The evening world. Newspaper, February 27, 1922, Page 3

ie ras AROUND TABLE TALK | ON GAS RATE ASKED BY PRENDERGAST Counsel O’Brien, for City, Will Not Attend if Session Is Not Public. EFFORT TO SAVE TIME. But Gas Companies Also Have Reservation, and Deny City Is Party to Matter. In an effort to curtail the long @rgwn out hearings of. the gas rate ‘and gas standard questions, which have been before the Public Service ‘Commission for the past six months at an enormous expense to the con- Henry L. Doherty Says Ch “We are still work- ing under the same sumers, to the gas companies and to the Public Service Commission, a conferente was opened to-day at the commission's offices, No. 30 Church Street, at which the gas companies and the Corporation Counsel, repre, senting the consumers, met the full board of five Commissioners for a round table talk. The conference was called by (Chairman Prendergast, who outlined in a letter to the Corporation Counsel and also to the gas companies’ attor- neys that he considers it very im- portant to minimize the time required to obtain the facts which will bring about some agreement as to rates and standard. Corporation Counsel O'Brien will iattend the conference, he said, only if the conference is held in a public room and a stenographer is present to record the minutes. He has taken the position that the public has long enoug been sufféring from a too high rate.for gas and also from an inferior quality of gas supplied. Anotaer reservation which Mr. O'Brien makes is that the city be permitted to make a survey of the physical plants of the several gas companies and to have access to the gas companies’ books. William L. Ransom, counsel for the seventy-nine gas companies involved in the question of rates and standard, takes the position that his clients are ready and willing “to put all the facts “on the table” and to justify the $1.25 rate for the Consolidated Company and its subsidiaries, The attorney for the gas corporations insists, how- ever, that ‘the City of New York is not a proper party, but is only seek- ing an effort to take a conspicious part in something which the courts hold does not concern the munici- pality."" Unless the city authorities waive their right to be a legal party to the} gas rate question, Mr. Ransom has| declared, the gas companies will | sist on keeping both Mr. O'Brien's and Mr. Hirshfleld's representatives off the gas companies properties— | “just as we do othe: would-be wrongdoers. sith COP PICKS UP SECOND STOLEN CAR IN WEEK Taxt License on Private Car Makes Policeman Investigate. Noticing a touring car with « heginning with 0, which is not tor cars of that type, Patrolman CI G, Winterhalter of the Morrisania Sta- tion, last night arrested the occupants, Irving Reisner, No. 130 Wilkins Avenuf, # mechanician, and Herman Steiner, No. 1401 Park Avenue. The car was one that was stolen from Milton A. Millar, . 564 West 160th Street, five weeks 4go. Reisner said he got it from a man who had left It in a garage where he worked. ‘Winterhalter a few nights ago arrested four men going into a chop suey place at 149th Street and Third Avenue. Th were in @ stolen car and were identifi au the men who held up, beat and robbed Grand Knight W. H. Rooney of the Kk. «1 C,, living at No, 1144 Franklin Avenue on Feb. 19. Their cases will be pre-| sented to the Bronx Grand J ——— STATE TO GET $50,908 FROM MRS. DYER’S ESTATE intruders and | Heense iss Imheritance Tax Annessed on Prop-!; erty Left by Widow. Charles C. Feuno of White Plains, eputy Attorney for the State Tax Commission, has filed a report with Surrogate Slater of Westchester Coun- ty which shows that the estate of the Jate Mrs. Macy Dyer of Rye will pay State inheritance taxes of $50,908 Mra, Dyer the widow cf Horatio P, Dyer, owner of extensive property in Paltimore, Accordins to the report. of Transfer Tax Appraiser William ©. Clarke she left personal property val- ed at $1,325,781, and her estate at Mye is appraised at $7,000. Mrs. Marie M. Govern, daughter of Mra, Dyer, gets $1,120,003 and pays the State tax of $41,374. The residue will] go to nephews and nieces who pay the | State a tax of $9, LU BURGLAR ALARM GOES __ | OFF AS “JIMMY” SLIPS} Prisoner Says He Wanted Clothing to Help Him Get Job, ‘The slip of a screw-driver used to jimmy the skylight on a four-story loft building at No. 89 Canal Street, occu- pled by M. Welinsky, clothier, caused @ signal to register at the Holmes Pro- tectlve Agency last night. Five minutes later Joseph Cohen, twenty-four, out of