The evening world. Newspaper, September 2, 1922, Page 3

GAS PRICE CUT NOT SUFFICIENT, EVIDENCE SHOWS| —— Further Reduction in Many Instances Still Would Permit Profit. DISCREPANCIES SHOW Various Companies Not Even to Lower Price Ten Cents. By Sophie Irene Loeb. While The Evening World crusade has brought a reduction of 10 cents Per 1,000 feet of gas, there 1s consider- able evidence that the cost could be reduced in many instances lower than this with profit to the gas corpora- tions. With the present 22-candlepower standard the gas companies had to Manufacture from 600 to 650 British thermal units. Under the new order changing the standards the public will get approximately from 535 to 525 British thermal units. According to the experts, 10 cents is not enough of a reduction in view of the saving to the corporations of the gas oil required and other elements that go into mak- ing gas. Also various companies have con Biderable advantage by not bein obliged to give to the public the 10 per cent, ciit—corporations that for- merly served gas at 80 cents per thousand. Ono of the significant ex- amples is the Brooklyn Borough Gas Co, which, in the new decision by the Public Service Commission, is ordered to make a cut of ) cents the present rate being $1 hov- sand fect and the new order being $1.30. How far the Public Service Com- mission has gone into the actual costs of this and other companies has not been disclosed. However, Archibald 8. B, Little, one of the most noted of experts, swore on the stand that the Brooklyn Borough Gas Company could furnish gas at $1.05 and lower, since, according to his findings, the cost to make 1,000 feet of gas by the Brook- lyn Borough Gas Company is only 70 cents. Mr. Little is a mechanical and gas engineer, and for upwards of twenty- four years has been engaged in busi- ness connected with the design, eon- struction, installation and operation of Ras production properties in various parts of the world. Irom August 1914, to December, 1920, he was chief as engineer of the Public Utilities Commission of the State of Min and as such investigated ev gas utility plant in Illinois. He was Chairman of the Conference on Costs and of tle committee of en- gineers which prepared the report on which this commission fixed rates for the Peoples’ Gas Light and Coke Company, Chicago, In 1919, 19 nd 1921 he was also engineer for the de fendants in the t in Federal Courts, Southern Distriet of York, by Consolidated Gas Company the Brooklyn Union ¢ Newton Gas Company, Standare Light Company and ot! He similarly engineer in the cases brought in the Supreme Court by New York and Richmond Gas Company and Bronx Gas and Electric Company While on tl stand, und examination by t lawye Brooklyn vugh Gas Company, p unable to shake his tigures him agree that he was in Way unfair, he claiming that he taken into consideration every pos- sible emergency in” preparing — his figures, and had taken Into account the metliod used in the mannfacture of the gas by the Brooklyn Borough, the kinds of gas produced, and als the quantity, Hie in many causes mentioned other Gas compunies in other cities which are considered to have the same kinds of plant and also have about the production. Jle cited that in cases they nufactured gas cost less than the Brooklyn Be does, WHEREIN BROOKLYN GAS FIG- URES ARE MISLEADING. He also stated that he was under ough the impression that the Brooklyn Borough made certain charges against cost w h puld not be there for instance, “Rate Case Expense” and also “Debenture Bond Expense. The net cost of gas in the holder as reported by the Brooklyn Bor fs about 23 c by Mr. Little. This difference is Mts more than estimated | THE EV Newport Society Girls in Mixed Nine Play in Real Ball Game This Afternoon FLORENCE LOEW: —~+— Three Form Outfield of Teamu Against City Ofti- cials for Charity. NEWPORT, Sept. 2.—The mixed. nine society eball team, which this afternoon plays a game for charity with a team of ewport city officials, has just been announced. This is the line-up, is the first time that the young women of Newport society have and it participated in an actual con- test Admiral Cameron MeR, W!s.