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ih a GAY MENACE BY POR SURFAE CAR FACLITS Commissioner Hervey, in View of Present Conditions, Fears for Next Winter. In exiianation of moving for an order for & general hearing on Aug. 7, 1918, into aerating and financial con- ditions of street surface railroads in New York Gliy before the Public Ser- vice Commission to-day Commissioner Charles 8, Hetwey said: “The situation with respect to sur- UP face railroad operation in this city is rapidly becoming a critical one. At the present time not one-half of the surface lines of the city are operating adequate service during the rush hours. The lines are operating far below the schedules which the com- panies themselves recognize as a min- imum for the accommodation of pat- Tone. “A significant example of this is the operation of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company from the Flatbush barn. The Flatbush Avenue line, eoheduled to operate 624 trips daily, in losing 16 8-10 per cent. of the trips; the Nostrand Avenue line, with 245 daily trips, failed to operate 14 6-10 per cent. of its service; the Rogers Avenue line, with 213 daily trips, failed to operate 28 5-10 of its ser- vies. The company’s explanation in each case for these failures was the impossibility of the company to ob- tain car crows. The same situation exists in the operation of the Madison Avenue line and other lines in New! York. “All surface lines are now operat- ing under the best possible conditions of weather, It is a matter of serious apprehension as to what the service would be next winter if weather con- ditions such as prevailed last year should recur. “The fundamental duty of the pres- ent time Is that adequate transporta- tion shall be rendered. ‘Thig should be at as low a fare as possible con- sistent with the necessity of sutfl- cient and competent employees to maintain the property and to operate the lines. “An inquiry will develop the facts and may be of material ald in indi- eating the proper remedies. cating the proper_remedies.” ———— BROOKLYN CITIZENS PLAN INDIGNATION MEETINGS TO FIGHT RAISE IN GAS Residents of Coney Island and Other Sections Affected by Hughes's Decision Up in Arms. Three indignation meetings on the part of citizens affected by the Hughes decision on 80-cent gas In Coney Island and Gravesend aad the threat of the gas companies to raise their rates to $1.25 are scheduled for to-night. President Arthur K. King, of the Fiske Terrace Association, in Flat- bush, has called together the execu- tive committee of that body to draw up a formal protest against imposition of higher gas rates and to arrange for 4 Mass meeting on Monday night. The Executive Board of the Man- hattan Beach Civic League will meet at Oriental Boulevard and West Ent Avenues to-night to lay plans for the summoning of another mass meeting of residents in that district. ‘The biggest meeting of the eveninx whil be at Kister'’s Surf Avenue Hotei, Coney Island, where Assemblyman Kenneth F. Sutherland will speak Several hundred residents and busi- ress men of Coney Island will attend The Executive Committee of the Van Ficklen Taxpayers’ Association, with headquarters at No. 43 Neptune Avenue, Coney Island, at a meeting last night drew up resolutions pro- testing against the threat the Brooklyn Borough Gas Company to raise its rate to $1.25 of Marlborough, form derbilt of New. cepted Telegraph. In the air thirty utes, Ensign the Eure Barnes's » THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1918. AMERICAN DUCHESS aecowes t-cavowoare OLY OPENS ITS GAS FIGHT AT SERVICE BOARD HEARING FOR LONDON COUNCIL Former Consuelo Vanderbilt Is Out for Seat in County Body. ooo” DUCHESS of MARLBOROUGH LONDON, Aug. 2 The Duchess of o Vi New as been’ ac » candidate So division of County Couneil. The enused by the death of the resentative, will be filled , according to the Daily for the the London vacancy, former ‘re immediate = Saal FLYER IN AIR 30 HOURS. WASHINGTON, 2. Aug. 2.—Remaining yurs and thirty min- larnes, attached to America ean waters, ablished w record for tained in a “blimp” type of alrahip, the Department announced home ix in M a new fights Navy to-day nneapolis Hotel Commonwealth pe ee (Continued From First Page.) Company is competitor with another | * company it can sell gas at a profit) of 80 cents. Still another important} fact called to the commission's atten- ‘tion was the overcapitalization of the |! Brooklyn Borough Company's stock at | the time of The Evening World was making its fight for 80-cent gas in the Mistrict served by that The overcapitalization was carried on to| ern. | | juntil a level of real reached, A the opening of the hearing Wil-| cents for depreciation, show the « per 1,000 cubic feet of gus to be $1.02% Jaon W. Thompson of Bassett, Thomp- |son & Gilpatrick, counsel for the gas company, warned the Public Service {Commission that it “ought to ponder seriously over the consequences | Hughes opinion.” was to bo increased from Lrooklyn such an extent that the commisston| that, set aside a portion of the rate charged | rained its rate valuation was| its own main line of questioning long should it attempt to fix a gas rate| cluded in the Hughes opinion that despite the company’s wall of hard times it had r 1 the salaries Wf the principal officers, She dect he bombardment insurance e financial n Philadelphia and rarely with his presence « $3,000 and the bly more, although figu making allowances for all expenses, including interest on | bonds, materiais, salaries and Mia t Mr. from the hough to learn something of the company's financial condition during the first six months of 1918, which are not in Miss inerease in Ransom deviated Dillon admitted that the above the statutory limit despite the} sales during this period was 31 per | cent,, a gain that cannnot be matched “Are you uttering a threat against | py | Dignert ¢ wget dave 1 win ‘ on . er, during the coal shortage, the this Commission?" demanded Com-| Rroxiyn Horough Company reaped a missioner Whitney. harvest. Although serving an out The lawyer didn’t want it oon-| skirt section of the city, its winter 'strued that way, he sald, However,| sles of gas were greater than its jhe served notice on the Commission | |in the next breath that without con. summer sales The — bhief by 1° per cent counsel uddenly switched back to a comparison of the sulting or notifying that body, the| one dollar and a half claim of actu Brooklyn Borough Company had! Co8t of ras with the one dollar taken tt upon itself yesterday to raise its fas rate to $1.25. Samuel A Berger, Deputy Attor- |. appeared in behalf of) y General Lewis and assured jboth the Commission and the ropre- | | sentative of the Corporation Counsel |that he would ally the State's logal |forces with thove already engaged |against the Brooklyn Borough con- | | cern. | $1.25 is charged by rough company,” said Mr. Berger, | “I feel quite certain that that is not Despite tho announcement that|the company seeks to ¢ 5 the Brookiyn | crease of 30 cents a quarter charge The valuation of the which the Hughes opinion was by was $1,670,000, The company prop to increase this figure to $1,826,000, the witness explained. In other worrds, the Brooklyn Borough Company, be causo of its prosperity, is compelled to enlarge and improve its plant with An expenditure of at least $140,000, 19 return for the business the people of the Brooklyn outskirts have given it, an in a thousand cubic gas plant on feet for gas, The customers of the Brooklyn Bor- |the rate the people will have to pay.;ough Company have something ela It is exorbitant and outrageous and | will not_ prevail.” | | Miss Dillon was cross-examined by [Chief Counsel Ransom of the Public | Service Commission. She admittec CHADS IN SUBWAY “2 ON FIRST DAY OF to be than i for, Every timo they ook at their new gas bills they can fieure one-haif-cent a thousand ric foot for legal talent employed to nash the §-cent gas law Tennessee) along similar tines, nator Baird follows fe subject of woman suf very much in my mind to mean to me The frage has be of late and part of the well as a que to the ation o! 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