work and homeless, was arrested as he emerged from a building at No, 29 El- dridge Street, which connects over the roof with the Canal Street building, The police said Cohen admitted at- tempting to enter the place to get cloth- he hoped would help hin get o Job. bey said he had a tashlight und large ecrew-driver. a standards created when gas was used only for illumination. gas.” how we are going to prevent a continual in- crease in the price of longer the matter of rice of “The customer is no interested in power. Luminosity pl) alte AL to secure cheaper gas is to do away with our present standards,” candle blackens the kettles.” Henry L. Doherty Tells Why Cheaper Gas Is Coming When Rational Standards Will Reduce Costs and Satisfy Consumers ® Man - Who Has Provided 200 Cities With Public Utilities Say: ® By Sophie Irene Loeb. Within a week The Evening World has pointed out the chaotic condition respecting the price of gas in this city, ranging from $1.20 to $1.50 in price, and with nearly every gas cor- poration either before the Public Ser- vice Commission or in the courts seeking higher gas rates. As a remedy for this annoying im- position on the public a change of gas standards from: the present ex- pensive candle power method to the cheaper method of British thermal units (B. T. U.) has been waged. The British thermal unit method will furnish all the lighting needs to the average consumer with the aid of mantle burners anc at the same time will give a higher heating times.” quality, By this change of standards the price of gas cdn be materially re- | duced And now comes the possibility of adjustment by the Public Service Commission and gas corporations 19 securing even lower priced gas by considering commercially gas as 0 by-product. All gus made from has a number of chemicals tn it and {f all these chemicals were obtained from the coal, gas would then become a by-product, according to the ex- perts, rather than an original product and could therefore be made cheaper, with the resulting benefit to the con. sumer There is a bill now pending before the Legislature which would permit the gas corporations to change the standard of gas and to make contracts for the by-product gas, As an exam- ple the gas emanating from the coke | ovens to-day could be sold’ for a few cents, but according to the prevailing methods, the coke ovens and gas com- penies being so far apart, the gas gep- yated goes up in the air As to this change of standards and the possibilities of lower price gas, I sought the opinion of Henry L. Doher who sets forth the following salient t ing gas standards and in securing a possible lower price gas. Mr. Doher ty, as President of the City Service Company, has provided some 200 citios tn the United States and Canada with various sorts of public service utilities sveh as gas, electric railweys, &, For many years Mr, Doherty siven a close study of the gas probi snd he recommends a change of stan dards as one of the first and most pro- kressive means of stabilizing the gas industry‘and securing gas for the con- sumers at the lowest price possible. He urges patience on the part of the public in permitting gas corporations ty adjust themselves to the most pro. sive methods He says: ‘In spite of the fact that vonditions have entirely changed, w« are still working under the same standards created at a time when gas was used exclusively for illuminating purposes and entirely in open burners, To-day in some cities not more than 20 per cent. of the gas is used for {urinating purposes and $5 per cent. of the gas so used is used in mantle lamps, leaving only 1 per cent. of the total gas that must be enriched to comply with the need for which it is used, “The gas used in open tips for il- luminating purposes is due entirely to shiftlessne for by the use of mantle lamps the illuminations would be in- creased seven times and the customer would be saetually benefited by being ‘ “The gas used purposes is due entirely to shiftlessness, for by the use of mantle lamps the illu- mination would be “Although changed, we are sti! sam. standards created at a time when gas was used exclusively for i!luminating purposes and in open burners” | (acts as to what can be done by chang- | | character open tips for illuminating increased seven conditions have entirely working under the supplied with a non-luminous kas and thus forced to use mantle lamps. “At the time the standards under which we now work were created there was an abundance of high grade coal to be had at prices practically the