The evening world. Newspaper, January 29, 1904, Page 3

a eercnecacheriiatl ’ CITY AND STATE ARE INVOKED TO CURB THE GAS TRU: FAC-SIMILE OF HEADLINES AND CARTOON FROM THE EVENING WORLD, SHO WING THE 4); - Dr. Edward G. Love, Acting Under Orders = “+ from Commissioner Oakley, Reports that Tests Made of the Illuminant Furnished by the Four Companies in This City Show that It Is Defective. SEND COMPLAINTS AGAINST GAS ROBBERY. “Persons who consider their bills for gas are excessive are asked to forward their complaints to The Evening World. Bille furnishing comparisons and showing-increases should accompany the letters. If desired the bills will be returned. ' The official war on the Gas Trust, under the combined efforts of the State and municipal authorities‘and through the initiative of The Evening World, was well under way this atternoon and is expected to produce its first result in a day or two, when the trust will be mulcted to the full extent of a weak and insufficient law. : Commissioner John T. ‘Oakley, of the Department of Water Supply, ‘Gas and Electricity, to-day received the reports of Dr. Edward G, Love, Superintendent of the photometrical branch of the department. These reports show that Dr. Love has examined and analyzed the gas supply of five different companies in Manhattan, all of them members of the Consolidated Gas Company, each once a week for the last two weeks nnd that the gas was found defective. $100 FINE FOR EACH OFFENSE. Section No. 522 of the statutes permits the department to examine the gas “not more than once a week” and provides that if on three consecu- tive tests the quality of the gas is found to be defective the Commissioner can assess a fine of $100. a Dr, Love has found the supply defective on two consecutive weeks and é now making the third test of the five different companies. Commissioner Oakley expects his report to-morrow or the next day, and if it says that the supply of each company was defective for the third consecutive week the Commissioner promises to call on each of the five companies of the trust for the payment of a $100 fine. UNSATISFACTORY, HE SAYS.. “That is a very unsatisfactory law,” said Commissioner Oakley to-day to an Evening World reporter. “Why it should limit us to one test a week I do ‘not: know. Maybe the lawmakers can tell you more about that. 1 wish the law permitted us to make a test onge a day. I certainly would orier the tests made, In that way we could collect a considerable sum from the Gas Trust. We could make each company in the trust pay ao fine of $100 every third day, and I guess that would worry them a little. “As it is we can make a test only once a week, and before a fine can be assessed three consecutive tests must show that the ges is not up to the standard. Now, on this present, or third weekly test, which Dr. Love is making the Trust may force good gas through the mains and then all will be for naught, as to inflict a fine we must have three comsecutive tests which how the gas below the standard. “Of course, this department -has to do only with street lighting lamps, end the law requires that they must be of twenty candle power, and that thetest shall be made through a burner which consumes three cuble feet ot. gas an hour, Thas is, in an hour a burner must show twenty candle | power of strength and not consume more than three feet of gas. MAY HELP THE PUBLIC. “But as the private consumers are supplied through the same mains as ‘the street lamps this testing, which J shall continue each week, may help the consumers. “My deputies have reported to me that the Trust is making gas from rude Texas oil. This I know to be a fact. I rubbed my fingérs on the wall paper of my home to-day and found that it was coated with oll. It could have come only ‘from the gas. Wherever one of these burners are the oom will be covered with oil. “T shall ask the Board of Estimate and Apportionment to give me a Yarge appropriation at once to get after the Gas Trust. Brooklyn gas ‘s mot being tested and I want a testing branch established over there. I also snrant a testing branch on the upper west hide. For all of this I will need from $60,000 to $100,0.) and I think I can get it. ‘Brooklyn is being robbed ruthlessly by the Trust gas companies over Where, and I have no money at my disposal to prevent it? Brooklyn has asked for appropriations for this