The evening world. Newspaper, March 7, 1922, Page 10

CUE DR COURT DECISION PUTS GAS RATES UPTO COMMISSION Reduction of Present High Charges Believed Assured by |) Publics$ervice Body. S > ‘The 4 theaUnited Stites | Sppreme t Agelarittg the 80-cent ges law “confiscntory, apparently leaves the matter of fixing future rates with the Public Service Com mission, according to legal authorities who have examined the the court findings. Although the Pub: N¢é Service Commission has not fi dgeided any of the mte cases br before it. That body's attity tions during the year of it § “4 abstracts of ce have been such as to uasure it reduction from the high charges now in effect. dn one case, that of the Brooklyn Borough Gas Company, the com- mission has twice reduced the pri Last August the first cut was made from $1.50 to $1.40 a thousand feet and two months fater the pr net at $85. Hearings wer elnded agmonth ago, during the city mded «the company could carte? percent. on a rate of less than $1. a» “ihe Génmolidated Gas, Company's rate has not come up for detailed consideration by the commission, al- though this company recognized the ardp in Geate’by reducing its $1.50 rate to $£25 imvAugust. The New .Xprk sand Queens Gas Cqmpany, hereof the victorious concern: he Supreme Court de- cision, the first & file application for a ra crease Before the present Public Servite © Conititssion The commission twice has suspended th: THE EVENING WORLD, TUHSDAY, MAROH 7, 1922, | proposed increased rate, and during the ‘course of testimony the experts for the commission put in an ap- praisal of the plant, on which a rate Will be based, of half what the com- pany claimed. ‘The company is now j charging $1.26 a thousand feet plus a service charge of 75 cents. The rate twice denied would be $1.60 plus the 75 cents service charge. For this company the statutory rate was $1 and not 80 cents, The Kings County Lighting Com- pany has been before the Pubtic Service Commission recently on charges of failing to obey the law demanding that 22-candle power gas Le supplied, The company frank'y admitted it had made no attempt to obey the law since January, 1918 ‘Testimony before Chairman Pr gast of the commission and his ques: tions ihdicated ‘an intention to reduce the rate of $1.50 now being charged This company never obeyed tho’ $0 cent gas law. It charged its old 95 cont rate until 1920, when the statn |tory rate was held by Justice Gr baum to be confise It then jacked up t jclthough it has be a gas which cost 20 cents less | @anufacture than the kind prescribed | by law. | The commission now has before it applications by virtually every gas company in the city for increased «ll companies to the statutory ra In addition the commission is cart ing on three inquirtes it has initiated |in its own behalf into rates, quality and general conditions of the gas brsiness, Indicative of the trend of gas prices Is the testimony six months ago by a witness for the New York & Queens Gas Company that the re- duction in the price of gas oil alone cut the cost to manufacture 22 cents, The price of oll has dropped still more since then. If the commission, as now seems probable, orders the sub- stitution of a 650 British thermal unit gas for the 22-candle power, the rate will be cut anywhere from 10 to 20 cents more @ thousand cubic feet. It bas been pointed out by many whe have read the Supreme Court's ‘scision, that the finding re!ated to prices only as of 1918 and 1939. ‘Mc nufacturing costs are lower to-day ‘ree—A Surprise “Ss= A secret gift to women—See what you get rates and by the city for a return by | than they were then, witnesses as tne Public Service Commission re- cently testified. Corporation Counsel John P. (Prien, in u statement Iast night. wald the city intends to fight the gas matter through to @ finish, and con- tends that less than 80 cents a thou- sand cubic feet may prove to be a fair price in view of the reduced cost of labor, materials and particularly gus oll, which comprises 60 per cent. of the cost of manufacture, YUGHT FOR SPAIN, NOW BARRED HERE Nineteen Americans Detained at Ellis Island for Joining Foreign Army. Nineteen of the most astonished Americans who ever returnéd from abroad are detained to-day at Ellis land, igratior tes hold- Sorat’ the present’ (prise. tairiy|(2lend ill at n foesuce hold- chargeable to gas consumers in this|'™ at by joining the Spanish army city shoul be more than 8? cents:|to fight against the Moors in Africa is cle these figures are taken | they forfeited citizenship. These sol- in th f reduced prices,” the} aiery will have thelr cases taken up sunsel’s statement said, | Jin Washington. Cortelyou of | . i Gas Gaepany, in arrived last night on the the Suptecne ‘Couri| At of the United States Line. mplain bitterly of the treat- uid today? jon is of nation-wide im PM UO IL Utd le ake hundred relatives and sorta in augury of justice ant A SOAS nc tak PHOMORUTIINOR, ana TE alted five hours on the Ho- their investor It probably will | mark the end of efforts to fix gu eaponse to political | ad to an era of im.| regulation accord d the law."* E LAURENTI DIES IN HOSPITAL Young Metropolitan Opera Singer Is a Victim of Spinal Meningitis. Mario Laurentl, baritone, of the| Metropolitan Opera Company, died in the Eye and Ear Hospital at 2.30 o'clock this morning. While filling a concert engagement in, Syracuse about ten days ago he caught a cold which developed into an abscess in one of his ears. Hig condi- tion became so grave that he was taken to the hospital day before yes- teray, where it was discovered that he had contracted spinal meningitis. 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