The evening world. Newspaper, March 13, 1903, Page 3

RMEN DEVISE M eS 2 ne ‘Hit WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 13, 1903. FANS TO CHECK THE GAS TRUSTS . . TYRANNIES AND END ITS OPPRE SSIVE OVERCHARGIN ‘ "President Fornes Prepares a Resolution Calling on the Corporation Counsel to Draw an Ordinance to Put a Stop to Overcharges, May Embody Requirement that Meters Must Be Read in the Presence of a Member of the Household and a Duplicate Record Issued. - 0 soon as the Board of Aldermen shall have voted favorably upon the Pequest of Commissioner Monroe for the $51,000 appropriation at its next) ¢ mecting on Monday, a resolution requesting the Corporation Counsel to draw ‘up an ordinance designed to bridle the gas companies’ systematic extortion etice will be presented. President Fornes, through his secretary, William O'Connor, outlined the plan of procedure to-ay té an Evening World re- Dorter.. . “We have decided to call upon the Corporation Counsel to make full 4nquiry into the matter and outline the needed legislation,” said Mr. O’Con- nor. “This will have the effect of bringing the matter to a focus and pave the ‘way for the adoption of legal means to cope with the situation. The Cor- poration Counsel, with his staff of assistants, will be able, we feel convinced,| ¢ ¥odevise the needed measure.” $ a ‘ ‘That resolution was drafted to-day by Mr. O'Connor. x4 ‘ It has been suggested to President Fornes that a means of preventing In 2 @/measure the overcharging by gas companies could be accomplished by re- $ quiring the companies to issue duplicate reports of the readings of meters ipmediately they are taken by the index men, and, further, to require that te company’s men take the reading of the meter in the presence of some member of the household. It is further suggested that there shall be printed upon the face of the @uplicate record a fac simile of the index faces of the meter, with printed instructions as to reading the meter index. With a little practice, it is explained, the meter can be read. by any consumer understanding plain figures, and when the bill is presented he can compare it with his results figured out in advance. If there is a discrepancy the fact will be at once apparent to the consumer, who is then fortified with the duplicate index gheet, which may be used as a reference and a means of settling disputes. It is argued that the company cannot very well dispute the figures of its own employees. \ President Fornes believes that this method will go far toward putting @ stop to the systematic overcharges. It will not, however, correct a de- fective meter or one set purposely fast, $+ —_ | | MRS. WALTER E. CANSDELI, WHO IS FIGHTING A GAS COMPANY 1DOSEOOEOOEOOOO46900O9900000000000906008000O0O09000 that T owed thom a Dill for the eame premines between April and May. I told them that I was not the tenant at that time, and showed them my bills and papers. No; It was no use, and they as Much as called me a thief and a iar. en the landiady’s word was not taken, 1 claiming that 1 owed them 7 A®, they turned my gas off and locked meter. It Was a Dire Task. “T was determined that 1 was not go- ng to be beaten, but I didn't know what task It would ‘be ook a sult, “I pegan the sult in my name and signed my husband's. hat was on et, 6 and Attorney Butler for the gas company let the thing go on and then nade the point that all accounts, With his client were in the eof the husband, and the matter was put out of court “My attorney, E. G. Levy, started in again in the right way, but when he tried to serve the employees of the gas company he met a stone wall "t imagine what dreadful, men are, Mr, went up there to serve the witnesses that we needed with papers. They must have guessed who he was, for they locked him In a room and then told the secretary to get out of the way. The door of the room, was looked with a spring from the desk, and all the clerks Stood around laughing at the young man. right, he sald, ‘I'll give you cant present.) and he presented every one of them ‘with a summons. ‘Then they told him that they would break his neck if he didn't get out; If he IHan't get out quick they would throw him out anyhow. Breckenridge, the er, gaid that, mannether day Mr. Levy went to the office, with a subpoena and @ | poor, Coung clerk offered to take him to ialonim Graham, the secretary. Breck- anridge told his employee not to move a SR ou mind your own business,’ he sald, ‘or you'll lose your Job. Tt has been great fun to me and T S never so happy in all _my life as When T finally got Graham served. Mr, Amos Maxwell, who lives with my family, agreed to try to serve him for me and we fixed him up as a workl man in overalls, with red-lead all over. them. Mr, Graham toh Wea vat No. 48 King street, sent him over there, i t Mr. Grahaen had just gone to him Sfuntie Club and off there Mr. Max- well went, He was not to be seen, but Mr. Maxwell sald that it was’ im- portant: thet it was on business with the company. and he got the word to go back to it. & SORGDOOHD Graham's home and wal! Mr. Genham Trapped. “an hour later Mr. Graham cami home and ushered Mr. Maxwell into hi: hi Vhat can I do for you?’ hé asked. ‘ais,’ said Mr, Maxwell, and he handed him the sup eats with the 6 cents for fee wrapped in it. urne moment “Mr, Graham felt the of the money he dropped the trusts, is the real fighter in the suit. Where most men woukt have admitted themselves stumped Mrs. Cansdell has had the case in court five times, and she will be there again on March 2 to try to.bring the New Amaterdam Com- pany to time. She cannot get out of her nostrils the odor of tthe oll that she was compelled ‘to burn in Meu of the gas that was arbitrarily turned off, and, good house- WOMAN'S GAME FIGHT AGAINST GAS SHARKS, 837 Hast Thirteenth street, against the New Amsterdam Gas Oompany, is a gem of its kind, The wife of the plain- uff, a thorough American, fearless of corporate wealth and especially gas ‘The case of alleged extortion, which te pending in the Eleventh District Mu- Court before Justice Josephs, swith Walter H. Cansdell, of the Ger- q@an Savings Bank, who resides at No. He wald that he didn't want and then Mr. Maxwell showed original subpoena. To make telephoned to Mr, Graham half an hour afterward, “ "Mr. Graham,’ he said, ‘this ia the . “I called you up to'tell you that you were to be served to-night in that Cansdell sult and to be on ar “Too late,” he sald. eady been served.’ Ha, ha, ha! that was riod, wasn't st? ‘Then what do you think they did when the case came up the next day? mad ida ir, Gi an affidavit saying that he had not been eerved, and agein wife that she ts, she wants some satis- faction for the draperies and curtains ruined by the oll fumes. “I want The Evening World to tell the public just what kind of people these gas men are,” said Mrs, Cansdell to- day. ‘Really, my experiences with them are good for a play, but it's serious business nevertheless. ‘They turned my gas off on Aug. 30 last, and I had to burn oll up to Oot, 4 They insisted when 1 under-| ved | @ay dividing the Water, Gas and Elec- | hertas Gas Company turned off my ens while It was burning, Later he tumed jit on again. SEND YOUR COMPLAINTS OF GAS EXTORTION TO THE EVENING WORLD. The Gas Trust says there are no complaints of over- charge from its victims. To refute this statement The Evening Worid will print all complaints sent to this office. Each communication must have name and address of the writer, not for publication unless desired, How do your bills for February gas compare with those for January? Write only on one side of the paper. He did not warn us that | he Was about to turn off the gas. | Had it not been for the janitor we | would both have been suffocated, and even now my wife ts very fll. What course should I take in the mat ter? A. W. Hopen for City Ownershry. | To the Editor of The Evening Worl vv My gas bill in February, 1901, was $7.19; February, 1902, $3.80; February, 1903, $11.10; March, 1901, $6.50; March, 1908, $7.10; March, 1908, $10.40, I do not use any more as, but m; miows higher every year, tang should be done. The company charges Whatever tt pleases, and we have to pay it, I made a complaint, but it does no esi the matter had to go over because he had the books that we wanted We threatened to get a writ of attachment | hal for him, and his lawyer promised if we | though. wouldn't do that he would produce the| ‘It isn't money we books that we wanted. There had to be/ faction for the way we @ postponement, and again it went over to March 26. “The company has locked the base- ‘They Want to Compromise, | ment, where the clerks are so that no ie can get in as they used to. wyer Butler peraists in court that! One day @ man 1 employed there is no evidence to show that we to serve Mr. Hobbs, have ever had any dealings with his| ic com hat the receipts we hold for payments were made out by employees of the company, or that any one con- nected with the company ever turned off our meter or turned {ton again. Yet_on the outside he wants to om. mise. Three times he haa offer $0 to Mr. Levy to pettle the caren “If we win the suit it will only re- ind we have spent more than it al . I @on't care, want; only eatie- have "been, all my friends. No Protection Against This Thiet, | at ‘Editor of The Evening World: :- en a thief breaks in my howe er flat or store, pilfering my property, ‘te te partly my own fault, beoause I can pre tect myself by taking better care t intruders; but when the gasman in my house or cellar, taking the of my gas meter, and the com; me crorbitant gas bills, which I : control, I am helpless ‘without ps Protection. samt i ‘ay Your gas dill or we. shat @as," {8 the habitual and the psy | faction you can get from the imp clerks of the Consolidatet Gas when you dare to make any o} cer such exorbitant gas bills.) had to decide who is lese guitty a crime, the sneak thief, who ref himself to the muzzle of my or the gaeman, who attacks my. mie reves sales his fraudulent gas’ bills, i ‘ainly give the palm of hcnest; o hungry thief, ie ges Since May, 1901, we have used ot the Conscildated Gas Company fe ee olud rooms, No. 64 St, Mark’s place, RS bills’ were increasing from month % month. We tnstructed our steward very economical in the use and the consumption was ene nearly one-halé, but the bills were climbin, a more interior was the was, Durie H eoper ed him end the man didn't know he had been fooled until I told him what Mr. Hobbs looked like. “But we are goini there Is any justice. BILL TO PUT THE CONTROL OF GAS INTO NEW HANDS, (Special to The Evening World.) AUBANY, March 13.—Assemblyman Thomas J. McManus, of the FYtternth New York District, introduced a bill to- to win this sult, if thé Mayor and hold office the same es the heads of other departments. The salary {8 to be $7,500 a year. The main office 1s to be located in Manhattan. with branches in the other boroughs. The present Commissioner of Water Supel , Gas and Blectricity ts to have authority only over water-supply matters, his power in this ot_con- tinuing as heretofore. The appointment of the first commissioner is to date from July 1, 1908, art SHOWER OF COMPLAINTS OF GAS TRUST'S EXTORTION. that ing at all with gas—bill for seventeen of gas, days, $2.90. Old meter tested found in-| {Rémselves, Our clined to be a little fast, 76 cents re- me bate. New meter put in. First bill for 44 days, $8.40, for two burners and no cooking or heating with gas. The cell- ings in rooms are smoked up from this winter's was. M. F. STEVENS, No, 86 East One Hundred and Thirty- ninth street, You Have Grounds for « Suit. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: This morning, while my wife and I were asleep, a man from the Consoli- tricity Department of New York City into two bureaus, separating the water section from that of gas and electrict The head of the new department Is to be titled the Commissioner of Gas .and Electricity. He ta to be appointed’ by the wich t es Bp was bills are ¢ Complaints of the Gas Trust's extor- tion continue to pour in, Here are some of them: Found a Fast Meter, ‘To the Bdltor of The Evening World: I expected a large bill for November, having burne® two and three burners all night, and a gas heater the first two weeks of November only. When the December bill came in, I protested, and while walting for the meter to be changed and tested I burned only one burner at a time, did no cooking or heat- n , lear Wadi how to proceed against the be agerost uch exor! 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