The evening world. Newspaper, July 21, 1921, Page 3

a THAT “STANDARD OWL SMELL” [25- PERVADES ALL NEW YORK WHEN GAS BILLS COME IN a ey Oil Prices Juggled by Monop- oly When Its Gas Com- * panies Raised Rates. STENCH GROWS FIERCER Owns or Controls All G Electric Light and Power Plants in City. is The “smell of ndard Oil" growing stronger in the fight over gas rates. ‘The sudden increase of more than 60 per cent. in the p of gas vil for the New York companies on Jan. 1, 1921, just at the moment the fiercest barrage was let loose by corporation Jawyers in their drive for further increased rates, freed the first faint odors, which have onch and various the gas statutory S0-cent sified into a ve When special courts brought vict companies and the and $1 rates were ide and grossly inflated charges were author- ized, the Standard Oil, in a burst of suspicious generosity, cut the for gas oi] exactly in half, bringing it to the lowest since 117. And the Standard (il smell grew stronger. When we says Consolidated Gas, fn New Work, virtually all of the city master’ to set 4 price fer In 36 cents a Fases were bolstered up by the Con § statement does not exhaust | sollited and its subsidiaries as well We limits of the Consolidated's grip as independent compan Now that Additional companies directly con. they statutory rates have been ruled! tulled are, Municipal Lighting ¢ confiscutory, the Standard Oil cuis|Pany, Ine: New York Mutual te price in half Jusy 1 the! T ¥ ind the rate hus been | per gal- ower Company lon—leSs than the 1918 pric those Nevertheless, gas compan " Union still fighting for increased ¢ and, pny orthern n Gas Company as in the case of the New York and © ‘dated Telephone and c Queens Company, owned the Con- | & Company, Edison Light and Bolidated, are asking tor a second i v Instuilition Company, Yonkers crease, ‘his « ae at_and Power Company, $1.25 per 1,000 and a xorvice y Subway Company, Ball | of vent It Wants to. re Uiuminating Company and| Rorvice ¢ aca ctric Huminating Company. | rate $1.6 From Poor & Moody's it is prices | learned that despite claims of the reductio AbOr ANd re tremendous losses from gas at | the statutory rates the general Ags STANDARD OIL MEN IN balance cheet of the Consolidated CONSOLIDATED: Dec. 31, 1920, showed a corporate = . | surplus of $10,251,717 after having Now, it appears, several Standard! paid $7,000,000 in dividends at the Ol s' hold represented in. usual 7 per cent. during the year. t Con ‘or the Her ire the officers af ‘ nited Sta 7 jew York's light It Nent authority, that He: Becretury own that Ro Jota. to. Aevordin sunsel | vot a ani control exer dated in New ¥ buys all Apple m 1 to iis st oing in of the Standard and New Amster wa toque 1 capita Me polit the interests tain provemy Westche quired al and (Qu Queens fompany New ¥ faut the stuch ur i ‘The Consolidated nd furnishes all diaries ‘company Muny eller ugh. of United Gas im wn Bson ¢ { which as owned by the rk ¥ npiny been inten-) giting Manhat- the Ae va m= Son Can Afford $600 Vacation, Father Can’t Boy’s Income More Than Five Times His, McLaughlin Wants It Used. Thomas McLaughlin, who re- ceives $40 a week as an employee of! the F. H. Bennett Biscuit Company at No. 139 Avenue A and who lived apart from his wife several years be- fore her death, has petitioned Sur- |rogate Cohaian for permission to use three-fifths of the income from the $250,000 estate left to his four- ten-year-old son by his wife to de- fray the cost of the boy's education and maintenance, The boy is David Kdward Me- Laughlin, and the petition of the |father sets forth that the mode of! life to tomed which his son became accus- while living with his mother! at No. 53 West 72d Street was much| more pretentious than that the fathers His son, of he said, was a student at La Salle Institute spent his summe: her camp on | Adirondacks. ceived a in this city anc with his mother usa Lake in the s. McLaughlin re- | turing her life in THE: EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1921, ‘8 Acre Swimming Pool Conducted ina | Public Park by Syracuse Open to All the 200,000 Residents During the Summer Months SS da une NTRE MIAN ate LAE IN ONGMOAGN Pa ae T 1S DEEP. BATH WEGsES “OANO BORROS Sno CHOTE kept Hiawatha Lake, the municipal swimming pool in, Onondaga Park, ita healt und refreshing relief from the heat