New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-27
hEINZE IN GAS FIGHT.
He Continues Var 5cith Rockefeller
Interests, Begun IN Copper.

Effort r. being made by the American Street
Lamp ans Supply Company. a new concern
backed by T. Augustus Heinze. TIE copper mine
owner 10 wrest the contract cor the equipment
and maintenance Of gas street lamps from the
Consolidated Gas Company which is favored
hv the municipal authorities. II would thus
teeru thar Heinze is not aveTse 20 continuing in
g new FIELD the 6ght he mas been waging NTH
erto over copper mines in Montana with the
Rockefeller interests. TO that end taxpayers
suit has been brought ny AuF-lst KimmeTle an
empioye of FleitrIaa K Co. or 20. 4S4 Broome-
st. 10 force the city 20 award the contract 10
the loves bidder. TIE case WAS called yester-
Gay before Justice MacI,ean, but was postponed
untu May 3.
Tho He!nze company is not seeking 10 supply
the city with gas. The contract for which II .
fighting IS 70 supply lamps keep them In repair
and light and eKtngush them. IL contends
that under the bid OF the Consolidated Gas COM
pany this service VIII cost the city SIS lamp
q year II offers 10 do this for Sl3 30 saving
n 81 c. q lsrnp. As the commissioner has rec
or7mended that the number Of mantle lamps in
Manhattan be increased from five thousand. the
number now in service. 10 twenty-five thousand
this. the officers Of the American company say
would mean an annual saving Of more than
Sl0aO9O.
The new company has opened offices at No. .
Park Place. with L. MOTnanu as IItSiVeAit anu
George Y Stout as treasurer. Yesterday Mr.
AIomand said
The American Street Lamp and supply toinp.iIH
h1z beeliu sEht force the city aufnlillsir4'ih
- recognize its hid for lanrs and maintenaice- As
rn, lowest bidder feel ttat we are en- illel ~
-fe contract The EouSoiGated's bid calls ioI - ~
8 wear FOR each lamp including gas IT our pq y, -
accented the cost the city. including gas Viii ue
a Traction under SO o.. the IN either case coi-
iuE from the Consolidated. -
TK-har, Commissioner oakley recorTnefldeQ tht 8
ca.,far,e Of he consolidated rompanys bid. We ad-
s~essed rrotcsts 90 Mav3~ Mcclellan ana 10 me
t'orlniissiofer pointing out that our price was LAY
below that 81 the Consolidated. The protests Were
not acknowledged, and We men resorted TO d u'N-
tornrnissicner Oakley has said several times
that uersistent rumoTs had come 20 him mar lhe
company nCl financially 2oie 70 ll.ll a III, III
tract Of such magnitude. We nave inl.!io u al
Of us and Cas undertake q contract OF any sl@e-
Mr. Feiuze is OF the largest Stochhoueie III
Tie concern and has associated with him LOUIS r
I4o-Ornoricn. Nice-presdeEt of Dommelch q %
srrt,orters OF No. 81 Greene-st.: :. Edward Nas1.
81 William NJ Fleitmar. q No. 464 BIoone-sl.'
r Seidenbers chairman Or the creditors commit
Zee I'm the Suly bankruptcy case. Edward X MeI.
rift Of the Union Trust Company, ana a nulnoeI %
others.
The writ servers I'm this case met with some
dificulty II is said that Mayor Mcclellan was
served al his home on the morning Of April Ia
before he ha6 dOnned his street garments. Com
missioner Oakley was found at the Pensacola
club. hut refused TO accept the papers They
were tucked Under-his arm and he let them drop
20 the floor