The evening world. Newspaper, November 19, 1921, Page 4

Ho hh SUPREME COURT HOLDS THE FATE OF BO-CENT GAS INN. Y. Court Héars Closing Argu- ment and Adjourns for Two Weeks. Srectal te The Ereuine World WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. i= ‘The fate of the New York 80-Cent Gas Law now rests in the hands of the Yalted States Supreme Court, which adjourned for two weeks after the completion of argument in the case, late yesterday afternoon. For four hours, opposing counse) re- viewed the history of the long fight, Assistant Deputy Attorney Gene W. W. Chansbers, 1 who opened the }-afgument, brought merriment into the usually dignified atmosphere of the Supreme Court when ho recited re- | Mections alleged to have been voiced by Clerk and Master Gilbert toward courts in general, while testimony was ybeing taken in the gas case by him, Both the Justices and spectators } joined in the laughter when some of Gilbert's remarks were quoted. Thatice Van Deventer thought the Mne of argument unnecessary, as it {aid not affect the right of appeal by i either side, but Chambers insisted i that {t showed the state of mind of the Master and his unfairness. He <i specified acts which prejudiced the * State's case, wherein the Master ar- Ditrarily shut off certain lines of {i fair return and rannuation, | Whe State's Attorney claimed that the rea) valuation of the Consolidated $Gas Company's properties would not -emeeed $27,000,000, and said that the Mariowe-atitcnell report excluded by Master Gilbert, would have substan- jitiated this, Ho charged that in the Years 1908 to 1917 inclusive, the gas company earned over $24,000,000 in - on ite invest. in citing evidences Nat Judge Hand's alleged unfairness, tated that whe 1918 Federal income iitax return, amounting to $350,000, wax }mot put in as operating expenses by ithe company. “To vur great surprise,” suid he, Hand arbitrarily put it back tae ease and credited it as oper- ating expenses.” It was also charged that Judgo | and! in bis consideration of the “resolved all doubts against Eee, mainte” and in favor of the gas “We wed that even in the ab- ear of 1919 the gas company per cent. and § per cent. i= 1038. We would have showed but were shut out, Sut thought Sufficient because J Green- ld t 34 cent. wal wybody was mak- ounsel also mentioned that Presi- “@ent Cortelyou of the gas company Sweceives $40,000 salary, which ulso -@overs compensation as Preaxient of other companies, but no part of this sum is allocated to other com nen iey bet charged up to operation ad Sareea uo ve. ovaration that aithough Consoildated does not own the Astoria and wnich Bring ithe ry walt pe: me, ip saddled on the consumers of Another instance of alleged un was cited in the ruling o © Hand that the compan only be allowed origi: reproduction values, Justice Charles £. Hughes’ inion in the Minnesota r¢ his would be “capital tion Counsel O'Brien re- jeited the efforts of the city's repre- Sentatives to obtain inventories of the ‘as company's properties during the patuation fight. He intimated that tampering with some of the ‘aéeorde between the time they were Scme of the Nation’s Famous Hotel Men as Guests At Bowman’s Annual ‘‘Open House’’ cents, but in 1921 this cost was !n- d to 12% cents,” said Judge | Ransom. "Generator conl cost us| #C-40 in 1918, and oarly in 1021 it at | us $1157 a ton, The cost of gas con} ban Increnseg Gin: #0 to 86 per cent, while the increase in the cost of inbor has been 111.2 per cent.’ {questions rlating to the definition of BRANDEIS WANTS TO KNOW) ABOUT RESERVE FUND. Justice Brandeis questioned Judge | Ransom poncerning the reserve fund | uf $12,000,000 belonging to the gas company, He wanted to know how it was carried on the books of th company and how It was figured in| the assets, “This fund was taken from the dis- | tributable surplus of the company,” | said Judge Ransom. “It was put inte a contingency or reserve fund for emergencigs. An explosion might wipe it olt In the twinkling of un eye. It was not collected as an item of operation by the company. It was not figured in the cost of production estimates, It was net aside from the surplus which the company had avallable for distribution to its stock- holders.” He told the court that up to the time Jud, nd’s decision was ren- dered the company was not get- ting an a juate rate and that the State Legislature had withheld the power from the Public Service Com- mission to grant the relief that was needed, ‘rhe only recourse left to the Cebai eet B he continued, was to appeal to the injunctive powers of the courts. “After the decision of the court holding that the $0 per cent. statute was confiscator’ he continued, “the Public Service Commission then came into the full