New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-14
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
MORE COMP ANTS ABOUT GAS.
WHERE TIE TROUBLE MOSTLY Is-AIL COMPLAINTS
N,rf 1vIru BROAD DrNIALS.

MET WITH BROAD DENIALs.
Additional COMPLAINTS about the SHORTCOMINGS VI
ras companies having been received lRiBL ~ re-
5ortrr has III de further Investigations ana Ionu
rrumhcr of persons who consider Themselves badly
treated The centre OF trouble 1871 tllly-hfs FitS-
second and Fittyt, irC-sts., he! ween MA ana i,
avs Tie complaints all Of a slIni al nature am.
one or two will he sufficient rs l'illS,rati"hs', a
lady living IN Flfty-thIrd.st. said: ne dlauiy
of gas in house has been very ba'i TOT lone ~
In addition 10 this our bills have Dten HTg'i t''S
winter than ever before. although We are csinE t1
same number of burners as We Gid iasI winter
have applied to the comp any several times LOT re-
d., mi bove ol,g,vs received the same answer.
The managers tell me that the metre registers the
exact quantity that is burned ana tnat tneS c"iRo
NE with no more than THAI amount II
A gentleman living III West FIfty-second-st. Saiu
4" am very glad to have an opportunity I" speaS ou
this subject. Gas companies nave ote,l iUl and
time IN the habit of imposing upon tle people 4iI
think il j time they were stopped. irlonu "a
mine who lived in Brooklyn. three years ago tied
an experiment npon item. HIS wlo ana caliuItu
Went Ont Of the city for the summer He shut the
gas from his house. During the summer ony MN
self and servant we're m the house e. ana my dr.
month, he received d bill. He paid no attention TO
II and at the end Of the second he a lc-
celved another de then ofO"5 ior a att
to iefraud him and was VICTORIOUS nave h ,'aa
great deal of trouble here. The company mas "ee1
furnishing an inferior qualty or gas ana IL paescI
through the metre more rapidly than heavy gas ana
has less ILLUMINATING power. Hence the company
can make a great profit by furnishing tnin gas On-
wears a 90 that il an inp0sSlOlllty 10 make IL
gas metre that would register exactly ne regis
terue is always approximation. Hence tn1
metres can easily glster more than IS useu anu
this Is certun TO he the When the gas Is hgut
They have said that United States Inspector can
discover the trouble IN the metre and nave IL cor
Tected But OF course. If the metre cannot De nlauS
exact such n course would result Ia no adVahtaee.
ADout DOZEN similar complaints were maze W lhe
ren0rter in the streets mentioned III one mouse
small one whrre few burners were used the nonthy
hills were exhibited. Five months ago the DIlS were
abnnt "a month During November and Deem
her thew ran up to S13 so and $15. The proprietor
of Ibe house SAID that there could be no excuse lor
This "a he had only used two more burners DURING
The last two months than he had before.
AZ The Office of the Metropolitan Gas Company,
which supplies the district named, the secretary Oi
the company made a general denial OF the charges.
He said Our gas il to-day better imam IL ever
was before 1t is heavier and more intense IN lilu-
mlpatlng power. We have for a long time been en-
deavOrlng to raise the quality of our gas and we ielt
that we had succeeded. This latest cutlery has an,
moved Us exceedingly. for we feel that 1t is uncalied
for In one or TWO cases where our men have lOuhd
that metres were registering too fast. we nave
changed the metres without waiting for any com
paint We certainly do tine best we can to please
our consumers -... .
At the Gfticrs of other companies, the mains OF
which are IN the neighO0rhOOd mentioned, similar
statements we're made.