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The evening world., 1922-02-27
ROUND TABLE TALK
ON GAS RATE ASKED
BY BYPRENDERGAST
Counsel O'Brien, for City, Will
Not Attend if Session Is
Not Public.
EFFORT TO SAVE TIME.
But Gas Companies Also Have
Reservation, and Deny City
Is Party to Matter.
EFFORT TO SAVE TIME.

In an effort to curtail the long
drawn out hearings OF the gas rate
and gas standard questions, which
have been before the Public Service
Commission for the past six months
ut an enormous expense to the con-
sumers, to the gas companies and to
the Public Service Commission,
conferenee was opened to-day at the
commissions offices, No. 80 Church
Street, at which the gas companies
and the Corporation Counsel, repre-
senting the consumers, met the full
board Of FIVE Commissioners for a
round table talk.
The conference was called by
Chairman Prendergast, who outlined
in a letter to the Corporation Counsel
and also to the gas companies attor-
neys that he considers 1t very i'm
portant to minimize the time required
to obtain the facts which will bring
about some agreement as to rates and
standard.
Corporation Counsel O'Brien will
attend the conference, he said, only if
the conference is held in a public
room and stenographer is present
to record the minutes. He has taken
Ghe position that the public has long
enough been suffering from a too high
rate for gas and also from an inferior
quality of gas supplied. Another
reservation which Mr.. O'Brien makes
is that the city be permitted to make
a survey of the physical plants Of the
several gas companies and to have
access to the gas companies books.
William l.. Ransom, counsel for the
seventy nine gas companies involved
in the question Of rates and standard,
takes the position that his clients are
ready and willing "to put all the facts
on the table" and to justify the $1.25
rate for the Consolidated Company
and its subsidiaries. The attorney
for the gas corporations insists. how
ever, that "the City of New York is
not a proper party. but is only seek
ing an effort to take n conspicuous
part in something which the courts
hold does not concern the munich
pality."
Unless the city authorities waive
their right to be a legal party to the
gas rate question, Mr. Ransom has
declared, the gas companies will in
sist on keeping both Mr.. O'Brien's
and Mr.. Hirshfield's representatives
Off the gas companies properties
"just as we do other intruders and
would-be wrongdoers."
The evening world., 1922-02-27
PLANS TO RUSH TRIAL
OF GILMAN'S SLAYER
sufficient Evidence for Early In-
dIctmentS, Says Prosecutor.

District Attorney John f.. Ruston and
Assistant District Attorney Salvaggi put
before the Kings County Grand jury To-
day sufficient evidence to warrant the
Indictment OF William and Frank Evans,
John Kcogh and stephen Collins, who
confessed the murder OF Paul j. Gil
man In his drug store at No 1862 Court
street. Mr.. Ruston said he would have
the men arraigncd for pleading as soon
AS the indictments were drawn in legnl
form and would ask Judge Martin in
the County Court TO fix the trial for this
week.
Mr. Ruston has cancelled all engage
urnts TO speak at dinners or other
functions until further notice. The bust
ness OF his office has become so heavy
since January he said that he cannot
give time to the preparation Of ad-
dresses The investigation iuto the
collapse OF the American Theatre is 70
be- resumed before Magistrate McAdoo
Friday morning and Mr. Ruston in
tends TO conduct the examinations him
s.,t as well as TO try the Gilman muir
der case,
The evening world., 1922-02-27
BN Fnu .StereRSOn.

How shall young man approach
his prospective partner when propos-
ing a whirl around the dance hall?
How shall he encirclc her waist
with his arm and where shall the
palm of his free arm rest? At just
what angle between her shoulders?
How shall the young woman drapc
her arm about his shoulder while the
two are embraced during the dance
How far apart shall nc ana she re-
main while they are doing the SHIN
my, the turkey trot, the bunny hug
and all the cheek to cheek dances
but stop-OFF with the dance
there won't be any more cheek to-
cheek dancing if Canon William
Shcate Chase. rector OF Christ
Church, Brooklyn, and President of
the New York Civic League has his
way.
Next Tuesday Canon Chase is going
to Albany 10 introduce bill he has
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drafted which viii call upon the law
to pose dancers Mr.. Chase admits
that New York has a very good law
prohibiting improper dancing for
dance halls, but this law does not
state definitely what the proper posi-
tions are. His bill does.
81 don't care how much young pco-
pie shimmy, do the turkey trot, the
bunny hug or any of the other million
varieties Of dances If they only take
the proper positions and cling to a
few forms of etiquette" declared
Canon Chase when | talked with him
at his home, No. 4Sl bedford Avenue,
Brooklyn. Dancing is no crime no
matter what fancy names you give II.
but something must be done to keep
young men and women embracing as
Gorillas and dancin" these African
The evening world., 1922-02-27
LINDSAY INDICTED
|, FOR Fleeing RICH
WOMEN IN STOCKS
One Victim Complains She
Got No Satisfaction When
She Told District Attorney.

