The evening world. Newspaper, April 20, 1922, Page 4

EVENING WORLD (OILDEAL cries 4 THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, APRIL the reserves, ts glste here far territory. 11 al claims of Wy . Director 4, and Assistant erior Bdward ©. fear that outside wells would depioty runs eounter to the} or with the ¢ ny that the field Ties In the counted by geolo nor ar not connected by pipe r with the Wyominy with any point on the seacoast ling pipe Hine systems ve oll men that ‘Tea-| ountey." i “ LLIN peel ordinarily would) have ne nme z Naval authorities who have given i Sa cn enporeatt pail ie inieh saad oe gathe Geo-|enis sublect long #tudy have always f imammoth deal, were not called In on Pe Salt reek |oontended that the oll reserva in i Fi ’ the negotiations, ‘This has caused] pong a rockcribbed dlatried Stee \2*] Wyoming should be held undeveloped Ak much talk » the Department 4 whean’ wiry |jn order to store the oll in the ground | 4 Aw to the reasons which Impelled] Cr. day prought the stntereene eee. [ior use in « crisis, Tho statement that af Secretary Fall to Ignore two oM-1 Geotogical Survey haa no informutin fe five, oe res ty ene eae f clals usually taken Into considera-1 ty refute these offidiad bulletins. He Into account the 4 —_—- —— tion in matters of this kind. | further said they Had geologiate ne i One eran Gon aoe 4 , : ant ‘ Ambroxe, it appears, has handled the} in that field, but these had id O'L property, which goes iy Mayor Disapproves Ordinance | Official Explanation of Lease _henait of thel go findings to alter previous serie |! Peis ee T 5 a , a 4, having been called " © forther statement of Denby and fa | That Would Have Cost of Teapot Dome Reserve [ity ran to the oxclusion of De- uAtten clone scrutiny of the éxplana-| ii that ‘the Secretary of the In- Wa ic Milli Pai i purtment officials on issued by Secretary Denby and | torjor invited and considered proposals ul Public Millions. Fails to Convince, ‘The sta’ put out stmul-|the Bureau of Mines, other erroneous number of prominent oil com- Kt ——— een taneously from the offices of Fall and Hainaiak aa pointed ont, The and individuals,” is said by off a u d : 3 SECRE’ 3} Denby, in Identical language, tha: /Stttement reads: here to be rather mystifying. If # A STORM OF PROTESTS.|}DEAL SECRETLY MADE. 7,000 acres of highly valuable off lands} “With respect to naval reserve in| such invitations were issued apparent. i —— Dev A tele in Naval Reserve N were lensed | Wyoming the oll was not available forliy only a very select circle received Exposure of Scheme Awak- ened People to the Menace Bi, to Their Purses. t lahibaanhs fi Impressed by the storm of popular Protest, Mayor Hylan has disapproved + of the gas cut-off ordinance passed by } the Board of Aldermen. The projectors of this scheme had ; Been adroitly and effectively pushing H } | Mt for several years and congratulated themselves that they had about at- : World brought the matter to the at- | * tention of the property owners of New « York. The scheme, gradually developed in . the Board of Standards and Appeals, énlled for the installation outside of | Bulldings of a patented device called ‘a gas cut-off, At first the Board of Standards and Appeals cautiously re- _suticted its recommendation to a law ‘ applying to all buildings except private * paddences. Then, seeing that nd hostile criti- “olsm or public agitation resulted, it went further, The promoters of the rehome believed that the technical na- tre of the subject enshrouded its reai significance and that another sweeping step could be taken. 