The evening world. Newspaper, January 30, 1904, Page 8

aad srs ‘ " i i a ~ . i¢gislation. IT TRUST BILLS TO CURB SUARE Gio Agent of the Corporation erties t to Al- of Its Extortions, ‘Miller Bill, ; Relief, Is the Chief Object of Attack— Allianc: with the Repulican Machine to Be Strengthened and New One Made (Special to ‘The Evening World.) “ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 30.—Michael Connell, outside man for the Trust, who has definite instructions to defeat the purpose of The Evening World in its efforts to correct the gas evil, is hére. Mr, Connell is the legislative representative of the Executive Com- thittee of the Board of Directors of the Standard Oil oman, _ While no committee meeting is scheduled until Tuesday, the Gas} > ‘Trust, frightened by the agitation brought about by The Evening World, ~ 4s beginning a thoroughly planned campaign among the lawmakers. The Gas Trust has opened quarters at the Ten Eyck Hotel. Mr. Connell did not register, but was assigne.. to rooms, and left word that if certain Assemblymen called for him their cards were to be sent up. Connell Ready for Business. Mr. Connell has come to Albany to see the persons most intignately and directly interested in the Miller bill. Mr. Miller has gone home, but * there are attaches of the Assembly who will meet Mr. Conne’l to-day. ™i fact, he sent word to them on his arrival here to meet hint. The Miller “bill, prompted by The Evening World, provides for a ~ commission, to be appointed by the Mayor of New York City, to investi- "gate into the gas situation and report back to the Assembly any desired If this bill were passed every gas consumer in New York would be entitled to a hearing. Jastrow Alexander, the State Inspector of Gas Metres, heard of the af ; © imove of the Gas Trust in its efforts to sway legislation by money, and came. to Albany yesterday. He told The Evening World reporter last night that he had been assured that no nove would be made until he was notified. Gov. Odell returned to Albany late last night to meet certain per- sons. His arrival was a surprise, as it was believed that he had gone to his home untjl Monday. Meeting Scheduled for To-Day. In official circles, however, it is. understood that a meeting is to be held to-day to determine the merits of not only the Miller bill but the ' Finkelstein and Fitzgerald measures. It is said that Gov. Odell will be present at the conference and that is the reason for his quick and un- expected return. _ It Seems that the Gas Trust has an agreement with the Repub‘ican ~ machine: The deal was engineered by Platt six years ago. By its pro- visions the Gas Trust was not to be disturbed again for political con- tributions. This Presidential year may so change the vote that the Republicans will lose their power to deliver the goods. Therefore the Gas Trust is now making new alliances and strengthening old ones. COURTS MAY BE USED TO CURB GAS TRUST. li !5 Possible to Start a Suit to Vacate the| Charter or to Restrain the Extortioners from Cutting Out the Meters. Two courses are open to the overcharged customer {= which he may theck the greed of the Gas Trust and compel it to fusmix> him with »good gas. One course means the revocation of tly: cocnpany'a charter, and the other is the use of the writ of injunction to preven fhe com- pany f—m turning off the gas after the consumer has refized to pay an unjust bill. One, of these two courses will be pursued through the Zesistance of the Attorney-General’s office and at the instigation of The Evening World. Section No. 70 of the Transportation Corporations Law provides: + A-charter may be granted to a gas company in a city of 800,000 population or more to furnish gas at a uniform rate, wh‘ch shall stand a test of twenty sperm candles of six to the pound and, burning at the rate of 120 grains of spermacet! per hour, tested at 1, distance of not Jess than one mile from the place of manufacture by a burner consum- ing five feet of gas per hour. Not Up to the Standard. Dr. Edward G. Love, Superintendent of the