An indictment was filed with Judge
Mulqueen this afternoon charging Az
fred A. Lindsay. accused by wealthy
women Of having swindled them out
OF $67s. 900. with grand larceny OF
$4,000 from Mrs. w. II. Arnold OF
No. 153 West 7sd Street Dec. 81 last.
The Grand Jury also heard the tes-
timony of Mrs. Lillian NJ. Duke Of
the Belnord, who lost S375,OO0, and
Mrs. Dorothy Atwood ofINo. 247 West
72d Street. who lost 5000, 900, and ad-
journed for the day.
Mrs. Atwood tainted while waiting
to go before the Grand Jury in the
office Of Assistant District Attorney
Richard Murphy.
Carlotta Nillson, the actress, sum
moned with six other women to the
District Attorneys Office, asserted
to-day that the whole proceeding
seemed farcical to her. She said she
had gone to the District Attorneys
office several months ago to com
plain about Lindsay and had been
curtly dismissed as not having any
Ease
Does the District Attorneys Of
fee" she asked, Judge the criminal
by the quality of the accusations
brought against him or by volume
OF complaints. Why was II necessary
to wait for ten or twenty others 10
complain before am told that have
a just complaint and action is to be
taken in my behalf. Now. when the
man has run away and nobody knows
where he is, we are brought down
here to sit around all day while
young men ask us our ages and other
unlmportant questions"
Miss Nlllson said she lost $40, 900
through Lindsay. The other women
were Miss Florence James OF No. %
East seth Street, $1,000; Miss Mar
garet Bogart of No. Is Central Park
West. $4,000; Miss Helen Burnett OF
No. 4S West 4Sth Street, $Sl 900;
Mrs. Adelaide V. Rice OF Riverdale.
who puts her loss at $4,000. was
unable to appear because OF the
weather. She is seventy-five years
old.
DIR. A. Enlind. named by some OF
tho complainants as having intro
duced them to Lindsay, denied this
charge. He was at the District At
torney's office, though not under
subpoena. He said he had treated
Lindsay for granulated eyelids and
Lindsay had afterward sent him
nearly fifty patients, among who were
the complainants. He had himself
"lost thousands OF dollars and had
not yet reconciled himself to the un-
derstanding that Lindsay was 9
criminal. -
Major Redondo Sutton, who en-
trusted $1,000 to Lindsay and then
forced him to give it back by threat
enlng prosecution, appeared at the
District Attorneys office to-day to aid
the other victims in any way he
could.
The evening world., 1922-02-27

poses is the various restrictions on the
ability of the gas company to make
a binding contract. All contracts are
subject to the approval of the Public
Utility Commission, and it Is not GER
tain that a contract approved by the
Public Utility Commission can be for
a longer period than the life of that
commission. This has proved a great
obstacle in trying to induce the steel
companies or the coke ovens making
coke for metallurgical purposes to
either locate their coke ovens in or
near the city where the gas can be
used or to build the necessary pipe
lines to carry gas to the cities. They
are unwilling to make these invest
ments unless they can contract for
gas for n period of years sufficient to
enable them to earn. we will say, a
sufficient return on a long pipeline
or to amortize the investment over
period of years.
The evening world., 1922-02-27

"While it had been pointed out re-
peatodly in England that our present
standards were highly absurd, pro-
ducinE an economic waste which BEN
Gifted no one, nevertheless nothing
but war necessity waa able TO force
England to the realization OF this, hut
once having realized this IL resulted In
legislation permitting the Board or
Trade to abrogate all candle power
and B. T. L. standards and permit
each gas company, with tho consent
of the Board OF Trade, to manuIac-
factory to the consumer and yet the
one that the gas company can manu-
faCture to the greatest advantage. II
is unfortunate, however, that the one
country recognized as having the
greatest inventive genius is still
handicapped by these obsolete stand
ards. Nevertheless, a great deal OF
work is already in progress here to-
ward the creation of chemical plants
using coal as their raw product and
all having gas as on rf their by
products. One of these processes,
which | understand is already at work
on a commercial scale, Il aimed 10
supply an artificial fuel which viii
take the place of anth ucite coal aud
which is made from bituminuous coal.
Possibly the ability 60 sell the gas
from these chemical plants will be q
The evening world., 1922-02-27