purpose, and I think now that every one ‘knows to what extent the Gas Trust is going the Board will be willing to sppropriate money to defend Brooklyn against the plundering of the Trust.” FIGHT BEGINS IN ALBANY. But the warfare in the interest of the public has been carried to the State capital, and Assemblyman Miller, meeting the protests of the people as wwoiced in The Evening World, has introduced a bill in the Legislature at ‘Albany providing for the appointment of a commission to examine the: quality of gas in New York City and to report to the Legislature means that are necessary to correct the evil. A bill regulating the Trust and re- ducing the price of gas to 75 cents has also been introduced, A new fact was brought out to-day in The Evening World's investi- ation of the Gas Trust's outrages, and again it came through the office of State Inspector of Gas Metera Alexander. A man connected with his office said: “The Gas Trust in New York City spends a great deal of money in ‘Albany every January. I know this, because I know who handled sme of the money. WORK OF THE GAS TRUST, “The Gas Trust is now making a determined effort to cut down the appropriation of the Gas Metere Inspector's office. It stands to reason that the fewer inspectors the State Inspectr has the fewer meters can be examined. * “«That influence, powerful, subtle, unseen, but nevertheless far-reaching, has had its effect. The appropriation is getting less and less each year, comparatively speaking. More complaints are coming in. Soon there will not be near enough inspectors to attend to the work. It is the evident ‘intention of the Gas Trust to make this, office ineffective by not Giving it money on which to operate. ———+++ 2 __ NEW YORK GAS OIL COSTS ONLY 30 CENTS A BARREL GALVESTON, Texas, Jan. —Pro- ducer in the Sour Lake oil field, where the oil used in making the gas in New York City is bought, have been startled by the market tumbling to thirty cents am barrel after being held steadily at ninety cents and more for several ‘weeks, It was put down generally as another movement of the Standard in its fight against, the independent pro- ducers. Ent Sour Lake field has been de- clining steadily for a month. and ‘o- 74 ducers were holding their oll for higher] PUPILS DEAD FROM POISON. prices.” When there was a demand for! BERLIN, Jan, 2—A medical inquiry 260,000 barrels yesterday the Standard [is boing made into a strange case of & met the orfer, and independent pro- [isto of girls, belonging to a cooking couraged producers were selling holdings at Jess than thirty cents, Producers. at Battson Prairie have agreed not to bore more than (®-ee on any one acre, and as all the territory fs taken. It has just leaked out that the Standard is the father 9 the plan which limits the production. ‘The death of Spindle, ‘Top arid Sour Lake fields ts credited to the honeycombing of the earth with wolla every fifty feet, and the proposition to Umit the wel »Battson met! with favor before the monopoly was un- masked, thelr Gucers were forced to come down to} school at Darmstadt, who were pol- thirty certs, and only a few thousand ! #oned recently. by .eating--sain barrels were taken, will goon be. Gry; and’ last night: dis- are dead and nine are dying. ade bed Sour Lake fleld from canned beans. Four of the girls THE WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY | 29, 1904. GAO Th WITH OIL IN ROLD-UP. PRICE ONE CENT. UT LINKS OTANDARD LE PDDDTOOLDG-D H-D999H999H999OH9OS9F2G92FF 999 OD @| 4 1e $6444 6 be DOEDELIDHH-1OFOOOOSOHG24 Hd DELLE CHODOGINLSOOHOHSOHOHHOOHHEOD VICTIMS CRY AGAINST GAS EXTORTION Complaint of ‘the extortion of the Gas Trust, such as those which poured in a year ago, are again coming to The Evening World accompanied by ap- peals’ for relief, Here are some of those received to--day-: Charge for New Meters. To the Editor of The Evening World: Is it lawful for the gas company to come here to my rooms and cut off the gas without one moment's notice? Ours was a quarter meter, but to-day a new meter was put In and an additional 0 ‘s 1s demanded. 