The evening world. Newspaper, March 22, 1918, Page 12

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RI eT meer rrr THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1918. “LAWS EXPOSED AT HEARING ON WICKS BILL AT ALBANY Measure Has No Other Object| Miss Loeb Declares to Senators, —A here ae | Was held late yesterday afternoon be- fore tho Public Bervice Committes| of the Senate on the Wicks Bill, which is designed to nullify the 80-cent gas statute, passed in 1906 through the efforts of The Evening World, as well as an amendment which ex- tended the 80-cent rate to the 30th and 3ist Wards of Brooklyn, The Wicks Bill would ignore the Present 80-cent law and would allow the Public Service Commission to fix tho rate “notwithstanding that 4 different rate or charge may have been prescribed by statute or other- | wine.” “Certainly the gas not seok to lower the rate when they come here to the Legislature with such a bill as this,” said Sophie Irene Loeb of The Evening World staff, who appeared against the meas- companies do | ure. “The aim, pure and simple, is to try and get a higher rate for o What this would mean to thousands of consumers cannot be mated. By such activities as this the publio utilities of Now York show the least publio spirit of any in the United States, “According to their own ad- vertisoments the large gas com- panies never had such a gigantic gas consumption as the past win- ter, and this must necessarily have increased their gross profits. Yet int of this they come} here and ask you to set aside a stat- ute that has been upheld by all the courts, and place uder tho Public Service Commission, already over- 1 ‘ened with subway and other local problems this matter of new rates, which the people would have to pay pending indefinite reviews by the courts, COURSE NOT WARRANTED BY) RATE-MAKING HISTORY. “Tho history of rate cases before the Public Bervice Commission cer- tainly does not warrant such a pro- | cedure as would eliminate the present statute and place the matter of rate making with the Public Service Com- mission, to the detriment of all con- sumers,” she asserted, Why don’t the companies try the asual mothod before the courts if they want to claim that they are not making money? Why not their books before a tribunal that can review them, rather than seek to break a rate tho courts have unt- formly upheld?" she asked. “But they know full well the courts have held that the profit of any one year could not deter- mine the proper return of a com- pany’s business; that public utili- ties must needs calculate the lean years in connection with the prosperous ones,” Miss Loeb told the committee, “and they know ARRANGED FOR SATURDAY An Important Sale of Specially Priced at 38.00 closefitting sleeves and Plain and cemi - . * WOMEN'S TAILLEUR SUITS Featuring Suits with the Earmarks of fine cus- tom tailoring—emphasizing narrow shoulders, nicety of detail. ailleur modes in belt effects and waistcoat styles veloped in tricotine, men’s wear ecrge, gabardine, In black, navy ie sand, brown, black-and-white checks and gray toned novelty suitings. ny BONWIT TELLER &,CO. A The Specialty Yy Shop of Ongination, FIFTH AVENUE AT 38™ STREET presont | too that justice would demand that gas companies share the burden of war conditions and be sfied with less profit at such times. “This seeking to nullify the 80-cent Gas Bill and place the matter in the Public Service Commission ie a mere subterfuge, in view of past history in rate cases before that body.” | She cited the case of the 80th and 41st Wards of Brooklyn which was before the Public Service Commis- sion for five years; yet it was not until the Legislature acted that the people of that district secured relief from the high rates charged. This fight was long championed by The Evening World, which finally secured action through the Legislature, It was this very rate case that, | dragging along for #0 many | years, was the basis of actions | which cleaned out the preceding Public Service Commi and the present commission, realizing | that if it undertook to set a rate another court review might be sought by the vested interests, | which would continue the delay, | strongly urged the Legislature to extend the 80-cent Brooklyn, | Miss Loeb presented at length a comparison on the attitude taken by the gas companies of New York Clw » of Chicago. June the City of Chicago | passed a measure lowering the rates rate to | and ping a method of con- | sume: dividends, so that after the | companies have had a falr rate of re- turp the increased earnings go back to the people in a definitely deter- | |mined system whereby the company shares its prosperity with the con- sumers,” she sald, “The City of Chicago before this charged the same rate as New York, 80 cents per, 1,000 cubic feet,” she explained, “and had the same stand- | ard, 22 candle power. i PROFIT TO COMPANIES iN CHANGE OF STANDARD. "In its long campaign of adver- tising the People's Gas Light and Coke Company of Chicago urged its | | consumers to agree to a change to} the British thermal unit standard, | and {t offered to reduce the rates | accordingly. | “Thus the Chicago company took | Its patrons into its confidence and a! graduated scale of rates was agreed | | upon, These range from 70 cents per | 1,000 fect after the first 350 cubie| feet used to 40 cents per 1,000 fect, | according to the yolume of consump- | | ton. “Quite different has been the att!-! | tude of the gas companies here. ‘The }aame proporition of changing the! | standard of gas has been up before | \the Public vice Comenission for nearly two years. “By a recent order of the commis- |slon the companies may chango to a} | British thermal unit of 585 B. T. Us.| | “The average of gas over a period! Jof #ix months served to consumers in| |New York under the candle power | | standard has been 659 B. T. Us. i | t would seem on the face of this} |that already the companies have al |tremendous advantage, and the rates | be considered to have been} right now," said Migs Loob, “especially nince it costs less to make | |this standard of gas than st does tho| |twenty-two candle power, besideg se- curing the by-products of toluol and benzoin for war purposes.” | With this pending proposition al- ready advantageous to the compante | Mis Loeb scored the proposed |lation as plainly an effort to secur [higher rates regardless of the recent | tests and resulting optional orders of might raged |the Public Service Commission | She also pointed out that if the {prevent rates are confiscatory, the | gas companies have recourse to the courts, where every valuation could |be presented and the past profits fairly shown | The gas compantes were repre sented by thelr attorneys. 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