The evening world. Newspaper, May 29, 1915, Page 6

P Fixing a Fair and Cheaper Rate. ; jiiecinanssaals : To Produce Data. AYING EXORBITANT ATE FOR POOR GAS DEMAND RINGS COUNTY G0. BOD y Furnish Only Means of > Commissioner Hayward to Be} | Urged to Force Corporation befere the Public Gervice Com- mission, when the Commission ordered an -eont gee rate in 1911, that the Court of Appoate | weuld have confirmed that order | and thet they would net new be | etill fighting for a lewer rate of ' | By Sophie Irene Loeb. ferm ecighty-cent gas rate. Mr, Gemple asks that his aide of the m be left open, however, should Additional deta throwing light oa early history of the eompany be Qld records seem to fact that ail efforts to secure com- books were in vain. They bear materially on the early profits [he company as to rete-making, = citizens’ meeting thie - and clvie organizations wore represented, the escuring of “these books was strongly urged, nd @ committes will ask Com- “mlesioner Hayward at the heer- img next Tuseday, June 1, ab 290 all energy te esoure of the company eo the “going value” may be PLMa to bond ‘ records decided thie time. eae es ‘j fa Bis Wook oy > WIRTIC COLLEGE GIRLS Fon tace, pen iti s/h fe dee *@. ©. Bempie, counsel for the Pub- Me Bervice Commission. announces that ko has practically secured all the data, relative to adjusting rate of the Thirtieth Ward, aa operated by the Kings & ty Gas Company, the taxpayers having mede a long fight for « unl+ wherein all the Beards of ‘These ecitizone claim that had ail thie material been produced elt ott until we do, That i i 7 Hl ; i i i 24 2 : & it A i aif i i f i i “ 3 to stand on that?” and the state clearly just wha‘ be Seoieed by this commission f purpose of fixing o missioner Malthie very clearly, that ev! and solely within the ¥. eVeRYBOVY'S (| GOING! (azctea| LE the company, and it is up to the commission to preduce them.’ “Now, that was the pi ition that he clearly put up to the com- mission—to produce the com- peny's books, because the com- is lost them, or at least “Now, it seems to the complainante that the first effort ought to be to find those books. Somebody | it] thority or somebody in existence uate know what has become of them. Peo- workings of the com; cumnpany has somethi viene fash, the reoard of the in ° with the clty whi capitalized at two, | Lt i. of the com ~ the superintendent, & |fdr: urns whe hae boot erith the sows time of ite inception, ink, knows as much oF than any in! suamination of Mr. some of the officials ae @ those boo! might produce some information whieh would throw oe eounpeny decision of (he Court of Appesis, is ly Way vou can at it, mpany end offset them in the later yeare of the hahdere OUALEsQUE OLYMDIC FROLICS ag? te the loamen in the sarw bie. | f KS gas. WHEN MALTSIS TRIEO TO GBT |that you are to meet. There ie a | doclsion of the Court of Appeals with which you are familiar as we are, or ought to be, an@ it le asvumed you end put them in, and you are going to i all f itl Fett To which the counsel for the oom- | That robber, Joseph Berger, te in the| With the city's perilous financial situ. reduce them. Tombe, under Indictment. Arnold 1+ |4tlon has been the last straw to break 18 COMPANY TRYING TO CON. | Tomh: Inder ist that he ured the| '2@ line of nafety. CEAL SOMETHING? binekjack Leaders aro working on two meas- ple living in that section who are|and best known more or leas familiar with the carly | vania, dicd yeater: the | seventy-elght tor 1| Nat of MoKinley ie “Thal, as | underetond i from the came | ; Hf 2¥ Frank Trott, the other members of | \ebind the mortgage loans of savings 04 by the State Legisiature, influenced | by ty-one No, was arrested at Prospect and Longwood jn the clothing of one, who was arrested.