same as the prices prevailing for what we now consider as inferior grade coals. Many gas companies through- out the country cannot meet the standards created many decades ago except by buying high grade coal, commanding a premium price at the mines, and frequently requiring ship- ments for long distances and at great expense. To-day there are no waste producis in the oil business, and what has been known as ‘gas-oil’ for years is now the product from which the refiners Produce synthetic gasoline. “If we continue to work under our present obsolete and unneces- sary standards, it is not so much @ question of how we are going to have a cheaper supply of gas but the real question is how we are going to prevent a continual in- crease in the price of gas. “The customer is no longer in- terested in the matter of candle power. The same thing that gives luminosity to the open flame is the thing whicly blackens the ket- tles and brings many of the troubles which lower the efficiency of the gas in practical us “Public regulations regarding the storage of oil in or near cities are such that large stocks of oil cannot be ried, and storage tanks must be of a and size costing several times as much as the type of tank used for the storage of oil in the flelds. “Coal gns plants require a still heavier investment per thousand cubic foot of gas made, and the gas-making apparatus must be maintained at a uniform temperature throughout the Ufe of the equipment and must for economical success make gas at a uniform heat. A single shut down of a retort plant of by-product cc ens creates a damage In making coal gas only about 20 per cent. of the energy value of the coal is converted into gas, and therefore five tons of coal must be handled to produce the same energy in the form of gas as would be produced by a single ton if the coal were completely gasi- We have seen from the above that the important thing to se- cure cheap gas, and in fact to prevent other increases in gas, is to do away with our present standards and adopt rational standards, "It is also important to avail ourselves of the present enormou supp of by-product ga namely, gas which is made un- avoidably in manufacturing other products, This is important, not simply asa means of a cheap sup- ply of gas, but to enable many gas companies throughout the country, which are now so near the point of bankruptcy that they are unable to finance new gene- rating equipment, to enlarge their plants to meet the demands that are being made upon them. “By-product coke ovens for the manufacture of metallurgical coke are not new, but have been decades in Evrope. How their use in this country has only come about on an extensive scale during the last two dec: r The great obstacle that prevents th use of this by-product gas foreity pu: sed for many | poses is the various restrictions on the ability of the gas company to make a binding contract. All contracts are subject to the approval of the Public Utility Commission, and it is not cer- tain that a contract approved by the Public Utility Commission can be for a longer period than the Hfe of that commission. This has proved a great obstacle in trying to induce the steel companies or the coke ovens making coke for metallurgical purposes to either locate their coke ovens in or near the city where the gas can be used, or to build the necessary pipe- lines to carry gas to the cities. They are unwilling to make these invest- ments unless they can contract for gas for a period of years sufficient to enable them to earn, we will say, a sufficient return on a long pipe-line or to amortize the Investment over a period of years. “There is also the added obstacle that only the richer portion of the gas made by by-product coke ovens can meet the present standards for gas, and therefore half or more of the gas produced in by-product coke ovens must be thrown awny or de- voted to some inferior use although just as satisfactory in every way for the supply of city customers. It is customary now to use what is known as the leaner portions of the gas to fire these ovens, but the ovens could he just as well fired, and in some cases are fired, the use of cheap producer gas having, we wll say, 125 .'8 per cubic foot should be our effort to have » coke ovens either located in or b: ties that can use the or to @ gas from these ovens to the cities and to utilize all the that is made and not simply the scher por- tion of it. permitting the saving of the tar and ammonia. ovens ga “It is also important to avail ourselves of