possession of its powers. But Judge Hand established a re- striction of $1.20 as a maximum rate and later allowed this to be increase! to $1.60, Recently the bocause of Say d decrease was abl com: cost 1 to reduce this rate to! ny. oll, TOWN HAS NEITHER CHURCH NOR JAIL BUT LOTS OF CASH Spends Sundays at Shows and Dances and Goes Away to Get Married. as exhibits before Judge Hand at the time of the appeal and showed changes of entries which, he ‘gaid, had “never been satisfactorily net. O'Brien characterized the gures for cost of transfe yon ‘ha “onfathomagie® “Apa e sald, “the experts appointed jon Clerk and M ater sacap ted us basis of decision.” price pata for oil by the Con- ted Gas Company to the Stan- O1] Company of New Jersey, of cents, was brought under fir rien sald the burden of proot re © Kas Company to show that fair in view of the fact that othe utilities corporations tn other ae paid only 6 cents for the same mentioned the interlock- Rockefeller interests in both 8 ~d Oil and Consolidated Gas. “The sole issue in “ sald tan CARE, Judge Ransom, in closing for the gas) gompany, “ie whether a rate of 80 @ents afforded the gas company an uate return upon the reaso value of its property devoted to blic vee. This issue wrs recog- Kisea by Ju¢ge Hand in his opinion, ‘and he confined himself to the mini~ figues in reaching the conclu- that a rate of 80 cents for gas New York City ‘" confiseatory. fe contend that a retroactive feature applying new rates is impossible carry out and that it thrusts for ‘Ward an unsound basis for rate mak- and service charges.’ ludge Ransom told the court that) the 80-cent restriction was the gas company Was spending | 02 in making gas that it was ri ling at the statutory rate. ted out that this fact had not successfully disputed by the city W® the trials of the case. “We repeatedly axked oe they hougst it cost to produce gas: and only negiigible inform: was given to the court in th matter, he said. “Judge Hand found gate to be confiscatory on a pro- cost basis that was 4 cents ba than it was contended by the them how CHICAGO, Nov. 19.—Mayor Stroh- been of Walcott, the most peculiar town in Towa, has let the outside world know about it, It is the wealth- jest per vapita town in the State, the two banks having combined deposits Of 41,500,000, For afty years the town has beon without @ church and nearly as long without a jail. A deputy sheriff is the only peace officir and he has no buai- ness. The Mayor said: “We are free thinkers and believe in free American citizenship seven days a week. We do not need preach- ers to dictate to us, We are better off without them,” While any denomination has the privilege of establishing a church in Walcott, the Mayor says, the people would not attend it, We are getting along very well as we are—much better than w \churches, We like to be let alone. | There is no more peaceful or law abiding town in the whole United States than Walcott. Why should we want churches? They bring atrife aad dissenalon—we want peace and quiet, “Shows and dances are our prinot ‘pal Sunday amusements,” says the Mayor. “Then In summer we enjoy baseball and automobile riding.” In case of weddings, most of the cou- ples go to Davenport and look up a Justice. In rare cases a minister called in. ‘by Johannes Kroeger, who delivers the oration in German or English, ax desired. He has po church affilla~ tions or religious beliefa, Baptisue that it was necessary to expend the manufacture and retailing of euble feet of told the court that coal costing & ton involves’ larger sum alone ham is realised In the sale of gas at @ cents, leaving hothing whatever by gp sag ve and im- nnd over items of cost, ‘oil in 1918 company. laze us 6 to 7 @re unknown tn the town, In a business and commercial way ‘Walcott 18 a thriving town, It har big grammar school, Recently the eitizens erected @ fine public xudi- torium, Here Chautauquas and must- cal entertainments are held on week~ oe and dances on Sundays. Population is about 500 aad there are 100 automobdtiler in the gown. ie | Most of the funerals are conducts | merrier 7HE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBED 19, 1931 REEN, PRESENT TATE ASSOCIATION HOTELMEN EuGene dD. MILLER A Bowman IDEA MAN Henew MALGREN ROCKVILGE CE EMERGENCY CALL TO PARLIAMENT OF ULSTER SENT OUT or | Both Houses Summoned to Hear Cabinet Report on Irish Negotiations. BELFAST, Nov. 19 (Associated Press).