The evening world. Newspaper, February 23, 1903, Page 10

the fleeced ones. elved the following, ES re they can't help '. "j - Jooks “at ti meter. He puis kes, Very truly your, J. © @r—the “four-foot.” ‘2 mers ) Allowing six hours at night, 6 P. M. to midnight, daily. Januar: “@umption of 563 feet. Bee Pceent rate a rune avanti intrest andiatadisoniavenie ie Newport pndallone himself to be sub- gan i Taheppe's drug store. His bill last |? 3 5 4 pil Mas. Rend ok 8 sent Boe vv inentt month was #5. At One Hundred and wy Highth street Saloon-Keeper Henchen jead of $2.40, ‘@nd on the four Sundays it cents. could be done. Worked by the company. % i OBOOHOHODO}OGDDHOODOOS: : Bills are arbitrarily. raised beyond all reasonable compari- gon with previous month, i Companies will not ccmvete for custom, so that there is no relter For the helpless consumer. Employees at the offices of the Trust are outrageously un- civil and irgilting to persons who go there with complaints of poor service or extortionate charge, the Sih nstinsek they told Ne. 480 Kast Elebth atreet. ‘ “where aro five different size burners Inburning gas for lighting, They , % 4,5 and & feet of gas an hour. ‘The writer uses the usual family burn- | the compan It should burn four lipid the secretary feet of gas each hour it fs In use. that 1s, and one hour im the morning, from 5.30 to 6.39, © burner would be in use just seven hours the Bill Thrice Too Much, If the pressure at the «as burner were the amount of gas therefore chat (ld be consumed during those reven “q hours would be twenty-elght feet Whe thirty-one days of the month of suppositig that the writer was @t home every night and burned the @as until midnight, the gas meter shoud fegieter at the end of the month a con- In fore should have been §6§-10 cents But there were nights when the vas not burned more than four hours, not in the morning, and a reason- estimate of the bill would be about This is just one-quarter $2.0. The bill is just about 39 per cent. iter than it should have been. \ Mra. Fuchs complained to the gas com- y before she wrote to The Evening forld and she was told that nothing Bhe was obliged to pay of thé $2.40 or the meter would have been | to-day Simple Extortion, Thin, Residents in the neighborhood of One| indred and Seventh street and Madi-| avenue are suffering more from the! y n bilis of the Gas Trust than tn! 0 Thal One Bill Three Times More than It Should Average—Gas Bills at $1 a Thousand Feet Are When It Was $1.25. AOOOHIPSOOATETOTOOOHHESOOOODOD GRIEVANCES SUFFERED BY SLAVES OF THE GAS TRUST. an avalanche of protests from helpless but indignant consumers, “‘ Since the attention of the public was first directed to this wholesale! fon the mails of The Evening World have bulged with complaints! 7 : The outrageous increase in gas bills for the last few months has drawn The range of protests includes plain, barefaced overcharge, exasper- bag insolence of clerks at the various offices of the companies, substitu- { jon of meters and refusal to change service on account of the castiron ‘agreement between the companies, et: SAMPLE OUTRAGES OF THE GAS COMBINATION. “Among the hundreds of letters re-)any other part of the city, as is shown although @mount named ip small, is just as rey je a complaint as one where $59 18}, by the case of Samuel Grabfelder. |. Mr. Grabfelder is a 1 lives tn a flat at No. Hundred and Seventh 68 street it wan $14, The highest bill in the eight xonth: that the Grabfelders have lived In th flat was $2.30, During the month tha’ only f° > of gas was burned Mrs, Grab: felder used day and night. ce and protested possibly Kept going day and night ‘That bill isn't for the month,’ secrotary said, ‘It's for in two instalments of $7 each.’ going to pay him for the tncompetency the bill “We'll Cut You Of," the Threat. “Then we'll turn off the gas,’ On the month it wa 8 when there was competition be: got his money's worth, the combine was effected, ‘I'he pres: e RUS Was gvOd and rival com es and pat The offices were kep T night so that complaints could ke Michael W. weventh pave Hospital pd ax to nis rap tal eondition shad heen gettin, And she was afraid to try of him herself. been sided to immediately, Journal i Those were happy da * said one 8 and Endangering >naumer, 49 an Evening World reporter Lives. @ month and if I had a kick to make they'd send me around new burners and = a rebate of 10 per cent. on my bill, The! as was good and brilliant, and tt was} Four men whose alleged thefts of then my wife got spoiled by using a gas) brass Journals from