of summer, Band wmiple outlets and intakes the water (is practically in motion all Syracuse, is an example of what can be done by the construction of such — | te ute na stand ereeted at one site of the pool, and as the | the time pools in the 8 of this city if the suggestion of The Evening World, | n hings the people of Syrucuse are enabled to swim. to the One on is very shallow and is exclusively for t ise already indorsed by Mayor Hylan and the Park Commissioner “ | ' music, while throngs who do not care to swim congre fehitidren Brot Wie far at wee pool ty oh ayer ene ae ried out. Of all the municipal establishments rr fort and recre= ' f Wc aura cle THBEMAC ae Reet RCO Ck teiTU Tei cacao eae ation of the people in § ruse the swimming pool is the most popular, — | mr i low around the edies Swimmin: and lifesavers care on duty at all It was opened in 1913 and thousands of the youth : have | ar \ le, The hottom of UU ne ae ee learned to swim in it while hundreds of thousands nave found } th t n middle is paved w mes. Ny AES UE Mise a AN : ar ena TENA Reit lene ther bus orphans and intike them happy, [want their home | the Reiter) to be a real one ( | - | N Reiter satd, | Re elter said, | RS, KADIR BEGINS TERM, | | U ndener MMOS IL LVICLANID, July 21.—Kva Cather. | | ABN See EWE Wily | Lge Kaher was takento the Women'sdte- orn nt of the Joint Dis bush ls TE al edt Cail RORY he begin se ce a il ome for AN WAR Hip SH | AI HORTON BATH i ELHAN sal oe Peed Ui ee a SL eC a i diy Ualiorose! wUilutige aa eee u wes Iteiter continued, indicating the ;Kaber, Lakewood publisher, two yeacs is ApAd sleeping rooms of Sago, for which crime she was found the spartinent, “hut just as Soon asy guilty last Saturday, f > ( eclares He Di eave) Bronx Park Commissioner Landlor Wari nts Apartment Bees cae nate aiultiles wee Hom neue Bomb With 600 Pounds ut| Declares He Did No Leave) Bronx Park ssi allond Wants Apartment) cording to Poor's & Moody's Con- | David > part Explosives Fails to Dent Automobile When Police | Draws Attention to Pititul Vacated to Make Room for | solidatyd Manual of Public Utilities $ | Fey arp, S| ‘oe Facilities. War Waits e the Ostfriestand. Lieutenant Was Murdered. 4 Shortage of Facilities. ar Waits. for 1821, owns or controls twenty gas house at 2n6 Park companies in the metropolitan terri- | ma Hs i wiehtin, he will ROB! ve Veesegitly oS ate RAL Cad ¥ he 4 fs tr ei uy etihatet how tre iy To quote this financial author- a year, neefitths ct [eftert will be to-day to. sink wou mar if : Le TOC TAC MEER ero acn 4 be the income from the ment house, ie former German battleship Ost- reseh the | Bayeheston, a eae hs ir Ne weir in ere “ lathe. Consol! ated Gas Com- |to support his son in the stat fitesiand: cwilleh came: samscathed ¢ t Floyd | crowds w seni “th ph Reiter, and his wit move a i ! Sal through its subsidiar; does |Among the b | tanus One-ton and dworliitd not Are a shote But on/ahe cons Ol thera 1 today that h- | amember of the families requested to o Practically the entire “gas and Mes a i . ‘ tite | ay Joe fos| tended 1 the ind Of Msti- | vitcate is offended or has spoken of FLINT QUALITY electric light and power busine: 4 yes Wiebe: Steaua CNe rlew | VK vepredehed! (his WNctheN. Joo) NX erection there of a nis to court {in the Borough of Manhattan, |Mments, $75 for churches und chariti Neaving the car to stant the alterea-| mate f x Da pant lana sey whee avin DEPENDABLE FURNITURE Nay Vere cCiyi cand! in latge HG Pa EET SPU aT yng those who witnessed the! tion that resulted in his death ond) $1! Ane Pe ile qeunace lund aoe cAEGW Ears aes oe entoes i parts of the Boroughs o' e athte xoods and $200. for gees au rn erected by the v te instance) had one girl, Jean, five years Bronx and Queens, and in West- ere une Arcroes Insti- oun Fa M > cn 5 ny of The Eyeing World at Coney old. ‘Then Reiter made a trip te fe chester County, serving a present Appitec us; e@ says he ar hy ps SB Dan tad Re Leal . m hen he rety he bad w 1 Rimated’ Population! vot 4000: Xliausted his own resources « Denby, Secretary: « : » Chicago insurance broker with whom) Pore ie at present only. six | WR i Freed euth The prices are so greatly ; Yes deat Assistant, Secretary | She said she had lived five years cons | antiquated — bathhou uo Pelham ; ve . reduced, that replacement CUT IN OIL PRICE MEANS BIG 5 