eff we continue to work under
our present obsolete and unneces-
sary standards, it is not so much
a question of how we are goina to
have a cheaper supply of gas but
the real question is how we are
going to prevent continual in
crease in the price of gas.
THE customer is no longer in
terested in the matter of candle
power. The same thing that gives
luminosity to the open flame is
the thing which bIackens the ket-
ties and brings many of the
troubles which lower the efficiency
Of the gas in practical use.
Public regulations regarding tn,
storage of oil in or near cities are sucl
that large stocks Of oil cannot be car
ried, and storage tanks must be of {
character and size costing severa
times as much as the type of tanl
used for the storage of oil in the fields
Coal gas plants require still
heavier investment per thousand cubi
foot OF gas made. and the gas making
apparatus must be maintained at
uniform temperature throughout tn
life of the equipment and must 70
economical success make gas at
uniform heat a single shut down o
a retort plant of by-prOduct cox
ovens creates a damage.
The evening world., 1922-02-27

"the State Racing Commission and
Tho Jockey Club have rules and reg
ulatlons which must be considered re-
Garding postures and method of rae
ing. II we can control the posture
Of fighters and the jockeys, why can't
we control the gestures OF dancing
crowds?"
The evening world., 1922-02-27
COP PICKS UP SECOND
STOLEN CAR IN WEEK
Taxi License on Private Gar
Makes Policeman Investigate.

Taxi License on Private Car
Makes Policeman Investigate.
Noticing touring car with "A license
beginning with 0, which is not issued
Tor cars Of that type. Patrolman Charles
q. WHITEWATER of the Morrisania Sta
ton, last night arrested the occupants,
Irving Reisner. No. 1870 Wilkins Avenue,
u mechanician. and Herman Steiner No.
1901 Park Avenue. The car was one
that was stolen from Milton A. Millar.
No. 564 West 160th Street, Ave weeks
ago. Reisner said he got 1t from a man
who had left it in a garage where he
worked.
Winterhalter a few nights ago arrested
four men going into a chop suey place
at 149th Street and Third Avenue. They
were in a stolen car and were identified
as the men who held up, beat and robbed
Grand knight w. II. Rooney of the X.
Il c., living at No. 1144 Franklin Avenue
on Feb. 19. Their cases will be pre-
sented to the Bronx Grand Jury to-day.
The evening world., 1922-02-27
VIII Reduce Costs and Satisfy Consumers

"The gas used in open tips for illuminating
purposes is due entirely to shiftlessness,
for by the use of mantle lamps the illu-
minarion would be increased seven
times"
Although conditions have entirely
changed, we are still working under the
same standards created at time when
gas was used exclusively for Illuminating
purposes and in open burners"
The evening world., 1922-02-27

I'm making coal gas only about
20 per cent. of the energy value
Of the coal is converted into gas,
and therefore five tons Of coal
must be handled to produce the
same energy in the form Of gas as
would be produced by single ton
If the coal were completely gasi.
fled.
I'VE have seen from the above
that the important thing to Sc
cure cheap gas, and in fact to
prevent other increases in gas, is
to do away with our present
standards and adopt rational
standards.
"It is also important to avail
ourselves Of the present enormous
supplies of by-Product gas
namely, gas which is made un-
avoidably in manufacturing other
products. This is important, not
simply as a means Of a cheap sup
ply Of gas, but to enable many
gas companies throughout the
country, which are now so near
the point Of bankruptcy that they
are unable to finance new gene
rating equipment, to enlarge their
plants to meet the demands that
are being made upon them.
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great factor in making them n COM
merclal success and will go n long
ways toward putting America on a
parity with the foreign countries In
producing raw chemical material from
coal.
Large quantities Of wood are car
bonized in this country to produce
charcoal and raw chemical com
pounds. The gas, however, does not
conform to out present absurd stand
ards, although it would make a very
satisfactory gas for tie use of the
customer.
The evening world., 1922-02-27
POLICEMAN GATHERS IN no
BOTTLES OF COGNAC

