January 15, 1886, The Atlantic Avenue Railroad Company of Brooklyn acquired the right to use this Company's tracks:

On Washington street from Concord street to Front street; thence along Front street to Fulton street; thence along Fulton street to Fulton ferry; also in Water street between Main and Washington streets, and along Washington street from Water street to Concord street.

The tracks were to be used for cars operated on the "Brooklyn division of the Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad Company," and also the Seventh avenue line and the Hamilton ferry, Boerum place and Adams street line. The Atlantic Avenue Company also acquired the right to use this Company's track on Front street from Adams street to Fulton street for any of its cars. For the rights acquired under this agreement, which seems to have taken the place of earlier agreements, the Atlantic Avenue Company agreed to pay a yearly compensation of $1,500. The agreement might be terminated by this Company on a written notice in case the Atlantic Avenue Company failed for a period of 60 days to pay the quarterly installment of rental due.

In the Company's report to the Railroad Commission, 1887, it appears that on April 27, the Company had entered into an agreement with H. C. Deming, purchaser at a foreclosure sale of the property of The Grand Street, Prospect Park and Flatbush Rail Road Company, to operate the property, and that on April 29, 1887, the property was leased from the Franklin Avenue Railroad Company. By this lease and the subsequent merger, this Company acquired the line:

Extending from the intersection of Flatbush avenue and Malbone street, through Malbone street, Franklin avenue, Wythe avenue, South Eighth and South Ninth streets, Kent avenue, North First street, Little Water street and Grand street to the Grand street ferry in the eastern district of Brooklyn.

September 28, 1887, by a certificate of surrender of capital stock filed in the secretary of state's office, this Company merged The Franklin Avenue Railroad Company (no. 231).

January 1, 1894, by an agreement entered into between this Company and The Atlantic Avenue Railroad Company of Brooklyn, the latter Company obtained the right to use this Company's tracks:

On Washington street between Concord and Water streets, Front street between Adams and Fulton streets; Fulton street between Front street and Fulton ferry; Water street between Main and Washington streets; for the

operation of the Hicks street, Sackett street, Bergen street, Fifth avenue, Seventh avenue, Vanderbilt avenue, Park avenue and Butler street lines of

cars.

This agreement was modified in minor particulars July 1, 1896. April 23, 1895, by an agreement entered into between this Com pany and the Nassau Electric Railroad Company, in which it is recited that this Company is the owner of a single track street railway in South Eighth street used by cars operated in one direction only; that is to say, from Kent avenue to Wythe avenue, and that the Nassau Electric Railroad Company has acquired a franchise for a double track railroad on South Eighth street from Kent avenue to Broadway, the Companies agreed that the Nassau Electric Railroad Company could construct a double track in the block between Wythe avenue and Kent avenue, using the rails of this Company's single track in the construction of the double tracks.

June 12, 1895, by two agreements the rents reserved in the agreements of August 4, 1872 and May 12, 1883, were readjusted on account of the change of motive power from horse to electricity on this Company's lines.

April 23, 1896, the Company acquired the right to use the tracks of The Coney Island and Brooklyn Rail Road Company on Water street from Main street to Ferry place. On the same date, the Coney Island and Brooklyn Company acquired the right to use this Company's tracks upon Washington street between High and Prospect streets.

August 23, 1897, by an agreement entered into between this Company and The Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, the Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad Company, the Nassau Electric Railroad Company and The Coney Island and Brooklyn Rail Road Company, it was mutually agreed that the expense in connection with the carrying out of the plans for the operation of the trolley cars over the Brooklyn bridge should be borne in the proportion of 60 per cent by The Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company and the Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad Company jointly; 24 per cent by the Nassau Electric Railroad Company; 10 per cent by this Company; and six per cent by The Coney Island and Brooklyn Rail Road Company. The use of the tracks, equipments and terminal buildings on the

bridge was to be allotted to the several companies in the same proportion. This Company was not to have the right to operate over the tracks of The Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company and the Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad Company, except on Fulton street, between Prospect and Smith streets; on Sands street between Fulton and Jay streets; on Navy street, between DeKalb and Park avenues; on Park avenue between Navy and Raymond streets; on the lots at the northeast corner of Sands and Fulton streets; and on Liberty street, when tracks should be constructed there; nor the right to operate over the tracks of the Nassau Electric Railroad Company, except on Adams street, between Fulton and Prospect streets; on Concord street between Washington and Navy streets; on Navy street between Concord street and Park avenue, and on Park avenue between Navy and Raymond streets. This Company's tracks were not to be used by any of the other companies, except on Washington street between Fulton and Prospect streets. This Company was not to use the tracks of The Coney Island and Brooklyn Rail Road Company, except on Jay street between Fulton and Prospect streets; on Prospect street between Fulton and Jay streets, and on High street between Washington and Jay streets. These limitations referred to the tracks in the vicinity of the bridge used for the purpose of bringing the lines of the various companies to and upon the bridge. It was agreed that each company should be responsible for damage from accidents or injuries caused by the negligence of its own employees.