the cars of the range \g Island Railroad have endange TL you have a gas grievance write ‘ine! Ot lland Railroad have endangered ening World and address it to the) ("? lives of passengers for months past ‘as Editor. have | aptured through the effocte =| of Inspector Walier ‘Thompson and was punctured and his uniform torn |< ‘ HGKIAD, (Of the: Gaventy-signis during the scrimmage at the saloon, | Precinct which he said was @ block off his post,|., rte men arrested are John Miller, Bann At Tees perc inte) thirty years old; Isador Bumgarden, called of Butler Tuewday. the poiiee:|M2t9-thire: Joneph Kunz, thirty-five man having reported sick, and on Wed- ee 2 aus 8 on . need y Willem nesday called again, bringing # letter| ina "throu ovemde, Willtanoi ee Mie trom = Cupt, Schmittberger ordering) pret two nam ' Meee estan Butler back to duty. Butler did not re-| . | laborers, alth has a atudle, spond and was Immediately suapended.| King sayn he la a driver All gave Tho charges are pending against Nim, | grooxlsn heir residence, and were to have come up Friday Brass journals have been removed Mrs. Butler is a trained nurse, having | ¢. n the Long land Railroad's pa graduated from the Essex County Hos-|scnger and freight cars for months pital in Newark, In this city she or-| past, and extra care has had to be urged &anized the Metropolitan Hospital staff) upon all traiumen, Certain oatastrophe at Eighty-second street and Second aye-|awalied the trainioads Butler, of the} nue. In 160 Butler was injured in a) sent out with a Journal missing street station, |TUPAWAY near the hospital and wan| “inanonar Chonipeon learned that. Mile He met the head nurte:| ter war conn with ti thefts and : ; there, ant ah ti Masp A and asked to bel s Wall’ they’ Were married: |and al once inmuated “the anes ‘4 4 5 pany 4 In Miller's stabi 5 fo ands o led worse for Commissioner. who. is making ‘a | foo tals thorough Investig thon of "the “ins thf atthe anloon and ia trying to unravel conflicting stories told’ of Butler : Wacer suspension DY | actions there, the sinee Wednesday, Butler was ‘at. Forty-eixth | A*etetant ine HADNESS MAY BE ut , Under Suspension in onnection with Assault, Asks ‘Have Sanity Tested, eee oovertig. prisoners the West} Conrad N, Jordan, Assistant United tates Treasurer in change of the Bub- here, who bas been sick with lis that of Wert Bad | trom vn” be fon- P VICTIM. indignant but Helpless Consumers Write ’ Their Grievances to The Evening - World—Some Charges of Gross Ex- tortion Are Made. Higher than reman pressman Fast One Last morth his bill was $1.10 and this month 41] and a gas re‘iator was “When we got this bill,” Mr. Grabfelder wife went around to “She that she could not have burned so much gas ina month {f all the burners tn the flat were the .cplus was that our inspectors failed to record. Pay us “My wife told him that she was not nt of his men and that she would not pay the secretary # Now we have a notice | previously tn this cage. If young Regl- aa hook ) | Dad Vanderbilt has been served with a that unless the bill Js paid the gas sur | Miipoena he ia out of the Jurisdiction ply will be cut of, of the court and cannot be brought back ner of One Hundred and paid $22 for burning twenty-two lights. These pills are away ahead of last tween the companies that the consumer This was before | sure was never higher than 1.8 inches. Treasure? Jordan THE WORLD: MONDAY Be anu., --- QUOTES LOW IN HERE’S A MAN | Fe To the Editor Evening Dear Sir: the cudgels in behalf from others whose exp December, 190 December, Yours BUCKLIN CASE IN NEW TANGLE Stay Granted by Justice Mac- Lean Vitiates All Subpoenas for Witnesses, and “Reggie” Vanderbilt May Escape. ONLY FOUR IN COURT TO-DAY. The case of David Rucklin, manager of Canfeld’s gambling-house, indicted for maintaining and conducting a place in which gambling waa done, was called to-day before Justice Herrick in the Criminal Branch of the Supreme Cour Only four of the many witnesses sum- moned were on hard. These were Fd- ward Wasserman, Jacob N, Field, Cashier Evans, of the Bank of the Metropolis, where Canteld nad his ac- count, and William A, H. Stafford Wasserman was the maddest man on Washington's Birthday. He has been| held from a Buropoan business trip for | two wegks because of the trial, and now that the case is postponed again he will have to put off his trip still further unless he wants to incur the displeasure of the District-Attorney, Mr, Jerome addressed the Court when the case was called, He sald that inas- much as the stay of proceedings graanied