*ow, ¢ Sidney Smith, p. afton Cushing, 1b. Commodore Arthur Curtiss James, 2b. Thomas Ridgway, ss Kane Walker, Miss Florence Loew, if is Burke Roche, ef. Adele Reynal, rf. substitutes ure Miss pit, former Go R. Living eeckman, Louis Livingston, William Post and Lawrence Doyle Kenneth Shaw Safe is manager of the team The game practically the colony, which many of th nville 8b Muriel will bring to the scene entire fashionable has already witnessed team's practice games practically due to the cost of the “‘en- riching oil’? reported by the Brooklyn Borough us 29 cents, when, accord ing to Mr. Little, it should’ not cos any more than 16 cents. As for “* distribution,” Mr, Little claims that in almost every respect it is costins the Brooklyn Borough more than it should, ‘The same may be said in ref erence to commercial expense and general expense. With the Brooklyn Borough taken as un example and Mr. Little's con- tentions that the gas can be produced at a price as low as 70 cents per thou- sand cubic feet, upheld, then it ts safe to say that the Consolidated Ga Company should be able to produce gas at even a lower figure. for this would be; In- creased production by the Consolidat: ind decrease in cost of distribution The Consolidated supplies customers who are not so scattered ax they are in the territory supplied by the Brook- lyn Borough, ‘The ratio of the cost in, commercial and general expenses would also be decreused on account of greater production and distribution. The schedule prepared by Mr, Little reveals the following facts in connec tion with the Brooklyn Borough Company ASONS Reported Coat by Brooklyn Not cost of gas In holder Gas distribution expense Commercial ¢ General expe Cont of gas ii burner With these manifest differences in this one company, the question is ar has the Hublic Service Commission Kone into the costs of each company to justify the present reduction only. 10W PANTOMIME h mMCt ORKE ROCHE Gr. Harold, Five, After President to Get His Coal Heard Mr. Harding Was Only One Who Could Put It in Cellar. Discussing the coal situation last night, Rubin Hyman of No, 37 Sum- mit Avenue, West Hoboken, told his wife that and that who can it was up to Mr. Harding," Mr. Harding is the only one put in our cellar this coal winter,”* Harold Hyman, five y this and early playing on his sold, heard while this morning, tricycle in front of the house, disappeared from parental ob- servation An hour ter he was picked up by the police in Unien Hill. When asked what he was doing there, he replied he was going to see Mr, Harding to get him to put coal in the family cellar, Great joy suceceded the wring- ing of hands when the police led Harold home ee EFFIE ELLSLER STRICKEN ON STAGE IS RECOVERING Actress in “Phe Bat” Col- lapses as Two Years’ Run Nears End. Eife Ellster, veteran actress who collapsed during the seeond act of “The Bat’ at the Moroseo ‘Theatre last night when she was stricken on the stage, was reported to-day to be recovering Misa. Hllsle ur years old, who had not missed «a performance of the two-year run of the mystery play, even while husband lay dead in their apartment, was foreed to give up last night within one night of the closing dat Last January | und t Weston, died during the afternoon and despite the fact that she hud just lett his deathbed, Miss Eisler bravely went through her performance that evening Her collapse last night came at the climax to a tense She tried to arise, but could not move and the curtain was rung down, ‘The play wa finis: ed when ty took up Miss Elisier’s “Miss Elster ve much im proved," was word irom the Morosco theatre this acternoon - > 19, A MOTHER TWICE, SUES FOR ANNULMENT Mrs. Harold fved With Huw as Not a Year, Ninete ur i twice on mother, Mrs, Ad wan, who married Ha MeCownn when she only sixteen, to filed in the complaint «suit for annulment of her marringe Mrs. MeGowan lives st No. 1082 16th Street, Rockaway Reach Her husband lives nt No. West 110th Street, As the plaintiff ts wenty-one years of age. it wad nevesaar her to be iardiar Mre. McGowan, ncce to her com plaint, has not lived with her hushand since she became elghtven yeaw old. DERBY > ARMED DEPUTIES GUARD KLINE JAIL FRONT AND REAR “Unusual Conditions” Only Explanation Given by Authorities. Armed deputy sheriffs, one at the