This agreement between the Associated Trolley Companies was supplemented on September 29, 1897, to meet the changes made on the same date in the plans for crossing the bridge, as shown in the supplementary contracts entered into on that day between the bridge trustees and the different trolley companies.

September 1, 1897, this Company leased to The Coney Island and Brooklyn Rail Road Company for a period ending May 1, 1898, the Franklin avenue division, extending from the Grand street ferry to the junction of Malbone street and Flatbush avenue at Prospect park.

December 1, 1897, this Company leased all its property and franchises, except its franchises to be a corporation, to The Coney

Island and Brooklyn Rail Road Company for the full period of 999 years. The rental to be paid under this lease included the interest on the lessor company's bonds, track rentals, the reasonable expense of maintaining the lessor company, extending its charter, acquiring additional franchises and constructing its branches, and eight-fourteenths of the net earnings of the combined system operated by the lessee. The lessee company was also to pay all taxes, assessment and license fees. The constructed road at the time of the execution of this lease, was described as consisting of a single track:

From the corner of Front and Washington streets, through Front street to Fulton street, thence down Fulton street to Fulton ferry, and from Fulton ferry along Water street to Washington street, and thence along Washington street to Front street and with double track from that point along Washington street to Fulton street, along Fulton street to DeKalb avenue, along DeKalb avenue to near Wyckoff avenue; also a double track from the junction of Grand street and Kent avenue, through Kent avenue to Eighth and Ninth streets with single tracks on Eighth and Ninth streets to Wythe avenue, and thence with double track through Wythe avenue, Franklin avenue and Malbone avenue to Flatbush avenue; also a loop down Grand street, to River street, and through River street to Kent avenue near South Second street.

January 12, 1898, this Company obtained permission to cross the tracks of the "Lutheran branch line" of The Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, now known as the Lutheran cemetery extension, at Covert avenue.

The DeKalb Avenue & North Beach Railroad Company, incorporated June 24, 1897, entered into a construction agreement April 6, 1900, with The Coney Island and Brooklyn Rail Road Company for the construction of a line as an extension of this Company's DeKalb avenue line. It appears that at about this time the entire capital stock of the De Kalb Avenue & North Beach Railroad Company, as reduced on April 6, 1900, to $50,000, the entire outstanding stock amounting to not more than $10,000, had been acquired by this Company. The double track railroad constructed as an extension of this Company's DeKalb avenue line was completed and placed in operation on or about August 27, 1901.

March 18, 1903, by an agreement entered between this Company and its lessee, The Coney Island and Brooklyn Rail Road Company, the Nassau Electric Railroad Company and The Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, provision was made that

The Brooklyn Heights Railroad and The Coney Island and Brooklyn Rail Road Company should pay the cost of construction of the double track in Gold street, share and share alike; this Company and its lessee to do the construction work and to guarantee to The Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company the perpetual privilege of joint use of the tracks; this Company and the Coney Island and Brooklyn Company to have the right to connect the tracks on Wythe avenue with the Nassau tracks on South Eighth street, and as soon as the Williamsburgh bridge was completed to operate the cars of the Franklin avenue line over the tracks on South Eighth street and other tracks connecting with the railroad on the bridge. For the tracks on Gold street, (to be constructed) at the joint cost of the parties interested, three cents per mile was fixed as the compensation to be paid by The Brooklyn Heights Company to the Coney and Brooklyn Company for power and maintenance of way; for the tracks on South Eighth street, where there was no joint ownership, the track rental to be paid by the Coney Island and Brooklyn Company was fixed at 35 cents per foot of single track per year, in addition to the three cents per car mile for power and maintenance. It was also agreed that The Brooklyn Heights Company should have the right to continue to operate its cars over the tracks of the company on Washington street between Fulton street and the entrance to the Brooklyn bridge, the compensation to be at the rate of 35 cents per linear foot of single track per annum; the title of the Brooklyn Heights and Nassau Electric companies in Gold street to be in perpetuity, as tenants in common, each an undivided one-half of the railroad therein to be constructed; the trackage rights granted to this Company and its lessee on South Eighth street to commence from the date when the Williamsburgh bridge was opened, and to continue as long as this Company and its lessee should operate cars over the bridge. The agreement of August 23, 1897, between the Associated Trolley Companies, with reference to the use of each other's tracks in the vicinity of the Brooklyn bridge, was modified so as to give this Company and its lessee the right to use the tracks of The Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company on Willoughby street between Jay and Navy streets, and on Navy street between Willoughby street and DeKalb avenue, in addition to the tracks covered by the original agreement.