The evening world. Newspaper, June 5, 1915, Page 5

Pe Se gees (INGS COUNTY GAS CHIEF ADMITS 950 GAS WAS UNDER LEGAL 22 CANDLE POWER Dtherwise President Krapp Is Ignorant of Affairs of His Own Company. YELLS COMMISSION SO, As City Contract Profits Grew the Burdens on Con- sumers Increased, By Sophie frene Loeb. That the Kings County Lighting fompany operating in the ‘Thirtieth Nard, where the people are trying to fet a uniform 80 cent gas rate, now ‘efore the Public Servier Commis- fon, has in the past furnished but 16 © 18 candle power to consumers, de- teloped In the testimony yesterday of eorge O. Knapp, President of the tompany, Mr. Knapp, who is here from Cha. (a0 and ls also President of a gas jompany there, testified that hi me hte this concern tn 1904 at the inati- tation of Anthony Brady, who was ben President of the company. His position at that time was con- waiting engineer and the company ‘5 manufacturing coul gas. Mr, {napp eaid that he never saw the fooks of the old company (which parently are unobtainable), nor did » know anything about the valuation if the property. He advised the company, how- ‘ever, to go into the manufacture of water gas, since, he said “we figured we saved enough money to warrant t loss in chan: manufacture nothing of ing the recess. 0 S aie that “there value thrown hat we really made BABY'S BODY BROKE OUT WITH ECZEMA And Blisters Would Form, Began to Crack Open, After First Day’s Use Cuticura Soap and Ointment Baby Slept All Night. 54 Myrtlo 8t., W. Lynn, Mase. —" At the ‘ge of ten months my baby began breaking wus on his body. It looked as though he chafed. He would wake up at night and cry till morning. His akin was red and raw and blisters would form and then bleed. He used to fuss and ery all the time. burn so I had to got up and @ time, The eczoma got so bad the ticim soon began to crack open. “& friend of mine told me to get a cake of Outicura Soap and bor of Ointmem, [got them. gave him a good bath in wagm water and Cuticura Soap, then applied the Uintment. In one day I saw @ difference 4 that night ho slept all night. The ec- | soma continued growing better until it ail Aisappeared in one week." (Signed) Bra, Gladye Bernard, October 16, 1914, Sample Each Free by Mail: With %2-p. Skin Book on request. Ad frees post-card “‘Cuticura, Dept. T, Bos * Sold throughout the world. The Standard Remedy the safest, most reliable and most popular—for the common ailments of stomach, liver and bowels, is always BEECHAMS PILLS Rc Sargrt Bite of dn ictantn ho We Wd Geld everywhere. in hold him two or three hourg | Skin} It troubled him the | most at night aa it would { Vacation Time Is Here! money by the operation.” He also stated that there were somo by-products from both these manu- factured gases, such as tar, ammonia and off-gas, but that he didn't know anything about their value to the company. In answer Band Big) a pecetiennee te the candi of gee the com- pany had Been fi furnishing to the while he was actively etated x r nm p that th Pewenty five- expiri: yh Ans stated eaaustvely fi in the Eve- ning World, Commissioner Williams of the Water Supply, Gas and Eleo- tricity Department stopped payment on the city lighting bills of this and other companies on the ground that they were not furnishing the twenty~ two candle power required py law— in view of violations found by Inves- tigation. COMPANY CLAIMS “UNDER NO OBLIGATION.” In answer to the Commissioners letter which drew attention to the violations, the Kings County Léght- ing Company wrote as follows: Brooklyn, N, ¥., April 6, 1916. ‘We bog first to direct your at- tention to the fact that we have no annual contract with the city for lamps. The service which we gave the city in 1914 was rendered under agreement dated Dec. 26, 1889, between the Board of Im- provement of the Town of New Utrecht and the Kings County Gas and Illuminating Company, the predecessor of this company, as the same was amended by agreement between the same par- ties dated March 19, 1891. By their terms these two instruments con- stituted the agreement in force for a period of twenty-five years from tho dage of the commence- ment of the delivery of gas, which did not conamence until after the date of the second agreement. The cane power of gas which this company is required to fur- nish is fixed by paragraph 6 of the agreement dated Dec. 26, 1889, whigh read as follows: Bixth Tes furnish a fixed oF ¢ tite. minating em of such quality aud oupplied at neh Groanire "as to etcrre rm mit the he etd bap Ne of the and quailty coutracted, for, ‘hich shaft have iiuninating pomet of mob than twewty (20) candies when tested at The company uses its Wat en- deavors to maintain