1 hope you will ex- this outrage. Mrs, LANDERS. Leas Gas but Higher Bills. To the Editor of The Evening World: To what do you attribute the exces- sive charges the gas company has been making of late? Our bill 1s just double what it was this very montp a year 0 and we have been using six jets es I should think the people of New York City would be protected and not robbed by the gas company. ply an outrage. This city 1s supposed to ‘suppress vice and gambling. Why Por It is sim- | OUT not look up the rich concerns such a the gas companies? If the people go in a, saloon or cael bling-house they know what they are, doing and go there for a purpose. But Innocent people are robbed by the Gas ‘Trust. What protection do the poor people get? The Evening World has done much good, Let it take this Inj hand and help the poor who are being | robbed. Bless The Evening World. A SUFFERER. Press Can Bring the Trust to Terms/ To the Editor of The Evening World: | T have just read the statement of the} State Inspector of Gas Meters in which he finds 14,500 meters registering in favor of the gas companies. While T have long known many of the meters registered in favor of the compantes I had no idea there was so many, The, inspector gives the consumers very lt tle if any encouragement for relief) { [from the legislators, 1 would suggest | | an appea: to higher power, the power of the press, I think if the newspapers were to take the matter in hand better wits would be accomplished tian from any legislation in the land. The companies would come to Ume. POWE THE PRESS. GOTSHALL NOW HITS AT LITTLE TIM" President of the Portchester, Electric Road Resents the In-!1 timation that the Company Is Not Financially Strong. President Fornes, of the Board of Aldermen, and Vice-Chairman Sullivan y received letters from President Gotahall, of the New York and Portehester Railroad, replying to Al- derman Sullivan's attack upon the Portchester road at the recent hearing before the Railroad Committee, when “Little Thm’ questioned the financial ability of the company. Mr, Gotshall points to the fact that his company demonstrated its ability to” build the road to the satisfaction of the State Railroad Commission and the Su- preme Court. The letter to Mr, Sulll- van “say ‘Pursuant to my promise last Mon- day, I send you herewith a copy of the report made to the commission appoint- ‘ed ‘Wy Justice Martin J, Keogh, of the Supreme Court, for the purpose of in- vestigating the financial ability, stand- e New York & Port- pany, You will nswers fully your ing and Intent of th chester Railroad Co se note that this tions of last M t the time, 1 that the Railroad Commission of the State of New York had, at the oon- clusion of its hearings upon the appli- cation of the Portchester Company |for the certiticate lience and necessity of public conven- held an executive fticers and finan- Wife of John V. Mosher Obtains InterJocutory Decree. Justice Bischoff granted an interloc- utory decree of absolute diyorce to- day on stai ds to Luey PB. Mosher fro ysher, once famous as a ot driver in Barnum & Nopodrom: Be ouple were married in 18% and rated two years. Age ————__— CUBAN LOAN HALTS. Negotiations for the flotation of the proposed $35,000,000 Cuban loan have come to a temporary halt. The bank- ing interests, which have this matter under consideration, declare that the Russo-Japanese situation makes such a transaction inadvisable at this tee, because It would tic up a large amy of money which might be used elsewhere to better advantage. f | pensity FIGHT petal AND CARRIED ON AGAINST THE POOR GAS FURNISHED TO OUR CITIZENS | BD DF--G.OHOS-9S-3OFSDODH DODD OOOOIHIMD |S GHODIGIA TOOTS ‘HE WORLD: THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6 ‘Bill Kee Bia Pending in Albany to Bring the OSITIVE PROOF THAT AN IRONCLAD __GAS TRUST iS PLUCKING THE PEOPLE. "LADY RAFFLES” RELEASED ON BAIL Pretty Annie Schwab, Charged with Burglary, Raised $700 Cash on Check She Drew While Under Arrest. Annie Schwab, “Lady RaMes,” as the nolice have dubbed her on account of her Iadylike appearance and her pre to enter homes with the {de of carrying of valuables leased to-day in Jefferson Market Court on $700 bail, She was arrested on Wodnerday after a long street chase t a woman in whose house she was dis- covered, “Lady Raffles,” wearing « sealski air of one who | one of the oddest of women known to the police She say a Finn, All about her suggests the foreigner, Quiet of manner, fair of person and daring in execution “ Raffles’ has the police gu: are now hunting up her rece Hevo that back of her is some note d mbte crook, turbaned ike sack and hi with 8 Port. Has Fat Ba ik Account, red and, wa : : Fitinas Te eialipond) COMMIAION (of SHOE | gece cre bene accoudt which Is sald’) ability and Intention to construct this | 10 Bn iat” Her attorney. Mark Al chan at Treuistes | recelved a click for $7 trom her t0- should. be day to effect her release, When she The Jetter to President Fornes was ot | way arrested she had $97 in her posnen- sion. The check was used for her bail. In court a gold cuft button which the .