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a i Tammany Aldermen Plan to Foree _ Gas Cut-Oft Over Veto, Is Report Powerful Political Influence Pushing Device Which Would Cost $45,000,000 to Install The Tammany majority of tho, !n Boerd of Aldermen will attempt to- Morrow to pass the gas cut-off ordin @&ce over the Mayor's veto, it was Teported to-day. For years powertul poiilical to @uences have been pushing this Measure. After various setbacks they finally managed to put it through the Board of Standards and Appeals and then through the Board of Alder- men, where members of the minority @everely denounced it ani raised @hestions of the forces behind |t The ostensible ground upon which the measure was passed was the hu- Manitarian one of saving life. But at @ hearing before the Comunittee on Bulldings of the Board of Aldermen, @ O. Smith, President of the Am- @rican Society of Safety Engineers CTY 1 PLANNING 7 NEW FERRY BOATS FOREASTRVER Whalen Insists, However, on Buying Nine Antiquated Union Company Boats. Although asserting he had not aban- éoned his plans to buy the nine anti- equated ferryboats of the Union Ferry Company, Commissioner Grover A. Whalen of the Department of Plant and Structures announced to-day that plans for building seven new ferry- boats for service on the Hast River fare well under way. Commissioner Whalen explained that existing methods were], the ahnual parade protect life and property and Hexinning to-day, proposed device would often b no will drill in the prove a desth trap, In Chicago, he Tat Regine said, the device had been thrown out as No & and in Boston it had been * disapprov As The ng World has shown by the figu f the company ownink the chief device, the instalintion of the gas cut-off woutd cost owners of buildings at least $46,000,000. One of the most effecti arguments indue. ing Mayor Hylan to veto the'measure was tement of Nathan Hirweh formerly Chairman of the Mayor's Committee on Rent Profitecring, that if the Mayor signed the ordinance ax it was drafted it would put a club In the is of every profiteering land- lord to H con tends the gas compante bear the expense of installing a gas cut-off if one Is needed. that it will take a year to construct the boats, and that meanwhile the clty will need the nine ojd Union Ferry Company boats. Even after the seven new boats are in operation, he explained, the city will require at least two of the old boats, as a total of nine are needed for East River ser- vice. As previously told in ‘The Evening World, the nine Union F Company boats are from thirty to fifty-mne years old, The company puts a value of $1,600,000 upon them, ‘The city Is offering $850,000 and plans to spend $200,000 more in repairs. ‘The seven new boats will be of steel and will be 175 feet long and 64 feet wide. They will have serew propel- lers with clectric engines capabie of producing a speed of twelve miles an Nour. Bach boat will have five water- tight compartments in the hull and will be equipped with three vehicle gangways. On the overhang on cach stde there will be cabins for passen- gers, On each boat there will be three master controllers. One will be in each of the two pilot houses and one in the engine room. By this arrange- ment the pilot can control the start- THE EVENING WORLD | Ing, stopping and reversing, of {f}day, apparently from apoplexy. necessary the control can be taken Inn ce « for affairs of al 0 the it operated tn W ls In tha J Mr. § He wae a cclstor Hook and 1 Commissioner Whalen expects tolptoncer volunteer advertine contracts for the seven boats|freeport. He was before summer Freeport Lo vices will b graph and bell iber of ‘the r Compan: organtantl Oo & member o} Funeral ne OLD MERRICK ROAD HOTEL MAN DIES he s of cyclists days, died early to- ——————————— Zz REDUCTION ‘ IN “HOTEL RATES the “century run’ “THE SOUTHERN HOTEL BALTIMORE, MARYLAND TO OUR PATRONS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC — In meeting a public demand and in keeping with the i spirit of the times in helping to lower the high cost || of living, the MANAGEMENT of THE . SOUTHERN HOTEL announces that all our i} rooms will be reduced from our present rate of $4.00 per day and up. 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