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THE CITY OF NEW YORK
DEPARTMENT OF WATER SUPPLY, GAS AND ELECTRICITY
Report
OF
DELOS F. WILCOX
DEPUTY COMMISSIONER
TO THE
COMMISSIONER OF WATER SUPPLY, GAS AND ELECTRICITY
IN RELATION TO
The Citizens Water Supply Company
of Newtown
UNIV. OF CALIFORNIA
OCTOBER 7, 1916
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
PAGE
Map of City of New York showing district served by Citizens Water Sup-
ply Company of Newtown ..
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I. Corporate history and franchises of the company.
II. Causes and extent of friction in the relations of the city, the company and
the water consumers of the Second Ward of Queens..
(a) Dispute about purchase of water by the city..
(b) Dispute as to interconnections and use of the city's mains by the
company..
(c) Dispute as to hydrant rentals and fire protection..
(d) Dispute as to domestic service rates and practices.
(e) Dispute as to possible competition by the city..
(f) Dispute as to purchase of the company's plant by the city......
(g) Dispute as to the city's obligations to the citizens of the Second
Ward...
III. History of water purchase contracts with the city.
(a) First contract, May 19, 1898...
(b) Second contract, May 29, 1901.
(c) Period of no contract, search for new sources of supply, and con-
struction of city's 20-24 inch main in Queens Boulevard, 1902–
1907....
Map showing route of the city's 20-24 inch Queens Boulevard main
laid through the Second Ward of Queens in 1904 for the use of
the Citizens Water Supply Company of Newtown in delivering
water to the city.
Map of the trunk mains of the Citizens Water Supply Company
connecting Station No. 3, Station No. 8 and Station No. 7;
Alley Pipe Line constructed in 1906; East Alley Pipe Line
constructed in 1907...
(d) Third contract, July 9, 1907.
(e) Negotiations with the company for an additional supply of water,
and construction of the city's 30-inch main in Queens Boulevard
Map showing route of city's 30-inch Queens Boulevard main con-
structed through the Second Ward of Queens in 1910 for the
use of the Citizens Water Supply Company in delivering water
to the city.
(f) Plan for introducing Croton water into Queens and negotiations for
the use of the East River gas tunnel as a means of conveying it to
Long Island City, 1910-1913...
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Map showing route of the trunk main of the Citizens Water Supply
Company connecting Station No. 9 with the East Alley Pipe
Line, known as the Little Neck Pipe Line, constructed in 1911.
(g) Competition in the Second Ward, and the city's contract with the
Urban Water Supply Company, 1910–1913....
Map showing the location of the Urban Water Supply Company's
pumping station and distribution mains. ...
Table 1-Water sold to city by Urban Water Supply Company....
(h) Negotiations with the Citizens company for a fourth contract, and
final discontinuance of the purchase of water, 1912-1914......
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(i) Summary of the financial results to the Citizens company of its
sale of water to the city, 1898-1914....
66
Table 2-Citizens Water Supply Company of Newtown-Relation
of city's water purchase contracts to gross earnings, 1898 to
1915, inclusive.
IV. History of interconnections with and use of the city's mains by the company
(a) Alleged unauthorized use of water by the company in Ridgewood
Heights, 1896-1906...
(b) Use of city's trunk mains in Queens Boulevard in connection with
delivery of water for use in Long Island City.....
(c) Negotiations in regard to the Queens Boulevard 20-24 inch main
and interconnection of the distribution systems of the city and
the company, 1914.....
(d) The order of February 4, 1916 ....
Map showing the locations of the interconnections between the city's
mains and those of the Citizens Water Supply Company, and
the extension of the company's trunk mains required by the
commissioner's order of February 4, 1916.............. ...opposite
(e) Financial issues involved in the company's use of the city's main
in Queens Boulevard.....
V. History of the city's hydrant rental contracts with the company and pay-
ments for fire protection down to April 30, 1916....
(a) Original town of Newtown ten-year contract, 1894...
(b) Unsuccessful negotiations for the extension of contract to thirty
years, 1895.....
86
(c) Extension of contract to twenty years, 1897.....
87
(d) Supplementary contract with the Board of Public Improvements
of the City of New York, 1898.....
(e) Payments to the company under hydrant rental contracts to Jan-
uary 6, 1914...
90
(f) Department recommendations for additional fire protection, and
negotiations for a new hydrant rental contract, 1913-1914....
Table 3-"Figures showing valuation of fire or public protection in
the Second Ward of Queens," submitted by Mr. J. Edward
Meyer, of the Citizens Water Supply Company of Newtown,
March 11, 1914.............
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93
(g) Period without contract pending determination by the commis-
sioner of the cost of fire protection, 1914-1916.....
VI. Methods of determining the cost of fire protection..
97
(a) Hydrant rentals in New York heretofore based upon guesswork
and bargaining...
(b) City's policy as regards the water department compared with its
policy toward the private water companies...
(c) The Wisconsin method.....
(d) Method based upon the assumption that fire protection is the
primary service...
101
(e) Method followed in the Queens County Water Company's case
and adopted here.
102
(f) Comparison of Citizens company's past revenues from fire protec-
tion with findings in Queens County case.....
103
Table 4-Gross revenues of the Citizens Water Supply Company of
Newtown from all sources other than city's water purchase con-
tracts compared with receipts on account of public fire protec-
tion, 1896 to 1915, inclusive....
VII. History of the company's rates for private consumers and of its rules and
regulations, and comparison of its rates with city frontage rates and
city meter rates.
105
(a) Original rates and regulations, 1894-1905. . . . .
(b) Adoption of city frontage rates as minimum rates, 1905.................
107
(c) Complaints of consumers, and rate case of 1911..........
(d) Commissioner Thompson's order of July 13, 1911...
(e) Comparison of company's rates with city rates...
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Table 5-Comparison of per capita payments for water for private
consumption in area supplied by Citizens Water Supply Com-
pany of Newtown and areas supplied by city or at city rates..
Table 6-Analysis of water consumption in a one-family house at
Elmhurst and of the charges therefor by the Citizens Water
Supply Company of Newtown, 1909–1916..
Table 7-Citizens Water Supply Company of Newtown-Summary
of water charges in houses of G. X. Mathews, Ridgewood dis-
trict, Second Ward of Queens...
Table 8-Comparison of city meter rates, city frontage rates, Citi-
zens Water Supply Company's rates, Jamaica Water Supply
Company's frontage rates and rates charged by the Sage Founda-
tion Homes Company, based upon an analysis of the accounts of
the Sage Foundation for water consumed for domestic purposes
at Forest Hills Gardens during the year extending from Novem-
ber 1, 1914, to November 1, 1915.............
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133-138
(f) General conclusions as to the company's rates and practices..
VIII. Commissioner's authority to fix rates and attitude of the company and its
consumers toward the exercise of this power.
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141
(a) Water companies not subject to state regulation, but to city regu-
lation as to their rates and practices...