New-York tribune., 1895-12-11
AFFAIRS IN BROOKLYN.
no FIGHT THE GAS TR UST
WHAT THE NEW MUTUAL COMPANY PRO
POSES TO DO.

vpoorAMME OUTLINED WHICH, If CARRIED
o,-r. WILL. BE BOON TO CITIZENS AND
THE cITY-ITs PROMOTER RAPs
ALDERMAN wALKLEY.
.fhe Mutual Gas and Electric Company or
nrooklyn. which on last Monday communicated
with the Board OF Aldermen. protesting against
the proposed Ave years contract with the Gas
Trust and offering to furnish gas to the city
at 81 a thousand feet, the rate descending on
Ave years contract to so cents for the last TWO
years Is a corporation made up OF twenty mem-
bers. having 100000 capital. plant patent
rights covering a new European process OF gas
manufacture. and extensive plans. 1t was organ
lied about six months ago. OF its members sew
snteen are Brooklynites one is business man OF
Jersey City, one a New-Yorker and one Bos-
ton,an. A. W. wanamaker is president. Nathan
yeono,d is secretary Thomas Patterson is MEM
her Ferdinand Reiss lace importer doing busi-
ness IN New-York city Is a director; and his son,
Rert Reiss. the young Worth Republican, and as
sorated with the law firm of Grout De Fere
Mayer is the promoter OF the company ana It's
,enresentative Mr. De Fere Is the company
counsel
As the company is known 10 contain some men
recently associated with the consolidated COM
panies and is trying to secure frahchise WIFI
out having the plant necessary to the perform
s,cs ~ a contract. and as the gas-makng plants
II might otherwise buy or lease are owned py
the Gas Trust there have been rumors that the
rax companv Is not as hostile to and independ-
.nt o, the Gas Trust as it processes to De
that the Mutual Gas and Electric Company Is
masked battery: that If II secured franchise 'he
franchise might ultimately come into the posses
sion of the Gas Trust toward which the new COM
hat i0Up
ultimately successful trust might be the aim OF
tbis COMPANY formed it asserts, to nght the
Trust
On the other hand the people Of Brooklyn, who
now burn and pay for expensive and malodorous
gas will welcome a company able to fuinl It's
promises and supply cheap and good gas
4 Tribune reporter yesterday afternoon tred
70 learn exactly what the company IT, what II is
able to do and what it proposes to do toward
giving the people OF Brooklyn gas at less than 81
a thousand feet
Nothing was known of the personnel of the COM
many in the Office of the Department OF Cl'!
Works At the Office Of the Brooklyn Union Gas
Company. the head and front of the Trust Knowi-
edge of the affairs and officers of the new COM
,anv was disclaimed At the offices of Grout. De
Fere & Mayer the reporter was referred TO bert
Reiss. who said he represented the company. Mr..
EelSS does not appear 10 W oNVi '"N't' 49,
old. is dapper and enthusiastic: says he has been
Investigating the methods Of manufacturing gas
and talked in part follows;
our company was formed about six months ago
Is capital is 100000 II We get our tancnl&ss n & o we
shaa De ready TO increase the cspra Capna t of
ana W. have means of getting N~owo more "heh
No i cant tell you who the stockholders are are.
The majority Of them are we-known ana "a ihnu my
;Aer names made pubic un,ess things are ar, ar,
ranged in such shape tnat We can 20 n', ai 40 any
see un.ess W. get our franchise we can 10 ""'
thing ..,.o,,. ,so s.ro offer 10 the
Ro,Td fu of Aldermen short time ago but they
al don't offer the city anK bs been
against That was the reason why I'VE We ESmm nan 0ul
Of Monday reierred 20 o ine tn the Com
mi,tee on Gas and electricity ,.aar nrocess bu,
can't il IS S. beSa%ss ns"rss. ii bswsver is sferf s
nG fe}.qg of from inT pwSch gas is mad
when differs from those ordnaryS iS used It mas ss
rovel successful. or the 9th SIDE ana, spr We
eisn 317 caPta. wi, be invested. ou. ,0
,se W. have offered to furnish gas to the ely
for thousand feet for the h first nye .a years yeaIs as
we VII offer the gas !S ,a cv wod be- ehargcd
uo amp-oosts etc. AS everything got to wofR''9 tx u
us es~h iocO fee Yes. and We could afford TO
furnish it at less than that: say 80 cents in time
In response to a question. he asserted that
none of TIE members had any afiliation with or
interest in the Gas Trust, and he wanted IL
known particularly and positively that Mr..
sheehan has nothing whatever to do with the
Nutual Gas and Electric Company. He con-
tinued:
our company has three purposes. First, TO fur
nsh cheap gas the city: second. to furnish cheap
gas 10 private consumers; third 10 fight tne trust
We are outside The trust and will always hght II;
| don't care TO disclose now the names OF Inc
neoule back of us, because there VIII De ume
enough when receive hearing from the Ialdei1,
manic committee. when these persons VIII demand
Of the committee lower gas ana frahchse TOT 'he
company
Here Mr.. Reiss gave Alderman Wakley rap
for his opposition to the new company. He said:
think that the report prepared by Alderman
from the Brooklyn Union Gas company, whicn Is
the trust OF this city. and which made the Did on
the scale OF 81 2. would have been pushed ihroush
without delay had ne known that this com
panv would have fought IT, II necessary, thfough
fnignctions and legal proceedinvs The Application
of This company has been before the Board before,
purpose 20 do anything he could against the pro.
Ynoiers Of the enterprise Even before the trust
was formed IL was said at meeting OF the com
mittee OF the Board by one OF the representatives
formed and fhat our company would guarantee ana
give bond TO furnish gas within three months OF
the granting of our gas contract al COST vi ~
cents TO 81. 49, .,, x,-,,,
He showed his intention. did Alderman Walkley.
TO fight this company before the board. ana per
sonally made an attack upon II In the common
Board we will try 1t in the next ana VIII hght IL
to finish even II we have 10 go TO the LEGISLATURE
TO obtain IL. The peop.e of the city want cheaper