by Justice MacLean, of the Supreme Court, on Saturday had been Isaued too fe 5} late to allow him to ask for a modifica. e|tion, he would have to ask that the t] case be kept on the calendar, -| The stay ts very broad,” sald the District-Attorney, “and, without mean- ing to criticise Justice MacLean, | ven- ture toe say that under visions: here Is likelihood of the witnesses es. ez {vom the jurisatct of this court. I ask, therefore, that the cage calendar until the wit- Tosubpoenaed.” SUppost remarked the Court, “unat Justice MacLean signed this Inad- vertently, thinking it wns the ordinary slay. [will hold tne case on idar until the arguments for a hange of venue are heard.” “| want to annolince right here.’ said the District Attorney, ‘that witnesses fail to respond’ to subpoenas in se will suffer, Fshall bring dras- sures against them.” witnesses In court were re- 1 and the hearing of argu- a change of venue wus set for be kept on th n S ‘anting of the stay. The {t appears, | invalidated ail the subpoenas issued | unless he returns to New York from FOUR MEN ACCUSED “BY A RAILROAD CO. Charged with Stealing Brass | BILL JUMPED SIXFOLD. I am glad you have taken up holders, and as you express awish to hear similar to Mr. Weideman's, I send you simply a copy of my gas bills for 1901.. December, 1902........ at 202 West End Avenue. I ama waiter and what with coal at $11.00 a ton and gas for one month $8. SO my disgust is too deep for utterance. Jof the WHOSE bruary 21st, 1903. World, City. of suffering house- erience has been Djsicies ose pl, 40 soup MY) 8.50 respectfully, Bi dinky S-MEN-IN-CAB BILL SCHEDULED | Breen that he hi DISMISSES EXCISE CASES. | Tombs Police Court to-day, | letter to the public, eng tan ley POLICE CENSURE Magistrate Breen Agrees with! Mayor that They txceed Their Authority by Tricking! Their Way Into Side Doors. Uniformed Force Should See that) the Spirit of the Law—a Quiet Sunday—Is Secured, and Stop at that, He Says. Magistrate Matthew P, Breen had sev- eral excise cases before him in the and as result quoted a portion of Mayor Low's issued last August, in whioh the chief executive of the city made a severe criticism of the methods used by the police in securing evidence in excise violations. Magistrate Breen expressed his option | regarding excise cases after hearing that ot Francs Garribini, who was arrested last night in the ecloon at No. 258 Sliza- beth street and locked up on a charge} of violating the Excise law. Patrolman Meehan, of the Mulberry street station, Will Come Up To-Morrow in the | New Jersey House for Public! Discussion and Will Be Most! Bitterly Fought. RAILROADS OPPOSED TO IT.! (Special to The vening World.) TRENTON, Feb. “Senators Huds- peth and Wakelee, of Hudson and Ber- gen Counties, respectively, the authors “threesmen-in-a-eab” bill now in the Senate committees on Railroads and Canals and Judiciary, are bot! prepared for a hard fight in the com mittee hearing scheduled for to-morr! ‘arrests and in doing so 1 | or objectionable conduct, afternoon, when the bills will come up | for public discussion. ‘The two Senators expect that there will he a bitter opposition in the hear- ing and have definite information that the foremost orators and lawyers in the employ of the companies will be on hand to fight the bills and to Interpose any old kind of tactics that will be likely to delay a report on the meas- ures, Mr. Hudspeth has prepared amend- ments to his bills, have been drawn at the suggestion of rallway engineers and trainmen and others who know all about the running of the big locomotives, and will be ready to meet all the objections of the paid exhorters of the corporation: Bradley May Be Fi Senator William J, Bradle: den, Chairman of the Committee on Rajtroads and Canals, still declines to express an opinion of the bills, but the Feneral Impression of the Camden man is that he will give the propositions care- ful and consclentious hearings and that if he 1s convinced that there should be three men in the cabs of the big looo- motives used on the passenger raliroads of the State not even eloquence of his friend and pulltieal god- father, “Davey” Baird, will be mumicient to prevent him from making @ favorable report on the bills. Baird, who fs the political boss of the Camden Republicans, formerly Sheriff of that county and at present a mem- ber of the State Board of Assessors, ex- ercises Is powers In behalf of the rail- toads, During the life of Gen. Sewell Baird was his right-hand man in the political manipulation of Camden Coun- ty, and in return