Photometrical Branch of the Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, has made many vests “of the quality and strength of the gas furnished by the five dif- ‘erent companies composing the Consolidated Gas Company, and each of these tests shows that the gas is nowhere near the standard called for lp the statute under which the companies hold their charters. In attacking the charters of the companies, or of the combined company, the affidavits containing in detail the facts and results of his tests will be turned over to the New York office of the Attorney-Gen- eral of the State, if that course is decided upon, and then the Attorney- General will submit these proofs to the Supreme Court and ask for Der- | mission to bring an action to vacate the charters under which the | Gas Trust operates. Thet course is open to the danger of delay, and no corporation Is more adept in securing delay than {# the Gas Trust. It would be ‘pos- sible for the company to delay definite action on this proceeding for a long time—perhaps for many years. A Quicker Way to Relief, ‘The more definite, quicker and most satisfactory plan on which the consumers can act is to) make use of the affidavits of the Superintendent | | of the Photometrical Department in refusing payment. Based on those | affidavits, the consumer can cluim that the company has violated its led contract with him in its failure to supply him with the stand- and quality of gas under which it holds its charter, as quoted above. Of course, the Gas Trust will then fall on the consumer who so pro- and will say: “You canuot diapute our bills as rendered. You it has been euMicient in the past to subdue the protesting -he has paid the bill. W, with the absolute proofs of deficient quality of gas, the bany to Head Off Legislation Sug- gested by Evening. World’s Exposure } Which Would Afford Real: | whole community by the fearless way Joffice*of the Continental Hotel, WHEN TEACHERS HAVE THEIR OW WEET WAY BNE SPANK THEIR PUPILS DAY BY DAY. 9 PIADPORRPRREDODY FoR THE TEACHER hone ‘WITH AN EIGHT ive wD 0 YEARS GRUDGE. bo THIE iN RIGHT HAPPY, hinppy YEARS! OF THESE AND THE PRICE THINGS 1 GOING UF uke MME SEIOIRS ROD yo ue TEACMERS Go RINT AWEAD AND LICK ‘EM dit rut scilove BoaRD o 1g sescaeooeogees. ¢ POOVIDIIIHIDHDIDIIDODST? ¢ TIG9624O-9990OO4 ‘AM AGoyT) To * PUNISH! you, SEVERELY y] 8909006 PVOOSEGDE-0O9OG9O0 8686000009 GETTING UP MUSCLE FOR THE COMING FRAN |. seaeseutee $99999O999-95-6-99-6-999 AN END OF RUBBER bots ACCURDING TO THE BROOKLYN BeHOOL MAAS & VANUN | Ne DD P2RPRIRLOOOE1F99-04OH consumer can refuse to pay the bill as rendered, and then apply to the court for an injunction preventing the Gas Trust from turning’ off his supply of gas. View of Cunneen’s Deputy, - Deputy Attorney-General Thomas F. Byrne, in the New York office of the Attorney-General, is of the opinion that the application to vacate the charter would be the mest direct means of attacking the monster corporation, but as that course is subject to the tedious and indefinite delay of the courts, it is believed that each individual consumer will receive more immediate relief by refusing payment and then securing an injunction which will prevent the company from stopping the gas supply. It Is pcessible that if an injunction is asked for an indefinite num- ber of protesting consumers may be included, so that it would be equally Protective for all of them. This was the course pursued in Chicago four years ago, and on the blanket petition of over 10,000 consumers the Gas Trust there’ was prevented from turning off the supply of gas until the courts had de- clded as to the merits of the claims of both sides. Still Another Course Open. The 14,500 consumers who had defective meters, according to the Teport of State Examiner of Gas Meters Jastrow Alexander, have still another course open. The tests by the State offloial showed that these meters had been registering a greater amount of gas than had been con- sumed. sumer has been overcharged, and he may claim redress from the com- pany. But as to how