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shen ina a tate tai ite alae 19) CITY FIGHTING FIVE YEARS JO QUST EDISON ELECTRIC C0, ~ FROMABROOKLYN MONOPCLY McCall Found Himself to Be a Stock- holder in a Su bsidiary Company and Passed Action to Another Judge, After Months of Delay— De Lancey N icoll as Referee Hasn’t Decided on Franchise After Three Years. By Sophie Remarkable revelations have been ings before the Public Service Comm Irene Loeb. n brought forward in the present hear- mission in the efforts of the people in the Thirtieth Ward to secure an 80-cent gas rate from the Kings County Lighting Company, which is the only company furnishing gas in that district. It has developed that interlock: franchise, the validity of which has cally excluded competition by both least in the ward named. For five years the City of New York has been endeavoring to show that the Edison Electric II- luminating Company has been op- erating under # franchise which ie null and void. This company has for its directors the Brady interests, who also are directors in the Kings County Lighting Company, furnishing gas in thie district. In fact on June 23, 1910, the Board of Estimate and Appor- tionment ordered the wires and poles of this company to be taken down and the company to cease operation, EDISON FRANCHISE 18 ODE- CLARED INVALID. ‘The company proceeded to get an injunction against the Board of Esti- mate and Apportionment to restrain it from this action. The matter came up before Judge McCall in December, 1911. Mr. McCall ts now Chairman of the Public Service Commussion. ‘The case was postponed until Feb- ruary, 1912, It was further postponed on motion of the company, and set down for April, 1912. And when the case again came be- fore Judge McCall he discovered that he was disqualified from trying the case, being a stockholder in the Kings County Lighting Company The action of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment was taken as a result of the opinion of Archibald R. ‘Watson, Corporation Counsel, which, addressed to the Board of Estimate, under date of June 23, 1910, reads us follows: “I am in receipt of your latter of June 3, 1910, in which you ask to be advised whether in my opinion the Edison Electric [lu- minating Company of Brooklyn has a valid franchise to operate in the Thirtieth Ward, Borough of Brooklyn. “I am also in receipt of your letter of June 17, 1910, requesting me to report to the Board at the meeting of June 24, 1910, ‘on the right of the Edison Electric Mlu- minating Company of Brooklyn to construct, maintain and ope>- ate .poles and overhead . wires within the limits of the Thirtreth Ward, Borough of Brooklyn,’ “I have carefully examined all the data relating to the franchise of this company, under which it.. now operates in the Borough of Brooklyn, and | have also ¢onsid- the views of Hon. Alton B. Parker, counsel to the company, who asked permission to confer with me in its behalf. | have con- , cluded. however, that the Edison Electric Illuminating Company has no valid franchise to con- struct. maintain and operate poles and overhead wires within the limite of the Thirtieth Ward. “The question you ask regarding the Edison Electric Uluminating Company of Brooklyn must therefore be answered In the negative.” The pending actions are these This case came up for trial before Mr. Justice McCall in December, 1911, At the opening of the trial and with- ing directorates and a questionable been pending for years, have practi- electric light and gas companies, ( out any previous notice to the city, Judge Hatch, counsel for the plain- tiff compantes, moved to amend the complaint in a very important and material respect. This motion was granted by Jus- tice McCall, The city, being taken by surprise, having prepared the case for trial on the Issue raised by the existing pleadings, asked for an ad- Journment until plaintiff served an amended complaint and defendant served an amended answer, On Dec. 7, 1911, an amended com- plaint was served by plaintiff and the city demanded a bill of particulars. A bill of particulars was served on Dec, 21, 1911, On ‘Dec, 29, 1911, city served its amended answer to the amended complaint. The case was then set down for trial at the Feb- ruary term before Mr. Justice Mc- Call, who meanwhile had maintained control over the action. The city having made a mo- tlon to compel the plaintiff to re- ply to its amended answer when the case came up in February, 1912, plaintiff applied for an ad- jJournment and the case was set down for April 15, 1912, When the case was called for trial be- fore Mr. Justice McCall in April and the city had subpoenaed all its wi'nesses and the books of the plaintiff