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the Supreme Court to- that the figure have given the election to the candidat by forty-one, 7 x the 4 the Democratic at present tHe EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, PROTECTS KINGS COUNTY GAS OWN BLUNDERS even better than it was when the Commission made its order for The city bas paid $2,600,000 to this company for atreet lighting, which equals the “unimpaired in- | vYeetment represented by the years, ko be increased six cents to ten cents per thousand, because the company is at present pa 1915. TREES 10 GET BACK imply because the Uni ‘Compe an inion ny oan 4 extravagant and emoreiant Trial Begins to Revoke Lease poten Mar ~Deientan MRS. FRANCIS WILSON DEAD. Retired After Her Marriage. Mrs. Mira Barrie Wileon, wife of Mr. Francis Wilson, actor, died yesterday at “3” FOR “8.” ward finds onty 11 per eent. Kinge County Li Compa: August Betmost, Major Datngerfeld, | very near im, weer es : 4 | The company’s man who made tipay aie conte ten eonts more RA f ASSOCIATION John Cavanagh, the official handi-| ’ pen 4 to-day, a 4 4 %. £. Nov. 18. — When the the oll contract refused te [od cublo feet for his gas cappers Frank J. MoCain, Secretary | prisoner, accused of robb agg voting machine in'e faputed Satrit tn | fihoe” the eaflngs loeed betas | a'svotemetot the Broskinn Unter Romar te omc iumas bute, | wis cet uta of yeaa Wan | 6 hearings o! a ow or, @ promoter; James jer, M : ‘Wash. pened under order ot | FeUEN or aha ‘ ., tece "the Daniel Maloney and others, PAR Wolner Tee: oF Gen tad of I and Electric je the Tombs Park Bank, — In S00, yet Commissioner Wilitama a rate to Court, yesterday Conners and Rottgen had been read by the y Rottgen waa later re- has since determined that the com Commission to cover a long period were discharge tee | ng jo" " oi DNg de hn gg pany ought to have 96e, of time, perhaps a number of Actor's Wife, Once on the Stage,/arrested on a different charge —_——— Conners appeared at quarters to-day and claimed his bond. He was about to receive it when @ messenger dashed in with a telegram. It said the bond in question had J.D. Smith, ; + is re-elected by @ plurality of AGAINST IIS niga insuring them against all eeee for 2 under ig. cireum- hor homo, No. 24 Gramercy Square, after pe trom BS ‘a ; ons. inces above eet out for a few & lingering tllness, She was fifty-nine| Prides: a pat tn would akide by the revord ot |WILLIAM8'S BOLICITUDE FOR| Months of that pertod of time? of Fair Concern That Pas- |,0n oid an ‘was born im Four Rivers, [Feeted ine, and it ia believed that the | “Ten't {t as fair to suppose that the Se on See re a Content Is nettled. oo | GAS COMPANY. Commission would allow an inerease| tured War Horses There. Per Harris, i, se. wwtison was on{ MADE BIG DRUG HAUL. —_— er ie | tn is how Commissioner Williams |), the price of gas based on increases the stage, appearing with Mr, Wilson ——_ He Recommends 5c. Gas in| Pored to reduce the rate on a altd- | talus care of the company’s ‘most !in oll prices as to suppose that the first ‘in’'Waike many years ago, and ines Werk Pound ta Gator . fh be le +f es ri ° " | Face of Company’s Previous |. for 1914 and 1915 them against all loss, yielding |CAUs®, of subsequent beneficial oll! wore PLAINS, N. ¥. Nov. 19—!to Mr. Wilson, which took place In issi, | Room When He was Arrested. I pers The Public Service Commission | annually to the company: Commission Ys not estopped from at! Prominent horsemen who are inter-| Besides her husband, Mrs, Wilson is] ‘Tony Gates, thirty-three years eld, Cheaner ¢ ’ 414 not accept these rates, but | “The sireet likhung contract willl soy time making reasonable allow: | ented in racing were present in the /o"7ivea, ty twa daughters, the Baron, | wig gays he is « builder with offices on basal ag Moc cron age dig Contract which #0 avrlously affects tie | nee along these lines on the sim-|upreme Court here to-day at the |Adams Piles : ; New Main Street, Yonkers, was ar- if A Ab. mission “investigated” It net the | pire at about the same time, It seome, | Pany of @ change of . No. #1 East One Hundred and Twenty- HIS FIGURES REFUTED. pries in 1911 for 8c. and in 1918 on for 800., and the order was made. The company appealed to the taerefore, that the rate now to be fixed | year, to expite on Deo. hy i8ie, and year, to expire on Dee. 1, 1916, and that’ @ further reduction ‘should be “I pbelleve that it is the duty of ihis Commission to ascertain rea- sonable price for oil and ta’ uch price as a basis rather than the price ‘ape’s Cold Compound” ends a cold or grippe fourth Street, drugs worth $1,600, which detectives discovered when’ they. en- tered the place last night. The drugs consisted of twenty five-pound boxes of Association to try and revoke tho — it gave of the