long the meter has been inaccurate or how muck , the consumer has’ paid the company in excess of his just debt, {s a mat- | ter which only the courts can determine after hearing the evidence. eS TRUST MUST PAY INTEREST ON DEPOSITS, give to these gas companies valuable franchises which the companies have combined into a \ast and tyrannical trust, and then grant them an addl- tional privilege—to wit, the free use of | To the EMitor of The Evening Workt: | these millions of the people's money? | You have earned the thanks of this ‘The customer might run away and | Yeave a month's bill unpaid. So might the butcher's or the baker's. If the gas company {s afraid of its customer, | why not do as the hotels do, collect its | bills every week? Or, pay 6 per cent. on the deponit: ‘ONSUMER. Jan, 28, 1! in which you have attacked on more than one occasion the Gas Trust. There is another feature of the case which I should like to see The World discuss. Every consumer of gas is re- quired to deposit with the company at Teast $5, In your edition of this date you give the number of meters an [The law compels the gas company to pay 5 per cent. per annum interest 340,000. Acoording to this the gas com-/on all deposits, but actual compilation pany would have on hand with which | shows that tt pay: to do business $2,900,000 of the people's | oMMeers of the compa money, for which it pays no Interest, | the Interest, and most consumers quit | there. However, {f the demand is per- sistent and !s carried high enough, the pomnnaay must pay the Interest,—Edl- tor. BIG LOAN FIGURES IN BANK STATEMENT; Highest Mark Ever Reached in What I should ike to know Is—is thin just? What sther business enjoys the | same privilege? Why should the people | WIFE SPURNED HIM AND HE DRANK ACID Separated for Two. Years, Met Her by Chance in-a Hotel and She Returned His Pleading’ Note Unanswered. Deposits Pass the Billion- Dollar Level. Despondent because his wife refused! ‘The bank statement to-day was re- to return to him, Max Brasack, once a! markable, the deposits again passing prominent produce merchant ‘of Ho- the biilion-dollar mark, and the loans boken, drank carbollc acid in a glass of being higher than ever before, The lat- beer in Boehm's Hotel In Hudson street, tor were within $4,500,000 of the $1,000,- Hoboken, to-day, He ts In a critical con- 000,000 level, while the total deposits dition in St. Mary's Hospital. {reach $1,023,943,800. Last night Brasack was sitting in the! Not since Feb. 21, 1902 have deposits First! been anywhere near the present total. and Hudson streets, when his wife en-' On that date the aggregate was $1,019,- tered and asked for a room, She said 471,100, as at that time the showing was she had intended to go to a new board-| regarded as most remarkable. ing-house, but that her room had not! ‘The Increase in loans was 487,200, been made ready for her. while the gain In deposits was $37,640,500, She did not notice her husband, they | ‘This Increases the excess of deposits This certificate of inaccuracy is evidence in itself that the con- \ Cleaging-House Report, While)! BAD BOYS AND RAT MAKE GIRLS PANICKY One Girl Fainted, One Choked! « on a Caramel and Others Waded Through the Confec- tioner’s Stock. Fl setting loose a Inrge and lively rat in a Hoboken confectionery store and thereby creating a panic, to the detriment of business and discomfiture of several young women customers, William Mueller and Nathaniel Gould, youths of about sixteen years each, are under arrest on a charge of disorderly conduct, The pante occurred in the store of Max Bloch, at No. 26 Newark street. Miss Molle Bloch, the proprfetor’s daughter, was in ct arge of the store at the time and was doing her best to wait on several young women and converse with each at the same time. Gould and Mueller entered the store and the ,for- mer, {t in sald, let the rat escape from his pocket, . “It's a rat!" screamed one of. the young women. Miss Mary’ Bellew jumped to the top of the counter and stood scream- with her feet in a tray of fresn molasses taffy, Miss