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Daily News from New York, New York • 217

Publication:
Daily Newsi
Location:
New York, New York
Issue Date:
Page:
217
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DAILY NEWS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1932 Bklyn. Sec 2 These Items on Sale Thursday Friday Unless Otherwise Specified 1 Bridge Trolley Lines Quit for jn n. ajwanani gratis smiBWAY stomhhe Lack of Funds Fulton Street at Iioyt Brooklyn The Post Office and Grand Avenue, Brooklyn, trolley lines over the Williamsburg bridge suspended operation last night because the Third Avenue Railway System could not find funds with which to repair its tracks over the bridge. The two trolley lines served nearly 5,000 persons daily. Chair man William G.

Fullen of the Tran MM sit Commission, day re-quested the which also operates trolleys over the TV i 11 i a msburjj Bridge, to prepare for the ad-d i i onal traffic which would re-a 1 1 from the suspension. In its notice to nil ii NwSftXl Em Albert Goldman, the Transit mn i i the officials of the Third Avenue Railway System of which the Dry Dock, East Broadway and Battery Railroad Company, operator of the two lines, was a subsidiary, re vealed that one of the lines has been operating for years without a franchise. Can't Force Operation. In a letter to Albert Goldman, Commissioner of Plant and Struc tures, in which he yesterday ad vised of this suspension, Fullen said the original franchise to oper ate a line over the Williamsburg Bridge was given to a company which ceased operation years ago I I MANHATTAN Sale! Porto Rican Gowns Crepe Slip POST V- I BROOKLYN BATTtRY. JT A.

Double breasted veste effect of solid linene. II. Attractive model with pleated frill trimming. C. Square neck.

Pleated frill at side. Pearl tuttous. D. Smart model with attractive collar. Blue Green Peach White Sizes 16 to 46 The Gowns: Abraham Straus Subway Store, Brooklyn, N.

Y. Please send me the following Eyelet Embroidered Linene Dresses f(i $1 each: Domestic anil Porto i-ari crepe piwns in regular and extra sizes. Porto Rican gown in regular sizes onlv. liite, fiVh. tearo-e.

Colors St vies Map indicates (broken lines) routes of Post Office and Grand Avenue trolley lines across Williamsburg bridge, no longer served by cars of Third Avenue Railway system. Traffic load over bridge is to be assumed oy facilities, it is announced. Since then, by verbal agreement with a former Commissioner of Plant and Structures the Dry Dock company has operated over the bridge. In such case there was no legal means to force continued operation of the lines. Notice to Commission.

Some time ago the management of the trolley company gave notice to the Transit Commission that the tracks over the bridge were in dangerous condition because of lack of repairs and that the company could not find funds with Quantity Mail and Phone Orders CU mberland 6-6000 Please State Second Choice of Color. The Slips: NAME ADDRESS Cash Charge C. O. D. Flat crepe in regular ami extra 2Sonie rayon taffeta an.

I rayon crepe f-ligjitlv soileil. in regular sizes only. Nem-titi hetl ami Iiani! hile. lle-Ii, tearoe. Mail Phone Orders CU mberland 6-6000 which to make repairs.

For this Abraham Straus, Subway Store, Brooklyn. N. V. Plea-- send me the following Slip and o'ii di iic each: i HUT- Item- Siw Color Ouanlitv 9x12 Seamless Wool Velvet Rugs Fine quality fringed and unfringed in desirable patterns and colorings for your dining, living and bedrooms. A good serviceable rug at a very low price I reason the suspension was ordered.

PAINTERS FALL WHEN SCAFFOLD RAILING BREAKS Two painters were injured yesterday when they fell from a scaffold on the first floor of a building at 1797 Prospect Place, Brooklyn. The victims were Isidore Silver, 42, of 1617 Prospect Place, and Samuel Masonson, 5, of 135 Belmont both Brooklyn. They were taken to St. Mary's Hospital suffering from internal injuries and bruises of the back and head. Both men were thrown to the street when the guard rail of the scaffold broke in the middle.

In. their fall they narrowly missed striking several pedestrians. I I Addre- r''wmM 1 -iTrTiiMi '''I'li'W.

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