Empire City race track to the National Fair and Ex- of Several Weeks Results fm Death at Polyclinic, 1 ap NERS $ ESN Your cold | dll gr a : misery end after taking » dos’ ot] Means of Bringing Relief *Pape's Cold Compound" every two pe hasty discharge or nose running, ves sick headache, dullness, fever- fishness, sore throat, sneezing, soreness and stiffness. Don't st and snuffling! such prompt relief as “Pape's Cold Compound,” which costs only 25 cents et any drug sore. It assistance, tastes nice, and causos no > ment Accept no substitute, — Elathin For ef] Women ON CREDIT $1.00 WEEKLY some WESTeHINGR) 219 West 125th St. Bet. 7th & 8th Aves. ‘2058 Sed Ave. Bet. 149th & Weatch'ter Av. in a few hours, State Probers May Find the three doses are taken. From Extortion. iy opens clogged-up nos- if passages in the nead, By Sophie Irene Loeb. It remained for an investigating committes, appointed by the Legia- lature, to at last step in and find out why the people of the Thirtieth Ward, Brooklyn, should not have a uniform S0-cent gas rate in answer to thoir ploadings of five years before the Pub- Ho Service Commission, When the Thompson Investigating Committee yesterday received the re- port of Commissioner Williams author- ining a 9b-cont rate, the sam tuffed-up! Quit blowing Ease your throbbing nothing else in the world gives acts without charged by the company, as ag | the company's own offer to reduce the | rate two years ago so that the people would now be enjoying an 80-cent | rate, It asked the Public Service Com- miasion to halt ite vote on this moas- use, until the committee looked into it, ‘This is what is now on record before this investigating committes, as to how the Public Service Commission has acted: After the peonje bean their ight in 1910 the company Itself pro- * and Cl ildren LY Vi C STAMPED ON A SHOE 6!" AVE. AT 20% ST. Women’s Fine Shoes Included are the season’s favored styles. Reduced because the size range is incomplete. Every pair is Cammeyer-guaranteed. Every pair comes from our regular stock. A double attraction of high quality and low price. Women’s High Cut Shoes| | Women's High Cut Shoes Button & Lace Models’ Reduced to Button & Lace Models Reduced to AMMEYER MEANS STANDARD OF MERIT courts, and the courts returned It to the commission to find out whether there waa any “going value,” which practically means “good will.” There was no “going value” found, which left the valuation as before. > Not being able to find any “go- ing value,” Commtasioner Will- inmae bases hie high rate of 96 cents because the company mado 4a contrast for ofl paying more than the other compantes. The company agreed to make the rate 80 centa, but Commia- sioner Williams fixes it at % cents, claiming the company was mistaken; it would have lost money. Commissioner Hayward pre- sents a dinsenting opinion claim- ing that the people should pay @t most §5 cents, Another company serving gus across the street, charges 40 cents. Commissioner Williams allows the company 7% per cent. as a “fair return” on the Investment, nat Commiasioner Hay- 7 per cent. as ward Commissioner the oll contract was dent." Commiastoner Williams allows 148 per cent. for waste gas; Hay- Hayward eaye “improvi- mado at that time.” In other words, if the company in the future sees fit to make a higher pr contract for oil the people may be called spon to pay more for gas, according ‘oe Commissioner Williams, Commissioner Hayward condemns ‘act in the following words: “I differ materially from Commis- sioner Williams on the question of production expenses that should be allowed to this company, As stated by him, the largest single element in the cont of the manufacture of gas is the price of gas oil, We are confronted in this case with a contract made by this company on Jan, 19 1914, by which they subscribed for an amou of oll sufficient for nearly two yea: at a price of 4.57 cents per gallon as Against about 3 cents per gallon at the time of the previous decision. The difference in cost of producing kas per 1,000 cuble feet as a result of this difference in ol! price, amounts to more than 6 cents per 1,000 cubte fest, It Is on this high rate that Commii sioner Williams predicates his con- clusions. “While I do not charge the company with fraud in the making of this con- tract, the following facts are material as touching upon the bona fides of ntract: “First, the present contract was made a long period of time, nearly a year, before the previous supply of kas ofl would be exnausted. “Second, it was made at about the highest rate which has prevatied over a long poriod of years. “Third, other compantes made far more provident contracts for ofl be- tween the time this company made its improvident contract and the time when its previous supply of oil would be exhausted. ‘The Consolidated Gas actually paid under the company's improvident contract, This price might most aaaily be determined by reference to the prices paid by other companies In this district, giving par- ticular weight to those most nearly like the Kings County Lighting Com- pany In the aize of their ol! contract Tt appears from the report that the price now pald for ofl by the vartous gas companies in this ditarict Is as followa: Quantity. Price Biel. THe: $800,000 8 B5e, Samoan 8,000,000 (e)4. 