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New York?Allied printing trades council,191-?cover-title,7 p.folde map 23 om.Half-title.  \nReproductions may not be made without permission from Columbia UniversityLibraries.              \n## RESTRICIONS ON USE:\n\nTECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA  \nFILM SIZE:            35mmREDUCTION BATIO:      11:/  \nIB   \nIIB  \nMAGE PLACEMENT:IA  \nINITIALS:                  93  \nDATE FILMED:                    3-S-97  \n           22519                   \n## TRACKING\\#:\n\nFILMED BY PRESERVATION RESOURCES,BETHLEHEM,PA.  \n×/22  \nTHE  \n# INTERBOROUGH’SSUBWAY OFFER\n\n32'1g~、r33  \n# The Interborough’s Subway Offer\n\n个IE Interborough offered on December 5,1910,to build a new1 west side subway from Times Square down Seventh Avenuepast the Pennsylvania Teruninal to the Battery,with a branchunder Liberty Street and the East River to Pineapple Street,inBrooldyn;thence reaching the existing subway,which was to be ex-tended easterly to the corner of Eastern Parkway and Buffalo Avenue,with a branch under Lafayette Avenue to Broadway,Brooklyn;  \nAso a new east side subway from Thirty-fth Street to the Bronx,mainly under Lexington Avenue,with thre clevate branches in theBronx,one up Jerome Avenue,one up White Plains Rozd and thethird out Westchester Avenue to Pelham Bay Park.  \nThe cost of building these lines and of ftting them out with carsand the other things which go to make up a first clase high-spced ril-road was figured at one hundred and twenty-eight milion doller,ofwhich the Interborough agreed to put in seventy-frve mibion agziastthe City's fifty-three millions.  \nThe Interborough offered to make the new hoes a part of the sub-  \nway wita singie five-cent fare and free trnsfen  \nAM profts for the frst five years were to go to the City and afterfire years to be divided,share and share alike.  \nThe Interborough agreed that in case the new lines did not earnenough in any year to pay the interest on the money which it put intothe cost,or enough to make a sinking fund of one per cent on its share,the Interborough would stand the loss for each and every such year  \nand not ask to have the loss carried forward against the good yearsand paid before the City got its profits out of those years.  \nOn the other hand the Interborough agreed that if the new hmesdid not earn enough to pay the interest on the City's money and oneper cent.a year as a sinking fund,no profits should be divided untithe City had been made good as to back interest and sinking fundshortages.  \nThe Interborough also agreed that at the end of the lease it wouldturn over the lines to the City without asking a cent for the millionswhich it had put into the cost of building the lines.  \nThe Interborough also agreed that the City might take the newlines away from the company at any time after the first ten yearsupon paying back what the company had put into the cost of build-ing the lines,with the usual contractor's profit of ffteen per cent.,and that as time went on the amount so to be paid should be lesseachyear,so that in the end the City would get the lines without pay-ing anything.  \nThe Interborough also agreed that if the City wanted to take backthe lines it could have the cars and all other things which make upa going railroad,by paying just what such property was worth at thetime without any profit on it to the Interborough.  \nThe Interborough has a lease of the subway from the City Hallnorth,which was the first part built,for ffty years with the right totwenty-five years more,at a rent for the last twenty-five years to beagreed upon toward the end of the fifty years,and it has also a leaseof the subway afterwards built,from the City Hall to the Long Isla","cbCaigrBJACZnuJl","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigrBJACZnuJl","pdf",1465767,"English","# COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES - Preservation Division\n## Bibliographic Microform Target\n## The Interborough's Subway Offer\n## Terms, financing, and lease structure","[{\"question\":\"What subway lines did the Interborough propose building?\",\"answer\":\"It proposed a west-side subway from Times Square to the Battery, with additional branches, and an east-side subway from Thirty-fifth Street into the Bronx mainly under Lexington Avenue with multiple Bronx branches.\"},{\"question\":\"How were costs and profits handled between the Interborough and the City?\",\"answer\":\"The Interborough offered to fund most of the construction cost and proposed a five-cent fare system; profits for the first five years were to go to the City, then be shared thereafter.\"},{\"question\":\"What would happen if the new lines did not earn enough revenue?\",\"answer\":\"If earnings were insufficient to cover interest and a sinking fund, the Interborough would bear losses for those years and would not allow losses to be carried forward against profitable years. 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