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The Steam Service is to be used for the following purposes:

NOTE. This form of application used for Annual Power Consumers. The "Rules and Regulations" are made a part of this contract.

APPENDIX B

Form of Annual Power Contract-June 1, 1917 Schedule Agreement for Steam Service

TO THE NEW YORK STEAM COMPANY

General Offices: 280 Madison Avenue at 40th Street

The undersigned requests The New York Steam Company to

supply Steam to the premises..

and subject to the Terms and Conditions endorsed hereon, and made a part hereof, agrees:

To pay for such service monthly, or at such other times as the meter may be read, upon presentation of the bill; that the supply shall be measured by the meter provided by the Company; that the rate shall be: ·

For the first 500,000 kals consumed in each monthly period at $.60 per 1000 kals.

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For the next 500,000 kals consumed in each monthly period at $.54 per 1000 kals.

For the next 1,000,000 kals consumed in each monthly period at $.48 per 1000 kals.

For the Excess over 2,000,000 kals consumed in each monthly period at $.45 per 1000 kals.

It is agreed, in consideration of the Company's "Annual Power Service" Rate "B" that the minimum monthly quantity of steam to be paid for by the undersigned shall not be less than 250,000 kals during the term of this agreement and any extension thereof, and that its period shall continue for not less than one year from the beginning of the service supplied hereunder, subject thereafter to termination by either party upon giving thirty days' notice in writing.

Rate "B" applies to "Annual Power Service" (Steam for Power and Heating purposes for 12 consecutive months).

The Steam Service supplied under this schedule is to be used for the following purposes:

Upon the foregoing opinion the Commission, on the 25th day of February, 1918, made the following order:

BY THE COMMISSION.- Hearings having been duly had by and before the Commission in the above-entitled matter, H. H. Whit

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man, Esq., appearing for the New York Steam Company, H. J. Hemmens, Esq., appearing for the New York Edison Company, amicus curiæ, and Godfrey Goldmark and Robert J. Farrington, Esqs., assistant counsel, attending for the Commission; and the Commission being of the opinion and having determined after the proceedings had upon said hearings that the act of the New York Steam Company in canceling by its notice of May 28, 1917, contracts made with it in conformity with its schedule effective November 1, 1916, was unjust and unreasonable and that the schedule of said company effective June 1, 1917, is unjust, unreasonable and unlawful in so far as it does not provide a separate classification for contracts in force on that date and made in conformity with the said schedule effective November 1, 1916; now, therefore, it is

Ordered, That on or before March 5, 1918, said New York Steam Company shall issue, file and post a supplement to its schedule of June 1, 1917, which supplement shall provide that all contracts made in conformity with the schedule of said company effective November 1, 1916, and outstanding on June 1, 1917, unless thereafter canceled by mutual consent, shall be in full force and effect.

Further ordered, That this order shall take effect immediately and shall continue in force until changed or abrogated by further order of the Commission. This order, however, is made without prejudice to further hearings and proceedings in the aboveentitled matter with respect to the reasonableness generally of the basic rates and charges set forth in the said schedule of June 1, 1917, and supplements thereto, and no determination thereon is hereby made.

Further ordered, That on or before March 2, 1918, the New York Steam Company shall notify the Commission in writing whether the terms of this order are accepted and will be obeyed.

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In the Matter of the Hearing on the Motion of the Commission Concerning the Regulations, Practices and Service of THE BROOKLYN HEIGHTS RAILROAD COMPANY; BROOKLYN, QUEENS COUNTY AND SUBURBAN RAILROAD COMPANY; CONEY ISLAND AND GRAVESEND RAILWAY COMPANY; THE CONEY ISLAND AND BROOKLYN RAILROAD COMPANY, and THE NASSAU ELECTRIC RAILROAD COMPANY on Their Respective Lines of Street Surface Railroad

Case No. 1880

(Public Service Commission, First District, March 4, 1918)

Schedules ordered to be filed with the Commission as to operation and routes of certain street railroad companies.

The Commission, after an investigation which began on October 26, 1914, and was continued on various dates thereafter, finds that the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company and other street railroad companies fail to run their cars with sufficient regularity or frequency, and do not have or maintain reasonable schedules for the runs upon several of their lines, and that their time schedules and the service regulations and practices of the said street railroad companies as to the frequency of the running of cars, the extent of overloading, the adjusting of passengers, are inadequate, insufficient and improper, and that the said companies should establish, file and maintain definite schedules representing standards of adequate service on each of the said lines.

BY THE COMMISSION.-A hearing having been duly held in the above-entitled matter on October 26, 1914, and on various adjourned dates thereafter, and the Commission being of opinion that the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company; Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad Company; Coney Island and Gravesend Railway Company; the Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad Company, and the Nassau Electric Railroad Company do not, nor do any of them, run their cars with sufficient regularity or frequency, and do not have or maintain reasonable time schedules for the runs upon various of their lines, and that such time schedules as the companies do have are not based upon proper

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standards for the maintenance of adequate and sufficient service on the said lines, and that the service, regulations, and practices of each of the said street railroad companies, in respect to the frequency of the running of cars, the extent of overloading and congestion of passengers, the failure to provide seats for passengers, and the time schedules for the various runs, are inadequate, insufficient and improper, and the Commission being of the further opinion that the companies, and each of them, should establish, file, observe and maintain definite schedules representing standards of adequate service on each of the said lines;

Now, therefore, it is hereby

Ordered, That the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad Company, Coney Island and Gravesend Railway Company, the Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad Company, and the Nassau Electric Railroad Company, and each of them, be and they are hereby directed to do each and all of the following things, to wit:

(1) Prepare and file with this Commission, within ten days from the date of this order, and three days before their effective date, a schedule or schedules showing, as to each line operated or controlled by each such company, the service which such company has established and is providing, and is willing to and will continue to provide, and the number and headway of cars which such company is operating and is willing to and will continue to operate, as representing and constituting standards of adequate service for the transportation of passengers, on such line, until such time or times as such schedule or schedules shall be changed in the manner hereinafter provided, each of which such schedules shall be signed and attested by the proper officers and agents of the company for which such schedule is submitted, and shall show, as to and for each line:

(a) The route over which the operation of such line is to take place;

(b) The car run numbers assigned to such line;

(c) The terminals and car depots for such line;

(d) The terminii of each run of cars on any part of such line;