the present enormous “The great obstacts that prevents the use of by-product gas is eaper Gas to the Consumer Is Coming “Coal_is_the great source of raw mate- rial for the chqmical “The bill now before the Legislature is only one of a number of re- supplies of by-product the yarlous restric. industry.” forms that must be was.” tions.” accomplished.” BRIBE OFFER MADE TWICE, HE SAYS U. S. Agent Testifies $25,000 Was Tendered by Donegan After Liquor Plot Arrests. David V. Cahill, United States As- sistant District Attorney, who is pros- Sassone, indicted for alleged traffick- nounced this afternoon that he ex- pects to complete to-day the presen- tation for the Government of igainst the defendants. Walter Murphy, one of the Federal agents who arrested Donegan and Miss Sassone in the Hotel McAipin, was further cross-examined by At- vidence torney Fallon as to the $25,000 bribe, alleged to have been offered by Done- gan to Agents Murphy and Golding after they had marked with their initials $6,500 in bills which Done- gan, according to testimony, save the two men, Murphy was unshaken in his claim that the $25,000 was twice tendered— first verbally, and later in bills of large denomination. “Do you remember that Donegan threatened to call the police if you did not return the $6,500?" usked Mr Fallon, Positively not; no such thing hap- pence,” the witness said, He added that no foree, cor jon or intimida- tion was used to induce Miss Sassone to sign the affidavit Under re-di ct examination the witness sald that Donegan made no effort to get the return of the $6,600. ——— POLICEMAN ATHERS nN BOTTLES OF COGNAC, Two men who were rrying bundles out of @ restaurant at 114%) Man- hattan Avenue, Brooklyn, into a taxl- cab to- were questioned by Pat jay fe Aha mteel HURITERSL running Man Hofstadt of the Greenpoint Avent normally it would proba require Station to-day, He openesl the bundles If a s much coke as can be and found they contained bottles of le | of our by-produ ecoRna There were He ovens, and, in the interest of t= | arrested the men, who sald they were vation, all of this metallurgical COKE! m,omas Chronis of No. at 48th should be made in by-product coke Street, Manhattan, and Nicholas Kap- No. 114% Manhattan AWwnuc, | Brooklyn, “Coal the great source of raw material for the chemical in- | 8teat factor in making them a com- dustry. More products can be | mercial success and will go a long produced from coal thar, perhaps ya toward putting America on a could be printed on a fuli page of parity with the foreign countries In The World, However, te secure | Producing raw clemical material from these different products necessi- | coal. aa tates the distillation of coal in | “Large quantities of wood are car- many dissimilar ways, and yet | bonized in this counisy to produce our present gas standards vir- |Charcoal and raw chemical com- tually compel all coal used for | Pounds, The gas, howover, docs not gas making purposes to work un- | conform to oul present ubsurd stand- ards, although it would make a ver tampe! producing only | satisfactory gas for the use of the ch products as can be proposed =| “lstomer, | under these conditions. ; a “During che. war’Gernan: cut The hill now betore the ts ature off from an adequate supply of permitting gas companies to contract Jand was compelled to res. tt for gas created by plants primarily to known processes and What new pro- ;SUPPly other commodities, Is only onc prey could develop to secure} Of & number of reforms that must 1 vot only all classes of o from coal|#ccomplished, an@ probably all Jout many of the other ch them will require more or less legis | products needed, Jation | “The next important step will be to jempower the commission, with the “While it had been pointed out re- | consent of the municipality, to enter peatedly in England that our present] into contracts with -he public utility standards were highly absurd, pro-|companies whereby a base rate for dueing an economic waste whic \service 1# fixed and then for all re letited no one, neverthel ductions that can be made to the pub- but war necessity w lic the company will be allowed to | angtand to the reat earn a greater rate of return once having realized this It aie legislation permitting th “I have worked all my lite to | Trade to abrogate all candle complish these and other public ind I. T. U, standard forms which mean so much for the each gas company, the consent | public, and T belleve mean much for of the bard of , to manufae- | the companies as well, and at times I