Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-05
Inactivity of the Municipal
Commission In Chicago Re-
suits In Shortage
RELIEF NOT AFFORDED NEEDY
Manner in Which Distribution of city's
Coal is Made Excites UnfavorabIe
Comment in chicaso-Many Families
on Verge of Freezins-No Teams to
Haul Coal.

/ Chicago, Feb. 5.-coal for the needy
vas practically shut off yesterday by
the municipal coal commission recently
appointed With an appropriation OF
a result of the seeming apathy of this
/ commission and the city authorities
1 conditions Were reported as becoming
1 desperate among those suffering from
1 lack OF fuel.
An order went out late in the after
noon TO all pumping stations to refuse
to take any more orders for coal until
| the orders already taken were filled. All
/ the orders received aud paid for Tues
| day at the city collectors office lay tied
| up in bundles on the deck of CHIEF
| Clerk Roach in City Engineer Ericson's
| office late yesterday afternoon. and nc
| prediction could be made as to when
| they would reach the pumping stations
| for distribution. Meanwhile the needy
were clamoring for The coal they had
Paid for two days before.
AT the most critical time. when the
blizzard was making the city shiver
Tuesday night, Chairman Kelly, of the
coal commission. Went off to southern
Illinois with Assistant City Engineer
Spangler to Investigate coal mine at
Marion, in which there has been some
talk of investing part of the municipal
appropriation. None of the members of
the coal commission left in the city
seemed to take any great interest in the
relief of the needy.
The manner in which the distribution
of coal is being handled was pronounced
farcical by those who tried to learn
something of it, While the hundreds of
applicants who have paid their money
are on the verge of freezing. the deliv-
cries are being neglected. The reason
given yesterday by City Collector Bran
decker Deputy Collector Mccarthy and
the men in charge of the pumping sta
lions was that the city could secure no
teams for the work. Altho there We're
no teams TO haul coal to the freezing
families, the city secured 4oo teams ana
had them at work hauling snow all day
IL. the down-t town district.
At the Chicago avenue pumping sta-
ton only two teams We're AT WORK yes
terday hauling coal. and, the pies OIL
orders ahead were so high that 1t Would
take two weeks of such teaming ser
vice to catch up. At Fourteenth street
four teams were employed, no more
orders We're being taken. ana IL was
said that 1t would take days TO eaten
up with the accumulated orders. AZ
the Central Park avenue station three
teams were laboriously attending to or
aers taken Monday.
More vigor was shown at the SPRING
field avenue station than at any other
point, and six teams were looking after
the work in a businesslike manner.
Even there more teams could nave peen
used. The Lake View station reported
that it had secured no teams. at the
Sixty Eighth street station no coal was
given out.
The severe snowstorln has again ac-
,entuated the suffering among the de-
pendent of the city. and Superintendent
OF the Bureau of Charities said
that the recent widespread
distress was likely to be more than
duplicated unless more contributions
.ame in. He said that the generous
giving of the people a short time ago
enabled the city and the charity organ
cations to help out every case, but that
he moderate weather later had seemed
% take away the interest. The Bureau
,f Charities has only fifty tons Of coal
eft for distribution.
The Peoples Gas Light and Coke
company has forwarded to Mayor Har- 4
.ison $1,000 to be added to his coal
,elief fund. and President George O.
Knapp Of the company has supplement-
ID this With his personal check fo-
100. Secretary Mayer of the police de-
,artment put the money into immediate .
Use for families that have no money /
o buy fuel.
-AvQR COMMERCIAL EDUCATION.