| wontan had, and marked with the in- tials “E, C, W.,"” was proved to be the property of Edward Wualen, one of the boarders at the house where “Lady Raffles” was plying her peculiar trage, Fifty skeleton keys were found in her clothes. ‘These; her lawyer says, can be explained, as his client was formerly a Janitress. The charge against her was made by Mrs. Bridget Gorman, janitress of a tenement-house at No. 1 Thompson street. Mrs, Gorman lives on the sec- ‘ond floor of the tenement, and on re- turning to her rooms after a shopping expedition discovered that there was a key In the lock from the inside, While she was standing at the door the key was withdrawn and Mrs. Gorman en- tered just in time to see a woman dis- appear into the parlor. Girl Grabs Woman Burglar. The janitress followed, In her pas- hrs H Gas Combine to Terms and Stop Its Extortion. iOne Provides for Bet- sage Mrs. Gorman noticed that every- thing of value that could be carried away had been laid out on the bed, on which wrapping paper and twine had also been lald ready to do the bundles up. In the parlor Mrs. Gorman saw a tall, slender woman, wearing a scaleki sacque, She ran into another room and then into the kitchen, the janitress | following. The kitchen communicates with the hall, and the strange woman isappeared through the hail door. Mamle Gorman, Mrs. Gorman’s tea- year-old daughter, heard her mother's jerles and grabbed the skirts of the | stranger ax she t to run down stairs. The woman brushed the child] aside and fled, Mrs, Gorman In hot pur- suit, As she turned into Canal street a big | planted a str on hls chest si thie woman! by thes ders sant Shook her. ‘hen the Witt! to the jani- nT s ‘orgive me. f never intended to roflat, Let me go and I'll Mrs. Gorman however ,and ¥ appeared. ——— PRINTER CAUGHT IN PRESS. ribly Injured by Cons of a Wheel, He In 1 James M, Smith, a printer, living No. 1619 Madison avenue, Is In a erit condition In Bellevue Hospital as the sult of {injuries and shock, rec day In an necident Smith wax feeding a press the printing esta tal ut ‘twenty-fifth Amputaterd, Ure arm had CLERK HUGH GRANT DEAD. Connected wi Long Tenth Dis- trfet Muntetpal Coort. Hugh Grant, forty-sey ted wuddenly at Nis « Fiity-sixth strec MN dletk af the Fenth Municipal, Dis ict Court for a period of fifteen years. t Me was 4 cousin of former Mayor Hugh J, Grant r. Grant had not been: feel- best of health for the past his denth was unexpected sie Sa 0OO9-# 6420000646 6466664 PRADDE PEDHESE OO ‘DODGE 1S SICK IN main, who saw the janitress foi- | tried to stop the woman In the As he held out is arms she nde sinash | » ter Tests of the Il luminant and the Other Reduces the. Price to 75 Cents.” ALBANY, Jan, 9.—State Inspector of Gas Meters Jastrow Alexander Is in Al- bany and is conferring with various members of the Legislature about the proposed legislation to reduce the price of gas and compel the giving of a better quality of the article in New York City. There are two bills now before the Legisiature on the subject. One pro- vides for a reduction in the price of gas to 7 cents and the other provides for the appointment of a commission which ‘shall investigate the whole subjest and report to the Legislature. Mr. Al does not favor either measure, He said: “What is the use of appointing @ commission to inves! report upon the quality of gas furnished when — every consumer in the city knows OR gas is of the poorest quality? people could get ould not object to te, for Sting power indie bit bills wou cad, “The reason why, Now York City, are now 80 latge compa’ king ® very aunty of fae rie musts panies e Shat is right, ‘and. the public clat the a would cease. The conditions are certainly an outrage 9. the public.’ i au ee HELD UP IN DAYLIGHT, er Senter ee DOSS PSP PPIIGSLSSPVPSHPIPPP oy re HOES LY: eos S88 . ee Si a a. > rs > 3 a Angelo Delicit, of No. & Oak was held up and robbed by Mee at Water street and Jones Slip to-day, He was badly beaten by the thugs, two { whem were caught by) the fae i; {ter a long chase Delieht was walking alone! the wat front when the three men approacts ita. One, of then struck iilm’on the yaw and daged him while the other (wo wont throush his pockets drut . His cries for help were heard) By’ policemen, who came sround the cor= ner juat In time: to see. ning’ aw: They foll wees and na Auallg jovertoook ‘two of the men at tirect, The tallest. of ‘the three ese) caped. rhe men sald they were Willlam Core No. is Madison wines ana af 41. Rose were ear a by Delicit Ry te assailants but each protested | nocence, ar NEW BANK TO OPEN. The newly ‘organized Malden Lane. ® | National Bank wal topes its doors business Feb. the Wool Hullding, No. "ibs Wintiam street. Pres Robert D. eut, is known iii banking circles. 0650660600060 | that the stock “Is well dil among the business houses in neighborhood of the bank. which ae business “under unusually favoral pice GPPDODOSI NP VEOET pSHPS TESTE OS | A Pupil of Froebel’s Says Things eae well LEE womay, sparen who er youth @) jpanit ot aoeliell| the crigteatia of on TENAS HOSPITAL First Husband of Mrs. Morse! authority on the mind and body cul: Indicted in Connection with] ie, of ycuildren: ays. of Postnm i: “1 am an advocate of natural foous Marriage Annulment Declared |,,,. ne nuitding up and developing of ii i \the body and brain, and for this rea- in Serious Way. }son I have introduced Postum Into ‘iundreds of families. Much of my life has been spent in giving lectures *|to mothers how to bring their el dren above disease by instructing who was indicted here a fi Uguronbacchivge: ori pecilie hi {them what to eat and drink, 3 1 taken suddenly sick in Houston,| “fl Have two of the healthiest, strongest sons in America to prove was arrested, and that ic my theories correct. We live. per- g | Loy a shock to his many | illegal fectly and are able, to demonstrats the fact that true knowledge of food taiar it was i. Was such t ht to New York /opens the gates of sunshine im our: able time. home. “Postum Food Coffee given to chil- dren enhances their ability to greater achievements in this world .of com- petition, Thousands of constitutions are enfeebled in youth by drinking coffee where otherwise they have had health and strength. “Oh, the foolish mother and father to encourage in their children ber verted appetites by indulging the 4 palate for these things which enslave them in after life, cultivating an ap= petite for still grosser habits of in- temperance. “Postum is Nature's wholesome liquid food and drink, and when the taste is cultivated for this food drink tbe individual's path is safe and free from sour and unhealthy stomach action and perverted heart. pulse. “There is no doubt coffee causes thousands to suffer all forms of d<s- ia and heart, brain or ner” troubles and countless other ail priving them of money, home apt comforts of life by the ceasciess out- lay of doctors’ bills and inability to be useful or conduct the oreaaie duties of business. “Advocating Postum Cereal Coff to insure good health to my patients _ I have never been disappointed. My. pocketbook has suffered that is but my conscience {is clear ang dof Clemence that she had se- foom him when she e. the banker and After Mr. Morse and Mrs, Dodge had lived us husband und wife more than a year Dodge appeared and made am- that he had never been served with notice of his wife's petition for divorce and that the lawyer who posed is representative before the referee had not been employed by him. on this evidence Mr, and Mrs, Morse ured an annulment of thelr marriage, ind now Mrs, Dodge has begun new di- orce proceedings against Dodge. On fs submitted by Mrs. Dodge's at- in the previous action that had been served with notice, was Indicted by the New York rand Jury and Detective Her there and arrested him, —— dayy torr Dodge to Saccesvor's App: Tohn Edward Eastman, who was Water Registrar, in Brooklyn during the dmintstration, applied to Justice Dickey in the Supreme Court in that horough to-day to set aside the appotnt- ment of Willlam R. McGuire as his auc- {fF having, a Sema atten “re sate Sanaa given ‘by Postum Co., Battle Geek dutre ointes ‘o: M tet Commissioner home 4 Look in each package La ‘ater Commissioner Thomas F. Byrne. Tie Taintains, that his. removal was Justice Dickey {