ture that type of gas which {9 sutis-| have been exceedingly patient with factory to the eensumer snd yet they the opposition and obstacles experi one that the gas company can manu-|enced from the men in the gas bust facture to the gr nta It} ness, Any attempt at changes is apt {is unfortunate, that the one} to invite the efforts of the impractical country recognized ng the| reformer and the publicity seeker, and | greatest inventive is still | what was proposed as a change both handicapped by these obsolete stund any and bene. ards. Nevertheless, a great deal of|ficial to the public may prove to be | work is already in progress here to- | something wholly impractical or ruin ward the creation of chemical plants|ous to the company. No amount of using coal as thelr raw product and | scolding, threatening or punishing will Jal having gas as on their by-] bring the results, It is something re | products. One of processes, | quiring brains, industry and confi- which I understand is already at work }dence. There is no public utility man jon a commercial scaly, | med to} no matter how pig-headed he may lx supply an artificial fu will who would not prefer, with th take the place of ar sud profit to himself, to give first cl which is made from bituir al ' and at a low cost and then to Possibly the ability el gas ‘oup of satisfied consumers trom these chemical pants will be a er than the reverse.” > ecuting before Judge Webb and a jury in the Federal District Court the case of Edward Donegan and Miss Regina ing in liquor withdrawal permits, an- 110 NO CHEEK-TO-CHEEK HUGGING, ey By Fay Stevenson. man or matron were How shall a young man approach hts prospective partner when propos- present,” her arm about his shoulder while the two are embraced during the How far apart shall he and sh main while they dan 4 moral welfare of our country," con. tinued Canon Chase, re doing the shim- DANCERS FOUR INCHES APART, IF REFORMER’S BILL PASSES Canon Chase of Brooklyn Denounces Modern Methods, Especially the Neck Grappling, as a Menace to Community’s Morals—Goes to Albany Tuesday to Have His Law’ Adopted. was the prompt reply. Then he added: “'T um broad-minded, and I want to see young people have a good time, but neing as it is indulged tn to-day is one of the greatest menaces to the “It is not just the adults, but the girls and bays in LINDSAY INDICTED One Victim Complains She Got No Satisfaction When She Told District Attorney. An indictment was filed with Judge Mulqueen this afternoon charging Al< fred A. Lindsay, accused by wealthy women of having swindled them out of $679,000, with grand larceny of $17,000 from Mrs. W. H. Arnold of No, 152 West 73d Street Deo. 21 Inst. The Grand Jury also heard the tes- timony of Mrs. Lillian M. Duke of the Belnord, who lost $375,000, and Mrs. Dorothy Atwood of No. 247 West 72d Street, who lost $200,000, and ad- journed for the day. Mrs, Atwood fainted while waiting to go before the Grand Jury in the office of Assistant District Attorney Richard Murphy. Carlotta Nillson, the actress, sum- moned with six other women to the District Attorney's Office, asserted to-day that the whole proceeding seemed farcical to her. She said she had gone to the District Attorney's Office several months ago to com- plain about Lindsay and had been curtly dismissed as not having any nase. "Does the District Attorney's of- fice” she asked, “judge the criminal by the quality of the accusations brought against him or by volume of complaints. Why was It necessary to wait for ten or twenty others to complain before I am told that I have a just complaint and action is to be taken in my behalf. Now, when the man has run away and nobody knows tng a whirl around the dance hall? |the modern dancing has reached the| Vnere he 1s, we are brought down How shail he encircle her waist|zero hour of human degradation, . | here to sit around all day while with his arm and where shall the] | Young Hee wis Have eT SOUND: Men: Ask Us our Ages SEA OrNeR ‘ o some of these lowest dance halls} unimportant questions.” al his free a est? At jus Beto ot Se Cee Serene JtT colt me that several of them have side | yfjgg Nilson sald she lost. $20,000 what angle between her shoulders rooms over which is a sign, ‘Check ), cine ae AR How shall the youn woman drape| your corset here.” Manica Aerariegn AURRalnnh asta were Miss Florence James of No. 22 East 89th Strect, $5,000; Miss Mar- -|garet Bogart of No. 15 Central Park West, $18,000; Miss Helen Burnett of No. 43 West 48th Street, $31,000; my, the turkey