Two men who were carrying bundles
out Of n restaurant at No. 1li3 Man
haitian Avenue, Brooklyn. into a taxi
cab to-day were questioned by Patrol
man Hofstadt of the Grcenpoint Avenue
Station to-day. He opened the bundles
and found they contained bottles OF
coGnac. There We're 40 quarts. He
arrested the men. who said they were
Thomas Chronis OF No. 1853 East 4Sth
Street, Manhattan. and Nicholas Eap-
Brooklyn.
The evening world., 1922-02-27

"There is also the added obstacle
that only the richer portion Of the
gas made by by-product coke ovens
can meet the present standards for
gas, and therefore half or more OF the
gas produced in by-product coke
ovens must be thrown away or de-
voted to some inferior use although
just as satisfactory in every way for
the supply of city customers. 1t is
customary now to use what is known
as the leaner portions of the gas 10
fire these ovens. but the ovens could
he just as well fred, and in some
cases are fired. by the use of cheap
producer gas having, we VIII say l2o
b. T. us per cubic foot.
1T should be our effort TO have
| these coke ovens either located in or
near cities that can use tie gas or to
pipe the gas from these ovens to the
cities and to utilize all the gas that Is
made and not simply the richer por-
| ton of it,
| III the steel business were running
normally it would probably require
half again as much coke as can be
made in all of our by-pr-duct coke
ovens, and, in the interest OF Conser-
vation, all of this metallurPical coke
should he made in by-product coke
ovens. permitting the saving Of the
gas, tar and ammonia.
"coal is the great source Of
raw material for the chemical in
dustry. More products can be
produced from coal thar perhaps
could be printed on a full page OF
The World. However, tc secure
these different products necessi
tates the distilIation Of coal in
many dissmilar ways, and yet
p our present gas standards Vir'
tually compel all coal used for
gas making purposes to work un.
der constant conditions and fixed
temperatures, producing only
Ach products as can be proposed
under these conditions.
During the war Germany was cut
off from an adequate supply OF OIL
and was compelled to res, 1T 10 the
known processes and what new pro-
ccsses she could develop to secure
not only all classes OF Oh from coal
but many of the other chcmlcal
products needed.
The evening world., 1922-02-27
STATE TO GET $5O,eOs
FROM MRS. DYER'S ESTATE
Inheritance Tax Assessed on Prop
erty Left by Widow.

erty Left by Widow.
Charles c. Feuno of White Plains,
Deputy Attorney for the State Tax
Commission. has filed a report with
Surrogate Slater of Westchester Coun-
ty which shows that the estate of the
late Mrs. Mary J. Dyer of Rye will pay
state inheritance taxes of S5O.9OS.
Mrs. Dyer was the widow Cf HOratio
p. Dyer, owner of extensive property in
Baltimore. According to the report. of
Transfer Tax Appraiser William c.
Clarke she left personal property val
ued at S1,325,7Sl. and her estate at
Rye is appraised at S67, 900.
Mrs. Marie NJ. Govern, daughter of
Mrs, Dyer, gets S1.12O,6OS and pays the
State tax OF ,37i. The residue will
80 to nephews and neces who pay the
state q tax Of $9,534
The evening world., 1922-02-27

"By- product coke ovens for the
manufacture of mctallurgical coke are
not new, but have been used for many
decades in Europe. However, their
use in this country has only come
about on an extensive scale during
the last two decades.
The great obstacle that prevents the
use of this by product gas forcityp pur-
The evening world., 1922-02-27
BURGLAR ALARM GOES
OFF AS JIMMY" SLIPS
Prisoner Says He Wanted Clothing
to Help Him Get Job.

TO Help Him Get Job.
The slip OF a screwed driver used TO
jimmy the skylight on a four-story loft
building at No. SO Canal Street, occu-
pied by NJ. Welinsky. clothier. caused
a signal to register at the Holmes Pro-
tective Agency last night. Five minutes
later Joseph Cohen. twenty-four. out of
work and homeless, was arrested as he
emerged from a building at No. 80 Ell
bridge Street, which connects over the
roof with the Canal Street building.
The police said Cohen admitted at
tempting to enter the place TO get cloth
ing he hoped would help him get job.
They said he had a lashlight and
large screW-dTiveT.
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Canon Chase admitted that he was
open to ridicule on the ground OF at
tempting to regulate through statute
the conduct Of. the individual.
But in regard to regulating dane
ing posture I have two very good ex-
amples in law back OF mo which are
more arbitrary and cXacting," an
nounced the rector. "In boxing the
International Sporting Club is per-
mitted by law to fix rules for boxing
The position which the fighters shall
take, no hitting below the belt and
all those things are matter OF law.
Then" concluded Canon Chase
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Blu SOphie Irene Loeb.

