The evening world. Newspaper, March 17, 1903, Page 8

READY TO BREAK THE GAO TRUST'S POWER Investigation and Will Report to the Board of Aldermen at Once On Its ' Authority to Prevent Further Extor- ‘tions. Commissioner Monroe Goes to Albany - To-Day, Carrying the Bill Which ~ Will Be Introduced in the Legislature "Giving the City the Power to Erect ‘Its Own Lighting Plant. ‘Corporation Counsel Rives received to-day a copy of the resolution nimously adopted by the Board of Aldermen yesterday, requesting him ‘forhish an opinion as to the powers of that body to investigate the abuses the Gas Combine and to prevent its extortion by legislation, Mr. Rives, who has already expressed his approval of the determination the city to control its own lighting system, at once took up the consider- gn of the board’s resolution. ‘He stated to an Evening World reporter that he would give the matter “Ymmediate attention and would in all probability be in a position to hand down his decision and send a communication to the board to be read st its next meeting on Tuesday. * WILL PUSH THE WORK AT ONCE. “Phe ability of the Board of Aldermen to frame the necessary ordinances . amendments is a matter which the charter itself will decide,” said the Corporation Counsel. “It is/a question of deep interest and affects our city eatly, If tho charter gives the board power to adopt m remedial agency, |) Sno time will bo lost by this department in making the fact known. I am in- | eal ned now to allow other business to be put aside that this all-important | w may be handled path due deliberation and expedition. I shall sive} “my personal attention.” | Mr. Rives summoned an assistant te his private office and gave instruc- | tions to have instituted at once an examination of the charter and other Jaws which define the powers of the board and make report as soon as ble. When he receives the report, Mr. Rives will institute an indi- {nquiry and make sure of the position to be assumed py his de- ent. | MONROE GOES TO ALBANY. : Commissioner Robert Grier Monroe went to Albany to-day to ask the Legislature to give the city power to deal with the gas combine, He took with bim Ietters from gas and electric ight companies and extracts from the Dooks of his department. These he will use in his argument urging the ‘adoption of the legislation needed for his department. Two bills drafted by the Corporation Counselwil] be introduced at once with the indorsement ‘of the Low administration. One amends the charter so as to grant the power “to the city to own and operate a lighting plant, The other authorizes the Coismissioner to contract for the city’s lighting without pubife letting. This measure applies to both gas and electriclightingand is intended to furnish | temporary relief pending the establishment of a municipal plant. & "The letters which the Commissioner took to Albany came to his atten- tion while rummaging over the minutes of the old Gas Commission, a body | Which existed before the creation of Greater New York. | ‘The letter furnishes further evidence of the operations of the gas com- panies. STORY TOLD BY ONE LETTER, “One letter is eleven years old and is signed by the East River Electric | _ Ught Company, at that time an independent corporation. The company ~ offered to furnish sixteen pairs of are lights, each of 1,000 candle power, for designated section of Fifth avenue at 50 cents a night for each pair. Apol- ogizing for demanding even this price from the city, the company asserted that the rental demanded by the Consolidated Telegraph and Electric Sub- way Company for the use of the conduits compelled the high price of 50 Rasixis night for a night for the paired Ughts._ The rental demanded was 82 cents for MARTIN BABY IS. "re en'* FOUND SPURIOUS Mrs. Martin Missing, and Nurse : 4 Says the Child Came from =~ Mrs. Stack, a Lexington Ave- ‘ nue Midwife. 4 WOMAN'S COUNSEL aUiTs. The Koch Treatment Cured This Lady's Consumption and Saved Her Life. °” cian in Brooklyn ordered me as 1 bad consumption, + the change at \ Dr. John McLeod Martin will probab!; eiliiepaed 4 his effort to have the alleged of a baby to his wife, Elizaber Martin, stricken from the records the Health Department on the ground it the baby was “spurloug." Co er Lederle held erday t easion of the examination into the He intimated that he will grant | §} ition as Goon as the tes- has been transcribed, convinced that Mrs, Martin {| bad Mother of the baby," said Dr, BH. B Reynolds, who without fee or has acted as Mrs, Mar- ‘and my extreme y grew upon me. For Was ao invalid, At night they in bed with pillows, ai My lungs pained n the noted spe Cian iession of the nurse ing for him to do but |e Yor ath “stared me in 9 hope for a ci ordinary 1 called on thi the nurae, wha mo that they hi esen' ras. “Any doctore who tol aa oe eat Riese Gar food (ra ze By. ich eaten eae ‘healing. Olly’ s vapors of the bi i day “i | feast th! ity are cone on 2 a (ae ever, and I thank Gi: for te Korn it Fw pre to any one eee me the aytin on June ‘the baby was re. Black, at ue, | exclusively, | A = THE WORLD: TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH [7, 1903. SEND YOUR COMPLAINTS OF GAS