Bloch fainted two of the other girls screamed ‘She's | dead!" Marle Yuengling, of No 290 First street, jumped from a chair to run, jand as she did so she swallowed a whole caramel. It stuck in her throat. She turned red and almost stranglea before she succeeded in swallowing the candy. turned. Gould and Mueller had flea during the excitement, but Miss Blocn, when sho was revived, gave a deacrip- |R tion of them and they were arrested. The rat had disappeared. ——— Southern TO SAVE DOROTHY Q.. HOUSE, |fiion"?, Subseriptions B 30,—Subscrip- tions are being collected to save the historic Dorothy Q. house at Quincy from destrnetion and prevent the land surrounding it bein, converted ; Into house lots, So far $430 out of $9,000 need- ed has been contributed and) of this ween Charles Francis Adams gate The Dorothy Q. house was built in 1636, nye ae i | Dorothy: ul he Doro- thy’ Piolmes's famous poem, Hebomrariiech sheltered such famous men as Jobn Adams, Benjamin Frank- John Quincy Adams and John Han+ By the north side of the house runs the brook referred to by wade Sewall in his ag ai, en, after a journey he turned in “to cousin Quinsa: an ,Jodged in the chamber next ¢ ‘00! BOY VAGRANTS SENTENCED. Couldw't Get Work and They Ge to Blackwell's Island. As the result of a round-up made by the police at the Gity Lodging-House ten ya@ful prisoners accused of be- ing vagrants were arraigned to-day be- fore Magistrate Zeller in the Essex Market Police Court and were sent to Blackwell's Island to ‘rest for the re- mainder of the winter.’ Not one of the prisoners was over twenty-one years and two of them were having been separated for two years, uver loans and places the banks in a@ Brasack wrote her a note and sent it | better position still, The cash increase to her rcom. He begged her to come! was more than $12,000,000, back to him and intimated that sne| ‘The preliminary estimates of the must be in trouble, ‘Mrs, Brasack re-! siatement were close to the actual fig- turned the note unanswered, ures to-day, and the statement was a Brasack left the hotel and went tnto| negative one except to those who look the bar-room of Boehm's Hotel, where) beyond the reserve acount, and had he tried to kill himaelf. litle effect on stocks, as was Inter- He fatled in business about six months | preted in as many different ways as ago, wince which time he has been a cook In a Hoboken restaurant, Mrs, rasnck was wealthy at one time, but jis now a bookkeeper in a laundry. Her there were persons reading It. As a re- sult some stocks were slightly higher and some 101 ‘frat husband was Henry Grubb, a cou-|_ The statement follow [sin of Gen. E, Bird Grubb, formerly |Toans, increase. United Stat ister to Spain, Depoaits, a WINNIE DAVIS'S SUITOR DEAD, Joseph La Motte Morgan, a prominent Southerner,residing at the Hotel High- Janda, and whore home was at BieminiK. |ham,’ Ala., waa buried to-day, He died| 7 at the Presbyterian Hospital, and as , against $27,880,779 had no relatives in the North his|623350 two years ago, fects Femain unclaimed nt the hotel a He was a relative of Senator Morgan, of Alabama. It is said he at one tine SUNDAY WORLD WANTS WORK it t the hi te W! \Davis, Daughter of the Confederacy. MONDAY YORNING WONDERS, ene Surplus, deereane Ex-1", 8. deporits, decreaso, The surplus reserves now but seventeen. Being questioned by the Magistrate ey the accused youths declared that had made every effort to get work, but could not obtain employment. ee ceemapeeeteetn) WHEAT MARKET. ‘The local market opened about un- changed to-day while in the West frac- tlonal losses were felt, Notwithstand- ing the more peaceful reports conce ing the Far East attuation the English grain markets were higher. After the initial trading eur market fell 1-8 to 1-4 of a Gent, but pressure of long stuff was absent. Al ate cables reported no rains in fons, Tes ee Wheat-May, 92 7 ‘“Chieago's goenin May, 00 1- ots THK WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 30, 1904. ’ COP AND THIEVES BATTLE ON ROOF} Patrolman Barry “aie (bade Es- capes