| who w r as an authority on the law and finan cial problem of ratirond reciverships. General the N and politician, | peventy- three Bpri the che Might on thin’ in dead at the question as Ww the ‘going’ value of home of « da ARIZONA RESPITES CITY HEADS MUST OSLAYERS TOHANG | SAVE $20,000,000 THEM SEPARATELY, 10 PAY NEW TAX — —~— ‘Wholesale Executions Delayed Noted Leaders Seek to Force at Last Moment by Board | of Pardons. | | | FLORENCE, Arts, May 2-the! Mexicans wentenced to be hanged forced to economize, | for murder yesterday, and for whom Fully $20,000,000 muet be out from Secretary Bryan appealed in vain, the annual outlays of $960,000,000—0 teesived a nine weeks’ reaptite from retrenchment of § per cent., whioh is the Board of Pardons and Parole a)-| considered highly practical and rea- Moat at the last minute. | sonable, This was decided yesterday | With every jewel ovrtacle to their | by realty and olvic interests after hanging set aside, the board granted series of conferences regarding t! @ nine weeks’ respite, in order that | taxation orisls, They say that im or- the men might be hanged singly in-| der to protect real estate, which is stead of together, and so recommend: | the main source of municipal revenue, @4 to Gov. Hunt, who had strenuously either the puiitiviang must deduct opposed inflicting the death penalty. | this total trom the easy money sala- Prison Warden Sime hat detailed @ ries which are distributed among mae to out the rope of the traps their followere or the public must be when the report of the beard was re- deprived of an equal amount fn ‘The men had been beund and nesded improvements, utilities and servies, Possibly there may be a compro- mise by which both the political foi- lowing and the public shall concede | enough to safeguard the situation. | Action must be taken before the for- mation of the olty budget next Oo- tober and the experience of budget has demonstrated that there is 20 time to be lost in laying plans for the war upon extravagance be- cause taxpayers have been defeated im all past eifarts by delaying their 2 untll a few weeas before te pubilc hearings. |,,Committees are being formed for the new fight by more than 100 rep- reeentatives of the city's most impor- tant business, realty and financial in- teres’ They are to act as part of| tisens’ Committees on New York | Financial Condition which was organised at a Chamber of Commerce meeting jast month under the onair- manehip of Judge Hibert H. Gary of the United State. Stee! Corporation. |. Prompt, decisive action is demand- ed to prevent the next tax rate from ‘| rising above 3.16, thas laying a con- figoatory urd upon real estate, ema, geet ain ae +4 at 000, Mate Bu- | reducing the assets of cnderiyine mu- nicipal bonds, shrinking the collateral Economies for Protection of Public Credit. Father Kolckerboeker mus be tH i HA banks, insurance companies and other interests that supply loans for realty The o been created mainly @oan- e is has cing which have been tna ve t ently by The Hvening Ward Biackiack on Cashigr. 'y Semuel AraoM, @ piano player, twen- | for thi jet and the mart of years ol, who says he lives at| the ,000,000 bond refunding on Intervalo Avenue, the Bronz,| Which the Oot very 1 fully by the politicians— but the imposition of the huge direot but resisted the robbers, tearing|/State tax by the same polit'cians Supposed to be familiar 600. He was struck with a black~ ures for diverting blow—first to obtain a of the Legisiature for the purpose of| revising the entire Bt budget of 000,00 and cutting down tue di- rect Btate tax of $19,500,000; secon. for readjustment of Greater City ances to