New-York tribune., 1896-12-10
WUATWLLTHE FIGURES BE?
WILLIS TO FIND OUT HOW MUCH GAS
Is COSTING.

THE TRUST TO BID ASKED TO MAKE ITS PRICE
FOR GAS FURNISHED WITHOUT CONTRACT
KNOWN TO THE oIry-wIrAT HAS BEEN
DONE IN THE WAY OF 81 GAS
City Works Commissioner Wills mas oee,, vi
rected by the Board of Aldermen 10 ieai" ','''
the Brooklyn Union Gas Company now h'uon =.
intends to. charge the city for the gas iuiniS"ou
the public buildings and street lamps sii'oe '"'"
ery / 1896 Should the Gas Trust present
bill at a higher rate than the 81 athousaho iee'
ct which 1t furnished the city gas last year &"
will need nothing more than the recitins oi 'Ne
fact that II is now supplying the Char'''eS De
partnent with gas at 81 10 prove '"'
the concorn has become an arrogant mo-
nopoly And II the company the" Des"l'
70 talk about the impossbity OF max
,nu ,ros, from Gas at ST. it will be con-
fronted by It's own past. because II was ON!
-o,,r,o., ,,ontbs ago that the Fulton Municipal
Company now merged into the TrusO was TUT
uishing gas to the county at - cents thousand
cuhic feet and that company was never acc"seo
OF doing business for charity.
In August. 1894 the Board Of Supervisors ao-
yertised for proposals for furnishing gas W o0'
tain Of the county buildings. on the -oo Vi ma
same month the following bids were opeIeu' - M
Nassau Gas Light Company gas 10 the i"'i. -oN
Regiment and the Sd Battery armories' anu VIC
,.u 70 cents q thousand; Fulton Municipai Gas
Com,anv 70 the Court House. Hall OF RECORDS.
tail and 18th, 14th and 23d Regiment anu 'u
Battery armories. IS cents: Williamsburg ""'
light Company. to the county DulloisS III Wv
Eastern District 30 cents; Peoples "as i'ei.
Company. to the 41th Regiment Ar"'o's' ..
o,r,s nrooklvn Gas Light Company. to Court
iuil1 -
poo,,rent armories. S4a. cents All of these corr
80. !, u.,u no noted now are among those
which combined to form the big trust. Ihe oios
30 Tho Fulton Municipal and Peoples companies
v,oro .ccor,ed September 10. 1894, in the follow
ing resolution:
r, tho Honorable the Board Of Supervisors oil h'nss
COMMITTEE on %opssas H for s%p
rivinr the several county buildings WIN h,. ex
gas would dna ns aepGh 9ha they are
form and that the required deposit G ba hd
as eommttee Of gGHs would therefore offer for
adoption the following resolution: :,,vrc tho 18th.
.S G new d Old and battery ar%orss n, ao
the Kings County Court ae houSs' ia INV with .umnat-
m S.s he and the same IS hereby awarded TO tne
Fulton Municipal Gas COMPANY al tb uner lowest e Bidders
Also that the contract for the 47th Regment
be and the Is al hefsog ,ser d PRICE Of 90
1000 feet. they being the lowest pioueis'
submi;ted. WV wASSMUTH
f3SHaA ETGESE + !?H6GE;
II. A. c. DAHL
Committee on Contracts.
rb,s contract went into effect for one year on
October 1. 1894 When the contract expired the
oor,nan,es had nearly perfected their compina-
.,on and that accounts for this somewhat
horgbtv communication by which the ante
Fulton Municipal Gas CO..,
a Court-st, Brooklyn, October T. 1870
r., Tho Honorable the Board OF Supervisors.
Gentlemen Our contract to supply r year Savng
buildings with gas 1r he % rneh said buildings
with gas and shall be pleased to do so al Inc Sane
Trusting this will meet with your apprSSysIr TT are
Respectfully Secretary and Treasurer.
=. tho Fulton Municipal Gas Company could
.rnn,v gas to the county buildings proftaby at
* cents it can scarcely be doubted tnat .ne ne
present trust could make much larger proii' p
out Of 75-cent gas. Seeaoy pfos s eas and those
who control the present monopoly are StanuaIu
Oil men. and thus can give the gas conoelh ~ .h se
advantage of the waste petroleum from the
The offer Of the fulton Municipal Company to
let the county have gas vas "a. eVidentiS grate-
fully received by the Board or SuperNlsois' pe
Cause the records do not show that they did any
thing further in the natteT III tnc i0'i"o
three months of their existence Ihey gave an
exhibition of the same sort OF somnolent powe.
now possessed by the Aldermanc Committee
U" rbe he old ring Charities Commission paid ex-
orbitant prices for gas. but when Commissioner
Henry was appointed he insisted on cheaper
gas for the Flatbush buildings. He did not mo
much trouble In getting the Fulton Munlcipd
Company to agree TO furnish 81 gas. rms con
tract has been renewed every SIX months. Cn
July last the Gas Trust put in the usual pid
at 81 The saving made by the reform Charities
Commission is shown by the comparison between
the cost of gas to the department In ring year.
81 1O5 76 and that for the year ending Septem>
her 80. 1896 S5.932 80. The saving, 1t Will be
seen Is SLIP
The measure adopted in the New-fork Board
Of Aldermen looking to municipal ownership OF
a gas plant has stirred some or the Brooklyn Of
fcials to discussing the same proposition lot
1Rrook,vn. Alderman LEIGH said yesterday that
he Thought IL an excellent idea and that he would
he glad to father such a resolution as was ADOPT
ed by the New York board. Mayor Wurstef
said that he favored city ownership OF gas ana
electric lighting plants. but could not see now
the work Of obtaining plants couid De accom-
nIished on account OF the small margin the city
;s below the debt limit. He thinks the same OBJ
stac,e will face the Greater New-York. AS q
f,rst step he would have committee appointed
10 ascertain where the money Is TO come IRON
TO build or buy plants. AS for the ue-up IN the
Roerd OF Aldermen over the gas contract, ne
said that he was powerless to do anything.
DEATH OF SAMUEL l.. MONELL.
Samuel L. Mcneil. OF No. ss5 Union-st, died sud-
-. III, ,ss,e,day morning. Mr.. Mcneil the