The evening world. Newspaper, December 10, 1913, Page 22

f ee — ' { f SERVICE BOARD TO FORCE ACTION BY PRONE TRUST Reports to Assemblymen and Aldermen That Valuation of Plant Is in Sight. ASKS CITY TO HELP IT. State Officials Will Make Their Own Appraisal if Com- pany Fails to Do So, to The Brening World.) ALBANY. Deer Ib—vafter a wocret ees: ion lasting two houre, during which The Evening World's fight for a five- cent telephone rate in greater New York was the chief subject of con- aideration, the Public Service Commis- sion for the Second District tasued re plies te both the State Assembly and the New York Board of Alermen. prac- ‘tally declaring thet negotiations were ‘under way for an speedy appraisal of the telephone company's property. The Commission ts waiting for the coimpany to furnish a proper basis for thie valuation. If the Commiasion— | when it reconvenes in New York City | @m Der. 2 to continue the telephone | rate hearing—determines that the tele- | Phone people are not acting in good faith, the Gtate's experts will be pat at ork to make a physical valuation ofthe company's entire property. This wiN take months and to accomplish require the expenditure of #1 In answering the complaint the Aldermen \he Public Service Commis- gion calls on the city to furnish the mecegsary funds to make the proposed GANYeHNIR BECOMES DARK, THIGK, GLOSSY Try Grandmother's Old Favorite Recipe of Sage Tea and Sulphur. Almost everyone knows that Sage Tea Sulphur, properly compounded, beings back the natural Neo and lustre te the hair when faded, streaked or gray; aloo ends dandruff, itching scalp and stops falling hair. Years ago the only to get this mixture was to make it at ¢, which is mussy and trouble- some. 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Whar do you think of “It'a the meet horrible thing valuation in the event of a fall Teach anything like a prompt and factory agreement with the company aa to the worth of its plant. The commission was not disposed to five serious consideration to the re- quest of the Assembly that no further elaye should be granted to the tele-| hone Interests in the fight over a! five-cent rate. COMMISSION REPLIES TO THE ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION. ‘The answer made by the commission to the Assembly's resolution is as follo’ “The commission has no comment to make upon the resolution said to have been adopted yeaterday by the Assembly in relation to New York City telephone rates, In the tele- | hone mattare now pending the com- | eto ‘err | ever saw!” Average return dpon the value of the property actually used in the public rervice and of the necessity of making rerervation out of in- come for surplus and contingen- cies.” Assemblyman Goldberg, commentin( to-day on the answer of the Public Ser- vice Commiasion to his resolution, said: “If the Commision accepts the valua- tion offered by the telephone company it Ie Mkely to be tricked. It ehould have undertaken long ago a physical valua- tion of the phone company's preperty Tt seme to me that if the public wanis any Prompt relief it will have to get it through the Legislature. The first DIN T introduce next year will be « mission has been and is proceeding with the utmost possible diligen: H and will continue eo doing in con- | nection with other pending work and under the restraints imposed by le- | gal proceedure in accordance with Provisions of the Public Service Commission Iaw and decisions for the courts applying to cases of this | character, “The committee is hopeful that a | proper basis can be reached for # satisfactory order in these proce: ings whieh will obviate the nece: Sity for an expensive valuation of the telephone property In New York City, and which would avoid the considerable time and labor thereby involved. If such baals can not be found the law will require an inven- tory and appraisal of the property and the valuation committee.”” To the complaint phone thereof by the wainst the tele- a received from the Board of e comminsion sent ite reply lerk Scully. It pays “The resolution of the Board of Aldermen will be reganted as an additional and general complaint on behalf of the City of New York. A copy of the resolution and of this letter will be transinitted to the New York Telephone Company. “In connection with thin cawe it is Droper to point outythat in the event an inventory and appraisal of tne e@property devoted by the New York Telephone Company within the City of New York to public use, shall become necessary it will be inde: spensable that provision be made for the expense of making such ap- yraisal and inventory on behalf of the public, It is assumed that the City of New York will provide a sufficient appropriation for that pur- pose, and it in suggested that, in Anticipation of such expenses being required, mutable action be taken in relation thereto. i COMMISSION QUOTES THE LAW| RELATING TO RATES. n 97 of the Public service sion'« lAW provides that the commission in fixing the rates of telephone corporations shall do so with due regard to @ reasonable Rensel, testifying to-day before @pecial Com tion which in effect permitted the corroborate Quinlan, Vice-President of the company, which brought the charges against Car- Male. new rule w barred the Warner-Quinian prod year before orders from July, prevented contractors from using on ‘CHILOREN TAKE “CASCARETS” WHEN CROSS, CONSTIPATED—DIME A BOX EDIT TERMS Any child will gladly take “Cascarets mee RPA y aud puts the liver in» healthy | ASCARETS WORK WHILE You SLEER. STATE'S ENGINEER BACKS UP QUINCAN IN ASPHALT CHARGE Bensel Testifies at Osborne Hearing About Change of Rules Concerning Asphalt. ALBANY, Dec. 10.