for those services Gen. Sewell put him in the way of making a lot of money. Baird came into the rallroad service in that same way and beoame the recognized agent of the late Senator in legislative matters pertaining to phe railroads, Baird Is Behind Him, Sherp and shrewd, with a knack of handling the most obdurate lawmaker, the little Camden man soon became a power In the third house, and his influ- ce in that direction has grown to @ marked extent, As the political boss of Camden, Baint has sent Mr. Bradley four times to the Assembly and now to the Senate. It 1s An open secret that the seleotion of Mr. Bradley, a new man In the Senate, to be Chairman of the Committee on Rall- roads and Canals, was largely due to Baird's efforts in his interests, But, despite Balrd's acknowledged in- fluence with the Senator from Camden, the latter's record for fairness leads the men Who are back of the “three- men-in-a-cab’ bills to believe that he will not allow his judgment to be warped by anything outside his exact line of duty as a lawmaker, Senator Haines, of Burlington, who is Mr, Bradley's Republican colleague on the committee, and Senator Barber, of Warren, the minority representative on the same committee, haye both ex- pressed themselves in favor of,gome ac- tfon such as ls contemplated in the bills on which the hearing to-morrow will turn, STOCKS DULL IN LONDON. jement and Holiday LONDON, Feb. 23.—M. wanted and scare: and R busy week was anticipated. Dis counts were maintained, otlvity, Operators on the Stock Exchange were | cheerful, but business was inactiy: meaning sides away from the light, — Fire Vietim May He New Yorker, CEDAR RAPID, Ia,, Fed, Mit js now Delieved that the remaining unidentified body «aken from the Clifton Hotel ruins Hi Bynet, ho vg renistered | Kn vt iy? ‘Traders were ma mining carry-over, Consols wei fh 'New York induct topeka aud sania Fey frie, Fe, rk i li ‘and. Wabash oloked gulet. Ch which amendments | of Cam- | the persuasive | y was much in the market to-day, | | | | | | Weak on Poor Bank | y occupied with the de- Pressed by political reports, but closed] melancch, Lavenpool. Nordkap, Carditt, above the lowest vata Of the day, vid tas til ‘wa ‘Com ‘Orleans. Americans quiet ak, the Bi ». Galveston. adverse bank statement ana the holide . “Atchiaon, \of the police on Sundays as to alos which have not qualified as hotels? Clearly the police must see that the | doors of such saloons are kept locked; | uniform, who made the arrest, told Magistrate gene into the hack room of the saioon and found a number | of men sitting at a table. He admiited| that he saw no iquor sold. Questions by Magistrate Breen brought out the fact that the bar was expored to view from the street, that the door leading to the back room from the ter was closed, and that there was no disturbance in or| about the place. After having heard both sides of the | case Magistrate Brees said: “I want to express my opinion of such | will quote Mayor Low's own words, I believe that the police become oppressive and ex- | ceed their proper authority when they | force their way into back rooms of sa- locns, The barroom being fully ex- posed to view and there betng no evi- | dence of a violation and no disturbance the entrance into back rooms by police officers in olt- jzen's dress for the purpose of ferret- ing out in this disguise mere technical violations {s iit only unnecessary but unauthorized, for the whole scope and object of the law is to secure a peace- able and quiet Sunday and when this condition exists the design of the law is accomplished. Quotes the Mayor. “In expressing this view as @ Magis- trate of this city I am but following the rule laid down for the guidance of the police by the Chief Magistrate him- self, Mayor Low, than whom no one has more matured views on this sub- Ject, in his pubife talk published in the daily press on Aug. 5 last, laid down this rule for the guidance of the police au- thorities."’ i Magistrate Breen then read the fol- lowing from a typewritten sheet, which he sald was a copy of a part of Mayor Low's fifth letter to the public: The duty of the police in relation to ordinary saloons is confined to seeing that the doors of the barroom proper are locked and the screens raised. They have no power to investicate back rooms, and should not do any detective work against saloons tat they cannot do in full uniform. What 1s the duty that the screons are raised; that there is no gathering of people in the bar- room and the Ike. Beyond this it does not seem to me the duty of the police to go, under ordinary conditions, In other words, the police are bound and | will be expected to enforce the specific | requirements of the law*as to the clos- Ing of saloons that are not hotels, the | raising of gcreens and the lke: but they | are not bound, and netther will they be | expected ordinarily in the enforcement of this law and of others like It, to go beyond what they can accomplish in full “Anything less than this will not satisfactory; anything more than hme would seem to me to be a use of the police mont unwise in a cosmopolitan iy Uke New York. clear under- tanding on the part of the people and a rigid application of these ideas on the part of the police ought_to secure for the community the quiet Sunday that it and it ought to by. saloon-keepers \s determined to have; break up the paying of blackmail to the police.” After reading the above Magistrate arrests n ana secret negotiations which are a0 Aiscreditable to both parties to the tran- notion.” “Magistrate Breen then dismissed the excise case that had been before him and later two others that were very aimilar to the first one. eee mee Raby Uoy Burned to Deat Frank TRiordan, twenty-two months old, was to-day burned to death in hin home, at No. 3878 Eighth avenue, The father was away and the mother left the child on a lounge while ahe went to near-by store, When she returned she found the child on tne sofa, with Reariy. all his clothes. miened off, and the lounge Just commencing to burn. The baby had got hold of a box of matehes that was on the mantle and set his dress on fire, SHIPPING NEWS. ALMANAC FOR TO-DAY, 6.45, Moon risen. . Sun rinee,. 643 8un sete 4a Aa PM. | Ti ees Fundy Hook : bra joverner’s sland. . 1.4 11.4 Well Gate’ Perry Lit La} OF NEW YORK, ARRIVED. INCOMING STPAMSHIPS, DUE TO-DAT. ; given the franchises for the operation; |rcad, which operates all of the | Dock Department for a Staten Island | 4UU>. INTERBOROUGH FARE CENTS Experts Say Passengers Can Soon Go from One Part of Greater City to Another for a Nickel. LINES LIKE SPIDER WEB. When the transit affairs of New York are finally settled it will be found, the traMe experts say, that all of the! boroughs are connected with a five-cent| fare. | so This desire on the part of the Board ot Rapld-Transit Commissioners has been accomplished, tt is understood, and, while the authoritative announcement will not be made until March 12, the statement {s mate by a member of the commission that a five-cent fare will take a passenger from any point in one borough te any point in any other bor- ough. 5 From this {t is understood that the August Belmont syndicate, which now controls the Manhattan Hlevated, and which will operate the subway, will be of the subways to be constructed Kings and Queens, It is known that the Belmont people have been trying to secure possession of the New York and Queens County Rail- reet car lines in Long Island City. The permit of the Second avenue elevated to cross the Blackwell's Island Bridga will connect afl of Manhattan, by trans-| fer, with Long Island City and Astoria. | Ultimately the old tunnel under the} Last River at Forty-second street wil?! be finished and the Belmont people will} use this as a connecting link betwern | the street car lines of Long Island City and the Grand Central Station, Man-| hattan. The elevated trom Blackwell's Island Bridge will extend south and tap ell the bridges on the east side of the river and connect in that way with the Brooklyn Rapid-Transit system. The recent ferry, permit given by the! in ferry will connect, {t is enld, the boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx, Kings and Queens with Richmond. “ ed Store in New York for Fine Goods Ehrich Bros. 6TH AVE,, 22d AND 23d STS,, NEW YORK. jThe Lowest Pric Hour Sale of Hour Sale of Boys’ $ 2.50 and 3.00 Suits 50 and 3.00 Suits The remainder of a great group of several hundred Boys’ Suits— odd lots—including Boys’ double-breasted | Boys’ Sailor Suits, very Sults--all colors--for, natty—all colors—for ages 7 to 15 years, | ages 3 to 8 years, go on sale for the 2 hours named to-morrow at $1.00 each. tor Men’s Trousers, Good 3.00 Values, SaleTuesday, 9to1 1 o’ClockOnly The values in this Sale will surprise you. They are cut right, made right and tit right. We have not more than about | 79 * 19 od enough to last two hours—hence the limit of the sale from 9 to 11 o'clock Tuesday morning. Worsteds, cassimeres, Scotch tweeds, cheviots, etc., in checks and stripes, good 3.00 values—30 to 42 waist. 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