The sun., 1917-12-17
COAL IS ASSURED
NEW YORK TODAY

That patient Old soul Pa Knicker-
booker was still huddled up TO the steam
radiator last night while he shivered In
his upturned coat collar and blew upon
his stinened fingers, but he was warm
ing his soul with reassuring messages
mat came In from folks that ought TO
know whether he will be able to warm
his body from to-day on. These mes
sages were:
Nothing ~ worry about We de-
'ivered good deal Of coal in New
York to-day. Can't say how much,
but there will he more Tomorrow.
situation will improve this week. The
railroads are nustling. ! nave put q
nea In their ear. Special efforts are
being made TO get plenty pr coal
ALBERT II WIGSIN,
Federal Fuel Administrator.
Cheer up. 7 will have At least g..
600 tons OF good coal on this side of
the North River tomorrow for your
use. There are 1000 tons in cars at
tdewater. Your hospitals and schools
and hotels and apartment houses and
homes are in pretty fair shane. and
there We're only a few k.els made to.
day. Really. the worst +, over urles.
another blizzard hits Ms or something
else happens. REEVE Sr,,rr,
County Administrator.
I hope these follows know what ,hsv
are talking about" the old een,leman
nused' but 1t does seem as II they are
piet's casual IN .heir judgments They've
neeh teiIilg me that a slight delay IN
ol'erpng coal shipments from West 10
East was responsible for my shivers hut
one wonders why these delays are uecss.
SarN. Here's message with n ring in IL.
we are working day and night Va
relieve the situation. Extra creu.s
hustled saturday night, Sunday ana
sunday night to get coal to tidnwater
ana INTO barges. I promise that wa
VIII deliver 1000 tons tomorrow and
we expect TO keep up n steady Nou.
Other coal carrying railroads srs
hustling too. Plenty of coal Is avail.
able. Your pinch was caused by short.
age OF abor and ny the blizzard which
fro1e coat in cars and harges people
got little ranicky. but there is no
real reason for panic The situation IL
sure I" Improve THIS week
IF T.. I.ooN1s.
Iicslu'nt OF t0' l.Hnieh Valley
Railroad.
Conditions Arc IMPROVING,
THAT fellow sounds as " he knsv
what he WAS talking about" said pa
knickerbocker so docs Michael y
Burns. Hear Mike:
ITS bad hut getting better eyerv
hour. We broke record to-day when
Burns Bros delivered all day Sunday
and pretty nearly cleaned out our els-
vators. but we've got lot of coal
coming along for Tomorrow and We
feel, that the worst is over for this
time. The trouble was that the bl,y-
zard came along just after tho Fue,
Administration began to divert a Goa,
supply to New York and the Eas,
Things were going nicely before the
storm hit the railroads and terminals
and we are assured that things will
go well from now on unless anothsr
blizzard lands upon us. The railroad,
tell MS that plenty OF coal will be
loaded into barges for Tomorrow and
subsequent days NJ. +, BURNS.
But what ! want TO know" resums,
Pa, kn'ckerbocker "is WHY tho Fuel Al
mnistration found it necessary 10 posi .
pone sending me my coal supply. They
meant to start II on December 1. bu.
they didn't get :, :nnipy until wecl
or ten days later and then came tho
storm. The fuel bosses around here tell
me that Washington gave tho orders u