0» oor Uning Uae 08... (ete Eicatlltated as Company 78,000,000 8. 0sbe, “Commissioner Hayward's opinion also discloses the error in Commis- sioner Williams's rate of return. “[ think Commissioner Williatms ts, in error in his opinion where he fixed the rate of return at 7% per cent. upon the investment, In the opinion in this case written by Commissioner Maltbie, it was reviewed In the courts, The commiasion considered that 7% Kines Corum Lighting Oo, ‘ounty " ee York and. Rihanna Jas Company (0) only Tron pany having regard to possible going value, commission has made under the direc- tion of the Court of Appenia decision and that of the Appellate Division has led the commission to the opinion that there Is no going value for which, under the court's deciston, allowance should be made, This being #0, I can cent. upon the company’s investment does not represent a fair return to the company.” Commissioner Maltble, who recom- mended an 80-cent and §5-cent gas Company contracted for oll at 3,085 cents per gallon on July 1, 1914; the Brooklyn Borough Gas Company con- tracted for gas oll at 3.26 cents gallon on June 17, 1914; the Brooklyn Union Gas Company contracted for gas oll At 4.0349 centa per gallon on June 80, 1914, and cancelled by that contract its previous contract at 46 cents to 6 cents per gallon; the New York & Richmond Company con- tracted for gus oil at 3.426 cents per gallon on July 1, 1914, and the Queens Borough Gas & Electric Company contracted for gas ofl at 4 cents per gallon on April 80, 1914 time for its te need: within the confines of safety and prudence. Fifth, the officer of the Kings County’ Lighting Company who was principally responsible for is contract could not be pro- ti duce jad @ contract for gi at 4.5 cents to 5 cents per gallon, was able to make with the same company, with which the Kings County Lighting Company had made its contract a contract at 3.045 i it it previously had, price of oil was @ Kings County Lighting Company mai tract, and it was in the company thought price was going to stop falling and feared It might ri “Conceding, however, that the con- tract In question was made in good faith, the oll to be supplied under it will only last until about Sept. 1, 1916, This improvident contract, as stated before, was made ten months before the oll was needed. Supposing the company now makes a contract, not ten months fn advance of actual needs, but counting from Jan. 1, only eight months in advance, it’ may thereby have assured to it for the future a supply of of! which will en- able the company to supply gus at a much lower rate than the rate deter- mined by Commissioner Williams, THE BROOKLYN DILEMMA PUT IN A NUTSHELL. “Two interesting questions are pre- sented by these facts “1,18 A, @ customer of the committee to-day. er cent. should be regarded as a fair Pate of return, stating that it did so ‘The further investigation which the seo no reason why a return of 7 per rate in 1911, will appear before the position Association. One of the principal plaintiffa Is James Butler, the millionaire horee- man, who owns the Empire track, which is located between Yonkers and Mount Vernon. The plaintiffs as- sert that the defendants violated the terms of the lease when they fatled to boid the Greater New York Fair this year and also because thoy turned the rack into a corral where thousands of war horses were herded during the summer months, before they were shipped to the French army. Many of these horses died from glanders and the Empire Association secured an injunction from Supreme the further corraling of horses on the track, The plaintiffs are represented by John F. Brennan and Thomas F. Curran of Yonkers, while former Assistant District Attorney Lee P. Davia appears for the National As- sociation, A motion was made this morning to dismiss the complaint on the ground that the herding of horses was not a breach of the trontract. Justice Morschauser said be would reserve bis decision and hear the testimony. Lawyer Brennan announced that the plaintiffs are not seeking damages and that all thoy desire is the track, which the National Association de- clines to give up, as It says it bas @ five year lease with the privileges of renewal, Among the prominent borsemen in court and who will be witnesses were —_>——- brought by the