The evening world. Newspaper, April 10, 1922, Page 11

the industry The Executive Council and the Employers’ Associn- was alleged that yesterday after: tion will meet at 3 afternoon in an ex meeting a definite statement will be drawn up as to the terms sought, by each s fort will be made to effect a compro- This meeting folfewed a mee $0, heretofore kept secret at the of the so-called ‘public group’ sug- gested by the Building Trades Council] 200M of Feb. 23, when he rainted on] rie Munson Liner Munargo part of a mediating committe the B. comptroller of Walter Stabler, Metropolitan pany; Robert D. Kohn, architect, and] olered © Robert E, Simon, real estate operator, 000, representatives of the em- Dloyers’ association, . Crowley had refused to recor mize the proposed arbitration on the round that the Leekwood committee rot represented, though it tad spent months familiarizing itself with lis Bithe building trades association alae Me Ye Jntermyer attended the corte THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, APRIL 10, | Crowley's insistence group. were undertaking He’ told them they ation entirely in hand and de- The conference wa the disput in resentment of Mr, Un As a result the “public group" sug- ntermyer's suggestions embod- |of the fire is unknown. committee and to thig both sides have] Rutherford firemen called from Rutherford and ( ing that the entire plant ON HOLD-UP CHARGE ‘i to Rob Brook! Frederick J. Douglass of N mont 1c, Brooklyn, a keeper ems ployes Hurts Isl was charge robbery in Fhitbush + but wie freed Ist, of Man. ecord 68 Cler= Norman, Chair Gibson of Committee of the} pendet pending an inquiry Ae a result of the smor t Iinpire Boulevard and Platbus Avenue, with nundreds of people nbou Dougiaas drew a revolver and attermpted to tob Stolitzky. . ~ 815,000 REWARD REVEALS 880,000 ' clock to-morrow cutive wession at the Metropolitan fire apparatus, inju de and an ef- 89 Pulton Stre to $45,000 the re the return of $30,000 worth o: diamonds stolen from him the after- Nassau, Bahama a for — between members subway stairs at Broad- the | Way and doth § is the final bid. He first 500, then successively $10,- $20,000 to-day with 175 passen| Kahama Islands. Insurance Com-]| day th recogniaing the Amertean litt 1 r the costs of the nin Ger- at the days at pes fi t FIRE THREATENS PLANT ite TRADES citts Wntermyers diseussioh of the) OE ROOFING CONCERN| FOR ZZY’ AND ‘MOI.’ consideration for the “publle ” See Firemen From ‘Three Towns Saye Imatters for which they had small All Rat Two B ni qualifications as compared to the] ‘Two one-story frame storehouses, Tocwor oeamarttes, which had the] 59 yy 70, in the plant of the Flint. One Ba attender Took a Look at + manna that they cease’ complicating | kote Company’ manufacturers at|roofing at Kast Rutherford, were destroyed by fire to-day a vine vit of pa yorn 0 the contained yaw material for the man hind @ bit of palm, worn on ti Japel “Izzy” or “Moe?” No-one, ‘hat is why the disguise ef Binsteis and Smith, Prohfbition agents. was Such a complete success. gested the getting together of the em-| "facture of roofing. The toss is esti- Workers ‘ae te Employers to|nloyers and workers on the basis of | mated at $40,000 to $50,000 Meet To-Morrow to Draw Up Agreement. The long-standing wage scale con-| KEEPER ‘SUSPENDED tanned troversy in the building trades which has for months threatened to tic up|- ied in the report of the Locxwood| The flames spread rapldly Istadt he they siy, and twenty-six passed over the drink called for by the two thirsty gt Just alighion spat MOTORMAN IN CRASH by a: general strike is wluan Alexed to Have Tred] wore FIRE TRUCK HELD likely to be settled to-morrow, ing to Christian G. man of the Executive Commit the Building Trades Council, ri J. Crowley of the Building Trades |. Council and Thomas J.~ Williams of | é the United States Department’ of|No. 5 : Toktyn, tefaaed {With fire (ruck No. 8 at Second ind 18th Street, appeared Ruis wem all or Ninth Avent Trish bartenc rilege for m wor the palm, and threatned to throw us out” i motorman of Aventie car whieh tart niet 15 SACKS OF N.Y. MAIL LOOTED BY R.R, THIEVES larket Cqurt to-day in answer Ho wos hold Magistrate 81 Jul of $500 for examination fuillag go stop on henring the Robt r ear contabals Jent b ; Sherman, a diamond mer- |W. K, VANDERBILT HOME t, has FROM FISHING TRIP. had been oF ly selected contents ste * - been padlocked at New York. An _estl- Compound,” you will get a unset] Arrives on Munson Liner sald Details as Co the road, train and route Involved we rs from Nassau, ;mong whom was Will- v manent, who boarded the ves- DISRESPECT TO POLICE f Brookiyn th: Kilperin inthe BELGE ACK NVOWLE wu. CLAIM, of a hotel to take the WASHING N April 19. Unite “4 al Hotel, which burned has fied a reply from Be t Nassau three weeks fteen days each in thy i henge for Ing lieresbectful th policemen, — They were Joseph Moher rbilt had a successful feb) His guests embarked at go, while Mr Nassau ted To hell with and the ser Sant.’ Moher was held for interfering With the wrrest TS PALM A DISGUISE Pas so meat Avena, aha IN DRY RAIDING Their Faces and Threatenesl to Throw Them Out. Who would suspect a man be- Palm Sunday, "was One glance at the palm dis- d the fears of the bartenders, avellers who bad from their e1ud-) pred to, “Phe palm was our omy dis+ wld “Izay" later, “aind it except In one place, where a Poel ler sald "tw n with our fages to Sage zea Tims Gray Hait. Dark LMOST every one knows ' that Sage Tea and Sul- plus, properly compounded brings back the natural colot and lustre to the hair when faded, streaked or gray. Years ago, the only way to get this mixture was to make it at home, which is mussy and troublesome. Nowadays, by, asking at any drug store for “Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Ta, April 16.