with Life from Deés- perate Struggle with Foyr Burglars, Who Try to Kill Him ins HELP ARRIVES JUST. IN TIME TO SAVE: HIM, ers Sought to Hurl the Police- man Into the Street, but One Was Captured. Policeman Barry, of the East Twenty: second street station, almost lost his life to-day in a fight with four burglars on the roof of the four-story’ bullding at No. 27% Avenue B, The, burglars made a desperate effort to throw the policeman from the roof and) would probably have succeeded but for the umely arrival of some neighbors who Were brought to the roof by the nolse of the fight. Standing opposite Hupfet's saloon, at No. 280 Avenue B, at daybreak, Barry saw four men force an entrance. He immediately went after them, but they saw him coming and ran out into a hallway and upstairs to the roof: Barry | catch one of the men. The other three then attacked lim in an effort to free their companion and the five men rolled over and over on the snow-covered roof, The fight gradually Worked’ itself F on to the roof of No. 2%, where one of the thieves’ stopped thumping Burry long enough to say that unless he Jet go of his prisoher he would be hurled from the roof. Barry deficd the man and. held on lke grim death. Severai times the thieves got him to the very ledge, but ke managed each time to save himself. The Nght ended when rome of the ten- ants of the houxe cume to the roof to what was the matter. Three of the thieves tan across the roofs to an open scuttle, down which they made thelr way to tie street. Barry took the fourth, downs to the statfon-house, where h Was” Edward Schoupk, | twenty-elgit ars old. of No. 662 East Fourteenth He told the police that he would give the names and addresses of the other men if he was not prosecuted, No much promise was m wave the names Just the same, and de- fectives a now out looking for tho my Meanwhile Schoupk was held tor ex- amination! on Monday by Magistrate Just at this moment Bloch re- |} X = Taken to Pre. Whitman in the Yorkville, Court ——<—<—— LONDON STOCKS RALLY. Reports of Far East Peace Agree- ment is Prices Up. LONDON, Jan. 30.—There was a mod- erate tally in'the stock market just be- fore ‘the close to-day on reports of Peace having been arranged in the Far East. Japanese issues ‘advanced 1-2 And South "Africans hardened. Amerloan rajlway shares showed ‘a decided dis- position to improve. The closing fig- ures follow: ae ae + RM + 16% — bh tnadie 21) Denver i fie Gaiae ry St & Ei 8 » Wyott aes g wan > vy Vm + % 3% cea He t:8 By. 2 22! aw — 8.5 Be Bet iM + ig ao% + ° ot % CURB STOCKS STRONG. Dealings on the curb were strong. to- day, with Northerr, Securittes the fea- ture. it selling ne up to 9 1-2 on 3, shares. The.bid and asked prices of the ptincipal outside securities were: Bia. Asked, American Can B Ameriean Can 8 % Greene Copper Tmterborv 108 108, Re 105 14 ts Seaboard Alr Ti Seaboard Air Tipe Brooklyn Ferry Be HE “355 Time After Time the Lawbfeak-|. [followed a: on the roof managed’ to | fe to him, ‘but he a 009 | by some innova STOCKS WEAK WHILE ‘THE TRADERS WAIT Delay in the Sattion Settlement of War Question in Far East Hurts Business on the Exchange and Keeps Prices Down. SOME VIGOR IN ‘ATCHISON: Foreign Buyers Join Home Brokers In Taking the leaue, While Union Padific Was Strong on Earnings and Southern Pacifle Sharing Favor Stocks cloged weak to-day at about the lowést pricen of the sassion, traders being aversé to carrying securities over Sunday in view of the unsettled con- dition of affairs in the Far East. The market was Irregular all day, with values going \up and down, Trading,.was''very dull, the trans- actions in bonds also being at a low Jevel. United States Rubber: preferred stock has advaticed 15 points within two weeks On the view that dividénds on the preferred wefe to be reaumed. It ix not bellgved that this course will be fol- lowed, although the men who Hold the j stock has been making the best of the report to send prices higher. The belief that the new financial pol- fey of tHe Colorado Fuel and Iron Gom- |pany! may go through gave