fintourly dining Atleenadure ofmare | Bay Gtk Me Han J.) family namo wher eh : 1 REDUCTION IN GAS COST. Hee ae a Le a TERN IGM AMAILACRLIETGT KOMI LEON Treasin ris) only [inrdon wolwndl (wa coats in most instances Just_what the action of the Stan- ry of the Navy! prosecution for Horton's death by ‘i naeoetin A700 hath) 28 bere \ are completely ignored. ep Oil iy reducing the pri . of gas Le Jeane, Gen, tifying before the Grand J nier Y ' ' here t had \ oil means was brought out pointedly Gen Le Jeune 1 : aa é rity 1 ‘ , yester t tha ‘hearingu wetore | father's claim and feport on the fust- | Badisie talon Army, ailday ernard Sandler torney HOWE u Fiint 4, lorner Crinc Public | Serv eo Coen sioner ren ness of his deminds lerdal Gor for the de Cn slleged Mrs. Brooks . ai pee 7 Wee Seale 20- & West 36” Beere noes commen LO New ork, | e clima onsite tor t a ' i Conventently wear Fifth peace and Queens Gas Company, for in- ee ne es es a < u » the Reiter tamil creased rates, sa : : Jwhen an : wa : SHU Kol anyial 7; ; Hn he onereased by A wtiecs for: (heveur pany 464° iis city will ask ae boys and dolin Cavana wven : nthe | tified that the cut in price of gz Cpa A aon AE eae 600-pounder. Flames shot np #8 insult eet iy ny 1 re W oil had reduced the cost of pro- jeans to rele age 1 wreckage could Hairston, 1 fevutor ma Ni ‘ 1 ’ = duction 27.22 cents per 1,000 cubic ae a ahs mt oe 191F iv ri (4751, in 1918 to .06453 and in to .0naTL eiides oe we ln During all this time the statutory | activities rate of 80 cents 1,000 cubic feet |—~ _ —= Gt was $1.in Queens and the Bronx) | Was in force hen the legal “4 " began on the rates prescribed by | cou aa law. “Last year the price ° jumped a cent to 075 and during th 8 ight of the litigation it was d trie Comp: out | elared that gus ilo for 1921 would ‘] § remy? Peet cost 124-10 cents, | ” This rate went imio effect sanuary | STANDARD ¢ oie OOKSTININEY: and on the strength of it, way GAS CORPORATIONS. ‘| oertetat » seen flying through the smoke, 540 West lsth th VEE ; ae tfriesland rk under the im- SOEUR COLES BHG: \ | threw litt 1 © explosion, but when the Mut ilee it smoke cleared away no sreater dam- ae Le HN if ethan a few eck fixt Mrs, yoo lund ik ; o e was visible pes 600-pound Prices Revised sitet poh i ot ch ; iffective Today ue owas asiouls inset AIRSHIP MODEL WRECKED. a . [tm strlen 8h sist Ti aut anda Sie Stn Invent Phe cost of raw materials and labor ae aa ae inane ie has now been lowered to such an | gn, Meteo co aed is extent that it is possible to reduce the ay Fe tagged ea a prices ofSONORKA PHONOGRAPHS Bickel Uttoneh se rit ; without affecting SONORA quality. eae © ny aa You can now purchase a SONORA HUNDREDS SEE MAN i | to stern on the stark sid tsa tn | sending the water spouting up on her the marae i H Ae » It was just 1 W near-hit, W automobile na a ieee Po aus | ur the keel, wh the Frank- Wi a t ( furt down Mond Osttries- land rode it without a tremor | ‘The Board of Observers reported Jafter making an examination of the | vessel { not been vitally injured by an © fifty-two hombs | | whieh landed on her de and close | to her sides, In all there were th | “| hits, but nine them: Were neither eng been s my —_— = inst a ship DROWNED AT CONEY with a feeling of confidence that you ene) are paying PRESENT DAY prices. Vriend Pwice _— ASKS ELOPER TO ARM | FOR A DUEL ON SIGHT yn Vietins etive of Monmouth rcenscioia When Boxcued s . . ee ee ane a 7 shed ONORA has always given and will continue to give the public the If a heavy fa ‘ tented cows browsing in Mio be ea fire a ‘ ‘f r lon r our ~act re rq Fouke- ee a Isivruh at & wetori A rant clover; very best value together with the furen and New Yors ‘ ite No a9. Srv nies Fone ea very finest quality. d with hoars ti i y 4 WwW ‘ iy i the company, has Ko: Tontions | ¢ « Tan nie WENGE wnt * t wi 1 woul TEST AIRFLANE r tay \iukbe e Mach Wilh tae te ‘ 8 f ound fr qneniiyy tn Be var A) corn , i ot| ! fiw oi ul 1 y ponies, among them, Benjamin White. | o mimer 1 ry ay Ly " A die nen pins am Ie NY “Cae x(t! n Class Talking Machine | 4 Vander| pt should be reme ny ee | ( twenty. individual companion tc * Ise 1] ina now 5 World poof the Consolidated, some 4 ‘ AC hara Mies Cone ih cee : BW mat ( | vifth uc at ) Broadway on all hoards. 4 Hesides M elyou. 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