New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-10-11
CHEAP SUPPLY IN BROOKLYN
TWO PLACES WHERE THE POOR COULD
GET 1T FOR 10 CENTS A PAIL
COUNTY BUILDINGS SUFFER.

In two sections of Brooklyn yesterday the poor
were getting coal at 10 cents a pail Coal was
sold at this rate at Samuel Thompsons Nephews,
at Columbia and Fulton SITS. and at Thomas
Taylor's yard. at Kent-ave and Rush-st. These
firms received the coal ON condition that ii
should be distributed only to the poor at the
price mentioned. and to grocers who would
agree not to charge more than 10 cents a pail
for it.
The good news spread quickly. and before 10
o'clock yesterday morning Samuel Thompsons
Nephews had sold seventy-five half tons to
grocers and people living in the neghborhood.
Other people living miles away heard that coal
selling cheapy in the neighbOrhOod. but
their orders were not taken
When poor women with pals and coal scuttles
applied for coal they were sent to grocers in the
neighborhood who had been supplied with coal
early yesterday morning. They were told that if
the grocers did not sell the coal at 10 cents a
pail come back and report the fact
Commissioner Redfeld yesterday issued orders
that no fires should be lighted In any of the
courts in Brooklyn. There was more OF less
shivering in the courts in consequence. The
Commissioner thinks il is necessary for the
borough TO make saving in coal wherever it is
possible.
Yesterdays cool weather in Brooklyn excited
some apprehension, especially wholesale and
retail dealers. as rule. were found to be in
were entirely empty. and where there was any
coal on hand IL held for sale at a price
which was practically prohbitive.
No additional anthracite reached Brooklyn
yesterday, and there were few shipments of
SOFT coal Wood is advancing in price and the
supply is far below the demand. with relief
In sight
Anthracite was sold in a few places at S25 a
ton, soft coal at so ton. and wood from
Sl4 cord upward. orders for wood i'm many
instances were so numerous that the dealers
sold 1t subject 20 advance in price at time Of
delivery"
Many stores in Brooklyn have sold out their
entire supply of gas stoves and oil heaters.
prominent coal dealer said that even IL the
strike were ended yesterday the price OF coal in
Brooklyn would not reach it's old level for some
weeks to come. and II would be from thirty to
sixty days before the coal supply OF the city
could reach its normal condition.
The effects Of the coal strike have been keeniy
felt I'm the county buildings at Fiatbush. where
the coal supply Is nearly exhausted. Deputy /
Charities Commissioner Teale was busy yesteF-
day trying 20 prevent coal famine. IL was
said there was only TWO days supply on hand
in the public institutions. which included the
Kings County Hospital and the AlmshOuse.
There are about nine hundred inmates in the
remaining buildings. and about six hundred EN-
plOyes are also 10 be provided for
Twenty-Five tons were promised for delivery
yesterday at the county institutions by one coal
firm with which the Charities Department does
business. IL said however. that there was
present possibility of the supply OF coal being
increased further
Deputy Superintendent Mcvean Of the Kings
County Hospital said yesterday that the in
stitutiOn had between fifteen and twenty tons OF
coal on hand which would last about two days
and a half Twenty more tons were expected
yesterday. but at the closest estimate the whole
supply would not last more than a week.