front, one at the back, are guarding ay the Bergen County Jail at kensack where George Kline, r of John Bergen, and Charles nlso]Grant, declaring he Rergen's | eadulvocall Scullion, his brother-in-law, charged with murder in death, imprisoned awaiting the action of the G and Jury. heriff Joseph Kinzley was asked whether he had so stationed the fuards because he feared an attempt of the prisoners to escape or an effort to rescue them “The deputy sheriffs were there because of the unusual tions surrounding the whole a he said Bergen County authori had no confirmation of < KI seen in said the port. that ine had been Coytesvillo, NooJ.. the afternoon preecding the shooting of Bergen in the company oF Alice Thornton, the nineteen-year old former sweetheart of 1 first told Kline of Bergen rgen attention tu Mrs. Kline is report was investigated he true, it would prove th the statements of Kline jornton were false. ‘They hay said she went to the Kline home th night of the shooting in respense to telephone message Miss Thornton denied the story to day, saying that when she cros the ferry and went to the Kline about 9 o'clock the night Bergen w killed, it was the first time she had seen the Klines in two weeks. § said that at the time Kline is alle to have drawn a revolver in a qua at a party ina Fort Lee studie had gone home and knew nothin about it PROVINCIAL SYNOD AGAINST DIVORCE West Indian Bishops Refs to Relax Ban. The Provinelul Synod of the Ans lican Church of the West Im which is independent of the E lished Church of England, save ir affinity, frowned upon divorce or relaxation of the marrkage law concluding session of its meeting he to-day, passing a resolution whict suld “We reuffirm the indissolubility ¢ marriage and refuse to admit any r laxation of the principle contained 1 the table of Kindred and affinity ¢ hurch people, even where eiv sunclions such relaxation Bishop Vovry of Guluna sald 1 thers perhaps, a little too mit freedom in matters of diverce m t American chureh, but he he should be eritical — BOYS’ CLUB MEMBER did not fe LOSES A FOOT | ENING WORLD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1922. a DR. GRANT ASSAILS [Princess Xenia Expecting Heir LAW OF CHURCH QN| 7 Leeds Fortune of $40,000,000 DIVORCED PERSONS Rector of Church of Ascen- sion Attacks Episcopal Can- on Forbidding Remarriage. Members of the Protestant EXpisco- pal Church were divided to-day in expression of sentiments on the care- fully prepared interview given out by the Rev. Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, rector of the Church the Ascen- sion, In which he tool vigorous ex- ception to the canon of the church which prohibits remarriage of elther party to a divorce, except where a décree is granted for infidelity, tn which case the innocent person is not forbidden to remarry. Dr. Grant's interview created con- siderable interest and discussion, but none among the clergy or lalety cared to make any public statement. The consensus of opinion seemed to be that the matter waa one that is sure to come up before the triennial con- vention of the Episcopal Church, which begins Sept. 6 at Portland, Ore. Dr. Grant, who declared that the church is invading civil authority, re- ferred to his own church as “the church of the rich." He said there was no personal application of any- thing in his interview, nor were the views expressed new, but it was re- called widely to-day that he has for some time been engaged to Mrs. Rita Lydig, who has divorced two hus- bands. Mrs. Lydig, who was Miss Rita H. Alba de Acosta, daughter of a wealthy Cuban, had divorced her first husband, W. E. Stokes, in 1900, in New York, and then divorced her second husband, Capt. Philip Meiser Lydig, in 1919, in France, on the ground of incompati- bility. AROUSED THE OPOSITION OF BISHOP MANNING. In a seymon, in 1915, embodying much the same views as those of his interview, Dr. Grant aroused the an- tagonism of the Rev. Dr. W. 