The evening world. Newspaper, February 10, 1921, Page 3

Two Companies Claim C pointed out to-day by Mayor ned in these columns. important and would be a hemselves, “Since 1903 sulte have been ing between the el he Mayor. “These clectric oompanies the cost plus 10 n the mean t share | x ued to add up costs 00,000, and thts ulative deficits ys, which | have to pay, unless } recaptured,“ possiviy ) cerned in this matter are solidated Telegraph and Way Company and the Subway Company PROVES A LOSS, {8 paradoaical, ted cupancy of th these two con awo items « these was to | ductor cont suet tric ght and power round, and the other a fadr return to for the use of that purpose in earl been found t be companies have Cat the thirty years of imed 1 entrar ation that there been no profi whieh the elty could share “In July, 1918, 1 took up this matter | wa arc back to the oity, and we hay established future time. The Consolidated 14 aph o § Rleotrical s y Company capital invested, up to Dec. 3} of $24.01, 1, against which t cumulated 10 per cent. sho: the sane time is to $11,546,940.15, Subway Company, Ltd., claims for the J same period to have pended, aot vested, $1 & shortage under the 10 per cant me ota) 16,000,000 for in Consolidated fled their end judgmien 18 entered he sum of $189. on ludgment the city appealed ppellaie Division, Pirst Department, is expected the case will nd it hed early this yeu he refer the case of the bir pany, but the defen «ted and refused to on the report unless Agree to pay one-half o) wf pire City nts city hi es’ fees und expense of f OF INTERESTS. City Subway controlled by the New to explain ling ¢ompa and cabl collect 1 alleged o tl of the con at their own figures. “Since the contra instru operation, no proper been exercised by th pérvi city kept no independen ‘work 40 THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 10 ‘Latest Modes in Afternoon and Evening Gowns MAKES FIREMEN 5 COMMISSIONERS PREFERENTIAL IN And a Stunning Dress of Jade Sinbad Crepe ELECTRIC cll Owes Them $16,000, 000 Under 30-Year Contracts, ROFIT TURNS DEFICIT! % ‘ ”, duit Concerns Controlled| by N. Y. Edison Co. and N. Y. Telephone Co, by ee ame By Sophie Irene Logb. That the city has been up against the same proposition as to “preferen- tials” in the case of electric com- panies that use the city streets for cafrying the underground wires, as it is in the case of the subways, was when I talked with him as to the city elling to consumers electricity from he surplus power of the subways, | amounting “to 1,000,000,000 kilowatts, “I think that The Evening World's urging the sale of this enormous sur plus power for the subways is very fround fi Suurce of revenue to the city, but the ity has ‘been confronted with me difficulty in getting control of these underground conduits bp Shiver bles, as in the caxe of the subways AFTERNOON’ © companies Gown OF and the city to get some kind of an equitable accounting whereby elty could get back its conduits,” five-story Sone, A DRESS OF JADE SINBAD Spermtrred to construct these conduits for cables in the subways, with j Provision that the city could get them back at any time upon payment of f land 1 don't CREPE With TOUCHES OF BLACK Dprsion Ar inexpressibly happy truth of it, My dear Miss Boll: I have read ty was to 10 per cent. invested. have mounting to ulted WHITMAN TO ASK ANEW GRAND JURY IN HUNT FOR GRAFT Also a Supreme Court Justice —Energies Now Centre on Homicide Bureau. realized for condition that exists with reference to our dis- OSesion ar been working nin New York City a year and a half, mee ‘Legion Accepts _ the “‘Service House’’ Fund, Sure That It’ll Be Raised| Evening World's Suggestion of a Home, Food and Clothes for Wounded Soldiers Gladly Adoptedby New York's War Survivors— 17,000 Disabled Men Here, Not 7,000. By Lilian etd that there are the streets to-day 7,000 men walking “The two electric companies gon who are. dis- upon investigation that there are wpproximately ining with the F eral Board tor Vocationa! Educa tion and you will find that there others who have developed a disability since INTENDED