—State Pingineer Osborne in the Carlisle phait hearing, declared the old High- lopted a renolu- 2 » roads. In this respect he “| euppose you'll wear a wig when your hair turns gray?” “Never! UH dye first!” Little Stories By Big Men Coprright, 1913, ty Apnabel Lee. Told by Justice Charles E. Hughes A He eaid: MAN came into the Executive Chamber one day when the room was quite full of people; out?’ the teatimony of P. R, Rensel explained that, although the adopted, the old oi years.” thelr product. Parry Filkin, « division engineer of the Highway Department, testified that tly after the Carlisle order he had a conference in New York with A. 8. Johnson, an agent of the Barber Amxphalt Company, and Mr. Mueller, another einploye of the company, The contsrence, he said, was only to ob- tain their views problem 16 y didn’ ashington, visers?” asked the Wai n and I wanted the advie ule of thumb’ worke: Filkin ld neither Johnson nor Mu ter had Attempted to sell him any asphalt or to influence him in favor of the Barber Company's product. “ “Ye an eacal Had you been in before?” terday. were you doing without any introduction, there be- ing for a moment a wait, he ap- Proached the desk and sat down by “I want to lodge a com- Plaint against the conduct of Aus him and I said: “When you been in?” pe." you guilty?” before ‘Well, I was out for a couple of “What was that for?” ve you spent twel years out of the lest fourteen in 'y You got out yesterday and came nce to lodge # complaint?” at Then he went on and unfolded his particular complaint. through and left me I called for the gentleman who, When he got in an but entirely firm way, is supposed Protect the Executive, and I s “How does it happen that @ man who has just got out of State prison can walk right into the Executive Chamber and without any introduc- tion come and ait with me when “Wh convict? semblyman. From POUG! Astor han beei the Dutcher clety, it w country estate few minutes fate: Tasale HKD! he said I thought he was an As PRIE, elected Vice-President of ‘ounty Agricult announced to-d hei here ia a roomful of people with a1 pointments demanding an oppor tunity?" “That man a by Rig Men," published fr Putham's sons), Dev. 10,—Vincei in a hospital. affable La For ‘Infants and Children. Jk Gotan) B “No, my bi GREAT SURPRISES FROM TOYLAND FOR THE CHILDREN — Building Blocks to Make Sky- scrapers—Kitchen Uten- sils for Girls. Coppright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World), By J. K. Brvans “R—o—n—g!" “That's wrong.” joy. He only feels cheaper!” wilh Bary “Don't you think a man can tive just as cheaply married as single?” “Willie, spel: wrong.” “Weill, ten't that |_what you asked me to spell?” Toyland Skyscraper By Eleanor Schorer By Eleanor Schorer. ARCTIC REGIONS, Dec. 11—What a surprise some kiddies will have when they find a set of new building blocks which will make toy skyscrapers many beautiful as any buildings in the big cities of America! And every set of to erect. They have bronze doors, dormer windows, towers, great stone pillars and tall chimneys. An etric light can be placed inside and giv perfect effect of an oMfce bullding at night. The windows show alive with twinkling light. Tons and tons of stee! are coming into Toyland every day to make the “Amert- can Model Bullder,” out of which the clever boy can rivet together the small pleces of steel and fashion them with such things as windmills, bridges, cars and trucks, which ha The factories in which so many busy overtime around this time of year, have turned out boats of every description | py the hundreds, Bapecially wonderful | are the great, dark gray Dreadnoughts, with mighty guns pointing from thelr sides, and black wicked smokestacks, TOYLAND HOUSEFURNISHING! ARE PRETTY. flower designs decorating them. Cupboards, tables and chairs are| mostly done in white enamel and some designs to match the dishes. Light iy chairs with cane seats and backs are also much in vogue. Dolly's bed may be of brass, or white or gray enamelled wood. Jocko, @ brown monkey with @ light pink face, has announced himself on the ‘acene to rival the famous Teddy bear, land to find favor in Santa's shopa. Doggies and kitties, with heads titled saucily and huge eyes turned up to the ncing roguishly sidewise, are KITCHENS FOR THE TOYLANOD HOUSEWIFE. Perfect and complete little kitchens have been made for the little girl who frying pan pudding dishes, cupboard, plat and saucers, rolling pin and everything else just ike big kitchens, Butch shops and grocery atores, where the housewife may do her marketing, are iso to bo had from the wonderful and bounteous display that Santa has pre- pared to bring to kiddies at Christmas | time. CASTORIA nt The Kind You Have Always Bought Stories high and of designs equally as/ blocks has designs of several different! kinds and sizes of buildings for Bobbie! steel wheels. | little workmen toll all day and even do| ‘The prettiest tea sets have Gainty | | News Oddities SEVEN CLERGYMEN are on the December Grand Jury in Camden, N. J., and the wicked trembie. | FAULTY ADDRESSES are found on # per cent. of all mail matter handled in Chicago. | i} FAMOUS MINT BED at the White House has been destroyed, and it is said | |@ grape vine ts to take ite place. | PRESIDENT WILSON {s opposed to vivisection, except in the case of the ‘Tammany: Tiger. | WITH PARIS against the side-swiping hat feather, its doom ought to be woaled. ANIMAL HARD LUCK—Polar bears caught in @ menagerie fire. TUCKAHOE MAN accused of flirting held for Inquiry into his sanity. | flection intended on Tuckahoe giris? 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