The evening world. Newspaper, December 18, 1902, Page 2

HE TOP NOTCH IN GOAL SQUEEZE “The Evening World by an Exhaustive Inquiry Shows Just How the Public Many Cases a Short-Weight Gauge _Is Coupled to the High Rate. ee | HERE ARE ACTUAL QUOTATIONS OF PRICES FOR COAL BY DEALER These varying prices for hard conl were quoted by lephone by the following dealers: Vehslage & Lammers Wilson, Matthew & Company. John Sander .......4, Columbus Coal Company Robert Gordon & Son Ernst Brothers Bunke & Cording (have none) . Stokes Brothers (for customers)..... Stokes Brothers (for non-customers). Burns Brothers W. H. White (to old customers) Theodore F. Tone ...ssesessveees tel c $12.50 12.00 11.00 8.00 10.00 18,00 12,00 8.00 9.00 7.80 14.00 10.50 (have none "Phe man with a great deal of mony can get coal; the man with only a ‘Mittle money can get coal. ‘he financlafly mediocre citizen, the fellow witha Httle honse and a big mortguge on it, is the one who Js getting squeezed by the present coal scarcity. This much appeared to be demonstrated by inquiries made by Tae Even- mg World of a large number of coal dealers, great and small, in this city. The inquiries were made by telopl.one, the inquirer for coal representing feimselt to be 2 would-be purchaser, for Jt has been learned in the newspaper business that men sometimes say one thing when they think its going to “appear in type and another when they think It isn’t. It wae ascertained by there Inquiries that some dealers have coal and geome haven't. Some wat a lot of money for what they have and others are eontent with half price. Old customers are being favored. as is quite natural, _empectally by those dealers who are keeping the price within bounds, WILL, TAKE ANYBODY’S MONEY. 4 The fellows who have put the price up to the ceiling are mostly willing (© take anybody's money so long as it’s money. If You have money and will pay it there are dealers in New York who will help you out, * If yon are miserably poor and willing to swallow your pride you can get. e081 by the bag, or pall, or bucket. If you haven't a dollar and are willing tO beg the charitable organizations will take care of you, but if yon own a oure, or rent one. and you don’t want to carry a bag of con! through the streete on your back or bend under the welght of a bucketful, like some poor children have to ¢o, you are Ikely to sweat from over-exertion in your hunt yefore you wili get warm from coal that you can buy at a fair price. ONE LOW-PRICED DEALER. Burns Bros., main office No. 26 Cortlandt street—We are selling our Sustomers at $7.50, and have been all along. We will put your name on our “Yooks for a ton, but as there are hundreds ahead of you !t won't do you tifach good for some time, (This concern handles 2,500 tons a day and has gut over 300 wagons.) W. H. White, No. 181 Seventh avenue—Our rate is $14 a ton and that ‘only to old customers. Theodore F. Tone, Twelfth avenue and One Hundred and Thirty-third | treet—All we have is “broken” coal {n small sizes, We aro selling only to! M4 customers at $10.50 a ton. WO COAL AT ANY PRICE. Jere Pangburn, jr., No. 608 Greenwich street—I haven't a ponnd of coal tm my place. The Moquin-Gfferman-Heissenbuttel Coal Company's depot at tho foot | «t West Fortleth street—We have no coal at any price and we do not know shen we will have any, (Most of this concern's supply goes to Brooklyn.) L. Blett, No. 200 West Twelfth street—I haven't had any coal to sell for Is Being Pinched and Finds that in| E nacines mn LAWRENCE WATERBURY Wall street buzzed to-day with com- ment on the action®f the Membership Committee of the Stock Exchange in turning down the application for mem- bership of Lawrence Waterbury, who had already patd $80,000 for a seat, The Havening World located Mr. Water- bury at Laurel-in-the-Pines, Lakewood, N. J., this afternoon. When asked to make a statement on his reported dis- barment from the Stock Exchange, he said: é “It is true that I have withdrawn my application for membership tn the New York Stock xchange. The reason why I did ft fa because I had a much more advantageous offer from the brokerage firm of Dick Brothers & Co." It had not been known to members of the Exchange generally that Mr. Waterbi who is better known a “Larry Waterbury, the star polo play- er, had aspirations to be @ broker, and there ts a great deal of mystery sur- rounding the refusal of the Membership Committee to allow his name to be voted on. The friends of Mr. Waterbury on the Exchange who proposed his name and were then compelled to withdraw it be- cause of hints made by the