trot, the bunny hug] their teens at high school whom I|Mrs, Adelaide V. Rice of Riverdale, and all the cheek-to-cheek dances—| wish to reach, The dancing masters] who puts her loss at $25,000, was but slop—O with the dance—) of to-day have no control over these| unable to appear because of the there won't be any moro cheek-to-] young people, and when they try to|weather. She 1s seventy-five years cheek daneing if Canon William] instruct them in proper dancing the] ota, \ Chase, rector of Christ} young people say they prefer the] pr, A. Enlind, named by some of Church, Brooklyn, and President of | check dancing, and if not allowed toline complainants as having intro- the New York Civic League has his| indulge they will dance at school and’ way, in each other's home: xt Tuesday Canon Chase to Albany to introduc: is going | to pose dancers. Mr. Chase admits | physical pollution”? declared the rec- that New York has a very good law] tor, ‘and Tam going to do all in my prohibiting improper dancing — for | power to see this bill through." hails, but this law does not — definitely what the proper poni- non Chase admitted that he was tions are. His bill doe en to ridicule on the ground of at. “L don't care how much young peo- | tempting to regulate through statute ple shimmy, do the turkey trot, the | the conduct of. the individual. bunny hug or any of the other million jut In regard to regulating dane: varieties of dances if they only take| ing posture T have two very good ex- the positions und. cling of eliquette,? declared | more arbitrary and exacting,” an. Canon Chase when t talked with him! nounced the rector, “In boxing the at his home, No. ist ledford Avenue, | International Sporting Club is per. Brooklyn. Danciys is no crime no | mitte , matter what fancy natnes you give it, |The position which the fighters shall but something must be done to keep! take, no hitting below the belt and young men and women embracing as | all those things are matter of law gorillas and dancine thee African! ‘Then’? concluded Canon Chase, cheek-to-cheek dances ‘The jaw will) ‘the State Racing Commission and have to teach | a else | The Jockey Club have rules and reg- will.” | ulations which must be considered karding postures and method of rac- in If we can control the posture “What are the proper po for and the jockeys, why can't dancing? What sue ns does your the gestures of dancing bill portray?! Po asked Canon Chase “To begin v must not shimmy 1 char to the young wor hom) to dance with aved He must walk 1: ent himself ee l/ PLANS TO RUSH TRIAL Lvidence for side and free f " vy | And partners 1 vm and would ask County Court to fix Judge Martin “How far ay that they shoul’! " othies while dan “AL least thre of the ied Canon Ch . iv med before Magistrate Would this 1 TOW | morning and Mr. Ruston in ed dance hall Vite nduct the examinations him- wked 1 as to try the Gitman . ‘It would be 5 ‘ der ‘It is Impossible for youth of both s to mingle in the close embrace ill he has| of the vulgar dances now carried on OF GILMAN’S SLAYER arly In- indictments were drawn In legal he trial for this duced them to Lindsay, denied this charge. He was at the District At- torney’s office, though not under subpoena, He said he had treated Lindsay for granulated eyelids and Lindsay had afterward sent him nearly fifty patients, among who were the complainants. He had himself “lost thousands of dollars’ and had not yet reconciled himself to the un- derstanding that criminal, Major Redondo Sutton, whd en- trusted $5,000 to Lindsay and then forced him to give it back by threat- ening prosecution, appeared at the District Attorney's office to-day to aid the other victims could. in any way he POETRY OF HAM -| Poets have ever sui tantalizing aroma and -| able flavor of ham, the to a} amples In law back of me which are} p, has made the fame of “Darby's Ham Pie” live iy law to fx rules for boxing, | through the centuries. Scott made Lady Margaret's marriage feast le be- cause of the “priestly ham”, And CHILDS turns the fe miliar “ham and eggs” into a gastronomic poem, READ Sophie Irene Loeb beast from then, a yo A t vere Salvagei put On neck or back itatment of Willlam'and Frank Evai Why Men Leave Home wad Depend sane TH encirete | 20H, eeRty and Brephen Calling, who Curse of the Kimono the SOBER ind { vim only }man in his drug store at No. 164 Court Clothes and the Woman 1 Sample Subjects in a New Series of Articles Magazine Page Evening World Beginning Wednesday, March 1 FOR FLEECING RICH WOMEN IN STOGKS 4 Lindsay was