The evening world. Newspaper, August 5, 1921, Page 7

, to double and triple the New York ‘ STORM OF PUBLIC INDIGNATION WASHINGTON CUTS GAS RATE TO CENTS, STILL ~ COMPANIES NES EARN 77% (Continued From First Page.) have been fighting the the Consolidated and its rates, It was accepted as another indi- cation of the rapidly falling prices of materials and jabor in the man- ufacture of s and as having an important bearing upon the appeal before the United States Supreme Court on the decision declaring the 80-cent faw confiseatory, Corporation Counsel John P. O'Brien, who argued this case for the city and who has kept in per- sonal touch with every action for higher rates, was particularly im- pressed “The action of the Public Utilities Commission of the District of lumbia,” he said, “is tilustrative of the general trend throughout the country and serves to fortify the position the city has taken in Ne York in its contention that the pri of gas should be about cents a nd at the present t Ss’ trial in the olidated Gas case, when the ref- ‘8 report came up for confirm on before Judge Learned Hand, he made a findifg that the Consolidated Gas Company derived @ net profit over and above all expenses vf every kind and nature, including tax 11 cents out of 80 in 1919, and 18 ce ret revenue over and above all these hges in 1918. His finding for the was predicated upon gas the company claimed, at Hon. The query natu- . What should be the net with gas oil bought at} wllon? Four gallons of oil ded for thousand cub! 8 oil bought, Wiser ancannare IS BREWING. ’The gas companies in an New York ca lp but public » in due t ‘oused. 1 ee the storm coming and that is why, with ‘wondrous mag. nanimity’ nsented to reduce the price to $1 When [say this Jewtti not overlooking the fact that while the Brooklyn Union Gas Com- pany in Brooklyn and the Consoli- (eee in Manhattan have cut prices consumers as of Aug. 1, the |New ‘York and Queens and other sub- | Sidiaries, separated from their p | compantes by half a mile, are My gouge out of the public ‘rates of $1.75 to $2.35 a thousand, his gouging will be stopped. 1 have complete confidence in the ulti mate result. Meanwhile The Evening World is doing a great. service in keeping the public posted as to the real facts.” Tt was Howard %. Reeside, Presi- dent of the Washington Gas Light Company, who exposed the Standard Ol grab, whereby prices for gas oll were jumped to 12.5 cents a gallon. Mr. Reeside, testifying before the. Public Utilities Commission in Wash- ington last spring, said he did not make a long-tima contract with the Standard Oj] because ine knew the price was unfair and would come down at any moment. He bought from month to month in the open market for seven and eight cents a gallon, while the Consolidated of this city, a Standard Oil controlled. mo- nopoly, readily signed up a’ long con: tract at the highest figure in history. To-day the price is less than half. It was on Mr. Reeside's testimony, then, that the Public Utilities Com- mission ordered the fir duction in three months before 8 filed applicationg 5 increases (reaching to 5) with the Public Service Com- mission in this State NEW YORK ONLY LARGE CITY USING OBSOLETE GAS SYSTEM. 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Gas companies should be shee shbithiatiobioh $ ts fy Pinoed in a ponltion where. it will | GOING TO COAST the Hotel Alexandria from New ae k Ka Established 59 Years matter littie to them if prices for oil jare Thomas J. Shanley, Victor 1 | setione mais New York: 184 Biway at John st go up or come down s| rect ew Building at! Pisher, 1. Mayer 1. N. Martin, Mrs. | (' Catalog ’ #23 Sixth Av. lth St “[ ldo not hesitate to say that the, /lsky Erecting New Building ae hg : il a) ‘ ‘ " #0 Sixth Av, 2d St $1.50 rate or the §2 rate ean be made| — [os Angeles—New Yorkers | M hee ie VOL Nassan, at Ann St a8 confiscatory as the hypthetical 30 Wakes fi ‘i Mr. and Mrs, Lamnard Dixon of i@ 17 West Wd Street cent rate by the nimple cepadient of Visiting in West. aw. York hanor gents at "Bue Ukly'n, 317 Fulton St. Opp, Namm? the olf companies raising the price of | speelal 16 ‘The Weentey Wei. Nivder. dai eH aan rea Peo tes aM BP. as oil the way they did with the ‘agian And pian hilt i te LI Ll i 5 1 220 Gth AWwe.. oven Sat. antl 5 PM. Gonsolidated the first of the year” | LOS ANGEL Aug. 5.--A build- | }otel given by Mr. and Mrs shied | Qa \eenreeeeeecermemmianamnay | Mr. Little calted atention to theling to house writers, cditors and | Jewett Schweppe ar Only Ptce = — OPEN ALL DAY TO-MORROW 1921, city and formerly the expert for the| fact that the companies can have the) directors coming from the ie | Yaoht Report 0 : Minoig Public Utilities Commission, | British thermal unit system any time jtyjand Paramount studio Is boing Chal Lipton qs: Ja vated.) 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