TO BENEFIT CiTy; fluenza, and the Government }: hot yet recognized their claims, ‘ additional 10,000 in- Assistant District casey, who are f the streets and maintained ternoon for a conference with sey City of New Risk Insuran of the nature reference to Uon of graft in ihe these covporations ears, referees gratitude that J, as Commander of in this State, a total of nearly ¢ instead of 7,000. nformation you might be interested to know are from. 1,200 to 1,500 new cases being reporied to L Yar Risk Insurance | fork to promise such magnitude that tion of suificient funds ning World bund which alsing for the and another G | MS which is jie! and Jury to im the hope. of getting these conduits digent ex-sery men now needing lly accepes it 2 bureau in the Sy ROM | tn Supp) Gas and Wiectricity Dep: - ment to deal with this questian, | Special for nays been inade for the | pupose of follywing up e item of cost, expended by these eorporati nd for the first time the wity have a chance to know exactly fe being spent. This in view of i quiring these conduits and cables a written you this work and IT am sur depend upon thie office for every ible co-operation. mmending you on , of no greater duty, and of no more Whitman said t rol regret with sion itself cowkl not RICHARD T Director Service lTHE PLIGHT OF THE TUBER: CULAR EX-SOLDIERS, and ask for as well as 1 do!) finuncia} eondit members. of investigating members of Popartment have been the of unlawful ere filling up? 1 went out to Fox Hills to see the ry satisfactory a deep sense the service 1 10W on row of pallid-fa up with blankets, boards of the “sees anything es UN3 but staring at the Figures from official records have Whitman an almost if | went to lother set of boards It was just like them and offer your generous offer putting tubercular | pprehension 4 of murderers in New York County. hat this fund is belng col- there and think just one day aken In the past in exposing imposte comminsiona has it been discove ie fund will filed their report er judgment , and worst of ail, “An possibly which would amount to Inutely $40,500, “Not a word of explanation 4 why th as been no surplus which the @lts- could share A SUSPICIOUS INTERLOCKING | 1 know this. “The Consolidated Telegraph and Electrical Subway Company is controlled by the New York Edison Company, and the Empire empany itd. ‘ork Tele- phone Company. If this relation- ship is borne in mind it will help thy the two control- were enabled to take possession of the streets of this city, construct therein a sys- tem of conduits to carry the wires used in their busine: er cent. a year on the ruction of r conduits and rent or lease the same virtually to themselves exists as 9 | Whitma Service Mou ke to have out THE LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE AND GRATITUDE js Commander Blakesie BLAKESLER, Department y blazing high | the To the kxtitor of The Kveuing World World| f swspapers Bo hig! ‘ the construction. up by these com of heaven to If they knew 4 our Christmas ¢ department of the pay bout half of the present Ws oway condulta aFé “The rental charge always been kept ‘As a consequenc icy of the Companies and thi ministrations, nts, Which gave the twe conduit companies undisputed possession of all underground conduit tion in this city, went rant girls gay to work with, Th Presbyterian ity over transactions of the companies, record, or no supervision was ever given to the companies’ expenditures, no re- strictions were pul on the amount of | themselves and bid me godspeed, The e companies, the Fourth Pre » ance OIst Street much we took In to. and even t pencil with must recover | city can legally eventually before the make any claim fq a share of bam amine dl, juse the blue Fashioned Album" fora-ol-the church-4o-morrow night, iit) A tine “bunghe Tye Warkd peapie, Was-bul oe such conviction « year. | 1921, ON LADDER WAIT INBROOKLYN ae bartender (n Wiggins’ Hotet and setred three bottles of whiskey there. that there was lnok of evidence to show his ownership of the hotel or of the - alleged: sale of whiskey by: his, Sate tender. Judges Rogers, Hough