— mate of the loss was impossible, officers large bottle of this famous old recipe, improved by the addi- tion of other ingredients, at a withheld , small cost. Don't stay gray! Try itt No one can possibly tell that you darkened your hair, as it docs it so naturally and nung men evenly, You dampen a sponge | our polles officers nt or soit brush with it and draw ese Macglat 7 this through your hair, taking Hew Avenue Court (9-1 HH one small strand at a time; by cae morning the gray hair disap- pears, and after another ap- and) Chartas Hulse. plication or two your hair be- ptrolman Matkus af the Ralph Ave comes beautifully dark, glossy y slation sai they wert intoxtented and attractive. BRINGS JAIL SENTENCE “Pam. going to teach the He senten st night and annoyed pedestrians at FETE IE IIIER 7 GLACE GLOVES For Women . (What an extraordinarily low price!) ' This: unusual purchase is composed of full pique sewn .gloves, with hand knotted embroidery. Two clasps. In brown, tan, gray, beaver, and black and_ white. Floor, Center, Front Macora — Herald ae New York The Consolidated Gas Company, in its annual report to its stockholders on January 1¢ aid: “From time to time during the year, testimony taken by the Public Service Commission as to the ‘of discontinuing now in New York Cit has ; Jone in the rest of the State, the Nation and t orld, the andle-power standard of quality for gas and substituting there- for a thermal-unit standard, “The oft-reiterated position of this Company on this ques tion has been made very clear on various occasions during the vear, to the effect that, within the limits of operating possibil ity, this Company and its subsidiaries do furnish, and will ndard ind ai sentatives, and continue to furnish, to their consumers, of candle-power or heating value as may be desired reeted by the public through its official repr that this Company will, in turn, require the payment of a rea sonable rate for gas of the quality thus prescribed. So long as by statute or 22-candle-power gas is prescribed for this Cit © ommis on order, the Company will continue lo furnish t that quali nd will expect to be paid therefor a commen surate “Phi ments does not alter in any respect the desire attitude of compliance with the regulatory require of the Company to be authorized to furnish to its consumers gay of the quality h will render ‘to them the most ‘efficic nt “and | economical Ijust ils rates to that end. The Company's wh and to ecutives and engincers realize, of course, that continuance of the 22-candle-power stanc 1 does not give the maximumere . in proportion to the price necessitated by the gas of thd rl. a refrained from disclosing their opinion or the facts upon which it is based, when interrogated by the regulatory authorities 0 hy representative consumers.” sults to the use rofg naking have not Hl In the report made to the Commission, on Deeémber 2 1921, by the Joint Conference Committee created by the Coni- mission, the Company’s representatives, after setting forth their view that the consumers ought to have the benefit, in reduction-in rate, of such economies in manufacturing cost us are secured through a change in standard, added: “The Company representatives state their inability to join ‘in the re pmimendation of u adoption of a 650 British n ingent upon hich does t give to the smAll consumers a contemporancous reduction in standard vermabuni the charge for gas consumed.” That attitude has not been changed. At the opening of the hearings instituted by the Commission, on its own motion, to ascertain whether a change to a thermal standard would be in the public interest, counsel for the Consolidated ¢ ; Company and its affiliated companies said, on February 6, 1 >: “We are here pursuant to an order of the Commission. As to neither of the subject matters of this inquiry is the petition before this Commission from these companies—neither us to a change in standard nor as to the establishment. of graduated rates. Our position in a very few words is this We have in the past, and we shall in the future, supply to our any consumers the quality of gas which is prescribed by the public poliey of the State, whether that is 2 2 candle-power or some lesser candle-power or some standard of thermal content. “T am not relying in that respect solely upon the com panies’ own tests. We have reecntly seen published in one of the nesvspapers the detailed tests made by the City of New York with respect to each one of the Consolidated Companies and each one of their plants, ove. a period of three or four years; * * * and it appears that in the case of no company, no Slates and countries. lies or company engineers. Mr. .