EXTORTION TO THE EVENING WORLD. The Gas Trust says there are no complaints of over- charge from tts victims. To refute this statement The Evening World will print alf 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 ofthe paper. ‘This left the company just 18 cents as a margin, or nine each pair of lights. cents on each lamp. Since then the subways have come under the control of the Ighting combine, so that it is not required to pay a rental for subway pfivileges for its own wires. Still the price for electric-lighting now demanded by the com- bination is higher than was asked by the independent Hast River Company cleven years ago. TO DISCUSS R. G. MONROE'S MUNICIPAL-LIGHT PLAN. «The plan of Robert G. Monroe, Com- tions, and his statements are state- missioner of Water Supply, Gas and|ments of fact, reflecting the actual ex- Electricity, for municipal ownership of|pertence of the olty and tho loss to tax- gas and electric ight plants will be dis-|payers by belng compelled to deal with cussed at the meeting of the Merchants’ | monopolies based upon private control Association to-morrow night. It 1s ex-|f public Mahts, pected that an important step forward| now cntaliod upon che eter eyes ont will be taken toward curbing the Ga8|tating conditions and. the compulsory Trust and placing the franchises In the ‘ts Mthorto made with the light- hands of the people. mpanies. "Ere has been atundantly shown hith- ‘The object of the meeting is explained in a cireular letter sent out by President erto by legislative investigation that Clarence Whitman, In thts appeal for the contract prices exacted by the gas and Ighting companies, not only from a full representation Mr. Whtman says: “It appears to me that Col, Monroe the city, but from other consumers, ate in effect extortionate, and that the ex: makes a very clear showing of the pro- priety and need of a municipal electric- tortion is due to a monopoly which e: {sta only because of the failure of mi lighting plant. His report does not deal with crude theories, put with condi- nieipal authorities to Install public com- petition, which alone can break down the control now exercised by these pri- vate corporations.” THE STRENUOUS LIFE: Mr. Daniel R.. Ryan, Who Lives the Strenuous Life, Says {te Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey Strengthens and Sustains His System, and Invigorates and Rests His Brain. DANIBL R. 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Tea iid casem, not chron! by one or two bottles, Denny from y¢ that can. affect chronte often ‘At all druxglstn Eye Glasses $1.00 a Pair. ‘These are tie rame kind of Rinses as are wold generally at $5.00 a pair, but FOR THIS WEEK 1 will give you the chance to buy them at 41.00. pair, and you can get them at any ble opportunity to thowo, whore evox tro If every one Whoxe slant 16 a fective would know tho advantages, of coming to me I'd patients than I could care for. n established for more than a quarter tury and T have helped th henehts of perte howe Gi euarniitee to bo atisolutely correct, of money refunded, 106 B. 23d St., New So 541 Fulton $!,, Bklyn, near De K 192 Palton St,; Bklyn, near Orange nothing else will Sloans | Liniment} 25cents ALL DRUGGISTS, J. & S, BAUMANN To parties not haying the ready money to furnish their homes with a class of goods not usual- ly obtainable in instalment houses, we offer to make special arrangements on a credit basis, We carr of Furniture, Carpets, Rug almost everything for keeping. Cor. 6th Ave, and 18th Street, the largest assortment Sand Ouse ———————o “World Want Ads.” have a nealthy tone, IMPORTANT T TO WOMEN! | hotbing then this silk store must be “THE NEW GUN METAL EFFECTS” yard, $1.25, and down as low as... natty ideas, as. from $1,00 a yard dow: combinations, special, at, yard..... Plain Taffeta SILK, in all the newes best value in New York at, yard... White Silk able silk imported for costumes our own dinportations; from, yard, $1.50 to. The greatest assortment and the best under one roof:— 19 inches to 36 inches in width; quali fron, yard, $1.25 to Beauty Is Woman's Great- | est Safeguard and the he to Happiness. YOMAN Blows that the evcret of 4 happy Me Mes in proserving the ready bas, or in restoring thow oetent diapoaition 3 bestowed seriously 4 held b an wo will enorve or restore. these arn Sy ovety means to DR. 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Fine Etamine a most progressive one. are here in abun- 9c nas low 55c 59c 49c t ‘color Ss. or fine underwear; 39c value 75c., for, value 85c., for values ever shown 49c ities vary full 36 inches wide; yard down as low as.. 27-inch black taffeta SILK; and rustle; value $1.00, for 19-inch black Peau de Soie SILK; very goods worth 75c., for.........+0++ 2i-inch black Peau de Soie SILK; worth $1.00, for.... Skirts, effect, elegantly trimmed in taffeta folds, deep train, inverted plait back, made over high quality silk drop; value $15.00; special for Wednesday OMY ..crccvcceccccsscrscscesiocs THE SILK STORE OF NEW YORK. The New Silks— If busy aisles and ever-increasing sales are to be counted as indicating progress, Special Prices. 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