Empire City Racing |NAVY CHAPLAIN REANEY DIES. | Court Justice Tompkins preventing | two Tronatdes | bottles of heroin’ and The Rev. Father W. H. opium, Reaney, Chaplain in the United States Navy with the rank of Captain, died in Polyclinic Hospital at 8.30 last night after several weeks’ illness, during which many friends believed to the | that he would win out on the “fight ghance” his physicians said remained to im. not know thelr content He was the son of the Commander of the old Ironsides and waa made a navy chaplain In 1892, Arrangementa for the Priest's funeral have not been made, Anniver Father Reaney was actzed with acute gostritis in the Army and Navy Club on Oct. 2 and removed to the hospital, A stream of men of mau at the hospital as long as receive them. with the news that they w: ranks called 0 was able to four, a decd if with gas in hi yu ae DEALT IN BONDS—ARRESTED. eer of Conn hemi: to the bank’ to draw, money | f affair, Relatives and friends Invited. hi ae a Secarity ‘curtal One, Frank Conners, twenty-four years ol4, ot No. 423 Tenth Street, Toledo, O., came Dealer Proves M his money speculation SUITS, from 813. AAND ¥ 85.00 up ‘B4th Bt. at Bway, Marbridge Bidg., Rooms 403-9, Opp. Hotet Medipin, Cyaie and warm lined. Colom black, taty,|) 47 W, S4th Mts at E rows, Ruslan arco. B. Altman & Co. FIFTH AVENUE «MADISON AVENUB Thirty-fourth Street AAA ee A Sale of Men’s Imported Gloves arranged for Saturday will consist of the following interesting assortments: Tan Cape Gloves, one-clasp, pxm sewn, spear point . special at, per pair $1.10 One-clasp Gray Egal Buck Gloves, pxm sewn; seamless wool lining, special at, per pair - «. « $2.00 Young Men’s Suits The selections now shown should prove of interest to the young man desiring to pur- chase en attractive, up-to-date Suit at a very reasonable price. Particular care has been exercised im order to produce garments of faultless tailoring. Im the regular stock at $23.50, $25.00 and $28.00. Cutaway Frock Coats and Vests, Evening Dress Suits and Dinner Suits, in limited quantity, are being offered at $28.00. Im the Section for Boys’ Clothing NEW YORK Thirty-fifth Street An Important Sale of Girls’ Coats and Dresses (sizes 8 to 16 years) will afford exceptional values at the following exceedingly reasonable prices: Coats of Tailor Cheviot, fur - trimmed, at 5 . . . . . - $11.75 Girls’ Dresses of Serge and attractive come binations $9.75 & 12.50 Higher cost garments, one or two of a style, have also been materially reduced. (Second Floor) Misses’ Dresses A number of attractive styles for street, afternoon and evening wear, fashioned of the most desirable materials, have been taken from the regular stock, and will be placed on special sale to-morrow (on the Second Floor) at the following low prices: $18.50, $22.50 & $28.00 = se Engel Couldn't Face Wife on Wea- ry With the Trath. Preferring death to facing his wife prac- E # or, Hundred and Bitty third Steet, killed h Bronx, and Mr. Engel was to , been ‘ote the suicide sald he Tn a note hine sulphate, eight quarter-ounce i 8 1 They were packed in @ satchel — > s|MONEY GONE, HE ENDS LIFE. ak Attractive Aprons 7, the complete assortments of wearing apparel The section devoted to the display of Aprons afford splendid ae the ——— contains attractive styles for dress or prace . regular stock of practical holiday gifts. In the regular stoc tical service. These are fashioned of fine Formerly Sold at Formerly Sold at ae Oe sui seh extea kntck lawn, organdie, or dotted swisses; also of $ $ $ $ $ $ Boys’ Norfolk Suits, with extra knicker- lain taffeta, or plaid silk, as well 8.50 7.00 6.00 8.50 7.00 6.00 bockers . . . from $6.50 to 12.50 P A serelaaatle pi i ‘ aie fs She 5.50 & ‘5.00 55.50 & ‘5.00 Cost of doing business regulates your]| Boys’ Overcoats . _—frorm 10.00 to 25.00 me In the r geome oe phe TS —_—— ———— See lel ae ace Boys’ Mackinaws . from 5.75 to 9.50 gular stock are: Included are Ladies’ high-eut boots in hy es hepa gute gc td firave #10 wt buying Guar- Also Boys’ Silk Scarfs, in fancy designs or Tea and Fancy Aprons : Be, to $4.50 aregg lace models of patent leather tops of grey and fawn cloth and buckskin, Tn ee pips A Nios plain colors . . . . 38c. & 50c. Maids’ Aprons e . . 25c. to 2.75 wi ck, grey and fawn cloth t Also all-tan Russia calfskin bi d lace 4 Also patert leather shoes atk tons of hone ae Russia nltskin shown with Monroe Clothes WASHABLE SUITS Aprons with bibs, or epaulets, 50c. to 5.00 fawn buckskin and white calfskin. champagne kid tops, Ha Sl & Breadvay for the small boy, are in stock, in novel styles Handemade and hand-embroidered Aprons, ¢ 2d Fler} Fulton St. & Broadway 10 Court St., Brooklyn EVATOR AND SAVE $10 at A ° ’ . ‘ $1.90 to 5.50 at. ° F . . + $1.25 to 10.50 TAKE Store of » Thousand Styles POA eee 5 oOo