au@ ore © held that a Warrant was not nm i! tt Hauor ‘Young Women Must Protect | Expected to Resign as Result of an Order From the Attorney General, Husbands, Old Maids Their Pets.” Miss M. ©, Kern, who Ilv second story of a building a 1 West Ith Street, to-day told firemen who had run up a ladder to her win- dow after flames had cut off hor exit the stairway that they must “wait a minute” She ducked back into the densa smoke and it was feared she had been overcome when A moment later she appoared at the window with & mowing cat in her arms, She descended aately “Young wom maids have to care for our pets.” In the front part of the building were two sisters, Mra. E. Whittemore Beaumont and Mrs, Walter Floyd Crosby. Firemen led them to safety. The blaze completely destroyed the Martha Washington Laundry on the but was kept from eating up into the living quarters above The proprietors and neighbors man- aged to save a stack of shirts which they piled in Eleventh Street and later distributed to th Fr owners, Policeman @Connell turned from Houston into Mercer Street at 3 A.M to-day just In time to see flames burst from the fourth story windows of the loft building whose rear is t No. 190 Mercer Street, When Bat talion sis men he recognized it as the build ng that runs through to No. 623] in which there was a de- structive blaze that caused consider: able criticism of the department in Rroadwas 19 A second alarm brought Chief Ken- on, Who was at the former blaze, which, it was charged, “got away’ from the firemen, and he alarm. The blaxe did $2,000 damage on the fourth floér, occupied by H. B. Fergu- \y son & Co. and the Oval Web Mills. and the fifth, occupied by the H y¥. All the firms in| 60 days \iding are underwear and cap! we Bruntel © th manufacturers, i Tifth Avenue received from the Wastifngton the five United States Commis- are practically | Water, formerly in charge of the Went- hibition James s.| on have to protect thelr husbands in case of fire,” she exe plained to Five Battalion Chief Quinn and Policeman Flynn, “but we old| when United § Ross sent a ie 1 con hia letter the District he Department the misdemeanors Initinte the thereby | He suld he hud no definite information preceedings| on the subject but ascribed hia state of before} mind to a “vislon.” «beth of} “1 can see,” suid Hayward, ‘a certatn <q uum bersome he of of Prohibition UNnecese ry NEED NO WARRANT TO SEIZE WHISKEY | , 780° 383, umes, and apprehension Shief Brennan arrived with Saloon Men | was wra Need to Knot of Sales by His Employees Appents in a docis and sentence sent a third Hotet Wiewine. two| The commander of this post Is Daniel Judge | vision. and serve| Sho was a evidence | a8 with Company F, 9th Infantry, 3@ furnished by policemen who swore | xt 54% STREET TEN sine DRY AGENTS SUSPENDED 1 Follows Beginning of It” quiry Into Alleged Big’ Whiskey Ring, HUPFALO, Fob. 10—!Ten protittion enforcement agents including ®ilwh: T. ern New York district, wert suspendad from duty to-day that! ‘The suspensions were announced fol- ‘they (lowing the arrival of 1D. UL Chapin, State Prohibition Enforcement Dirertor who came here to Inveatiguie charges of Wholesale operations of a whiskey sing. FATHER’S “VISION” to-day] MAY SOLVE MURDER t Attorney to cach Commis him to attend Fells Bayonne Police He “Sees” tal Fight With Another Wom Attorney an In Certain Restaurant. you a| Jebn T Hayward, father of Dolly criminal] Sanovawiteh, who was beaten to reata and thrown into Newark Bay Monday ight, called ot Bayonne Police tHeade quarters to-day and suggested hit Jaughey was murdered vy a woman Laura at. 1 can ee two women, lous because of thelr dealings with ” one man, Cighting with each other. «1 can seo knives and forks flying, J ean nee one of the women pick up a heavy @oject und strike the other women over the head with it und the woman was dod. The body was hastily hidden and later on when the street were deserted it In bedelothing and carried mobile and then thrown fnto —- . Veterans of Foreign Wars Dance 2 Tammany Hall Friday. 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