its candle power at 22, notwithstanding that there is no legal obligation upon it #0 to do; but during the summer and garly fall of 1914 the company mad® alterations to connections with its holders, which necessi- tated by-passing, thereby causing unavoidable streaks in the gas. ‘The contracts above mentioned ware declared valid in the case of Parfit va, Ferguson, % App. Div., 196; 189 N. ¥., 111. Yours truly, THOMAS FB, BYRNP, Vice President. COMPANY'S CAPITALIZATION METHODS QUESTIONED. This contract, which has proved so profitable to this company, was capi- ed at $2,112,000, and the consumers necessarily had to pay @ higher rate on account of this capitalization. In the former investigation of the Pub. lic Service Commission as to this contract the following significant comments appear: “Mr. Randolph, the company’s ex- pert, derived $75,000 per year as rep- resenting the profit from the contract. “When computing the capitalized value from the annual amount, he used a basis of 44 per cent. ‘But when considering the fair rate of re- turn which the company ought to be allowed to carn upon such capital value, he used 10 per cent, The fal- lacy of such a mothod {s evident. As- ; sume an anuual profit of $90,000 to be # fair rate of return upon an invest- ment. Capitalized upon a 4% per cent. basis, the value of & por- petual annuity would $2,000,000, Rut 10 per cent, of this would be $200,000. Thus, following the reason- ing ‘of Mr. Randolph, the compa: would be entitled to earn not $90,000, but $200,000, although, according to the assumed. promise, $90,000 Is a fair return. It also follows that if profits of $200,000 are to be earned, the rates must be advanced to provide the ex- tra $110,000, “The contention of the company as 28 represented by the testjmony of their] contracts hetween company and con-| witness in substance’ {s ‘that the profits from this contract for its re- maining life shall be capitalized, that the amount thus reached shail be added to the fair value of Its property and that the rates shall be such aa will provide a fair return thereon, “In other words, the city or the taxpayers must pay an exorbitant price for street lighting, and yet the general consumers must looking over the Tf you doubt it, spend a few minutes More Than 2,000 “Summer Resort” Ads. in the Sunday World To-morrow They will tell you of Seashore, Moun- tain and Country Hotels and Board- ing Places where people flock to forget business cares and regain their health. ==4 DON’T MISS THIS GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO PLAN A SUMMER’S OUTING WORTH WHILE 9 THE EV Girl Who Aided Chum’s Romance, And Is Herself a Victim of Cupid HONNA He GIRL CHUMS AS CUPIDS LEAD EAH OTHER NTO NOEL DUAL ROMANE Pretty Norwegian Here to Act! as Bridesmaid at Match She Helped Make. The merriest soul aboard the big Norwegian-American liner Bergens- fjord, which arrived yesterday froin Scandinavian poi was Miss Hanna Heistein, viking kings and mut excellence, She had ev be merry, for she was th ship and furthermore, s e was © ing to witness the fulfilment of a love | match ago. Miss Heistein was educated private school in Philadelphia, brought about a few years tn enough to yield an ample return (10 cent. is urged) upon the capitalized value of such ab perioal Patt eg capitalized upon a basis o' or 5 per cent. The absurdity aaah a contention is apparent. Paraphrased, it is that the more the city pays the more the consumer must pay. If there ie any 6 lationship between these two factors, it is that the more the city beyy je less the con- sumer should pay, and this has been recognized in many fran- chises for water and lighting plants. “Indeed, the original contract and its history indicate that street lighting and the price obtained therefor have always been very important factors, and at the be- fates were tha ol concern of the company. Apparently, the ee inal plant was built prin ly with a view to this business, and the contract was a very im- portant inducement to the com- Pany to begin operations. It is obviously unfair that thie very contract should be used to make the public pay a higher rate than they otherwise would. “The argument of the company proves too auch, for, if it is correct it could be argued that every contrs should be similarly treated. The pu lic Nghting contract resembles other sumers. All ave property, and pro- sumably all are profitable, Those that are could be capitalized if this one may, and the more profitable they are the higher must the rates to others be placed, Conversely, if any one should not be profitable the capitalized loss should be subtracted from the fair value of other ‘property’ and the vates| lowered