The Washington herald., 1920-07-10
By RAYMOND G. CARROLL.

! ing up. Public regulation cannot
keep il down, and s0-cent gas will
soon be a thing of the past. In
New York City there are seven
companies still held to that rate
by legislative enactment. One of
them, the Consolidated Gas Com
psny, claims to be losing $4,000
day. and as it does about so per
cent of business of the greater city
under the low rate the total losA
approXimates over sl0,0O0,000
year.
We contend that our property is
being conhscated under the s0-cent
rate" said an official of the COM
pany. and we are now in the
courts for relief. We have won the
first step in the road up
New York chiefly uses water gas
in which oil is a manufacturing
factor. After passing steam over
anthracite coal the blue gas thus
created is treated with an oil spray
that enriches IL and gives IL the
Illuminating character. In the old
days the gas companies used to pay
pa cents a gallon for oil. They
still have a contract for oil at Ia
cents but this will expire at the
close of the present year.
For every cent added to the cost
per gallon of oil the gas officials
say that cents should be added
: TO the price charged for every 1000
cubic feet of gas. There are several
companies in New York that are
outside the s0-cent rate, one OF
these. the Brooklyn Borough Gas
Company, serving Coney Island.
Three months ago the Public Serv-
ice Commission allowed it to in
crease it's rate per LOCO cubic feet
from 81 to s1.15. Since then the
, company has been forced to pay IL
cents a gallon for oil that it for
merly paid cents for and the Of
ficials are now back again to the
State utilities officials for permis-
. sion to make another hoist.
: Mary Eliza beth" is married. Thus
passes into romance the famous
candy girl. / recall when she camc
= down from Syracuse some fifteen
years ago and opened her clean. at
= tractive little sweet shop in Fifth
. avenue, where wholesome home
made candy was sold at reasonable
prices Her mother and sisters
l came with her. but Mary Elizabeth"
{ was the star attraction.
, Then the business grew to such
r. proportions that a lawyer persuaded
Mary to incorporate. and the shop
: lost the individuality that marked
its early days. Many old custoner. I.
dropped. but hundreds, lured by the
= fame of the pleasing personality OF
the founder of the shop. took their
: pl and 1aFOAr StnrQ
; with branches at all the leading
d, seaside resorts.
Instead of sentiment, Mary
: Elizabeth" became a money max ing
c machine: corporation that paid
\ dividends and all that sort Of thing.
= 1t is refreshing to chronicle that the
charming young woman who loaned
such a pretty name to a business has
again stepped forth into the glare of
sentiment.
The man of her choice Is Henry d.
Sharp. a manufacturer of Rhode Is
land. He is also a director of the
= Providence Journal. His age Is ~.
She is 35. During the war Mary
: Elizabeth" was a Red Cross worker
in France. Her family name was
n Evans, but to those who attended
r the wedding this afternoon she said
Mary Elizabeth"
Big scale candy-making has
E struck a slump owing to the high
price and scarcity Of sugar, for
the present at least. Take the 5000
candy stores to be opened all over
e the country by the United Retail
J, Candy Stores-one of the side prop
= critics of the big tobacco four,
James b. Duke, George ]. whelan,
4 Joseph B. Widener and Thomas F
Ryan-they will remain on the "tc
be" calendar. This s7,000,000 cor
poration has the store sites, and the
campaign arranged, but one OF Its
oficials said: I'VE don't think 4,
> would be a tactful policy to reach
into the nations low supply OF
sugar. so we shall wait bit before
n putting on full speed"
t Talking with one of the men sent
: out to select the locations for these
candy stores I learn that there are
e "women's corners" Places wher'
the largest number of women and
children pass are considered idea
sites for candy stores, while places
where the passersby are predomi
d nately masculine are the spot:
l, where cigar stores can be most ad
vantageously planted. He told o.
raking in saloon leases by tn,
wholesale in practically all OF tn
large cities of the United States.
with chains of cigar stores, gar
lands of candy stores, series OF de
partment stores, strings Of hotels
restaurants and theaters. and con
series of barber shops many people
.e are beginning to speculate upor
just what is going to be left de-
tached and individual by the owners
of large uninvested money. Herr
in New York. which OF all American
cities, takes, the least visible hole
k upon the ground. the group idea ha!
become overwhelmingly dominant
The barber shops owner Of yester
day is the man who shaves you to-
ldah. II all gives one the sensa.