'T. Man- ning, now Bishop of New York, who wrote to the then Bishop Greer, urg- ing that action be taken against Dr. “plainly and an- taught free love." Dr, Grant's marriage to Mrs, Lydig is said to have been postponed largely because of opposition by Bishop Manning, who has promised drastic action if the couple wedded, assert- ing the wedding would be a plain violation of chureh rules. In his prenared interview the Rev. Dr. Grant goes into great detail ta Lolding that the canon is based upon Riblical injunction of doubtful uthenticity and o that has been subject to many interpretations, It expresses not so much a universal truth as a Jewish racial custom, he niends ‘Canon 42 1s framed e said, “that excellent and conser- vative hiwyers—one a member of New Dio 1» Conventlon—haye told a coach and a four could be driven loosel York through it. In fact, the eanon Is jously Interpreted by different Bishops. One bishop told me that © a divorce on the ground of cruelty was considered equivalent to the specific demand of Canon 42 QUESTION BASIS OF THE CANON. “The canon is based on a text in n his dioee the New Testament which is (1) dis puted and (2) racial. “Tho basis for the position of the Protestant F: urch is to be siscopal C found in the supposed words of Christ; “Whosoever shall put away Nis vife, save for the cause of fornication h her to commit adultry From this point, Dr. Grant contin- ned his argument as follows “f do not belleve Jesus ever my such thing. In His personal re ions to women who had suffered at nds of men He was not only ide und forgiving but sympa hetie, His talks to the $i man, to Mary Mogedalen the woman taken in adultery we nsistent attitudes of interest, sym- pathy and tenderness. It must also be remembered that Mary Magdalene $ more or less of a companion of ir Lord after their first meeting. “You cannot make the Bible a liandbook for modern lawmakers. Vurltan New England attempted to 1) that, but in {ts original form that experiment lasted only about fifty .rs, The liberal needs of an age break through and discard tho ideas the past. “The church cannot organize mod. ern Hfe on texts found tn the New Testament; if for no other reason, fecause there are not enough of them > around. If we followed the New stament text we should not have »htbition."* Dr. Grant criticises the Eplacopal inch for taking a position ‘adverse civi! law’? in the matter and remarriage | No religious bod. he continued, ight to try to nullify the civil law, Ino clergyman should countenance of divorce If It's a Girl, However, Wealth Goes to New York Lying-In Hospital. PARIS, Ang. 16 (By Mail).—Prin cers Xenia of Greece, niece of King Constantine and wife of William Leeds jr., ts in Paris with her hus band, expecting an addition to the family, If a boy is born to the Prin- cess he will inherit the entire $40, 900,000 fortune of the late William Leeds, the American tinplate king. The Leeds will provides the whole sum shall go to the New York Lying. In Hospital if there is no male issue The $40,000,000 ts now in the form of « trust fund, the interest on which is drawn by Princess Christopher, formerly Mra. William Leeds. Upon her death the interest will revert to her son, husband of Princess Xenia. In the event of his death or that of his wife, the fortune will go to a male heir, if there be one, as the American law provides a trust fund shall cease with the third gen- eration, Young Leeds and his wife are liv- ing with Prince and Princess Chris- topher at a fashionable hotel, Prin- cess Christopher's allowance enables them to entertain *.vishi The youthful couple sp-~~ most of their time automobiling, yachting and air planing. They probab 7 will accom- pany the Princess on her visit to the United States this autumn Much criticism is said to have arisen In Greece over the continued absence of Prince Christopher, King Constantine's younger brother. All his brothers and nephews are serving their country or the army in some capactty, whil Tistopher is alleged to be living a life of indolence and pleasure in Paris on the gold of his Marrying Clerk in City Bureau Weds 85 Couples in Record Time McCormick Beats Two Minutes on Ceremony When He Strikes His Deputy City Clerk McCormick repeating the marriage ceremony in Bureau. minutes after 10 o'clock wita he had struck an average of a couple every two minutes and ten seconds. Inside of a half an hour he was going from each ceremony. In the first hou He broke all records for marrying couples. the chapel crowded. AMERICAN TEAN OF GIRL