The evening world. Newspaper, August 17, 1922, Page 4

epee IE as inna a ere ernenenreieeensensiiiiliinmee—— a ee 4 os _THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1922, 7 any ie Loe id ag “gets it com-| FIND HOGSHEAD found pully hares treaties to hie] “send these little ones to Jal with their \ W y RK CONSUMER PAYS itn pee eee ONS eerenrr ees OF RUM ON PORCH solar 1 her hut aed atl wae Teams then? T have no money to support JUGGLING WITH THE PRODUCTS Your Honor,” plended Mrs. Walenoe, | nat sie es thtce ous impoasinle OF SUBS|DIARY COMPANIES. But Teetotalers Givi Just what the consimer had to pay) Windfall to Authoritics. in these different profits per thou sand cubic feet of gas In the last five] FORT MADISON, Towa, Aug. 17 Returning from prayer mort BEST & CO, CLOTHES FOR YOUNG MEN SIZES TO 44 years, is seen in a two column tabu- THREE HEAWY PROFS TC WANNER lar statement printed tn connection! ing, afr, and Mra, Merrit. \ : dated Gas Company | suadell, who lve on a farm Furniture ' » the following corpora-| here, found @ hogshead filled ; it practleally owns: whiskey on the front porch of Astoria Light, Heat and Power| thelr home. e i Go ny, 100 per cent, Being total abstainers, they r : ‘Amsterdam Gag Company,| tifled the authorities, who tov) ad +-—_—_——_ it tila tl pany) charge of the Iauor last night. —-s ard Gas Light, 99.85 per cent, | \| Union Gag Company, 99.96 per cent cision will be entirely reversed In the Mutual Gas LAght Company | fgures of all the other years are pr Corporation Shown Up as, a Middieman, Buying from Companies It Owns and Sell-| in the Mutua! Gas tight Company | Mei ty the courts, chien ing to Itself at a Profit to Itself—Then| yr. ie 1°.) Be cet sea teat | tions for an Third Big Profit Is Chiselled Out of the} /' itn has beon added are: a Consumer, Which Accounts for City’s an Bowens Exorbitant $1.25 and $1.50 Gas Rates, via Light, Heat ond Power. ovening World's fight for*a pr | Y, Sale Price-—$210 300,000 cubic feet from the New] ras rate. HOW “GAS TRUST’ GETS IT “COMING AND GOING” AND HELPLESS CONSUMER PAYS THREE PROFITS. Hi York Mutual Gas Light. Roont Suite.” Reguiar Prise Sie 1916 1917-1918, 1919 1920-1921 Don't fail to see our led values, Malco comparisons, Let up @ you through our great showrooms, which eceupy the entire block | | —examples §- Piece Mahowany Chipendale Betroo Rule" Revulee Brice Bad. = ee ane feet from the New} WANTS HER CHILDREN ! % Sale Price—$318 JAILED WITH FATHER | Plans Livi ayer. ite. Upholstered et from the Standard Regular Price ¥, Sale Price—$257 4 With a few dollars you can buy many Odd Pieces, each | + as End Tables, Gate Leg Tables, Beds, Dressmg Tables, UH Benches, Rockers, Upholstered Chairs, Mirrors,Lamps Etc, | nomt WANNER ®t Madison Avenue, Corner 47th Street Request Refused, Mother Beow so» Hynteriont. John Welence caused a seone Ir ° Fifth Avenue Court, Brooklyn | terday, when sho asked Magistrate Fol-| well to send her three small daw er husband, who {teen days in the 000 cubic feet from the Central Union Just how the ga corporations also (cents) (cents) (cents) (cents) (cents) (cents) | figure the cost of gas oil and coal, Net Cost to Manufacture in Its Own Corpora- ONG oe iessceecs 3 Price Put Upon 1 the Consolidated Co. as Its Own Cost What the Consumer PBID oe ee scseseeeee 80.00 80.00 80,00 $1.25 $1.25 $1.26 the two elements which are the most costly in the making of gas, la of rest to the public, In view] to Jel! w noe in price ta what the] @ seatunce Gas Company sets forih 1 Higures of the prevalent 25.76 bA.9T 45.49 49.79 659.69 4s 44.08 44.99 69.7% 67.62 75.14 89.87 athe t year the Gas Trust stated that the cost per thousand feet for gas) — ae By Sophie Irene Loeb. Just why the people of New York fe paying such an exorbitant gas rate—from $1.25 to $1.50—and how he Gas Trusts figure their costs and rofits, are presented In the following ignificant items which are being dis- losed in the Evening World's in- estigation and its crusade for a low- +" gas rate, commensurate with the <formous city population and the onstant turn-over of gas profits. The great gas profits that must vave accrued in the gas industry is vident, since the consumption of gas yas more than doubled in the past aye years, The Consolidated Gas Company, in- & $1.50 & $1.50 then adds another profit when It sells to the consumer. For example, the Consolidated Gas Company owns 100 per cent. of the Astoria Light, Heat and Power Com- Last year it cost the Astoria nd Power Company ap- 4 cents per 1,000 cubic ts gas. When the Consojidated Gas Com- pany, which owns this Astoria plant, went to buy this gas, it paid for it fect to make over 89 cents, and when ft sold it tol y. the consumer, the consumer paid from $1.25 to $1.60 In other words, it is a case of I buy from myself, and give myself a a en I sell it to you and nother profit. -loll was approximately 28 cente and the cost of per thousand feet was approximately 82 eents, making a total cost of approximately 60 cents. OIL AND COAL FIGURES NEED CLEARING UP. The average price of petroleum crude oil was $3.81 per barrel and the price per ton of bituminous coal f.0.b, r ton. figures compare with the nusand feet noted by tho at yet to be explained, The labor proposition ts also vague, In 1921 the charge of 6 cents is made per thousand cubic feet, as against 3 cents in 1916, and all labor statist»cs do not point to 100 per cent. increase in wax He Cannection With Any Omer Establishment in the Workd oe Pe Tt ial There's a query going the rounds As to why “They Say” Harvard students, Yale men, ‘And Princeton boys! We don’t knowwhether there’sa foundation For that query, or not. But we do know That all college men (students or boys!) Are interested, pretty much, {n the same type of clothes— stead of manufacturing all of its gas,] The Consolidated Gas Company pur-} The $ will bear considerable buys more than one-half of it. In| chased, last yeur, 13,700,000 cuble fect|research.The question Is asked, why fact, it acts more in the capacity of] of pas. Not only this, but in this way|the Supreme Court decision that the & middleman, manufacturing only|a double profit goes to the-corpora-|80-cent gas rate wus confiscatory? about 82 per cent. of all it sells, tion, as It makes the vas and profits} And the answer is that the Supreme More striking than this is the fact|!n gas sales and ihen th parent com-|Court had we it only the figures that the Consolidated Gas Company] pany, as it were, gets further profits} and cos ning to the highest ENGLISH— In fact, in fabric, or in fashion! Haak ‘ene leeeporations « PORE ana Sar ethan wont; this parent com- a ta bell owever, that the de- Imported English Golf Suits (Four-pieces) 60,00 Imported English Topcoats . . 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