companies and other subsidiary companies, including their stock books, Judge McCall discovered that he was disquall- fled from trying the case, being a stockholder in the Kings County Lighting Company, one of the companies affected by this litiga- tion. ‘The trial of the case was then put over until some other Judge could dispose of it. Therefore, Mr. Watson, then Corporation Counsel, arranged for a reference of the issue to Mr. De Lancy Nicoll as referee. The reference began before Mr, Nicoll on June 7, 1912, It has been pending be- fore him ever since, ‘The plaintiff closed thelr case only two months ago." There had been twelve or fifteen adjourn- ments, Most of these were at tne request of the plaintiffs. The oth- ers were upon motion of the ref- eree, There has been no delay in the trial of this action on the part of the city, The city has al- ways been ready, During the pendency of the reference an application was also made by the Edison Company of Brooklyn to acquire all the stock of the Amsterdam Company. This applicatig was vigorously op- posed by the city, and no decision has been rendered by the: Public Service Commission, CONSUMERS PAY FOR YEARS OF DELAY. That all of these continued post- ponements of five years have proved detrimental to the consumers is evi- denced by their long fight against these vested interests, and their pres- FIVE ent high rate of gas at 95 cents. Sen- ator Duhamel appeared before the Public Service Commission at the hearing last week, and told how the Anthony Brady interests had been the voting trust of this company and how legislation to reduce gas rates had Proved futile, John J, Gordon, representing the New Utrecht League of Improve- ment Association, pointed out the fact that Anthony Brady, who was Presi- dent of the Kings County Lighting Company (the holding company of the Brooklyn Edison system) was like- wise President of the New York Edi- son Company, Mr. Brady also assumed the stock of the Amsterdam Company, which sold out this stock to the Edison Com- pany for nearly a half million dollars, Mr. Gordon and his fellow citizens assert that a competing company (Longacre Light and Power Com- pany) has offered to furnish, electric light at 6 cents per kilowatt hour, and otherwise compete with the Ed son Company, which means, conse- quently, a lower rate of gas. But these interests have been Pp from seourin, fran spe one me epee | sree titame en soe 9 THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1915. “THE FOUNRM MANE Lout By PROKY 4- LAs CyRANG ican and Spanish The book is confused in any times. serious accomplishments and ideal ing chapter in the whole book than that describing courtship a la mode in the different parts of the world. To begin with, Mrs. Alec-Tweedie announces as her settled conviction that women should have the right to propose. “It is women who cltenge their entire lives by matrimony,” she declares. “It is women who take on colossal responsibility by matrimony. Every detail falls to the lot of the woman, and there- fore the woman should surely be allowed to choose the man for whom she feels herself able to work and gi Of course woman should propose. Men and women should be equal in all things, and therefore should be equally able to choose a partner for life.” AS MANY KINDS OF LOVE AS THERE ARE PICKLES, And then Mrs, Alec-Tweedie puts the question, How do we do our love-making?” and proceeds to give the fifty-nine (more or less) varieties. She speaks approvingly of first love, “the apprenticeship of love,” as it is to be found in England: “Surely the average young Eng- Ushman is all the better for being in Jove with some good girl of his own position in life, Her sympathy and interest do much to encourage him to work and save, and to keep him straight, and his quiet pleasure in her society prevents him from seck- ing other and less desirable com- panionships, “This calf-love has equal advan- chise on account of this “quer tionable” franchise under which the Edison Company is now oper- ating, which has been dragged long through various court pro- dings and been ° As to the interlocking directorates of the Anthony Brady interests, Frank Polk, Corporation Counsel, asserts that the Edison Company has no leh franchise, which opinion agrees with the opinion of Archibald R. Watson, former Corporation Counsel. In his brief now before De Lancey Nicoll the Corporation Counsel makes the following statement: HOW EDISON OF BROOKLYN GOT A LIGHT MONOPOLY. “It only remains to add that the National Electric Company of Con- necticut, of which Anthony Brady and Walter Ferguson and A, M, Young were directors, soon found it- self in possession of the 4,780 shares of stock and the 800 bonds of the