Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-12-13
COAL
But NO LABOR
annapolis Has In Its Midst" Some
500 Tons of Black Nuggets
NO MEN TO HAUL 1T
What Is To Be Done Is The Question?
Does Patriotism Run
To Coal?
NO MEN TO HAUL 1T

1t isn't question of no coal" here
i is question OF no labor to haul
and oeliver it. This propagation con
fronts every family with a cold house
| and . nome without warmth
According to NE Fuel AdminIstra-
or for Annapolis and Anne Arundel
County Mr.. S. s Martin, there are TO-
day in the City of Annapolis some 500
IONS of coal at the several coal yards,
where the coal dealers declare they
nave no labor to deliver it and can
set none
The question is now up TO the City
If Annapolis Does patriotism run
o coal?" Are men who can afford to
give few hours day patriotic
enough to drive coal carts. or are the
Boy Scouts willing to do it?
Something must be done to deliver
the coal to people willing TO pay for
it, who need it. absolutely, not to
those who have anywhere from 10 to
20 tons in their cellars and coal bins
and are crying for more
There are people here, good, thrifty,
working people, who have suffered
from cold because of no coal the past
week or more Families where the
only warmth that could be given
babies and little children was the un-
satisfactory heat 90 from coal oil
stove. Yet there was 500 tons of coal
in Annapolis
What is to be done? There are idle
men, white and colored, who should
be commandeered to deliver this coal.
1t is said the work going on at the
Naval Academy has taken every avail
able workman at high wages, and la
Dor in the city cannot be procured
Through the intercession of Cap.
tain Eberle, Superintendent of the
Naval Academy, some six carloads OF
coal are on the way here. Now what
is to be done when 1t gets here, il
there is no labor to deliver it? Be-
sides, what will the government say?
Does anybody with common sense
think for a moment that the United
States Fuel Administration is going to
permit coal 10 come here and to re-
main in the cars. or at the coal yards?
Certainly not. If Annapolis cannot
deliver its quota of coal then coal will
be sent to cities and towns where it
can be delivered
A grave matter is put to this city,
and some action must be taken speed
lily. Again, coal is being sold by the
.bushel basket or bag, and in small
quantities to the poor and those who
will go for it, There's money in it,
Mr.. S. S. Martin. local chairman for
the Fuel Administration for this city,
will appoint two or three assistants
in a few days. and thorough inves-
tigation will be made
Short weight has been reported.
Hereafter, the Fuel Administration
will require all cart loads of coal to
be weighed before delivery to the
purchaser.
Now that the work of fuel admins
tration has begun, there will be
rafting of the dry bones among deal
ers and others.
II is necessary to save coal.
Saving 0f Coal.
In these strenuous times when men
in Washington. are working day and
night to get movements of coal
through to sources of greatest need,
the public does not seem to do their
part as thoroughly as they might
Points to be kept in. mind for saw
ing fuel are: Temperature in house
regulated automatically and not al
lowed over 20 degrees at any time.
At night 60 degree and registers or
radiators in cold sleeping rooms shut
off. The proper weather stripping of
doors and windows means a great
saving of coal
In the management of the furnace,
give it some personal attention and
do not depend wholly on servants
The ashes should be sieved daily
through a screen not over one-half
inch mesh and all unburned or partly.
burned portion remaining on screen
carefully picked out and burned over
1t is well known to the technical
world that unseiyed ashes contains
from % TO so per cent of fixed carbon
Compare the ash bulk with an equal
amount of coal which has IS to 81
per cent carbon and you can see that
if the ash contains 40 per cent carbon
it is almost half the heating value
Of coal Should this go to the ash
barrel? 1t viii pay 25 cents per hour
for time taken to remove this carbon
from ash. The radiating heating sur
face Of the furnace should be thor
oughly cleaned of dust and scale
weekly and the damper opened as lit
tie as possible An excess of air
carries away Is to 20 per cent Of the
heat units Of the coal and is an abb
solute waste When you consider that
in all power plants OF any size a skill
ed engineer is at all times sampIing
the ash and determing the carbon in
the same, as well as at frequent in
.tervals making an analysis Of the
chimney gases TO detect The great
waste due to excess air, the air sup
ply will be seen to be very important