\. of the Ilinois Commission until 1920 and since then the prin- cipal witness for the City fied in a local Court: “Q. Is it your judgment that the maintenance of this candte-power standard, while it may operate to the benefit of Water Supply, Gas and Elec plant, no year, was there a violation or a falling below candle-power. tot ieee i 7 “We know, if the matter becomes pertinent, that the present candle- power standard is wasteful of oil, We know that we can give to all consumers at le ast as good Servite, anil to njost of them much better servic facture than would be the it a Tess cost to manu- ult of continuing an obsolete snd; but, so far as the companies are concerned, the ques lion whether this saving shall be effected and the question ‘f what standard is best for this City, is not matter as to which we take issue.” The views above expressed as tf the desirability of change fo a modern standard have been sustained by every witness who has testified before the Commission with aining or first-hand knowledge of the experience of The expert publie representatives, whose lestimony has been given solely fron: the point of view of the public interest, have included the following, all summoned, by the Cominis: me * Charles D. Jenkins, Chief of tu rlment s Inspection Dep of Massachusetts, which a thermal-unit (commonly called B.t.u.) in effeet since 1917 y, until recently Chief Gas } r of the Public Service Commission, cond District, under the authority of which a 5685 Btu, standard has been in force since 1916 for all of the State except New York City. Philander Betts, Chief Engineer of the Publie Utilities Com mission in New Jersey, which has had a 525 B.t.u. stand ard in effect since 1920. Albert I. Phillips, formerly of the United States Bureau of Standards, now service engineer of the American Gas As sociation, William Merrifield, Gas Engineer of the New York Public Service Commission, This expert opinion is not conf! the oil companies, does not operate to the benefit of the public “A. It does not operate to the benefi “Q. Ts it your judgment this candle wrong standard? “A. Certaiyly. “Q. Do you think it is the proper way to measure the value of the gas at all? AS ag think it is a crime; that is what T think “Q. And it adds generally to the out j s to the power standard is nakinu ga ding advant 3 the consumers cannot ge et th candle pow: The Annual Report of the New Yor icity for 1916 sta “High candle-power of used in open flame burners ay it Huminant; where used fo cooking and heating, and f ing with mantle burners th constituents uf the gas whicll eniance its iNuminati: log the burners and are a positive detriment in’ pr heat and light In accord with the testimony before the Commission Vising a standard not higher hai 950 B. tu, Mr. Milo ay technics other red to regulatory authori- . B. Littl, Gas Engineer of New York in gas-rate cases, testi- f the public, # * * City Departnent of of value only where gas is THE QUALITY OF GAS Maltbie, employed by the City of New York and other municipal- i itness in many cases before the Commission, recently of Philadelphi recommended a 530 B. t. u. standard for the City Naturally, in all heating, cooking and most ations, it is heat that ix desired; and the heat eful- natance where cand!-power is of any moment industrial oy content of the gas is, therefore, the real measure of i ess, ‘The only a8 a measure of utility is where gas is used for producing iMumination in open-flame burners, and_thix_is_a wasteful micthod of se uring light. Although heating value is the best measure of usefulness per unit of quantity, it docs not follow that high heating stand- see ards are desirable. Indeed, the reverse may be true. Gases of a low heating value contain less of these unsi ler range efficiently burned through a w of adjustinent and are, there Lore satisfactory ay a _gen- vral proposition under the varying which must necessarily exist ina ondition ‘of i supply « and us use arge city.’ The United States vi diese Court, on March 6, 1922, said, us Lo gas supplied in the City of New York in 1918 and 1919: “The calorific quality had become more important to most consumers than the illuminating on The United States Bureau of Standards in its recent edition of its Circular No, 32, “Standards of Gas Service,” gives expert and disinterested advice : ‘Gas was originally used almost exclusively for open- flame lighting and naturally, therefore, most of the early re- quirements as to the quality of the gas related to tne amount of light produced in such burners—i, e., to the open-flame can- dle-power of the gas. _ However, at the present time cooking. water heating, mantle lighting, and industrial applications of gas consume by far the larger percentage of the total gas made, and in these operations it is the heat given out in combustion of the gas that is of importance to the user. Only a fow. per cent. of the gas distributed in this country is flame, and, in fact, probably not over two per cent. of it should be so used, considering only economy to the consu “As a result of this change in conditions, heating value re- quirements have largely replaced candle-power requirements. In fact the situation has so changed that there is no longer any justification for the adoption of new candle-po' The heating-value standard should supersede candle-power requirement, and the latter should be dropped.” “ In general, it is believed that the best value for Saopeon will be found between 625 and 585 B, t.u. Where it ean be shown that substantial economies will result, and that the public will receive as good or better service because of greater uniformity, and suitable limits are fixed to insure this, values even lower than this may be adopted.” It is not the expectation * desire of the New York gas companies to profit financially from any change in standard, Although as good or better service will be afforded to con- sumers by gas furnished under a thermal standard, the savings effected in “manufacturing expense will be passed along to the public, ‘The interest of the companies lies in being permitted to furnish a gas which will give to their patrons a more efficient and dependable service for the money paid, because it is only through good service that their business can grow and prosper. CONSOLIDATED GAS COMPANY OF NEW YORK Geo. B. Cortelyou, President