The evening world. Newspaper, December 15, 1921, Page 14

‘* + OFBRONXCOMPANY. ic Service Commissioner ~ | Voorhis at No. 30 Church Street. | of }depreciation showing that i attpekine the statuory rate as confis- depreciation. took up the rest of the hearing. a A =D of No. 58 Grove Street, Flushing, L. I., called én the charge of intoxication trate Reynolds in the jaza Court, Brooklyn, to-day ne pnformed that “Ontozole 14 5 COST FLAWS OUND AT HEARING Attual Contracts Show Cheap } Fuel Price Than Earlier i Estimates Gave. “Pugene H. Rosenquest, President am@ General Manager of the Bronx | Gap & Electric Company, was again | on the witness stand to-day at tne regumption of the rate hearing before | an der direct examination, Mr. | mquest submitted additional Stracts for oll, gas and other ma- Is, and also submitted several | putations to show the cost osf| jar materials in the past, dating to 1919. At this point Comm.s- ai Van Voorhis said: e old contracts and figures are received in evidence as mater- only in whatever aid they may give the commission in deducing future operating costs. A forecast of t the prices are likely to be in future will have much more t” 16 Commissioner then called at- on to the difference between an bit of price computations sub- by Robert A. Carter of the idated Gas Company (which the Bronx company) and the contract prices submitted by Myf Rosenquest. Tbe contract prices from 80 to 80 cents less for fuel than the prices computed Carter exhibit. Inder cross examination Mr. Ro- est said he had been with the pany since 1896, starting as an tant superintendent and becom- President and general maager in Avenue and was reported lands. him at fault. | Seat: ir, Rosenquest refused to admit could be made cheaper by of American crude oll or coke of Mr. elly then went into the question al- the company no longer has a ation account Mr. Rosenquest, in affidavit to the Supreme Court gas oil and coal ering Staten use to-day ry, had included the element of Technical questions | commissioner this pler will OF INTOXIATION, DIES ON THE ISLAND. the name of Benjamin Ostozole, poses. A dill Commissioner Fed lea Ww before In the hos- fare a. The police are fo learn of the source of the lquor which the man drank. | ginning along t improvem * y, = Baron ROSEN Refused to Go to Hospital Though Leg Was Fractured—Driver M Cleared of Blame. Baron Roman Rosen, former Russian Ambassador to Washington,-who was knocked down by a taxicab at Sixth shore front property now held b: [RUSSIAN DIPLOMAT WHOIS DOING WELL / AFTER TAXI INJURY Returns With 5 | ‘ 54th Street last night, to-day to be resting well in his apartment at the Hotel Nether- The diplomat and author sustained a fracture of the left leg. He is seventy-four years old. Chester Smith, the driver, was not held as the police did not consider . The Baron refused to go to a hospital and insisted ypon being taken to his hotel, per eeeseiee™ ehso HULBERT OPENS FIRST OF MUNICIPAL PIERS Island Celebrates as Project In Opened, Dock Commissioner Murray Hulbert, In the presence of several hundred shiv- Islanders and a group of city officials, formally opened for public Pier No, 7, at Tompkins- ville, the first unit to be completed of the twelve in the $80,000,000 Staten Island plier improyement project. Hulbert announced that not be leased to private shipping, With a dockmaster in charge, it will be held open for vessels on a wharfage charge basis. the roof will be us ™ the summer for recreation pur- now \before Congress, the said, releases to ti ty the eral Lighthouse Board, and this re- will open the way ‘for the struction of a wide ma: Gon- inal street ‘be- » and extending t. Geapae ntire ahore length of the pier THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1921 ‘Sea Roaming Cat Tiny Home Ties She Left Here Oot. Satan, but Now She’s Intro- duced as Mrs, Blitzen, "Mile. Satan” of Hoboken and the Seven Seas, known to the water front “that globe-trotting cat,” is in |towm again, this time with a story |she won't tell—but there must be a marriage in it, for when Chief Officer Irving Washburne of the Huron in- | troduced his friends to her this morn- ing, he called her “Mrs. Blitzen.” Furthermore, when she stepped out of Hatch No. 4 she was followed by five little Blitzens of aseorted colors. On Oct. 27 just befcre the Huron, chartered to the Munson Line by the Shipping Board, sailed from Hoboken | for South American ports, the wan- dering cat was supposed te have gon ashore. , But shé turned up at Rio and again at Buenos Ayres, There it was sup- posed that she had remained. It is figured now that sho must have stowed away in the hold to await the birth- day of the Blitzen quintet. flors say Mrs. Blitzen has turned up at various times in almost every port to which ships go, always regard- ing Hoboken, however, as her perma- nent address. iniiiminlleaainiliaas, HAD CASH REGISTER WHEN HE MET. COP Ita Lecked and Value of Contents Are Unknown. Frank Tucco, No. 128 East 128d Street, was walking along 117th Street near Third Avenue early this morning with a cash register on his shoulder when he met Patrolman John ‘J. ‘Sullivan, who mede inquiries. “Mine,” sald Tucco. “Taking it to my store in Harlem Market." “Station first,"’ sald Supllivan, and sub- sequently Tucco was held in $1,000 dall ia the Harlem Court on a burglary charge. Sullivan found a fruit store that had been broken into at 117th Street and Second Avenue, and the cash register was gone. But the owner has not been found Yet and since the cash register ts locked the police do not know how much money, if any, It contains. 27, as Mahe 15 MEN, ADRIFT 2 DAYS Crew of American Bark Lai nal Zone by British Vessel, PADAMA, Dec, 15.—The crew of fifteen of the American bark Har- vard, wrecked while on the way to | Honolulu from Tahiti, was rescued by the British steamship Baron Inch- cape, after drifting forty-eight hours in Hfeboats, The men were taken to Balboa py the Baron Inchcape and are now o% their way to San Francisco aboard the steamship Hawkeye State. and more each year. Selection and Service at Bei difference by else or L. E. Waterman Company 191 Broadway, N.Y. 129 So. State Street Chicago the World Over ay ae Pens ie the opens. ia prices te ornamentation. Tt world-wide reputation of Waterman’s Ideal Fountain Pen Suggests it as the perfect present :! for every member of the family. , In addition to pride of possession, it brings with it years of faithful service that endear it more Three Types: Regular, Safety, Selffilling Best Dealers a as Mile. | AFTER SHIPWRECK, SAVED |r NEGRO WIN. | | Awarded to Him as Competi | PARIS, Dec. 15. est literary prize Rene Maron, “Baboula,” is th man, Chardonne, Selection Commi in Maron's favor, Colonial with bitter satire civilization, novel, Maron has books of verse. FRANCE AND $1,200 Novel of the Year Over Many | the Prix Goncourt of $1,200 for the best novel written in 1921, was given to a negro, the contest which hundreds entered. He and a French- place, but the Chairman of the The dusky writer is thirty- four, a native of Martinique and at present in the French Administration Lake Chad, Africa, His book deals with the aspirations of the black race and is filled Besides s GREAT Got Ma Stolen Wallet but |istrate Corrigan in Harlem Court and LITERARY PRIZE IN mae tectve. Wis saysr 20 he arena A search for a man whose black leather wallet containing $9, taken from his hip pocket at 125th Street and ‘Third Avenue by a pickpocket to-day was begun when William Barry of No. 8 West | (0 1, 101stt Street was arraigned before Mage | thelr wa: the wallet from the man's accomplice and the three struggle Author of Best tors, detective grabbed hith but Barry had an When it was over the detective had the wallet and Barry but the accomplice and ‘who owned the wallet had gone ——— A, —The great- of the year, ToknDarhel\, _ wroaaway. 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