—Both Houses of the Ulter Parliament have been called by their respective speakers to moet Nov. 29. When Parliament adjourned Oct. 4 until Dec, 13, It was announced by Sir James Craig, the Promier, that ar- rangements had beun made to sum- mon {t to meet at an eariler date in case of emergency. There might be developments rendering such a step necessary, he said. In addition to receiving the report of the. Ulster Cabinet on the Irish negotiations, the Parliament will deal with the transfer of various gov- ernmental services from the Imperial Parliament to the North Ireland leg- Islative body. BELFAST, Nov. 19 (United Press). —Fifteen gunmen fougbt a battle in tlle streets of Belfast carly to-day. It was the third-affray of the week. An armored car swooped down on the Bally MacCarrett area.and acat- tered the contending forces after ono man had been wounded, LONDON, Nov. 19 (United Press): A secret military organization is be- ing mobilised in Ulster in violation of the truce, the “Sinn Fein Bulletin” stated here to-day. The Sinn Fein organ published an 4 order from a divisional com mander in Belfast providing skeleton of organisation of “rea! mii- itary units” of loyalists, into bat- talions of @ thousand men each to be hastily mobilized. Irish peace negotiations are sus- pended over the week-end. Lloyd George went to Bournemouth to re- matn@until Tueeday. Bir James Craig, Preméer of Ulster, Ml in b The next meeUng of the conference has not been scheduled. i FORD AND WEEKS AGREE ON SHOALS Major Details of Offer to Buy Project Decided Upon in Sec- retary’s Sick Room. (Cogoright, 1921, by United Pros.) WASFINGTON, Noy. 19:—Mafor de tails of Henry Ford's offer to buy the Great Muscle Shoals project were jagreed upon at a bedside conference | betwoen For And Secretary of War| Weeks last'night) Weeks, who ie tll, called Ford in Thomas \. Edison was selected wo go with Ford to Muscle Shoals and meke a final estimate of the cost of completing the W lson power dam. Ford left here soon after the con- ference nea will confer with Edison tw New York to-day. the JACK BOWMAN RODE OVER NTRE “THE CAUCHOIS COPRPEE KINGS Surprise Show CHARLEY MACDONALD, CU) BOWMAN SHOWS BONIFAGE'S LATEST IN OPEN HOUSES” Turns Biltmore Ballroom Inte Theatre for Annual Enter- tainment of Hotel Men. lirlous memory, the birthplace of the Manhattan cocktail and the rendez- vous of the old fellows who made Manhattan famous. Dave Fitzgerald, the First and Last of the Fitzgerald feudal barons ¢ Glens Falls, leaning on the arm his trusted’ Fides Achates, John Downey, entered the theatre into which the Biltmore ballroom had been transformed, just as the rea!) Jack dismounted from his horse Dave Fitzgerald is a very old baron; put Jack Downey, his jecter, it much | older. But age doesn’t seem to mak any difference to those two, for the are the greatest jolliers of the age. And then in the full bloom of the} coffee crop paraded into the opening Jack Cauchois, the coffee king. Jack was there in his undress uniform, full drew suit, tails and all, to do homage to the Big Jacl. Very well did the Bowman know him, and very By Joseph S. Jordan. Leave it to John McE. Bowman of the Hotel Biltmore to do the unusual when it comes to entertainment. Every year he winds up the week of the hotel men with the “Bowman Open House.” An® each year he mal.es the hotel men sit up and take notice with a novelty they never dreamed could be produced, and end@ them back to their hotels from [the White Mountains to Walla Walla filled with amazement and wondering what he’s going to do next. One year he sprang a whole circus on them, and last night he handed them a theatre. It was near mid- night when the guests were ushered into the ballroom on the nineteenth || floor of the Biltmore. The lights were low and there was a sort of hush followed by a buzz, which grew loud- er and louder until it ended in a barage of applause. Before the guests was a curtain, which was drawn aside and Broad- way revealed to the out-of-town bont- faces. ‘Shuffle Along’ had been transferred from the 63d Street Muste Hall to the Biltmore. Everything was complete, including the scenery, or- cbestra, electricians, | carpenters, Stage hands, the Jazs Jasmines, Hwppy Honeysuckles and Syncopated Sunflowers. Mr. Bowman was at the Horse Show judging horses when the in- formation reached him that he was wanted. “My goodness!” says Jack "They call him Jack,because he's got lots of it. Everybody who kno mine host of the Bowman bungalo’ calls him by bis firat name, and he asks all hts old pais to do likewise. Senator Calder was waiting in the corridor for his old pal Jack. With him was a big delegation from Wash- ington, There was Bob Downs and Harry ©. Sheridan, who run the Washing- ton Hotel, two of the finest hotel men who ever came down the smooth tracks of the Pennsylvania, and don't get sore. if you spell their names wrong, and won't sue your paper for libel—real guys, even if they are from that poor old abused town of the Gridiron Club. Laurence Mills was also one of the Washington bunch. Mr. Mills