The evening world. Newspaper, February 25, 1919, Page 3

BIG/N.Y. GAS COMPA $4,000,000 Lopped Off. 1918. Consolidated Gas Co. of New York New Amsterdam Gas Co.. Central Union Gas Co. New York Mutual Gas ‘Light Co Northern Union Gas Co. on By Sophie Irene Loeb. « $17,145,000 6,876,000 10,000 1,830,000 ’ SPECIAL FRANCHISE TAX ASSESSMENT CUT MILLIONS While Corporations Are Asking for In- crease in Rates to Consumers, Some Mysterious Influence Slashes Their Tax Liabilities and People Must Make Up the Deficits—Consolidated Alone Has REDUCTIONS ALLOWED ON VALUATIONS OF NEW YORK GAS COMPANIES THIS YEAR previous eductions ALBANY, Feb. 25.—Despite th The Evening World pointe ever increasing burdea of the in-| that between 1910 and 1913 the dividual taxpayer, andthe staggering | Settled $1,389,9¢ of special fran ‘ i : City debt, | Chise assess without any court mm of the New York review. The cases pending befor: which prior to © war Wa) the Mayor at that time for more "ac ger than that of National Gov. |tlements out of court’ show # re ny the Consolie | markablo condition of affairs that has ernment, just why the Consolidated | tii for some years, where auch Gas Company and their assoctates | settlements were to the profit cf have had their specia nchise taxes | vested interests eut heavily this year against It was estimated then that in three years that of last, t and im- portant question For example, the assessment of the Consolidated Gas Company has been reduced by the State Tax Commission over $4,000,000. The New Amsterdam Company has a reduction of over $2,000, 000, and the Central Union nearly $1,000,000, and so on down the line of the smaller gas companies. The. only company which has un interesting We over per cent. $20,000,000 had any slight increase is the Standard Gas Light Company— about $200,000. This remarkable condition raises the query Have these prop- erties decreased in value? Or is the use of the streets less valu- able than formerly? At the same time the gas compa- os are seeking higher rates. It looks| Fourteen ? Then you will welcome back again, the Child of the Housewives just as the housewives wanted it, and still want [ Warch this page ] thousand Compa nelr own figures. es have ed by uch reductions have aggregated approximately $1, 000,000. and at the tax. rate of the city has lost without having its day in court to decide whether the amount named was commen- surate with the propert vested interests, y holdings allowed r value 0 special fran hnica on ¢ versy shoeworkers es always become reason of I rules, ther wide and con- End Old Troubles. of} “Silver Stripers’ THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, Won War in Hoboken by Sending Over Two Million Fighters to Bend and Break Hindenburg Line | dee | CSHANKS | Boys With Gold Chevrons} May Laugh, but Mei of Embarkation Service, Un- aoe sung and Undecorated, Per- formed Marvels and Earned Right to Be Acclaimed War » first hat great part in tbe erfully admit that SNES MA BLACK. they got no nearer the than the gangway “The work he somebody, I su ing tro ringe:! found to be that he 2400 oft and 24,000 enlisted men engaged in the Embarkation Serv They are all glad to have been abt to do their bit, but most of them at their silver chevrong and feel that they've been cheated out of som thing, SOME OF THE FIGURES OF A PROUD RECORD. PTO. During the entire perio, 2 though the gas consumers and| Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn fa Heroes. ride eer tai as oenale payer is caught coming and going. | tories did not report work to-day, | —_— 1918, the ave nur ft Ame _t only is he ask more jon the ady Local Boards Nos. 1! On, we're only silver-stripers lean soldiers placed daily on Mronch inoney for his gas t and 2 of the Goodyear Operators’ Pro a es ht ab inere woil was 3,500. t he Y |tective Union, according to the state- scan ty é In ia day @ on punt of the Bees of Jame i Capo il, President | And we never heard the rouring of ihe Au ‘ 4 were owed corporations f aus ahipg Pe at New vork of Local No. 1 in Brooklyn cial franchises: F ' | With a desk and phone and chair Phi us a world’s record pointed to the fact that the: city ‘ampbell, despite fast that the We couldn't win the i 5 Ripe eee been losing millions of dollars an-|ecutive Board bh. t yet decided | But we shipped two million men to the Emb. nually in the matter of special fran- | whether a genera) str will be salad beat the Boche! vice > at t world's chise assessments, not only in the |), will be the ubjec f discussio: Songs he Swivel Chair d por tn levying of the aswossment but in the | {y oe 7 ‘ ' this ul men ent of the sume ayo meee ee be! The boys with the golden chevron we Ee These decrea ure due to three | Mth Brook iva themit 1ugh—these offidtrs | overse t Service general causes—court decisions, com-| ‘The