ATHLETES BACK FRO FRANG Three Women Barred From U. S. Return on Saxonia to Try Again. Eleven girl athletes, part of the team which represented Amerien in the Women’s Olympic Games in the Pershing Stadium, France, returned to-day aboard the Cunard liner Sax- onia. They charge of Dr. Henry Stewart of New Haven “The girls did remarkably well,’’ Dr. Stewart said, “and we all were delighted with their showing. Most of our team was compored of school giri« who were pitted against trained and seasoned athletes. In Europe women have been competing in athletic events for years while the idea is new to America. The only thing that marred the meet were some of the decisions of Emile Antoine, the referee. We could not understand many of them.’ The girls in the party were: Loutee and Nancy Voorhees, Bryn Mawr, were in Freee ey Anna Herrick, Florida State College: KENTA Janet Snow, Katherine Agar, and As- sistant Capt. Susan Becker, Ouka- affluent American wife, It has not]Mere High School, Chicago; Flortds Batson, Smith College; Mable Gillitan, yet been decided whether he will ac- Leonia, N. J.; Esther Green, Pana company her to America, as some 4 ; misgivings apparently are felt as to] Cand! Bere vais: Goabeld yy the cordialfty of his welcome there. | tte College, See emi Sable, of Newdrk So far, the Prince has not yet even ; A delegation of visited England because of the known role rk children was at the picr to prejudice of the British against his] Sect Miss Sabie Three women who had previously been turned back by immigration off- Is because the quotas from their countries were exhausted tried again to-day to get into the United State: Mrs. Albert Cooper, an Australia, succeeded. Last month her husband, an Englishman, was permitted to jand, but she was returned to South- ampton. She stayed there 24 hours, and then left on the Saxonia, When Mrs. Camilla Brincat and Miss Vit- torla Gallea arrived the last time they were told that the quota of 14 a year brother Constantine. Mrs. Leeds was married to Prince. Christopher in January of 1920, in Switzerland. Her xon married Princess Xenia in Paris last October’ allotted to Malta, their native land, was exhausted. They were detained tes. to-day to determine if they might Gait. land. nearly lost his voice this morning] William Jennings Bryan was at the Pier to meet his grandson, W. J. B. Sd, who returned from a vacation, Louis Gimbel, of Gimbel Brothers, back from a business trip, said that he Itved in splendor in Vienna for 88 cents a day. a RICHMOND WOMAN the chapel of the Marriage License He started at five In a few minutes. strong and clipping off a few seconds ur he had married twenty-six couples. Clark McCormick didn't reach his@ IS DEPUTY SHERIFF real stride until the last hour and al{ney could either wait until Tuesday half. From 11.39 untit 1 o'clock helor go to a clergyman or alderman. | Mrs, Wallace to Watch Fer- " "4 | oO e I n th p hours the M mark. the men There were times when one of bureau with a beaten the he in stop watch said had his own best record and married a young col- ored couple in one minute and 68 2-5 When at 1 o'clock — the bureau closed he had hung up the record which it ts believed will stand for a long time. MeCormick had married & couples in two hours and 5 minutes: There were then between 39 and 35 couples anxious to be married, but he Whispered he was through and sald seconds records bu rate Tor Hcensea issued, u issued 240 licenses, or at of eighty an hour, The the Mrs. Margaret W. Wallace of No. 140 Tyson Street, New Brighton, Staten Island, was appointed a Dep- “You can't do it in any leas time 3 nd our voice,” wald the marry-| UtY Sheriff of Richmond County to- ing ctor he mopped the presptra-|@ay by Sheriff Harry Rudolph. tion from his brow and dropped into] Twenty-five women active in politics of his friends present suggestea| 24 Social work were in his omce that he get a phonograph record with when the Sheriff pinned the wold the ceremony on it and move his lips| P48 upon Mrs. Wallace, who has while the ve d ground It out, leav- best. DEOMIBERE A Wonk Of the ing the proper pause for the young] Woman's League of Staten Island Mrs, Wallace, who is twenty-seven will receive no pay except when sh« and woman to