has pointed out the chaotic condition
respecting the price OF gas in this
city, ranging from $120 to $3.50 in
price, and with nearly every gas cor
poration either before the Public Ser
vice Commission or in the courts
seeking higher gas rates.
As a remedy for this annoying I'M
position on the public a change Of
gas standards from the present ex-
pensive 22 candle power method
to the cheaper method Of British
thermal units (B. T. W has been
waged. The British thermal unit
method will furnish all the lighting
needs to the average consumer with
the aid of mantle burners anc at the
same time will give a higher heating
quality.
BY this change of standards the
price of gas can be materially re-
duced.
And now comes the possibility OF
adjustment by the Public Service
Commission and gas corporations IN
securing even lower priced gas by
considering commercially gas as q
bv-product All gas made from COIL
has a number Of chemicals in it and
# all these chemicals were obtained
from the coal, gas would then become
a by-product, according to the ex-
perts. rather than an original product
and could therefore be made cheaper,
with the resulting benefit to the con-
sumner.
There is a bill now pending before
the Legislature which would permit
the gas corporations to change the
standard of gas and to make contracts
for the by-product gas. AS an exam
pie the gas emanating from the coke
ovens to-day could be sold for few
cents, but according to the prevailing
methods. the coke ovens and gas COM
ranies being so far apart, the gas gen.
Grated goes up in the air.
As to this change of standards and
the possibilities of lower price gas, l
sought the opinion of Henry L. Doher
ty. who sets forth the following salient
facts as to what can be done by chang
ing gas standards and in securing n
POSSIBLE lower price gas. Mr.. Doher
~, as President of the City Service
Company, has provided some 200 cities
iu the United States and Canada with
various sorts of public service utilities
svch as gas, electric railways, &C.
For many years Mr.. Doherty has
given a close study OF the gas problem
and he recommends a change OF stan q.
dards as one of the first and most pro-
gressve means Of stabilizing the gas
industry and securing gas for the con-
sumers at the lowest price possible.
He urges patience on the part OF the
public in permitting gas corporations
TO adjust themselves to the most pro
grcssive methods.
He SAYS: I'm spite OF the fact that
conditions have entirely changed, VIC
are still working under the same
standards created at time when gas
was used exclusively for Illuminating
purposes and entirely in open burners.
To-day in some cities not moro than
20 per cent. of the gas is used for
Illuminating purposes and S5 per cent.
of the gas so used is used in mantle
lamps, leaving only per cent. OF the
total gas that must be enriched TO
comply with the need for which it is
used,
The gas used in open tips for IL
Eliminating purposes is due entirely to
shiftlessness, for by the use of mantle
lamps the illuminations would be in
| creased seven times and the customer
would be actually benented by being
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thus forced to use mantle lamps
"At the time the standards under
which we now work were created
there was an abundance of high grade
coal to be had at prices practically the
same as the prices prevailing for what
we now consider as inferior grade
Goals. Many gas companies through
out the country cannot meet the
standards created many decades ago
except by buying high grade coal.
commanding a premium price at the
mines, and frequently requiring ship
ments for long distances and at great
expense.
To-day there are no waste products
In the oil business, and what has been
known as 'gas-oil' for years is now
the product from which the refners
produce synthetic gasoline.
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and escape without moral. mental or
physical pollution" declared the rec
tor. 'and l am going to do all in my
power to see this bill through"
The evening world., 1922-02-27
TCRINIhAG"
DANCING

have to teach them IT. nothing else
will"
The evening world., 1922-02-27

"The bill now before the Legislature
permitting gas companies to contra ct
for gas created by plants primarily to
supply other commodities. is only one
Of number of reforms that must be
accomplished, ana probably all Of
them will require more or less legis-
lation.
"The next important step will be ia
empower the commission, with the
consent OF the municipality, to enter
into contracts with he public utility
companies whereby a base rate for
service is fixed and then for all re-
ductidns that can be made to the pub
lie the company will be allowed to
earn n greater rate of return.
The evening world., 1922-02-27

"The real question Is
how we are going TO
prevent q continual in.
crease In the price of
gas"
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supplied with Il non-luminous gas an,
thus forced to use mantle lamps.