accordingly. “It ehould be noted further that the company does not claim thut the con- tract itself represents uny investment, or that any deposit, fee or payment was required by the authorities, “The commii in can find no reason in law or equity which would juatify the capitalization of the street lighting contract and the inclusion of such capitaliza- in the ‘fair value’ upon which the company is entitied to carn a fair return trom th ineral consumers. | therefo Germs Grow and Are Absorbed ‘That's wh: i kerms which absorbed, are any dine oy A. B Gortines, Mew Tork, UB. A: Pili~In @ Rownd Bow We, te. TH be R, & @. Pills have beer smelt ISTEIN: m in Miss Helene MacKin- 619 Green Street. Shortly re thelr graduation, in 1912, Miss met Barton | business man of the Quak introduced the you! chum, Miss MacKinley, blue eyes til her that young Levin was badly smitten, | Miss Heistein played Cupid to the pair, and before she left Philadelphia for her home in Christiania, Norway, jsho had the satisfaction of seeing the ‘couple engaged. Before the viking princess sailed her chum Helene said: “I wish I could do as much for you; perhaps 1 may, for I'm coming te Norway to visit’ you." In the summer of 1913 Miss Mac- Kinley went to Norway. On the steamship she met a dashing young man, a Captain in Norway's army. When they arrived at Christiania Miss Mackinley invited the young officer to call on her at her frien {house. Then she began her work @ matchmaker on her own hook, before the summer was over she t she had been successful in } | to be bridesmaid at Miss MacKinley’s ding, which will be held next Miss Helstein is to wed her r lover on Sept. 15, and she hus the promise of her Quaker City chum that she will cross to Norway for the wodk FEDERAL FROSECUTOR RESIGNS UNDER FIRE Sherman T. trict is McPherson of Ohio Dis- Asked to Quit on Charge Accepting “Improper” Fee. WASHINGTON, June 5.—Sherman T. McPherson, United States attor- ney fér southern Ohio, resigned to- day and President Wilson selected Stuart R. Bolin of Columbus to sue- ceed him, It was sald at the Depart- ment of Justice that McPherson re- signed becaune of criticism of bis con- duct in connection with the Capital City Dairy Company receivership at Columbus. Attorney General Gregory disapproved McPherson's acceptance of a fee Attorney General Gregor’, it was added, had gyked McPherson for his resignation ‘WYter he learned that while prosecuting the dairy company na eriminal proceeding, McPherson had received » fer as attorney for the | Feceiver for the concern in a civil pro- oending COLUMBUS, ©. June 5.—Motions | 19 vacate the order of the United | States District Judge John B. 8 allowing United tSates District Attor. | hey Sherman McPherson and his as- | sistant, Harley I Burns, $20,000 fees for services in tof claims of } the Government » Old Capital Dairy Company recat rahip case, wan net for hearing befor to-day. ‘The motion to vacate the ore sder allowing the filod yester. |day WY R. W, Childs, spectat counsel for the Department of Justice, In the jname of Attorney 1 Gregory and asserted that acceptance of the | fee" under the circumstances was 'pe- jeullarly tn mproper. FAMILY IN ‘AUTO SMASH, |Pather Killed When Son Uses Gear Shift Lever by Mistake, ROME, N June 6 —te Roy Wilder, driving an aut ymobile from Lowville to Herkimer, ca@ght the | #ear #hiftt lever instead of the emer- to atop Lovust rlurne |" Hie father, Charles Wilder of Wet on, sixty-five years old, waa. ine stantly Killed: Te Roy Wilder. waa badly hurt and the other eccupanta of the vehiclohis wife,. mother and two daughters—were Inju attempted last night to Pet @ strange collie dog in front of hey hems de, 161 West sey- enty-1 ‘treet, and wag bitten in hand, The dog ‘then leaped at her and tore her dreas 4 semi 4|home of John D. Rockefeller. ee ey Onp $900 AN HOUR FOR Agony Just as Bitter as If She'd “Waited at Church,” but More Profitable. $1,500 SETTLES SUIT. Former Harriman and Rocke- feller Maid Adds to Her Bank Account. Pretty Sarah Frances Kelleher, aged twenty-five, is more jubilant to-day than she has been since Easter Sunday, a@ year, when after waiting hours at the Jersey City ferry depot, John C. Dargan, to whom was going to be wedded that) day, failed to put in an appearance. With a light heart Mias Kelleher can now remove young John's initials from a four years’ accumulation of housebold Hnens, whieh she once pected to use in her little home. Also, if whe chooses, she can place in the bank to ber credit something like| $1,500 which Dargan is said to have paid for keeping pretty Sarih waiting at the ferry, whence, as she testified in court, be was tg have taken her to the Little Chureb