Membership Committee are incensed. They assert that they have been unable to obtain a eatiafactory explanation of the action of the ¢ ninittee, and the committee has nothing further to coy. aturally Mr. Waterbury, although deeply humiliated, can offer no com- ment, J all that remains for him to do is for him to transfer hia seat to © fortunate in passing the i Commit Membership Committee ts com- posed of some of the oldest and most conservative members of the Stock Lx change, A full ist of the member- sip of fifteen is a9 follows A.M. Cahoone, Ohairman; J.T. Atter- Clarence 6. Day, W. M. Don- A. FE. Goodhart, Hazard, W. H. Ho! Lawrence, J. H, Oliphan Pomeroy, F. K. Sturgts, A. oi K, Tower and A. Wolff, Jr. A member of this committee sald: “We frequently reject applications. We are hero to pass on them to the hest of our ability, I am not authorized to | *3me time. ) °¥rom an inspection of these responses {t becomes apparent that the | igice of coal 1s ranging from $7.59 to $14 n ton, While tt is not easy to| yet, still energy and money will get it. If those persons who heve the} vealer who has the coal for a price, but it will bea mighty high price, Tho | }20r person to whom $3 looks like « month's savings is up against it sure » aough. GOUGING BY SHORT WEIGHT. With all the troubles which are indicated by these inquiries, the con- famer, even if he gets the coal and has the money to puy for it, has an- | ‘ther proposition before him. Sonie of the dealers, not satisfied with goug- fxg him with double or triple prices, give him short weight. This evil has become 0 serious during the present crisis that the } mest retailers of the city have aroused themselves to protect the public | #3 much as they can and thereby relieve them of come of tho odium | ‘hich attaches to them despite anything which they have been able to do, These men are moving through the Coal Trade Protective Association, yioney will get on a telepkone and work it long enough they will find some | % Write for Illustrated Cala caue \e57 millions of dollars’ worth lowest of any, and qua *tloh was organized three years ago to put a stop to the practice of die _} mest dealers selling short tons for full tons. Jere Pangburn, jr., of No. { 3 Greenwich street, {s secrotury of the association, and he has issued an ‘f @eal to the public to protect themselves and the honest dealer by tne # wing on getting full weight. Ho also tells them how this may be done. | VHERE COAL MAY BE WEIGHED. ‘er elty there are over forty welghing stations,” 149 sal4 to-day to un Evening World reporter, “where coal can be welghed, | | # ad should the load fall below standard weight per ton prosecution of the | ‘rypler will be begun at once by the Corporation Connsel's OMce at the | sstance of the association. No one likes to be robbed, and this is Af §aen many dealers might be iempted to take advar age of consum ) “There 12 a elight expense to the consumer--15 cents charges on cach | eH weighed, which goes to the owner of the scales. In return the consumer | a: $He full weight, und if tho dealer is found :o have a short tou upon his Hi) Ssagon be 19 immediately prosecuted. It is our purpose, through the asso. P) Patton, to eliminate a feature of unfair coupetition between dealers, soe Whom in tho past havo offered cheap coal, thereby getting the orders, oat Who sell 1,700-pound tons, in. the caso where the coa! helieved to be short in weitht ts further half a mile from one of the weighing stations the customer will have ‘erin and bear, as the statute does not obligate the driver on wagon cede to a weighiug etation at the customer's request uniess within int distance. However, tho customer can mak complaint with the asso- Won against the particular dealer who is seliing ‘stort tons.’ and reat red Pern coeiter will be taken up in the association and the offender JLDN'T RUN FROM FIRE. time Tes fire and thore In the to the mireet and turacd as peered eae the whoe be burned the lodzen iy When Help Came. | werg busy climbing uver Kraemer. the fire In David Was- Hatter, was straapiie on hk wooden 9 When the firemen came and} No. us Bowery | tite out’ irl des By qulek work the firemen had the TH beautiful Hoon Ring eon¥atning 5 eit Hent diamonds of” frat weighing R race bare ‘ Magatfeemt: Pendant ere 29°85 | Saas or funn ‘Diaaing } (act py Krai liske ext ngulshed when e Bowery, whowe ites gamage. hs, Onan IE bee. dove a ‘ a Cota, ere, | 0 ty i ae vo Hae minctes as P 2 Ss dees OUR ESTat Leoanhll . idee. dese to | Weads Rropktya Meldae! a) a wwnr 44 BOWERY affirm or deny the story of Mr. Water- bury's