weather the storm. To force t pecia! eession, the United Real e Owners Aasooia- ops are te enjoin as un- constitutional the)’ proposed $6,000,000 Biate bond issue which in intended to | Viee President,| nest deficiencies in revenue, thus & director of] compelling an entire revision of the! died) Soancial muddle left by the regular wnion. To start city economies, the mmittes on Keonomy of the impending ecial seasion aaereelieereen OBITUARY NOTES. Samuel Dickson, one of the oi in Philadelphia. | Eastern and arded Tunis M. Smith, Mani Jona! wet expen: q It will begin with the $40,000,000 & year spent by the Départ Kducation, Practically all of these are ordered by mandatory yond control mate, whore vote the sum withy iten come make ® report whieh #hall demon- we necessity for repeating ¢ isiation, thus leaving the appro- yours Baratoua nam He was & lresidentiel Bla - for Garfield and u delegate to the | Convention that nominated Nicholas Ott, eaid to ha ea! formula for wu of Committee, Chairman Body Pound tu Mast River The boty of « ari inelud whout will worl reere « from the on4 Maer te the River to wf Nine! eomily Se ob feet © ineher to and tary ie, Ghalyen, of the Hnguiehed fendy 4nd Willen \o co-nperale In| weighed 110 pounds Me had » sendy itt » the Ban. | AE they on in he wi 1¢ Allon Movingon, veh sun in the wey of canes 10s vingon.! the ete OUALEsQVE 14°sT meen 3 AVI |W [ALOHA TWINS | Tee EOD BESDR IF BODE PODS HFS FOS PEPH EDS FSEDLEDPPEDOPDODEED OF ES PEPIG SS PF DIDE 9 EF: POP PD IPOO DPD O OOO ES deatroyed by” O'clock this mornin, Was burned to the foundation line and | Prominent sotors, John L. Golden has the firemen had diffioulty preventing © spread of the flames to ether build- of | nee. Sparks also threatened éonens| Fhyine. of yaohte and motor ber.te belonging (0 eleb members, The omty cccupasts| famous of the building, the steward aad bin| the aiohe family, got out safely, . ‘The fire started in the south ena of | Bost ubbouse and epread rapidiy, it] wagedy, Gecovered by Harry Clarks of the Firet Distriet Munietpa: who lives at Ne, 666 Kin, Court, rect, slarm by telephone Neighbors complain that the on- je slow in reayonding, and ony the fret isinnd epparatue 414 not wince S<ane FROM Tim SPORTING OUCHESS POPOL 990 8G 98.8468 96 4VDPOE TD FID HLIO04OOO4EOED AEH DOHED * instal tia Sita th Bt a Ss sith hh date As toe * IN THe Clock SHOR La be aT THE MSs OF HARLEM YACHT |“ CLUBBURNED OUT House Is Destroyed, but Boats | Trojan Women” on Wednesday. Per- Are Saved—Flames Kept From Spreading. on the island. vee from (he ciue house, tre to reaah the burun we out boats from ue aaved sierm. Apparetue from Westehes- ‘er 416 wel appear in reaponse to « | entond alarm valli 8 o'clock A little jeter even the ambers hed bees on Johneon, on employes of short dimence a2 among ihe, ne ahah, anal & nen Fine started thie morning tm the jeter whatt a Mos 261-0008 Mereer Pivest This te an eight-otory butid-| aatonting trom Fourth Meet to ————= FE CIVISLANDHOME [Plays for the ivi the building with a satche! containing | Undormtont Tall peck Which | w oming Week NVILLE BARKER'S - G ductions of Greek plays, with Lilah McCarthy, will be seen in the Stadium of the City Col- lege of New York. “Iphigenia in Tauris” is to be given on Monday and Saturday afternoons, and “The formances will begin at 4.30. cee The Lambe’ All-Star Gamboi will at the Century Theatre on evening and Saturday after- noon and evening for the benefit of ‘The home of the Harlem Yaont| the Actors’ Fund of America. Tickets Club, @ three-story building on City | ™*Y be procured at the box office. Island, overlooking Pelham Bay, was | 4eerse fire discovered at 12.46 V. Hol egorical Ing with the question, War?’ in ‘which will be secn many t has sontributed “The River of Bouls,” a and “The Clock musical comedy in lacDonough has writ- jece antitied “The Hall who will strugsie for Pp," ton on afte: of Fame,” ho, ranging from A Mission) he | And ek dan pisode entitied contributed , Hubbeit ear Bmith and will jntroduce aixteen ai A rare musica) sumber will con: on mediey of popular aire played their eomposere on ane, There will be len prominent powere and teow noe oll working a onge, Vietar Herbert will iead } etl, Lee Wolf Hop Collier, Witton Lackaye ot Jetted wn) lal, W rues, Henry Koike, ba Charice King, Le Pree hewn dqonings. Vir May Waller Lawrenta, Jack ‘ay, irving Merlin, bere Wianle a Surokr, fourt Orem tr how, TURDAY, MAY $9, 19100 00 [FOOTLIGHT FAVORITES WHO WILL APPEAR DURING WEEK | ] DORERET REBAR EEE EDONEE TEE IE EOUREEDE DUDE F454 O14 OOCRHOF Contr 4 y 3 & BOverRs ‘ PRYTICOAT ¢ MINSTRELS 4 AT PROCTOR: b 4 SAVE. = ¢ Theatre : F t e + DERE EDD EET OLENH EL oe AIAAE DORE ODODE DOOD ct ttl ttt Aactatti ————— Kirkiand, George Christie, Tony|to playgoers. Others in the ouat are Marino, Alfred Kappeler, Robert| Helen Lowell, George A. Schiller, Hchable, Steve #. Maley, Regan|Julia Ralph, Edwin Nicander, Wil! Houston, Roy Webb, Robert O’Con- |iam Roselle, Sydney Groenstrest, Mee nor, Kenneth Webb, Thomas A. Wiee,| Hopkins, Eileen Van Btene, Lliliav | Tom Jnekson. Galer and Clifford Robertson, | eee ee AA the Forty-eight? Street Theatre| “The Natural Law," Charles Bum De Wolf Hopper will appear for ‘8 Bex play, ul tho Republic Thee other week in Gilbert and Sullive: will begin the alnth week of it» “The Gorcerer’’ ang ‘Trial by Jury.” | @n agement with « Decoration Da) l matiner “Twin Bede’ will be moved to the a, | Marria Theatre for @ummer run| Lew Kelly and ¢ Benmen Bae | beginning on Monday afternoon. will begin the fourth week of thet ee sagagement at the Columbia Theat | on Monday afternoon, Changes the | Manor Titta Ruffe, the renowned made th the performance ever | baritone, wil give @ concert at the ck give it @ fresh that sustale Manhatten House on ‘Tuseday sive It o frestiness that aust afternoon. programme will tn- ledntion ot Pron clude selections from “The Barber of | | py manly fleviiie,” iIigot * and ed ao ay There wit another convert on in whieh b | ‘Thureday afternvon (ig a fim, comedian, ere anisag the’ bie ‘The Van den Hern Couger of the performance. vale pony will poner Theatre “THE COLLEGE GIRLS” eet mark the poturn to the sawe of Dorothy Mo | AT HURTIG AND SEAMON*S. tou, who will be heard in the tite : role The Cadeaax will be played by| “The College Girl” will play oe ip vraewies Pg) iy Corrie Reynolds | turn engagement ot Hurtic and Bee w ve role ¢ rth oe Mund | Being ima the | ane One Hundeed and Twenty | pert py) will | With Merees th | Kart Mati, Paul Hyde Daview will be | matinee on Mo the Kusene, Maybelle MacDonald the | ton Captain a0 y, Aliew (Hilard the |)", Prinerme ons “bariee Udetl the | Y¥ Cheveier ond bee @ ow ¢ Vronkie Ore ) | Law Christy, Miew Mille b | '*\ ing personality and « Volt, while Mr Merny | Mar eres sliy clever im bie delineation of « * | -aet are fuony | brew. A pretty chorus hel, George Parsons, Blinahe On 24404 atiraction, A buri oon, Mugh Cameron Elgar Morton | written by 4 Moran gives emmy Halpt Morgan Cletrborne Vos br dad | opportunity for comedy Mawde Turner Gordon —_—> .e 6 The wage Cmigran “FROLICS OF 1915," ‘ ite an £cnee OLYMPIC'S ATTRACTION, | epidren end | ten are welcome te atiend Refresh mente Wt) be eerved free . . MARTELLE Joum Med Froiies ot win’ ui be the attraction at the Olymple The- ewe, The Gret part and bur provide fun, music and dancing. 6 ur “The Liste 7 fugmaner, and r Ww . of ‘ein me