the stocks of that company some strength. Atchison was strong and the reports of the road, whith\show that the com- pany is,earning more than 9 per cent. on the cominon, helped the Issue. In- siders and foreigh houses are buying this Issue freely, Foreign bankers be- lleve that the stock is good an in- vestment and are advising its purchase. Union Pacific was strong on its ex- cellent report of earnings, while South- ern Pacific was strong in sympathy. ‘The Ch pwicer, or trom last recorded lows: ‘ Net Amal. Coy AE Law. Clee, % ¢ we of 1204, 126) He 8 BRS a3 be ot ="s i yt 144 | 1444 — E a a i < ie eect gs gt igs — RY a ‘me = 2 [ae = ts ee ae Su te eer ea) $5 Sonke FS ‘alr a BIG EUCHRE AT WALDORF. One ‘Thousand (aataa mesacts at One thoysand ‘guests are expected the concert and eughre «to be given F¢b. ‘8 at’ thé Waldorf-Astoria in aid of’ the new’ Church ‘of: St. Jo Baptist at Yonkers. Rev. Thomas J. Lynch, the pastor of the church, who fs also treasurer of conten Semi- nary, at’ Dunwoodle, friends ‘in this olty,;-many'of Shoes ate leaders in. sdetal and church’ circles, who have joined in promoting: the. suc- ceas of the affair. Beveral operatic artists will entertain at the ‘concert. presenting a bill of ox: ceptional excellence, while a number of | te Manrew’s ; SUNDAY WORLD A GREAT AIRSHIP RACE FOR $1,000,000.00 The astonishing aerial contest that will take place at the St. Louis World's Fair between Santos-Du- mont and his rivals depicted in a fanciful page drawing in four col- ors by Artist Bierdermann, with an interesting article telling how the great race will be “flown.” A “LIQUID SUNSHINE” COCKTAIL How radium, the most wonderful ' thing in creation, will be pressed into service to provide a novel beverage at a banquet of scien tists. Ihistrated in colors. THE PANAMA CANAL— JUST WHAT IT REALLY IS Do you realize what a Herculean task this Government is ready to’ undertake in completing the Pane ama Canal? Do you know how much of it is done and what re- mains to be dug? In a great double-page drawing in colors the huge enterprise will be shown , you to-morrow for the first time ' by any American paper. REPORTED HIS OWN SUICIDE The remarkable notes left by a man who turned on the gas and waited for death to come. Illus trated. A WOMAN'S 16-YEAR FIGHT FOR A NAME. The pathetic struggle of Mrs. Ede ward Everett to be recognized as a wife and her consequent tri- ymph. Iltustrated. RUINED BY TOO MUCH MONEY *. The strange fate that befell a man. who became ‘first a millionaire: honestly and then ‘a poor man dis- honestly. Mlustrated. ‘INA LIFE-SAVING GLOBE AT SEA ~- An unusual test of a contrivance that bids fair to make sea travel comparatively safe in spite of wrecks, ‘Illustrated. THE LIFE TRAGEDY tien will be Introduced during the cuchre. Avdance that will be marked novations follows the ards least of the even! logs As ores of out-of-t featateh are interested in the event, the committee having the euchre in c! as established headquarters at ie Ercetya) snare ey is anes are ar the city’ mide apeciat guests at the: te affair. —————_ DIE@ FROM BURNS. Mary Fail, of No. 89 Spring. street, t+ St, Vincent's Hospital from rom, burns ‘rie we received” on and wil Sil On Monday, and Satins, : shades show new 20.to 24 inches wide, Suitable for Shirtwaist Suits, \75c. per yard. . Value 1.00 to 1.25, -daintily and artistically arranged, JAMES MeGREERY 8CO. ks. February 1st. Fifteen thousand yards, of fancy Check and Stripe Silk, and the latest Louisines, Taffetas A very large proportion ‘of the debigns are blue and white or black and white. Other combinations of color, OF WHITAKER WRIGHT A graphic story of the rise and fall of the most remarkable swin- dler in the history of the world. Illustrated. HOW SOCIETY WOMEN “MAKE UP” LIKE STAGE STARS; NEWLY DISCOVERED LO- GIA OF CHRIST; FASH- IONS, &c, &o. METROPOLITAN SECTION | The Great “Amen” Dinner An Interview with Caive and Other Interesting Looal’ Fx tures COMIC SECTION Gene Carr, Geo. MoManus, C. W. Kahles, Kate Carew, and Other Famous “Funny” Arty jolr Best ' 4