Around the Corner. ‘When her breach of promise suit came up before Justice Ford in the Supreme Court to-day it was dis- missed and her attorney, Sidney Fleiecher of No, 80 Maiden Lane, an- nounced that all differences between the two former lovers bad been set- tled out of court. The pair met in 1909, just after | Miss Kelleher arrived here from th Emerald Isle. She bad accepted @ position as Mrs, BE, H. Harriman’ personal maid on the Harriman es- tate in Tuxedo, and abe just Stted the position, for she was a winsome colleen, so winsome in fact, dainty touch of old Ireland in ber speech and a smile—ah, so winning that she soon captivated young Jobn, who also worked on the Harriman estate. The young couple's love plans were wadly interrupted when, in 1910, the pretty maid had to seek other em- ployment, which she found when sbe became a maid in the Pocantico ee a was after Jobn had slipped a dia- mond ring upon ber finger. In the Rockefeller home the pretty maid was industrious. Work made her | betrothed’s absence lens felt. her needie in the leisure hours and de dainty little things for the ouse Beautiful” to be. And then John wrote her often and affection- ately. He called her bis tle Wifie” and sent her “ of Kisses and big bugs and squeezes.” Finally they agreed upon Easter Sunday, 1914, as the day of the wed- ding. She had her trousseau, stacks | meet J At the end of three agonizing hours was nothing compared to the inde- salo ferry house. breaking waiting did the disconsolate maid go home, Sarah that something might have happened to her John, for jt was the firat time he had ever dinappointed her. Her burden was lifted, sho him announcing that be had gone West. Naturalshe rang up John's home. a Western trip. In fact, he wasn't going West; never had thought of do- ing go. at onded it. In the first court pro- | ceedings John falied to appear and! by default Miss Kelleher was awarded | $2,500 damages. ‘The case was re- opened by Dargan, but only to be dropped from the calendar to-day for. | ever. expenteniiiireneine ARREST WOMAN DETECTIVE.) Sho She Was Trying to Save Another, Acoused of stealing three waiate from @ Thirty-fourth Street depart- | ment store, Mrs, Margaret O'Connor, & private detective, told Magiatrate | Cornell in the Yorkville Court this morning that she had taken the watsts from another woman she saw stealing them and she was going to} return them to the store, “I wos shadowing this woman in a private case which I cannot tel! | about,” the woman said, “and when [ saw her take the waists I went to! her and told her to give them to me and she could go. I did not want to seo her get into trouble there, aa it | would burt the case I waa working, on.” When the woman was arrested whe Charged with said she was Mrs. Margaret Hunter and that she lived at the Biltmore, At her request the hearing of her case was adjourned until Monday and she was held in §600 ball. SUBMARINE “MOTHER” HERE. French Tank Vake Undersea 1 Steamship Fitted to on Board, A French tank steamer designed to mother a submarine fleet reached this port to-day from Bordeaux. The vessel is fitted with opening bows through which a submarine may en- ter. When the submarine {» In po- sition tn th interior the bows are closed and the steamer is then! ready to sail and to discharge the| ” gubmerine at distant points wherever iteamer te thi rat of three gee" [t and bulld~ | a “WAITING AT FERRY” A COLLEEN'S BALM Bhe plied | } of dainty litte Irish linen. prettios. | Easter Sunday came Bhe wae to) hn ut the Jersey City ferry. | ehe felt that waiting at the church | scribable agony of waiting in a pro- | Only after three houra of heart: | It then occurred to| thought, when @ telegram came from | His folks knew nothing about | oye rion 4 - I\VENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 191 CHTY LOSES SUIT TO HOLD LANDLORD FOR TENANT'S ACT )Many Prominent Persons Will | Be Prosecuted Despite De- cision, Says Counsel. | The city has fost tte first sult jfo hold an owner of a house person- ally responsible for the morals of ite tenants. The sult was brought un- der the new Tenement House Law, which provides that “no tenement house or part thereof, or the lot or premiges thereof, ahall be used for he purposes of prostitution or as- signation of any description.” Despite its failure to bring about ® conviction in the first test case, lit was announced at the office of Corporation Counsel Polk to-day that the city will go ahead with sev en hundred other cases, This means | that the names of some of the oldest land wealthiest families in the city will be dragged into court, Members of the our Hundred,” men and wore! high up in’ philanthropic and