reaso g the people n hr » sporting the nis nut romises out of court and lowered | to go to work, i aid, Was to bes ' it hed riod ewe assessments by the State Board ot | about a discussion that might lead The hipped to Tax Commissioners settlement ¢ | bunk” heroes, France had steadily increased m Thus, New York City’s tax rev- | Weostete mentale too proud 10| May, 191, when tho figures for the enue from use of its streets by CAMPBELL IN SP SPEAKER RACE: cat yale month w nly 1,043 corporations has been less instead fight—and a fo nings ageol sith of more as the privileges grow | , Hoboken ily rH ice é more valuable. PaRene: to Oppese | . and, of them offleers and bray 1 war T " As a consequence, the very , | practically ail physically ft f zs v utilities that are annually in- WASHINGT¢ Feb. Sarukiteau ls oy a é ° ommer in value and earning | y a \ Republican | vice overseas, All but a few o' 7 city have been paying less hembers from Kansas to-day decided ir three silver chevrons, denoting ments every year—the nt the nan of Representative | year and a half in service he ceived by the city has of Kansas when the House!” ‘ney are the men of Uncle Sam's ; In the figures presented to-day th neal ebeatae tec arkatioi « u n rhe Bie how the Tax Board arrived at thi xt Houbs |cheercd and undecorated reductions is of considerable in Campbell will be the third ¢ tal © the men of the A. E. F. were ep terest, in. view of the constantly In- | gor Ine Speakership, thera hen a aate Ww i an ol A. 3 Fw : ‘ creasing business and the fi THC Vine tanh of Ulinola as sit winning undying glory at the arne : ition of these gas companies | \fassachusetts, H Jherents are’ ex. |Chateau-Thierry, St. Mihiel and the i e c paratively nil pected to come | om the West- | Argonne Iver-chevroned D « Much of the trouble has been due | orn members, who were Jedd] ee fs ne th A the cases being settled out ipport Gillett who 5 | Siete ware inte bas ae . The off who have ved partes tate ‘Tax Hoard ha bition measure | st ‘ MR hio ana wih? t M rsistently continued to fh as Gillett voted against these ead of kicking holes inthe Hin men w wn | eins ine, they were he * anipu nbarh » Oe, | INE trOOP trading, Ships and men, WAAL. nred ve tt tten working twe four hours a Srennin abd ¢ Jday in order to keep unbroken the | Khaki stream that flowed eastward to | the coast of Fr \t The war rece of he Mmbarka- he about, mes of its mem-|} t Jom £ > the papers they! z never killed Germans, brilliant} bund a dough |scure bosoms—and they wore silver| which the debarkation offi ¥ Answer ew und equipment | fought ra | RECOGNITION FROM THE SEC ‘" i ‘ bibs Br RETARY LOF WAR, »/ $25,000 SECURITIES FOUND SLUMP IN VALUE TO $1,000 ' I by New York Land Tur Ove to Pol M Mary | of No. 20 V Street, this 8 ned ert the police here after d ves at New London had failed wo locate her on the MAS tt or FONG °° SPECIAL TROOPS — ~~ ASSIGNED TO EARLY RETURN TO AMERICA "| Ambulance and nd Hospital, Ma- MONS. LT. COG. BART HOME MANUS. chine Gun Units, Butchers ind Bakers Coming added to the list an the principal units f troops assigned made publi | the Port Baker England many by the Despatch Office of of Weld Arullery 182d, 1 und 14th ith Diy Bak nd 34 Butet ment aud 1 Division) om) Infantry Miscedlan Ho: the loss o dd | Guard troop: , N iit nies. thd machine gun compar to early Embarkation the the noticed thi sith Regiments, hospital to-day »mpanic G nt Division, n (30th ith Div 2 120th He convoy ps ns ave former ments os are are rn in 147, 500, 1919, COCHEMS DEFIES HYLAN AIDS SENT TO THROW HIM OUT Former Football ‘Paget | Job as Secretary of Welcoming Committee. on thousands of relatives of the} and 77th Divisions are trying their best to find out how e to secure tickets admitting 1 to grandstand seats on the day | fth Ave famous outfits parade up| Edward 1. atill Executive Secretary of Mayor's Comm Ww pite the that Whalen Secretary to Mayor Hylan, announced yesterday that he and all other em ployees had been officially fired, told an Evening World repocter to-day (hat, #0 far as he knew, the tlekets w be distributed ae originally 4 | nis plan provides that each man| will receive two tickets, distributed through regimental officers, ‘This plan has been approved, Mr. Cochema said, by George W. Loft, Chairman vf the Pageant Committee, who had the matter in charg: An attempt was made to-day to put Whalen's dismissal order into physi cal effect. Mr, Cochems was in formed by representatives: of tne Mayor that if he would kindly take himself out of the office on the #ixeh ¢ Hail of Records, on Street, they would te » lock the door and keep tt til such time a for Mr. Cochen Cochems, who ex- football conch and of hefty construction placed himself in the doorway of nis office and said, In effect, “They shall not pass” @ Mayor's @ Ut fell ed then | The representatives o office attemp back when Mr, € n ringing tones that he was an ac credited agent of United States Government in cl of the U.S Imployment Service in connection with the committee Wheti this rhetorical shrapnel burst among them t would-be ousters took themselves off and Mr, Cochems returned to his mahogany desk, where he declares he will remain securely nehored until he is discharged by proper authority. Here the re-| porter found him when he went to k about the parade tickets. You better see Grover Whalen,” Mr, Cochems added, after ex- plained the situation. “He seems to be running things around here, He's handling all the publicity and every And knows about as] ut publicity a4 1 do about] i an eight-day clock At City Hall the repo was in fo that this was of Mr.| Whilen's greeting days, and that had gone down the bay on the ce bout Patrol to meet an incom troopship of the Welcoming Committee in the} | of Records and see Mr. Glen He has that ticket matter to] said the man who sits out ‘ f the Mayor's office Glennon is Chief Clerk in the rs Office at City Hall and attached the Mayor's Con © of Welcome since Jan. 19. When asked about the distribution of} Uckets waid, after prolonged | wait, that he could assure The Ev ng World that the men of the 27th Divisions would be give in couldn't tell how th question is a id TEACHERS’ PAY EXEMPT =—| FROM TAX ON INCOMES alaries of Policemen, Firemen and | Other Public Employees Also | Spared. | WASHINGTON, Feb Thousands | pub acher# are exempt Revenue Bureau ; or other| > ADE other The exempt w, but doubt HOUSE ADOPTS RIVERS BILL. Conference Report MOTs IO Measure on Accepted " ‘ w rries : 6 provision that may hold up 6x provements un State or mun work has « terminal’ to handle the ipality to bene structed a public river traftia, PEOPLE OF THE U. S, T0 PAY Company Incorporated in New of cafes and $1,200,000,000 A YEAR FOR 25 YEARS FOR WAR Interest on Total Cost $768,000,000, ta ‘Be Raised by Taxes and Repaid Bondholders, T will cost the American people about $1,200,000,000 a year for the next twenty-five years to bay off the war debt, according to estimates of the Treasury, based on incomplete knowledge of pre- cisely what the final .war debt will be ‘This calculation ts made assumption that th with deductions for loans to the Allies, will be in the neighborhood of $18,000,000,000, Interest on this amount at the rate of 41-4 per would be $765,000,000 a year, to be raised by taxes, and then re on the net war debt, paid to bondholders In addition about ty T have to t “ a sinking fund to ix in twenty-five « would req sinking tun pi cent, Congte hment of fund as recommended by tary Glass Treasury officiala assert that if this authorimtion is given, bonds might be bought up on the mar ket each year, or called for re- demption at the periods provided in terms under Which they were sold ALL ABOARD; ALL A’BOOZE, ON THE FLOATING GIN MILLS =<»: sey to Operate Cates on Rivers and Seas After July 4 “Al ray The thirsty will hea alle July 1 and rush for the outgoing vessel The Ace Restaurant. Company headquarters in’ Newark, to-day articles Of incorporation which state the of the concern as “the operation eating places t » rivers and harbors of the Unit States or upon the deep seas, toge' with all Kinds of business included therewith The incorporators are Newark aurant proprietors. SOLDIER BACKS O'LEARY. with fled n any of to on |have led to th TT FURNISHES BAL OF $5,000; AUN 1S SECURITY Search Continues in Connecti- cut for Charles Coppola, | Missing Auto Owner. | i] | | Arthur Willtam Py harged witlt jtrying to sell the autome of Charles Coppola, the missing Nore Kk, Conn, chauffeur, and whose wil was raised this morning from $1,000 to $5,000, the when was released in Yorkville Court this afternoon, Nis aunt, Misa Josephine Campbell, ' n Liberty Bonds and He will be arraigned again ‘Thursda Pratt was detained pending his ec John, jr, was considering? Ability of applying for writ of habea rpus, Randolph Gerard, No, 51 € re Street, at. torney for the « family, made et that a mur= 1 money was the that the he may be, wa 4 carried a with him, Mr ino that be would produce two who would Swear they ‘oppola’s car in front of one of the cottages on Pratt ‘Island, near Darien, Ca at 2 o'clock the noon Coppola disapp 4 HW ed t er startling evidence had n found on Pratt Island. Assistant District Attorney t with detectectives, wen Island this afternoon to other inquiry, Mr. Gerard said he expected to seal another party which would go at oues Pratt Island to n the inqu ting to find clués that w to the discovery of Coppola’ Pratt appeared in court this morn- ng in company with his aunt, Mae Campbell, who, with his «ot A. Pratt, conducts the © 1 Nursery at Nos, 264 (Oth Street. 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