The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-08
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below normal for this time OF year,
AMI all records for January 7 were
smashed. The minimum Of today 3
degrees below zero-was eelipsed
January Is, 1883, when the therm om-
eter reading was 81 degrees below
Zero Sunday the wind varied some
what, the southeast being the prevail
IT VINO direction Early this morn
ing the velocity was o miles an hour
and the direction northwest
Fuel Situation Serious.
The fuel situation in Topeka is
grave The gas was lower than ever
this morning On Jefferson street,
where there has been gas up to this
time. the supply was reported as being
nil In Potwin there is but fiuctuat-
ing flicker. In the Lowman Hill dis
poor but an Improvement on that of
some other sections in the city.
In many homes families have had
to eat their meals on the installment
pIan-thaf is the heat was insufficient
to cook the entire meal at one time.
This morning Topeka was facing
the possibility of coal famine. Thous-
ands of orders for coal have been re-
ceived by the dealers within the last
day or two, and all day Sunday the
delivery wagons were on the go, but
/ by this morning the local supply was
practically exhausted.
THE orders are coming in today at
the rate of one a minute said l. A.
Gillette. of the firm of Gillette & Mich
olson, this morning. We've got more
orders than we have coal We are hon.
ing to receive four or five loads of coal
/ todayfn fact this should have been here
Ssturday-but the railroads don't seem
to be making any. effort to hurry the
orders"
It was reported at ]. B. BILLIARDS. coal
YARD that the supply of soft coal was
practically exhausted, and that no more
coal was expected until Tuesday noon.
The Southwestern Coal and Fuel COM
pany had also experienced a shortage,
but received ten cars at noon. Teams
worked I'll cay Sunday making deliver
les. Haven't time to talk to YOU
was the reply made by a represent atfve
Of the Topeka Coal company when ask
ed relative to the situation.
Plumbers Are Busy.
The plumbers are just as busy as the
coal men, They were likewise busy Sun
day; in effort to relieve the situation
Hundreds Of houses are frozen in To
peka." said L. b. johnson. of the finn
of Johnson & Beck. 1.-The situation is
pretty bad
Topeka is pretty nearly all frozen
up said a representative of the Mood
every night-awfully busy
Poor Need Fuel.
THE fuel situation among the poor
of the city is grave said Secretary
Guy T. Justis. Of the Provident Associ-
alton, and there are a good many peo-
pie suffering hunger.
I'VE have purchased some wood from
a man just outside of the city, and by
tomorrow we hope to have our wood
pile at the northeast corner of Fourth
and Jackson streets in full operation.
The fuel heap will give employment to
10 or Is men a day.
This morning the office is full of
men who are looking for work Several
a n
today in caring for the worthy
poor who are in distress As a result
of the articles published in the State
Journal we received some supplies this
ed by those who are in need of them :
c. t. Harris, of the. Harris Laundry
went Is miles south or the
city accompanied by another man on
companion shot 100 rabbits, so of which |
were presented to the Provident Assoc
citation. Mr.. Harris drove to Topeka /
in an open wagon with the |
thermometer below the zero point
Give Up Church Service.
Many of the churches of the city
found it necessary to cut out the regu- /
lar services. Several churches an /
aounced prior to Sunday that no ser |
vices would be held, but in other in |
stances the idea Of. holding services was I
not abandoned until Sunda-- morning /
when it was found that heating the /
places Of worship was an inlp0ssiblllty. 1
At the First Congregational church, |
although the radiators were almost /
red hot and a congregation gathered, +
it was so cold that services were out
Of the question with the exception of |
those of the Sunday school and the /
Christian Endeavor societies
The First Methodists held no SER
vice on account of not being able to |
heat the Grand opera house. and the /
slight illness of DIR. f. L. Loveland.
o-f1x~f or47e 7T-Rf
there were no services. The congre-
cation of the Quinton Heights Baptist
church adjourned to the home OF g. I
T. Hornsby, 2422 Lincoln street, in the /
and to the home of e. L.
2518 Clay street, in the even /
Ing.
es: East Side Methodist, First Bap-
list Westminster Presbyterian. Euclid
Avenue Methodist, Unity, English L1u-
Lheran, Church of the Assumption.
Grace Cathedral and First United
Brethren