New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-08-07
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
ORGANIZING A BIG GAS COMPANY.
IT'S PLANS AND ISrENrION Twelve PLANTS FOX
MANTFlCIURE.

ORGANIZING a BIZ GAS CoMIANi.
IT'S PLANS AND IStESrioN -iwGLvE rLANIs FOR
MANUFtCIURE.
Under it's charter and the legal sanction OF the
Corporation Counsel 10 whom the C"'nnlss"n'! III
Puzzle Works referred the Application OF we
Standard Gas IAgEt Company 10 lay mans III VIC 1
CITY streets. that corporation has gone Vigorously
to work and Will shortly be putting pipes nhder
ground at the rate Of mile day. Lahu hao p.p
acquired including wharves and water fronts M Il
fereut places from the Battcryto the other scol nc
Harlem hiycf and II - proposed 10 erect ~ Hl''l
walls of n mile or more twelve gas plants on III"
principal The Standard will work III harmony
with the New York steam Company whose super
fuOus product the new company proposes 10 W ',iao
In the manufacture of lay drogcn gas OF high qiaiIl!
distributed through small wrought non hin s w.
der heavy pressure THIS will enable the co'n-
pany, it Is claimed. TO eliminate rahegc
largely from the account and save nifty per cen t
the cost of the mains and the expense OF laying 'Hei
Work has alre idy begun III Flity-sevonth.s ana
also in Harlem, End 10y September n larseI"lOo". ~
men will be employed IN extending the company
system and constructing It's stations, "a ~ non co,
will nave a capacity of about 3.oooo"".ooo i.o' ,
aud 1t = claimed they can be erected a, .1'o '
10 exceed - OOD 600. Preferred stock ana COM
mon stock IN equal amounts 10 tn e fa, oTored
10000 900 have been Issued. ana VIII vi W
simultaneously III New York Bns,oh =, anu Cd
ph,a at price to realize $1,000 900 ~ was M
YESTERDAY that large part of this Issue
taken J. A. Bostwick Is the pieSuen,, n,,' u az
large interest III The Stlhua,u @ in ,hc mind
of manv How far this assumption IS )nstineu couiu
not be ascertained. BY some II Is ihought tni' ,ne
~
i9cIndins Russell Sage Henry Hilton. Arnold
a. Constable, the Thurbcrs. the WoImscr',
and about twenty others who are ass"caSd uha .,
tie so-called Thomas law had taken hold Of thc
STANDARD Company and would control II. VIC
ever are bchiud the enterprise certainly bios islr
10 enter an important factor into the gas lu's-
tIOn III the near future. !.
Tnc Equitable Company is nearly ready to dis
tr butte gas on the West side from its new WORKS
It's enlarged capacity Is equal to one-thrd or We
whole production Of the city aud II is NOT thouen,
that tie old companies Will give up 50 large IA part
of their sales without struggle: ConsldeiaDle
concessions are now beng made 10 favored CViI-
sumers below the present rate OF II -, ana Win
the exception of chicago and Baltimore, New or X
now gctsIt- gas more chcapiy than any other Guy
in the United states.
BLAMING A PRIEST FOR HER DISGRACE.
GIL NAMES SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST TIE
REV FATHER SHERMAN.
Efforts were being made yesterday TO arrest
William sherman. formerly apricst III the Roman
Catholic Church OF the Visitation IN Brooklyn,
upon charc Of BETRAYAL preferred AGAINST nm ~
BROOKLYN. sherman recently rcnOunced his VOWS
OF ceh6acy and married Matilda Mckay, who had
refused aim before he entered the priesthood
julia Mulvancys story is that she became nc,
ouainted with sherman while he was priest ana
was intimate with his sister >aiall. In Scptcmorr.
1~~5 she went 10 the priests house at No. -
Ncfona-st.. adjoining the church. ID &C.,
sherman to secure cha ce srnh',"%d i OF
hcr me ,ncde sac 81 mix for her,
She soon became drowsy aud he ADVISED her 10 lie
down. She remembered no more ami getting on a
carnear heI home sherman atterward confessed nat
ne BETRAYED her at that time. FOR two or three
,ays she was sick. and IN October she went TO II.
Peters Hospital for treatment and renamed there
Sol four months. Sherman and his sister visited
her
ON March 16. after getting out of the hospital
SIC agan went 10 the priests house, and there
Sherman asked her to be his wife. lie SAID thal
In, beng priest did not matter, and II she woud
marry hlm he would take her 10 live with him be;
fore she got INTO any trouble. When she consented
l. I'D lnf Of added
the sight Of God she was as much his
wife as any ceremony could make her.
Afterward they frequently met, but the gin wa,
nn1zled how she could be the wife of prlest and
determined to go away aud hide her disgrace. until
she learned that he had married the MCKAY gr.
furnished rooms and had promised that If her child
was a boy it should be named after him and she
should also bear his name.