to $115,000,000. Granted. The Board adjourned. ALBANY, DECEMBER 22, 1899. The Board did not meet in Albany on this date, as it had intended, inasmuch as it was engaged in Brooklyn, in the matter of the complaint of residents of Brooklyn against the street and elevated railroads of that city. It, however, delegated to its secretary, under section 156 of the Railroad Law, authority to hold a hearing in the matter of the petition of the town of West Seneca, Erie county, under section 62 of the Railroad Law, for a determination that the grade crossing of the Terminal Railway of Buffalo by a highway known as the Abbatt road, in said town, should be changed from grade and the highway carried underneath the railroad. The secretary held this hearing. John S. Rockwell appeared for the petitioner; F. A. Harrington for the Terminal Railway of Buffalo. After hearing evidence, the hearing was closed, but the matter was held open. Cases Pending Before the Board of Railroad Commis sioners, December 18, 1899. Complaints. R. Daniel Krowerath v. Long Island Railroad Company, in matter of dangerous curve. Taxpayers Alliance Borough of Bronx v. Manhattan Elevated Railway, in matter of extension of railway according to charter of company. H. W. Albert v. New York, Ontario and Western Railway Company, in matter of storage charges on baggage. F. Eugene Lawton v. Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad Company (New York Ceutral and Hudson River Railroad Company lessee) in matter of crossing. John Costelloe r. Brooklyn and Brighton Beach Railroad Company, in matter of discontinuance of station. George Albert Allin v. Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, in matter of transfers. Luigi Galvani Doane v. Brooklyn Union Elevated Railroad Company, in matter of train service, guard rails, etc. Residents of Brooklyn v. Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, in matter of train service. Charles F. Yearke v. Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, in matter of coal jimmies. W. H. Farr v. Erie Railroad Company, in matter of bridge, over crossing. Frederick H. Cowles v. New York and Ottawa Railroad Company, in matter of unsafe condition of road. John R. McLaren v. Troy and New England Railroad Company, in matter of change of time table. Residents of Schenectady v. Schenectady Street Railway Company, in matter of not running cars over entire line of road. Residents of Bath Beach v. Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, in matter of operation of street surface and elevated roads. Residents of Rochester v. Rochester Railway Company, in matter of car service. Residents of Flushing and Corona v. Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, in matter of fare and transfers. George H. Maxwell v. Herkimer, Mohawk, Ilion and Frankfort Electric Railway Company, in matter of overcrowding of cars. Application for approval of crossing signs. Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company. Application for certificate under section 59 of the Railroad Law. Baldwinsville and Liverpool Railroad Company. Syracuse, Skaneateles and Moravia Railroad Company. Cross Country Railroad Company. Warren County Railway. Lehigh and Lake Erie Railroad Company. Union Station Railway Company of Buffalo. DeKalb Avenue and North Beach Railroad Company. Delaware Valley and Kingston Railway Company. Application to abandon stations. Brooklyn and Brighton Beach Railroad Company. Application for approval of motive power. Baldwinsville and Liverpool Railroad Company. Little Falls and Herkimer Street Railway Company. Application for extension of time in which to equip with automatic couplers. Boston and Albany Railroad Company. Crossings. Little Falls and Herkimer Street Railway Company. Long Island Railroad Company (town of Riverhead). Long Island Railroad Company (town of Hempstead). Town Board of Locke. Lehigh and Hudson River Railway Company. East Side Traction Company. City of Middletown. Town Board of Colesville. City of Elmira. Perry, Castile, Silver Springs and Pike Railway Company. Greenbush and Nassau Electric Railway. Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway Company (Pavilion). Town Board of Smithtown, L. I. Town Board of Brighton. Dunkirk and Point Gratiot Traction Company. The Delaware and Hudson Company and The Glens Falls Railroad Company. New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company (Fonda). The Ulster and Delaware Railroad Company (town of Middletown). The Public Improvement Commission of city of Cohoes. Village of Waverly. Town Board of Southampton, L. I. Village of Cuba. Frankfort and Utica Street Railway Company, to cross tracks of West Shore Railway. Erie Railroad Company (interlocking signal apparatus near. Olean). Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company (interlocking signal apparatus west of Painted Post and East of Mount Morris). City of North Tonawanda (matter of Oliver street crossing). New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company (interlocking plant at Alabama street, Buffalo). The Boston and Albany Railroad Company (town of Kinderhook). Common council city of Niagara Falls, in matter of extension of Tenth street over tracks of New York Central and Hudson River, and Erie Railroads. |