has nothing to do with our wonderful ebain of hotels of his name, the most popular and least expensive chain of hotels in New York City. And there was Robert C, Dove j Who's the boss of the Shoreham, where a great many of the muck- ja-mucks of the count stay when they have to go to Washington. M~ Dove is not what his name might im- ply, but at that they say he's not thr kind of bird that Mr. Hawk of the of hotels is. came in arm-in-arm with Paul Boden, who used to be thi Vice President and Gene: of the A Mantatten Hatel nt did he know his illustrious Frederick Augustus Cau- the departed king of all the | kings. Waiting at the gate for Paul Re- vere Jack Bowman was Eugene D. one of Mr, Bowman's great “icea” men, his first assistant and treasurer of his wonderful chain of caravansaries. And, les* we forget, ther was Roy Hubbell waiting also. Mr. Hubbell is the man who helps George Sweeney make the Hotel Commodore go, He ha? to leavé in the early part of the evening to ser that Marehal Foch got all that was coming to him at the Commodore, and he did, Then when the colored well foiks of “Shuffle Aldng” came to the Hiltmore he was on deck to see the white folks got their shave of the hotels and only Tay Meunt in No'th Car‘lina and has eve one wife, chuckled nd said the show was the best he r saw in his life, and insisted upon being Introduced to Ja Bowman again, and when he me. bim this time he said, “How do you do, Mr, Wtagerald.” And Dave Fitzgerald locks about as much like Jack Bow- man as Jack O'Neill! looks like Jack Dewney, once of Glens Falla, tempo- rarily of Bayside and late of London. | + FINLEY, GARVIN © AND ZABRISKIE ¥ ON N. Y. U. COUNCIL Law School Announces One and Two Years’ Academic Require- ments for Admission Dr. John H. Finley, formerly Commis- sioner of Education of the State of Ne York, and former President of the “Tnl- versity of the State of New York, was elected a member of the Cout.cll of New York University to till a vacancy caused by tho resignation of Dr. Henry M. Brown. Wederal Judge Edwin L. Gur- vin of Brooklyn and George Zabriskie were also elected members of the coun- cil as representatives of the Alumni Federation of the ugiversity “ ¢ 6 The N. ¥. U, student branch of the American Society of Mechanical En- gineers completed iis membership drive this week and succeeded in affiliating seventy-five members with the society, which has student branches in every big engineering school in the country. John Cummings, ‘22, is President of the N. ¥. U. branch, i Hill, head of the chem- acted as host this Okada, professor of chem- futry at the University of Japan. The latter is visiting all the engineering schools of the Hast to lear: how Ameri- can scientists develop their plants and equipment. Dr. ‘Arthur istry departr week-to Prof. ‘The New York University Press an- nounced this week publication of three polltical science books, to Ml, in a measure, the general demand that arisen since the w e books are “Representative Government,” by Chie Justice Taft of the United States Su- preme Court; “The Ricardian Rei cry tn Early American s Dean John Roscoe Turn ik plution of Industrial Weedon in ruse by Hugo C. M, Wendel. Arthur 8. Tutlle, Chief Engineer of the Board of Estimate, was the prin- cipal speaker at the fivst meeting of the U. Chapter of the American So- Nor of Civil Engineers last night.” Mr. attire, an alumnus of the univers chose as his topic "The New York, New Jersey Vehiovlar Tunnel.” ‘The R. O, T. C. band of the university haa come into its own as a real uni- Versity organization. | Under the leader: ship of Shannon, the outfit of feces has jmade rapid menty-etene strides, The s! Diaz and Foch recaptions irew generous applause from the spectators. Jacob iearp, twenty-three, of No. 1558 47th is student director of owing of the band at the the’ ban MAKES SHORT WORK of Pain. Sloan’ for atisne lumbago setatica neuralgia | sprains, strains weak backs Stiff joints Ad olf Grupsies, 3S¢, 702, $1.40 «enjoyment, Tom Bland, who hails from Rocky FAY BAINTER TO BE NAVY OFFICER'S BRIDE LOS ANGELES, Nov, 1%—Fay Bain- ter, who Is starring In “Hast Is W. ja to be married here next week to Lieut.-Commander Reginald Venable of the Arizon The actress and naval officer first mret three years ago when she was playing in New York. He saw her on the stage and sought an intro duetion. They became engaged weveral montha ago, but kept it secret untll to-day when Mrs. Mary Bainter, mother of the bride- to-be, announced the coming wedding, Miss “Bainter will continue en the stage after her marriage. Cure Your Cold Over Sunday CG? back to work Monday feet- ing better than you have since you returned from your va- cation. 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