say “I will" or Society Women Get Scrub Brush And Scour Autos by Police Order “Clean Up or Put Up” Is Order to Those Whose Cars Bear Dirty License Tags. PHILADELVHIA way to afternoon teas Sept section alighted their brush from from coupes a This was the State 1 part of a campaign to trame shall be vist enforce regulation that the number plates ble fifty feet away Edward J Radnor Township police chief of the ad his men Sweeney Several yesterday In the aristocratic ‘Main Line’ suburban stern policeman and scoured their automobile license tags. ts called for service, and then will get $5 a day. Her work is to be at the ferries at St. George, where she will watch over young girls, She will ulso Investigate complaints against dance hulls and beach resorts. Mev first assignment ts at the carni- vals at South and Midland next week Beactien —_ PUBLIC CONCERTS TO-D\yY. ‘The following concerts for to-day are announced by the Park Department: 47. M., the Fire Department Bund In Prospect Park, Brooklyn; 8 P. M., con- certs at the following Manhattan’ bané stands: Central Park, Recreation Pier, Bast 3d Street; Recreation Pier, Barrow Street; Recreation Pier, West 50th Street; Regreation Pier, V 129th Street. daintily frocked women on their and town cars, accepted a scrubbing stop offenders, offer tl soap suds and the adv ‘lean up or put up." venty-nine motorists were stop 1, Including a number of prominent fain Line’ folk m a brush, ONE MAN LOSES LIFE IN CAVE-IN AT CLUB [wo Workers Buried by Fall at Elks’ Extension. Two workmen buried to-day by a cave-in at excavation operations at the Elks’ Club, W 1 Avenue near North Broad Street abeth, N. J., where an addition being built Fifteen workmen we e loyed digging a trench for a s wer pipe when a@ section ¢ t of the trench gave awa One of the work ete and taken to Elizal MW ihe The other workman J (! no of Ne White St car wi believed to be dead hh om rade was rescued half er the accitent Michael Rico ‘ south Firt Street 1 “ was working in the tre mined Jue iis the side happened ped un Fire ¢ ed to Mid in digging for Ca Work and about the 1 to Ricardo h across the pipe his stom: ha policy by his church, Our R ie ic Is opposed to divect religtous | rference, but for the church to ken a law by legislation nat it isa pe attitude and 0 Be i e v yunts to an invasion of the civil run over and his right foot cut of power.’* day when he fell between the cars of | train he wns boarding at the Jamesport | TS FIRST PAYMENT OF Station of the Long Island Railroad SRNR RE (EER With ‘eran 6 Har a omptroiier ¢ received returning 10 the elt w vacatic heck for $29,085.21 from the W Carey Comp of the Boys’ |York and New Tera el Club of New York ¢ Char representing the fleat nn Nev York Presider of the i roach to ¢ tunnel, the Club, aE ee |sareg be $45,080.71, = of the support when t Je oc curred As he this pos and it is believed je deat Tho con the sewer work is Charles Flockea, ‘tae tue? KILLS SELF IN HOTEL OVER LOVE AFFAIR ‘akes Poison, Leaving Note Mentioning Girl. Uuable to continue a clandestine Ga,, sald to be a claim agent for the Southern Rallway, committed sutelde Hotel was found it's toasted. This one extra process gives a delightful quality that can not be duplicated ide Nie AEE ET ARS ele ae) ———— in the He Pennsylvania to-day. iying in his floor marked pajamas bathroom of his room a vial 00-strychnine #7 at Nis side were only 15 tablets left in the bottle Mr. Hammie, who was forty years jd, left # note addressed to the As sociated Press, in which he said he had been I! art from his wife to Advertisers .\ He ment the name Ethel Oy an ~o orders ng World or Tae Stiles, believed to be living New 7PM. the day verted onke a8 York 1 at The At the offices of the puthern 7 containing sere tnee in : Railway here, no record could be AMG ound of Mr. Hammie World enst be dina “pubnies - a doy 2) PL MG S-INCH SHELL POUND IN COM. PILE a encravinze to be made A eit steel Jacketed belleved 4 by Thursday nod be loaded, was dixeov in unt, Meadow and Creek Streets, Long ation” aff Island City, It became known to-day sageriar order \cob Sehnildt, freman-engineer, while my, omitiea . ng coal from 4 veaerve bit, foul ' atle yesterday. The nd beon | ' \ became mixed caiicaced