17, 1921, a -majority of the Roard of Standards and Appeals de- fented a motiort to compel the gas companies to inwtal and maintain a wks cut-off, and on June %, 1921, the Board of Standards and Appeals re- quested the Corporation Counsel to draft a far-reaching ordinance for sub- ‘mission to the Board of Aldermen. ;‘This ordinance was to compel the in- mation. Mexico. Denby, desman {buildings heretofore or erected." SS es and Appeals had formally approved 4 —a device promoted by former Senator | = John F. Healy, who '~ connected with ‘the Fire and Gas Appifance Company, The offices of this company are in the <offices of the Westinghouse Electric International Company, No. 165 Broadway. Later the Board of Stan- dards and Appeals approved a gas cut- 4 off device of a firm of plumbing con- tractors in Harlem, but this concérn’ 4s an obscure one not to be regarded | seriously as a competitor of Healy's 1 company. | The prices charged by Healy's com- Hf pany for the gas cut-off device run 1 from $100 to $800, according to the size | | i — ane i of the valve, which in turn is deter- | mined by the size of the building. The | average cost of installation, had the i ordinance become a Jaw, would have | been about $150, The law would haye | tatxed the owners of the 450,000 buitd- ings in New York an approximate tov tal of more than $67,000,000 and a minimum of $45,000,000, whieh would have been passed to rent payers. ‘The ostensible justification for®en- acting this ordinance was chiefly the argument of Fire Chief Kenton that explosions of illuminating gas caused fatalities to firemen, But The Eve- ning World showed from Fire Chief Kenlon’s own annual :eports thir dis- agters from this source were practical- ly negligible in New York City. After The Evening World began Its exposures of the scheme, the Commit- tee on Buildings of the Board of Al- . dermep, to whom the ordinance was j submitted for report, decided it would be politic to limit its scope-—for the present at least, They amended it 20 as to exelude one and two-fumtly buildings from its operation. Even with these exclusions the ordinance would have cost property owners—and indirectly tenants—tens of millions of dollars. * Then fhe measure was favorably re- ported and rushed to the Board of Al- Hermen. Various Aldermen bitterly enounced it, one going so far as to ‘assert that “somebody is making & ‘good deal of money out of if." But {Alderman Collins, the Tammany lead- rr, had determined to put it through, pnd he did, by a vote of 38 to 14. SHOECRAFT 2 WEST 38TH STREET Belween'Fifth and Sixth Acerues IR) MOVAL ALE Friday and Saturday Infants’ Shoes, $2.25 Infants’ Pumps, $1.75 Sizés 2 to 6; tan, white or black leathers button or lace. Whan shoes have been selected without being Fitted t the children, we shall be glad to ‘make exchanges wherever necessary Secretary Fall Said to Have Ignored Our Experts in Negotiations. (Special to The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, April 20.—The ex- planation authorized by Secretaries Denby and Fall to quell the rising storm of indignation over the Teapot Dome oll land deal has not had the desired effect principal theme stained success when The Evening | wasnington and refuses The oMcial admission that the rich concession had been granted to the Sinctair interests came after both In- Navy Departments had been bombarded for days with in- quiries and the deal had been dented by Secretary Fall's subordinates to newspaper terior and reporters, Congress and others seeking infor- The statement issued from the Navy Department was prepared at the Bu- reau of Mines of the Department of the Interior after telegraphic author- ization from Secretary Fall, who: is on his ranch at Three Rivers, New Copies of the news release on} Were sent to the office of Secretary and through a crossing of wires somewhere Denby assumed re- sponsibility for the statement which was {ssved simultaneously from the Interior Department. No explanation office of Secretary Fall of previous denials on the subject It develops that A. W. Ambrose, chief of petroleum technology at the {stalintion of the gas cut-off on “ail] Burean of Mines, was the man called hereafter fin py Secretary Fall in his negotia- tions with the Sinclair people, Meanwhile the Board of Standards poeat Sinclair's interests are understood The matter is stil a of discussion in to down. members of as made at the PURS to one corporation on account of the naval use or for exchange for fuel oil, them OPPENHEIM.GLLINS &@ 34th Street — New York A Notable Offering---Friday 350 Misses’ Silk and. Cloth Dresses. Taken from Regular Stock Values to 29.75 13.75 Tricotine, Canton Crepe, Chenille Cloth and Juliette in attractive new styles. 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