Am- sterdam Company, and that the Edj- son Electric Hluminating Company of Brooklyn acquired this stock and these bonds on the 80th day of Octo- ber, 1899, for the princely sum of $404,795, and that a month or so thereafter, in 1899, the Amsterdam Company abandoned its plant, “The monopoly to compete against which the Btate Electric Light and Power Company has given this most favorable and most valuable fran- chise in the city, acquired that most precious franchise, which had been turned over to the Amsterdam Com- pany, in the manner we have seen, ‘The Amsterdam stock and bonds are worthless. The only property that company had was the franchise given the State company, but to get that franchise the Edison Company pald for that otherwise worthiess stock and bonds nearly half @ million dol- lara” It Is She Upon Whom Falls the Colossal Responsi-| bility of Marriage and She Should Choose the Man—English Woman Author Thinks Amer- Girls the Greatest Flirts—English Lovemaking the Most Wholesome. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. How women make love, get married, take care of babies, stay unmarried, hold down jobs, wear their clothes, play the social game, try to vote, in a dozen different lands, are items in the breezy summary of feminine achieve- ment which Mrs, Alec-Tweedie, one of England's most popular woman writers, presents in her newest book, “Women the World Over.” really the lightly told record of a woman's swing around the circle—said circle not to be way with “woman's sphere.” For Mrs. Alec-Tweedie has left her home behind her many Mexico, Morocco, Finland, Japan, Iceland, South America, China, besides the usual European tours and several trips to this country, have been on her itiner- “ary. Wherever she hi photographs of the quips and cranks of her sex, as well as of their more been she has collected mental There 1s perhaps no more interest-¢———————_________ tage for the girl; sho Iikea*to feel that she is exercising a good influ- ence, and, while unconsciously arous- ing in the young man gallantry and gentleness, she improves herself. In sharp contrast is the love-mak- ing of the lower stratum of English society, which the author describes as taking the outward form of “thumps and knocks, punches and bumps.” Then she hits nearer home “Of all the coquettes on this globe of many races and diverse colors, | verily believe the greatest flirts are the Americans and Span- iards. The Spanish lady repo on a sofa, appears lethargic, while she peeps through her silky black lashes, and her almond e: lustrous depth: a@ thrill through the masculine heart, ae its owner offers pillows ind footstools and bonbons. The Spanish girls is a silken, insinu- ous flirt, with beautiful little feet and hands and lazy ways. “The American is an efferves- cent one. She bubbles all over with life and enthusi 8 virile to her finger-tips, “jollies” men until they do not know whether they are on their head or thi heels; like a whirlwind, she brushes all before her and mak the males of the United Sta her veritable slave THE CALCULATING BUSINESS WAY OF THE FRENCH, “In France," continues Mrs, Alec- Tweedie, “the beau-monde are not allowed the pleasure of love maktn; these joys are reserved for another class, In the upper circles, when Marie is old enough to be married, that is to say, about twenty, mamma locks around among her friends for a family in which there is a son from thirty to fifty years of age, whose in- come is about three or four timos as large as the girl's Mamma ap proaches the ge the two worldly-wise and sensibly good ladies discuss the affair, “If ‘the project’ as it is usually termed, does not seem suitable no more is sald; if it does—negotiations are entered into, and finally the fuin- ily lawyers set to work to inquire whether both statements of accounts are correct. Then, but not till tien, do the intended couple learn the fate in store for them, and many am riage is arranged before the woul:-be bride and bridegroom have even been introduced to one another. They mee bow and talk under the watchful c of mamma, but never until they b come man and wife are the fiunces left one moment alone, The girl's mother is always there; she watches this forced, formal, business-like love making, and these two people, total strangers to one another (the man often old enough to be the girl's tath- er), marry and start off on the honeymoon to live together alw There may be flaws in the Ameri- can system of unchaperoned court- ships, but I think they are preferable to the strained and sterilized romance of France. “In Germany,” we read, “they are not shy about thelr love-making; It ts all done in public. are seldom left alone, but society smiles and