The evening world., 1888-06-02
STANDARD OIL MUST STOP.
A LIMIT TO THE GREAT MONOPoLY's LIFE
THREATENING ENCROACHMENTR

No More Tanks Of Explosive OIL 60 he Lee
Gated Among the City's M~asses-Yestcr-
days Reports on which che Fire Com-
mirsioncrs A~cted-Tbnt Action Another
Victory for 7" The Evening World"
Yesterday The EVENING WORLD printed az
exclusive news the fact that the Fire Commits
sioners had voted to reject the application Of
the Standard Oil monopoly to establish stor-
age tanks for oil in One Hundred and FIJI
teenth street.
The report of Commissioner Croker, On
which the refusal to grant the application
was based. was as follows:
l have conferred with representatives Of the
New York Board OF Fire Underwriters, and SUB
init herewith q communication from the Chairman
on Police and Origin OF Fires of that body, pro-
testing against and stating objections to granting
the application Of the Standard Gaslight Company,
on the ground OF the hazard OF transporting the oil
through Inc harbor, al weh as Of the hazard Of
storiuR it IN the tanks referred TO-. / nave also
caused an inspection aud measurement to be made,
the report whereof shows the capacity of each tank
to be 81, ISS gallons, and after deducting for thirty
i pscity for d w oil Of ~ IS .G SS4 D cations. a ne r., s so%psn SSs
application states the capacity of each tank TO
he : Il, 900 g g nave sl,S OBTAINED the
Of In the company %rHM to , establish storage ia tank, 'n "nd sss
WORKS 10 this city at the following locations:
Water and Moore streets, Dey and Washington,
Thompson and Broome, Nineteenth street and
Avenue 3. 'oot of East Thirly-thiru street, West
Fiftieth. West Sixty-cighth, Il 81 Seven y-seventh
and East One Hundred and Fourth streets. Pleas
ant avenue and one hundred and Fifteenth
street, One Hundred and gwenty-fourtn street and
Tenth avenue, Southern Boulevard and Alexan-
dria avenue.
In view Of the facts above stated. 1 deem it my
duty to that the application OF the
Standard Gaslgnt Company for permission to
store naphtha, crude petroleum and Lima oil DO
denied.
The inspection and measurement referred
to by Commissioner Croker were made by
Prof. Henry Morton, of the Hoboken Insti-
tute of Technology, b reported in these
words
The maximum capacity Of the gas-works In
there would be needed about 13, 500 gallons OF
naphtha per day, or about the reported storage
capacity Of one OF the tanks. This would mean that
each day one tank would require to be filled while
the other was being used anu that a vessel should be
daily discharging Its cargo OF naphtha at the wharf
belonging 10 the works, while other vessels were
passing TO and fro In the harbor 10 keep mp the
supply. WHAT this would m an as regards risk to
property adjacent 1t is not tasy to estimate. 1t IL
true that the present output is only l00, 1000 cubic
feet per day, but, on the other hand, It should be
noted that TINS same company proposes to erect i've
other like works at other points within the city
limits, and II their operations are successful what I
have stated Will need in the end to be multiplied by
Blk TO express the then condition OF the problem.
Not only was the news of the Commission
ers' action exclusively given in this paper,
but the investigation and all the movement
against the Standard Oil Company's danger
GUS structures was instigated by The EVEN
ING WORLD. In this matter, as in others, the
paper was so Just in the case it had for the
peoples side that success could but crown
the effort.
The Standard Oil monopoly has reached
the limits at least of its ife-endangering en-.
croachments