rejection.” One of the men who proposed the name of Mr, Waterbury mado a state- ment to The Evening Worl@ to-day, aiving his side of the controversy. He aald that fnasmuch as th is no ap- peal from the decision of the Committee on Membership further action ts im- possible, but every effort will be made to get at the bottom of the opposition to Mr. Waterbury. We proposed his name aith,” suid Mr, Waterbury’s ‘Knowing that he possessed all the re= quirements for memberstip and nancially able to assume the obliga- Uons that membersnip in the Stock Exchange implies, in, good friend, Friends Were Astonighed. “We were astonished when told by members of the Committee on Admis: sions that he was to be rejected. Naturally we insisted upon an explana: tion and were told that there was noth- ing aguinst Mr. Waterbury whien in any Way reflected upon his character, and when we atill insisted for a more definite statement were told that he was Inclined io be a litte too reckless in speculation. t Scot! Thore are five hundred members of the Stock Exchange to whom this would apply with far more force than to Mr. Waterbury. He never yet hag engaged In a ‘corner,’ worked a ‘blind pool” tha market movemen: ter to hundreds. Nothing to Be Done, “There are members of the Exchange who have done all things falled, or engaged in @ t whish wrought disas- akewood team to admit that. “But if polo players are to be barred, why shouldn't the exchange take George Gouid'« name the lis “Ot course, we can do nothing. Waterbury fe yut he can't express hls at th committer strain: lowing: man ne belie Exch Water! guished company. and@leaders In’ the stock been barred from te nge were Jay Gould ne Tt Ie a coincide bury James that Fox- hall Keene, the son of It. is a particular ‘chum of Lawre Water bury. Mr. Waterbury ts not well known in Wall street as a speculator or a dealer fn stocks. It ts gall t he has ac- cumulated about $200.00 the past three years. AR Wall et winnlnge o this Je a email stm—not enough to identify the winner of It with the big plungers In the market. LAWRENCE WATERBURY, BARRED FROM STOCK EXCHANGE, AND HIS POLO FRIENDS, ! | ad of thk Cordage Trust at the time the disastrous ‘collapse of that or- Kanization In 1492. Out of the orash the Waterbury family emerged with but a remnant of its former great for- tune. ‘The elder Waterbury opened up| the old rope w in Willlamaburg in which he Iald the foundation of | his fortune and has succeeded In buliding| up another fortune, When the Cordage Trust blew Larry Watorbiry was a young about town, a polo player, a cross-| country rider and a general ‘favorite in| Society. It was at the country home of his father, in Westchester, that tha| famous amateur circus, organized by himself, Robert Hargous, Stanley Mor- timer ‘and other ‘young men of the Westchester set, was held. tainment cost $30,000. After the crash young Waterbury went to work asa clerk In the office of he @Vaterbury Rope Company, at No. Y South siveet. It is satd of him that | rkel faithfully and the fact that 8 obliged to toll for a living did ect ils standing In soclety, but ft did effect a love effatr in which he he: of up | man | wo! w t | broken o| [ rea Mins This enter- | t! KEENE. figured in 13%, family were on the up’ He" fell in 3 hittier, t ea. Whittle: i on Club gure tn Boston an Ixorously tit vidlo at street, Noted Polo Player. For threes years past Mr. has worked but little at the rope bu: ness A member of George Gov ne hall Ke noted for h Mr, Wate: ne. He a member of th rl of Shrewsbury swore compaint before a Mr, Waterbury appeared the 1 that he wi nt and made a pub HAVE YOU TROUBLE? THEN PERUSE THIS Man Making $15 a Week Sup- | ports Three Families, but! Balks on the Fourth. The troubles of Charles D. Sialdard are sufficte matrimony. | He is a hard-w Tat $15 a’ week, and ls supporting his third wife and two children ta a p home in T hia tir: x and ie Is he is| | in some t mother, payin Now a wealthy Manhattan resident, and asks Justlce Maddox In the Supreme Court oklyn to cause Staddard’: In the last two years mony granted for the | nd her two children, | lered to do when she) the $8 a week support of herself which he was « procure Justic: addard’s wooe a8 by his] * Punwel and remarked: Once tad Great Fortune, ot rr_off indefinitely. 