jchureh circles and even Judges are [understood to be owners of property in which disorderly house raids have |been made, Many owners of tene- ments, particularly women, transact all their business through trustess and estate managers, and therefore Will profes ignorance of the charac~ ter of their tenants, The action just decided by the Court of Appenia was brought MeDevitt, widow of The premises are No, 326 Weat Forty-third Stree Mra, MeDevitt does not live there, but leases the house to a woman who acts as jani~ tress. Judge Cardozo, who wrote the opin= fon dismissing the city's complaint, anid the question to be determined was “whether « tenant's Wrongful use of an apartment on a single day sub- |Jects the owner, irrespective of know!- edge or of opportunity for knowledge, to the statutory penalty, We think the plaintiff failed to prove the de- | fondant’s building had been used in | the sense contemplated by the statate for the purpose of prostitution, charge an owner with lability there must be more than ing vice in the seclusion and enant’s apartments. offense a landlord, however vigi- t, is helpless, Isolated acts of vice do not make a house disor- Jagainst Lucy A. Alderman McDevitt Towed In. ‘The frult steamer Neptune rived here to-day from Baracoa in tow of a ‘The Neptune sailed from Baracoa May 1% When she was thirty miles out'the port boiler blew out through the fireroom and killed Bernard Fetn, a coal The Neptune w malderable Norfolk _REAL ESTATE AT AUCTION. — POSITIVE Liquidation Sale ve because of, the necessity Ing out exteting Intereata, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 15th, AT 7.30 P.M. IN THE Brooklyn Academy of Music Lafayette Ave. Hotwnen Fulton’ st. & Flatbush Ave, Qh 281 LOTS New Utrecht, Tah, 15th, (6th & 17th Aves., 41st St. to Gist St, laclusive Heine ait tn. oa piel nthe oriainal MOROU GH F very’, t atimainivn 2 OOO, feel in andon wii | ‘Two One-Family Houses 1161 & 1189 44th St., mr. 12th Ave, TWO-FAM! ILY and APARTMENT HOUSES and STORES One-Family Houses ( Attached or Detached ) Lots may be paid for tn MONTHLY INSTALMENTS Jo to terminate In 3 years. or 8° may remain oo morteege tot allow PROPERTY REACHED BY 3 DIFFERENT ROUTES OF DUAL SUBWAY SYSTEM. fond # inau whicl Gail unirated about it Jere Johnson Jr. Co. Hrondway., New York, “itieuiione Cortiond 10H) Montacua St. Iroukiyn jal A238.) a REAL ESTATE FOR SALE— BROOKLYN, sor orn « CLUB 16 vane mo * 4 Sunday World Wants Work | ference “SUFFS” STORM CHICAGO. Wil Hela Four Daye to Decide Campanian Policy. CHICAGO, June 5.—Suffragiate from all parts of the country beg arriving here to-day to attend « cen: of the National American Woman's Suffrage Association, which opens to-morrow. The mmecting will continue upttl Wednesday. More than rominent Sultray ted to attend hief of the subjects to be it was atihounced, ts the ference fom toward the next Congressional campaign. The National AssocMtion favors the Shafroth amendment call- ing for @ referendum the States the question of suffrage, while the Congressional Union for Woman the Bristow-Mondell suffrage ait AsUre Ci or a COn~ itutional amendment without re: rendum. —_——oe— ACTRESS’S HOME | WRECKED, |“ Fire Wreaks Havoo Among ts Richmond's Farntahings. Defective tneulation in the gerne of Mma Ernestine Cottret making «hop at No. 65 West portian Street started 4 fire early to-day which destroyed $1,600 worth of gowns and ma- tertals. Mme. Cottrelli's prompt alarm amelied anwoke fron prevent the flames the elaborately apartment of Eptelle Rich actress, on the floor under room, was ruined by water, The Janitor said that Mins Richmond had spent $10,000 furnishing the place. _ GTEAMBOAT®. Mis Rogalie M. O'Tirion, of former Supremes Court gan J. O'Brien, and Dr, Henry Ji of No. 122 Bast Sixty-second’ to-day obtained « marriage ftom City Clerk P. J. Scully, wedding wiil take place Tue: the. bride's home, No, 729 Park nue, Miss O'Rrien gave her twenty-six. Dr. James's age te om You are not getting full no from the teed Soe Bh you have sensation of miort, Mavines about the stomach. the symptoms of indigestion ay An tow doses of Radway’s Pills coy atl NS operly diget m purely vegetable and mild. For more than fifty ce sufferers have found teas an unfailing source of hel all these years, this me n | the tical test of time berms | its purity and effectiveness stomach, liver ct tonal need i 8 He ‘lita heal! | For sule at all druggists or sent b; Radway & Co,, 208 Centre St., vt. Sunday E ia. Pine 6 PB, | | i xew rsions| TO BRIDGEPORT Steamer Bey d ys Lowell Tickets Limited. On fale at Piers only om day of excursion, FARE $1.00 CHILDREN aaaee! 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