encourages their violent | love-making in public. Herr Papa pays the debts of the husband-to-be and provides everything for the household. In Germany, even a high. ly borne engaged couple walk about arm-in-arm, or hand-in-hand, They ‘The young couple |} Nas, ALEC. TWEEDie ing evidence of affection. Conse- jaeently of love-making there ts no \end. THE USES OF IRELAND'S TWEEN-MAN.” “In Ireland, the ‘between-man’ is much employed to arrange Marriages among the peasantry. When a young farmer has sough h and a likely girl b the between- legroom the borrows a hat from ‘one friend, nd the girl e she can re- is unlikely. riship by proxy is an old Min- ustom. If a man and woman in any way agreeable to one and the circumstances are propitious, the spokesman is sent by the would-be bridegroom to the girl's father's houve to ask her hand, ‘This personage is generally chosen from among the intended bridegroom's best friends and usually Is possessed of a ready tongup. Not only does he ask for the girl's hand (while suitor, according to custom, amu but he is obliged tho wedding ceremony and feast, and also ha to provide from is own purse brandy and coffe for 4 guests. After the proposal is acce ed th 6 isan exchange of rings, and 16 are allowed to by arn something of one Europ. ge is perhaps the When a girl has been ned her father looks about to find a nice young man possessed of the wherewithal to buy her for hie strangest. sufficiently wif He calls upon the bride- groom's father, and the two elder men discuss the price, land or jewels, paid b room to his woul lather. sbe brit times the bridegroom bride nover meet until after the mar- riage procession has left her at hia house. Her n -In-law takes her educa and she bd a sort of under-serv hand's parents, who t duties and bring her up in the way sho should go.” IN JAPAN THE COLLEGE BOYS H/.VE A CHANCE, In Japan the pi pupils at. the university are picked as prizo hus bands by the fathers of the young girls, “Occastonally these paternally ar- ranged Japanese matches leave one aghast,” admits the writer. “A very benutiful little lady was told by her father that she must marry, Tio obe of his choice was a rising diplos at who lived some thousand miles away. That did not deter matters. m “The strictest inquiries: were d all replies were satlafacte girl's trousseau was prepare’ wedding guests were bidden and night | oremony bridegroom-elect landed at the bride house in time for dinne 7 formally introduced, they spent the evening with the family and the very next day they were wed! “Lovemaking is a different af- fair in every country, and alters greatly according to tho grade of life,” sums up Mrs. Alec- Tweedie, all over the world it comes me thing in the end. ing is the pastime of rimony the provision arriage is for life, The ce, Which ends in the pared to a free afte: Kk out for anot they find a suitable other contract 4 start the matrimonial venture Hut it is certainly far bette the union proves a failure, to be dissoluble in the easiest and le scandalous way,” wisely wx months t house, and, Ww st observes ombrace in public, he sits with his arm around her waist at dinner, agd every one o I. this woman who has turned her mental microscope on matrimony the world over, Woman Should Propose for Her Life Mate, Says a World-Wide Student of Matrimony FRENCH LOVE MAKING 1S A Patten OF LAWYERS m1! and| iN MOORISH DRESS THE Moor RATHER FATTENS HIS DAUGHTER, UP For mmRRuGE” BRITISH STEAMER FLIES U.S. FLAG IN WAR ZONE Colonian Ordered by Patrol Boat to Run Up Neutral Colors for Safety. BOSTON, June 10.—The British steamer Colonian of the Leyland Line flow the American flag for forty hours as a protection against German sub- |marines while passing through the war zone, according to her Command- er, Capt. J. McDonald. The Colonian has arived from Avonmouth, England, | It was on May 30, Capt, McDonald sald, that he waa hailed by a British patrol boat, two days out of Avonmouth, and told “display the flag of a neu- tral nation or no flag at all” He sent the Stars ang Stripes up the staff imme- |dintely. No submarines were sighted. | This i» sald to be the first instance in which the Amorican flag Nas been used b a transatlantic steamer of belligerent nationality since the Lasl- tania’s use of the flag last February. Among tho 150 passenge! all of whom @ere men who had crossed to England as given free transpo Wore ninety Ame horsemen and had been fon on the return, Colonian’s taffrall, byt hts for the purpose, but ulness of the crew frustrated their design. DIFFER ABOUT LOSSES | IN BALTIC BATTLE Only One German Ship Sunk, Says Berlin—Two Sunk, one Dam- aged, Says Petrograd. 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