1 Lawrence the son of}do not na men support James Wat who was the other men's wives.” | West Side of the Street, North of Grand Street “1,” Station. of diamonds. Syerial extra large * F hw wenui solid in, stool color aidouds, of iurquatre our pl Princess Pendant or Doooch, ira ave. and Cth ave, ay6. care lo Broom iow to Gr ie at. and Dows Very brilliant pure white diamond, per pure white diamonds, fove Christmas is almost here. The time for talk is past. We have been 45 years in business and have sold For car fare you can behold our gigantic stock. Our prices are the ity the best. These are established facts known throughout the United States. It will pay you to compare our prices with others, Ths saving we can effect will astonish you. Some Fiery opal, hoautiut oily 2 pure w by 90 en. ater Rings, no diamond 1A-Kt. gold net Three genuine rubles centre, surrounded by di either Dery op cent 310; iy: full ent rats $40 play; worth #752 Sota ning riyles, rice 0 ors rica. A 28 -karat pair of Solitaire mond Earrings: globes of 2) CHINESE ORDERED 70 RETURN HOME Thirteen Residents’ of Brooklyn, Believed to Have Been Smug- gled In, Are Sent Back. loner Benedl United States Commi: of Brooklyn, to- tion of eleven Chinese Brooklyn, finisting the twenty-nine Chinamen residents cases arrested ol last five |Stmmer for not being registered acvord- ing to the Geary exclus When the*arreets were m nese Mininter at Ws de the Chi ington retained mes his second wife, Mra, Nel. | the Jaw firm of Biack, Olcott, Gruber & Ue D. Breuer, her second husband being | Bonygne to defend his countrymen, Iif- roles with A certifi oriner harged, an teen of the twenty-nt cates of registration photographs. One was ad S arrest /at a subsequent hearing two Were or- r dered deported, The hearing of the re. maining eleven was finished this morn. ing. and their deportation, deported have been waiting in. Jal the disposition of the § this ing. Now tho thirteen will be sh actoss the continent to San Franc} ‘CASPERFELD &CLEVELAND “Bowery Savings Bank Block.” 144 BO WER Y tstavisned Mail Orders Promptly Filled. 1857 Ht Links, woth lon dlamond month $1 EO) per pair. thing new. encircled Solids. watet Gold Locaot, large pure whito fall out @iamond tn cen- Mie, “eleewhere G4. 9 7 315, our price, a Dia. re | ; | : : : " hen the fortunes of the |@ General opposed Three years jater he ma- Waterbury 19 anesa In the game. | ni the champlonship games |p jay ordered the deporta- the Sommisaloner Benedict ordered It is the assumption of the courts that they were smuggied in. The two who were previously ordered a ie G MAK Ne. ‘: pwie Bau (ComP Ye wastes. W125". t. Near 7 DAVE. Waites, Sale Continued! Owing to the inclement weather early in the week, we have decided to continue the sale of the astounding values offered in our large Sunday advertisements till Saturday evening. ; t Solld oak, high fi ish Morris Chairs, like design, with rloh, solid. quar- } wed, polished oak; soft spring heavy brass, adju Pollsned | mahogany sh Music Cabinets Shaving Muga and Urushea, like desben, ke design: 1 Inches wile; bevel mirror, By a decorated value $11; Genuine gitt Partor Chairs, ke design, with silk damask seat value $2 special, RS $1.98! $1.59! hina and Cuckoo Clocks; Manicure Other Big Values Shaving Sets; Fancy Figures, Cut Glass, Silverware, Children’s Morris and other Chairs. PIANOS, PARLOR CABINETS, Suits, Fancy Chairs, Rockers, &¢., &c. JED. MOST LIBERAL TERMS, in ACCOUNTS OPENED. OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL CHRISTMAS, f jt 4 i WITH AN POROUS This painful trouble can be relieved and cured by using an Allcock’s Porous Plaster. \Narm the plaster before ap- plying—if not relieved hy hedtime, place a hot water bag against the plaster on the shoulder. Allcock’s—The Plaster that Cures, | |e ig ie | | | | « | | e a discriminating purchase, Chocolates, Assorted. Chocolate Chips.. SALE, (DECEMBER 18 TO 23 ONLY.) ) 25 other good things. These candies are in every respect of high quality and excellence, Not the kind fit to eat—cannot te bought at the imitation price. “Cheap candy is a deceit, | 1 LB. BOXES, Chocolate Cream Mints ICs | Fig Wafers. Old Fashioned Chocolat 30c, | Molasses Blow Candy., 24 Door from Chureh, \ er Cups, all kinds,Chips, Cocosnut Nibs, COUNTER GOODS; Former price 40c. per pound.. Now 25c cheap kind, even though selling at these low prices. “As prreat as is the difference make goods of hich quality only. Made for the fine retail trade and + 25c, | Caramel Chocolate Nougats... . 3fc, | ALL BOXES PACKED 16 OZ. NET WEIGH, SPECIAL HOLIDA Molasses Cream Kisses, Butter Scotch and BROKEN CANDY— 2. 4 Now 156 between gold and brass, so great is the difference in candy, The best quality—the ont public. A handsome souvenir calendar givea with each e+ 25c, | Marsunallows, Chovolate Marshmatlows. 25c, | Pistache P: Mil, Cie, #rA 31 Cortlandt St,